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Hated it.Far too thick for my taste and it went on very cakey, regardless of how well I tried to blend. The biggest thing I hated about it was the lack of a pump, it made getting the product out an absolute pain. I probably wasted more product trying to get it out of the bottle, rather than putting it on my face. I didn't even finish half way through the bottle because I was not impressed with this foundation. — 6 years, 6 months agovolta | 566 reviews
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No bueno (at least not for me)! :( Very cakey and looks like a mask!Disliked this foundation from the moment I applied it onto my face! I was so excited to try this foundation because of all the hype and I didn't really need another foundation, but my curiosity won and I caved in. Definitely wrong move! Honestly can't believe that so many people rave about this foundation. I have normal to oily skin, which I believe is the skin type this product is intend...read moreed for. Purchase this in the color "Buff" which was actually a pretty good color match for me. I have yellow undertones and found that this color was not too pink or too yellow, but more on a neutral side, which is what I prefer. So I applied it on my face and immediately regretted trying it. And I have to mention that I never go overboard and apply the smallest amount of foundation I can get away with. This, however, immediately felt like a mask on my face. It emphasized all the dry patches on my face ( I have a bit of dryness around my nose sometimes, especially in the winter), caked up in all my pores which made them look twice the size that they actually are, and made me look about 5 years older. I just don't know… Maybe there is a special way to apply it that I'm not aware of, but at this point, after trying it twice – I don't want to be bothered to find out. Basically, I tried once with a brush and once with a sponge (not a beauty blender). So yes, I haven't tried this with the beauty blender, but I really doubt that the magic is in the beauty blender, so I will not be using this again. Definitely wouldn't recommend this product to anyone who is looking for a more or less natural looking product. — 1 year, 7 months agoNikatron | 150 reviews
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Don't get all the hype....I have really sensitive eyes so when I apply makeup, my nose would run like crazy. With this foundation, I love the staying power since it doesn't transfer to my tissue when I blow my nose. I agree that it is highly comparable to the Makeup Forever HD foundation since I found that foundation (besides this one) does not transfer when I blow my nose. I have oily skin and was hoping for more of a mat...read morete finish. I would say this has more of a semi-dewy finish. A lot of reviewers on Youtube say that with this foundation, you don't need a setting powder but I disagree. With only this product on, my skin started to get greasy within 2 hours so I would need to use a setting powder unlike my Covergirl 3 in 1 foundation where the oil-control properties are longer-lasting. I also disagree that this foundation is buildable to a heavy coverage. It has only a medium coverage for me. I have acne scars I wanted to cover up and after putting on 3 thin layers of this, I can still see my acne scars from underneath. This foundation also oxidizes like crazy and turns blotchy and orange after 7 hours of wearing this so make sure to get one shade lighter than your skin tone. I don't like the packaging on this because of no pump obviously. It's kind of hard to get the product out. It's not too thick or too liquidy but a little bit too much of a hassle to get the product out because it's a little more on the thicker consistency. I can imagine this product to be good during the summer like what most people say because it's transfer-proof but always be sure to keep setting powder handy to control the shine. I also don't like the perfumey scent this has. It reminds me a lot of those floral-y scents older women wear. — 2 years, 2 months agobeautypoet101 | 581 reviews
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Feels a bit heavyCoverage is nice, but feels a bit heavy on the skin. I used to apply this with a wet makeup sponge but that looked really fake and not natural. So I tried mixing it in with the moisturizer I use before putting foundation on and it seems to work like a tinted moisturizer, only with more coverage. They have a lot of colors to choose from and it is inexpensive. One thing I don't like about this is th...read moree packaging. There is no pump and it is not in a squeeze tube so getting the product out is challenging. Other than that, it's definitely one of the better foundations I've tried. — 4 years, 1 month agohleeee | 210 reviews
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Great foundation, average oil control, medium to heavy coverageProvides amazing coverage, and blends well when done right (with wet sponge or foundation brush). Can also doubles as concealer, but the oil control factor is only about average. This foundation does last all day, and does help with shine if used with powder. Color choice is rather limited, but there is "buffer room" between two similar shades for trial and error when not allowed to try it on in a drugstore. — 7 years, 5 months agotheycallmerainbow | 106 reviews
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Great purchase!I am extremely satisfied with this foundation,have to say that I've bought it due to all the great reviews here on totalbeauty.com:) Holds up really good,and I have a problem with foundations that cca 5 hours after applying there is no foundation on my face.But this one never let me down.Although a girl has mentioned once that it looks/feels a bit heavy,maybe in the summer time,but in average temp...read moreeratures it really is a life saver! I'll have to try one for normal/dry skin because my skin has gone that direction in the past 6 months.All in all,I would recommend it almost to everyone! — 6 years, 6 months agoselma | 33 reviews
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Best longwear foundationThis foundation is the most durable foundation, with high coverage and keeping my skin matte the longest. It adhere to skin so well, it's rub proof and sweat/waterproof as well. Their color selection is so true to color, most of them having yellow undertones, so it doesn't look pink on the skin. It's a great deal when it's BOGO at drugstores. — 7 years, 10 months agoMakeupGuru | 444 reviews
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I always go back to this...I've tried so many foundations in the past and I always come back to this. At first I had issues with the new formula color choices, but when I use L'Oreal's Tru Match Powder as a finish, the color is perfect. I've been using this foundation for almost 20 years and I can honestly say I'm thrilled with it. The fact that you can pick this up at almost any drugstore/grocery store, makes it extremely convenient! — 6 years, 9 months agoSwoldierGirl72 | 342 reviews
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Great coverage but bad for my skinFirst the pros: This is a long-wear foundation. At the end of the day, if I use a makeup remover wipe, I will see color come off. I have very fair skin and the lightest shade matches my skin perfectly. I recommend blending this with a damp makeup sponge. I'm amazed by the coverage! It makes my pores completely disappear. Now the cons: Even though I have oily skin, this foundation dries out my nose...read more. Just my nose. The rest of my skin is fine with it, but my nose, one of the oiliest parts of my face, dries out to the point that it becomes flaky. What? Also, this clogs my pores something awful. Within days, I have double the blackheads. I have yet to find a foundation that doesn't clog my pores somewhat, so take my experience with a grain of salt, but it warrants a warning. — 5 years, 3 months agoazdrienne | 120 reviews
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January 18, 2013, 05:32 PM
What will we have to do to keep the SA weapons we have now? I like my Ruger Ranch mini 14.
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No one knows anything about anything right now. 1 there is no ban. 2 how are we to know the rules of the ban if there is not a ban to look at the rules?
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3. You do what millions of people do and don't tell anyone what you have.
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The 3DS transfer app tool will be available on the e-shop come 22nd March.
No headphones/headset needed to talk into mic classy.
Killed my first Nibelsnarf....was saving it until now and gotta say he's really unique.
Nibelsnarf is awesome I was worried in MH3G he'd just be a clone of the Gobul but I'm glad thats not the case!
Players should take pictures of their victory poses/times/weapons and upload here!
I'll post some of my cool bows and gunlances tonight
Almost at Village High Rank
I only play online I should do more offline but I just have to much fun hunting with other people
Also it was the only reason I bought a mic haha
If I had a Wii U (Eventually I will damnit! ) I'd play online more, but seeing as I have the 3DS version I'll just complete every quest (offline and online) solo lol
Super Ignore -_-..... please someone confirm this for me.
I can't tell you with the Wii U version, because I have the 3DS version, but I assume it doesn't because they both have the exact same content.
And I'm guessing it doesn't because it was made for the 3DS first, where it can't have split screen lol
Lol it would be hilarious see to people playing any game in splitscreen on 3DS xD
Well I have enough mats to complete my Jaggi armor set just need more funds. Guess its time to do some quests.
Nintendo's next gimmick? I think so!
I don;t think so normaly they find a way to make something I would never had expected.
Sorry bud I completely missed this too, no there is no way to split screen co-op.
Ok its confirmed I will get both 3DS and Wii U versions its time to plant a money tree.
I'm the opposite. I like getting a good amount done offline before moving online...which should happen this weekend. I'm showing a good friend of mine, a MH newbie, the ropes.
Keep us posted on his progress
I'll probably do some online hunting this weekend, after I spend tomorrow learning the ropes.
How do I access online play though? I think someone mentioned it but I forgot.
