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Tomorrow is Thanksgiving. I love this holiday. I have more than I can name to be thankful for, but I always like to mention a few.
I am thankful for my wife. She is the girl of my dreams and the love of my life. Everything I ever wanted in a woman is fulfilled in her, except the fact that she does not fish or like baseball. (I have to keep her humble) Other than that, she is everything I could dream of in a wife.
I am thankful for my kids and grandkids. They are far from perfect, but, I still like them. None of them have become filthy rich yet so I will probably have to work until I am really old. I am still thankful for them.
I am thankful for my church. It is full of really weird people who remind me that God made none of us perfect. Some of them look weird and most of them act weird. They will make it possible for me to continue working as a pastor until I am really old.
I am thankful for the friends that I have. Really.
I am thankful for my salvation through Jesus Christ. I do not deserve what He did for me.
I think that is all I want to mention right now. There has been plenty that I did not mention for someone to get their feelings hurt because I did not mention them or what they did.
I want to close out this blog by telling you who I am thanking. Way too many people say that they are thankful, but don't really think about who they are thankful too. In my case it is God. Not a god, but the one true living God. The one who forgave me, started fixing me, and will always love me. The God that gave me everything I mentioned above and everything I failed to mention. He made the turkeys that we will eat and the families that we will be hanging out with. He gave His Son to die in my place and His Spirit to guide me through this life. Without Him I am nothing but a body waiting to expire. With Him I am anything He wants me to be and even though this life is temporary, He has assured me of a life that will never end. He is the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. That is who I am thanking. Not just during this great holiday, but everyday that He lets me live on this earth.
Thanks God! And Happy Thanksgiving to you all.
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving. I love this holiday. I have more than I can name to be thankful for, but I always like to mention a few.


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On Radio New Zealand National's Nine to Noon this morning, Kathryn Ryan interviewed Michael Smith who flew around the world in a small, two-seat amphibian flying-boat, following the old Imperial Airways and Pan American Airways flying-boat routes. Michael has written a book, "Voyage of the Southern Sun" and also produced a documentary film of the same name on BluRay and DVD.
• Michael Smith: around the world in a flying boat
I understand the book and documentary are being released this week. You can order both from the website Voyage of the Southern Sun (AU$49 for the book; AU$70 for the book and DVD; AU$75 for the book and BluRay).

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Bauhaus (bou´hous), artists' collective and school of art and architecture in Germany (1919–33). The Bauhaus revolutionized art training by combining the teaching of classic arts with the study of crafts. In practice, a team of architects, artists, and master craftsmen conducted hands-on workshops in such areas as industrial design, sculpture, architecture, cabinetmaking, metalwork, painting, printmaking, photography, ceramics, and weaving. Students were also trained in the basics of color, form, and material. Philosophically, the school was built on the idea that design did not merely reflect society, but could actually help to improve it.
Founded at Weimar in 1919, the Bauhaus was headed by Walter Gropius who conceived of it as a way to combine beauty and simplicity, utility and mass production. The faculty included Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger, Wassily Kandinsky, László Moholy-Nagy, Marcel Breuer, and Josef and Anni Albers. The Bauhaus teaching plan insisted on functional craftsmanship in every field, with a concentration on the industrial problems of mechanical mass production. The school sometimes sold a line of products, which was mainly produced by the unpaid labor of the student body (about 150 individuals). Bauhaus style was characterized by economy of method, a severe geometry of form, and design that took into account the nature of the materials employed. The school's concepts aroused vigorous opposition from right-wing politicians and academicians.
In 1925 the Bauhaus moved to the more friendly atmosphere of Dessau, where Gropius designed special buildings to house the various departments. This was also the year that one of the Bauhaus's most successful products, Breuer's tubular steel and leather chair, was created. Gropius resigned in 1928, and leadership passed to the architect Hannes Meyer. He in turn was replaced in 1930 by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, who in an effort to save the Bauhaus made a number of conservative changes. Nonetheless, in the summer of 1932 opposition to the school had increased to such an extent that the city of Dessau withdrew its support. The school was then moved to Berlin, where the faculty endeavored to carry on their ideas, but in 1933 the Nazi government closed the school entirely.
The Bauhaus ideas, enveloping design in architecture, furniture, weaving, and typography, among others, had by this time found wide acclaim in many parts of the world and especially in the United States. Gropius himself went to the United States and taught at Harvard, where he exercised considerable influence. Josef and Anni Albers also emigrated to the United States, where they brought the Bauhaus philosophy to Yale. The Chicago Institute of Design, founded by Moholy-Nagy, most completely carried on the teaching plan of the Bauhaus. In New York City, the Museum of Modern Art, founded in 1929, was organized according to Bauhaus departmental structure, similarly included a wide variety of media, and followed Bauhaus principles in its approach to design.
See W. Gropius, The New Architecture and the Bauhaus (rev. ed. 1955); H. M. Wingler, The Bauhaus, ed. by J. Stein (1969); M. Franciscono, Walter Gropius and the Creation of the Bauhaus (1971); E. S. Hochman, Bauhaus: Crucible of Modernism (1997); B. Bergdoll et al., Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops for Modernity (MOMA museum catalog, 2009); N. Fox Weber, The Bauhaus Group: Six Masters of Modernism (2009); U. Müller, Bauhaus Women: Art, Handicraft, Design (2009); P. Oswalt, ed., Bauhaus Conflicts, 1919–2009 (2010).


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Xinhua) -- Three secessionists attacked an army checkpoint in Yemen's southern province of al-Dhalea on Tuesday, killing at least two soldiers, a police source and some local residents told Xinhua.
The pro-secession gunmen attacked a key checkpoint in a eastern suburb of al-Dhalea province and tried to take control of it, killing at least two soldiers at the scene, the source said on condition of anonymity.
Also, some local residents told Xinhua that the attackers, riding two motorbikes, threw two grenades toward the soldiers at the checkpoint and then fled.
Army reinforcements were later deployed around the military site, according to witnesses.
Last week, Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi started a national dialogue to end the country's prolonged political crisis.
The talks aimed to end separatist movement in the south in order to preserve unity, draft a new constitution and pave the way for the parliamentary and presidential elections set for February 2014.
However, leaders of the separatist Southern Movement refused to join the talks, insisting that the government troops should withdraw from the south.
