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Copyright © 1996 R.J. Kilcullen
By a commodity Marx means something produced for the purpose of being exchanged. Things produced for the producer's use are sometimes later exchanged, but that does not make them commodities, since they were not produced precisely for that purpose. In modern society most production is of commodities. (Note that these days 'commodity' means something traded as raw material. This is different from the usage of Marx's English translators.)
When commodities are exchanged the ratio in which they exchange is their exchange value - e.g. one pear may exchange for two apples, and the exchange value of a pear in terms of apples is two. Exchange value is different from use value: some things which are very useful have no exchange value, and are normally free - e.g. the air we breathe. No-one will give anything in exchange for it, despite its usefulness. On the average and in the long run, the various exchange values of commodities reflect, according to Marx, the various amounts of labour, measured in time, that their production and marketing requires. That is, commodities exchange in the ratio of the time taken to produce one item of each kind. One pear is worth two apples if producers have to work twice as many hours to bring a pear to the market. This is true of average long term rates of exchange; there may be fluctuations due to seasonal factors, frost, etc.
More precisely: the exchange value of a commodity reflects the amount of 'socially necessary' labour, i.e. the labour needed if the producer works at the normal level of intensity, with normal skill, using normal methods - normal in that society, normal in relation to that market. Otherwise a thing made by an incompetent producer using obsolete methods would exchange for more because it took longer to make - which is obviously not true.
In calculating the value of a product of skilled labour we must add a fraction of the time taken to acquire the skill - by the normal trainee under the normal methods of training. The fraction is calculated by the number of units normally produced during their working life by those with that skill. If the total number produced is 3,000, then the value of each is the time normally taken by the skilled producer to make it, plus one three-thousandth of the time normally taken to acquire the skill.
Value is not the same as price: it is one of the determinants of price, the cause responsible for the long-run average price. In the short term the price may be pushed above the value by shortage or exceptional demand. Also, the price of a commodity that requires more capital investment for its production is normally, even in the long term, above the level corresponding to its relative value (for reasons to be explained later).
This theory of value, the labour theory, was not invented by Marx. It was commonplace among economists at the time. It was given currency by Adam Smith: 'The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it. What everything is really worth to the man who has acquired it, and who wants to dispose of it or exchange it for something else, is the toil and trouble which it can save to himself, and which it can impose upon other people. What is bought with money or with goods is purchased by labour'; Wealth of Nations, Bk.1, ch.5.
This theory of value uses a notion of common, general, abstract, undifferentiated human labour. In a society in which there is little division of labour there would not be much meaning to the notion of human labour as such, in the abstract: there would be the kind of work needed for one task, the different kind of work needed for another. But as the division of labour progresses, the work is homogenized. This may not seem true, since some tasks require specialized skill. But no-one is expected to do a specialized task without training, and training is divided into stages so that anyone can master the first stage just by spending time paying ordinary attention, and anyone who masters the first can then master the second - again by spending time paying ordinary attention; and anyone who has gone through all stages of training can do the job by spending time with ordinary attention. If this is not true, then the task will be changed: further division of labour will take place, or machinery will be introduced. If this process were carried right through (which it has not been, and never will be) then all work would be merely giving ordinary attention for the required time. The essence of work would be the time it takes. This seems to be the sort of reasoning behind the labour theory of value. If so, then it is applicable insofar as there is division of labour. See Heilbroner, Marxism, for and against (HB/197/.5/.H37), pp.99-100.
How explain the possibility of Capitalism?Capital is money used to make money - by buying commodities which are then to be sold to get an increased amount of money. How can money be used in this way? One answer is: by buying cheap and selling dear as prices fluctuate. This may explain how this or that individual makes money for a while, but since every gain made this way is someone else's loss, if those who gain that way now have an even chance of losing later, then it cannot explain the existence of a definite class of people who regularly make money. The explanation for the existence of such a class (capitalists) is that a limited set of people are in a position to buy a commodity which regularly yields an increase when they sell. This commodity is the service of the worker, which may produce commodities which exceed that service in exchange value (and only when when it does will the worker's services be bought).
The service of a worker is a commodity which has the special use of producing other commodities, which may have more exchange value than it has itself. There are other commodities (e.g. machines) which produce commodities, but (on the labour theory of value, which makes human labour the sole source of value) the exchange value contributed by a machine is simply a fraction of the cost in labour terms of making and working the machine. If over its whole working life it costs $3,000 and produces 3000 items, then it adds $1 to the value of each item. But the amount of labour a worker puts into what he produces over a lifetime may exceed the amount of labour needed to produce and maintain that worker. If some employer buys the worker's services at their value - i.e. for the equivalent of the labour needed to produce the worker - then, since the worker's product belongs to the employer, there will be an excess or 'surplus' value, additional to the value of the wage, that the employer appropriates.
Marx does not think that in the real world full value is always paid. But he conducts his argument on the hypothesis that full value is paid, for several reasons. First, he wants to make it clear that his analysis of capitalism does not rest on the assumptions that capitalists defraud the worker. Even if there were no cheating, capitalism could still exist. Second, he wants to show that even an idealized capitalism would be doomed to destruction (the argumentative strategy of proving the point for the hardest case: a fortiori it holds for other cases). Third, he wants to make it clear that it is in production itself, and not merely in the distribution of the product, that the capitalists' profits originate; it is not accidental that most (though not all) capitals are used to finance production (not, e.g., for buying non-human commodities and selling them unmodified).
Let us consider more carefully the notion of the value of the worker's services for a day - not the price, which may be forced down by competition for a time, but the value, in terms of the labour theory of value. It is the total quantity of labour necessary to bring that worker into the labour market, and keep him fit for work during a normal working life, divided by the number of days in the normal working life. The total includes the amount of labour necessary to produce his food, clothing, shelter, general education, job training, medical care, necessary recreation, and so on. These are the 'wages goods', the goods that have first call on the labourer's wage; or the 'necessities of life'. The necessity is not merely biological; there is a social or conventional or cultural element (e.g. in the standard of general education, the sort of food and shelter regarded as necessary, the sort of recreation needed, and so on).
The quotient, today's share of the total, Marx calls the 'necessary' labour. He pictures the working day as divided into two segments, in the first of which the worker produces for the employer the equivalent of the necessities of life to be purchased by his wage - this is the 'necessary' labour time; the product of the rest of the day is the source of the employer's profit, the 'surplus' labour. It is not 'surplus' in the sense of unnecessary, to the employer - for him it is in fact the whole point of the employment contract. But it is labour 'in excess of' or 'surplus to' the labour needed to produce the equivalent of the necessities of life. The individual employer's profit is not simply identical with this surplus; but in general surplus labour is the source of employers' profits, and also of rent and interest.
So even if the employer pays full value for the hire of the labourer for the day, the labour the worker does during that day will normally exceed the labour equivalent to the value of his hire. The day's share of the labour socially necessary to bring the worker into the workforce and maintain him in working order for a normal working life is less than the whole of the working day. Marx says that it is not labour that the employer buys, because the equivalent in value of a day's labour would seem to be the product of a day's labour, and there would be no profit (if full value were paid). The employer buys labour power, Marx says: more accurately, I think, he buys the right to use the worker's powers for a day. Just as the value of the right to use a machine for a day is one day's share of what it costs to produce the machine and maintain it for its working life, so the value of the right to use a worker for a day is the day's share of what it costs to produce and maintain the worker, which will be less than the value of what that worker can produce in a day (or the hire will not take place). Sometimes Marx says that the 'necessary' part of the day is paid labour, and the surplus 'unpaid': but in fact, in this theory, what is paid for is not labour. What is paid for is the right to use the labourer's powers for the day, for the whole day. The capitalist is supposed in justice to pay the equivalent to the whole value of that.
