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Saturday, October 10, from 1 PM to 4:30 PM: Contemporary Coconut Weaving
Learn to work with lau niu (coconut leaves): weave, pattern, shaping, and form. Participants will weave a modern ʻumeke (bowl) and pāpale (hat) with cultural practitioners, Uʻi Kahue and Mario Siatris. Cost: $65, or $40 for current garden members. Email firstname.lastname@example.com for reservations.
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The Arbor Day Garden Expo & Tree Giveaway is an extended event in 2020! In partnership with Maui Electric Company and Kaulunani Urban and Community Forestry Program, Maui Nui Botanical Gardens and the Maui Association of Landscape Professionals will host tree and plant care lectures and webinars, a Maui nursery open house, and a giveaway of more than 1,000 Hawaiian trees.
Wednesday, November 4 – Friday, November 6:
Learn about residential tree care and speak with the experts about everything trees and plants. Get advice on which tree is right for your area of residence and choose your ticket for a free native tree to be distributed on Saturday, November 7. Free trees are one per Email address.
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Saturday, December 5, from 9 AM to 12 PM: Living Wreath Making with Native Plants
Native plants provide more than just food and habitat for wildlife: they also provide great beauty all year long! Learn to make a living wreath from Native Hawaiian Plants in time for the Holidays with MNBG Executive Director, Tamara Sherrill and 'ohana. Cost: $50, or $25 for current garden members. Call 249-2798 or email email@example.com for reservations.
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It's a time-honored tradition for late-model Mustangs. Upgrading to a performance exhaust system not only improves horsepower, it also adds that Mustang-specific exhaust tone that has been so popular since the first 5.0s of the mid 1980s. Now that the SN-95 Mustangs of '94-'04 are becoming more affordable as used cars, owners are upgrading to a performance exhaust either as a replacement for an aging original system or to replace a previous owner's attempt with a mismatched hodge-podge of headers, H-pipe (or crossover pipe), mufflers, and tailpipes.
That was the case with Joe Galloway's '98 Mustang, an original V-6 coupe with a transplanted 4.6-liter V-8 powertrain. It still had the original 4.6 exhaust manifolds and H-pipe, but the cat-back duals were a left-over from the car's V-6 days. The system hung too low, causing conflicts with speed bumps, and it was just too loud with the V-8. A new performance exhaust system from front to back would alleviate all of the problems, not to mention adding power with long-tube headers and high-flow catalytic converters.
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With European dates underway, we wanted to make a little sense of the bustling melting pot of influences that lay beneath Bear in Heaven's exceptional new record I Love You, It's Cool. They responded in the form of a mixtape, which offer clues toward at least one element of their inspirations... oh, and if you look down at the end of this article, you'll find all the tracks as a YouTube playlist, plus we have a competition to win a pair of tickets to their London show...
In the late 90's I got an internship at the avant garde record label, Table of the Elements. Through the label I was exposed to a lot of strange sounds and interesting people. I joined Presocratics and released two records on ToTE. Years later Adam and Joe played with Rhys Chatham another ToTE artist. Even tho we're not making "experimental" music, it's still near and dear to all of our hearts.
I have to admit making this mix was really hard. I wanted to put a lot of other songs. Alas, here are a few songs. - Jon
Bernhard Gunter 'Untitled I92'
I still remember hearing his music for the first time. I had no idea it was music. One time I almost killed Bernhard. We we're picking up a PA system for his show in Chicago. My passenger side break got stuck on the disc and it almost flipped the van… thankfully it just caught on fire. That sucked too.Youtube
David Daniell
David used to play in the first version of Bear in Heaven. He's since gone on to collaborate with tons of musicians and has continued playing with his band San Agustin. I've seen him play countless times, every show is different, every show is great. He can genuinely transport you to another place with sound. Youtube
Bernard Parmegiani 'De Natura Sonorum'
Making sounds that sound like Bernard Parmegiani might be the most fun thing to do when you're making noise. Youtube
Morton Feldman 'Rothko Chapel 2'
Summarizing Morton Feldman into a few lines seems futile. He is simply prolific. I feel like he's been tunneling into inner space for years. Given enough time, he might find the center of all space and time with his piano. Not all of his songs are harmonically friendly but his method is unmistakable. Youtube
Arnold Dreyblatt 'Propellers in Love'
Dreyblatt invented his own instruments and his own form of just intonation tuning to create microtonal magic. This is the title track off his record Propellers in Love. This record is lo-fi in comparison to his following studio record Animal Magnetism. His music sounds like a Gamalon for strings. Super cool and you can dance to it. Youtube
Tony Conrad with Faust 'From the Side of the Machine'
Tony Conrad made me really care about music. He changed my perception of time and music. I did an internship in college with his record label, Table of the Elements. That label is an epicenter of friends and musicians that are forever connected by the chaos it created. Love it or hate it, they brought us Tony and Tony opened our eyes to other music. Faust… well they're awesome too.
Terry Riley 'A Rainbow in Curved Air'
This man can do no wrong. Everything he's done is amazing. He rides the line of being "experimental music" and "meditation music." Some of his songs push harder than others. I'd say this piece falls in the middle. I've never seen him play live but it's on my to-do list. Youtube
William Basinski 'The Disintegration Loops'
No words for this one. I just love it. Youtube
YouTube Playlist
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VANCOUVER - At a non-nondescript, discrete compound in Cambodia, young girls form an orderly queue to be served noodles in the NewSong centre.
Routine lapses when the newest among them, a seven-year-old nicknamed Srey, barges past the line, grabs fistfuls of the slippery food and bolts out the door. She's spotted in the backyard, furtively stuffing her face like an animal.
Her adult caregivers don't bat an eye. It's one of the child's first meals since being rescued from a backstreet brothel where she was forced into sex with adult men — many of them westerners and almost certainly Canadians among them.
"When she wasn't actually being abused by customers, they kept her chained below a table," said Brian McConaghy, the Vancouver-based former Mountie and co-founder of the rehabilitation centre for sexually abused and exploited girls.
The brothel owners would scrape their leftovers onto the floor when they were done eating. Srey's every meal was a competition with their dogs.
"Every scrap of food she ever got, she fought for," McConaghy said.
In early January, McConaghy will fly again to the Southeast Asian country for a post-Christmas visit with the NewSong girls, including now ten-year-old Srey and several teens who were the victims of Canada's first prosecuted child sex tourist, Donald Bakker.
The Vancouver man was arrested nearly a decade ago, largely as a result of the then-RCMP forensics investigator McConaghy, who had unique know-how from running a Cambodian medical charity. Each time he returns to the sanctuary, which he set-up after leaving the police force to devote himself to victims, he sees tell-tale signs indicating Canadians are still committing "grotesque" crimes against the country's most defenceless.
Such predators travel abroad to have sex with children because they believe themselves immune to consequences, and critics argue Canada's record doesn't contradict the notion: Only five men have been punished under Canadian laws against child sex tourism over the past 15 years.
McConaghy and other children's advocates — including politicians, senators and frontline police officers — want more Canadians prosecuted. Yet despite the federal Conservatives' tough-on-crime approach, the laws' infrequent use appears unlikely to rise quickly. Domestic problems remain highest on the public radar, and there's only a finite envelope of money available for policing.
Awareness of the true horrors inflicted is low and almost beyond comprehension, the advocates say, resulting in little social momentum to trigger a complaints-driven system that would compel police to get more aggressive.
It's a massive challenge that's prompted those calling for change to take their own small steps, while allies like on-the-ground officers are left to tackle the stomach-turning scourge with the best they can muster.
Winnipeg Tory MP Joy Smith has been propelling the legislation that helps police go after bad guys abroad ever since she watched her police officer son's hair turn "grey literally overnight" while working in Manitoba's child exploitation unit.
"No, absolutely not," is her reply when asked whether the quantity of child sex tourist prosecutions has been enough. "Nobody ever really believed this happened, that Canadians went to other countries."
She urged more "proactive" measures, noting she herself has had to take one step at a time because it's impossible to divorce action from economic realities.
"We have to do it in such a way that we have it out there every day and we do something every day," she said.
