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Originally Posted by NEO SENJU
Talking about senpou mokuton...hashi is also a sage mode user judging by his handseal if u can see his hands were just like jiraya's in the battle against pein and his face markings also was like naruto's and jiraya's too but bit different...and about the summoning is soooo BADASS OverkillING!!OMG!!!
His sage mode is definatly not about frogs. It is either dragons or monkeys. Judging from his brothers student -Hiruzen- being taught by the Senju, can summon a monkey, the senju could probably summon him to.
and you thought perfect susanoo was huge
Originally Posted by Like Naruto
i wonder how madara feels after hashi fingered him with that jutsu.. -____-
madara dies
Originally Posted by izzy89
you guys....once again. SENJU = SENJUtsu
Senju + TSUnade = SenjuTSU
Originally Posted by Penguin2640
Hashirama > Madara. Always. We have not even seen Tobirama's Penguin summons yet. I am so excited!
LOL, penguins really?
i can't even get over the scale of the Shinsuusenju thing, SO BADASS! it reminds me of E. Honda from Street Fighter II, it doesn't look like him but i can imagine that thing busting out with a Thousand-Hand Multiple Sumo-Slap tech or something, LoL. I'll bet that colossal being could simply Catch Madara's Meteor Tech, LOL either that or blast it into a thousand little pieces, LoL.
Looks a bit like an Indian god, Hashirama's beast he ain't no fraud!
First thing I noticed was its size
Men i laugh for the uchiha fanboys saying that sasuke would have sage mode that aint gonna happen sen jutsu is a jutsu of body Hashirama is a Gooooood iam a fanboy now lol
Dude thats like sage mode on steroids times 10... He could wreck anything with that jutsu
No wonder Madara is such a Hashirama fanboy himself...
Originally Posted by tristan
to withstand kyuubi and madara together is simply overkill....goodbye to those who said hashirama had help when he faced madara and kyuubi...
the manga specifically states that the uzamaki sealed the nine tailed fox by means of mito uzamaki
Originally Posted by Darksharinnegan
the manga specifically states that the uzamaki sealed the nine tailed fox by means of mito uzamaki
Did they say during the fight? We have a flashback of a restrained kurama getting told by Hashirama. Then Mito comes into the equation.
The moment you see that jutsu and then you see it compared to the nine tails you're like OMG !
But seriously unlike many people I'm actually happy to see a flashback within a flashback, as we get to learn a little bit more about Hashirama and Madara. Hopefully we'll learn who they were and we'll gain a little insight on why they became what they are today.
Originally Posted by General PSX360
First thing I noticed was its size
That's what she said
Originally Posted by Mangekyo Muslim
Senju + TSUnade = SenjuTSU
Noo just no.
To put in my two cent I willl say that hashi should at this point have disproven any doubt that he is the strongest ninja in history.
Originally Posted by realobito1
To put in my two cent I willl say that hashi should at this point have disproven any doubt that he is the strongest ninja in history.
how about the sage coz harashi is generations watered down part of him
it was great, i wonder how hashirama gonna use it!
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Soldiers from the Free Syrian Army (FSA) detain alleged "shabiha" members identified as Mehsin Mohamed Ahmed and Mohamed Azezz, from Aleppo, and accuse them of stealing from homes and giving important information to the Syrian regime, in an undisclosed location in the north of Idlib province on June 19, 2012.
NORTHERN SYRIA – Every war has its demons. The chaos of bullets and bombs gives rise to a certain breed of men who join the fight for the thrill of killing, and to stand before begging prisoners and cowering women in damp tattered clothing.
In Syria these monsters in civilian clothing who are the enforcers for President Bashar Assad's regime are called the "shabiha."
I'm staying in one of their family's homes.
Syria's ghost-like devils
It's a small house with a vaulted stone ceiling. The shower is a bucket on the floor that slopes into a drain. There's an outhouse in the garden with a fig tree. The house looks like many in this rural village flanked by olive, walnut and almond groves.
