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The Beauty of Big Mountain: Khao Yai National ParkKirsty Turner
Khao Yai is Thailand's most popular nature reserve, and it is easy to see why. With 2168 square kilometres of lush forest, the park is a real Eden for the 300 bird species and 20 species of big mammals which shelter within its boundaries. Khao Yai means Big Mountain and the name refers to the Phanom Dongrek Mountains that make the park so special.
I had left the neighbouring town of Pak Chong early that morning, expecting to explore Khao Yai on foot. Catching a songthaew from the center of town, I arrive at the park just before 8 am. I am dropped at the park checkpoint, where I pay my 200 baht entrance fee and wait for a lift to the visitor's centre.
After a couple of minutes, a jeep rolls down the road towards me. The driver greets me warmly and agrees to take me to the visitor's centre. The two passengers, Fiona and Henry, also greet me warmly.
Along the way, the driver stops several times to point out macaques, kingfishers and other interesting wildlife. He introduces himself as Mr C, but it is not long before I have dubbed him 'Mr Crazy'. Mr C is like the Thai version of Steve Irwin; he is incredibly passionate about wildlife and sometimes his enthusiasm seems a little goofy. Still, you couldn't hope for a more knowledgeable guide.
It takes nearly an hour to reach the visitor's centre. Once there, Mr C offers to take me along on the tour for just 400 bhat for the entire day. He explains that many of the park's features are as much as 20 kilmetres apart, making it impossible to cover them on foot. As I am already captivated with Mr C and Fiona and Henry seem happy to have company, I gratefully agree.
After a short break, Mr C Provides long, white canvass socks, which we put on over our trousers, feeling rather silly. They are to protect against leeches, and I notice most of the other visitors are also wearing these latest fashion accessories.
Back in the jeep, Mr C takes us on a short ride along beautifully forested roads. Suddenly, he pulls to a halt. "Did you see that?" he asks, before plunging into the undergrowth once more. This time he has spotted a hornbill. "Khao Yai is one of the best places in South East Asia to observe these golden-beaked beauties," Mr C tells us proudly, before demonstrating their call.
There are four species of hornbill at Khao Yai. On a neighbouring tree we spot a pied hornbill. Fiona suddenly notices we are standing near a 'Tiger Zone' sign and expresses her concern. Mr C simply laughs; "I have been visiting the park for seven years and I have never seen a tiger," he confesses.
After a few minutes, Mr C drops us at the edge of the forest where we are to begin our trek. We walk for three hours, but the pace is fairly gentle. Mr C stops every few minutes to point out woodpeckers, yellow-browed warblers and an extremely beautiful red-breasted flycatcher.
Just as my energy is beginning to fade, we reach the edge of the forest. It takes a minute for my eyes to adjust to the sunlight as we walk across a grassy plain. After a few minutes, we pass a small lake, which is a watering hole for many of Khao Yai's birds and animals.
A short distance away is Nong Pak Chee observation tower, and we are all quite relieved when Mr C announces we will stop here for lunch. We climb a wooden ladder up into the observation tower. Already inside are two Thai men who are camping out, hoping that their patience will be rewarded with some animal sightings.
After lunch, Mr C directs us along a neat path leading away from the observation tower. Suddenly, he orders us to crouch down to the ground. Just in time; a swarm or big black bees cross our path, hovering above our heads for a moment before passing on.
Once we reach the waiting jeep, Mr C drives us to a caf?, where he buys us drinks to cool off. The four of us sit relaxing and talking for awhile. When we have rested, Mr C leads us down a short path, at the end of which lies the Haew Suwat Falls. This 25 metres high waterfall starred in the film The Beach. There is currently not much water flowing down the vast rock face as it is the dry season, but during the wet season many travelers take the plunge, fancying themselves, perhaps, as the next Lionardo Di Caprio.
When we have admired the waterfall from all angles, Mr C drives us to Khao Lem hill, where there are spectacular views over the park. Another short drive and a wander through the jungle, and we find ourselves perched at the very top of Khao Luuk Chang (Baby Elephant Mountain). As we sit on a rocky perch, we are actually above the highest treetops of the surrounding jungle, and the view is breathtaking.
Finally, it is time to leave Khao Yai, although I find that I am very reluctant. Mr C has one more surprise for us. On the drive back, he suddenly pulls to a halt. His sharp eyes have spotted a large scorpion sunbathing at the edge of the road; another trophy for our photo albums.
Getting There:
Khao Yai is 120 kilometres north east of Bangkok. It is best to make the journey to nearby Pak Chong first as the town can be reached by bus or train.
About the author:
Kirsty Turner (Kay) is a freelance writer currently living in Bangkok. She has kindly agreed to write for KhaoSanRoad.com and share her love of all things Thai and, especially, all things Khao San Road!


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- 2 Genjutsu
- 3 Shadow Clone
- 4 How it works.
- 5 Hand Seals..
- 6 Genjutsu and Yin Release
- 7 Effects in the "Real World"
- 8 Please help me!
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I dont understand what is genjutsu, can it kill you? the only way to escape it is "Self-Inflicted pain?" because that is real pain, not like genjutsu pain that is fake?