Options she said merit consideration include seizing passports from child predators so they can't travel, designating funding solely for child sex tourism investigations and "targeting the market," by creating stricter mechanisms to specifically take down those who want to buy sex. That would include registering child-sex customers, educating about how they operate and teaching police about what really happens to victims, so blame is actually put on perpetrators.
About 38 countries have laws allowing authorities to hunt their own citizens for crimes committed away from home.
Canada's sex-tourism law, with seven arrests and a handful of convictions to its credit, was enacted in 1997.
Contrast that with the arrests of 93 men in the U.S. since 2003, and about 34 prosecutions in Australia since 1994. While not all those cases have concluded with convictions, more than 1,200 Aussie sex offenders were known to have travelled overseas for sex last year.
"I doubt the figures are that different in Canada," said Bernadette McMenamin, executive officer of the child protection charity Child Wise, based in Melbourne.
About one-quarter of sex tourists abusing children outside of North America are American and Canadian, says ECPAT USA, part of a global organization devoted to eliminating child prostitution and trafficking. Its Canadian counterpart, Beyond Borders, calls efforts by law enforcement here "largely reactionary."
Documents released by Foreign Affairs show 73 Canadians were arrested in a foreign country for abusing or molesting children or possessing child pornography between 2009 and 2011. That figure only accounts for people who requested consular assistance after they were detained.
Sometimes Canadians are prosecuted overseas instead of at home, like the infamous case of the man dubbed "Swirl Face," Christopher Neil. The former English teacher from B.C. distributed videos online in which he sexually assaulted young boys. He was sent back to Canada in early October after five years in a Thai prison.
Canadian senators have also highlighted the dearth of convictions.
At a hearing earlier this year by a committee examining a bill pertaining to human trafficking, Sen. Joan Fraser noted the precedent of the sex tourism bill "which we all felt so good about, but nothing much has changed."
Sen. Mobina Jaffer concurred with her colleague that five convictions has been too few: "Most of them have been fortuitous; it has not been due to the police investigation or anything," she said, according to minutes of the June 7 meeting.
Jaffer went on to question why Canada doesn't have investigations officers embedded in Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Indonesia.
McConaghy has seen the complexities of a child sex tourism file first-hand, and how the investigations get bogged down. While Canada does have liaison officers covering every country of the world, they have wide-ranging responsibilities and in the sex tourism regions, their expertise is usually in drugs.
It was because of his special skill set the 22-year cop was able to leverage overseas relationships to clinch the Bakker case. He assisted the Vancouver Police Department after they found videotapes depicting vicious sex attacks on Vietnamese children while investigating the hotel worker in the ghastly assaults of local prostitutes.
McConaghy said he doesn't know any on-the-ground officers who aren't willing and eager to go after predators, but "police don't have the resources to be aware of, track and actually work on the files overseas."
He said the U.S. takes a harder line, staffing embassies to work with foreign governments in hot spots, while Canada is still just building up a federal team with expertise.
He called for a scheme to fight child sex tourists in the same vein as the $25 million national action plan devoted to human traffickers, as well as a mechanism to warn other countries if known offenders will be travelling abroad and for an online repository of images where sex attacks have occurred (without showing victims) that the public can access to provide tips.
McConaghy believes he could spur action overnight, simply by filling a theatre on Parliament Hill with politicians and showing them 20 seconds of any child sex assault video shot by homegrown pedophiles.
"North Americans scare them the most," he said of the girls living in the NewSong centre, who've described their experiences to trained counsellors. "It's brutality — it's not just sexual. It's beatings and violence included."
Canadian police chase child sex tourists only after receiving a complaint or a request from another force for assistance, said Insp. Sergio Pasin, who heads the Ottawa-based national co-ordination centre for child exploitation investigations. Each agency decides how many resources it requires.
Investigations of overseas crimes requires evidence to be gathered in the foreign jurisdiction, and that can be very expensive, Pasin said. He couldn't provide an average cost, noting factors vary from the number of investigators, to witnesses needing to be identified and interviewed, to the ambiguous time frame itself.
In British Columbia, there are 12 staff comprising its integrated child exploitation unit, which conducts investigations on its own as well as works with 131 provincial detachments. Its budget is more than $2 million annually, including salaries. About 70 per cent is provincial dollars.
The B.C. officer heading two teams that track sexual predators at home and abroad said she's never had a situation where she didn't get outside co-operation or was forced to put an investigation on hold.
"You only have to listen to a child suffer once and you're permanently changed," said Staff Sgt. Bev Csikos.
In one recent case, Csikos and her team were set to chase a Canadian in Africa when the whole thing was called off.
"Before we resolved the case, someone in that other country took it into their own hands to stop him from sexually abusing other kids."
But Csikos noted crimes in foreign countries can be difficult to bring to prosecution based on the high standards required in Canada for evidence. She said difficulty mounts for officers to first locate and then gain trust of young victims when they have just been abused by westerners.
"We want to save all of the children, but we can only save one at a time," she said.
When McConaghy arrives in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh in January, he knows he'll see the usual cast of characters: "aged, scabby, fat, sweaty white guys," sitting alone at tables in restaurants with no equivalent wives, waiting for night to fall.
He's spoken to travel agents in Vancouver who've realized they have clients who fits the M.O. — men who travel abroad to Southeast Asia about the same time each year, on their own, without business reasons or extended family to visit.
But he'll compartmentalize his disgust in order to share the joy of freedom with the girls at the sanctuary, funded by his charity Ratanak International. It currently houses 39 girls from age five to late teens — it has a capacity of 58 girls — who are under the care of more than 60 staff. Many of those who grow older move to half-way houses to continue their healing.
He and the staff will take the group out for a treat, perhaps pizza, and he expects to be jokingly chastised like daughters might do with a father figure when he brings them Christmas gifts like scarves or T-shirts.
"I acknowledge I know who they are, I know their background, I love them anyway," he said, noting they've been rejected by society. "So that is the best gift I can give them, let them know they are absolutely special."


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OLDER ADULTS WITH VISUAL IMPAIRMENTS: THE ROLE OF HEALTH DIMENSIONS IN PREDICTING FALLS by Bernard Alex Steinman ________________________________________________________ A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (GERONTOLOGY) December 2010 Copyright 2010 Bernard Alex Steinman
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Arkansas Children: Nearly 1 in 3 lives in poverty
LITTLE ROCK – Nearly three out of 10 kids are living in poverty in Arkansas, but the number of children without health insurance has gone down, according to a national study released Tuesday that shows how children fare in each state.
The 25th annual Kids Count report from the Baltimore-based Annie E. Casey Foundation ranked Arkansas 41st in 16 indicators across four areas: economic well-being, education, health and family and community.
The report says that 29 percent of Arkansas children were living in poverty in 2012, up from 25 percent in 2005. Six percent of children lacked health insurance in 2012, down from 9 percent in 2008.
"I think the good news is that Arkansas has made some gains in health care coverage and education over the past year," said Rich Huddleston, executive director of Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families. "What's not so good is that the child poverty rate is 29 percent. Anytime you talk about getting close to three out of 10 kids living in poverty, that's very troublesome and problematic for a lot of different reasons for kids."
But Huddleston added that increased child poverty is a problem across the country. Nationally, the child poverty rate increased from 19 percent in 2005 to 23 percent in 2012, according to the Kids Count report.
The states with the highest overall child well-being ranking are Massachusetts, Vermont, Iowa, New Hampshire and Minnesota. The lowest-ranking states are Arizona, Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico and Mississippi.
Arkansas had the biggest improvement in the rate of kids who received health insurance over the 25-year period that the report has been compiled, said Laura Speer, associate director for policy reform and advocacy at the Annie E. Casey Foundation.
"That's something that is really worth lifting up and celebrating. We know that if a child has access to health insurance, they're more likely to get the preventative health care they need," Speer said.
While the increase in health care coverage among kids is something to highlight, Huddleston said many families in Arkansas are still having a hard time climbing out of the recession.
"Even though the country has kind of gradually come out of the recession, it's still going to take a lot for that to show up in the pocketbooks of families," he said.


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A new map of food security risk around the world is, in some ways, depressingly familiar. Sub-saharan Africa leaps out as the place where the most people fear for their next meal, while the rich world has more to fear from obesity. But there's plenty of salutary reminders and fascinating detail, like India's food problems and the vulnerability of Spain.