This is not the full explanation of the possibility of the existence of a class of capitalists, people who can regularly use their money to make money. We need to know why the worker will work for an employer, instead of working the whole day on his own account and keeping the 'surplus' for himself. This is the point that distinguishes Capitalism from what Marx calls 'simple commodity production'. There were (perhaps) some societies which were characterised by commodity production - i.e. most of what was produced was intended for exchange. But the production was by independent farmers and artisans working on their own land and with their own equipment. The village blacksmith, cobbler, tailor, etc. were not employees. The capitalist system is one in which producers are employees, and do not themselves own, or have the means to buy, their own equipment and materials. Marxists often say that capitalism presupposes that the workers have been 'separated' from the means of production. This suggests coercion, and there have in fact been many examples (e.g. the enclosures in England), and continue to be (e.g. in less developed countries) of forcible dispossession of peasants, who then must offer themselves as wage workers. But there is another aspect not to be overlooked: 'separation' in the sense that the labourer's own equipment and resources have become insufficient to compete with the capitalist firm's. And another: the productivity and associated lifestyle of modern industry may make wage work an attractive alternative to workers who could still work in the old way if they were satisfied with the old life. In most historical examples we should probably find coercion mixed in with these other causes. But however it happened, the fact is that in capitalist societies most producers do not have the means of production, and this is what makes capitalism possible. All the worker has to enter the market with is his labour power, which he hires out for a wage. The 'wages system' is another, and perhaps more revealing, name for Capitalism.
(The question 'How is Capitalism possible?' seems to allude to Kant's questions about the possibility of various kinds of knowledge - a reminiscence of Marx's days as a student of philosophy.)
The laws of motionNow let us consider the dynamic of capitalism, its 'laws of motion', the trends arising from its nature. First, there is what Schumpeter calls a 'gale of innovation'. But if human labour is the sole source of value, and machinery adds nothing but the labour equivalent of its cost of production and maintenance (yields no 'surplus'), why does the capitalist invest in labour-saving machinery? Shouldn't he maximise the amount of labour embodied in each item produced? But remember that value is the quantity of socially necessary labour, the labour needed by the normal worker using normal methods. If a worker uses a method that needs more than the normal amount of labour, that does not enhance the value of the product. Conversely, if he uses a method that needs less than the normal amount of labour, that does not diminish the value of the product. This is why each individual capitalist has reason to introduce labour-saving machinery. If he can introduce a method that uses less labour, then he can still sell the product at the ordinary price (its value is undiminished), though his labour costs will be less, and his surplus will therefore be greater. He has diverted to himself what would normally go in wages to workers the machinery has displaced. Of course his competitors will have to copy the new method or go out of business, so the new method will soon become the normal method. Then the amount of labour 'normally' required will be less, and the value of the product will be less, the price will fall, and the surplus will be reduced to a lower level. But while the innovator is still ahead of his competitors he makes greater profits, and will work his plant and workforce overtime to make the most of his advantage. Thus, although human labour is the sole source of value, capitalists will introduce a continual series of labour-saving innovations, and compel one another to do so by competition. The gale of innovation is also a gale of unemployment, and in the end the increasing capital investment needed because of continued technical development will reduce profits: the displacement of human labour reduces the possibility of profit, but the individual capitalist does best by innovating.
(2). Also, capitalism tends to spread from country to country. At the beginning of the capitalist era there were national or local economies in which different methods of production were normal, in which the 'necessities of life' were defined differently. The value of a commodity is the quantity of labour needed by methods normal for the market in which it is to be exchanged, the value of labour as a commodity reflects the value of the necessities of life. Just as an English capitalist, let us suppose, could make more profit if he adopted a more productive method than was normal in England, so he could take advantage of the superiority of English methods to those of another country by exporting to that country, where his products will have the value corresponding to the amount of labour normally needed there to make such things. Or he could set up a factory there using English methods, and pay local workers the value there of their hire, a value which reflects the local definition of what is needed to sustain life (and if cheaply-produced wages goods begin to be imported labour may become even cheaper, until the standard of subsistence rises). Competition from other English capitalists, imitation by local producers, reduction of English standards of subsistence (because of migration of English capital to other countries and competition from factories in low-wage countries), and changes in the standards of subsistence assumed in other countries, will result in standardization. All countries tend to be drawn into the one world-economy, in which there is a continual search for new products, new methods, new markets, new work-forces, and so on, a world in which all producers become 'separated' from the means of production, and in which employers must innovate constantly to stay afloat.
(3). There is a long-term trend for rates of profit to fall. Capital is money spent to make more money; it is spent partly on machinery and materials and other non-human means of production (this part yields no surplus), and partly on wages; the second part is the source of the surplus. Only the wages part of capital increases or 'varies' in the course of the transactions the capitalist engages in; so the two parts can be called respectively the 'constant' and 'variable' parts of capital. Now if we assume that the inevitable result of the gale of innovation is an increase in the amount of capital tied up in machinery, then the rate of profit must fall. The rate depends (though not simply) on the ratio between surplus and total capital. If we think of all the capitals as if they formed one, we can say that the rate of profit is the ratio surplus/ (variable plus constant) capital. As innovation goes on, the numerator of this fraction, the surplus, will increase to some extent, because of increased productivity in wages-goods industries - it does not take so much of the day to produce the equivalent of the value of the necessities of life, because their value falls as the industries producing them become more productive. Provided subsistence standards do not rise (remember these are to some extent conventionally defined), and provided the working day is not shortened, reduction in the 'necessary' labour time will increase the surplus. But there is a limit: the day has only 24 hours, so there is an upper limit to the possible surplus. Meanwhile, however, the denominator of the fraction (variable plus constant capital) steadily increases without limit, as the constant capital increases. If by the displacement of labour the total surplus falls, and there is a limit to the extent to which this can be countered by taking more surplus from each worker still employed, and if constant capital is increasing as a result of constant introduction of labour-saving machinery, then eventually the rate of profit must fall.
This argument has nothing to do with the idea of 'diminishing returns' (double the inputs and you will get less than double the output): that assumes constant technology. Marx's argument is precisely that as technology changes the rate of profit must fall - assuming that technological change ties up more and more capital in machinery or other equipment.
It might be thought that the fall in the rate of profit might check the introduction of more machinery. But each individual capitalist will still benefit by introducing more machinery because this has a favourable effect on his own profit. So no matter how much the rate of profit falls innovation will continue.
Notice the assumption that innovation leads to an increase in the capital tied up in machinery and equipment. It does not always do so. Electricity, radio and electronics have probably had the opposite effect. Some innovations make it possible to reduce fixed investment. It therefore cannot be predicted that the rate of profit will fall, but Marx expected that it would. Cf. Mill, Principles of Political Economy IV.4.
(4). Another trend is the centralization of capital. The greater the amount of capital investment required to set up a factory capable of competing with those already in existence, the harder it is to become an independent capitalist. Also, smaller capitalist are continually eliminated. If one firm manages to introduce a new process and undersell competitors, the smaller capitalists go bankrupt sooner. They are less likely to win the race to innovate. They are more vulnerable to market fluctuations, because they find it harder to get credit. So smaller capitalists are eliminated, or merge in self-defence, and new capitalists seldomer break in because of the increasing investment needed to start off. Ownership and control are steadily centralized. (This argument overlooks the possibility that new fields are being found into which small firms may enter.)
(5). Another trend is the 'immiseration' of the working classes. In the 19th century the standard explanation of poverty came from Malthus's Essay on Population (1798). Malthus believed that population grows faster than production. Increasing poverty is therefore inevitable; any increase in the standard of living of the poorest classes simply leads to increased birthrate or lower deathrate, and population again 'presses on' food supply. J.S. Mill and other liberal writers drew the conclusion that the standard of living of the working classes could rise only if they practiced birth control.
Marx held the Malthusian theory in great contempt. Population does not tend to grow faster than production. Under capitalism, production grows very rapidly because of continual innovation (Malthus assumed constant technology). The 'surplus' population - a pool of unemployed, living in destitution - is not the result of natural population increase, but of the displacement of workers by labour-saving machinery. The surplus population could all be put to work if the length of the working day were reduced. But employers don't want this, for various reasons. The reason Marx stresses is that if the working class is divided into a group of employed and a group of unemployed (the 'industrial reserve army'), then the employed must submit to reduction of their wages below the true value of their hire, to the extension of the working day (they've been hired for the day - but how long is that?), and to stricter discipline, because they are afraid of being sacked and replaced by someone from the pool of unemployed. Thus it benefits employers to divide the proletariat into a section that is idle and destitute, and another section that is being worked to the utmost: this yields the maximum of surplus value. (And employees can be taxed to support the unemployed.) Not that any employer need see it that way or plan it: competition among capitalists compels each to maximise profit or go out of business, and it is often more profitable to pay overtime than to take on more workers.