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text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Argentina schools hirein people w- BA/ TESOL cert.. Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Argentina schools hirein people w- BA/ TESOL cert.. Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Argentina View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message esl4evereverJoined: 20 Nov 2011Posts: 38Location: US Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 10:59 pm Post subject: Argentina schools hirein people w- BA/ TESOL cert.. Hi Everyone - I have come up with the same question again and again. At the moment I teach ESL abroad. But, I am still new. Can anyone tell me how to see what Argentina schools are out there? Details - - Although I teach ESL abroad I am looking to change to a different country. - Can anyone tell me what schools tend to hire individuals with a BA and a 140 hour TESOL certificate? - Along with the certificate will be 6 months of experience teaching ESL abroad. - most important - i wish to stay away from schools only interested in individuals with an Masters. thank you ahead of time for your help. Back to top esl4evereverJoined: 20 Nov 2011Posts: 38Location: US Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2012 5:05 pm Post subject: I just got this e-mail.... From: lundegatan To: esl4everever Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 5:44 am Subject: hi Quote message Hi, what do you mean by "Can anyone tell me how to see what Argentina schools are out there?" Also, is your certificate a Celta or just a regular TEFL certificate? There are jobs available for people with a BA + tefl certificates but the salary would be extremely low. You would barely be able to break even each month, even if you didn't drink and cooked all your meals at home. __________________________________________________________ I have tried to put in as much info as possible when I posted. To elaborate.... 1 - I am looking for schools who tend to hire people new who have a TESOL certificate and BA with no prior experience. 2 - I actually have a CTESOL certificate for 140 hours. The reason i didn´t put that down when I posted is I find most people are more familiar with TESOL. 3 - I am looking for actual addresses - phone numbers and names of schools who tend to hire people with a BA and TESOL certificate. please note - I am aware of the financial situations facing teachers in Argentina. I would prefer to work my way back to the original question posted which is looking for schools who hire individuals with a BA and TESol certificate only. problem - many schools abroad are ¨American schools´¨ or simular wanting teachers to have teaching credentials which I do not plan to get. I wish to stay away from schools wanting things I do not have. And I wish to e-mail schools who may be open to what type of education I do have. Back to top littlelauren86Joined: 20 Sep 2011Posts: 94Location: Korea Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2012 6:00 pm Post subject: Use the Yellow Pages/Craigslist/Other job websites to find English institutes. You basically travel to teach working professionals around the city. If you're a native speaker you don't need anything else. Pay is low, etc. etc. but you touched on that already. There are some institutes in Buenos Aries but I can't speak for the rest of the country. Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Argentina All times are GMT Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Where to Begin----------------General DiscussionNewbie ForumCurrent Events ForumTechnology ForumOnline Teaching Forum Africa Forums----------------General Africa Forum Asia Forums----------------CambodiaChina (Job-related Posts Only)China (Off-Topic)Hong KongIndiaIndonesiaJapanMalaysiaPhilippinesSingaporeTaiwanThailandGeneral Asia ForumVietnam Caribbean Forums----------------General Caribbean Forum Europe Forums----------------Czech RepublicFranceGermanyGreeceItalyMacedonia and the BalkansPolandRomaniaRussia & C.I.S.SpainTurkeyUkraineUnited KingdomGeneral Europe Forum Latin America Forums----------------ArgentinaBrazilChileColombiaCosta RicaMexicoMexico (off-topic)PeruGeneral Latin America Forum The Middle East Forums----------------BahrainEgyptIsraelKuwaitOmanQatarSaudi ArabiaUnited Arab EmiratesGeneral Middle East Forum North America Forums----------------General North America Forum Oceania----------------Australia/New Zealand You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum This page is maintained by the one and only Dave Sperling. Contact Dave's ESL Cafe Copyright © 2018 Dave Sperling. All Rights Reserved. Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2002 phpBB Group Teaching Jobs in China


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On Wednesday, Dec. 14, at 11 a.m. PST/2 p.m. EST/7 p.m. GMT, @eWEEKNews will host its monthly #eWEEKChat. The topic will be "Predictions, Sure Things and Wild Guesses for IT in 2017." It will be moderated by Chris Preimesberger, who serves as eWEEK's editor of features and analysis.
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Topic: "Predictions, Sure Things and Wild Guesses for IT in 2017"
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"Predictions, Sure Things and Wild Guesses for IT in 2017"
Everybody enjoys hearing about what's likely to happen in the future—not that anybody really knows exactly what's going to take place, that is. Guesses—educated and wild alike—can spark interesting discussions. But it's fun and entertaining to discuss the great things that are likely to happen, especially in the world of IT, where there's never a dull news moment.
We may look back on some of the eWEEKchat topics we discussed in 2016, which was a year marked by an incredible use of Twitter as a communication instrument inside a U.S. Presidential election--for better or worse. We saw nation-state hacking of political party email accounts, the rise of citizen development and the rise of cheap foreign phones in the smartphone business.
We also saw the usual high number of major security breakdowns, net neutrality debates, more new iPhones and the continued development of big data analytics, business intelligence, cognitive computing and robotics.
With this in mind, eWEEK is ending its fourth year of eWEEKchats (this one will be No. 50; we've had two special off-the-grid eWEEKchats during the last four years) with a look ahead to 2017 and the new and different things we may expect to encounter. We will have a several special guests online with us to offer their takes on all of this.
Everybody is invited: Users, non-users, analysts, vendors, other journalists, seers, non-seers--everybody.
Here comes a prediction right now: We will pose questions such as:
- What new devices, software and services might we expect to see in 2017?
- Will we ever be able to get a handle on keeping data secure? Will we ever be able to screen out the bad human elements?
- How will stringent new EU geographic security requirements impact data security globally?
- Are wearable computing devices dying? Business Insider is one publication that thinks so.
- Could the fast development of cognitive computing turn into a serious problem?
- Can we expect any type of improvement in online personal data privacy in 2017?
Plan to join us for what promises to be a fun and illuminating hour on Dec. 14. Get your predictions ready and lay them out for us!


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After long-lasting violations, city to prevent future sewer overflows, make other upgrades
The City of Dubuque has agreed to pay a $205,000 civil penalty and spend an additional $3 million on improvements to its water pollution control plant and sewer collection system over the next three years to settle a series of alleged violations of the federal Clean Water Act, according to an EPA news release.
As part of the settlement outlined by a consent decree lodged today in U.S. District Court in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the City of Dubuque will pay half of the civil penalty to the United States, and half to the State of Iowa, which is a co-plaintiff in the case.
Dubuque has also agreed to spend approximately $260,000 on a supplemental environmental project. The project will involve the reconstruction of four alleys that incorporate permeable pavement in their design, which will help reduce the flow of storm water into the city's sewer system.
"EPA is encouraged by the City of Dubuque's willingness to remedy its longstanding water pollution issues and to improve water quality in the Mississippi River," Regional Administrator Karl Brooks said. "This commitment by the city represents a significant step forward toward Dubuque's goal to be a green city."
Dubuque's violations of its National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit date back to the early 1970s, when its water pollution control plant was built. Along with 165 miles of gravity sewer lines, three major pump stations and eight smaller lift stations, the plant comprises a public sewer system that serves the city of approximately 92,000 residents along the Mississippi River.
Dubuque's violations of its NPDES permit and the Clean Water Act identified by EPA and the Iowa Department of Natural Resources include:
- Approximately 39 sanitary sewer overflows which occurred between 2002 and 2007. Most of those unauthorized overflows occurred in an area known as the Key Way sanitary sewer system, and involved the pumping of raw sewage into Catfish Creek during major storms. Over the last three years, Dubuque has already spent $2 million to upgrade the Key Way system. Under the consent decree, it must demonstrate that all sanitary sewer overflows have been eliminated for one year, or face additional penalties.
- Approximately 687 violations of effluent limits for total suspended solids, total residual chlorine and carbonaceous biochemical oxygen demand in its wastewater discharges between 2002 and 2007. The consent decree outlines a number of system and process improvements designed to eliminate exceedences associated with wet weather, and requires the city to pay stipulated penalties for future effluent violations.
- Failures to comply with a pretreatment program. Audits in 2005 and 2007 found that Dubuque failed to issue permits to industrial users of its water pollution control plant, failed to take enforcement actions against industrial users that violated terms of their city-issued permits, and failed to follow sampling and reporting requirements of its pretreatment program. Since those audits, the city has hired a full-time pretreatment coordinator.
The consent decree sets forth a series of schedules for the city's completion of the various projects to improve its sewer system. All upgrades must be completed within 34 months of the consent decree's effective date.
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Freeze-casting as a novel manufacturing process for fast reactor fuels
Advanced burner reactors are designed to reduce the amount of long-lived radioactive isotopes that need to be disposed of as waste. The input feedstock for creating advanced fuel forms comes from either recycle of used light water reactor fuel or recycle of fuel from a fast burner reactor. Fuel for burner reactors requires novel fuel types based on new materials and designs that can achieve higher performance requirements (higher burn up, higher power, and greater margins to fuel melting) than yet achieved. One promising strategy to improve fuel performance is the manufacture of metal or ceramic scaffolds that are designed to allow for a well-defined placement of the fuel into the host, and this in a manner that permits greater control than that possible in the production of typical CERMET fuels. The proposed research focuses on the design and manufacture of such novel fuel types. The chosen manufacturing route is "freeze-casting," a form of directional solidification processing also known as "ice-templating," which ideally lends itself to the processing of both metals and ceramics and enables us to establish and explore a range of flexible and controllable fuel pellet designs. Two new fuel pellet designs will be examined: (1) metal honeycomb structures as the basis of a CERMET fuel or a purely metallic fuel and (2) ceramic honeycomb structures as the basis of an inert matrix fuel (IMF) form or a form for containing isotopes targeted for geologic disposal.
This project received funding through the DOE Nuclear Energy University Programs in partnership with Professors Todd Allen, INL and Kumar Shridharan, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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| User:Jacce
hello jacce i hope you liked my page yugioh-naruto.wikia.com and i hope you will leave some comments and naruto pedia is the best and im new here so i dont know what to do.—This unsigned comment was made by Theasllan1 (talk • contribs) .