And it demonstrates the sickening, symbiotic relationship between lack of food and conflict: where one leads, the other follows.
We must start with the worst, in the horn of Africa. In Somalia, Ethiopia and Eritrea, human failings mean a severe drought has tipped millions into famine. It's a textbook case of why things go wrong. War begets poverty, leaving food unaffordable. Devastated infrastructure destroys both food production and the ability to truck in emergency food. The collapse of society means the effects of extreme weather such as drought cannot be dealt with. And the fear of violence turns people into refugees, leaving their livelihoods and social networks behind.
The recent spike in food prices, linked by some to the uprisings across north Africa and the Middle East, had also hit hard in Somalia. Maize prices in Mogadishu were 100% higher in June 2011 than in June 2010, and the price of sorghum in Somalia rose by 180% compared with 2010 prices.
Sharing Somalia's unhappy ranking as having the greatest risk of food crisis is the Democratic Republic of Congo, where all the factors above apply, plus the impact of as much as half its rich arable land being land grabbed by foreigners. The situation in DRC is simply scary: it is on track to be one of the most populous nations on Earth in coming years.
Turning to India, the new map, produced by risk analysts Maplecroft, reminds us that behind the booming economy of that vast nation, hundreds of millions of poor people remain hungry. Almost half of India's children are malnourished and one in four of the world's hungry poor live there.
"Despite the enormous economic growth India has and is experiencing, it still has very stark income inequality, which is reflected in the malnourishment and infant mortality data," says Helen Hodge, head of maps and indices at Maplecroft. The Maplecroft index, reviewed last year by the World Food Programme, uses 12 types of data to derive a measure of food risk that is based on the UN FAO's concept. That covers the availability, access and stability of food supplies, as well as the nutritional and health status of populations.
Spain and Portugal stand out as very rare examples of rich nations with a medium risk of food security problems. Hodge explains, that while water problems are an issue there, the major reason is heavy reliance on grain imports. Spain buys in 11bn kilograms of grain more than it exports every year at a cost of $2.6bn, while Portugal pays $890m for 3.3bn kilograms.
"Spain and Portugal have made the decision that olive oil and wine exports are more profitable than grain," she says, along with salad crops. So they sell lettuce and Rioja and buy wheat and corn with the profits.
That calculation may change if global food prices continue on their current upwards trend. In other parts of the world, soaring food costs may well ignite further conflict. "It is striking is how much food security plays into the wider picture of unrest," says Hodge.


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Tcptrack is a sniffer program which can be used to monitor the tcp connection on the network. It passively watches for connection on the network interface. It's similar to 'top' command.
taufanlubis@toshiba:~$ sudo apt-get install tcptrack
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 39.6kB of archives.
After unpacking 139kB of additional disk space will be used.
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/universe tcptrack 1.2.0-1 [39.6kB]
Fetched 39.6kB in 6s (5827B/s)
Selecting previously deselected package tcptrack.
(Reading database … 123337 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking tcptrack (from …/tcptrack_1.2.0-1_i386.deb) …
Setting up tcptrack (1.2.0-1) …
How to use it?
The most basic way to run tcptrack.
taufanlubis@toshiba:~$ sudo tcptrack -i eth0
Show web traffic
taufanlubis@toshiba:~$ sudo tcptrack -i eth0 port 80
Only show connection from IP address 10.66.29.121.
taufanlubis@toshiba:~$ tcptrack -i eth0 src or dst 10.66.29.121
You can see the source (client) and destination (server) addresses and ports, connection state, idle time, and band witch usage.


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These aren't the first touchscreen laptops Toshiba's dished out, but the U500-1EX is the latest, and has some nice specs (4GB of DDR3 RAM, 320GB HDD) for its low price.
At 13.3-inches, the Windows 7 machine has a neat-sounding LifeSpace app from Toshiba, which allows for thumbnail shortcuts on a bulletin board, and a faster way of searching for files with ReelTime.
Internally, it's running on an Intel Core i3-330 processor, 4GB of DDR3 RAM and has the option to upgrade the HDD to 320GB. Bluetooth, two USB ports, HD webcam and mic, the display is a TFT WXGA TruBrite with 1,280 x 800 pixels and altogether, it weighs 2.15kg.
Nothing but UK pricing has been confirmed, but if it's £649 there, a direct conversion would have it at $1,014, but I doubt it'll be that much in the States. [Toshiba release]
UPDATE: It appears to be on sale for $999 at MicroCenter, thanks to Bryan for the tip.


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January 10, 2013
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Fremont, CA-After the 2011 closure and bankruptcy of Solyndra, the former Fremont-based manufacturer of cylindrical solar panels, approximately 1,100 workers were immediately laid-off. In addition, a large number of Solyndra's suppliers were affected by the abrupt suspension of business, leaving another wave of workers in the unemployment lines. The Tri-Cities One-Stop Career Center at Ohlone College in Newark is working with these job seekers to prepare them for success in the new landscape of the competitive job market of the 21st Century.
To facilitate in the transition process career counselors at the Tri-Cities One-Stop Center are specifically assigned to offer former Solyndra employees no-cost career services that are available online, by phone, and in person. They continually reach out to former Solyndra employees and supplier employees, many of who are just learning about the free services available exclusively to them.
"We teach job search strategies that work in the new employment market, such as how to get recruiters to connect you to their hiring managers. We give career coaching, offer powerful resume writing assistance, and targeted recruitment and networking opportunities," said Erica Golden, MA, SPHR, a career consultant at the One-Stop Center.
Former job seekers Shaan Kannappan and Jamie Giedinhagen have had success working with the Tri-Cities One-Stop Career Center. Kannappan, a global program manager remarked, "The Ohlone One-Stop has a team of excellent, qualified, and helpful professionals who are of immense help, [providing] support for job seekers in the 21st Century. Using their resources produces desirable results."
Giedinghagen adds, "Right before I landed my current role as an associate product manager at Cisco, I met multiple people seeking employment at networking events and gave out the Tri-Cities One-Stop business cards. The One-Stop helped me so much. I wanted to pass the information on to as many people as I could who were in similar situations."
The free services focus on career success through online or on-site resume writing, LinkedIn and social networking training, access to on-the job, no-cost online education programs, job leads, employer panels, and Solyndra-exclusive accelerated networking groups.
Career success services are available to any former Solyndra employee or supplier who was affected by the facility closure and the resulting layoffs. To access the services, email Gina Riccitelli firstname.lastname@example.com or Erica Golden email@example.com to set up an appointment. At the appointment, complete your application and discuss your career goals and objectives. Once enrolled you can begin to receive the free services, and take advantage of the upcoming 21st Century World of Work Employer Panel on January 25, Noon-2pm, at the Ohlone College Newark Center.
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Amron International Rolls Out Communicator Maintenance Program
Full-service system keeps Amcom units in compliance with IMCA guidelines.
Vista, CA, March 13, 2012 --(
)-- Amron International, a leading manufacturer and supplier of commercial diving equipment, has introduced a new program that helps its customers using the company's Amcom Communicators stay in compliance with the scheduled maintenance guidelines set by the International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA).
In an effort to help Amcom owners satisfy IMCA's maintenance schedule, Amron has launched a comprehensive program that allows Amcom owners to send in their communicators annually for a thorough inspection. In addition, the examination and any needed repairs will be completed with priority service, meaning a guaranteed turnaround time of 72 hours upon arrival of the unit, barring special circumstances, instead of the typical three weeks. The program also makes it easier for users to perform the required biannual basic cleaning and functionality testing on their own.
"This new program was started because we like to think of our customers as partners," said Joe Esparza, Product Manager, Amron International. "When one of our long-time accounts, Miami Divers, asked us if we could help them keep their Amcom units in compliance, of course we agreed. They not only wanted to meet the IMCA standard, but exceed it. It also got us thinking that we could develop a full-service program for every Amcom owner. After working out all the details, I think we've got a system our customers will want to take advantage of. We take care of all the paperwork, any problems with the communicators get fixed, and IMCA will be satisfied the units meet, and actually go beyond, the maintenance standards."