Earlier Marxists expected that the working class would simply become poorer and poorer. This does not seem to have happened. Perhaps it has, if we take proper account of the condition of workers in all parts of the world. Maybe the workers in Britain are better off than they were in Marx's time, but not in 'third world' countries (especially those who have died of starvation or in war). Some Marxists say Marx did not mean poorer absolutely, but relatively to members of the capitalist class. Others say he did not mean to make a definite prophecy, but just to point to trends inherent in the system, which might be countered by other factors. Others say that it is too early to know - the time-scale of the prediction is unclear.
(6). Also, there will be depressions and crises. One of the leading features of the modern economy is the fluctuation of prosperity, the alternation of booms and busts, growth and recession (the terminology changes all the time because of reluctance to admit that another 'downturn' is occurring). The Great Depression of the 1930s is the best-known 'crisis'. Some economists have believed that there is a regular 'trade cycle' (with perhaps an 11 year period). According to Marx, competition compels capitalists to introduce labour-saving machinery; as they do the rate of profit falls, which increases the pressure to innovate, and so on. Eventually there will come a point where production is no longer profitable, and where so much labour has been displaced that the working class does not have enough income to buy what is produced. So there is a crisis of 'overproduction'. There are several other kinds, but this is interesting because of the paradox (the 'contradiction', Marxists would say), that to make a profit in a competitive world the capitalist must put out of work the people who must have incomes to spend if capitalists are to make a profit.
To get out of a depression, capitalism (no matter how idealized - or rather, at this point idealization is impossible) must temporarily abandon the principle that things are to exchange at their true relative values. In a depression workers must accept wages lower than value (furthering their 'immiseration'), and the strongest capitalists can buy up firms going bankrupt, paying less than the true value of their assets (furthering 'centralization'). This destruction of values (sometimes literal destruction of commodities) makes it possible for the economy to begin moving again. (Cf. Mill, Principles IV.4.v-viii.) But the underlying trend that produced this crisis will after a while produce another. Increased immiseration and centralization amount to increased social polarization; and the organization and discipline of the workplace makes the workers a strong force that can be turned to other purposes than the capitalists intend. 'Centralization of the means of production and socialization of labour at last reach a point where they become incompatible with their capitalist integument. This integument is burst asunder. The knell of capitalist private property sounds. The expropriators are expropriated.' (Capital Bk 1 ch 32).
About the kind of society that would follow the revolution Marx had little to say. It would be one in which the means of production would not be anyone's private property. But beyond that it will be up to those who bring about or experience these events to construct the new society.
See also
Reading guide to Marx, Capital
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- Topics: Animal Sciences | Meat Products | Swine Management |
R. L. Reddish2
The highest-grade pork is produced from young, well-fed hogs that weigh from 240–280 pounds. The fat should be firm and from 0.8 to 1.0 inches thick over the center of the back. The hams should be full and plump, the sides straight and smooth.
Pork carcasses of highest quality and those most suitable for the home meat supply are produced from hogs that are from five to six months of age at time of slaughter. Hogs that are fed liberally on feeds that permit rapid growth and fattening from weaning time to these ages will produce pork of proper size and finish.
To prevent spoilage and to insure more efficient processing, hang the pork carcass in refrigerator storage for 12 to 24 hours. This period of time is adequate to properly chill the carcass (38°F to the bone) if the cooler temperature is held between 34–38°F.
Place the side of pork on the table with the inside of the carcass facing up.
Pull out the leaf (kidney) fat and kidney. If the ham is to be artery pumped, leave the artery intact at its upper attachment.
Cut off the head at the atlas joint or first joint. Cut the jowls or cheeks off close to the jawbone and trim the remaining meat from the head.
Saw off the shoulder across the third rib, counting from the neck. Remove the neckbones or spareribs. Avoid cutting into the shoulder.
The shoulder can be kept whole, cured and smoked, or it can be divided into Boston butt and picnic and used fresh or cured. If the shoulder is to be cured, it should be smooth and properly trimmed.
To divide the shoulder into picnic ham and Boston butt, cut the shoulder approximately in half by cutting about one inch below the shoulder blade and parallel with the breast. Trim the excess fat and neck meat from the picnic. Cut the excess fat off the shoulder butt or Boston butt. Square the picnic by sawing off the foreleg parallel to the cut made in dividing the shoulder.
Separate the ham from the middle (side) by sawing across the backbone and through the pelvic bone. Make this cut just behind the rise in the backbone, about 2½ inches (the width of three fingers) in front of the aitch bone, or pelvic bone, and at right angles to the length of the leg.
Trim the ham and remove the backbone, tail, and flank. The ham should be trimmed so that there will be a uniform layer of fat covering the ham from the butt end to the shank. Saw off the hind leg at the hock joint. Remove the hock by cutting one inch below the thick part of the ham. The hock can be left on the ham and cured with the ham.
Separate the loin from the side by making a straight cut from a point close to the lower edge of the backbone at the shoulder end to a point just below the tenderloin muscle from which the ham was cut. Separate the fat back from the loin. Leave an even covering of fat, about ¼ inch thick on the loin.
Trim the regular spareribs from the side or belly. Turn the blade of the knife towards the ribs so that it will not cut into the meat. Square the side by cutting a strip parallel to the loin and wide enough to remove the nipples. The flank end may also have to be squared.
Shoulder—cured whole (a) Picnic—cured or fresh roast (b) Boston butt—cured or fresh roasts and pork steaks.
Ham—cured whole–roasts and ham steaks. Fresh—roasts and fresh ham steaks.
Belly or Side—cured and smoked–bacon. Fresh—fresh pork slices. Cured—dry salt bacon and smoked bacon.
Loin—cured and smoked–roasts and chops. Fresh—loin roast and chops.
Jowls—cured and smoked–jowl bacon. Fresh—sausage.
Lean and Fat Trimmings—sausage.
Spareribs—fresh, smoked or barbecued spareribs.
An additional 30 lbs of fat for lard, bones, and waste further reduces this 150 lb carcass to only 120 lbs of salable retail cuts—chops, hams, bacon, ribs, and sausage—that the retailer packages and puts on display in the meat case.
Pork is cured in three ways—with salt alone, with salt and sugar, or with salt, sugar, and saltpeter. The last is the preferred "sugar cure." You can sugar-cure pork either dry or in sweet-pickle brine. Because the dry cure is faster, it is popular in the South, where warm weather makes spoilage a serious problem. With either the dry or sweet-pickle cure, remember the main essentials:
Chill the meat and keep it cold.
Use the amount of salt in the recipe.
Give the meat enough curing time to absorb the salt thoroughly.
Smoke cured meat long enough to drive out excess moisture.
Weigh meat and curing ingredients carefully. Too little salt may cause spoilage; too much salt makes hard, dry, over-salty meat.
Keep meat cold while in cure. Hold curing meat at a temperature near 36–40°F. Higher temperatures increase the chance of spoilage. Lower temperatures slow salt penetration.
If curing temperatures drop below freezing for several days, add the same number of days to curing time. Temperatures below 36°F slow salt penetration.
Frozen meat is difficult to handle. If fresh meat freezes, thaw it in a chill room or in cold brine before putting it in cure.
Figure curing time carefully. Too few days in cure may cause spoilage. Too long a cure in heavy salt results in loss of quality.
"A Hog's Not All Chops," Pork Industry Group, National Livestock and Meat Board.
"Slaughtering, Cutting, and Processing Pork," USDA Farmers' Bulletin no. 2138.
"Meat for the Family," Cornell Extension Bulletin 732, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
This document is CIR445, one of a series of the Animal Sciences Department, UF/IFAS Extension. Original publication date October 1997. Revised August 2015. Visit the EDIS website at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu.