Make your way southwest of the village. There will be a boat with a cat standing on top of a crate or barrel at the dock. Talk to the cat he will take you to Tanjia Port. You then simply find a room with hunters in it and join them! The NPCs in Tanjia Port should explain how
In the village go down and to the left, there's a cat next to a boat. Talk to the cat and go to the multi Marina, that's the area with online play
It took me 1 hour to teach my friend to play Monster Hunter Tri I just explained everything to him while we were hunting together Barroth in Arena we got him on the 1st try
Its a good thing I have Friday off. Will be a good day to do some hunting. Altho Monster Hunter was not the reason I requested Friday off. I will be going to a comic con here in town to lay my eyes on the hotness that is Jessica Nigri.
And how do you hook up with friends? Via NNIDs or another way?
Err I haven't got the game yet so unfortunately its probably the one thing I cant tell you about the game lol. Remember that thread earlier where we talked about tvs (how did that go btw?) the OP in that thread said the friends list from miiverse was integrated..
I'll be posting some of my Weapons/Armor that I get throughout this journey, everyone is welcome to do this I'd think it would be fun seeing how far we've all gotten.
So for today I'll start with my Longsword: Windeater
Materials Needed:
2 Lightcrystal
10 Pelagicite Ore
5 Monster Fluid
429 Base Attack, No Element, 0% Affinity, and 2 Slots for Gems
I got this based solely off of its looks really, it's badass, and it's not a bad Longsword (of course it isn't the best, but I can live with it) And besides, it makes a cool noise when it gets swung around.
Anyone want to help a hunter out tomorrow around 11 Eastern time maybe earlier to get a Lagi Horn?! SilentAllstar is my Nintendo ID!
sure I'll post my progress
Am on 4 star offline now, Rathian hunt. Fleshing out my Hunting Horn collection. Still waiting for this weekend to jump online. Tore Lagombi a new one in about 7 minutes lol.
pfffft no fair! you had a head start!!
Doing single player to warm up... FINALLY!
Still rocking the Jaggi Armor and DS. It's nice having weapons that match your armor. Going to start farming Barroth tomorrow for Armor set, Lance, and Gunlance
I finally got to 3 star quests. I guess I better step it up.
Well time to farm Lagi for Ceadeus, almost into High Rank
My TV does indeed have a game mode, and activating it helps a lot, thankfully.
I only have the Barroth quest to do and I'm done with level 3, though I feel bad for ignoring the village's plights, so I'll probably procure a fair amount of resources and get the requests fulfilled before moving on (I want some more monster bits anyway), and at the same time, start farming and sending the fleet out.
So much to do... (and I love it.)
Well Great Wroggi just went down.
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Hey, hey! Newcomer here, I've been dealing a lot of doubt about getting Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate lately (seeing as the Wii U release is my first entry and all), and I hope to dispel all doubts and reservations, you know, so I can actually enjoy it. I wish to alleviate my fears about it only after playing a couple of hours (I have full game and have not played the demo). Ugh, I'm never good at intros.
I want to like this game, I really do, and I hope to get the most out of it.
Perhaps I should announce my hunter name?
gawd these warm up quest... blah blah blah. I WANT TO GO ONLINE DANG IT!
Everyone's welcome on this thread, you (hopefully) won't have to deal with trolls here. lol
33 hours clocked in...About to step into high rank in single player and started high rank online.
All I can say so is that the hunting horn is my favorite weapon in the series HANDS DOWN!
Also are the rust weapons just a lot more common now? Got my Undertaker lance already!
So if I were to pick this up in the near future, would I be left in the dust with no one to play with?
You talking from this board or from the community in general? Because from what I've heard there are thousands of people online already at one time..which is pretty crazy.
Damn I dont`t want to play offline...but....must-get-caedeus-helmet
Being immune to screams is just TOO GOOD
Oh I love how the addiction just seeps back into our lives LOL
there will always be people online.
Look at the original Tri, there are still people playing online,
and I bet MHU is gonna be better.
Anyone els get a error when you try to get online with MH3U? i realy cant get online
Holy shit. The game has only been out 50 some odd hours.
I'd be happy to play with you whenever you decide to get it. Literally, whenever.
Yeah, that's insane. I think I have...9 or 10. Maybe 11.
Lol. And I thought I was bad with 13. I even took a day off work for it and only have that much.
Yeah, no day off for me. And today I won't be playing at all because I got a concert to go to.
Man, I am a slow player though. I'm still not done the 3-star quests offline for 11 hours. WHERE DOES ALL THE TIME GO!?
Well, for one thing I'm foraging as I go, even in the middle of hunts--haha. Umm, I've probably spent a good hour on keeping my box organized (and will continue spending hours doing this throughout the file). I don't know. It's a need. I need things to be super organized...to the point of "should Jaggi scale come before Jaggi claw"? I'm fucking nuts.
Also I've probably just left the game sitting for about 30 minutes total so far as I've taken breaks to type online.


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So I finished That Special Someone, and no text has come through from Packie telling me to meet Gerald. Any advice?
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At Bucks Happening, it is our mission to keep our readers in the know about everything local. Local food, local events, local businesses; and also local charities. As with food, business and so many other areas of life, many people today are intentionally placing a greater focus on local charities. The reasons are many; perhaps the organization was founded to remember a friend, or a friend of a friend. Perhaps the monies raised stay in the community to help neighbors. Bucks County has an active and generous non profit community, with many home-grown foundations that have roots here in our neighborhood.
You can help while having a laugh! Attend the GWF Fall Benefit on October 12th!
The Greg Wolf Fund is one of those worthy local causes. On January 19, 2005, just a few short months after graduating from college, Greg Wolf succumbed to leukemia. A college junior, he was diagnosed while studying abroad in the fall of 2002. With the strength and resolve that you maybe find in 1 in a million people, Greg began his treatment abroad and finished his semester. He did not return to school for spring semester, but he took on a full course load locally while undergoing treatment here at home. Greg underwent a bone marrow transplant before senior year, and made it back to school in time to start his senior year, his cancer in remission. Greg graduated on time with his class, but a few months after graduation, his cancer came back with a vengeance. Greg was born, raised, and passed away here in Bucks County.
The Greg Wolf Fund was established to commemorate the life of Greg Wolf, by his family and by friends who feel privileged to have had Greg touch their lives. Throughout his twenty-three years, Greg led a beautifully vibrant and full life. The mission of this fund is to honor Greg's life as a "man for others," and to perpetuate his generous spirit by giving back to the institutions and organizations that ultimately defined Greg's life, in health, and in sickness. The fund contributes its resources not only to fund research in the fight against blood cancers, but also to aid in the care and comfort of young cancer patients and their families. It's also important to note that the organization is 100% volunteer; without any salaried staff. Since 2005, the Greg Wolf Fund has raised 2 million dollars.
The Greg Wolf Fund is hosting it's 4th Annual Fall Benefit on October 12, 2012 at Trenton Country Club. For the price of admission, you will enjoy cocktails, dinner fare, the dazzling comedy of Joe Conklin, and the warmth you feel in your heart from participating in a fundraiser for such a worthy cause. Click here to see the event details


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100 Years Ago
Black History
Civil War
Gold Rush
Law and Order
Feature Article on threshing. Topic: AGRICULTURE
Written by Jim Sayre in May, 1998
A threshing rig: water wagon, steam engine,
power belt, sheave wagons,
separator, bagged grain wagon including plenty of horse and man power.
June. Shelby County farmers
are looking forward to the coming wheat harvest. But, it will be a solitary affair.
Sitting alone in air-conditioned cabs atop their huge harvesters, todays farmers
experience a far different harvest from the threshing days that brought neighbors together
for hard work, good talk, and food that fueled their bodies and created the legends of the
"thrashin" meals. Memories by long-time Swanders-area farmers Bob Harshbarger
and Russ Sayre follow this account of threshing days printed by an 1893 Sidney newspaper.
100 Years Ago: From the flail and the treadmill to the
modern steam thrashing machine, I.D. Hubbard tells the story of separating
grain from the husks. Following are excerpts from his article in the Sept. 22, 1893,
edition of the Shelby County Democrat: Maybe you are not a greenhorn in the
matter of "thrashin." Maybe you can remember, if you were born in the country
and your first birthday was long enough ago, how your father and your grandfather used to
get up long before daylight in the cold winter time, and after eating breakfast by candle light go out to the barn and pound
the grain out all day with flails.