Amron will automatically notify plan participants with a reminder when their communicators are due for scheduled maintenance. As part of the terms of the agreement, each customer starts the process by sending Amron a tracking number so the company can prepare for the unit's arrival.
In order to cut down on service delays, the customer gives Amron pre-approvals on repair costs up to $200 for the Amcom I Communicator and $300 for the Amcom II and Amcom III Communicators. If no repairs need to be made, the cost of the inspection and completed paperwork is only $100.
If extensive repairs need to be made and rise above the pre-set threshold, Amron will contact the account for approval. This occurs if parts need to be ordered and the 72-hour window is going to be exceeded. In the instances of long-term repairs, Amron will offer a Free Loaner of a communicator, ensuring minimal interruption to the customer's diving operations. The account simply pays incoming and outgoing freight, as well as a refundable deposit on the loaner unit.
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Democracy and the Bourgeois State are two constant enemies of the Proletariat
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The nature of the uprisings that have been taking place during the last few months in the area stretching from the Maghreb to the Arabian Peninsula, the way they have been covered in the international media and the "imitation effect" that has been witnessed in several countries reveal the degree of manipulation and mystification by which, thanks to the work of its aides and lackeys, the ruling ideology still manages to curb and trick the exploited proletarian class, by deluding and paralyzing it.
First let us get things clear. As we have demonstrated in several articles, what happened in the Maghreb and surrounding areas was initially a wave of proletarian uprising, ridden and gradually deviated and channelled towards the dead-end of democratic claims by sectors of the bourgeoisie and petit-bourgeoisie which, faced with the persisting economic crisis, took advantage of this to try and make its own "class needs" felt: intolerance for the rigid structures of the "old" régimes and a demand for more freedom of action by the former (bourgeoisie), the anxiety of keeping afloat and pleas to be saved by the "powers that be" (the state unions, the army) by the latter (petit-bourgeoisie), fearful of growing proletarization. The whole of the technical-linguistic "armoury" ranged as symbol and privileged vehicle of these claims (the media, the social networks, the "coloured squares", the "Arab spring", the "jasmines", the orange movement, etc. etc.) explicitly declares, in its substantially inconclusive nature and declared inter-classism (and thus its own vulnerability and lack of substance in the face of reactions by the "old" as well as the "new" régimes), the bourgeois and petit-bourgeois nature of the hat skilfully popped onto the head of a movement arising from a proletarian rebellion driven by the needs of day-to-day survival.
Repercussions on an infinitely smaller scale were soon to be seen on the northern shores of the Mediterranean, too: in Spain, for example, with the "indignados" movement , but also in France and, in an even more miserable form, in Italy, where the recent elections have allowed all of the petit-bourgeois mud accumulated over decades at the bottom of the inter-classist swamp to rise to the surface.
At the centre of these claims were mostly the "appeal to democracy" and the "appeal to the State": and it is right there that the depths of the abyss that has been dug over almost ninety years of counter-revolution can be measured.
We communists have always been quite clear as to the nature and role of both "democracy" and the "bourgeois State". The former is merely the form that class domination takes: whilst exalting the "power of the people" (this is the meaning of "democracy" - and it is no coincidence that in ancient Greece where it first came into being, helots and slaves were excluded from the "people"), no attention is paid to the fact that, different classes with opposing interests agitate within this undifferentiated "people", and that they are therefore not all "equal" in terms of living and working conditions and therefore in terms of truly understanding the dynamics of collective living and making themselves heard. Not only this: the very interests of the dominion by the ruling class over the past century have ended up by draining all those exquisitely bourgeois claims of any real significance, apart from becoming a sort of bait: the imperialist transformation of capitalist society has produced profound and permanent changes in the way power is managed, centralizing it, exasperating its repressive nature, emptying any apparently democratic container (parliament, and then all the various forms of so-called "participation" – right up to the condominium meeting!) of any reality or significance. Already in 1917, backed by the whole of Marx's and Engels' analysis of the forms of capital's dominion, Lenin reminded proletarians all over the world that "the democratic republic is the best possible packaging for capitalism," and "for this reason capital, after having taken possession […] of this packaging – which is the best – bases its power on such strong, such safe foundations, that no change, either in people or institutions or parties in the area of the democratic bourgeois republic can shake it", and finally that "universal suffrage [is] a tool of bourgeois dominion" (State and Revolution, Chap. 1).
The events that followed the Second World War have merely confirmed (and, indeed, consolidated) this evaluation: the dictatorial régime of capital, once it no longer needed to reveal itself as brutal and explicit in its dominion, returned to democraticforms, giving proletarians the illusion that, thanks to the latter and through them, their conditions would steadily improve, making revolutionary uprisings useless. Yet,in actual fact, the fascist dominion over capital in its imperial phase was maintained and, indeed, has grown monstrously: economic-financial centralization and concentration, the preponderance of the executive powers, profound and widespread militarization of society, the positioning of union organizations in the state mechanism, the creation of various Leviathans (those totalitarian nation-states over which bourgeois intellectuals waste endless words without managing to draw the due conclusions!), obsessive recourse to the polls, to the same extent that any democratic process is emptied of its real value and significance, the repression of any sign ofintolerance by the exploited class, the insistence on nationalist and patriotic rhetoric…
The same arguments apply to the "appeal to the State", without any specification as to what characterizes it. Just as "democracy" has become the one supreme value, so the State – which for us communists is the armed wing of bourgeois power, and a faithful husband to Madame Democracy – has become an … impartial organism, a good father, strict when necessary, but reassuring in times of crisis, to be turned to for help and rescue. Once again Lenin, and again following the analyses of Marx and Engels, demonstrated that instead "the State is the organ of class dominion, an organ for the oppression of one class by another; it is the creation of an 'order' that legalizes and consolidates this oppression, moderating the class conflict," – and, when it is no longer possible to moderate it, intervenes with all the "wisdom" of its own laws and its own magistrates (another class organism, and not neutral and impartial as the bourgeoisie and petit-bourgeoisie would have us believe) and with all the violence of its own legal and illegal organs of repression.
For entire hordes of petit-bourgeois terrorized by the economic crisis and the very real prospect of precipitating (horror of horrors!) down amongst the "people of the abyss", "democracy" and "State" are the two things that still have to be saved – the miserable, patched-up lifebelts that they scramble to inflate constantly by means of their decent feelings, cheap commonplaces and rhetoric, revealing their characteristic inability to come up with any political project that does not rely on keeping this feeble and poisonous mode of production on its feet.
The proletarians who, perhaps without fully realizing it, taste the delights of bourgeois dominion in all its various forms and through all its means of repression, should be very careful: their slogan should not be "more democracy and more State", but a refusal to be deluded and curbed by the former and open struggle against the latter.
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("Il programma comunista", n°4, luglio-agosto 2011)


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"The data centre allows us to address market demands without additional investment. Vehicle manufacturing automation has increased significantly allowing for a modernised and responsive manufacturing process."
Antonio Raposo CIO, Information Services, Volkswagen Group South Africa
Founded in 1937 and renowned for its iconic VW Beetle, Volkswagen (VW) is the world's largest automobile manufacturer with annual revenues of USD$245bn. Its South African subsidiary VW SA is based in Uitenhage, and employs 3,800 people across the country. In South Africa alone, VW produces around 120,000 cars, 65 per cent of which are for the export market.
Volkswagen South Africa wanted to replace more than 300 legacy data centre servers with a modern, virtualised and consolidated solution in order to fully exploit the opportunities offered by 'Industry 4.0' and the Internet of Things.
By leveraging the existing global relationship in place with Fujitsu, it was able to deploy a cost effective, high-performing new data centre, consisting of 14 FUJITSU Server PRIMERGY RX2530, each hosting an average of 25 virtual machines and supporting over 100 business critical applications.
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Nation's Reading Scores Remain Steady
Results highlight need for more collaboration to close achievement gaps
WASHINGTON - March 25, 2010 -
Results of the 2009 Nation's Report Card on Reading released this week show no movement in fourth grade reading scores from 2007, and only a one point increase in eighth grade reading scores from 2007. The results are part of an ongoing assessment—the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NEAP)—which looks at random samples of readers and compares them to samples in other states, providing a nationwide snapshot of how well our children are reading, and thinking about what they read.