R. L. Reddish, retired professor, Extension meats specialist. Reviewed by J. H. Brendemuhl, professor, Animal Sciences Department, UF/IFAS Extension, Gainesville, FL 32611.
The Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS) is an Equal Opportunity Institution authorized to provide research, educational information and other services only to individuals and institutions that function with non-discrimination with respect to race, creed, color, religion, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, political opinions or affiliations. For more information on obtaining other UF/IFAS Extension publications, contact your county's UF/IFAS Extension office.
U.S. Department of Agriculture, UF/IFAS Extension Service, University of Florida, IFAS, Florida A & M University Cooperative Extension Program, and Boards of County Commissioners Cooperating. Nick T. Place, dean for UF/IFAS Extension.

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DescriptionDisney Trivia Challenge is a quiz game where all the questions are based on Disney films, characters, songs etc.
This is a game for one to four players, there are no computer opponents here, with three levels of difficulty. Each player selects a character, there are just four to choose from, enters their name and then the game begins. It takes place on a screen that represents a film studio, players take turns to click on a spinner which tells them how many squares they can move. Apart from the first move the players can move in any direction and the game highlights all possible moves for them. Each space on the game board is a different colour corresponding to the question category, Animation, Film, Song, Personalities and Mousellaneous, and all questions are multiple choice. If a player gets the question right they spin again and attempt another, if they get it wrong the next player takes their turn and so on.
If a player lands on a space that is already occupied then there is a challenge question, all players on that square can take part ans tokens can be both won and lost. There is also a trivia vault where the player(s) can gamble one of their tokens for the vault's entire contents.
Each time the player answers a question correctly they are awarded a token in that category, or in some cases a wild card token, and when five tokens have been logged for a category the player wins a medallion in that category. The object of the game is to collect a medallion in every category and at which point they will be allowed to attempt the champion question to win the game.
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Windows Credits
Robert Thomure (credited as Rob Thomure)Game Designer:
Ed Konyha (President ‑ Brainchild), Richard Panholzer (Brainchild), Tim Marshall (Brainchild)Additional 2D Design:
Anna Blomfield, Richard Panholzer (Brainchild)
Technical Director:
Wes Gale (Magellan Interactive)Engineering Project Manager:
Cathy Marshall (Magellan Interactive)Programming:
Nigel Morgan (Magellan Interactive), William Lin (Magellan Interactive)Graphic Technicians:
Jen Alder (Magellan Interactive), Michael Wylie (Magellan Interactive)Testing:
Peter Gale (Magellan Interactive)Theme Music by:
Pat Murray (Trumpet; Flugelhorn), Alisha Gabriel (Flute; Alto Flute; Piccolo), Greg Wilson (Soprano; Alto; Tenor & Bari Clarinet and Bass Clarinet)


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Did I Send That? People Increasingly Texting as They Snooze
(NEW YORK) -- Next time you hit the sack, you might want to consider where you place your cellphone before you end up regretting it in the morning.
As sleep specialists point out, more and more people are falling victim to a new phenomenon called sleep texting. That's when people unknowingly send text messages while they snooze, similar to how some walk or eat while sleeping.
"It doesn't take a lot of motor skills or brain functions to do certain things, so you can literally do them in your sleep," explains sleep specialist Dr. Adam Fisch.
Although medical experts say sleep texting may be a sign of a sleeping disorder, Fisch says that in most cases the biggest issue arises the following morning.
"The harm is the social embarrassment about what you may or may not say," he says.
Sleep texter Christopher Health can relate to the humiliation.
"Sometimes I look at my phone while I'm texting and Im like, 'Did I text that while I'm asleep?' But I'm not really sure," he says.
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Indie developer Casual Bit Games has pushed back the release its upcoming title, Battle Princess Madelyn, until Dec. 6 on consoles and PC. The game was originally given an autumn 2018 release window.
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Battle Princess Madelyn consists of ten levels comprised of five stages each, along with a handful of hidden ones. How the game is completed is completely in the hands of the player. The game's different areas are fully replayable
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with the title heading "WOWEFA Story Submission"
READ THIS FIRST!!! This story, like all of the other stories written by us,
is a fictional parody, we write these fictitious stories for fun and because
we can. The Supreme Court of the United States has ruled that parodies
involving famous people are perfectly and totally legal under the United
States Constitution (ruling occurred as a result of the case "Hustler
Magazine, Inc et al vs. Jerry Falwell" in 1988).
Basically what we are saying THIS IS FICTON, it is not true, didn't happened
and there's a good chance it won't ever happen!
Now... Kristi and Dice present:
Tales From Greenwich Part 6: Suck It Saturday
by Kristi (email@example.com)
and Frederick "Dice" Casden (email@example.com)
Early in the morning of January 23, 2010, Stephanie McMahon and Triple H are
flying aboard the WWE corporate jet from Connecticut to Indiana where the RAW
Brand will be holding a live event in the town of Evansville's Roberts
Stadium. Triple H just has a sweat shirt on as his gorgeous wife Stephanie
McMahon is on her knees, bobbing her head up and down on his massive cock,
"Ahhhh fuck Steph.... Ahhh..." Triple H moans as Stephanie takes his cock
deep into her mouth.
"Mmmmmmmm...mmmmmm...." Stephanie McMahon moans as her pouty and moist lips
continually brush against his large and thick shaft as she bobs her brunette
head on his cock. Stephanie holds the base of his cock with her left hand and
lightly twists her hand against his shaft.
"Ahhh mmmmm..." Triple H leans back on his seat as he watches Stephanie's
head rise and fall on his cock while she smacks her tongue against the bottom
side of his dick. Stephanie lifts her eyes to look up at her husband and
slyly smirks around his cock as she continues to bob her head smoothly on his
shaft, slowly lowering her head and taking him deep, before quickly lifting
her head and then proceeding to lower her head once again.
"Mmmmm ahhh. yeah Steph... " Triple H licks his lips as he looks down at
Stephanie as she takes is cock deep into her mouth.
"Mmmmmmmmm...." Stephanie seductively moans as she drags her wet tongue
against the bottom side of Triple H's rock hard shaft as she lowers her head
further down on his cock, continually moving her head at a perfectly smooth
and steady pace. Triple H grits his teeth as Stephanie continues to suck on
his large cock while he pulls off his sweatshirt to reveal his muscular upper
body. Stephanie removes her hand from around the base of Triple H's cock and
proceeds to place both of her hands onto his muscular thighs as she starts to
rapidly bob her head, taking him deeply into her mouth, feeling the head of
his cock brush constantly against the back of her skilled mouth.
"Awww fuck baby..." Triple H groans as he starts to thrust his cock forward
into Stephanie's mouth as she bobs her head rapidly on his shaft. Triple H
places his hands on the back of Stephanie's head as she literally fucks her
own mouth on his shaft.
"Mmmmmmm! Mmmmmm! Gahhhhh Gahhhhhh!" Stephanie moans and seductively gags on
her husband's cock as he pumps his shaft firmly upward into her soothing
"Ahhh fuck ahhhh awww!" Triple H grunts as he repeatedly rams his cock into
Stephanie's mouth. He soon takes his hands off of his wife's head as she
keeps her head all the way down on his upward thrusting shaft.
Stephanie presses her lips tighter around his shaft before she lifts her head
off of his cock. "Mmmmmmm fuck Paul..." Stephanie moans as she licks her lips
and takes a moment to catch her breath.
Triple H smiles at his wife as she wipes some saliva from her mouth with the
back of her hand, "And here I thought you didn't like sausage in the
morning..." Triple H says jokingly. Stephanie narrows her eyes as she stands
up from the plane and slides her panties down from her waist to expose her
nicely juicy and rounded ass as well as her shaved and moist pussy. Triple H
licks his lips as Stephanie kicks her panties off of her feet before she
starts to climb onto his lap.
"You're an idiot...you know that?" Stephanie asks with a smirk as she lowers
herself down onto his cock, taking him deeply into her wet and warm pussy.