Obito's infobox
Why exactly did you protect his infobox? Infoboxes cannot be edited by unregistered users. Protecting it only makes sense if you want to keep registered users from doing it. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 00:13, October 11, 2012 (UTC)
Re: Javascript help
Just notifying you that I changed AjaxUndo → AjaxRollback. Hope that comes handy.~http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s145/urbancowgurl777/UltimateSupreme2212-3.pnghttp://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s145/urbancowgurl777/UltimateSupreme2212-3talk.png 03:43, October 11, 2012 (UTC)
- Yeah...it was having some problems due to the upgrade so I removed it.~http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s145/urbancowgurl777/UltimateSupreme2212-3.pnghttp://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s145/urbancowgurl777/UltimateSupreme2212-3talk.png 16:30, October 11, 2012 (UTC)
- Re-added. It will turn the normal rollback to an Ajax one; not give you a new button.~http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s145/urbancowgurl777/UltimateSupreme2212-3.pnghttp://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s145/urbancowgurl777/UltimateSupreme2212-3talk.png 09:39, October 12, 2012 (UTC)
- And can you make this more clear for monobook users.~http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s145/urbancowgurl777/UltimateSupreme2212-3.pnghttp://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s145/urbancowgurl777/UltimateSupreme2212-3talk.png 12:01, October 12, 2012 (UTC)
- Better than before.~http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s145/urbancowgurl777/UltimateSupreme2212-3.pnghttp://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s145/urbancowgurl777/UltimateSupreme2212-3talk.png 04:48, October 13, 2012 (UTC)
- And can you make this more clear for monobook users.~http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s145/urbancowgurl777/UltimateSupreme2212-3.pnghttp://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s145/urbancowgurl777/UltimateSupreme2212-3talk.png 12:01, October 12, 2012 (UTC)
- Re-added. It will turn the normal rollback to an Ajax one; not give you a new button.~http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s145/urbancowgurl777/UltimateSupreme2212-3.pnghttp://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s145/urbancowgurl777/UltimateSupreme2212-3talk.png 09:39, October 12, 2012 (UTC)
That would hopefully fix the edit tools on Special:MultipleUpload.--~http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s145/urbancowgurl777/UltimateSupreme2212-3.pnghttp://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s145/urbancowgurl777/UltimateSupreme2212-3talk.png 05:39, October 16, 2012 (UTC)
Atleast for me, it is.--~http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s145/urbancowgurl777/UltimateSupreme2212-3.pnghttp://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s145/urbancowgurl777/UltimateSupreme2212-3talk.png 06:09, October 16, 2012 (UTC)
(Reset indent)
Except that there is an unnecessary extra line after
importScriptPage( 'AjaxRC/code.js', 'dev' );
- Please don't import js from the user namespace, they are not protected. — SimAnt 00:26, October 24, 2012 (UTC)
- If I am not wrong, only admins and the user to which it belongs to can edit it. — UltimateSupreme ƒ(♫) 00:58 UTC, Wednesday, 24 October 2012
- Since you aren't really comfortable with those delete buttons, put this in User:Jacce/wikia.css:
- If I am not wrong, only admins and the user to which it belongs to can edit it. — UltimateSupreme ƒ(♫) 00:58 UTC, Wednesday, 24 October 2012
/* Hide fast delete buttons until shown with JS */ .UserProfileActionButton .wikia-button { display: none; }— UltimateSupreme ƒ(♫) 14:43 UTC, Thursday, 25 October 2012
- You did it wrong here. Just import it there like you did with the SigReminder.js. Remove everything you added and then insert:— UltimateSupreme ƒ(♫) 12:09 UTC, Saturday, 17 November 2012
importScriptPage('User:UltimateSupreme/FairUseUpload.js', 'naruto');
- You did it wrong here. Just import it there like you did with the SigReminder.js. Remove everything you added and then insert:
Susanoo edit
Hello Jacce!I had edited Susanoo to fix some mistakes.The part where it's written that in order to awaken Susanoo an Uchiha has to awaken Tsukuyomi and Amaterasu is wrong!Sasuke doesn't have Tsukuyomi but managed to awaken it!An Uchiha has to awaken their abilities in both their eyes to awaken Susanoo and we don't even know if Madara has those abilities!It doen't have to be those EXACT abilities!We need to fix those mistakes...—This unsigned comment was made by Ichigo Tenza Zangetsu (talk • contribs) .
Did ittan not die in the latest episode ? --Jmootam1999 (talk) 15:54, October 18, 2012 (UTC)
Sage Mode Time Limit
During what fight was it shown that Naruto can stay in Sage Mode for ten minutes? I thought he can only maintain it for five minutes.--22.214.171.124 (talk) 16:10, October 21, 2012 (UTC)
English message translations
Jacce, please ignore any requests for changing the spelling of MediaWiki: messages. Even if the wiki is using UK English -- and the rationales for using that look dubious -- that is not the proper way to change the wiki's locale. ~ Daniel Friesen (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (Local Talk ⁝ Animanga Talk) 05:08, October 28, 2012 (UTC)
Re: Image rationale.
Thanks for the link, it helps, now I have one question, how do I add the rationale? Do I need to reupload the images? I'll be honest working with these things was never my strong suit, I prefer to have an example to work off cause the templates just look like jargon on top of jargon without the context for me. --Hawkeye2701 (talk) 05:49, October 29, 2012 (UTC)
Nevermind, Nix that, I found it. We're cool. --Hawkeye2701 (talk) 05:51, October 29, 2012 (UTC)
Hi Jacce and how are you? I have a question. how can I create a new article on my userpage just like sandboxs or requests for admins for example. Explain the procedure. Thanks —Shakhmoot (Talk) 12:36, October 30, 2012 (UTC)
- Just go to the subpage you'd want to create (example: User:Shakhmoot/Sandbox) and create the page.— UltimateSupreme ƒ(♫) 13:02 UTC, Tuesday, 30 October 2012
- So it looks like creating a new page called (User:Shakhmoot/Sandbox), right? —Shakhmoot (Talk) 13:07, October 30, 2012 (UTC)
Re: {{PolicyRemind}} template
All the issues with the template has been solved so you can continue to use it again :) --Speysider Talk Page | My Image Uploads | Tabber Code | My Wiki | Channel 14:45, November 9, 2012 (UTC)
whaaaaaaaz up
whats up?--Manga-anime90001 (talk) 10:40, November 10, 2012 (UTC)
is this fair???