- Genjutsu is illusions, so as far as we have seen, they can't kill you or cause pain, (only make the victim think they are in pain or tied up or something else), although Tsukuyomi is said to be abel to cause real damage to a person without Sharingan, (although that has never been seen). Genjutsu is caused by a enemy that manipulate the victims chakra, which causes the illusion. If the victim can't shut off his chakra, he has to hurt himself to get back to the real world. Jacce 06:21, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
- The only instance where Genjutsu was used to kill someone was in the filler episode arc where a clan woman had a kekkei genkai that boosted her genjutsu to a ridiculous extreme, allowing her to kill people with Genjutsu. Omnibender 12:25, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
- Well, I wouldn't say the only time, honestly Genjutsu is a tool just like all other jutsu, it may not directly injure you, but it makes someone insanely vunerable. There have been plenty of points in the series where someone used Genjutsu to blind a person's senses and then attempted to attack them directly. ~NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) current discussion Jul 17, 2008 @ 17:11 (UTC)
- The only instance where Genjutsu was used to kill someone was in the filler episode arc where a clan woman had a kekkei genkai that boosted her genjutsu to a ridiculous extreme, allowing her to kill people with Genjutsu. Omnibender 12:25, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
when trapping someone in a genjutsu, it makes the opponent experience non-real things but does that mean that the opponent is unconscious in reality? btw, if this is true, can the person who casted the genjutsu do whatever they may want to the unconscious person while they are unconscious? --188.8.131.52 (talk) 00:01, December 30, 2009 (UTC)
- Usually, the victim just freezes. With extremely powerful genjutsu, such as Tsukuyomi, the opponent can be sent into a coma.--Enoki911 (talk) 02:27, January 23, 2010 (UTC)
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Genjutsu has no effect on clones (or at least till after it is dispersed back to the user), should be mentioned. Simant (talk) 03:10, January 5, 2010 (UTC)
- Didn't Itachi give his power to a shadow clone (via genjutsu)? ~SnapperTo 03:23, January 5, 2010 (UTC)
- I'm referring to demonic illusion burning paper body versus Kakashi, and what Itachi said was the reason it would have no effect. What shadow clone did he give power to via genjutsu? Simant (talk) 03:26, January 5, 2010 (UTC)
- I was referring to this since it wouldn't make sense for the actual Naruto to be out searching with his shadow clones. Looking at Kakashi v Itachi, I think Itachi is remarking that he didn't expect to catch the real Kakashi in a genjutsu and so concluded it was just a shadow clone. Whatever the case, the shadow clone does seem to be affected by the genjutsu (minus "OMG mind hax" exclamations), so I think I'm missing something. ~SnapperTo 03:42, January 5, 2010 (UTC)
- I'm referring to demonic illusion burning paper body versus Kakashi, and what Itachi said was the reason it would have no effect. What shadow clone did he give power to via genjutsu? Simant (talk) 03:26, January 5, 2010 (UTC)
- I thought that naruto's shadow clones found itachi and the real naruto went to investigate, i'll re-read. Simant (talk) 03:51, January 5, 2010 (UTC)
- I'm pretty sure the real naruto ran into Itachi, otherwise he wouldn't be having a flashback about what to do when facing the sharingan, he would charge in, not really caring if he was one of his clones. Also judging by how many clones he had nearby, he probably was using them as a screen. Simant (talk) 04:48, January 5, 2010 (UTC)
Actually, unless the scantalators royally botched the translation, Itachi does state the genjutu does not affect the shadow clone because it is a shadow clone. It's true that in a way, Kimmimoto does draw it as though Kakashi's clone has fallen prey to the Demonic Illusion: Burning Paper Body Technique, he also gives definitive evidence to the contrary. To begin with, one of the effects the Demonic Illusion: Burning Paper Body Technique has according to the databook it is featured in (that someone chose to delete from the Narutopedia page on the jutsu) is to cause the target to lose their dexterity (so they can't form seals or grip things like weapons very well). Kakashi is clearly indicated by Kimmimoto to still retain or possibly increase his grip on Itachi with the SFX "grab" on page 10 of chapter 260.
How it works.
I am still a tad confused on how it works, so I was hoping someone could clarify. It is like this though, right?
- The victem is captured by one of their senses (something they have seen, heard, smelled, tasted, or touched) and then it spreads to the rest of their body to infect the rest of the senses. Since the mind "knows" what is happening to it even when the concious mind knows the truth (i.e. no in a wasteland with strings around arms and flesh melting off), it makes the body feel the pain the user is sending, and if it too much for the mind to handle (like with C) it just shuts down rather than face it. Perhaps the chakra in the mind is even the cause of the weariness (C still had trouble afterwards). Thomas Finlayson (talk) 05:59, July 13, 2010 (UTC)
The caster uses their chakra to attack one or more than one of the senses that you listed. It may not necessarily "spreads to the rest of their body to infect the rest of the senses" but causes one to malfunction creating a handicap that the opponent is not used to. The body reacts according to what it sees or it's senses are perceiving and acts accordingly so pain etc will be felt unless they can break out of it. And C body didn't shut down, i'm pretty sure Sasuke knocked him out with the genjutsu him being unable to move was an after effect of whatever genjutsu Sasuke placed on him --Cerez365 (talk) 13:25, July 13, 2010 (UTC)
- When Shikamaru was fighting that Sound Four girl, the "sound" made him see something else and feel pain they do not expect. Other examples too. What I am getting at is how they feel pain and see/feel other stuff when an unrelated sense is being affected. How would an illusion just make C not move (not sense related) unless his brain just shut down to get away from it? Thomas Finlayson (talk) 00:31, July 14, 2010 (UTC)
- I think it is not only the things you pointed out. Genjutsu afflict a person's mind. The user uses their chakra and technique to control an aspect of the victim's, as Jiraiya explains to Naruto when telling him why he's not cut out for it (it requires an insane level of chakra control and intellegence). So while you said Shikamaru "heard" something, and that put him in the genjutsu, it is not only that. For instance, when Itachi uses genjutsu they victim does not always "see" anything (I would say they make eye contact, but Itachi used Ethereal(sp?) with just pointing a finger and created a visual illusion. So, I would imagine you do not need to necessarily see, smell, touch, taste, or hear something, but that those are all means to a similar end. I think you could also create the illusion that the person will see, smell, feel, taste, or hear. In other words, the techniques that create visual illusions are not triggered by the target seeing anything-- since people rely on sight as a primary sensory organ, this is the most featured type of genjutsu. Just as Tsukoyomi causes real pain to the victim, another technique could simple cause the target to feel pain that isn't there, with or without a visual illusion attached.
- Speaking of Tsukoyomi, it seems that some genjutsu transcend human senses and actually alter time/reality (Tsukoyomi and Izanagi). So, again, it's a bit more complicated. 188.8.131.52 (talk) 18:52, July 16, 2010 (UTC)
- Genjutsu affects the brain through a sense. The brain allows the person to control the victims perception--Cerez365 (talk) 19:21, July 16, 2010 (UTC)
- So it gets one sense and then gets the rest? As for Tsukoyomi, I understand that in certain situations time does slow down for people, so it may influence that but on a greater scale. But how did C collapse then? Thomas Finlayson (talk) 20:41, July 16, 2010 (UTC)
- I'm not sure why he passed out from the genjutsu, but again they affect the brain-- the technique could've forced his brain to "turn off" and he went to sleep. What about Kabuto's Temple of Nirvana... the same thing. It doesn't affect any one "sense" in particular, but it confuses the brain. 18.104.22.168 (talk) 14:03, July 19, 2010 (UTC)
- Sort of what I mean. If your brain sees too much it is supposed to shut down. Or...what senses would make you 'feel' tired? For myself I wear glasses, and whenever they are dirty and blury I feel tired. Clean them off, and I feel much more awake. Something like that? Thomas Finlayson (talk) 22:22, July 19, 2010 (UTC)
- I'm not sure why he passed out from the genjutsu, but again they affect the brain-- the technique could've forced his brain to "turn off" and he went to sleep. What about Kabuto's Temple of Nirvana... the same thing. It doesn't affect any one "sense" in particular, but it confuses the brain. 184.108.40.206 (talk) 14:03, July 19, 2010 (UTC)
- So it gets one sense and then gets the rest? As for Tsukoyomi, I understand that in certain situations time does slow down for people, so it may influence that but on a greater scale. But how did C collapse then? Thomas Finlayson (talk) 20:41, July 16, 2010 (UTC)
- Genjutsu affects the brain through a sense. The brain allows the person to control the victims perception--Cerez365 (talk) 19:21, July 16, 2010 (UTC)
Hand Seals..