Deacon A... used to have his grain trod out by horses and it was lots of fun to go down
there and help Jim A... drive the horses. Jim didnt like to do it, but with him it
was work, and he had to keep at it all day... he owns a "separator" and a steam
engine to run it, and he does the "thrashin" for all his neighbors every fall.
While you were yet a small boy the life of the flail and the treading out methods of
thrashing came to an end, and their place was taken by wonderful machines... in one day
three or four men and a team of horses working in a treadmill could thrash out as many
bushels of oats or wheat as your father and grandfather could thrash with flails in weeks
of strenuous pounding.
If it was fun to watch Jim A... drive the horses when the grain was trodden out, it was
joy unalloyed to see the new thrashing machine do its work. A man stood on the floor at
one end and poked the bundles of grain into the mouth of the contrivance, and at the other
end came out the straw, while the grain ran in a little stream into a measure or a bag at
the side. How it was done you couldnt understand, but you never got tired watching
it, and you used to follow the machine to the neighboring farms.
First step to threshing. Farmers on the
Charlie Enders place east of Pemberton used
a binder to cut the wheat
and create sheaves. They then assembled about 12 sheaves
into a shock. Shocks were later hauled by
to the separator machine for threshing.
Photo courtesy of Barbara Adams.
But the first small thrashing machines that were run by
treadmill were as nothing by the side of the splendid great "separators" that
took their places. It took more men to operate these machines, and the force was furnished
by horses hitched in teams to the ends of the long sweeps of a "horsepower" that
was set up outside the barn.
When everything was ready, the driver used to get upon the platform in the middle of
the power, and cracking his long whip start the horses on an interminable journey round
and round... in a small circle described by the ends of the revolving sweeps. You used to
think that if when you were a man you could stand up on the platform of a horsepower and
crack your whip and get $1.50 a day for doing it you would have not lived for naught.
There was another man who used to inspire you with admiration, and he was the feeder
who stood on a platform and shoved the grain into the cylinder all day long. He was a man
of nerve and skill, and he got bigger pay than any one else who went with the machine. His
work was hardest, too, and it was possessed of an element of danger that made you shudder
when you thought about it, for while he stood there mid noise and dust and turmoil
imperturbable as a sphinx, he might at any moment, if he carelessly let his hand go too
far toward the swiftly whirling wicked teeth of the cylinder, lose that hand or perhaps an
entire arm.
You will not soon forget the horrible accident that happened to Sam L..., tall,
straight, and blue eyedJim A...s older sisters "intended." He
was a master hand at feedin, but one day he turned to speak to the man at his right,
who was "cuttin bands," and his left hand was drawn in. It was but a
moments lapse, but it cost Sam his hand and most of his arm, and it was thought for
days and days that he would die from shock and loss of blood. Jims sister jilted
him, too, when he got well. She didnt think she could afford to marry a man with
only one hand, and he went away, out of the...neighborhood.
"When the thrashers come" was always a great day on the valley farms. There
were ten or a dozen of them all told. Three or four "went with the machine" from
farm to farm. The rest were farmers and their hired men, who... helped one another out.
The women folks used to dread "thrashin time," for it meant hard work in the kitchen.
A dozen tired, hungry men can eat a great
many doughnuts and a power o pies, to say nothing of the boiled potatoes and pork
and bread. The men who went with the machine assumed a sort of professional superiority
over the rest and were freely accorded the respect which they demanded. No one else was
really a "thrasher," and no one else could tell quite such good stories in the
evening or during the "noonin" after dinner. Besides, they were animated
newspapers, carrying the gossip from farm to farm, and as such were highly regarded by all
the women.
Some years after you had seen the first horsepower and its circling horses
you began to hear about portable "steam ingines" that were to be used to furnish
the power to run the separator. You had never thought of a steam engine as being on any of
the valley farms. Steam engines belonged to the town, not the country, and were apt to
burst, or the fire would cause a conflagration. Everybody protested, but some one bought
one, and the entire valley turned out to see it work. It was so successful that
horsepowers were relegated to a dead past with greater suddenness even than had been the
flail and in a couple of seasons every one was used to seeing the smoke and hearing the
steady puff of the steam thrasher.
The late Bob
Harshbarger (1910-1990), writing a history of the Swanders area in 1987, allowed that the
"modern harvest...was the first wedge to separate farmers as groups into
individuals." Following is his recollection titled "Threshing Rings."
The families we exchanged with, there were no hard and fast "territory,"
except next door "butchering neighbors" who people all down through the years
threshed to-gether, and perhaps on the outer fringe of that. From there on out the
territory would overlap other rings and would be jagged from year to year. These outer
boundries was a good way to get acquainted with people who lived in the community, but you
never really run on to.
Threshing was a very important work-social event, more than most of us realized at the
time. 'Course there were some negative aspects about it, 'cause when you threshed you
opened your place up for God and everybody to see. Sometimes there'd be, golly did you
ever see such a mess? But that didn't go on too much, by and large it was good for
neighbors to get to-gether, exchange bits of useful information, visit, and sure some
gossip, see the innerworkings of other farmers livestock enterprise, crops, be in their
home, get to know their family. Looking back from this point in my life it was a sad day
when the old threshing rings gave way to modern harvest. I would say it was the first
wedge to separate farmers as groups into individuals, and every one of us has suffered the
more from the loss of it.
When I was a little kid there probably wasn't anything that gave me so big a charge as
a threshing machine. I thought they were just so wonderful. To me doing the threshing of
the grain itself was just a byproduct of their fascination. I remember Charlie Pfaadt
saying he "was glad to see it come and glad to see it go." I thought "oh my
gosh, wish it could stay at our house forever."
Harshbarger ran his binder behind a team in the 1930s. Binders of similar design were
advertised by Fristoe,
Stuart & Company in Sidney newspapers in the 1890s. Photo
courtesy of the Harshbarger family.
One time the
"machine" was at Losch's and was to come to our place next. Why I climbed up on
the wind pump tower every little bit to see if they were done and would be leaving for our
place. After all that anxiety and it did head our way I'd be out at the road
"watching." 'Course soon as it made the turn at the cross road I was hyped up
like you wouldn't believe. Then a few moments later I could hear the crunch of the gravel
from those big broad steel wheels.
A threshing crew
consisted of at least three men, sometimes four. The owner of the rig was generally the
boss, engine man, overall supervisor, quite a "looked up to" individual in the
community. Next was the separator man, he'd be second in command. Then the "water
boy." A fourth member usually some lad "run-and-fetch-it"...
"gopher," officially he was called the blower boy. A job he shared with the
separator man. Most of the straw from threshing was stacked out side, and if there were a
lot of straw and the farmer wanted it all in one big stack, it took a lot of doing to get
that. The blower pipe on a threshing machine was we'll say fourteen feet long, then it
could be telescoped out perhaps twenty...twenty two feet.
There was a mechanism on the machine that could be engaged
to move it from side to side, also up and down. Then out to the end of the pipe was a hood
affair that could be regulated with a rope to cause the straw to go straight out, off to
one side or the other, down, or even back toward the machine a little. The blower on a
grain separator kicked out a powerful blast of air. I know it had to take more energy to
run it than the threshing mechanism itself. A conscientious blower boy earned his money.
Some farmers liked to "work" their stacks, but a good man on the blower could
make a better one without.
Now the water boy, no he wasn't some guy to keep everybody
supplied with drinking water. A steam engine used a lot of water, barrels and barrels of
it. A "rig" also consisted of a water wagon, a tank on wheels, offhand I'd say
held fifteen barrels. By todays standards he earned his money too. A water wagon was
equipped with a big hand operated suction pump mounted clear up on top. The favorite place
to get water was where a road crossed an open ditch. He'd park his horse(s) and wagon on
the bridge, throw a long suction hose down to the water in the ditch, and start pumpin.
With the pump being a good seven feet up from the bridge floor, and the water at least
five feet below meant he had to lift some fifteen barrels of water at least twelve feet
high, and on the double. The engine man might even be giving the
"get-the-hell-back-here" tootin' on the whistle.
The grain
separator, standing stationary and powered by a steam engine, separated the
grain from the
straw, a function performed today by the grain combine.