sup Jacce, can you tell me if this is fair??? i am talking in the ten-tails article and i have my own opinions about who the ten-tails is, and that the Gedo Mazo is a vessel of the Ten-tails, but just because i dont agree with the user Elevonora, he/she keeps on deleting my comments and calls it pointless comment is this allowed here?? and fair?? please let me know thanks!--Manga-anime90001 (talk) 11:31, November 11, 2012 (UTC)
- We have a Talkpage policy here.— UltimateSupreme ƒ(♫) 11:33 UTC, Sunday, 11 November 2012
Re: Vandal
Hello Jacce. I'm KingGuy12. You unedited my edit for Tayuya and told me I did vandalism. I don't mean to sound stupid but what does vandalism mean?-KingGuy12
Sorry i didnt know (Byzantinefire 15:19, November 14, 2012 (UTC))
I was overly eager to let people see the 10 tails (Byzantinefire 15:24, November 14, 2012 (UTC))
Image licenses
From MediaWiki:Licenses remove everything that is below Fair use (including this). Our new rationale template adds it automatically.— UltimateSupreme ƒ(♫) 03:07 UTC, Sunday, 18 November 2012
- Because it gets added automatically by the new template.— UltimateSupreme ƒ(♫) 07:57 UTC, Sunday, 18 November 2012
- Please undo the removal and also check if the rationale is being placed properly on Special:Upload or not.— UltimateSupreme ƒ(♫) 04:17 UTC, Thursday, 29 November 2012
- Yeah, it does work. But is the rationale placed there fine?— UltimateSupreme ƒ(♫) 05:40 UTC, Thursday, 29 November 2012
- Please undo the removal and also check if the rationale is being placed properly on Special:Upload or not.— UltimateSupreme ƒ(♫) 04:17 UTC, Thursday, 29 November 2012
Re:Fair Use Template
And inside it?— UltimateSupreme ƒ(♫) 11:29 UTC, Sunday, 18 November 2012
- First you need to create a preformatted template for it. Can you?— UltimateSupreme ƒ(♫) 12:29 UTC, Sunday, 18 November 2012
Thought so.— UltimateSupreme ƒ(♫) 16:15 UTC, Sunday, 18 November 2012
- Can you remove the old code for placing rationale... From MediaWiki:Common.js.— UltimateSupreme ƒ(♫) 12:50 UTC, Thursday, 29 November 2012
RE: Abuse Filters
I will see what I can do.— UltimateSupreme ƒ(♫) 00:51 UTC, Monday, 26 November 2012
As I thought, it was being caused due to malfunctioning of the editor. It has been passed to the technical department and would be fixed soon.— UltimateSupreme ƒ(♫) 03:11 UTC, Tuesday, 27 November 2012
I am sorry but a guy deleted a message that took two hours for to write for no reason! It wasn't even his talkpage to begin with. Would kindly send him a warning not vandalize other people's work, please?--BrennanMulcahey (talk) 12:13, November 23, 2012 (UTC)BrennanMulcahey
Answers widget
Not sure if this even does anything but could you change the links in MediaWiki:Answers_widget_user_note?— UltimateSupreme ƒ(♫) 17:06 UTC, Tuesday, 27 November 2012
- Which one?— UltimateSupreme ƒ(♫) 17:20 UTC, Tuesday, 27 November 2012
- Yeah I saw. Maybe wikia has it disabled or something... See if you can change it to something else like answers.wikia.com— UltimateSupreme ƒ(♫) 17:31 UTC, Tuesday, 27 November 2012
- Well, nevermind. Dantman was able to edit it earlier. Wikia probably disabled it.— UltimateSupreme ƒ(♫) 17:44 UTC, Tuesday, 27 November 2012
Not sure what was inside it, but looks like you deleted Talk:Summoning: Impure World Reincarnation by mistake.— UltimateSupreme ƒ(♫) 09:51 UTC, Sunday, 2 December 2012
funny, sorry
it's so funny when you make tobi page, and then be obito page haha!, you make madara page too! are you need help jacce?? Eddy wijaya (talk) 11:50, December 3, 2012 (UTC)
Re:Abuse Filters
This should do it:
user_age = 0 & action == "edit" & article_articleid = 0 & lcase(article_text) rlike "(\?$|^wh[aeioy]([rl]\S)?\s|how)"
This would prevent creation of pages starting with 'wh' or 'how' or ending in a '?' I would recommend keeping it on tag and warn mode and btw if you want I can create a nice warning message tomorrow.— UltimateSupreme ƒ(♫) 17:51 UTC, Tuesday, 4 December 2012
Just open this up in edit mode and copy the source:
|Warning: An automated filter has identified this edit as potentially unconstructive. This is Narutopedia, not Naruto Answers Wiki.
That should suffice.— UltimateSupreme ƒ(♫) 01:06 UTC, Wednesday, 5 December 2012
Btw, delete MediaWiki:Abusefilter-warning.— UltimateSupreme ƒ(♫) 05:59 UTC, Wednesday, 5 December 2012
Which one?— UltimateSupreme ƒ(♫) 06:16 UTC, Wednesday, 5 December 2012
Didn't I tell you that it was being caused due to malfunctioning of editor and was fixed by staff.— UltimateSupreme ƒ(♫) 06:30 UTC, Wednesday, 5 December 2012
Could you take care of this please ^_^— UltimateSupreme ƒ(♫) 16:36 UTC, Wednesday, 5 December 2012
Nothing much. Just scroll to the bottom of the forum and copy the code at the end of it and put it on this page.— UltimateSupreme ƒ(♫) 16:52 UTC, Wednesday, 5 December 2012
Did you log out?— UltimateSupreme ƒ(♫) 17:37 UTC, Wednesday, 5 December 2012
Here you go:
user_age = 0 & action == "edit" & article_articleid = 0 & lcase(article_text) rlike "(\?$|^wh[aeioy]([lrt]\S?)?\s|how)"
This should work.— UltimateSupreme ƒ(♫) 00:43 UTC, Thursday, 6 December 2012
No problem ;)— UltimateSupreme ƒ(♫) 05:56 UTC, Thursday, 6 December 2012
Looks like we need one for shouting and another for repeatation of characters as well.— UltimateSupreme ƒ(♫) 04:59 UTC, Sunday, 9 December 2012
I think you can use the shouting one on our w:c:naruto.answers wiki.— UltimateSupreme ƒ(♫) 09:26 UTC, Sunday, 9 December 2012
Does that work as intended O.o?— UltimateSupreme ƒ(♫) 10:40 UTC, Sunday, 9 December 2012
Yup, I know that. It was made to work only in the main namespace i.e. on articles. Add talkpages to the rules.— UltimateSupreme ƒ(♫) 12:40 UTC, Sunday, 9 December 2012
You have made the filter hidden. So I can't see whats inside there... Try this:
(article_namespace == 0 | article_namespace == 1 | article_namespace == 2 | article_namespace == 3 | article_namespace == 4 | article_namespace == 5 | article_namespace == 13 | article_namespace == 15 | article_namespace == 110 | article_namespace == 500 | article_namespace == 501) &length(added_lines) > 1 & !"#REDIRECT" in added_lines & added_lines rlike "^[A-Z0-9\s\pP]*?[A-Z]{5}[A-Z0-9\s\pP]*$" & !added_lines rlike "__(NOEDIT|NEW)SECTION__" & !added_lines rlike "__(NO|FORCE)?TOC__"— UltimateSupreme ƒ(♫) 13:08 UTC, Sunday, 9 December 2012
I ll see what I can do. Btw, you can use this to test the filter.— UltimateSupreme ƒ(♫) 14:58 UTC, Sunday, 9 December 2012
added_lines rlike "^[A-Z0-9\s]+$" & !( added_lines rlike "^[a-z0-9\s]+$")instead.— UltimateSupreme ƒ(♫) 16:30 UTC, Sunday, 9 December 2012
Test it somewhere else like on an article's talkpage.— UltimateSupreme ƒ(♫) 11:43 UTC, Monday, 10 December 2012
- Added tildes:
added_lines rlike "^[A-Z0-9\s]~*$" & !( added_lines rlike "^[a-z0-9\s]~*$")
That should match.— UltimateSupreme ƒ(♫) 18:16 UTC, Monday, 10 December 2012
Thats working, right? Btw, the new chapter is out.— UltimateSupreme ƒ(♫) 07:01 UTC, Wednesday, 12 December 2012
- And something for these too.— UltimateSupreme ƒ(♫) 05:12 UTC, Sunday, 16 December 2012
- I went ahead and made one already. Put it up when you get some free time:
!("sysop" in user_groups) & (new_size > 50) & (article_namespace == 0) & (edit_delta < -1000) & !(user_name in article_recent_contributors) & !("#redirect" in lcase(added_lines))
Also if you don't mind can you make this and the above 2, private?— UltimateSupreme ƒ(♫) 11:08 UTC, Sunday, 16 December 2012
Removal of large amount of content.— UltimateSupreme ƒ(♫) 14:56 UTC, Sunday, 16 December 2012
Where, when? I can't find it in deletion log O.o ~ UltimateSupreme 08:16, December 27, 2012 (UTC)
- Well, here you go:
user_age = 0 & action == "edit" & article_articleid = 0 & lcase(article_text) rlike "(\?$|^wh[aeioy]([lrtn]\S?)?\s|how)"~ UltimateSupreme 08:21, December 27, 2012 (UTC)
- Hi. Can you enter this in Common.css:
/* Makes Abuse Filter and other tags on the Recent Changes red and bold to stand out * By [[User:UltimateSupreme]] */ .mw-tag-markers { color: red; font-weight: bold; }
This would make it easier to find them. ~ UltimateSupreme 13:14, December 27, 2012 (UTC)
- The shouting one should be:
added_lines rlike "^[A-Z0-9\s]~*$"& !( added_lines rlike "^[a-z0-9]~*$")~ UltimateSupreme 07:31, January 4, 2013 (UTC)
- Yes, if you have enabled it and it looks like this:
!("autoconfirmed" in user_groups) & (article_namespace == 0) & (edit_delta < -1000) & !("#redirect" in lcase(added_lines))~ UltimateSupreme 08:37, January 4, 2013 (UTC)
The name of the 20th one should be: Prevent large content removal ~ UltimateSupreme 15:52, January 7, 2013 (UTC)
Sarutobi and fire release