Does genjutsu require hand seals? Or can the more experienced ninja just use it at will, without having to use them, like ninjutsu?—This unsigned comment was made by PockyNeko13 (talk • contribs) .
- Yes, they use hand seals as well, since chakra is required to preform the illusion. Jacce | Talk | Contributions 19:59, July 19, 2010 (UTC)
- It depends on the jutsu. Kurenai's tree binding death and Kakashi's Hell Viewing technique require hand seals, while auditory or dojutsu based genjutsu can do without, using the noise or eye-activation instead, but there's always something. ZeroSD (talk) 22:33, July 19, 2010 (UTC)
Genjutsu and Yin Release
Madara stated that the Yin chakra could create shape and form out of imagination. Genjutsu creats illusions out of the imagination. Could the genjutsu users be stated to use Yin Release? Darksusanoo (talk) 23:46, September 18, 2010 (UTC)
- This needs to be explained more before we label it yin release.--Deva 27 (talk) 23:51, September 18, 2010 (UTC)
- It does, but that doesn't mean we can't speculate on it. I'll be surprised if Yin Release isn't the root of genjutsu, because between that and Yamato speaking of Yin and Yang when Naruto asked how genjutsu works, it's all but confirmed. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 00:27, September 19, 2010 (UTC)
- http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Talk:Second_Mizukage#Yin_Release_and_Genjutsu_users.Umishiru (talk) 17:32, July 20, 2011 (UTC)
- It does, but that doesn't mean we can't speculate on it. I'll be surprised if Yin Release isn't the root of genjutsu, because between that and Yamato speaking of Yin and Yang when Naruto asked how genjutsu works, it's all but confirmed. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 00:27, September 19, 2010 (UTC)
I agree with Deva 27. We could either wait for more confirmation or just go ahead and do it. If Yin is responsible for Genjutsu then I wonder if Yang is responsible for Ninjutsu xD? Comasbasks (talk) 17:44, July 20, 2011 (UTC)
- From what can be gathered Yin is the basis for genjutsu since it's the spiritual energy that gives shape to the imagination...Yang on the other hand maybe the source of other ninjutsu like medical ninjutsu and certain clan techniques. But like i said with all the theory explained by Madara and the 2nd statement as a user of Yin it's pretty much confirmded. Darksusanoo (talk) 17:51, July 20, 2011 (UTC)
Read Yin-Yang article. http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Yin%E2%80%93Yang_ReleaseUmishiru (talk) 17:47, July 20, 2011 (UTC)
- So now do we have a bot give all genjutsu users Yin Release in their info boxes?Timeel39 (talk) 20:07, July 20, 2011 (UTC)
- Not just yet. Please keep discussions at the that talk page, since it's where most of the talk is going on. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 20:48, July 20, 2011 (UTC)
Effects in the "Real World"
Well,as you said here,when someone is caught on a genjutsu,this one freezes in place while the illusion occurs in the inside of his mind.But I have a doubt...All genjutsus make the opponent freezes in place? I mean,there are some of them that don't seem to make the opponent "freezes"..like the Bringer Of Darkness Technique...it was a genjutsu,but didn't make Hiruzen freezes in place...and that genjutsu that Itachi used on Deidara for the very first time they battled,Deidara was supposed to be "frozen" cause he was under Itachi's genjutsu but suddenly his own Clay Centipede appeared involving his own body,what means that he must have moved his limbs to make this possible. And Danzou and the last sharingan on his arm is another example...Sasuke used genjutsu to make him think the sharingan was still open...but danzou was moving normally. I'm still a little confused with genjutsu,so I hope you answer that for me. Thanks...
Please help me!
I was wondering, is it possible to use two genjutsu on a person at the same time, casted by the same person? Keep in mind I'm including even the most simple genjutsus. Redgamehunter (talk) 17:21, January 10, 2011 (UTC)
- In the anime, Oboro used something called Demonic Illusion: False Surroundings Technique and Demonic Illusion: Double False Surroundings Technique at the same time. When Idate canceled the first illusion, the second continued to work. Jacce | Talk | Contributions 18:06, January 10, 2011 (UTC)
Also, there were several genjutsu blocks on the ninja from the Village Hidden in the Rain, discovered by Inoichi, after the ninja was interrogated by Ibiki.—This unsigned comment was made by 126.96.36.199 (talk • contribs) .
- Kurenai also did this with Kisame and Itachi. #justsaying--Cerez365™ 03:34, June 29, 2011 (UTC)
i dont know if im putting this in the right place but i have a question. What chapter is Genjutsu Said to effect the brain by chakra? —This unsigned comment was made by 126.96.36.199 (talk • contribs) .
it says genjutsu is through 5 sences byt theres more then 5 sences like balance so does that mean someone with genjutsu can affect those too also. genjutsu through touch could that be used throuch taijutsu to allow someone to put in to an genjutsu through punching . or kicking them which is touch--—This unsigned comment was made by 18.104.22.168 (talk • contribs) .
- Genjutsu affects you through the five major senses, since every other one can be affected through those. I'm not sure what the rest of your "question" is.--Cerez365™ 16:27, August 28, 2011 (UTC)
im asking can genjutsu can be combine with taijutsu sence touch is a sence--—This unsigned comment was made by 126.96.36.199 (talk • contribs) .
- Oh, I don't know. We've never seen it being combined in that way but more than likely it wouldn't be taijutsu for the sense of "touch" but possibly a medium that is used to trigger it. Still not sure though.---Cerez365™ 16:41, August 28, 2011 (UTC)
This could be a possible upgrade for sakura think super strength with genjutsu every super punch puts in a genjutsu--—This unsigned comment was made by 220.127.116.11 (talk • contribs) .