"Reading is the foundation to all learning," said National Education Association (NEA) President Dennis Van Roekel. "It's a fundamental skill, but more than that, it is the door that opens to all possibility. It is imperative that we all work together to find ways to improve reading proficiency and close gaps in reading achievement."
This latest round of scores were based on a new framework which added poetry to the Grade 4 tests, placed more emphasis on literary and informational texts and re-defined reading cognitive processes. "NAEP's new framework pushes us to think more deeply about what reading is," said Barbara Kapinus, NEA's reading specialist. "It represents a more modern approach to what we're assessing and how we're assessing it."
Leaders expressed disappointment that the scores did not improve significantly, and that gaps did not seem to close. Dr. Steven Paine, West Virginia State Superintendent of Schools, said static achievement trends could not be explained by "how the schools are governed—by local boards or states or as independent charters, or even by the accountability programs that have proliferated over the past two decades." Instead, he said, reading achievement is a "shared responsibility, both within the school and, more broadly, in society."
NEA is committed to improving achievement for all students and closing the achievement gaps, particularly for low-income and minority students. "This is a top priority for us," said Van Roekel. "Public education is society's great equalizer, and we feel a profound responsibility to get it right and improve reading among all our students. It's clear that high-stakes, do-or-die testing, which was the cornerstone of No Child Left Behind, is not the answer. It's time for creative, innovative, flexible solutions."
In 2009, NEA launched the "Priority Schools Campaign," a program that engages school districts, teachers, support staff, parents, students, local business and faith communities to transform low performing schools into innovative, effective centers for learning. "What we have found through our Priority Schools Campaign is that we can attack these achievement gaps, and working together, can make a real difference for our kids," said Van Roekel.
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Drudge Continues Right-wing Distortion Of Obama's Record On Israel By Claiming Obama Hasn't Visited Israel
The Drudge Report continued the false right-wing narrative that Obama is hostile to Israel by claiming that President Obama hasn't visited Israel. In fact, as a presidential candidate, Obama visited Israel in 2008.
Since as far back as 2008, right-wing media have waged a years-long campaign to make the President seem out of step with or even hostile to Israel. These ludicrously false attacks have included claims that Obama and members of his administration are anti-Semitic, claims that Obama had sympathies toward terrorist groups, and claims that Obama would actually use military force against Israel.
Today, following a report that Mitt Romney plans to visit Israel this summer, Drudge posted the following two headlines:
However, the first headline posted by Drudge links to a New York Times story that reported:
Mr. Obama, too, came here as a presidential candidate, in July 2008 before his speech in Berlin. He met with Mr. Netanyahu -- then the leader of the opposition -- as well as Israel's prime minister, defense minister, Mr. Fayyad and Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority. He visited Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial and museum, and Sderot, the Israeli town near the border of the Gaza Strip that is the frequent target of missile attacks.
Though President Obama visited Israel as a candidate, it hasn't been unusual for a president to not make a trip to Israel during a first term. None of the previous three Republican presidents made trips to Israel at this point in their presidencies; neither Ronald Reagan nor George H.W. Bush made trips to Israel as president at all.


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Escaped Texas Inmates Recaptured After Tip
Escapees caught north of escape scene, after tip leads authorities to barn.
April 4, 2013 -- Two "extremely dangerous" escapees from an East Texas jail were recaptured today in Cooper, Texas, north of Sulphur Springs, after a tip lead authorities to a barn there, the Hopkins County Sheriff's Office told ABC News.
Brian Tucker, 44, and John King, 39, escaped from Hopkins County Jail in Sulphur Springs, Texas, around 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday.
Tucker and King were returned to the Hopkins County Jail, Hopkins County Sheriff's Department Sgt. Brad Cummings told ABC News.
Cummings said the vehicle that was stolen in Sulphur Springs was found in close proximity to where they located Tucker and King. There was no information if the two showed any resistance while being taken into custody, according to Cummings.
RELATED: Texas Authorities Concerned Over Escaped Inmates' Unpredictable Mindsets
Tucker was facing capital murder charges for allegedly strangling a man with shoelaces and King was charged with evading arrest, burglary and substance possession.
Cummings told ABCNews.com King received a 40-year prison sentence earlier this week.
The search for the two became a multi-agency effort. Cummings said that the manhunt involved the police forces for several surrounding counties, as well as Texas Rangers and U.S. marshals.
Authorities believed the inmates escaped from a recreation yard during allotted recreational time. They believed the men squeezed through a part of the surrounding fencing when a guard assigned to watch them from a window looked away.
Their black-and-white prison suits were found on the railroad tracks behind the jail. Cummings said that underneath the prison suits, inmates wear a white undershirt and a white pair of boxers.
Tucker was described as 5-foot-7 and about 170 pounds. He has brown eyes, brown hair and multiple tattoos. King was described as 5-foot-8 and 165 pounds. He has black hair, hazel eyes and multiple tattoos.
At one point, the hunt for the fugitives prompted officials to lock down all schools in Hopkins County after a 2010 black Saturn Vue with a pistol inside was stolen from outside a home in Sulpher Springs at around 4 p.m. Wednesday, officials said.
"Right now we're trying to diligently go after these guys," Cummings told ABCNews.com before the fugitives were captured. "We've received a lot of calls with sightings of this SUV. It has been a cold trail so far, by time officers get there, the vehicle is gone."
Cummings said that inside the stolen Saturn was a .22-caliber Derringer pistol.
"We are unaware if it's related to these two fugitives. It's possible that it might be them, or it might be something different," he said. "We're telling people to be cautious. If them, they're extremely dangerous.
ABC News' Michael S. James contributed to this report.


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No surprise here, "Piranha 3DD" has been slapped with an R rating by the fine people at the MPAA because of it's gore and boobies. Those aren't the words they used but I think you get the idea. Boobies.
Hey remember "The X-Files"? I do too. Man we have so many memories in common. Well despite the lack luster results of 2008's "X-Files: I Want To Believe" film it looks like there's a solid chance writer Frank Spotnitz will be dropping another installment in the never ending series sometime in the next few years. Sorry fans of.... whatever the hell else he's been doing. You'll have to wait.
Vinnie Jones might be a giant man but for some reason to me he seems like a big old sweetheart. Vincent D'Onofrio on the other hand is probably a really nice guy but I always assume he's got woman locked in his basement. I'm not sure what 50 Cent does with his free time. The point here is that all three have joined Sylvester Stallone in "The Tomb", a film about a prison designer who must escape his own creation. I didn't say it was a good point.
If you like Bigfoot and you like "The Blair Witch Project" then you're going to love "Exists" which will officially start filming next week. The movie is a found footage flick by Blair Witch mastermind Eduardo Sanchez and tells the story of a group of campers in Texas who are stalked by the big one. If you're luke warm on one of those things and still like the other you might still be excited. I don't want to speak for you.
Something about saying this Illinois woman is under arrest for "tearing" her boyfriends scrotum off is so much worse then just saying she removed it. Or borrowed it. Tearing is so harsh. It makes my baby making parts hurt.
Remember in "Jackass" when what's his name went into the car wash to get all the doody off his ass? Well apparently that doesn't really work because police in British Columbia discovered a man screaming his head off in the middle of a car wash after he thought it would be funny to run through naked. If you can't trust "Jackass" who can you trust?


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"Ten-odd years ago. A gigantic demon beast, the Kyūbi, was released by a mysterious shinobi, the masked man. The village of Konohagakure was on the verge of being destroyed by the Kyūbi's attack… There was only one way to save the village. Together with his wife Kushina, the leader, the Fourth Hokage Minato, sealed the Kyūbi into their newly born son, Naruto.Sacrificing their own lives, the two just barely managed to save the village, and entrusted the future to Naruto…
"And thus, time flowed on… Members Pain, Konan, Itachi, Kisame, Sasori, Deidara, Hidan, and Kakuzu of the dreadful shinobi group Akatsuki attacked Konoha!! Naruto et al. narrowly managed to launch a successful counter-attack. But why are these Akatsuki members back again when they were supposed to be dead? The mystery remains, but the shinobi are praised by heir families for completing such a dangerous mission. However, one of them who has never known the faces of his parents, Naruto, cannot help but feel lonely… At that exact time, suddenly, the masked man makes his appearance in Konoha.