Syrian troops withdraw from 'secondary towns' and pound Aleppo
The shabiha left this village when the army pulled out to re-group and attack Aleppo, Syria's commercial capital and the focus of the battle to control the north of the country. Before they left, there were about 50 shabiha in the village by most rebel counts.
Some lived among the rebels as spies. Others operated as plainclothes commandoes, arresting rebels or just shooting them and their families. I've seen a video of shabiha using a chainsaw to cut off a rebel's head. I saw a shabiha prisoner tied up with wires. The rebels accused him of raping 10 girls. The youngest girl was said to be just 14.
NBC's Richard Engel reports from Syria, where government loyalists are launching a major counter-offensive to maintain control of Aleppo, the nation's largest city, which is considered to be critical to the survival of the Syrian government.
Shabiha is a difficult word to translate into English. It comes from the word Syrians used to describe the luxury Mercedes favored by the Assad family's operatives that the enforcers of the regime used to move money, smuggle weapons and intimidate opponents.
Whenever someone in a flashy Mercedes with tinted window passed by, Syrians would say the car was a 'shabah.' It literally means the car was a 'ghost,' mysterious and not to be trifled with. The thugs who drove these phantom cars became known as shabiha – the ghosts who worked in the dictatorship's deep shadows.
After the fighting started here the Assad government turned the shabiha into a militia. It armed them and sent them to infiltrate, execute and spy on the rebels. Now the shabiha are more feared than Syrian troops. Their evil has become legendary.
Rebels talk of the shabiha like devils, deadly as the regime's chemical gas. But herein lies the danger.
Engel: Myth vs. truth in the Syrian conflict
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After months of protests and violent crackdowns, a look back at the violence that has overtaken the country.
Who is really who?
I'm not sure if this house was really owned by any shabiha or their relatives. The owner's son is accused of being shabiha, but the rebels have no solid proof that he did anything wrong at all. And there's no proof either that the young man I saw tied up with wires, his eyes covered with a bandana, actually raped any girls.
Every war has revolutionary justice. Here that justice is carried out in the name of fighting shabiha.
No one knows exactly how many shabiha work for the regime. If the Assad government falls, the rebels will likely – almost certainly – carry out executions of suspected shabiha.
A man I spoke to this morning said all shabiha should be executed without mercy, and their property sold and distributed among their victims. The man's own cousin is among those accused of being shabiha.
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But how will Syrians know when justice is being served or miscarried?
Machine guns operated by motorcycle brakes? Get a glimpse at the rebels fighting against Assad's forces in Syria's mountainous Jabal al-Zawiya area.
There's also a disproportionate number of Alawites, accused of being shabiha. The Alawites are the minority Shiite Muslim sect to which Assad belongs and which has held a disproportionate amount of power since his family came to power in 1970. But the Alawites make up only 10 percent of the population, sowing resentment among the country's Sunni population, who make up the majority of Syria's 22 million people.
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Syrians need to prepare for the aftermath if the Assad regime falls. Atrocities that could be considered war crimes have been committed in this country and Syrians should rightly demand that the perpetrators be held accountable.
But Syrians must be careful not to engage in a murderous campaign of hunting ghosts. The shabiha are real, but they can't be everywhere.
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Those who like winter paddling seek the solitude and quiet beauty of area rivers adorned with a mantle of snow. They find the rewards are worth the risk and cold.
Sara Cockrell paddles area rivers through all four seasons, but she is a lot more cautious during the cold weather months.
"I love to paddle all year long, but I do take a lot more care during the winter months, especially not to spill, which fortunately I never have" she says with a laugh.
"I wear a layer of poly-pro, wool socks, downhill ski pants and a cross-country ski jacket topped off with rain gear. On my hands I wear Gore-Tex mittens, not gloves, a cross-country ski cap on my head and woollined Sorrels on my feet. And, I always have my cockpit spray skirt on.