Stephanie places her hands onto his tanned and muscular chest as she starts
to rock back and forth on his cock.
"Mmmmm I was not aware I was..." Triple H grins as Stephanie rocks back and
forth on his cock while he places his hands on Stephanie's hips. Stephanie
smirks slyly at Triple H as she continues to grind her gorgeous body down on
his cock, rocking back and forth as she feels him start to thrust up into her
"Ahhh... mmm..." Triple H groans as he holds onto Stephanie's hips as he
thrusts his cock firmly up into her pussy.
"Ohhhhhh...ohhhh yeah baby...ohhhhh..." Stephanie McMahon moans as she
bounces up and down on his cock, lowering herself swiftly on his shaft.
Triple H smirks as his wife bounces up and down on his upward thrusting cock
and The Game responds by increasing his own pace.
"Ohhhhhhh...mmmmmmm...yeah...ohhhh yeah..." Stephanie moans and leans her
head back as she rapidly bounces on his cock as Triple H swiftly hammers his
cock upward into her pussy.
"Mmmm yeah baby.... ahhh...' Triple H groans as he firmly pumps his cock up
into Stephanie's tight pussy as she bounces quickly on his dick.
"Ohhhhh baby...ohhhh yeah! Ohhhhhhhh!" Stephanie moans as she grits her teeth
and aggressively rocks forward on his shaft as sweat starts to lightly coat
her body. Triple H licks his lips as he watches his gorgeous wife go up and
down on his upward thrusting cock.
"Ohhhhhh...ohhhh shit Paul...ohhhhhh..." Stephanie McMahon lustfully moans as
she grinds her pussy down on his cock before she smoothly lifts herself off
of his rock hard shaft.
"And just what are you up to?" Triple H asks as Stephanie turns to kneel on
the floor of the jet. When she leans forward to place her hands on the floor,
Triple H smirks as he looks at Stephanie's juicy ass. "I see..." Triple H
grins as he slides off his seat to kneel behind Stephanie and he wastes no
time in pushing his large cock back into her pussy.
"Mmmmmmmm...ohhhh yeah baby..." Stephanie groans and grits her teeth as she
starts to lightly rock back and forth on her knees, feeling Triple H's
massive, sledgehammer-like cock deeply pumping into her from behind. Triple H
grabs Stephanie's hips to pull her back on his cock as he pumps his shaft in
and out of her tight wet pussy. Stephanie slyly glances over her shoulder and
smirks back at Triple H as she grinds her juicy ass back against his cock.
"Ohhhh yeah babe...mmmmmm..." Stephanie moans as she works her juicy ass
against his tanned and muscular waist.
"Ahhh... mmmm fuck... ahhh..." Triple H grunts as he drives his cock deeply
into Stephanie's cunt while her juicy ass smacks against his waist.
"Ohhhhhhhh...ohhhhh fuck! Ohhhhh fuck yeah!" Stephanie groans as she throws
her gorgeous body back against her husband, feeling his shaft deep inside of
her. Triple H licks his teeth as he plows his cock firmly into Stephanie's
pussy as his cock begins to throb heavily.
"Ohhhhhh! Ohhhhh yeah baby! Ohhhhh yeah! Ohhhhhhh!" Stephanie moans as sweat
drips down her body as she aggressively rocks back on her knees to push back
against his cock.
"Ahhhh... awwww.... ahhhh!" Triple H groans as he starts to cum inside of
Stephanie's pussy following one last deep thrust.
Stephanie seductively narrows her eyes as she glances over her shoulder and
slyly looks back at Triple H as she feels his warm cum spraying into her wet
and tight pussy. "Mmmmm baby..." Stephanie groans.
"Ahhhh.... mmm that was great..." Triple H moans as he smiles at Stephanie
while he holds his cock within her wet pussy as he flood her with his cum.
Stephanie rubs her pouty lips together as she crawls forward on her knees,
causing Triple H's cock to fall out from her pussy. Stephanie sits up o her
knees and slides her hands through her slightly sweat dampened brunette hair.
"Damn babe...I swear we get better each time..." Stephanie says as she
reaches over for her shirt.
Triple H grins, "Practice does make perfect..." Triple H says as he lifts
himself back into his seat. "By the way... why are you coming to this live
event.... you never tag along..."
Stephanie raises an eyebrow and turns to glance at Triple H after putting her
shirt back on. "What do you mean?" Stephanie asks as she stands up from the
floor of the private jet and walks over toward the couch to pick up her pair
"You normally just go to the TV and Pay-Per-View shows..." Triple H replies
as he leans forward to pick up his pants.
"Oh..." Stephanie replies as she leans down slightly to pull her hands up to
her waist. "Well I've been hearing good things about the matches Sheamus and
Cena have been putting on at the house shows together, so I wanted to watch
in person..." Stephanie explains.
"Steph... they have been doing the same things they did at the last pay-per-
view... and even during their match on RAW a few weeks back..." Triple H
Stephanie folds her arms against her chest and glances at her husband. "And
like you haven't been doing the same thing for the past ten years either?"
Stephanie asks, before adding "Besides...I enjoy seeing how Cena is able to
rally the crowd up..."
"You're here to see Cena aren't you? Don't tell me you think he's hot..."
Triple H starts to say.
"What?" Stephanie asks and then laughs "What are you talking about?"
"The only reason you're coming to this show it to check out Cena..." Triple H
Stephanie shakes her head "I don't think so honey..." Stephanie replies.
"You can't seriously expect me to believe you're just coming to watch him and
Sheamus square off..." Triple H says.
Stephanie presses her lips firmly together as she slightly glares at Triple
H. "Think whatever you want Paul...trust me I'm not so desperate that I need
to see Cena in the ring to get my rocks off..." Stephanie before firmly
adding. "Because if I really wanted Cena...I could have him any time, any
place I wanted..."
"What the hell is that supposed to mean?" Triple H snaps slightly.
Stephanie places her hands onto her hips. "It means if I wanted Cena so
bad...I would have already slept with him...." Stephanie says before
continuing in a sarcastic tone. "Since you think I totally have the hots for
"Whatever..." Triple H rolls his eyes slightly.
* * *
In one of the Roberts Stadium locker rooms, Triple H is putting on his knee
pads as he talks to Randy Orton, "So Stephanie basically says she's here
tonight to check out Cena and she came up with the lame excuse that she wants
to see how his match with Sheamus turns out... they had matches on the last
pay-per-view and last RAW of 2009..." Triple H says as he adjusts his
Randy Orton smirks and looks at Triple H as he crosses her arms against his
shirt covered chest as he leans back slightly on the bench he's sitting on.
"She wants to bang Cena?" Randy asks with a raised eyebrow before he slightly
licks his lips. "I was thinking that was my job..." Randy Orton says with a
joking laugh for Triple H's benefit, despite the fact that he had previously
been with Stephanie on multiple occasions.
Triple H glances at Randy, "That's not funny...." Triple H says, "I swear
Stephanie goes out of her way to check every guy out the teenage girls find
Randy unfolds his arms and sighs a bit. "I bet Stephanie has a lot to say
about me then..." Randy says with a smirk.
"You never come up..." Triple H says, "She talks about practically everyone
one else, but she just loves to talk about Cena..."
"Who's talking about me?" John Cena asks as he steps out of the shower area
with a towel wrapped around his waist. Triple H shakes his head and turns
away and John looks at Randy to see if he'll answer his question.
Randy smirks and chuckles "Steph wants to bang you..." Randy says with a
"Oh..." John nods his head and then smiles, "That's not exactly news..."
Triple H looks over his shoulder at Cena, "Shut up..."
John laughs, "Hey chill Paul... I'm just joking..."
Randy confidently stands up and nods his head "I know the feeling John...
Stephanie wants me too...real bad..."
Triple H shakes his head, "You two are horse's asses..."
* * *
As the main event between John Cena and Sheamus takes place, Stephanie
McMahon is talking with Road Agents Ricky Steamboat and Dean Malenko. "We
really need to do something with Yoshi, the fans are really responding to him
better..." Steamboat says as he gives his opinions on Yoshi Tatsu's
performance in his match with Zack Ryder at the beginning of the live event.