"Naruto and Sakura are both attacked by the man's mysterious, new dōjutsu!"
( 十数年前。謎の忍・仮面の男によって巨大な魔獣・九尾が解放されてしまった。九尾に襲われ壊滅寸前の木ノ葉隠れの里…。里を守る方法はただ一つ。リーダーである四代目火影・ミナトは妻・クシナとともに、生まれたばかりの息子・ナルトに九尾を封印する。己の命を犠牲にした二人によって、かろうじて里は救われ、その未来はナルトに託されたのだった…。
—ShounenSuki (talk | contribs | translations) 18:13, April 22, 2012 (UTC)
Blood Prison HD
Did you download it as a torrent?? and if yes can you send me the link on my email (email@example.com) --EzioLover (talk) 17:23, April 29, 2012 (UTC)
Hi! Where do you read Naruto manga? LOL seems you read it. —IndxcvNovelist (Talk to Me|My Wiki) 11:16, May 9, 2012 (UTC)
- I see. Thanks! You beat me LOL —IndxcvNovelist (Talk to Me|My Wiki) 11:19, May 9, 2012 (UTC)
- Cool. I also read from the same site ^_^ --S@lil (T@lk) 11:22, May 9, 2012 (UTC)
Re: Tankobon
I actually didn't get this one myself. Someone sent it to me using fileshare or something like that. Though rawmangaspot is where I'd normally go to get it.--Cerez365™(talk) 16:46, May 11, 2012 (UTC)
Re: Pakura HDShot.png
You should try reading it properly. I have uploaded several widescreen images here and none of them have been reverted. This is an example of being way too strict, there's no damn need to crop the image, it's perfectly fine. That rule is there only for people who upload images that are too wide. Next time, if your going to complain to me about a rule violation, don't take it out of context. Naruto Shippuden is in 16:9 so the images should be uploaded IN THAT RATIO, not cropped down to 4:3! --Speysider (Talk Page) 16:42, May 31, 2012 (UTC)
- Read it again. It says that it's best to do that, but it does not state you must do that. This is yet another example of people being over the top about rules. If you don't like it, go ask someone to go and change the damn rule. --Speysider (Talk Page) 16:53, May 31, 2012 (UTC)
- I have just noticed that Cerez told you there is no such rule about image centering on the Image Policy so I don't see your problem or why you feel the need that it's a reason to use a 4:3 image. Let me just quote that part for you:
|Having an image "properly centred" is not an issue unless the face in the image is left or right aligned with empty space in the image
- My image is not left or right aligned so there's no real reason to crop it whatsoever. Like Cerez also mentioned, you are bringing up issues that aren't issues at all which you should really stop doing because it's annoying. --Speysider (Talk Page) 16:54, May 31, 2012 (UTC)
|Don't get so worked up, the cropped one looks better and bigger in the infobox other than that widescreen image. There is no hard-and-fast rule that you MUST do that, but you MUST choose the best possible alternative, which is the cropped image.
- How does it look better ? If my image was like super distorted or looked bad, then fine but my widescreen image has absolutely no issues but your making issues for no reason at all. There are others who use larger resolutions than you and those people are trying to make the wiki better. People like you hinder the improvement of the wiki. --Speysider (Talk Page) 16:56, May 31, 2012 (UTC)
|I'm not talking about centralisation here, ok? It's about how the infobox looks better, that was a different issue.
- It seems this is not a new issue for this wiki. I have just looked at your talkpage and see that you seem to love cropping the images and strictly adhering to image policy. Let me quote various messages people have left you that you seem to have just ignored:
|Alrighty. Since I don't really want to prolong this conversation... You do this all the time "cropping x" "doing y" none of which is necessary most times then you proceed to add them to your page as something you've uploaded. Now you've apparently taken to uploading a barrage of images and hope that they are used (you did it with the last manga chapter). Now I don't really care what you want to do with other people's work, and even though they don't belong to any one person, but it annoys me when people present stuff that aren't theirs as their own especially when you do next to nothing to it.
|I don't have an issue with cropping- I know what it's for. I don't have a problem with your user page- I have an issue with you taking credit for stuff you didn't do. You did add it, I removed it this morning.
|"Is as good as"? There's nothing wrong with backdrop in the image especially in one that has barely any. I'm also sure you don't see anything about centring in the image policy so it's not "more important". King is also supposed to be brown: the image you're uploading is off-coloured and grainy.
I initially uploaded the new image simply because his face was more prominently shown in the image (and his teeth looked dumb) and you've turned it into an issue.
|You might also want to read about aspect ratios and stop cropping images unnecessarily.
|Images like the one you were cropping was unnecessary. Unless it was going to be used to show the full appearance of someone why on earth would it need to be so rectangular? If you even remotely see an image on this wikia that looks like that and it's not being used to show a full-bodied appearance... let me know. I've shown you before what unnecessary space is, you should try and follow that because I don't know whether or not you genuinely don't know/can't understand what you're doing is unnecessary or if it's a case where you're attempting to use the wikia's policies to hide the fodder you do.
- Cerez has told you a lot of times to stop cropping images for no reason at all. Naruto Shippuden is in 16:9 so stop cropping images to a bad ratio as it looks stupid and it's also very annoying. My image has no problems and your making problems by cropping it. You probably don't know this but the system lists the latest user to make an edit to an image as the uploader and when people reupload images to do nothing with them except crop them, it's annoying and you also take the credit for something you didn't do anything with. --Speysider (Talk Page) 17:03, May 31, 2012 (UTC)
|Even the one who made the policy is against widescreen shots
|Also, cropping the image doesn't reduce the quality so it's still High Definition...It doesn't necessarily be 16:9 ratio
Do you even know what High Definition is ? If you did, you wouldn't have said that it doesn't have to be 16:9 ratio. --Speysider (Talk Page) 17:13, May 31, 2012 (UTC)
- No it doesn't. Read this as it clearly states that HD is only achieved in the 16:9 ratio. If it's not 16:9, it's not HD which is a fact you obviously haven't grasped. --Speysider (Talk Page) 17:24, May 31, 2012 (UTC)
Just an FYI though, would mind fixing your signature? It's linking to your old username "Aditya sasuke". -White Flash-(Talk)- 15:08, June 7, 2012 (UTC)
- Awesome. :) -White Flash-(Talk)- 15:14, June 7, 2012 (UTC)
Episode Names
We do not use literal translations in episode names. We use the names given on Wikipedia and/or Crunchyroll. --Speysider Talk Page | My Image Uploads | Tabber Code | My Wiki | Channel 11:30, June 21, 2012 (UTC)
how i contact with u.........?????? :P126.96.36.199 (talk) 16:47, June 30, 2012 (UTC)
Hi. I've noticed you have been using my fair use rationale, which is fine, but please make sure to edit all parts of it. For example, 720p HD starts from 1280x720 and ends at 1920x1080. So if you upload an image in 720p, you must make sure that nobody uploads something smaller than 1280x720. I would've just linked you to my user page, since it has more information there but the <tabber> code isn't working :/ --Speysider Talk Page | My Image Uploads | Tabber Code | My Wiki | Channel 14:07, July 5, 2012 (UTC)
- I've already edited most of them for you. This was just to inform you :) --Speysider Talk Page | My Image Uploads | Tabber Code | My Wiki | Channel 14:11, July 5, 2012 (UTC)
You deleted the whole Jugo page -.- —This unsigned comment was made by 22.214.171.124 (talk • contribs) .