"In my dry bag I pack even heavier layers than I wear, and, in addition, a fulllength down coat, full wetsuit, hand and foot warmers, and a thermos of hot water. You can never be too careful," she cautions. "In my van I have another complete change of clothes, which I change into normally within 10 minutes after arriving at the take-out; once boats are loaded and gear stowed."
Cockrell adds a few more caveats for would-be winter paddlers.
"You need to be able to take care of the shoreline if it's needed, and it probably will be. Steps may need to be shoveled at both the put-in and take-out. In addition, you need to think about access roads into and out of the river. Some may not be plowed or, at least, less frequently.
"Trees can come down year-round, so you need to be prepared for a possible portage around them, and logs and banks may be covered with ice. Just take care and be very careful," she cautions.
Despite the cautions, Cockrell notes there are rewards to paddling in the winter.
"It's a beautiful time year to on the water. Trees bowed down in winter finery remind me of flocked Christmas trees. I once saw six eagles at one time in a barren tree along the banks of the Manistee River. That's never happened any other time of year."
She likes larger, slower rivers for winter paddling, and advises novice paddlers to stick to summertime outings until they gain more experience.
"With the risk of hypothermia, which is real for even more experienced paddlers, I wouldn't recommend winter paddling for novices. I would recommend that even experienced paddlers stick to the slower, wider rivers, like the Manistee, AuSable, Lower Platte or Boardman below the put-in at the old Brown Bridge Dam just taken out. There are fewer obstacles and less chance of an obstruction blocking the entire river," the avid outdoor adventurer emphasized.
John Lewis, former owner of Backcountry Outfitters and former resident of Traverse City, used to enjoy winter paddling on the bay and led outings, which I joined a few times. I remember him saying that he had his cockpit spray skirt freeze from waves breaking over it. It's not for the faint of heart, but it can be beautiful on a calm, sunny day.
You dress in layers to create dead-air space for warmth and to trap the warmth. The spray skirt helps to trap warmth for the lower body. I even wear Gore-Tex socks. Try not to get wet as you get into your kayak if you can help it.
The two terms you need to be cognizant of when heading out on the water during winter, bay or rivers, are "cold shock" and "hypothermia," which has already been mentioned. Both can happen if you were suddenly dumped into cold water and both can be fatal.
Avoid heading out onto rivers after a storm like we had last March; wet, heavy snow that brings trees down creating impassable areas on the river. Wait until spring when the river can be cleared of debris if that occurs.
Following the advice and warnings of veteran paddlers will go a long way in protecting you during a beautiful, quiet time of year on the river. An added bonus is that you won't have to put up with the hordes of inexperienced paddlers you find on summer outings.


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As the pp said, if all is fine, you may not need to worry. But if there are things going on that don't seem right, then OALD/oversupply can be the culprit.
You said you are using 4 hour blocks of time and BM's are still pure liquid and bright green. While some variances in color are normal and some babies can have green BM's and be fine, if you are feeling that ds is having a hard time, then the BM's would be a way you can guage how things are going.
Rarely, but sometimes, mothers in your situation have to go to even longer blocks of time: 5-6 hours, to downgrade supply. You might consider this.
And you are right in that some babies just aren't bothered by this, while others are. DS is lucky to have such a caring and concerned mom!


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Blaze Pizza is the latest hit in Pasadena's Playhouse District
By Dan O'Heron 11/15/2012
In greeting the new Blaze Pizza, our large family of pie parlors in Pasadena may be saying "the more the merrier," but I have to wonder if that welcome comes with a forced smile, the kind given to an unexpected house party guest?
Among an estimated 33 specialty pizza purveyors within city limits, Blaze's one-of-a-kind, fast-fired gourmet operation may be the life of the party.