- Which would take enormous concentration to both be physically attacking someone and concentrating on casting a genjutsu which is improbable. Also, this isn't a forum, so unless it has something to do with the articles itself we really can't help you any further.--Cerez365™ 17:55, August 28, 2011 (UTC)
bugs immune to genjutsu
shino said that they were immune to genjutsu in a filler in naruto he did not say that in the manga so this is not canon in should be removed (18.104.22.168 (talk) 22:17, October 26, 2011 (UTC))
- I do not remember if this was anime-only, but regardless, the anime's canonicity is only voided in cases where it conflicts with the manga. Thus, this will not be removed because it's canon. Skitts (talk) 22:21, October 26, 2011 (UTC)
- We cover things from the anime as well, properly pointing out when something is anime-only. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 22:22, October 26, 2011 (UTC)
yeah but saying the bugs are immune is false the episode is with that girl whocan kill with her genjutsu bugs are intelligent they feel fear in plan to kill like spiders traping flies
you guys saying anime is canon now so does that mean sora is canon now oh and episode is 206 of naruto i thought this wiki suppose to have facts about canon stuff not non canon
also a master genjutsu user could probably put bugs in genjutsu you have no proof it want in the only your basing this is on the anime which is a poor excuse (188.8.131.52 (talk) 22:34, October 26, 2011 (UTC))
Like I said, we cover things from the anime as well. You know why? Because the anime is also part of the franchise. As long as things that happen in the anime are properly mentioned as having happened only in the anime, there's no reason at all to complain. And your entomology knowledge fascinates me. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 22:43, October 26, 2011 (UTC)
then you guys should say shino says this only on anime only filler in also the anime is only canon if the episodes is about the manga anything else is consider you guys can keep it there but i disagree with you and im not the only one (22.214.171.124 (talk) 22:51, October 26, 2011 (UTC))
- The anime is secondary canon while the manga is primary canon. As long as it is cited with the episode it happened in, then we don't need to state that it only happened in the anime in the article.
So long as it doesn't dispute what it says in the manga, I don't see why anyone would :complain about this, to be honest. Ryne 91 (talk) 01:41, October 27, 2011 (UTC)
Shouldn't sharingan genjutsu given a special mention here?18.104.22.168 (talk) 11:12, May 13, 2012 (UTC)
I am curious
Just wanna ask does the Genjutsu Dissipation method become more effective if you have a better chakra control and if yes does that mean that those who have a perfect chakra control are almost immune to genjutsu.--Charmanking2198 (talk) 02:13, August 19, 2012 (UTC)
- We don't know and I doubt it, everyone can be affected by genjutsu, they may just be able to cancel it (faster?) than others.--Cerez365™(talk) 08:18, August 19, 2012 (UTC)
Interrogation Genjutsu
Shouldn't we note that Genjutsu can also be used for Interrogation by breaking the victim's will.--Charmanking2198 (talk) 18:33, August 21, 2012 (UTC)
I think so--Elveonora (talk) 20:15, August 21, 2012 (UTC)
Yin Release
The Nidaime Mizukage, genjutsu falls under Yin Release. As such, shouldn't all genjutsu users be given that affinity? Personally I am of the belief all humans are born with Yin and Yang chakra, as that is what creates life. If we're going to give the Nidaime that nature type though, then wouldn't genjutsu users like Itachi, Kurenai and Tayuyua also have it given their stats?--Reliops (talk) 02:17, June 2, 2013 (UTC)
The anti-argument was something akin to "we don't know if all genjutsu are yin release" but the only known "genjutsu" that's otherwise is Izanagi and possibly Izanami too, but at least the former has tangible effects thanks to the "yang" part. All genjutsu that affects 5 senses, creating illusions shouldn't be anything but Yin Release.--Elveonora (talk) 14:00, June 2, 2013 (UTC)
Agreed. Genjutsu users should just be given a Yin Release but I'd like to have some authority behind that.--Reliops (talk) 17:23, June 2, 2013 (UTC)
- You won't, because we don't like jumping to conclusions here. ;) Seelentau 愛議 17:27, June 2, 2013 (UTC)
Trust me, you do. And this isn't jumping to conclusions. The Nidaime Mizukage said genjutsu falls under Yin Release, which makes perfect sense given the description for Yin nature type. And if the Nidaime was given Yin release, then so should particularly powerful users like Itachi, Kurenai, Tayuya and whoever else fits that description.--Reliops (talk) 18:10, June 2, 2013 (UTC)
While I agree that all genjutsu are probably Yin Release, I don't support going around adding it to everyone, over the mentioned "not all genjutsu might be Yin Release". Most of this stems from a translation ShounenSuki once provided of what the Second Mizukage said, something along the lines of "I'm a Yin Release user, basically, a genjutsu user". That "basically" leaves something out, making the statement a simplification. Besides, possible retcons aside (chapter 612 if I'm not mistaken), the artbook explicitly called C's technique a Lightning Release genjutsu, calling that technique Yin and Lightning at once is going down a rabbit hole that doesn't open a can of worms, but a potential Pandora's box of arguments, discussions and revert wars. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 19:17, June 2, 2013 (UTC)
The yin and yang changes of nature are separate from 5 main elemental nature transformations, the assumption for blaze release is fire+yin, or isn't it? Nowhere it's said that it isn't possible for a technique to be two things, for example we have lightning release technique in anime creating pillars etc.--Elveonora (talk) 19:28, June 2, 2013 (UTC)
Blaze as Yin and Fire is something that majority of the fandom expects, but so far has not been hinted at in the manga. Four Pillar Bind hasn't been called an Earth Release in addition to a Lightning Release. If we ever get another databook (probably only once the series ends though), I hope they mention that an Earth Release is used to make the pillars. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 19:42, June 2, 2013 (UTC)
Actually, hinted yes. Sasuke's left eye is amaterasu while he uses blaze with right, stated by C, and according to logic his right eye has Tsukuyomi (yin) Not enough evidence, but clearly a hint by the author. Also if I remember correctly, genjutsu works by messing up with an opponent's brain using chakra, nowhere it is stated that it can't be elemental chakra, hell in anime an earth release technique makes zombies--Elveonora (talk) 19:59, June 2, 2013 (UTC)
I agree with Elve. I've looked up other translations of what the Nidaime said and all of them pretty much say the same thing: Yin Release is used for genjutsu. That doesn't surprise me. I mean, wasn't Yang release mentioned to be used for medical ninjutsu or the Akimichi clan jutsu? Yin and Yang are different from the elemental natures in the sense that, and this is what I take from the subtext, everyone has Yin and Yang release on some kind of level as all life is created and sustained by Yin and Yang. Genjutsu users are particularly good with Yin release. From what I recall genjutsu was specifically mentioned to be very difficult. From this, I suppose, we can take away that only those with greater control of Yin can effectively use it for genjutsu. On the other side of the spectrum those good with Yang release can probably use the sort of jutsu it's associated with. I might have over complicated things, but bottom line, I think all general types of genjutsu, not counting some of the insane Uchiha clan genjutsu, are used using Yin Release. --Reliops (talk) 21:49, June 2, 2013 (UTC)