"Not just him, Ryder also was impressive, we may be missing something big
with him, he's got the look and talent to be a real contributor," Malenko
adds as he gives own thoughts.
Stephanie nods her head slightly as she listens to what Dean Malenko and
Ricky Steamboat are saying. "I see both of your points...and I agree with you
a lot Dean, Zack Ryder really has something special about him." Stephanie
says before glancing at Yoshi Tatsu. "And the fans are really supportive of
Yoshi, but he lacks a lot of the marketable appeal..." Stephanie replies,
giving her honest opinions.
Steamboat slides his hands into his pockets, "People said that about me for
years... given time, Tatsu will be a valuable member of the WWE..."
Stephanie folds her arms across her chest "What do you guys think about Dolph
Ziggler?" Stephanie asks as she glances out towards the ring as John Cena is
throwing punches at Sheamus.
"Great character... can get a lot of heat on his own... we probably should've
elevated him up the card last fall when Mysterio was suspended to really take
advantage of his skills," Malenko says as he gives his honest assessment of
the SmackDown star.
Stephanie nods her head and presses her lips together. "You know I've been
watching a lot of the work Eve has been doing on television lately...I like
her a lot, she has a really great attitude. I've been trying to talk my dad
into putting the belt on her..."
"It might be a little too soon for that, I've talked with Vince about it
myself, and while Eve has developed nicely, we really should make sure she
can handle the pressure of being the top Diva for RAW..." Steamboat replies,
"Maryse is to the level where she can be trusted to help determine if Eve is
ready for it."
"I do see a lot of potential in Eve...and like you said, she might not be
ready yet..." Stephanie says before she glances at Ricky Steamboat "Would you
mind working with her a bit?"
"Not at all..." Steamboat replies.
Stephanie nods her head "Good..." Stephanie says before she glances back onto
toward the ring to see John Cena lifting Sheamus up for the Attitude
* * *
Meanwhile outside in the arena parking lot, Triple H, wearing jeans and a
sweatshirt, is carrying his luggage to the luxury tour bus he and Stephanie
owns. As he approaches the bus, he notices Mickie James, who traveled from
the SmackDown live event in Hammond, Indiana to participate in a photoshoot.
Triple H stops as he sees that Mickie is bent over as she puts her travel
bags in the trunk of her rental car. "Now that's a nice juicy ass..." Triple
H says with a grin.
Mickie, dressed in a pair of nicely fitting hip hugger jeans and a white top,
glances over her shoulder and laughs "Hey now!" Mickie replies as she turns
around and stands up straight, facing Triple H.
"Hey Mickie... how was the show over in Hammond?" Triple H before he notices
that Mickie is just wearing a white top, "And... aren't you cold?" Triple H
asks with a slight laugh.
Mickie laughs "Oh I packed my jacket in the suitcase already and didn't feel
like digging through all my stuff for my jacket..." Mickie replies with a
laugh as she presses her lips together and nods her head cutely. "I'm tough
though...I can handle it out here..." Mickie says before then answering the
question Triple H asked. "The show went good...I think Layla might have
tweaked her ankle a bit..."
"A tweak isn't so bad..." Triple H says as he checks out the spunky Diva,
"Just means you and Maria along with Beth just need to keep her out of the
ring at your show in Cleveland..."
Mickie James smiles and winks at Triple H "My thoughts exactly..." Mickie
says before she folds her arms against her chest. "Are you done with your
match already?"
"Yeah... Cena went on last... so I got out early..." Triple H grins, "And
since you're here..." Triple H licks his lips slightly.
Mickie raises an eyebrow and laughs "And since I'm here?" Mickie asks as she
looks at Triple H, confused.
"Well I did promise I'd show you the inside of the bus..." Triple H says as
he motions towards the luxury tour bus
Mickie James laughs and shakes her head slightly as she finally catches on to
what Triple H is getting at "And I could get into a shit load of trouble...
especially with your wife..."
"You won't have to worry about that..." Triple H grins, "Besides, you've been
bugging me to show you the bus every chance you got before..."
Mickie bites down on her bottom lip. "Well...I didn't think either of us were
really serious about it..." Mickie replies as she shifts her feet slightly.
"If you want to it's quite alright... although I'd never thought I'd see Miss
Mickie James acting nervous..." Triple H says as he teases Mickie.
Mickie shakes her head and laughs "Hey I'm not nervous...it's just career
suicide for me if Stephanie catches us..."
"Stephanie is gonna be awhile... she's meeting with the agents and a few of
the guys..." Triple H says, "So you wouldn't have to worry about being caught
with me... and besides, if she caught us, she'd cut off my cock and my balls
and have them thrown into a shark tank."
Mickie James laughs and licks her lips. "Well...what are we waiting for
"For us to get on the bus..." Triple H grins as he leads Mickie to the bus.
Triple H opens the door and steps in first, with Mickie right behind him.
Triple H heads to the large personal living area of the tour bus and sets his
bags down on a small table before he turns to look at Mickie.
Mickie presses her luscious and moist lips together as she looks around the
luxury living space within the tour bus. "Wow...and I thought they were
kidding about this place..." Mickie says with a laugh.
Triple H smirks, "Well... Steph and I like to have a lot of room..." Triple H
replies as he licks his lips.
Mickie bites down on her bottom lip and seductively takes a step toward
Triple H. "I like having a lot of room too..." Mickie says as she lightly
tosses her brunette hair back.
Triple H smirks as Mickie takes another step towards him, "Is that a fact?"
Triple H asks.
Mickie nods her head and laughs "Totally!" Mickie says excitedly before she
places her hands onto her white top and proceeds to lift the top from her
upper body to expose her toned, tanned stomach and more importantly her
tanned, juicy, largely rounded, perky tits. Triple H licks his lips as he
looks at Mickie's large, juicy, round and perky tits as they bounce freely
after being uncovered from Mickie's white top. Triple H takes off his
sweatshirt revealing his muscular upper body and after he tosses his
sweatshirt behind him, he starts to unbuckle his belt. Mickie raises an
eyebrow and smirks at Triple H as she stands face to face with him and places
her hands onto his muscular, tanned waist, and begins to feels his defined
muscles as he hurriedly unbuckles his belt.
"What's so funny?" Triple H asks with a smirk as Mickie slides her hands over
his his body. Triple H finishes undoing his belt and he proceeds to unbutton
his jeans.
"You seem in a hurry..." Mickie replies with a smirk as she licks her lips
and proceeds to obediently lower herself down onto her knees in front of
Triple H as she lowers his jeans from his muscular waist.
Triple H laughs slightly, "Hey... if a hot brunette with a juicy ass and big
tits wanted to fuck you wouldn't... ummmm...." Triple H trails off as Mickie
gives him a look as she pulls his jeans down, unleashing his massive, semi-
hard cock in the process. Mickie cutey laughs up at Triple H as she places
her right hand around his large shaft and begins to move her hand up and down
against his shaft, feeling it begin to instantly harden against her hand.
"Ahhh mmm..." Triple H groans as Mickie strokes his cock with her right hand
while he steps out of his jeans. Mickie leans her head close to Triple H's
cock and spits some of her saliva onto his shaft as she moves her hand
against his shaft, using some of her own saliva at a lubricant. Triple H
licks his lips as he watches Mickie use her right hand to spread her saliva
all over his cock as it is now fully hardened. Mickie closes her eyes as she
begins to smack her wet tongue against the thick head of Triple H's cock
before she starts to slide her wet tongue against the head of his shaft,
while stroking the length of his cock.
"Ahhh fuck..." Triple H moans as Mickie James slides her soft tongue around
the swollen head of his as she keep stroking the shaft. Mickie taps her wet
tongue against the head of his cock, soothingly moving her saliva on the
surface of the head of his cock, while she continues to steadily work her
hand against his thick shaft.
"Mmmm fuck... that's real good..." Triple H moans as he places his hands on
his muscular waist as Mickie lightly slaps his cock with her tongue while she
keeps jerking him off. Mickie opens her mouth and lowers her brunette head,
taking Triple H's cock into her mouth and wraps her lips around his shaft as
she begins to steadily bob her head to suck on his cock.