That whistle tootin' went on for
a variety of things, some times two or three young spriggs would contest to see who could
put on the most shocks. There we'd be, they'd run out of grain up at the machine, and out
in the field there'd be maybe three big loads and still forking on more. The poor guy that
did go up first caught a round of hell.
Just one more item I want to mention about this
threshing thing, then gotta knock. It was customary for the farmer to furnish the coal for
the steam engine. Occasionally you'd hear some griping about the amount it used. The cost
couldn't have been all that much. Farmers today would be delighted beyond expression if
they could even border on matching operating costs back in the old threshing days.
Russell Sayre, 89,
began farming near Swanders in the early 1930s. This recent interview with Sayre
recalls the hard work and big meals that he and his neighbors shared until the 1940s. Then
the combine. "Farmers said it wouldnt work," Sayre said. "But, it did
work and changed a whole way of farming and life."
I can remember threshing days back when I was 4 or 5 years old (about 1913). My Dad
(Frank Sayre), Uncle Fred Russell, and Uncle John Blake owned the Sidney Grain &
Milling Company (located across from current police station). Dad would load up the
Overland with several hundred cotton bags and take them out to the farmer who was
threshing that day. Each bag held 2 1/2 bushels. Thats how they brought the grain to
the elevator for sale.
When I started farming in Franklin Township, we had a large threshing ring, went clear
west on the Swanders road and around to Bud Harmons and included Meranda road. I
would say maybe 15 farms, but a lot of those farmers had hired hands, so we might have 35
men working altogether when you count the fellows who owned the threshing rigs. Lenharts
threshed for us and they owned the equipment. Orville was the boss thresher and took care
of the separator. Arly ran the steam engine, and Snapper ran the water wagon.
The steam
engine powered the grain separator with a belt running from a power wheel.
illustration came from a 1903 advertising brochure.
I remember one year Bud Harmon had 10 acres
of oats. Martin Hickerson was a heck of a good farm hand. Martin and I had just unloaded
our wagons into the thresher when the separator broke down. There were six other teams all
loaded up and couldnt unload. Martin was a good loader and I was a good loader and
we put those 10 acres on our two wagons and the boys said they had never seen such loads.
had that team of black Percherons and they were the perfect team. Dolly and Bill. And
Martin had a pair of Belgians (roan or chestnut draft horses) and we had those wagons
piled so heavy that the teams could pull them only about 10 feet and they had to stop and
rest. Those steel wheels would sink in the ground.
But those threshing meals were really something. All the women tried to see who could
put on the biggest meal. They would go around to where the threshing was and help out that
woman. Youd have ham and beef, pies, always two long tables of men, sometimes three.
There would be 35 or more men to feed and you had to have a lot of food for them.
You would have a big tub of water in the back yard for the men to wash up. Everybody
used the same water. Ill never forget. This was when I was a boy in Pemberton. Oh,
what was that guys name lived out there near us? They didnt change the dinner
water for supper and it was cold and dirty. One old man said, "I dont believe
Im going to wash" and I mean that was dirty work threshing.
The grain combine, introduced in this area in the early 1940s, really changed the way
small grains were harvested and in the way farmers cooperated. Threshing rings which had
brought the community together for hard work and heavy eating phased away. A single
machine combined in one operation all the cutting, binding, and grain separating; in fact,
"combine" was an entirely appropriate name because it combined the jobs of the
many into the job of a single farmer. He could now harvest alone, if need be.
You should have heard the farmers talk about the combine then. They said it will never
work because you cant get the grain dry. Combines would not work in this part of the
country, maybe out west, but not here. Then a few farmers got them and they worked so well
that pretty soon everybody got them. I returned to farming in 1947 and bought my first
combine in 1948, a 36-inch McCormick-Deering combine that I bought from W.E. Bumgardner in
Sidney. It was just a little thing.


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The sound of Crystal's scream was lost in the deafening roar of the water, as she realized what was happening. Straight ahead was the Glory Hole, the overflow spillway at the edge of the lake, that was constructed to prevent flooding when the water level is too high. The level was low this day, so it didn't make sense that the boat was quickly approaching the hole. Crystal thought that her family must have gone swimming and been sucked into the abyss, and now she, too, was in for the same fate. In a panic, she ran to the controls and tried to turn the boat around, but to no avail. "How can this be happening?" Crystal screamed, because the rest of the lake was deathly calm and yet the water surrounding their boat continued to churn, forming a whirlpool and causing it to spin, as it approached the gaping maw.
Crystal and the boat were pulled down into the dark swirling water, and just as she thought death was certain, the boat stopped spinning and began to float downward, in complete silence. Looking and listening for any hint of what was happening, Crystal heard, very faintly at first, music and voices singing. Little by little, she recognized a very familiar tune, "Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you". Gradually, the music and voices became louder, "Happy Birthday dear Crystal, Happy Birthday to you!" By the time the song ended, the boat had settled and Crystal was staring at her Mom, Dad, and brother, gathered around a festively decorated table on the pier. They weren't alone. Smiling, and with arms outstretched, were several others, beckoning her to join them. "Welcome, Birthday Girl, we've been waiting for you!" they shouted in unison.
Relieved to see her family, Crystal climbed down and ran toward them yelling, "Mom, Dad, Tom, you're OK, and we all made it alive!", but the closer she got the more she realized that "alive", might not be the most appropriate word. Their eyes were lifeless and their expressions frozen into grotesque, grinning smiles.
"Look at the wonderful new friends we've found in this beautiful little town." exclaimed her mother, "Come, sit down. Let's celebrate your special day". A closer look at these "new friends", revealed the same macabre expressions, but even more disturbing, a distinct lack of flesh! Then, looking past them, she realized that beyond the pier and the so-called birthday table, were the dilapidated remnants of a town that she thought had been demolished long ago.
"What is this place?" implored Crystal, turning back to her family, "Who are these creatures?"
"Don't be rude, Sweetheart", her mother replied, "This is Monticello, and these wonderful people only want to help you celebrate and make you feel welcome in our new home".
"Our new HOME, what do you mean our new HOME?!" Crystal screamed, "These people are DEAD, this town is DEAD! There is no more Monticello, and we have to leave NOW!"
"That's not possible, Darling." her father chimed in, "We're now a part of the rebirth of a place that refused to die. As the time drew near for Monticello to be demolished, a group of townspeople decided not to leave, living secretly among the rubble while the dam was being constructed. Then, hiding under the Putah Creek Bridge, they vowed to rebuild the only town that they had ever called home. The first to return were the displaced residents that had been moved from to Spanish Flats, and then, through the years, as former townspeople died, they, too, came home. So you see, we're part of rebuilding and retribution, and of the love these people have for one another and their town."
"Had for one another, Dad "had, not 'have' for one another" Crystal cried, "and besides, what do we have to do with any of this? None of us ever lived in Monticello, and I'm not about to die here now!"
"It's too late, Sis, look at us!" said Tom, "Besides, apparently, our great-grandparents did live here, and now this is our chance to honor them."
"No, it can't be too late!" screamed Crystal, feeling faint, and as she tried to leave she felt her parents' hands around her arms and the water rising around her waist. "No, No, I won't stay, I can't stay! No, No, No .
"Crystal, honey, wake up! It's getting late and we can't forget your birthday party".
"Oh Mom, Mom, I had the most awful dream! Let's leave this horrible place!" cried Crystal, with tremendous relief.
As Crystal put on her favorite party dress and fixed her hair, she felt such peace and happiness. "I'm the luckiest girl in the world" she said, as she looked at herself in the mirror. Calm, lifeless eyes stared back at her, and she couldn't help grinning. "There's no place like home, there's no place like home ," she whispered, as the strains of "Happy Birthday", echoed eerily in the background.


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There was no media availability on Sunday, which was probably a good thing considering how sour everyone was after Saturday's 32-21 loss to the Stampeders. The frustration is mounting, which is not surprising when you consider they're 4-11.
A few thoughts after a football-filled Sunday …
• Bombers head coach Tim Burke is no doubt wondering what he did to deserve this mess. He did what he had to do in taking the reins when Paul LaPolice got fired, but he's not exactly bathing himself in glory. It's not entirely his fault that the team is losing — it's mostly Joe Mack's problem — but there's a chance he's blowing his opportunity to be a permanent head coach. It might not be fair, but that's what it looks like.