Yeah that is true the Nidaime Mizukage did clearly state that Yin Release did fall under genjutsu so that does mean that genjutsu users are actually Yin Release users but not many people can perform it well because like it said genjutsu is difficult to use and im not counting the Sharingan.Whiteraven1 (talk) 22:07, June 2, 2013 (UTC)
I think we should have listed Yin Release to all genjutsu users long ago, but that's just me--Elveonora (talk) 14:55, June 3, 2013 (UTC)
When Yamato asked Kakashi if he wanted to explain to Naruto about Yin and Yang, Naruto had asked about genjutsu, medical ninjutsu, Nara clan, and Akimichi clan techniques. They made no distinction at the time about attribute would be used for which type of jutsu, among these. I would still like to avoid that Pandora's box of C's genjutsu that I mentioned above. That's something we can just ignore because it's convenient. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 00:32, June 4, 2013 (UTC)
They made no distinction because it wasn't relevant to Naruto's training. Now years later have a confirmation by a Kage level genjutsu expert telling us how it really is. Why the hesitance?--Reliops (talk) 14:16, June 5, 2013 (UTC)
Bump.--Reliops (talk) 16:22, June 9, 2013 (UTC)
Why is byakugan not listed as being able to see through genjutsu when it has been made clear that it can?Yahyanime (talk) 20:40, July 15, 2013 (UTC)
Shikamaru and Tayuya
Why is it stated that Shikamaru said Genjutsu which affects the oponents ears are the most dangerous type TWICE!? I tried to fix that but someone made the article look stupid again--Keeptfighting (talk) 03:48, August 31, 2015 (UTC)
- I merged the two redundant passages rather than simply deleting one. They each contained slightly different information, and I'm guessing User:Seelentau reverted your change thinking you were just deleting good information for no reason. In the future, provide an edit summary explaining what you're doing and you can avoid having your edits reverted.
- Great--Keeptfighting (talk) 20:08, August 31, 2015 (UTC)
Non Fatal?
Doesn't Obtio kill Konan with Genjutsu?
"When my Genjutsu ends, so will your life"
-Obito Uchiha.
--Caseather (talk) 03:57, March 8, 2016 (UTC)
- That's after he stabbed her with a pipe, though. He could very well mean she won't awaken before succumbing to her injuries, or he could just be being dramatic.--BeyondRed (talk) 04:01, March 8, 2016 (UTC)
- I'm quite sure one could in theory kill with a Genjutsu. In the very least, it can cause enough pain and trauma to knock one unconscious for quite a while. But in most cases it's not fatal, unless you get scared to death or you pass out from the pain.--Elve [Mod] Talk Page|Contribs 07:59, March 8, 2016 (UTC)


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You probably eat bread every day. You may even know how to make your own bread. But have you ever thought about bread as a technology?
Why do we have bread? That's a great place to start. We could just as easily munch on dry wheat kernels instead. Or we could grind the wheat into flour, mix the flour with water and eat it as a wet mush. Or we could pour the mush out on a table and dry the mush into thin brittle sheets. But we don't do that, mainly because bread tastes a lot better, and it also works a lot better for sandwiches. Bread is moist (not wet like mush or dry like dried mush), soft (unlike wheat kernels), spongy and delicious. Bread is a bio-chemical technology for turning wheat flour into something tasty!
In this article, we will examine the technology of bread in detail.
Bread Basics
If you pick up a slice of bread and examine it closely, you can see that it is full of air holes. This makes it spongy and soft. You will also see that bread is moist. If you let a slice of bread sit out on the counter for a day, you will realize just how moist fresh bread is!
Bakers use two simple facts of life to create soft, spongy, moist bread:
- First, they use the fact that yeast (a single-cell fungi) will eat sugar, and from the sugar create alcohol and carbon dioxide gas as waste products. The carbon dioxide gas created by yeast is what gives bread its airy texture, and the alcohol, which burns off during baking, leaves behind an important component of bread's flavor.
- Second, wheat flour, if mixed with water and kneaded, becomes very elastic. The flour-and-water mixture in bread becomes stretchy like a balloon because of a protein in wheat known as gluten. Gluten gives bread dough the ability to capture the carbon dioxide produced by yeast in tiny flour balloons.
You can perform a few experiments to better understand how bread works.
Experiment 1
One thing you'll learn in this experiment is that yeast does, in fact, produce carbon dioxide gas. To perform this experiment, you will need:
- One large Ziploc-type freezer bag - The plastic bag should be able to hold between a couple of quarts to a gallon of water. (Usually the box that the bag comes in will state the bag's capacity.)
- One envelope of "rapid-rise, active, dry yeast" from the grocery store
- 1 cup (.24 L) lukewarm water (about 100 degrees F, 37.7 C) - When you stick your finger in it, it should feel neither warm nor cold.
- 1/2 cup (.12 L) sugar
Let's get started!
- Take the 1 cup lukewarm water and mix the package of yeast into it. When you pour the yeast granules into the water, you allow the yeast cells to become active.
- Mix in your sugar.
- Pour the entire water-sugar-yeast mixture into the plastic bag. Push as much air as possible out of the bag and then seal it tightly shut.
- Put the plastic bag in a warmish place (see this section to find out how to turn your oven into a warmish place). Come back in about an hour.
When you come back to your experiment, you'll notice that yeast cells do a really good job of creating carbon dioxide. You will see that the bag has partially filled with the gas, and that the liquid is full of carbon dioxide bubbles that the yeast has produced. A yeast cell can process approximately its own weight of glucose (sugar) per hour, and from the glucose (C6H12O6), yeast produces carbon dioxide (CO2) and ethanol (C2H5OH) (two molecules of each). Although yeast cells are small, there are billions of them available from the packet of yeast. You should be able to see a noticeable amount of puffiness in your bag after two hours. You may want to go to bed and let the bag sit overnight -- it will get quite puffy if you let it.
Experiment 2
Now, let's see what happens if we change things around a bit.
- Reproduce experiment 1, but this time replace the 1/2 cup sugar with a 1/2 cup (.12 L) white flour.
- Mix the flour thoroughly into the water so there are no lumps. (This is most easily done by mixing the dry flour with a small amount of water to create a paste, then adding a little more water, and so on until all the water has been added.)
- Seal the flour-water-yeast mixture in a plastic bag as you did in Experiment 1 and come back in an hour or two.