It looks like the competition is really up against it in trying to match the taste, the quality/price ratio and the convenience that I relished recently in dining on the "red vine," one of Blaze's nine 12-inch signature creations. Thin-crusted and absent sauce, it was consumed at lunch but dressed for dinner, topped with basil, chopped garlic and chicken, circumfused in mozzarella and Parmesan cheeses, dotted with cherry tomatoes and sprinkled with olive oil.
After placing the order, priced at $7.85 ($6.85 for the basic pizza and $1 for the added chicken), presto! I was eating it in less than two minutes.
I knew in an instant that something special had just occurred. This unique baking apparatus and their systemized ordering procedure could fill many tall orders in a very short time. Many guests were placing more complex orders than mine — such as "build-your-own," "gluten free" and "extra meat and cheese."
Choices among nine $6.85 signature pies range from the "meat eater" (crumbled meat balls, pepperoni, red onion, mozzarella and red sauce) to the "veg out" (mushrooms, zucchini, red peppers, mozzarella, red sauce dollops and rich and creamy Gorgonzola).
Among six meat and six cheese choices, with the $6.85 "build-your-own," diners can select from a combo of three selections, all coming with an unlimited number of veggies, which number 13, and pineapple. If appetites are not merely great but overwhelming, a pie builder can have more meats and cheeses for $1 each.
But wouldn't the time it takes to order delay the service? Chef Bradford Kent assured me that people will rattle off their choices "once they learn what they like."
Prudence dictates my plan to build a $6.85er out of a bed of perlini mozzarella (mozz pearls), combined with soft, smooth ricotta, embedded with bell peppers, cherry tomatoes and mushrooms, then firmed up with grilled chicken.
Assembly-line pizza making, which turned out my "red vine" in a blue streak, has three designers: Pasadena residents Elise and Rick Wetzel, co-founders of Wetzel's Pretzels, with 250 outlets worldwide, and Kent, a critically-acclaimed pizza consultant.
"We call Brad the pizza whisperer," said Elise. "He is a super authority on freakishly faster pizza."
From the kitchen to the serving area comes a ball of fresh dough to be flattened on a special press. The dough, its self-rising edges helped along by a feature of the press, forms the mainstay for the ingredients. The disk is slapped on a paddle within arm's length of the order taker, who affixes the written order onto the paddle's handle. Then, after being smeared with sauce or not, the paddle — much like a baton in a sprint relay — is passed on to assistants, who fill the order before handing it off to a slicer/boxer, who calls your name for pickup.
After putting away a "green stripe" pizza (chicken, mozzarella, red peppers, garlic, pesto and arugula), my pal begged me to have his named called twice.
In an undeviating course, where something happens so soon after something else, it is a wonder that pizza tastes so good. It couldn't happen, said Kent, if not for the empowering inferno of the oven and its special rotating system that he brought to Blaze. Made of a ceramic composite, the floor temperature of the oven is lower than the air temperature above it. Kent indicated that this cooks pizza faster and with more consistency than other ovens. With a quick-witted paddler, it can cook up to 10 pizzas at one time.
How did the Wetzel's connect with Kent? "We Googled 'pizza consultant,'" said Elise.
So what, exactly, inspired the idea of fast-served pizza? Elise said that she and her husband were having a burrito at Chipotle Mexican Grill and they both were impressed by the quick servicing of a good product.
"That's where we cooked up the idea that it might be done with gourmet pizza," she said.
As a result of that influence, guests at Blaze can sit back to enjoy and digest their food. It comfortably seats 90. The operation's feel suggests that it could be a model store for national expansion.
Passing by several times in recent days, I've seen crowds so large that one might think that Blaze is the only pizza place in town. Yet, due to its location, I think it would court an even wider patronage if it sold pizza by the slice. When asked why it doesn't, Kent replied, "We want to keep good relations with our next-door neighbor."