• One problem that falls on Burke is Winnipeg's average number of penalty yards per game has increased since he took over. A lack of discipline was one of the reasons Mack fired LaPolice.
• If the Bombers do fire Mack at the end of the year, the buddy system needs to end on Maroons Road. Lyle Bauer hired his buddy, Mike Kelly, and looked what happened. Then Paul Robson hired his old buddy Joe Mack, and look at what has happened. The Bombers are 18-33 under his watch. Maybe next time the new man in charge will be hired based on their resume.
• It sure looks like seven teams are battling for the right to lose to the B.C. Lions in the Grey Cup. Boy, are the Leos ever looking good.
• I asked Burke after Saturday's game how long a young quarterback should get to prove he can play in the CFL, in reference to Joey Elliott. Burke said Elliott's still learning, which I agree with, but then he added that Elliott should be past throwing four red-zone interceptions like he did on Saturday. That's true. You'd think after the first one he'd be more careful. And then after the second. And then after the third …
• Exciting week ahead: The Winnipeg Sun's very own Rich Pope will compete in the Wendy's Kick for a Million semifinal on Thursday in Toronto. If he can win that one, he'll kick for a million on Friday night at halftime of the Bombers-Argos game.
• The Bombers don't practice on Monday, but Burke will meet with the media.
• Here are the stories I wrote for Monday's paper. I check in on whether or not the Bombers are showing any signs of hope for the future, I talked to Jade Etienne about his first career catch, I took a closer look at Joey Elliott's interceptions, and I explain how the Bombers can still host a playoff game. I'm not kidding.
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Learner-Centered Technologies for Literacy, Apprenticeship, and Discourse
Edited by Curtis Jay Bonk & Kira King
Foreword by Margaret Riel
"Appropriate and timely. . . . Provides a coherent formulation of the relationship between computer collaboration and social constructivism. . . . A strong volume that adds to Erlbaum's impressive list in educational technology."
Jay David Bolter
Georgia Institute of Technology
"A wonderful new entry to the history of the electronic classroom. It will be useful to educators at every level as they probe the possible. . . . This book's strength is the way in which it addresses a variety of models for electronic collaboration, then has the principals of the projects comment on the pedagogy involved. . . . The variety of settings and objectives offers lots to think about and the effort to ground each model in current pedagogy is excellent. . . . A valuable addition to the literature of technology in education."
David Tillyer
The City University of New York
Two developments in recent years have converged to dramatically after most conceptions of the teaching and learning process. First, technology has become increasingly interactive and distributed, such that individual learners have available the means to participate in incredibly complex networks of information, resources, and instruction. As these technological advancements facilitate interaction across classroom, university, and worldwide learning communities in both real-time and delayed formats, various instructional design and implementation problems spring forth. Second, the conventional teacher-centered model wherein knowledge is transmitted from the teacher to the learner is being replaced by social constructivist and learner-centered models of instruction. These new learner-centered models place emphasis on guiding and supporting students as they meaningfully construct their understanding of various cultures and communities.
As a consequence of these developments, teachers need guidelines from educational researchers about integrating collaboration and communication tools into their classrooms. This volume presents research on such collaborative technology as it augments and redefines academic learning environments. The studies included here illustrate how schools, teachers, and students are discovering, employing, and modifying numerous new computer conferencing and collaborating writing tasks and tools, and their effects on social interaction and resulting student learning. Documentation is given that will help teachers to make decisions that productively transform learning environments. Three key objectives underlie this volume:
This is a must-read volume for all researchers, scholars, graduate students, and practitioners interested in such fields as sociocultural theory, process writing, cooperative learning, learner-centeredness, distance education, peer conferencing and tutoring, mentoring, electronic collaboration, problem- and project-based learning, collaborative writing, and educational reform.
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A 37-year-old female passenger was transported to Palomar Medical Center with facial injuries after the vehicle she was in struck a private ambulance at Sixth and Main streets about 2:45 this afternoon, said authorities.
California Highway Patrol Officer Brian Kattke said the silver Suzuki ZX4 was northbound on Sixth Street and the driver thought it was clear to cross Main Street when it broadsided a private ambulance. The front of the car sustained major damage. Four people were in the Suzuki — the female driver from Warner Springs, and two females and one male, all who are special needs from Ramona, said Kattke. Only the 37-year-old was injured, he said.
The Air Care International ambulance was transporting a dialysis patient to Santa Ysabel, according to Cal Fire/Ramona Fire Department Battalion Chief Jose Ramirez. Four people, including the patient, were in the ambulance but no one suffered injuries as a result of the accident, said Kattke. The accident caused minor damage to the ambulance's right side.


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Many Heavens
Sorensen, Virginia
Place Published: New York
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace and Company
Date Published: 1954
Edition: Later Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: VG
Book Id: 11662
SIGNED - Octavo. Light blue cloth spine and boards. Light bumping at the head and tail of the spine and heavy bumping to the tips of the lower corners. Light accompanying rubbing at the head and tail of the spine and at the tips of the corners. Signed, inscribed, and dated by the author on the free front endpaper in blue felt pen: "For -------- / Many people thought / this particular advocacy / on the wild side - / polygamy a solution! / But it was fun / to do. / Sincerely / Virginia Sorensen / Oct, 1988." Front hinge stretched at the title page. 352 pages. No dust jacket. Uncommon signature.


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Micron Buys Avago Image Sensor Business
Boise, Idaho-based Micron Technology said Monday afternoon that it has acquired the imaging sensor business of San Jose, California-based Avago. The deal was worth $53M, plus contingent payments. According to Micron, the team joining Micron includes 90 employees, from Corvallis, Oregon; Fort Collins, Colorado; San Jose, California, and Penang, Malaysia. The group consists mostly of engineers and develops CMOS imaging products. The imaging sensor group will join Micron's existing imaging group.


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Kidnap story of 5-year-girl Mamata comes to an end - Tv5
Sun, Mar 08, 2015, 01:55 PM
The kidnap episode has created a sensation in Nallakunta and three children were kidnapped by anonymous women and left two of them on Holi festival. As per the sources, the police had come to know that a child named Mamatha is in the custody of women kidnappers. After two days of the kidnap, the women kidnappers have left the girl in Kushaiguda. Police officials have informed the Nallakunta PS and police handed over the kidnapped girl to her parents. Parents expressed their happiness and thanked the police.


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Getting a ticket to the first Super Bowl at the new Cowboys Stadium isn't easy for most people.
Of course, most people aren't mayors, city council members or other elected grandees in North Texas who have recently been extended personal offers from the National Football League to buy tickets to the big game on Feb. 6.
In early November, Dallas City Council members received letters from the NFL offering them two tickets apiece at face value of $900 a ticket.
"[W]ith the Super Bowl approaching, we would like to express our sincere appreciation and hope that you will celebrate with us. For your convenience, we have enclosed an invoice for tickets to the game," wrote Frank Supovitz, an NFL vice president.
An NFL spokesman said the offer is about efficiency and added that the league doesn't give free tickets to elected officials.
But Dallas council member Ron Natinsky said Thursday he was bothered by the offer, because he never asked for tickets and didn't like getting an invoice.
"The instructions said to fill out your credit card number and return. I never even inquired as to the availability of tickets. If they wanted to offer tickets, they should have sent out a letter stating that they were available, and if I wanted tickets I could respond. An invoice was inappropriate," he said.
But Natinsky may be alone in his concern. The NFL has sent the offer to elected officials and members of the media for years, and Natinsky is the first to complain, a spokesman said.
"We have always sent a letter and an invoice. This is a more efficient process than sending a letter asking if [an official] wants to attend. Then the official would have to respond with yes or no. Then we would have to send an invoice. Then the official would have to send back the invoice. And then we would have to send the tickets," said NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy.
Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway, who plans to take the NFL up on the offer, said there is no reason anyone should be bothered by it.
"This is an invoice that gave him a choice should he want to buy Super Bowl tickets. It's an option," he said.
Caraway said the offer also serves another purpose - letting elected officials know, politely, that the league isn't passing out freebies.
"That's exactly what it is - we're not giving tickets away; we want to provide you an opportunity to go," Caraway said.
Herbert Gears, Irving's mayor and a member of the Super Bowl host committee, said he was pleased with the efficiency of the process rather than being peeved by the presumptuousness.