What you will notice is that this mixture produces carbon dioxide, but somewhat more slowly. (If you run Experiments 1 and 2 simultaneously, you will be able to see the different rates more easily.). Where did the sugar for the yeast to eat come from in Experiment 2? We didn't put any sugar at all in this bag, right? It turns out that, in the mixture of flour and yeast, there are enzymes that turn the starch in the flour into maltose, another sugar. The yeast uses this sugar in the same way it uses the glucose in white sugar. It takes time for the enzymes to convert starch to maltose, and that's what causes the delay. However, the yeast is able to produce some carbon dioxide, and that's how you know the enzymes are working. In a loaf of bread, it is this flour-to-maltose reaction that actually drives the expansion of the bread for the most part -- the small amount of sugar you mix into the bread dough is used up by the yeast fairly quickly.
Experiment 3
From the previous two experiments, you can see that yeast cells produce plenty of carbon dioxide. The reason why bread bakes up so airy is because the bread dough captures and holds the carbon dioxide that the yeast produces. It does this because flour contains a protein called gluten. To see gluten in action, try this experiment:
- Mix 1/2 cup water and 1/2 cup flour in a bowl.
- Stir the mixture with a fork to wet the flour. What you will have initially is a lumpy, grainy mass.
- Lift the fork out of this mass. You will find that the mass is quite watery.
- Now keep stirring for about five minutes (set a timer for five minutes -- it is a long time when you are stirring!). Over time, the batter will smooth out.
- Keep stirring, and a funny thing will happen when you lift the fork slowly from the bowl: The batter will have become quite elastic! Not elastic like a rubber band, but elastic enough that you'll be able to pull away up to a 1-inch-long thread of batter with the fork. This mixture is now extremely smooth and not watery at all.
That elasticity is caused by the gluten in the flour. Gluten is a protein that forms thread-like chains. By stirring (or more commonly, kneading) the dough, the gluten develops into long, interlaced chains. Kneading is better for developing these chains because kneading is gentle -- it does not cut the chains up. When you knead bread dough, you are creating gluten chains. If you were to skip the kneading part, your bread would not rise very well -- all the carbon dioxide in the yeast would bubble up to the top and escape, rather than being captured inside the elastic dough.
Let's Bake!
By now, you understand a whole lot more about the technology of bread!
- You know that the bubbles in the dough come from yeast, and that enzymes convert flour's starch into maltose, which the yeast eats to produce the carbon dioxide.
- You know that the gluten in the flour helps the dough capture the carbon dioxide and hold it in mini gluten-balloons.
- You also know that the yeast produces alcohol. The combination of the maltose and alcohol explains why bread tastes a lot better than flour mush!
So, let's bake some bread and try it out! To make one loaf, you'll need:
- 3-1/4 cups (.78 L) flour, separated into two 1-1/2 cup (.36 L) and one 1/4 cup (.06 L) batches
- 1 cup (.24 L) lukewarm milk (warm it in a microwave)
- 1/8 cup (.02 L) water
- 1 tablespoon (15 mL) sugar
- 1 envelope active dry yeast
- 1 teaspoon (5 mL) salt
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- 1 loaf pan (or cookie sheet)
- An oven
Here we go...
- Dissolve the yeast in the water and let it sit for 10 minutes or so to "come back to life" (you will likely notice it foaming slightly -- that is a good sign -- it tells you your yeast is okay).
- In a big bowl, combine the water/yeast, milk, sugar, salt and oil.
- Add 1-1/2 cups of your flour and start stirring until well blended.
- Stir in the other 1-1/2 cups of flour. At this point, the dough will be pretty stiff but still sticky.
Now, you need to knead the dough for about 10 minutes. Start by washing your hands.
- Since the dough is sticky, dust the top of it with about 2 teaspoons of the flour you saved.
- Get your hands into the bowl with the ball of dough and squeeze it, push it, mash it, etc. This is kneading, and it's hard work, by the way, but you have to do it to develop the gluten. Stick with it for 10 minutes (set a timer if you need to). Kneading the dough
- When the dough gets sticky again, dust it with some more flour. You may have to use more than the original 3-1/4 cups flour, and that's okay. Your hands may get covered with sticky dough. "Wash them" with dry flour. That is, when your hands get sticky, dust them and the top of the dough ball with flour.
- Over time, an amazing thing will happen -- the dough ball will stop being sticky, and will become satiny smooth and elastic.
Now, you need to let the dough rise in a warm place for between 60 and 90 minutes. The easiest way to create a warmish place is to turn your oven on to its lowest setting possible (around 150 F/ 65.5 C), let it heat up to that temperature, then turn the oven off and open the door of the oven wide for about 30 seconds to dissipate some of the heat. Rub the 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil onto the top of the ball of dough to prevent drying, and then stick your bowl of dough inside the oven and close the door. Traditionally, you cover the bowl with a towel, also to keep the dough from drying out. Look in periodically.
After about 60 to 75 minutes, your dough ball will have nearly doubled in size. The gluten and the carbon dioxide that the yeast produced worked!
- Take the bowl out of the oven. The dough will be sticky again, so wash your hands and this time rub a little oil on them.
- "Punch the dough down," which is baking-speak for pushing all the air out of the dough with your hands.
- Take the dough out of the bowl. If you have a loaf pan, grease the pan, shape the dough into a small loafish shape and put it in the pan. If you are using a cookie sheet, either shape the dough into a ball or a loafish shape, and place it on the sheet.
- Put the dough back in the warm oven and let it rise again for anther 60 to 90 minutes -- it will double in size again.
When your dough has again doubled in size, turn the oven on to 350 degrees F (176 C), and cook the bread for about 45 minutes. You will know it is done when the loaf has a nice golden-brown color and when you tap on the top crust, the tap sounds hollow.
Take your loaf of bread out of the oven -- don't forget to turn off the oven! Let the bread cool for a minute so you can get it out of the pan. Then cut off a slice and enjoy the miracle of fresh-baked deliciousness! You are tasting the great biological and chemical masterpiece called bread!
Bread Q&A
Here's a set of questions from readers.
- Q: Why does bread need to rise twice? A: You let bread rise over several hours to develop its flavor. The longer the yeast cells have to work (up to a point), the more maltose and alcohol they can produce.
- Q: Why does bread need to rise in a warm place? A: Yeast cells are like most single-cell organisms -- they are more active when it is warm. The whole idea behind a refrigerator is to make food cold so that the bacteria, which all foods contain, have a low level of activity and therefore reproduce less. Warm yeast cells do their work faster up to a point -- beyond that point, the temperature gets too high and the yeast cells die. See How Cells Work and How Food Preservation Works for details.