Hey hello i was sooooo right. I told Cerez and Omnibender like 4 months ago that all sarutobi had fire and i was right so i am the awesome.Drew8324 (talk) 04:44, December 9, 2012 (UTC)Drew8324
Ref popups
It was meant to go to Common.js :P ~ UltimateSupreme 17:55, December 27, 2012 (UTC)
We need it again - a bigger one this time. ~ UltimateSupreme 13:24, December 31, 2012 (UTC)
Quite easy. Just tell me which templates you need in there. ~ UltimateSupreme 16:04, January 1, 2013 (UTC)
Done. Thats just a mere Get it done version. Place it in common.js like the rest above. I would improve the script when I find some free time. ~ UltimateSupreme 07:52, January 2, 2013 (UTC)
You had to place it like this:
importScriptPage('User:UltimateSupreme/FileTemplatesAdder.js', 'naruto');
Not the entire code inside :P ~ UltimateSupreme 10:22, January 2, 2013 (UTC)
In common.js, place your cursor before this line:
importScriptPage('PurgeButton/code.js', 'dev');
press backspace once, you won't see anything being deleted but something will be deleted. ~ UltimateSupreme 12:03, January 2, 2013 (UTC)
Seeing that its an easily abusable feature, make it for auto-confirmed only. ~ UltimateSupreme 13:48, January 2, 2013 (UTC)
Shouting filter
Looks like it caught a few unexpected people. Can you check the diffs and see if its working properly or not (only admins can see them :/ ) ~ UltimateSupreme 05:37, January 7, 2013 (UTC)
Nevermind, I got to see one. Revert it to the previous version for now. ~ UltimateSupreme 05:45, January 7, 2013 (UTC)
Did u check it now, using Test against recent changes? ~ UltimateSupreme 06:30, January 7, 2013 (UTC)
Erm :( So use your normal method, log out and try doing the same thing here which triggered the filter. Also try shouting once. ~ UltimateSupreme 07:06, January 7, 2013 (UTC)
There won't be any such in the future, imo. ~ UltimateSupreme 14:11, January 7, 2013 (UTC)
Hey, a question
Hey, do you or have you been to the Naruto Fanon pages? Because I made some page on there, but they were deleted, because they weren't made right. Do you know who to make infobox? So I can try to make one too for on there. Also if you do those, could you help me make some of the characters pages for me to help me with it? Hopemon (talk) 05:19, January 8, 2013 (UTC)


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Among the outgoing Nominated Members of Parliament (NMPs), sociologist Paulin Straughan spoke 75 times, the most. Former national swimmer Joscelin Yeo spoke seven times. Unionist Terry Lee spoke 10 times. The nine NMPs spoke a total of 247 times, a simple average of about 27 times each. The median number of speeches was 24. (Median is the middle value of the given numbers or distribution for those bad at maths.)
As NMPs get a monthly allowance of about S$2,000, you could have concluded that Jos and Terry were the tuang queen and king among the NMPs, skiving while collecting S$2,000 monthly. Assuming they were paid for 20 months, they would have been paid S$40,000 each. This works out to more than S$5,700 per speech in Jos's case and S$4,000 in unionist Terry's case.
Or were the salaries "peanuts", so that they didn't bother to open their mouths more often?
Well, there is actually a S'porean who implies that they did the right thing, by skiving. This was published in Today's Voices as follows:


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DENVER (AP) — The power couple of sports is a rehab unit all its own.
Lindsey Vonn and Tiger Woods, however, can take heart in knowing they have each other to lean on during the arduous process.
Vonn is working her way back from a second right knee operation that kept her from skiing at the Sochi Olympics. Woods is recovering from surgery to relieve pain from a pinched nerve in his back that caused him to miss the Masters.
"Rehab is not a fun thing to do — it's very monotonous and tedious and a lot of the same exercises over and over and over," Vonn said by phone from Florida. "But if you're going through rehab, it's nice to have a partner to do this with ... someone who relates to your situation and that you can talk to, rehab and train together."
The one thing that's off limits? Treating this as a race or tournament.
"We have to keep our competitiveness at bay because it's not about that," Vonn said. "It's about doing it right and taking the time it needs to really heal properly."
The four-time overall World Cup champion had her anterior cruciate ligament fixed for a second time in January, sidelining her for Sochi. There also was quite a bit of cartilage damage in the knee, meaning this recovery will be even slower.
Still, things are "right on track, if not slightly ahead," Vonn said. She hopes to return to snow on Oct. 1, most likely in Europe. If all goes well, she could be racing two months later in Lake Louise, Alberta.
"I'm in a good place," she said.
When times get tough, though, she has Woods — and vice versa. In a recent posting on his website, Woods said: "It does help to rehab with Lindsey, but her programs are much further along than mine. That does help when you're not the only one suffering."
"We remind ourselves not to push it too hard and to ask, 'How are you feeling?'" the 2010 Olympic downhill gold medalist said. "He knows I'm in pain and I know he's in pain. We understand each other. It's different when you're both experiencing it at the same time, even though they're two completely different injuries."
Vonn has been spending about seven hours a day in rehab as she splits her time between Vail, Colorado, and Florida. She recently was cleared to return to her road bike and promptly went for a 20-mile trek.
"I feel like I'm making really good progress now," said Vonn, who recently became an equity partner in Hyperice, a recovery technology company that also counts Adrian Peterson and Blake Griffin as shareholders.
Vonn tore two ligaments in her right knee during a high-speed crash at the world championships in February 2013. She pushed hard to get back in time for Sochi, only to re-injure her surgically repaired ACL in a crash during training last November at Copper Mountain.
Looking back, Vonn doesn't think she returned too soon. Her knee was strong at the time and she insists it was just "really, really, really bad luck that I crashed when I did."
Still, she has one regret: Maybe she should have backed off training.
"If I would've maybe waited and saved it for the races, maybe it would've been different," Vonn said. "I don't know what brakes are. ... It's hard for me to slow myself down.
Vonn, Woods lean on each other through rehab
DENVER (AP) — The power couple of sports is a rehab unit all its own.


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Nobody needs to be a trained cook to fry a really good steak. What matters is the choice of food (e. g. organic meat), the right pan and taking heed of four little rules for frying steaks.
Four steps to the perfect steak:
Your location: » Cooking tips & Culinary trends » Tips and tricks » Study of pans » The steak frying school
Nobody needs to be a trained cook to fry a really good steak. What matters is the choice of food (e. g. organic meat), the right pan and taking heed of four little rules for frying steaks.
Four steps to the perfect steak:
1. Preparation
The meat to be fried should be at room temperature. Take the meat out of the fridge about ½ hour before frying it, but do not season it with salt (which removes liquid from the meat) or pepper (pepper burns in the pan).
Extra tip: the steak will turn out particularly juicy if you wrap a slice of bacon round it and tie this firmly in place with kitchen twine.
2. The right frying temperature
Heat the stainless steel pan to medium heat without oil. Wait three to four minutes and then perform the water drop test. Simply use your fingers to flick a little cold water into the pan – if the water "dances" around in pearl-shaped drops, the pan is at the right temperature. Briefly wipe the pan with a paper towel and then add the oil.
3. Starting to fry
Place the steak in the pan and press it down briefly with a turner. Please don't use a (meat) fork because sharp objects damage the meat, the meat juices escape and the steak will turn dry.
4. Wait and turn
Now comes the trickiest moment when you're frying a steak, because only when the meat "releases itself" from the bottom of the pan can you turn it and turn down the heat on the stove. A two centimeter thick steak can be turned after approx. two minutes, and then fried on the other side for two minutes.
The meat now has a thin crust on the outside – inside it is juicy and pink. This is referred to as medium. If you prefer your steak rare, you don't need to fry it as long.