"I was happy to have the opportunity to buy a couple of tickets even though it wasn't easy to write that $2,400 check," said Gears, who chuckled when he heard about Natinsky's complaint. "I thought it was great that the City Council members were offered a chance to buy tickets."
His invoice allowed him to buy $1,200 seats.Despite Natinsky's annoyance with the invoice, his letter offers what would be a bargain for many football fans. Relatively few people get a chance to buy Super Bowl tickets at face value.
These offers were sent to the approximately 300 members of the Super Bowl XLV host committee and the mayors, city councils and city managers of Dallas, Arlington, Fort Worth and Irving.
Football fans can't go to Ticketmaster and buy a $900 Super Bowl ticket for $900 when it goes on sale. Tickets for this game never really go on sale in the traditional way they do for other sporting events or concerts.
The closest the public gets to buying Super Bowl tickets at cost is the NFL's annual drawing. This year, about 60,000 signed up for a chance to be among the 500 who could buy a pair of tickets at face value. In this case, the tickets were $600 each.
Also, the league makes some face-value tickets available to fans in the competing cities. At the most recent Super Bowl, 2,000 tickets were available in the New Orleans and Indianapolis markets.
Others get tickets via host committee sponsorship packages that cost from thousands of dollars up to $1 million. Tickets also go to NFL sponsors, who typically pay millions for their deals.
For the average person - one with money in the bank or room on a credit card - there are really only two ways to get tickets. Ticket brokers have seats to the Super Bowl, but those start at about $2,000 each. Those would probably be the ones with a $600 face value.
The other option is the NFL On Location hospitality program where ticket packages - featuring a pregame party and other perks - start at about $2,400.
Of course, that doesn't mean plenty of politicians won't be going to the game on someone else's dime. It just won't be the NFL's.
Natinsky said he won't be going to the game and has no intention of marking his invoice "cancel" and sending it back per the instructions.
"I'm excited that the Super Bowl is taking place here, but I'll be watching it on my big screen. They might want to rethink this type of marketing. I hope my lack of response cancels the invoice," he said.
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Naruto: Clash of Ninja 2
Sharingan Sasuke by UV_Blitz
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Naruto: Clash of Ninja
Sharingan Sasuke Uchiha
Character FAQ for Naruto: Clash of Ninja 2 for
the Nintendo Gamecube.
By - Asterisk/UV Blitz
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1. Introduction
2. Combos
3. Pros, Cons, and Ninjutsus
4. Poses
5. Ninja File
6. Strategy
7. Copyright and Credits
1: Introduction
Why SS?
While normal Sasuke is good, I prefer SS better. He has cooler projectiles and
2 specials. His combos are better and he's just overall better in Oboro mode.
He has a lot of teleportaion moves to keep your opponents off guard.
2: Sasuke's Move List
Out of 5 stars, so if a move has ***** that's a very good move.
This is a pretty decent combo. It is a
large series of punches and kicks. It's very
strong aganist your opponent if all
attacks hit, which they won't usually, because
your opponent will probably use substitution
jutsu somewhere in the combo. Although, the
last move usually doesn't hit anyway. A good
follow up is up B.
Sasuke punches twice, and then throws
a kunai with each hand at the enemy. This is
a pretty quick attack, but the damage isn't
so good. Good in multiplayer for a better chance
of hitting something.
Sasuke punches twice, kicks once, then
disappears in lines, comes out, and kicks
them from behind to the ground. This is
one of my favorite moves. It does a good
amount of damage, is quick, and the last
move can catch your opponent off guard.
This is another awesome move. Sasuke
punches twice then kicks twice, the last
kick sending the enemy into the air. Then,
Sasuke does fire-style jutsu and the opponent
lands on the fire and gets hurt more, also blowing
them backward. This'll do a 10-13 hit combo.
You can hold A and Sasuke will hold out the fire
jutsu as long as you hold the A button. (Be careful,
holding the fire drains your chakra.) This move is
strong and quick.
Sasuke punches the enemy in the gut, kicks
at the enemy, then punches again, sending the enemy
flying. Only three hits, but it's a pretty quick
Pretty cool move. Sasuke spin-kicks,
punches, spins in the air, and kicks the
opponent's head. It's a good move. Sometimes if
someone attacks him while he's doing the first
strike, it won't interrupt the combo. Although,
at the end of the combo it faces him away from
the enemy, which might get you in a bit of trouble.
If timed right, the first hit can cancel out moves.
Down B+B+B ****
Sasuke trips the enemy, does a back-flip
(which kicks them), then slams down diagonally at
opponent from the air. I use this move frequently,
because it catches your opponent off guard. Plus
if they use a sub jutsu, the second strike will hit
Down B+B+A ****
This is almost the same thing as the last
move. Sasuke does the same first two moves,
except he doesn't slam down on the opponent. Instead
he throws to kunai at the opponent diagonally. This
one does less damage and misses more than the one above,
Down A+B+B+B+B+B **
Sasuke slashes with a kunai then kicks multiple
times. Max hit you can get is 6. This move is pretty
good, but the first hit is a tad slow, and the last
hit doesn't always hit. I don't like this move a lot.
Down A+B+A **
Sasuke slashes with a kunai, kicks the enemy,
then disappears and appears in front of the opponent,
and kicks them in the air. Not too strong, but an o.k.
Down A+B+B+A ****
This move is great! Sasuke slashes with a kunai,
kicks twice, and then does the fire jutsu. I think every-
thing with the fire jutsu is good. Don't
forget you can hold A!
Special move: Chidori (X) *****
Sasuke's version of Kakashi Lighting blade. Works the
same way, hold down x longer for more damage and range. It's
easy to work in some combos.
Special Move: Phoenix Flower Jutsu (X in midair) *****
Great move, hits more than one target and comes out fast.
Easy way to use is jump once then hit x for more focused damage.
Other move: Up B ****
Awesome move, invincible on start up, and does good damage.
Other Move: Y(throw) ***
A default throw, throws them up in the air, can be followed
up by Up B. Easy to follow up with.
3: Pros, Cons, Ninjutsus
+ Pretty strong
+ Quick
+ Good balance of Ninjutsu and Taijutsu
+ Good combos
- Not too accurate
- No Genjutsu
A: Throws two shiken
A (hold): Throws four kunai
Up A: Disappers and appears behind enemy and axe kicks them
back A: Disappears, appear in behind of enemy
Run A: Disapperas and appers behind of enemy
Down A: Slashes with kunai
Forward A: Fire-style jutsu. Hold A to hold jutsu.
(Drains chakra.)
4: Poses
Victory Match Pose - Sasuke rubs something off his headband while looking up
and says
"What, that's all you got?"
Victory Match Pose - Sasuke looks away and turns around with his left hand
and says something:
"Vengeance, is mine!"
Lose Battle Pose - Sasuke
is hunched over on the ground, on his hands and
knees, breathing heavily.
5: Ninja File
Ninja Registration Number-
July 23rd
12-years old/Leo
150.8 cm/42.2 kg
Blood Type-
Cool and composed
Likes to talk tough
Favorite Food-
Rice balls (okaka flavor)
Least Favorite Food-
Would Like to Fight-
Itachi Uchiha
Favorite Line-
Going for walks
6: Strategy
When using Sharingan Sasuke, always stay on the offensive. Land the first hit.
Abuse your B combos and teleport moves to stay out of danger.
Make sure you:
1.Watch your chakra.
2.Watch your opponents chakra.
This can affect what you should do so you can max out damage on your enemies.
7: Closing
Got questions or suggestions?
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Congratulations to both Bo and Caroline on Baby Aiden Bice.
Congratulations to both Bo and Caroline on Baby Aiden Bice.
I can only please one person a day, today is not your day and tomorrow doesn't look good either
Article from The Birmingham News, 10/14:
Bice, SugarMoney book Pelham show for hurricane relief
Band, crew won't get paid for concert Saturday night
Friday, October 14, 2005
News staff writer
Bo Bice says he was ready to shuck his music-star persona in September, grab a hammer and help victims of hurricanes Katrina and Rita rebuild their damaged homes.
An 8-inch incision in his stomach stopped him.
So did the advice of doctors, who warned that it was too soon for the singer to pick up debris, carry 2-by-4s or forget about the intestinal surgery he'd been through just a few weeks before.
"But I've got to help. It's the way I was raised," Bice said. "If you've got, you give."