- Q: Does the yeast reproduce in the bread? A: Yeast reproduces by cell division. Over the course of two hours, yeast does not really have time to reproduce. The yeast cells in the envelope of yeast are the cells that do the work in your loaf of bread. That is why, if you use old yeast, your bread will not rise. Most of the yeast cells in an old envelope of yeast have died, so there are not enough cells to power the expansion.
- Q: What is sourdough bread? A: Read How Sourdough Bread Works -- it's a great article. But a quick answer is that sourdough bread uses different strains of yeast or other bacteria (like Lactobacillus). Centuries ago, before you could go to the grocery store and buy yeast, people needed a way to have yeast around the house. The way they did it was by keeping a pot of live culture (living in perhaps a quart of water/flour medium) and "feeding" it daily or weekly so that the yeast remained alive and active. To start the culture, you take 2 cups of flour and 2 cups of water, mix the two together, and then add in some sourdough culture that you obtain from a friend (sourdough, in times past, passed from friend to friend like this). When it came time to bake bread, a cup of this live culture would be added to the dough to provide the yeast needed to leaven the bread. The pot would be replenished by adding back an equal amount of flour and water. If you take some of the culture out and feed the pot more flour and water each week, the culture will stay alive. Most people let the culture live at the back of their refrigerator (otherwise, it requires daily feeding). The strains of yeast and bacteria used in sourdough are acid-producing, hence the unique flavor of sourdough bread.
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DANBURY — People of a certain age may remember sitting in front of the TV as a kid, anticipating the next episode of "The Lone Ranger" as its star shouted "Hi-Yo, Silver!"
The show's classic theme music, drawn from the "William Tell Overture" by Gioachino Rossini, provided a hero's crescendo.
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Dad contemplated suicide after OCD made him convinced he would murder people
A father of 5 from Sheffield became so consumed by his extreme OCD that he became convinced that he was going to murder people.
From the outside, it looked like Adam Shaw had it all – a loving family, a thriving business and beautiful home – but sadly this wasn't the case.
Adam's obsessive thoughts began in childhood, and became progressively worse as he got older.
He explains, 'my fear was seeing on the news people being killed, people being murdered and overnight I thought I was going to be a murderer. I thought I was going to strangle people. I thought I was going to stab people.'
'It wasn't that I just thought it – I felt I was having urges to do it. I'd convince myself that I was having urges to strangle people.'
'I was beating myself up about it thinking, 'you're such a horrible guy, you're going to end up in prison, your family are going to be disgraced by you'. I didn't realise this is a mental health problem. I thought, 'I'm a killer, I'm a psychopath'.'
'It was constant mental torture.'
Adam became so convinced that he would act on his murderous thoughts that he developed special rituals to help keep them at bay.
He says, 'I would carry a pair of handcuffs in my pocket permanently and I couldn't leave the house without them. They became a part of my life. The whole point of me having handcuffs was to alleviate the worry that I was going to kill somebody. Whenever I had an OCD thought come into my head I had to put my hands in my pocket to check they were there.'
Despite his inner turmoil, Adam didn't tell his wife Alissa about his struggles until he had a break down on their first family holiday.
Alissa explains, 'We'd gone to the Canary Islands and he was in the bedroom and he came out in floods of tears.'
'I didn't know what was happening. My first thought was, 'is he seeing someone else and he's decided to tell me here?' Or 'what if something is wrong with him physically?' And then he started to explain a little about what was happening. He didn't know himself so there was only so much he could tell me. I was totally, totally blown away when everything came to light and he started to explain what was happening.'
When the family returned from their holiday, Adam met with a therapist who finally diagnosed him with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
He says, 'I was told that, 'Adam you aren't actually an evil person. You're not actually going to carry out these thoughts.' He wanted me to stay on and do more therapy with him because we'd only just scratched the surface but I was convinced I was fine.'
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After his initial diagnosis, Adam continued to battle his compulsions alone – but admits that it did have a negative impact on his life and family.
He says, 'I've sometimes pretended to be in bed asleep when my son's knocking on the door to come out and play because I was depressed.'
'I missed out on things. I missed out on birthday events because I didn't want to be around people.'
Left exhausted by battling his thoughts, Adam decided that the only option was to take his own life.
He says, 'I was so tired of the battle. I was so scared of my thoughts. I had a break down of epic proportions. There was just nowhere to go from it and I sat on the bridge and that was it – I was going to end it.'
'I'm sat on a bridge and I'm about to end it all and it's like, these thoughts cannot hurt me any more – I'm relieving myself of it.'
'I felt so relaxed, and I've never ever had that moment, but I thought, 'how sad is that? Why can't you have those sensations in the real world? There must be a way'. And it was that moment that I thought there was still hope.'
It was shortly after this turning point that Adam went to meet with Dr Laura Callaghan, a leading psychologist who specialises in complex anxiety disorders. Through therapy, she taught him to face his obsessive thoughts head on.
Adam says, 'She said, 'you've been running away, you've been battling away, you've been ritualising with them, you've put them up on a pedestal and given them more power than they deserve. And by giving them that power they've ruled your life. I want you to accept you have these thoughts, I want you to accept them for what they are and let them in.''
After working with Dr Callaghan, Adam's life was completely transformed. So much so, that the pair wrote a book to help others struggling with OCD, and also established The Shaw Mind Foundation which works to help those suffering from mental health problems.
Now, Adam is looking forward to a healthier and happier life with his loving family.
He says, 'I will always have OCD traits as part of who I am. But will I ever be in a position where I'm on a bridge again, or distressed by my thoughts? No.'
'I think I'm more mentally positive and more mentally healthy than people who've not had mental health problems because I've learnt to understand my mind.'
'I've learnt to understand, to see how strong I was to go through what I went through, to know that I survived every day.'
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Arizona mom suspected of killing her 2 kids in California
SANTA ANA, Calif. >> An Arizona woman who was arrested on suspicion of killing her two children after she tried to crash her car into an electrical box outside a Home Depot had a propane tank in her vehicle.
Santa Ana police spokesman Cpl. Anthony Bertagna said Sunday the 42-year-old woman tied a rope or belt around her neck as paramedics tried to rescue her.
Bertagna says officers found her son and daughter dead in a hotel room after the woman told police where to find them.
The Scottsdale woman was released from a hospital into police custody on Saturday night.
Officers also obtained a search warrant for the hotel room late Saturday.
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An apparently suicidal Arizona mother was arrested on suspicion of killing her two children after crashing her car in a Southern California supermarket then directing police to a nearby hotel room where the kids lay dead, authorities said.