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Resident Tom Manza said, "Actually, I'm here to ask for a 20% tax reduction," which drew laughter from the legislature because, with the budget situation as bad as it is, a cut is out of the question and a double-digit increase seems likely.
But Manza said he was only half kidding because the value of homes in the county has dropped about 25% due to the great recession; therefore, residents are being over taxed.
He said he was opposed to the legislators voting to override the 2% property tax cap, which was mandated by officials in Albany earlier this year but which can be overridden by the county legislature if six of the nine members vote to do so.
The comment came at a public hearing at the government center on August 16, in which 11 members of the public spoke, with nine of them opposing the override. Gary Maas, the supervisor of the Town of Cochecton, urged the legislature to find places to cut costs. He said, "There are essential services that are just that—essential. But other services need to be examined thoroughly and eliminated responsibly." He said, "An example might be the adult care center, which operates at a loss and now needs a $700,000 roof. Let the private sector take care of these kinds of services."
Al Steppich, a council member of the Town of Delaware, was another public official who spoke against the override. He said, "When I first moved back here in 1974—I still have half the farm my dad bought—my taxes were about $400. Now, they're approaching $8,000." He also said, "One thing that you can do to raise revenue in this county, if you want to keep on spending like you do, is punch a hole in the ground for gas."
Resident Carol Benton said she is a widow living on a fixed income and would be willing to sell her house to get out from under the taxes, but no one is buying. She said, "The little dead-end road I live on, when I was growing up, there were four homes. Now, there are 13, and approximately every third one has a for sale sign on it."
Terri Ward, president and CEO of the Sullivan County Chamber of Commerce, said, "We understand that you guys inherited a mess, we understand that the state enacted this property tax cap without enacting proper mandate relief as a buffer, and we understand that you're in a terribly difficult position, but we also understand that the businesses and residents of this county are sick and tired of being nickeled and dimed to death."
Not everyone was opposed to the proposed override. Priscilla Basset, co-chair of the Senior Legislative Action Committee, said she supports the vote to override the cap because the legislature needs the "leeway" to be able to act outside the cap if need be. She also said that the legislature should investigate changing from a property tax "to a graduated income tax, which would be a state decision, and would be much fairer to the taxpayers in the county."
Resident Ken Walter said a tax increase of more than 2% is unavoidable. He was also one of three people who said that, if the state or the country had "Medicare for all," that would bring a lot of savings to the county. He said, "If we had Medicare for all, the $17 million you spend on healthcare for employees would not be an expense at all."
The legislature likely will vote on overriding the tax cap next month.


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Wacaco Minipresso GR Portable Espresso MachineJust because you can't pack along your superautomatic on a camping trip doesn't mean you need to sacrifice your morning espresso. Make getting out into nature a little easier with the Wacaco Minipresso Portable Espresso Machine. Its satisfyingly simple design doesn't require anything other than coffee, hot water and a little old-fashioned manual labor for a rich shot of espresso, anywhere. It packs down to a lightweight sub-seven inch pill of java joy that easily fits in a pack's water bottle holder. It even includes its own coffee scoop and tumbler for a (nearly) all-in-one trailblazing treat. Learn More
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AeroPress Coffee MakerThe AeroPress is an entirely new way to make coffee. A wide range of tasters from coffee professional and author Kenneth Davids to serious and not-so-serious coffee aficionados all praise the smooth, rich flavor. Other coffee makers drip hot water on a bed of grounds which over-extracts at the center and under-extracts at the edge. The AeroPress is micro-filtered for grit free coffee unlike French press style coffee makers. Learn More$29.95
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Friday, March 11, 2011
Fearless Females, March 11, 2011:Tragic Death of Adeline Foss
March 11 — Did you have any female ancestors who died young or from tragic or unexpected circumstances? Describe and how did this affect the family?