That's why the "American Idol" runner-up is performing a benefit concert Saturday at the Verizon Wireless Music Center in Pelham.
Proceeds from the 7:30 p.m. show will go to Habitat for Humanity's reconstruction and recovery programs. Tickets cost $20 to $55. Bice will appear with his band, SugarMoney, after an opening set by singer-songwriter David Graves.
"We need to lift some spirits up, man," Bice, 29, said during a phone interview Thursday. "People also need to know this is an ongoing problem. It's not just something you give your $5 to and forget."
During a break from a songwriting session in Nashville, Bice could be heard lightly playing a few notes on a keyboard as he discussed charity work - something he's determined to fit into his busy schedule.
"There are things I'm passionate about," Bice said. "This is something I'm going to continue to do, whether I'm playing for a few people in a nightclub three years down the road or packing out stadiums."
Although developing material for his debut album for RCA, due in late November, Bice has managed to slip in a few concerts on his days off, including an Oct. 8 set at Mobile's BayFest.
That show featured two new band members - guitarist Kris Bell and keyboard player Thomas Lee - and served as a warm-up of sorts for Saturday's date, said SugarMoney bassist John Cooper.
Folks who attend the Pelham benefit can expect to hear many of the same songs, Cooper said, including SugarMoney tunes such as "Cinnamon and Novocain," "Lonely Boy Blues," "Sinner in a Sin," "Ain't Got Money" and "Witness."
Bice and his band also are likely to cover pop-rock hits such as "Vehicle" (his current single), "Whole Lotta Love," "Take the Money and Run," "American Woman," "Voodoo Child," "Sweet Home Alabama" and "Free Bird."
In addition, Cooper said, the benefit is bound to feature two tunes written by Bice about the hurricanes: "We Can't Change This World" and "Changing for the Better."
Moved by images
News reports about the disaster and images of its aftermath moved him so much, Bice said, he was compelled to turn his thoughts into lyrics.
He also opened his home in Helena - vacant after Bice and his wife, Caroline, moved to Tennessee - to a family of evacuees from Louisiana.
Dealing with the disaster "has been a life-changing experience," Bice said. "And not only for the people there. Everyone should feel it. It's not just some people on TV."
To make sure the donation to Habitat is as large as possible, Bice and SugarMoney aren't getting paid for the Pelham date, Cooper said. Nor, he said, is anyone on the band's crew.
The concert has been organized by Bice's church in Shelby County, New Hope Cumberland Presbyterian, and Alabama Alive! magazine.
Bice said fans needn't worry that recent ill health will stop him from racing around the stage and performing with the energy they expect. Bice underwent emergency surgery in mid-August to repair a blocked intestine, and broke his foot July 31 during a performance on the "American Idol" tour.
"I'm doing great," he said. "It's cool. I actually got better after I laid down and took a break. I'd been sick for a while and just kept on going."
Catching a head cold after the Mobile show is a minor annoyance right now, Bice said, blowing his nose.
"But I'll be honest with you," he added. "Once you step out on that stage, it doesn't matter how sick you are, or what's wrong with you. You forget everything."
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For you Bo fans out there.
Bo Bice Album Due In December
October 26, 2005, 4:10 PM ET
Jonathan Cohen, N.Y.
"American Idol" runner-up Bo Bice will release his as-yet-untitled debut album Dec. 13 via RCA. Although the track list for the set is not finalized, tunes have been submitted by Nickelback frontman Chad Kroeger, former Evanescence guitarist Ben Moody, Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora in collaboration with producer John Shanks, Desmond Child and Marty Frederiksen.
It is unknown if Bice's debut single, "Inside Your Heaven," will re-appear on the album. The track debuted in July at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, two weeks after "Idol" champ Carrie Underwood took the song to No. 1.
Bice and his band have also been performing two songs inspired by the recent hurricanes, "We Can't Change This World" and "Changing for the Better," at their live shows, but it is unclear if they will make the cut.
Clive Davis is serving as executive producer on the set, while additional production was turned in by Shanks, Moody, Frederiksen and Max Martin.
As previously reported, Bice can be heard guesting on Carlos Santana's new album, "All That I Am," due Nov. 1 via Arista.
That was a great article, bamabrain. He'll forever be my American Idol. I can't wait to get his album.
There's a nice article on Bo in this week's People magazine, along with adorable pictures of little Aidan Michael Bice.
Never let the things you want make you forget about the things you have.
Just read the article in People....love the family photo. Especially the dog laying on his back snuggled up to Bo and Aiden with the pacifier in his mouth!! It would be a Great Chrismas card.
Bo's new CD will be called "The Real Thing" and the cover is now on "Amazon!!"
All times listed in Eastern Standard Time (ET)
Dec. 5 Bo Bice - Tonight Show w/ Jay Leno (NBC)
Dec. 6 Bo Bice - Billboard Music Awards
Dec. 9 Bo Bice - The Today Show
Dec. 9 Bo Bice - Regis And Kelly
Dec. 13 Bo Bice - Ellen
Dec. 19 Bo Bice - Radio Music Awards (NBC)
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Thanks BoBo. I really appreciate all of you who keep me informed about Bo.
I'm looking forward to his new album. I loved the track on Santana's new album. I hope Bo continues to explore genres other than just rock. He's such an all 'round performer it would be a shame for him to lock himself into a box. I know with most of the Idol finalists it's best that they stick to what got them there, but Bo is in a class by himself.
Here's hoping the new album will be the huge success he deserves.
The funniest thing about this particular signature is that by the time you realise it doesn't say anything it's too late to stop reading it.
Looks like we'll be seeing a lot of Bo over the next couple weeks. I'm not sure how many of these appearances are repeats, but my TiVo shows the following television appearances....
4, December on 'Big in 2005' (VH1)
5, December on 'The Tonight Show' (NBC)
9, December on 'The Today Show' (NBC)
All that AND the release of his new album on 13, December. Life is good!
Now, if he'd just announce his tour dates.
ETA: Darn, I forgot about BoBo's post. Well, at least I was able to add the VH1 appearance.
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I've been extremely busy lately, so I didn't post this when it was running, but about a month ago, the local FOX affiliate ran a series of Idol postscripts each night for a week. They featured our local boys, Bo and Reuben. The Bo pieces were very good--one night they showed him working on his album in Nashville and another night they showed his 30th birthday party at his home in Nashville.


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TAMPA — Ever since a jury convicted him of killing three young men with his Cadillac, Joseph Safrany has been asking for a new trial.
He spent years in the prison library, poring through law books, filing appeals. His handwritten documents fill two file boxes in the Hillsborough County courthouse and include hundreds of pages of arguments in CAPITAL LETTERS.
He cites at least 24 reasons he should not be serving life in prison.
Lots of inmates spend their ample free time scratching out appeals, hoping to hit on something that will get them a new hearing, a new trial, a new chance.
The difference for Safrany, 45, is that it actually worked.
He won't get a new trial for the April 2000 accident.
But on Monday, a new judge will hear from his mother and friends, a jailhouse chaplain, maybe even a priest, and will decide whether the former lighting salesman should get a new sentence.
Circuit Court Judge Wayne Timmerman also will listen to the parents of Safrany's three victims, who think he got what he deserved.
• • •
Safrany grew up in the Bronx. He was 21 when he moved to Tampa to build big buildings. He started his own lighting company, adopted a stray cat named Scooby, bought a 1993 Cadillac.
On April 6, 2000, he was drinking beer at a Tampa bar with friends. Around midnight, he went back to one of their houses to watch a movie. He was driving home down Sheldon Road about 3 a.m. when his Cadillac smashed into the side of a Honda, killing three young men inside: Shawn Falla, Brandon Smith and Troy Call. Call, who was driving, also was drunk. The fourth man, Robert Falla, broke his neck and both legs. He had been stationed at MacDill, but because of his injuries had to leave the Air Force.
Police said Safrany was speeding: 73 mph in a 45 mph zone. His blood-alcohol level was 0.18, more than twice the level that Florida assumes impairment.
After his broken ribs healed, after doctors released him from the hospital, Safrany posted $55,000 bail. Then, two days after his 36th birthday, three weeks before his trial, he threw himself a party. And skipped town.
A detective interviewed hundreds of his friends, combed their trash for clues, called in the FBI. On a Saturday night in September 2002, after 15 months of living with a dead man's name, Safrany saw himself on America's Most Wanted. And knew he had to turn himself in.