"Ohhh fuck... mmmm..." Triple H moans as Mickie James bobs her head at a
steady pace on his thick, long and rock hard cock.
"Mmmmmmm...mmmmmm...." Mickie James moans soothingly as her head bobs back
and forth on Triple H's sledgehammer-like cock as she places both of her
hands onto his muscular waist as she leans her head further in toward his
cock. Triple H licks his lips as Mickie takes more of his cock past her lips
as she keeps her steady pace of bobbing her head on his dick. Mickie presses
her pouty and luscious lips tighter around Triple H's cock as she smoothly
and steadily moves her head on his cock, playfully slapping her tongue
against his shaft as she sucks.
"Mmmmm fuck....mmmm..." Triple H groans as he feels Mickie's lips dragging
against his cock as Mickie sucks and slurps on his shaft. Mickie turns her
head and playfully grinds her lips on his shaft as she continues to move her
head rapidly on his shaft, feeling him start to slightly push deeper into her
Triple H places his hands on Mickie's head as he thrusts his cock lightly
into her mouth as she briskly bobs her head on his shaft. Mickie's saliva
drips off of his cock each time she brings her head up to the top of his
"Mmmmmm...mmmmm...mmmmmmm..." Mickie James moans as she slaps her wet
tongue against his thick and large shaft as she takes him deeper into her
"Ahhh... awww shit!" Triple H groans loudly as Mickie James swallows every
inch of his cock. Mickie James playfully smirks around Triple H's thick shaft
before she lifts her head off of his cock, leaving his shaft dripping with
"You're one hell of a cock sucker Mickie..." Triple H grins as he watches as
Mickie unbuttons her hip hugger jeans and starts to push them from her hips.
Mickie James nods her head "So I've heard...." Mickie says with a laugh as
she stands up from her knees to completely push her jeans down from her juicy
hips and curved waist. Triple H licks his lips as he looks at Mickie's juicy
hips and toned thighs as she steps out of her jeans. He then grins as Mickie
steps towards the small couch that sits along the right wall of the tour bus
and kneels on the middle cushion while placing her hands on the back of the
couch. Mickie glances back over her shoulder and smiles as she sways her
juicy ass back and forth as she kneels on the couch.
"You know I haven't eaten today..." Triple H smirks as he steps over to the
couch. He places his right hand on Mickie's ass as she spreads her knees
further apart. The hot muscular husband of Stephanie McMahon squats down in
front of the couch and leans his head forward to begin lapping his tongue
against Mickie's pussy from behind.
"Mmmmmmm....ohhhhhh yeah..." Mickie moans as she lightly rocks back on her
knees, feeling Triple H's tongue slap against her wet and warm pussy as he
starts to dart his tongue in and out of her pussy.
"Mmmm... mmm..." Triple H moans as he pushes his tongue in to Mickie's pussy
as she rocks back lightly against his face.
Mickie bites down on her bottom lip and leans her head back slightly as she
feels Triple H's tongue deeply thrusting into her wet and warm pussy.
"Ohhhhhhh....ohhhhhh yeah...mmmmmm damn!"
"Mmmmm! Mmmm!" Triple H moans as he darts his tongue in and out of Mickie's
cunt. He raises his right hand off of Mickie's ass and brings it down with a
firm, smack causing Mickie's body to jolt forward slightly.
"Mmmmmmm....ohhhhh yeah...." Mickie moans with a laugh as she feels his hand
firmly lower against her juicy ass with another smack. Triple H twirls his
tongue around inside of Mickie's wet snatch as smacks Mickie's juicy ass
again with his right hand. The Game soon starts to pull his head back away
from Mickie's pussy and as he does, he drags his tongue against her smooth
skin from her pussy up to her ass.
"Mmmmmmm...ohhhhh that feels so good..." Mickie moans and laughs as she
glances back at Triple H once again with a playful look on her face.
"Haven't seen a girl who doesn't like that..." Triple H grins as he stands up
behind Mickie so that he can guide his large, stiff cock into her tight wet
"Mmmmmmmm....ohhhhh fuck..." Mickie moans and grits her teeth as she rocks
forward on her knees, feeling Triple H's large cock enter her tight pussy
from behind. As Triple H places his strong hands onto her tanned and curved
waist, he begins to pump his shaft into her, while pulling her back against
his shaft.
"Ahhhh.... mmmm..." Triple H groans as he thrusts his cock firmly into
Mickie's pussy while guiding her back on his stiff cock.
"Ohhhhhh...ohhhhh yeah...mmmmm..." Mickie moans and licks her lips as she
starts to eagerly push herself back against his rock hard cock as he swiftly
thrusts his cock into her, Triple H licks his lips as he quickly pumps his
cock in and out of Mickie's pussy as she rocks back, causing her ass to smack
against his muscular waist.
"Ohhhhhhh...ohhhhh yeah...mmmmmm..." Mickie James moans as she pushes back
against Triple H, rocking back and forth on her knees as she feels his shaft
ramming deeply into her pussy.
"Ahhh... awww... fuck..." Triple H grunts as he continues to hammer Mickie's
tight wet pussy from behind.
"Ohhhhhh...ohhhh yeah...mmmmm..." Mickie moans as she playfully looks back at
Triple H as she bucks her juicy and nicely curved hips as she pushes back
eagerly against his cock.
"Ahhh... mmm fuck...' Triple H groans as he pulls his cock out of Mickie's
pussy. He then uses his left hand to spread Mickie's ass cheeks apart as he
uses his right hand to guide his shaft into her asshole.
"Ohhhhhhh yeah....mmmm I love getting my ass fucked..." Mickie moans as she
grits her teeth tightly, feeling his shaft deeply enter her ass.
"Ahhh so I've heard..." Triple H smirks as he pumps his cock in and out of
Mickie's asshole.
"Mmmmmmm...ohhhhh yeah...ohhhhhh..." Mickie moans as her juicy, tanned ass
steadily smacks against his muscular waist, as he drives his shaft deep into
her ass. Triple H places his hands on Mickie's back as he deeply slams his
cock into her ass at a quickening pace.
"Ohhhhhhh! Ohhhhh yeah..." Mickie moans as she begins to sweat while Triple H
rams his cock deeply into her nicely juicy ass. Triple H grits his teeth as
he pounds Mickie's ass with deep, sharp thrusts. Mickie glances over her
shoulder and cutely smirks back at Triple H as she feels his shaft starting
to pulsate inside of her as he continues to powerfully slams his cock into
her ass.
"Mmmmm ahhh fuck..." Triple H groans as he starts to cum inside of Mickie's
ass following another thrust.
"Ohhhhhhh...." Mickie James moans and looks back at Triple H as she feels his
warm, thick cum spraying into her ass.
"Mmm fuck.... ahhh..." Triple H groans as he thrusts his cock lightly into
Mickie's ass as he floods her asshole with his cum.
Mickie James presses her lips together and laughs as she feels his cock
pulling out of her ass. "Mmmmm damn....I definitely want to come on the bus
Triple H smirks, "Well I'm sure that can be arranged..."
* * *
A short time later, Mickie James is back at her rental car and is finishing
packing her luggage in the trunk when Stephanie McMahon comes out of the
Stephanie McMahon walks from the exit of the arena toward the area of the
parking lot where her private touring bus is located, which happens to be in
the same area of Mickie's rental car. Stephanie nods her head and smiles at
Mickie. "Good evening Mickie..."
Mickie closes the trunk of her rental car and smiles, "Hello Stephanie... how
are you?" Mickie asks.
Stephanie comes to a stop and stands with Mickie near the rental car. "I'm
doing good, how about yourself?"
"Oh you know.... I'm just relieved Michael told me how my program with
Michelle is going to end at the Rumble..." Mickie says.
Stephanie presses her lips together. "To be honest with you, at first I
wasn't so for this angle that Michael had in mind, and he really pushed for
it...." Stephanie pauses. "Now I'm starting to have a good feeling about
Mickie laughs slightly, "If you were in my shoes I don't think you would have
that feeling... I'm just glad it's going to end so that Beth can finally get
some more time on television."