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Ed Sheeran Reveals He Co-Wrote Hilary Duff's Next Single
Remember when we were all screaming for joy over Hilary Duff and Ed Sheeran collaborating in the studio? It seems like we'll be getting our hands on that collab sooner than we thought! Hilary's first single off of her upcoming album was co-written by the British star.
Digital Spy sat down to talk with the 'X' singer about his latest projects, including the time he spent writing with Hilary.
"It's a good song," Ed said of the tune. "Poor Hilary, though, because the only time I was free I did 'The Voice,' then had a meeting, then I had another TV show until 1 o'clock in the morning — and I know she has a kid — but I had to drag her down to the studio at that time to get the song done. She came and smashed it out in about two hours."
Two hours is pretty impressive. The creative juices must have really been flowing in the studio, making us even more excited to hear it.
As for Hilary fans that might be expecting something along the lines of her old material, Ed says it won't be so — the singer is more mature and so is her music.
"Obviously she comes from 'Lizzie McGuire' and that pop world, but she's more grown up now, so it's more of an adult alternative acoustic sound," he shared. Interesting!
PopCrushers, are you dying to hear Hilary and Ed's new song?


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- The Thai military says 16 insurgents were killed, one fewer than previously stated
- The heavily armed militants attacked under cover of darkness, military officials say
- But the Thai navy personnel in the base were ready after receiving a tip, the officials say
- Muslim separatists in southern Thailand have been fighting government forces for years
Sixteen insurgents were killed during a fierce battle after they attacked a military base in a restive area of southern Thailand early Wednesday, authorities said.
Thai military officials said 50 to 60 heavily armed attackers tried to storm the navy base in the province of Narathiwat under cover of darkness, but navy personnel had been forewarned and fought the insurgents off in an intense, hour-long firefight.
It appeared to be the latest flare-up in a worsening conflict between government forces and Muslim separatists in southern Thailand in which more than 5,000 people are believed to have been killed since 2004.
Although Thailand's population is overwhelmingly Buddhist, Muslims make up a large percentage of the population in the country's three southernmost provinces, near the border with Malaysia.
Parts of those provinces have been under an emergency security decree for years, but analysts say the Thai military is struggling to deal with the militants.
"Insurgents have withstood and adapted to the military's tactics, growing more proficient and daring in the process," the International Crisis Group, a nonprofit organization that provides analysis and advocacy on conflicts around the world, said in December.
Meanwhile, successive Thai governments "have opted to muddle through South East Asia's most violent internal conflict," the group said in a report on the conflict, citing "bureaucratic turf battles and a bitter national-level political struggle."
Well-armed attackers
The insurgents who carried out the attack Wednesday were armed with military-grade weapons, including laser-guided rifles and hand grenades, said Col. Pramote Promin, a spokesman for the Thai military.
Some of the roughly 100 Thai navy personnel on the base were wounded in the fighting, he said, but none were killed. The military had received a tip about the attack and was "on full alert" when it happened, he added.
The military is now trying to track down wounded insurgents who fled from the clash, Pramote said after visiting the area.
He said that after a count at the base, the number of insurgents killed stood at 16, one fewer than the initial total he gave earlier Wednesday.
There was no word Wednesday from the elusive Muslim separatists, who don't usually claim responsibility for attacks they carry out.
Unrest linked to arrest
On Sunday, a roadside bomb in Yala province, which is next to Narathiwat, killed five Thai soldiers, authorities said.
Lt. Gen. Dithaporn Sasasmit, a spokesman for the Thai internal security operations command, said recently that the latest insurgent violence is related to the arrest of one of the separatist leaders in January.
"Every time when authorities can arrest or conduct raid operations to prevent possible attacks, they would try to show off and create some situations," Sasasmit said.
Human Rights Watch last year said that in 2011, insurgent groups targeted teachers they saw as symbols of state efforts to undermine Malay Muslim identity. The group said that Thai security forces have faced few consequences for abuses against Muslims.


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"Thumbs-up. . . . Full of fascinating characters, all struggling-in classic Pixar film style-to overcome seemingly impossible odds."
"You don't have to belong to the computer-animation generation to enjoy The Pixar Touch. . . . An entertaining look at digital derring-do."
—The Dallas Morning News
"Price, a tough, unsentimental reporter, ferrets out lots of backstage drama from fresh sources, weaving a commendably unvarnished history."
—Entertainment Weekly
"Unprecedented detail about the notoriously press-shy company's workings, a story that abounds with lessons for business people and creative artists alike."
—The Wall Street Journal
"Inspiring…. Price is a smart reporter and a solid writer. He deftly makes computer arcana palatable, even interesting."
—The New York Times Book Review
"It's quite a story, and David Price has finally got it right, it's details and the players. This is the definitive history of Pixar."
—Alvy Ray Smith, co-founder of Pixar
"[A] brisk history of an entertainment juggernaut that is also the history of computer animation…a heck of a yarn, full of vivid characters, reversals of fortune and stubborn determination: Pixar should make a movie out of it."
—Kirkus Reviews (starred)
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Perhaps one of the most interesting aspects of the just announced Hostess liquidation, one that will be largely debated and discussed in the media, or maybe not at all, is the curious cast of characters and the peculiar history of this particular bankruptcy. Some may not be aware that the company's Chapter 11 (or colloquially known as 22) bankruptcy filing this January, which today became a Chapter 7 liquidation, was the second one in the company's recent history, with Hostess, previously Interstate Bakeries, emerging from its previous protracted multi-year bankruptcy in 2009. What is curious is that its emergence had all the drama of a anti-Mitt Romney PAC funded thriller, with a PE firm, in this case Ripplewood holdings, injecting $130 million in order to obtain equity control of Hostess as it was emerging last time. There were also more hedge funds, investment banks, strategic buyers, politicians involved in this particular story than one can shake a deep fried numismatic value Twinkie at. More importantly, however, as America has been habituated following the last season of the reality TV show known as the presidential election, if Private Equity then "bad." Only this time there is a twist: because it wasn't really PE that was the pure evil in the Obama long-term campaign, it was associating PE with Republicans, and thus: with jobs outsourcing. And here comes the Hostess twist: because Tim Collins of Ripplewood, was a prominent Democrat, a position which allowed him to get involved in the first bankruptcy process in the first place, due to his proximity with the Teamsters' long-term heartthrob Dick Gephardt (whose consulting group just happens to also be an equity owner of Hostess). In other words, the traditional republican-cum-PE scapegoating strategy here will be a tough one to pull off since the narrative collapses when considering that it was a Democrat who rescued the firm, only to see it implode in a trainwreck that has resulted in the liquidation of a legendary brand, and 18,500 layoffs.
But it only gets better. Because the full cast of characters involved here is quite stunning, as David Kaplan summarized so well recently:
Ripplewood is run by Tim Collins, 55, who's been at the center of other famed PE transactions. Known as a brilliant capitalist-philanthropist-networker, he's an eclectic character: a Democrat in an industry of Republicans; an Adirondack enthusiast dreaded by pheasant and fish; a board member at the Yale divinity and business schools; and someone who took a year at 31 to work at a refugee camp in the Sudan. Ripplewood orchestrated the $1.1 billion turnaround in 2000 of the Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan, which marked the first time that foreign interests controlled a Japanese bank. (Collins made the cover of Fortune Asia for it.) The bank was renamed Shinsei, and in 2004 it had a lucrative initial public stock offering. Far less fortunately, in 2007 Ripplewood acquired Reader's Digest -- and saw its $275 million investment vanish in Reader's Digest's bankruptcy filing in 2009. (Collins reportedly had visions of merging Reader's Digest with the magazine division of Time Warner (TWX), which owns Fortune.)
Ripplewood's foray into Hostess was partly enabled by Collins's connections in the Democratic Party. He wanted to explore deals with union-involved companies and sought the help of former congressman Gephardt, who in 2005 founded the Gephardt Group, an Atlanta consulting firm that provides "labor advisory services." In his 2004 presidential bid, Gephardt -- whose father was a Teamsters milk truck driver -- was endorsed by 21 of the largest U.S. labor unions; in 2003, Collins was one of 19 "founding members" of Gephardt's New York State leadership committee. (Today, Ripplewood and Hostess are listed online as major clients of Gephardt's consulting group, which is also an equity owner of Hostess.) Back when Hostess was coming out of the first bankruptcy, Gephardt's credibility with both Ripplewood and the Teamsters gave them each a little more room to break bread.