Hey aditya i am LordLance aka Lakshay i am also frm India just want to tell u dat u dnt need to download naruto u can watch it online on narutoget.com
Ten Tails
Is there any specific reason that you edited out the comment I left said by Kurama? I have a resource. RedXII (talk) 16:25, July 18, 2012 (UTC)RedXII
Trivia - Details, considerations, or pieces of information of little importance or value. Courtesy of Google. That's why they call it the "Trivia" section. :|
Dont forget to use {{Image tags}} and then {{Characters in image}} and {{Jutsu in image}} in your images. --http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s145/urbancowgurl777/UltimateSupreme2212-3.png(Talk to me) 11:00, July 25, 2012 (UTC)
- Yes. They are necessary. --http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s145/urbancowgurl777/UltimateSupreme2212-3.png(Talk to me) 11:13, July 25, 2012 (UTC)
Thanks again :D
Thanks for finding File:Hanzo_Pain.png. I was actually trying to find it but could not remember where in the episode it was from. So thanks for getting the image! :D --Speysider Talk Page | My Image Uploads | Tabber Code | My Wiki | Channel 12:21, August 2, 2012 (UTC)
Hey nice job with those images, do you use Crunchyroll to get those images in HD? White Flash 15:10, August 2, 2012 (UTC)
- You should watch them on Crunchyroll imo. Best quality by far xD --Speysider Talk Page | My Image Uploads | Tabber Code | My Wiki | Channel 16:42, August 2, 2012 (UTC)
- lol. Question: is the monitor you use capable of 1920x1080 ? If so, try to get images at that resolution (because I'm fussy xD) --Speysider Talk Page | My Image Uploads | Tabber Code | My Wiki | Channel 16:47, August 2, 2012 (UTC)
- Dang. Well 720p HD is just as good as 1080p I guess xD --Speysider Talk Page | My Image Uploads | Tabber Code | My Wiki | Channel 16:51, August 2, 2012 (UTC)
- I agree, that's why I upload everything on 1080p. It's the clearest quality of them all and definitely the best for use on Narutopedia imo. --Speysider Talk Page | My Image Uploads | Tabber Code | My Wiki | Channel 16:57, August 2, 2012 (UTC)
- Indeed. If people can upload in 1080p, great but I don't mind if people can't. 720p is just as good though :) --Speysider Talk Page | My Image Uploads | Tabber Code | My Wiki | Channel 17:01, August 2, 2012 (UTC)
- To my knowledge no. I think I'm the only user here with 1080p uploading abilities. --Speysider Talk Page | My Image Uploads | Tabber Code | My Wiki | Channel 17:07, August 2, 2012 (UTC)
- yeah where did get those pics u postedJ. Veteran (talk) 20:04, August 2, 2012 (UTC)
Oh yeah. Thanks for fixing the link. ♦M1870♦ 16:50, August 2, 2012 (UTC)
Re: On-Rank
That's actually a bug. Due to the latest MediaWiki upgrade, which went live for us a few days ago, every time a jutsu article is edited with the form, that "on-rank" is added to all pages who do not have ranks. There's a work around it, which I forgot to do when I made that edit. When you make a form edit to a jutsu article without a rank, hit preview, and it'll take you to source mode, where you can delete the line of code for that field, and then save the edit. It's a bit cumbersome, but it's all we can do for now. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 04:53, August 12, 2012 (UTC)
- Your images are to dark and the images I uploaded are clear.--Droidkaju (talk) 02:39, August 24, 2012 (UTC) Droidkaju
- What the Wikia are looking for are clear HD images.--Droidkaju (talk) 02:43, August 24, 2012 (UTC) Droidkaju
Both of you, resolve this discussion without clogging the RC with upload logs. I may have not taken part in the image uploading debacle TU3 had to mediate, but I will not let another one start. I will block if I have to. I picked this talk page to post this at random. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 02:49, August 24, 2012 (UTC)
- You can see here, who deleted them. http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s145/urbancowgurl777/UltimateSupreme2212-3.pnghttp://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s145/urbancowgurl777/UltimateSupreme2212-3talk.png 09:55, August 24, 2012 (UTC)
- There was a difference of about 10 mins between your and his upload. Omnibender probably thought that his image was better and so deleted yours.http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s145/urbancowgurl777/UltimateSupreme2212-3.pnghttp://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s145/urbancowgurl777/UltimateSupreme2212-3talk.png 10:11, August 24, 2012 (UTC)
I found no real difference between the images uploaded by either of you, other than pixel dimensions. I deleted the ones that were not in use at the time I compared the images. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 05:37, August 25, 2012 (UTC)
Hi there, do you have MSN or Skype ? If so, you can send me a direct message on my Twitter, which you can find on my profile here :) --Speysider Talk Page | My Image Uploads | Tabber Code | My Wiki | Channel 09:53, August 24, 2012 (UTC)
- You can add me on FB if you want, username there is same as my Twitter. :) --Speysider Talk Page | My Image Uploads | Tabber Code | My Wiki | Channel 10:24, August 24, 2012 (UTC)
Tobi is Obito from the start before Kishimoto-san reveals Tobi's identity
Read Chapter 599 —This unsigned comment was made by ScottKazama (talk • contribs) .
Hey. Due to a bug with multiple parser functions, I wouldn't really bother uploading anything as they won't get displayed. Hell, even the rationales are broken. So yeah, you might want to avoid uploading any images until they are fixed. --Speysider Talk Page | My Image Uploads | Tabber Code | My Wiki | Channel 13:45, August 30, 2012 (UTC)
I have changed the template a bit for more options and for a kind of uniformity. Just see the Documentation and make a userbox using the box below. Its quite easy. If you have any questions, you may leave me a message. http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s145/urbancowgurl777/UltimateSupreme2212-3.pnghttp://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s145/urbancowgurl777/UltimateSupreme2212-3talk.png 16:40, September 12, 2012 (UTC)
- I have temporarily changed it to this box. You may create a new one if you want. http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s145/urbancowgurl777/UltimateSupreme2212-3.pnghttp://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s145/urbancowgurl777/UltimateSupreme2212-3talk.png 03:34, September 13, 2012 (UTC)
Ensui and Infobox
I don't believe I'm that shallow to simply want my image to be shown in the infobox. While I don't know if that's your agenda, it certainly isn't mine. It comes down to preferences I suppose and like I did for Jinin, Jinpachi and Kushimaru, I simply believe that the mist is not cumbersome enough to warrant a change. It seems a bit hypocritical that you'd do the same for Kushimaru but decide that Ensui should be treated differently. As for the Third Raikage, I still believe that he looks whimsical in that image as opposed to being hard-lined. I did intent to square off them image I had uploaded to be used, but I decided to let it alone, because to be honest I don't look at anime images when a manga one is there, and it seemed to be more trouble than it was worth.--Cerez365™(talk) 13:04, October 20, 2012 (UTC)


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What's ahead for 2011 – 2012? This time in human history promises to bring forth more changes than any other similar duration of time known to our civilization. I believe the changes that will occur in the next two years will rock the foundations of our economies, governments and belief systems. In the end, after considerable turmoil, I see a great expansion of human consciousness and a maturing of the human race.
Here are the details…
More people growing their own food
Beginning in 2011 and continuing for many years beyond, we will see an explosion in the number of people growing their own food. People see the big trends in the food supply fast approaching: GMO contamination of crops, the loss of local food production due to FDA interference, the crackdown on small farmers, and even disruptions in the global food supply.
As people realize the importance of having their own home-grown source of food, we will see a surge in backyard gardens, food storage and in-home production methods such as sprouting and food dehydrating.
We will see a strong "back to basics" interest surge leading up to 2012, with many people choosing to move out of high-density cities (or even high-density nations) and seek self-reliance in more rural areas.
This will also reveal renewed interest in home-grown meat production with more people growing (and eating) their own chickens and cows rather than relying on processed, factory-farmed meats.
Increased awareness of natural remedies and health freedom
The natural health community will achieve significant victories over the next two years in awakening people to natural remedies, medicinal herbs and the core ideas of health freedom. The monopolistic pushers of pharmaceuticals are fighting a desperate, losing battle to try to keep people ignorant, but they will lose that fight and natural medicine will ultimately emerge as the healing method of choice for an increasing number of people.
Natural childbirth will continue to gain recognition around the world, and more parents will begin to question the ADHD drugging of their children. The industry of psychiatry as we know it today will continue crumbling under the burden of fraud and criminal behavior, finally collapsing well before 2020 thanks to the efforts of a few groups, notably CCHR.
The global shift away from pharmaceuticals and toward disease prevention and nutrition will accelerate in 2011 – 2012, with vitamin D leading the charge. An increasing number of people will learn about top nutrients such as resveratrol, astaxanthin and omega-3s. Nutrition education will become increasingly evident in public schools, and many school lunch programs will be reworked to remove more processed dead foods and increase real nutrition.