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The prosecution offered a plea bargain: 15 years for driving under the influence manslaughter, plus five for becoming a fugitive. Safrany said no. And went to trial.
On the day the jury found him guilty, Aug. 15, 2003, the judge asked if there was any reason Safrany shouldn't be sentenced right away. His court-appointed lawyer didn't offer any. Safrany didn't speak.
"I mean, what am I supposed to do with that?" defense attorney Harvey Hyman asked during a 2009 hearing. "My own client doesn't want to defend himself prior to the judge pronouncing sentence."
But the victims' parents had plenty to say. They pleaded with the judge to impose the maximum sentence. And he did.
From his prison cell, Safrany started appealing: His lawyer was ineffective, he alleged. The defense attorney didn't interview key witnesses, didn't present all the evidence. His mom never even got a chance to tell the judge how sorry he was.
Finally, in May 2009, Hillsborough County Circuit Court Judge Michelle Sisco agreed to hold a hearing for post-conviction relief. Six months later, she called Safrany's mom and friends to testify about his remorse.
If Safrany's original lawyer had heard those witnesses before the sentencing, Sisco ruled in December, "the court would have imposed a lesser sentence."
So now, seven years after being sent to prison for life, Safrany will get another day in court. The judge who originally sentenced him has retired. So a new judge, Wayne Timmerman, will hear from the victims' parents — and from Safrany's supporters.
"The victims' families are outraged," said Becky Gage of Hillsborough County Mothers Against Drunk Driving. "They're devastated they have to go through this again. When he got life, they thought they got closure."
Safrany's mom, friends and jailhouse chaplain will tell the judge how sorry he is.
"The thing that he said he would forever live with were the names of the boys, their families," his mom, Eileen Safrany, said during the October hearing.
"One of the things I noticed about Joe is he was more concerned about the victims and not so much about himself," said Thomas Rabeau, the Hillsborough County jail chaplain.
Judges have a lot of leeway in resentencing hearings, said Robert Batey, who teaches criminal law at Stetson University. They can uphold the current sentence, shave off years or make it worse.
The minimum recommended sentence for three DUI manslaughter charges is 34 years, said Assistant State Attorney Mark Lewis, who is prosecuting the case.
And Safrany has nothing to lose. "As a practical matter," Batey pointed out, "life is the worst sentence he's going to get."
Lane DeGregory can be reached at email@example.com or (727) 893-8825. Times researcher Caryn Baird contributed to this story.


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First published in 1925.
Sent from Munich to the Canton of Vaux (Switzerland).
Printed from the original.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1974, Moscow, Volume 34, pages 85-86.
Translated: Clemens Dutt
Transcription\Markup: D. Moros
Public Domain: Lenin Internet Archive (2005). You may freely copy, distribute, display and perform this work; as well as make derivative and commercial works. Please credit "Marxists Internet Archive" as your source. • README
July 30, 1901
Dear G. V.,
I received your letter from the country and the new books (Final Report, Blondel et Vandervelde et Destrée), for which many thanks.
I did not get Tezyakov[4]; probably it won't come at all ,as it was ordered from Kalmykova's store[5] and she is being exiled from St. Petersburg for three years andis closing down the store (the latest and quite accurate news!).
I am sending you Kuleman[6] today.
As regards the forgery in Russkoye Bogatstvo concerning Engels,[1] I shall take all possible steps.
As regards reviews, we have little definite information. All are busy with their own articles (Velika—against Berdayev, Puttman with magazine notes=against Russkoye Bogatstvo, I with my agrarian article,[2] etc.). Moreover, there is still time for reviews.
I have sent my article against R. N. S. to the press after toning down a number of sharp passages.[3] I have also written a postscript to it, in which I draw a parallel between an article of Dragomanov's[7] ("Knock, and it shall be opened unto you") and that of R. N. S., to the advantage of the former. There, too, I am toning down a few expressions (on Velika's insistence). But the general tone of my strictures can no longer be subject to radical revision.
Letters from Russia say that our people are terribly taken with Berdayev. There you have someone who asks to be trounced, and not only in the specifically philosophical sphere! True, Velika is writing an article in connection with Berdayev's last article in Mir Bozhy.
I was very glad to learn that you and P. B. will be seeing each other and will start on the programme. It will be a tremendous step forward if we can come before our people with a draft like yours and P. B.'s. This is a matter that is most urgent.
All the very best.
[1] See pp. 81–82 of this volume.—.—Lenin
[2] Lenin was engaged on his article "The Agrarian Question and the 'Critics of Marx,"' (see present edition, Vol. 5).—Ed.
[3] "The Persecutors of the Zemstvo and the Hannibals of Liberalism" (see present edition, Vol. 5 and p. 81 of this volume.—Ed.
[4] See Note 102. p. 85
[5] This refers to Kalmykova's bookstore in St. Petersburg, which was used as a secret rendezvous by Social-Democrats. p. 85
[6] This refers to V. Kuleman's book The Trade Union Movement, an Essay on the Trade Union Organisation of the Workers and Associations of Employers in All Countries, St. P., 1901. p. 85
[7] Dragomanov, Mikhail Petrovich (1841-1895)—Ukrainian historian, ethnographer and publicist, a bourgeois liberal. He was assistant professor at Kiev University; contributed to liberal journals. p. 85


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Today I'm sharing a healthier twist on a fond childhood memory!
I love treating my kids, but I prefer healthier snacks that will provide extra nutrients to get them through their day! I'm not even sure they notice a difference, to be honest! And it makes me feel like a good mom. 🙂
I have fond memories of eating "worms and dirt" as a kid. The best librarian ever made it for us once at story time – just one of the many reasons to love her! In case you're not aware, worms and dirt is chocolate pudding layered with crunched up Oreo cookies and gummy worms lurking inside! I thought it was the best thing ever as a young child.
So a couple months ago, I set out to recreate this awesome memory for my kids. I was inspired by finding organic gummy worms at the grocery – on sale! The next step was waiting for the healthier brand of Oreos to go on sale. (Yep, I'm really cheap.) I buy the Back to Nature brand whenever I get a hankering for yummy cookies (like Chips Ahoy, Oreos, Thin Mints, etc.) with no high fructose syrup, artificial colors, preservatives, or flavorings.
Once all those stars had aligned, I went looking for a healthier chocolate pudding recipe. I won't buy the boxed mixes (especially when homemade tastes SOOO much better!) I couldn't find a recipe I liked, so I combined a couple. Here is my tweaked version of an "Eat to Live cookbook" recipe and a random pin I found (and since lost).
Chocolate Avocado Pudding
- 2 avocados
- 3/4 – 1 cup chocolate almond milk or plain, unsweetened almond milk (add until you get the consistency you like)
- 7-8 Tbs. cacao powder
- 10+ dates (possibly more, depends on your sweet tooth – can also add honey or maple syrup at the end if you find it's not sweet enough. It's easier than adding more dates!)
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
First, blend dates into a paste. This is KEY for getting a smooth pudding consistency (Unless you have a Vitamix, perhaps, or another high powered blender, which I don't.). The dates will come together and ball up in a lump. Once that happens, you can add all other ingredients. Add more almond milk if it's too thick and adjust amount of cacao and sweetener to taste. If it isn't sweet enough, I recommend adding maple syrup or honey instead of more dates for ease of blending it all in.
That's it! You've got pudding!
- Now crush some cookies in a ziploc or chop them up in a food processor (I used about one row out of 3 from the Back to Nature brand box of cookies.).
Grab a pretty glass or parfait dish for the pudding if you have one the kids can break (I have a glass mug set I got at a yard sale for 25 cents. 4 glasses for 25 cents! Totally breakable.).
- Layer a couple scoops of pudding, then some smashed cookies. Add a couple Black Forest organic gummy worms. Repeat layers. Top with extra gummy worms and add a spoon!
My kids loved helping me make this special, healthier treat! And I loved eating it with them (sans gummy worms)!
Their favorite part was finding the hidden gummy worms…in fact, I probably could have skipped the whole pudding part and just thrown some worms on the table. Oh well. Someday they'll appreciate me. 😉
What's a fond childhood snack memory you have? Anything you'd like to recreate as a healthier version for your kids? Let me know in the comments below!