During this first bankruptcy, Hostess was almost sold. In 2007 it warded off a $580 million bid from its biggest competitor, Bimbo Bakeries USA. Bimbo Bakeries USA is part of Grupo Bimbo, the Mexican baking giant that owns such brands as Sara Lee, Entenmann's, Freihofer's, Arnold, Boboli, Ball Park Buns, and Thomas' English Muffins. Joining Bimbo in the bid were the union-friendly investment arm of supermarket titan Ron Burkle and the Teamsters themselves.
Hostess was able to exit bankruptcy in 2009 for three reasons. The first was Ripplewood's equity infusion of $130 million in return for control of the company (it currently owns about two-thirds of the equity). The second reason: substantial concessions by the two big unions. Annual labor cost savings to the company were about $110 million; thousands of union members lost their jobs. The third reason: Lenders agreed to stay in the game rather than drive Hostess into liquidation and take whatever pieces were left. The key lenders were Silver Point and Monarch. Both are hedge funds that specialize in investing in distressed companies -- whether you call them saviors or vultures depends on whether you're getting fed or getting eaten.
Based in Greenwich, Conn., Silver Point was founded in 2002 and has approximately $6.5 billion under management; its two co-founders are 49-year-old Edward Mulé and 47-year-old Robert O'Shea, both former Goldman Sachs (GS) partners. Silver Point helped bail out Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Delphi, CIT Group, and various TV stations. Monarch, based in Manhattan, was created in 2008 as a spinoff from the Quadrangle Group. It reportedly has more than $3 billion under management; among its three co-founders are 52-year-old Michael Weinstock and 48-yearold Andrew Herenstein, both formerly of Lazard. Monarch has invested in Eddie Bauer and the Texas Rangers. (In 2010, after Herenstein sent a letter to baseball teams warning them not to approve a sale of the Rangers "at a price below fair market value," the letter became public, and the Dallas Morning News ran this ominous blog headline: MONARCH ALTERNATIVE CAPITAL THREATENS BASEBALL.)
Silver Point and Monarch, along with about 20 other lenders, owned about $450 million of Hostess secured debt at the time of the bankruptcy filing in 2004, according to court records. Remarkably, though -- given that Hostess's financials are now supposed to be an open book in federal bankruptcy court -- it's unclear how much the lenders actually paid for those notes. But it's presumably less than face value. Opportunistic investors like Silver Point and Monarch commonly buy distressed debt at a considerable discount. Their strategy: Invest in fundamentally "good" companies that have "bad" capital structures brought about by overborrowing, bankruptcy, or other corporate stresses.
Neither the specific amount put up by each investor nor the percentage of the total debt is public record (In re Hostess Brands, Case No. 12-22052). So it's impossible to know for sure how much "skin in the game" the creditors have. But according to sources with knowledge of Hostess's debt structure, Silver Point owns about 30% of the debt; Monarch, also about 30%; and the other lenders combined own the remaining 40%. Clearly, it was Silver Point and Monarch, along with Ripplewood, that had the biggest bets going forward.
Confused yet? Here it is summarized in a schematic:
The rest of the story is your typical post-emergency NewCo gone horribly wrong with a prominent role for the Snafu here reserved to Hostess restructuring banker Miller Buckfire for not cutting enough of the firm's pre-petition debt, with the straw that broke the camel's back being, what else, unfunded pension liabilities. As was explained back in July:
The critical issue in the bankruptcy is legacy pensions. Hostess has roughly $2 billion in unfunded pension liabilities to its various unions' workers -- the Teamsters but also the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union (which has largely chosen not to contest what Hostess wants to do -- that is, to get out of much of that obligation). If the bankruptcy court lets Hostess off the pension hook -- which often happens in these cases -- it only moves the struggle outside the courthouse, and the ante goes up. For the Teamsters can then call a strike -- which its Hostess employees have already ratified by a 9-to-1 margin. If the court doesn't grant relief, Hostess can seek liquidation, which would mean that some creditors get some money, but equity would be gone for good, as would a lot of jobs. Either way, each side holds a nuclear warhead with which to annihilate the company.
Liquidation is what ended up happening, as no compromise was possible, and the magic money tree, primarily as a result of equityholders (and creditors) refusing to inject any more cash.
Yet while the balance sheet burden was certainly the pension liabilities, what precipitated the liquidation was the income statement, and more accurately, the cash flow statement, or specifically the lack of cash flow.
as the company tried to reinvent itself in 2009 and 2010, external currents were running against it. The Great Recession hurt many consumer brands generally, and the prices of the commodities that Hostess relied on -- corn, sugar, flour -- went up, which is the opposite of what's supposed to happen in a downturn. In addition, the bakery industry underwent more consolidation when Sara Lee sold out to Bimbo.
Those fortuities aggravated Hostess's two root problems -- a highly leveraged capital structure that had little margin of safety, and high labor costs. Neither problem was adequately addressed in the first bankruptcy, and neither existed to the same degree in major competitors like Bimbo and Flowers Food (owner of such brands as Nature's Own and Tastykake). On exiting the first bankruptcy, Hostess's total debt load was nearly $670 million. That was well above what it went into bankruptcy with in the first place -- an unusual circumstance that the company justified on expectations of "growing" into its capital structure.
But the company was dead wrong. Its debt sowed the very seeds of the next bankruptcy. Looking back on the decision to reinvest in Hostess in the first bankruptcy, one of the lenders now says, "If you look in the dictionary at the definition of throwing good money after bad, there should be a picture of Hostess beside it."
By late 2011, Hostess was getting, well, creamed. Its sales last year -- $2.5 billion -- were down about 11% from 2008 and down 28% from 2004. (Twinkies remain the best individual seller -- 323 million of them in the 52-week period ending June 29, give or take a splurt.) Overall, Hostess lost $341 million in fiscal 2011, 2½ times the loss of the prior year -- and by early 2012, primarily because of burgeoning interest obligations, its debt had grown to about $860 million.
As revenue declined, the company continued to burn cash -- in the second half of 2011, the rate was $2 million a week. The liquidity crunch forced Ripplewood in the early spring of 2011 to pump in $40 million more in return for more equity as well as debt that was subordinate to that held by Silver Point and Monarch. In August -- to save a company teetering on the edge of fiscal calamity and forced liquidation -- Silver Point, Monarch, and the group of other lenders put up an additional $30 million to see if a negotiated turnaround was possible.
They turned to the unions and demanded new concessions. But the unions, having three years earlier given up thousands of jobs and millions in benefits, flatly refused.
The company was going to pieces -- again -- and Hostess filed for Chapter 11 protection -- again -- in January of this year. This time, though, the moneymen were no longer on the same page. As the majority equity holder, Ripplewood badly wanted to keep Hostess out of bankruptcy. It pleaded with the lenders to show flexibility, but they were not so inclined. They lenders held superior fiscal hands and had less downside if Hostess failed. In the event of a bankruptcy, given all the assets Hostess owned, the lenders would still walk away with millions.
There is much more to this story, but the ending is well-known to all, and it is not a happy one.
End result: a near total loss for everyone involved, except the secured creditors of course, who will now get pennies on the dollar, or perhaps even par, for their claims when all is said and done.
Sadly, in many ways Hostess is now indicative of that just as insolvent larger corporation, the USA, whose insurmountable balance sheet liabilities will be the eventual catalyst for its collapse, but only once the Income Statement and the Cash Flow sheet join in. For now, the Fed provides the flow needed to avoid the day of reckoning, but everything ends eventually.
In the meantime, what the Hostess story will hopefully teach the always gullible public, is that nothing is ever black or white, and there are numerous shades of gray in every story: even one in which an "evil" PE firm is unable to come to resolution with labor unions, despite the man in charge of it all being a prominent democrat. Because when it comes to money other things such alliances, ideology and certainly politics are always, always, secondary. Sadly, ever more Americans will be forced to learn this lesson the hard way.


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Farewell Summer...
This weekend marked my last of the season at the summer cottage where I learned to knit.
Until next summer, Lake Blaisdell...
Who taught you how to knit? We want to hear your stories!