Significant victories will be achieved over water fluoridation, mercury fillings and GMOs (see below). The vaccine issue, however, will remain highly contentious. Victory over seasonal flu vaccines will take many more years…
More people waking up to reality
Today, most people are sleepwalking through their lives, functioning as cogs in a giant machine of which they have no knowledge and no control. Over the next two years, that will significantly change. More and more people will be awakened into a state of awareness. They will realize that living out their lives working mundane jobs, watching television, eating junk food and taking pharmaceuticals is not fulfilling their true purpose in life, and many will seek a higher purpose.
An increasing number of people will come to understand that their lives are mere illusion — that they've been following programming set out for them by others, and that if they wish to truly achieve freedom (of mind), they must break out of the patterns that have been constructed for them.
As a result, we're going to see more people rebelling against the status quo while simultaneously expanding their own awareness of the bigger picture — how things work in our world and what their role might be in uplifting our shared reality.
In the short term, this might result in a tremendous amount of strife, but in the end, it will give rise to a true uplifting of consciousness among the people in our world.
Specific upcoming victories in the world of natural health
• The People will achieve significant victories over GMOs. I believe that We the People will ultimately win this battle against GMOs in America. As information about the dangers of GMOs continues to spread, people will increasingly demand that GMO foods be labeled. With enough support (perhaps in 2012, but probably later), a law will be passed requiring that GMO foods be labeled as such, and that will spell the beginning of the end of the GMO era in America.
• The FDA will, one way or another, be forced to admit that mercury fillings ("silver fillings") are dangerous for human health. At the very least, the agency will warn that children and expectant mothers should not be exposed to silver fillings. If this does not happen, you can expect a popular revolt against the FDA and a loud cry for the dissolution of the entire agency.
• The next big public health battle will be over water fluoridation, and you can expect NaturalNews, the Fluoride Action Network and many other organizations to turn up the heat on the dangers of water fluoridation. Expect to see the fluoride pushers eventually forced to back down and admit that the fluoride dripped into the municipal water supplies is actually collected as a toxic waste byproduct of the phosphate mining industry. (We are releasing a significant mini-documentary on this topic in the next 30 days.) The reputation of the ADA — which has backed mercury fillings for decades — is headed into the dumpsters.
• On the issue of freedom and liberty, I predict a surge of interest in Libertarian political philosophy from both former Democrats and former Republicans who realize that the path to prosperity and freedom is found in individual liberty and personal responsibility. I see the Tea Party suffering from disillusionment as its own elected members betray its supporters with more taxes and Big Government spending. Expect to see Ron Paul and Rand Paul do extraordinarily well in the coming years (as long as they stay on principle), and watch for a groundswell of popular support for the once-again-new idea of sensibly limited government.
• Watch for a rise in the Tenth Amendment movement in America as an increasing number of Americans fight back against what they see as a dangerous expansion of the power of the federal government. With the TSA in your pants and the FDA in your greenhouse, there's no telling what part of your life Big Brother wants to control next. America was founded on the idea of limited government, and I believe we'll see a powerful, passionate movement that seeks to bring the federal government back down to its Constitutionally-mandated size (which is a fraction of its current size and scope). The Tenth Amendment, by the way, specifically reserves all rights not specifically granted to the federal government to be held by the States or the People. The Constitution, for the record, never granted the federal government the right to run a health care system, nor to give away the power to coin money to a private banking cartel, nor to inspect your backyard food production operation that you use to produce jams and jellies for the local farmers' market.
Specific short-term predictions
• Expect a new Big Government war on internet freedom. Mostly due to the Wikileaks releases, governments around the world are going to desperately attempt to police the internet and clamp down on web-based free speech. This will likely result in an online war between the "empire" (the USA and the UN) and the "rebel alliance" (the internet hackers such as 'anonymous').
• By the end of 2012, I predict significant food supply disruptions in North America, brought about either by radical weather affecting crop yields or perhaps the invasion of disease indirectly caused by the over-use of pesticides or GMOs. The number of people in America struggling to feed themselves and their families will rise along with food prices (see next). This will inevitably result in a huge increase in crime (burglaries, thefts) at precisely the same time that cities are laying off local law enforcement officers due to budgetary restrictions.
• Expect to see food prices climb with alarming speed over the next two years. Wheat is already on the rise, and even meat prices will surge up sharply before the end of 2012. While food won't disappear, it will become significantly more expensive, causing more people to shift to subsidized foods (corn, sugar, etc.) which also happen to be some of the worst foods for your health. GMOs are cheap in the short run… until you get your hospital bill.
• Oil prices will also trend sharply upwards over the next two years. We will almost certainly see oil at $150 per barrel and possibly even at $200 for a brief time. This will of course impact food prices, the transportation industry and virtually the entire economy.
• By late 2012, the economic downfall of the United States will have accelerated, and the inevitable collapse of the U.S. dollar will by that time have become apparent to virtually everyone. The ability of the U.S. Treasury to auction its debt will drop sharply as ratings institutions either downgrade U.S. debt or publicly threaten to.
Long-term predictions
• Over the next decade, I predict a disappearing "health middle class" and a great divide between the healthy and the sick. The healthy, you see, are consuming superfoods, getting sunshine on their skin and taking nutritional supplements on a daily basis. The unhealthy are eating processed foods, taking prescription medications and following the advice of their ignorant doctors even if it kills them. There will be fewer people of "average" health in America in the coming years. The masses will gravitate toward disease and sickness while the informed few (such as NaturalNews readers, raw food vegans, superfood fans and so on) will get healthier and more productive.
• By 2025, the FDA as we know it today will be ancient history, and a new era of food freedom and health freedom will have swept across the former United States of America. Marijuana will become a key crop for raising revenue for the states (or the equivalent governing entity), the pharmaceutical industry will have severely downsized, and the scientific censorship of the FDA will have been abandoned to a chapter of the dark history of America. Millions of doctors, oncologists and useless government bureaucrats will find themselves out of work or, in the most extreme cases, subjected to court trials for their crimes against humanity.
• By 2030, it will become obvious that all those people treated with vaccines, chemotherapy, pharmaceuticals and conventional medical procedures are largely infertile and dying from degenerative disease. Also by this time, those individuals who ate diets largely made of GMOs, processed foods and artificial chemical additives will discover they, too, are infertile and diseased. The dying, diseased people of the western world will look back upon the "age of medical science" with hatred and disbelief, and the vaccines, chemotherapy, mercury fillings, water fluoridation and other poisons that are common in our world today will, by 2030, be written up in the history books as examples of humanity's incredible capacity for self-deception and faulty thinking, even in the realm of so-called "science."
Health Ranger predictions are already coming true
Many of the predictions I made a year ago have already come true, by the way. These include:
• China unleashes armies of corporate espionage hackers onto western nations (now verified as true through Wikileaks cables)
• A worldwide shortage of rare earth metals (already under way)
• Food supply disruptions (disruptions have been widely reported throughout 2010)
• Honeybee population collapse spreads to other species (bats are now threatened, too)
• Weather patterns become increasingly radicalized (also widely reported in 2010)
• Medical imaging scandal unfolds as older patients begin to show serious health damage from radiation via mammograms, CT scans and more (widely reported in medical journals in 2010)
• War on health freedom ramps up, targeting raw milk, homeopathy, herbs and supplements (major raids have been conducted this year on food co-ops and raw milk producers)
• New attempts are made to destroy internet freedom (the UN is now planning to roll out internet police, and the U.S. customs department has been seizing websites for the last several months)
These are just some of the many predictions I made one year ago. Many more will yet come true in the years ahead. Overall, by the way, I remain optimistic about our future, if only because it is evident that by living through suffering, oppression and slavery, enough members of the human race will finally see the importance of health freedom and take the necessary action to regain it and defend it for generations to come.
In the grand experiment of nations and civilizations now playing out across our tiny planet, those nations which forget the importance of health and freedom are doomed to eventually destroy themselves. Only those nations which recognize freedom and invest in the health of their citizens have any sustainable future. And one day, such a nation of truly free people will undoubtedly rise from the ashes of whatever is left after the current global miscalculations run their course.
SOURCE: Natural News


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