The 42-year-old woman from Scottsdale, was released from a hospital into police custody on Saturday night, Santa Ana police spokesman Cpl. Anthony Bertagna said.
Coroner's officials were investigating the scene late Saturday, and the identities of the mother and two children along with the kids' cause of death were being withheld while relatives were notified, Bertagna said.
Earlier in the day, police in nearby Costa Mesa were called to an Albertsons parking lot where the woman had crashed her gray Honda Accord with a Georgia license plate into protective poles surrounding an electrical box, Costa Mesa police Sgt. Tim Starn said.
Police said the woman appeared to have been suicidal when officers responded to the crash site.
"It was clear that it was an intentional act," Costa Mesa Sgt. Tim Starn said.
As paramedics were taking her to the hospital, the woman told police where to find the children and what had happened to them, Bertagna said, but did not offer more details.
Officers found the children dead in a third-floor room at the Hampton Inn & Suites in Santa Ana.
The cause of death was under investigation, Bertagna said, but no weapon had been recovered from the scene.
It was not clear why the woman and her children were in Orange County.
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Morning Five: 08.02.12 EditionPosted by rtmsf on August 2nd, 2012
- USA Today's Eric Prisbell published a piece on Tuesday with some rather inflammatory quotes about the status of big-time college basketball recruiting. Everybody already knows that agents and runners representing the interests of high school stars with their hands out is a big problem — but is it a 70%-of-the-elite-prospects problem? If you believe Michigan State head coach Tom Izzo's math, it is. "I am not saying that cheating is 80 percent of the game. It's probably 20 percent. But it's probably 70 percent of the top 20 percent [of player recruitments]." Izzo went on to say that he has "absolutely" lost recruits to other coaches because he was unwilling to play the agent/runner AAU game (which even Sonny Freakin' Vaccaro says has gotten worse). In the same piece, North Carolina's Roy Williams also made some interesting comments about stepping away from recruits who were 'handled' by AAU influences, saying, "Will I have a legitimate chance if I do it the right way?" There's a lot of eyebrow-raising information in the article, and we highly suggest you read it — but the obvious question if Izzo's numbers are anywhere near correct is… who exactly is landing all of these elite recruits if every major coach is on record blasting the system and doing it the right way? It's not just Central Florida, that's for sure.
- Team USA's men's basketball squad is now 2-0 in round robin play with a game against always-dangerous Tunisia later this afternoon. Although there are no guarantees in a knockout tournament situation, we're all too aware, it appears that the team led by LeBron James, Kobe Bryant and Kevin Durant are well on their way to another gold medal. Jeff Goodman writes that NBA owners are pushing so hard for a 23-year old age limit on the men's team in future Olympiads that there is "little doubt" as to its eventuality [memo to owners: how about another age limit — one that limits inclusion in your league to players 20 years old and older]. If USA Basketball decides to go this route with the 2016 team, most of today's elite high school and young college stars would be eligible — Goodman takes a stab at putting together a potential team, and would you believe that a player nobody outside of Columbus, Ohio, and Ann Arbor, Michigan, had heard of this time last year is designated as the starting point guard? Basketball can be a funny sport that way.
- While on the subject of Olympic teams, A Sea of Blue put together an interesting analysis reviewing what the six men's basketball teams in the "Dream Team" era might have looked like if USA Basketball had never ditched the amateur model. The cream of the crop is very clearly the 1992 squad, a team filled with players on in an era on the cusp of moving to a prep-to-pro mentality (Kevin Garnett began the trend in 1995). A starting lineup of Shaquille O'Neal, Alonzo Mourning and Chris Webber may have even crowded out 1992 NPOY and two-time NCAA champion Christian Laettner. In the backcourt, do you run with Penny Hardaway and Jim Jackson over the dominant Duke duo of Bobby Hurley and Grant Hill? It's really an unbelievable team. Conversely, the 2000 team — led by Kenyon Martin? Shane Battier? — is a joke. That team, decimated by the prep-to-pro era, may have finished dead last in the Olympics that year. It's an interesting thought experiment, and we encourage you to visit ASoB and check it out.
- Going back to 1992 — was it the greatest year of basketball in American history? — former Duke star Bobby Hurley raised some major burn late Tuesday night after tweeting the following in reference to the gold medal-winning USA women's gymnastics team (dubbed a modern-day "Fab Five"): "Proud 2 watch the "Fab Five" perform & bring home the gold! Who would have thought that the "Fab Five" could it get it done." Of course, the Michigan group of Chris Webber, Jalen Rose, Juwan Howard, Jimmy King, and Ray Jackson not only lost the 1992 national championship game to Hurley's Blue Devils, but they also lost two other regular season games to Duke during that era, giving the point guard the easy upper hand when it comes to taking those shots.
- With the exception of a notable tweeter, the Penn State story has died down in the national media as a result of the Olympics. And even though the long moribund basketball program was not implicated in the scandal or penalized by the NCAA in any way, it's incomprehensible that Pat Chambers' program will not be negatively impacted among the collateral damage to the Nittany Lion brand. In response to this piece by Jeff Borzello at CBSSports.com, it may very well be true that a recent de-committed recruit was already on the fence about heading to State College and another Class of 2013 recruit says he has no intention of backing out, but the issue will become more apparent in future classes where the semi-permanent negative message about Penn State has had sufficient time to stick. An argument that PSU will continue to recruit non-elite talent in the same way as before is not really an argument at all — the point is that every aspect of that university, from the chemistry lab to the jai alai club team to the local Penn State chapter of PETA, will be associated with this horrific situation for years to come. Whatever each group had to do to earn recognition prior to this fiasco, they'll have to do so that much more in the future. This goes for basketball too.


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Ebey Soman on 25 Jan 09Down syndrome is a genetic disorder (involving an extra copy of chromosome 21) that leads to moderate intellectual disability, as well as a range of physical and health problems. Screening for Down syndrome during pregnancy can be done in a number of ways. The religion and ethics program presents two different women and the tough decisions they had to make after screening their babies for Down Syndrome. Are their actions morally right? or ethically allowable? or religiously authorized?


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Flooring shoppers that are interested in saving big on flooring, carpet delivery, and more can get in touch with the team at Corter's Flooring America by calling (570) 360-8476 today or visiting the store website. In addition to great discounts on a full selection of top quality flooring options, customers can take advantage of free extras through August 6.
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Company Name: Corter's Flooring America
Contact Person: James Fink
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Phone: (570) 360-8476
Address:2005 Lycoming Creek Road
City: Williamsport
State: PA
Country: United States
Website: http://www.cortersflooringwilliamsport.com/