Stephanie smiles a bit "Well...if you could excuse me, Mickie...it's late and
I have a meeting tomorrow morning."
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College Park's Sanders wins Player of the Year
Alexia Sanders did a little bit of everything this season. Actually, make that a lot of everything.
College Park's 5-foot-8 senior forward was an unmatched force on the hardwood. She impacted games with her scoring and defense, not to mention her tenacity.
As the best, most well-rounded player in Montgomery County, Sanders is the Courier's Player of the Year.
"What sets her apart is she plays both sides of the ball," Lady Cavaliers coach Michelle Richardson said. "She's a great offensive player and a great defensive player."
Sanders compiled averages of 20.1 points, 7 rebounds, 1 block, 2.7 assists and 4.1 steals per game and won the District 14-5A Most Valuable Player award. She helped College Park to a 9-3 mark in league play and second-place tie with Lufkin.
The Lady Cavs finished 20-12 thanks in large part to the roles Sanders filled.
"She plays such a big person at the top of our press," Richardson said. "She changes everybody's press break; you think you can break the press, but she's so quick."
And no one was better with — or without — the ball in their hands.
"She's a good rebounder as well," Richardson said. "She can jump out of the gym and she has that quick first step, so she was able to get a lot of putbacks.
"She just had the whole package. She was able to do it all."
Sanders was selected to the Texas Girls Coaches Association's All-State team and All-Star game.
In addition to leading the Lady Cavs in every statistical counting category, Sanders shot a team-best 49.2 percent from the floor while taking more than twice as many shots as any of her teammates.
She finishes her prep career with a program record of more than 1,900 points. Sanders broke 2009 graduate Allie Messimer's career scoring record of 1,779 points with a new program best of 640 points this season.
"Her leadership is based on her game," Richardson said. "When one part of her game wasn't there, she'd try to pick up another part of her game or one of her teammates."
Sanders has made a decision on where she is going to play in college but will not reveal her choice until next month, Richardson said.
Offensive MVP
Montgomery junior Malloree Schurr was the county's second-highest scorer behind Sanders, and is the Courier's Offensive Most Valuable Player.
The 5-foot-10 Schurr did more than just put the ball in the basket, though. In addition to her 19.5 points per game, she led her team in assists (4.1 per game), steals (4.9) and even rebounding (10.1).
"Every coach wants their point guard to average three to five assists per game, but add Malloree's steals on top of everything else and her rebounding," Lady Bears coach Alicia Jordan said. "She was my best rebounder. And with the fact that she can go coast to coast, she generated more than half of our points from things that she does."
Schurr also broke 2011 graduate Leslie Coupe's program record of 1,279 career points. With another season to go, she stands at 1,360.
"Any coach would be lucky to have a Malloree on the floor for the numbers she produced, but what makes me excited about having Malloree back is Malloree as a person," Jordan said. "She will run through the wall for you. She's a kid who is ultra competitive, can make everyone smile, is always in a good mood and makes everyone work hard. She has been a joy.
"Whether or not she puts up another basket, she is just the kind of person you want to coach."
Defensive MVP
No player affected an opponent's offensive game plan like The Woodlands' Kelsey Lang.
The 6-foot-4 senior post led the Lady Highlanders to a second straight undefeated District 14-5A championship, the second round of the playoffs and a 28-8 record.
She was named All-State by the Texas Association of Basketball Coaches and the Texas Girls Coaches Association after winning her league's Defensive Player of the Year award.
Lang is the Courier's Defensive Most Valuable Player.
"I think that people had to alter their offense because of Kelsey being in the middle," The Woodlands coach Dana Bruton said. "She has that reach and her ability to block shots; she's agile, so she could defend out or in. … People continuously all year long were adjusting their offense around her. People had to adjust to her and not the other way around."
Lang blocked 3.3 shots per game and grabbed 9.8 rebounds per contest. She also shot 58 percent from the floor and averaged a team-high 16.1 points per game.
"What she does is on both ends, and everyone adjusted to her," Bruton said. "When people double- and triple-team her to shut you down, that's a sign of respect."
Lang helped the Lady Highlanders to the regional semifinals last season and is headed to the University of Texas.
"We're going to really miss her," Bruton said. "I was really proud of her caliber of play this year. She took a lot of responsibility on her shoulders. As a result, I could get a pretty young and inexperienced team through district."
Newcomer of the Year
Conroe coach Russell Reid knew he had someone coming who could change his team. His top assistant, Dawn Davis, had said she was coaching a junior high player who could start on the varsity.
When Erica Powell showed up, she was just as good as advertised. The 5-foot-1 freshman made her mark during an open gym pickup game in which her dad also played.
"She defended her father extremely hard," Reid said. "He had to lower his shoulder to go through her and she stepped up and took a charge. I knew at that moment she was ready to go."
Powell displayed that toughness throughout her first season to earn the Courier's Newcomer of the Year honor. She averaged 8.9 points, 1.9 rebounds, 3.7 assists and 2.9 steals per game.
"I look at her with her athleticism as a freshman and I forget she's just a baby out there," Reid said. "The game just comes to her naturally."
Powell missed the final two games of the season after tearing her anterior cruciate ligament Jan. 25 at Bryan. She will have surgery Thursday.
"Erica is a game-changer," Reid said. "She is the type of player who can change the game with her tempo. … Her understanding of the game was super beneficial for us this year."
And now come the expectations. The Tigerettes finished the season 11-18, including 3-9 in District 14-5A.
"She's going to have to transfer into that vocal leader," Reid said. "This was a performance-level leader."
Conroe relied this year on Powell to create offense, but she stood out on the other end of the court as well.
"She is a great presence defensively," Reid said. "She's a good on-the-ball defender. For her being undersized, she did a lot of rebounding. She's one of those players who's a magnet to the ball. She knows where the ball is going before it's going there."
Next season, Reid said, his offense will be designed to create shots for Powell and revolve around her shooting.
"She's going to have to come back after an injury, but she's mentally tough," he said.
Coach of the Year
Montgomery's Alicia Jordan is the Courier's Coach of the Year.
In her sixth season guiding the Lady Bears, she completed the turnaround of a once moribund program.
Jordan piloted Montgomery to a pair of playoff seeding tiebreaker victories, the first of which marked her team's third victory over Magnolia in three tries this season. Until Jan. 4, the Lady Bears had not beaten the Lady Bulldogs since 2002.
Montgomery then topped Rudder — after two regular-season losses to the Lady Rangers — to claim District 18-4A's second seed and avoid eventual state champion Georgetown in the first round of the playoffs.
The Lady Bears topped Hutto 65-51 in bi-district play for their second postseason win in the last three seasons. Before that run started in 2011, Montgomery had not reached the playoffs since 2004 and had not won a playoff game since 1998.
The Lady Bears bowed out to Barbers Hill, 62-40, in the area round to finish 23-10, including 12-4 in league play.
Three days after defeating Magnolia on Feb. 5 to force a three-way tie for second place, Montgomery edged the Lady Bulldogs on a buzzer-beater. The momentum carried over to the next night, when the Lady Bears beat Rudder for the first time.
"The girls already knew they had accomplished what no one thought they could do," Jordan said. "I knew the adrenaline would be so high that they could beat anybody. Honestly, I think if we would have played Barbers Hill that next day we would have won. That whole week was like walking on cloud nine. They felt invincible.
"Once they slayed the giant, there was no turning back. … When I'm 80, that week will go down as the best week ever. It was phenomenal."


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here are some images of functional serving dishes created from Queensland Maple. The wood for these dishes came from a small slab of maple which I originally bought to use as a side-table top. It was very highly fiddlebacked - in fact, this small piece of wood contained some of the most extreme maple fiddleback that I had seen.
I needed to create some small bowl forms to add to my local stock and it was unlikely that I would get to make any furniture any time soon. So, I relegated this maple to 4 serving dishes.
I set out the forms so that the two larger pieces got most of the figuring.


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