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I taught myself to knit with a handful of "how-to" books my senior year of high school. I intended knitting to be a portable past time on flights from Colorado to school in Boston. It quickly grew into a much bigger part of my life.ReplyDelete
Knitting in my family skipped two generations-- neither my mother nor her mother ever knit. But my great-grandmother was a wonderful knitter, tatter, crocheter and quilter. I'm very proud to inherited all of her supplies.
I learned to crochet as a 4 year old at my father's side - his great-grandmother taught him as a child, while she recounted to him what it was like to have been at the siege of Vicksburg.ReplyDelete
As a grade schooler my left handed maternal grandmother attempted to teach me - she a perfectionist - me, not so much. I drove her nuts so she gave up.
When I was 19 I got the bug. I HAD to learn how to knit. I asked so many people if they knew how or could teach me how. Couldn't find a single taker. So - back in the day - I pulled out the encyclopedia and lo and behold - how to knit! So, I have Encyclopedia Brittanica to thank for my ability to knit - and the passion for the art that has ensued!
When I was doing my college internship in Flint, MI at a hospital, a young girl in the department I was in was knitting her boyfriend a cardigan. I fell in love with the idea of knitting. That was 1977, in 1990 a girl joined our office crew and was knitting one day and I asked her to teach me, I was sooo happy to finally learn. (thanks Lisa) ;)ReplyDelete
My grandmother taught me to knit at that very same lake and it's fun passing along the tradition. She used to say dropping your knitting in the pine needles at the lake made it a better sweater...or pair of mittens...or "imaginary horse reins" (for those few at the lake who pretend not to appreciate the fiber arts ;-)ReplyDelete
As a child I was rather sickly...always having Strep throat. Back then the doctor would say "have her lay on the couch for 5 days". So, once when I was sick and about 9 yrs old my Mom bought me a Learn to Knit kit. (She didn't knit). I studied the photos and the script and I did it. I learned to knit. I assumed a style that seemed natural and it wasn't until years later when I was knitting in a group and the other knitters said "what the heck are you doing?" that I realized I was knitting Continental.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 22, 2010 at 9:12 AM
My grandma taught me to knit when I was fourteen. The first thing I made was a gold garter stitch scarf with fringe in Red Heart for a friend. For some reason, I didn't learn to purl until years and several garter stitch scarves later...ReplyDelete
aww...this is a beautiful get-away, great for knitting retreat! is it open to public ?ReplyDelete
i learn to knit in my teens. whenever i knit while waiting to pick up my daughter from class. I always ended up being ask - why do u knit in such a hot n humid tropical weather like singapore !!!!"
is there a knit to wear socks here ? do u really need that cardigan ?
and many many more questions ....
well......is my HOBBY :)


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Freedom fighters for Polanski
What a great week with the announcement on July 12 that the Swiss would not allow Roman Polanski to be extradited to the USA.
Once it was announced in September that Roman was being held for extradition to the US, I became committed to arguing/advocating for his release. One of the unexpected great benefits of doing so was my getting to know so many wonderful people from around the world who shared this same commitment. I thank all of them for their friendship and commitment to freeing Polanski. I particularly wanted to thank Jean-Yves Chalangeas of Paris, Dave Phillips of London, Marion Demoy of London, Soledad Pertier of Miami, Florida, Agnieszka Jackl of Warsaw, Dorota Sienievitch of Paris, Domi Marchewka of Warsaw, Valarie Bau of Toulouse France, Lea Krausz of Switzerland, Liz Marinaccio of New York, and Isabelle Ruh of France. And do note that none of the aformentioned, including myself, were members of any Hollywood elite. We were members of an elite who understood that the continued persecution of Roman Polanski was unjust and outrageous.
College sexual code enforcer charged with distributing child pornography
At times the dankprofessor has speculated about the mentality of campus administrators who apply campus policies which ban student professor consensual sexual relationships. Might such persons be conflicted about their invasion of the private lives of consenting adults? Or do these persons tend to be moral zealots who gain some sort of gratification by abusing less powerful others? Whatever the dynamic may be, no one, other than myself, seems to be interested in the enforcers of the university sexual codes.
But there may now be a change as a result of developments at a Canadian college, Lethbridge College. I have previously blogged on Lethbridge concerning the situation of psychology professor Gregory Bird who was suspended by Lethbridge for engaging in consensual sexual relationships with students. Professor Bird successfully fought the suspension and was reinstated after he successfully argued that Lethbridge did not have any rules which bar student prof fraternization. Of course, the Lethbridge administration did not like this arbitration imposed reinstatement.
Rick Buis, the college's vice-president of corporate and international relations, said on Thursday the arbitrators were correct in finding the college had no specific policy prohibiting student/teacher relationships.
But he said psychology instructor Greg Bird should have known better.
"We don't have policies stating 'Thou shalt not steal' or 'Thou shalt not fight with fellow employees in the cafeteria,' " Buis said. "We think, 'Thou shalt not sleep with students' is equally obvious."
But what Buis does not state as being obvious is that Lethbridge administrators shalt not distribute child pornography. Now here is the news story about Lethridge's sexual code enforcer.
A former vice-president of Lethbridge College is accused of possessing and sharing sexually explicit online movies involving pre-teen children while he was employed by the college. Richard Buis, 64, turned himself in to Lethbridge regional police Thursday morning before making a brief appearance in provincial court to answer to charges of possessing, accessing and distributing child pornography. He was charged this week following a three-month investigation by the province's Integrated Child Exploitation (ICE) unit and Lethbridge regional police.
Police were tipped off this spring by a person "very close" to the accused who came across evidence and put themselves in some personal danger to report it to police, said Staff Sgt. Scott Chadsey, head of the regional police major crimes section.
Buis resigned April 9 from his position as the college's vice-president of corporate and international services, citing personal reasons at the time. He had been working under contract since formally retiring from the college two years earlier after a 20-year career with the institution. His contract term was scheduled to end June 30.
Buis also resigned this past spring as president of the Lethbridge Exhibition board with about eight months remaining in his two-year term.
Police allege that between 2008-2010, the accused man downloaded and accessed video files at his home depicting children between the ages of seven and 12 engaged in sexual acts and that he made the files available to others.
"There were three laptops seized, all belonging to the accused," said Const. Keon Woronuk, a local officer assigned to the province's southern ICE unit.
"They were owned by the college, but they were seized from his home," he said, adding police found no evidence any of the alleged offences took place on the college campus.
Forensic examination of the computers, he said, revealed evidence of online file sharing by downloading or making material available to others via the Internet.
Looking tired and haggard, Buis appeared in Lethbridge provincial court Thursday and stood briefly in the prisoner's dock while Crown prosecutor Vaughan Hartigan outlined conditions of his release.
Buis was told he is not allowed use a computer or any electronic device capable of accessing the Internet, and he can't visit any business, such as a cyber cafe, which provides customers with Internet access. The accused is also prohibited from having any contact with anyone under the age of 18 unless accompanied by an adult who knows of the charges, and he cannot go to swimming pools, playgrounds, parks or anywhere children under the age of 16 may congregate.
The release order also limits his options for employment. Buis can't work anywhere or volunteer in any capacity in which he would be entrusted with a child under the age of 16. He must also submit to police searches without the necessity of a search warrant, report to local police as directed, keep the peace, and attend court as required.
In another matter, Buis was in court last month on a single charge of assault, but it was withdrawn after he agreed to comply with a peace bond, under which he must keep the peace, report regularly to a peace officer, and attend counselling for issues of domestic violence.
Buis' next court appearance on the child pornography charges is scheduled for Aug. 12.
College President Tracy Edwards is away in Eastern Canada and wasn't available for comment, but in an email sent to college faculty and staff Thursday morning, she described news of the charges against Buis as "disturbing and regrettable."
Disturbing and regrettable, to say the least. Unfortunately President Edwards was not disturbed at all when Prof Bird was suspended for consensual relationships with adult students. VP Buis was his primary agent for enforcing his moral sexual codes. Of course, it comes down to the same old question- who will protect us from our so-called protectors? And the bottom line at universities and beyond should be that consenting adults should not be subjected to any protectors of any kind; those who put themselves in the postion of their protectors are always engaging in a form of abuse.
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