Adeline Foss, or perhaps she was Magdelena, or Magdelena Adeline, was one of my Great Grandmothers. In 1882 she emigrated from Germany with her two sons, and presumably her husband - though he might have arrived on American shores at an earlier, or later time. By 1884 she and her family, which now also included my grandmother, Elizabeth Alfreda Foss. They purchased, for about $5, a couple of acres of land which was located only a few blocks from Camp Randall, near what is now Randall Field in Madison, Wisconsin. According to the letters of my Uncle Ralph, who remembered them from his childhood, his grandparents were a very hard working and frugal couple from the old country and produced almost everything they needed on those few acres.
Adeline and her husband Ferdinand lived on this small acreage for forty years -long after their children had grown up and had homes and families of their own. In in 1922, with the city of Madison growing up around them, they sold their home and moved out a town to a house on Kendall Ave. According to a daughter-in-law, Mrs. Charles Foss (Gertrude), the couple desired to have the convenience of a gas stove, so their sons, Charles and Otto were "attentive to the wishes to their parent's wishes, and stove installed."
And so it happened on the night of June 26, 1924, the elderly couple who had lived for many years in their old cozy home, content with its furnishings, went to sleep in their new home with it's new gas stove. Ferdinand never woke up and died from asphyxiation, and his wife, Adeline, lay beside him near death. She was closer to the open window and still breathed with their daughter-in-law found them the next morning.
Adeline was rushed to the General Hospital where heroic attempts were made to save her life, including an emergency blood transfusion from her 17-year-old grandson, William Foss, son of Charles Foss. Although she reportedly rallied at one point, but succumbed later in the evening.
Evidently, some time in the evening one of the old couple accidently turned the gas jet partially on and the deadly gas filled the house, snuffing out Ferdinand's life, and ultimately, Adeline's as well.
She was 79 years old and after over 70 years of cutting and hauling wood, cooking and heating by a wood burning stove or fireplace, she had hoped to have a bit of ease in her old age. Adeline did not live to enjoy the new luxury of a gas stove.
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What a touching story. I was picturing my great grandparents in my mind as I read along. They too moved into "town" to enjoy city conveniences when they aged. Luckily they enjoyed many years there. I'm so sorry Ferdinand and Adeline did not.ReplyDelete
So sad...especially when the new stove held the promise of easier times for such a hard working couple!ReplyDelete
This makes me think of my own grandparents, both sets of whom lived their lives in tiny houses with no amenities; how sad that Adeline and Ferdinand were not able to live their lives out in their new home.ReplyDelete
This is so so sad, what a true tragedy.ReplyDelete
Lisa, Dorene, Greta & Carol,ReplyDelete
Thank you for stopping by and reading about Adeline. In one of the newspaper accounts of the tragedy, I saw a picture of the couple in front of their old home. It is the only picture that I have ever seen of the couple. I was excited to see this grainy, blurry image of my Foss great grandparents.
Oh, that's so sad!ReplyDelete


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The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission warns of dangers from generators, candles, and wet appliances after a natural disaster such as a hurricane, tornado, or flood knocks out electricity, and offers safety tips.
-Never use a generator indoors, including garages, basements, and crawlspaces, even with ventilation. Exhaust fumes contain high levels of carbon monoxide (CO) which can be deadly if inhaled. Use a portable generator outdoors in a dry area away from doors, windows, and vents that could allow CO to come indoors. Never store gasoline in the home or near a fuel-burning appliance, such as a natural gas water heater in a garage where gasoline fumes could be ignited. CPSC has more details about safe use of generators:
-Plug individual appliances into heavy duty, outdoor-rated extension cords and plug the cords into the generator. Check that the extension cords have a wire gauge adequate for the appliance loads. Make sure that each cord is free of cuts or tears and its plug has all three prongs, especially a grounding pin.
-Do not use electrical or gas appliances that have been wet and do not turn on damaged appliances because of the hazards of electric shock or fire. Do not use gas appliances that have been submerged because silt can make valves inoperable, leading to a gas leak or fire.
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