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As an occasional insomniac, the Samurai Shopper finds that TV shopping networks no longer put me in the zzzzzone; but Antenna, way up north on Channel 166, does. From 5 a.m. till midday, Antenna runs old movies that beg for oblivion but have been unaccountably resurrected. Today's fare, circa 1950, was "The Last of the Buccaneers," a down-market swashbuckling adventure of Jean Lafitte, starring Paul Henried. Asleep yet? How about Beau Bridges as "The Fifth Musketeer"?
Two things I love about these movies: first, in the noirish flicks starring some Edward G Robinson clone, the guys always say, "Say."
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Have you ever heard anyone say "say" in the normal course of conversation? I don't think so. The second thing I love is that when the characters get anxious, or feel the heat, or are lying, they whip out a motley, well-used handkerchief to wipe their brows or shiny bald heads, crumpling it around their necks to indicate that they are, in fact, sweating the small stuff. Now, I love hankies as much as the next low-rent movie extra; I buy vintage ones on eBay and spray them with scent (this week, woodsy Yatagan by Caron). But sweating the small stuff and scorching June heat deserve a brand-new disposable wipe, the kind that comes in soft, handy packages with a flip tab on the top so you can remove one and give yourself a refreshing hit of something damp, aromatic and mildly bracing. Read more…


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WARREN The Washington County Sheriffs Department says a Warren man led law enforcement on a pursuit after being pulled over Friday.
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Crazy rumors just can't seem to leave Mariah Carey alone, and this latest one sort of has our jaws on the floor. According to several sources, Mariah and actor/singer Nick Cannon are an item. People magazine reports that despite denials from both Mariah's and Nick's camps, the pair were spotted getting tres cozy at a party at Privé nightclub in Las Vegas on Monday night, celebrating Mimi's BFF Da Brat's birthday.
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Nina Garcia, the Latina judge from Bravo's fashion designer reality competition "Project Runway," was concurrently the editor-at-large of Elle magazine. But on April 11, Garcia parted ways with her longtime employer for reasons that have yet to be fully disclosed. But according to WWD magazine, she needs to stay on at least as a contributor if she is to continue on season five of the show. And by the way, "Project Runway" is sticking with Bravo, despite rumors that it was being sold to Lifetime.
From the time she got Hollywood's attention as a tough teen with an attitude problem in 2000's Girlfight, Michelle Rodriguez has had people buzzing for another reason: is she, or isn't she? In spite of the rumors, slander and wild speculation, the sometimes reclusive, often explosive star has remained tight-lipped about her sexuality—until now. Michelle tells Latina.com why she has refused to answer questions about her love life in the past, and what she has to say to inquiring minds now.
Looks like little Max and Emme are safe from the fires of hell. Jennifer Lopez's twins were baptized last weekend, in an intimate ceremony at a church near Jennifer and hubby Marc Anthony's Brookville, Long Island home. In Touch reports that the ceremony was followed by a reception at Jennifer and Marc's manse, attended only by close family and friends.
Has another one of the Kardashian siblings has eloped in Vegas? Little bro Rob Kardashian reportedly followed in the footsteps of big sisters Kim and Kourteney (who almost made it down the aisle) by getting hitched to his girlfriend, Cheetah Girl Adrienne Bailon, with a quickie ceremony in Sin City this past weekend.
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As a kid, my dad convinced my siblings and I to give our mom a fishing pole as a Mother's Day gift several years in a row. Of course, we thought it was a great idea since it meant we'd be doing plenty of fishing, but Mom wasn't as enthusiastic.
Aside from the obvious fact that it had become a gag gift, fishing, something that should be relaxing and rewarding, was work for my mom. Why? She was the only one who could take the bullheads we'd catch off the line without getting stung by the barbs on their fins. With five kids casting lines, that's a lot of bullheads.
Green, stinky and gross
Catching a bullhead isn't that exciting, but it was the only thing that lived in our pond.
I grew up on a homestead farm in south-central Wisconsin, 200 acres of fields, wetlands and woodlands. And a spring-fed pond that, through my youth, was either surrounded by crops or cattle. The land, my dad would say, was too valuable to let lie fallow. While there are bottom-line benefits to our hardworking farmers for planting more corn or allowing cattle to graze freely, doing so within yards of a water body can have devastating effects on its ecosystem.
And that's why Mom spent her summer nights handling the bullheads.
In the 1980s, crop farming included heavy doses of herbicides, pesticides and fertilizers, which contain phosphorus. Cow manure also contains a large amount of phosphorus. A nutrient for plants, phosphorus gets picked up rainwater or snowmelt and is washed off fields into neighboring water bodies and waterways. In the water, it causes overgrowth of aquatic plants and algae; algal blooms can be dangerous to humans, pets and aquatic life. As these algal blooms grow and cover water's surface and eventually die and decay, creating a blanket that blocks sunlight from entering the water. This kills the plants below and reduces oxygen, food and shelter for fish.
Except bullheads.
Species like bullheads, suckers, redhorse and carp, dubbed "rough fish" and undesirable to most anglers, can live in these subpar waters; some, like bullheads, can thrive on little oxygen and even live on the algae and fish that die because of the warm, stinking habitat created by these blooms. In the '80s, when our family spent many summer nights and weekend afternoons at the pond, it had become a haven for bullheads. By the 1990s, after years of being inundated with phosphorus-filled runoff from the fields and cattle and around the same time my four siblings and I couldn't stand to spend time with one another, the pond had become a green, gross, stinking mess.
Like our pond, phosphorus is devastating prime fishing waters around the state; here's an interesting map from the DNR on waters and watersheds that have been impaired by the stuff. In 2010, a set of state rules were adopted that would cost effectively reduce the amount of phosphorus entering our waterways and, over time, greatly improve and protect water quality. Though it's a non-budget item, Gov. Scott Walker wants to delay implementation of this set of vital phosphorus rules for two years in budget bill. This delay is harmful and unnecessary; communities are already committed and coming together to clean up their waterways.
Back at the farm, the pond is slowly recovering; some time in the late 1990s, my dad came around to the fact that heavy fertilizers were a bad choice (and getting extremely expensive) and he moved the pasture away from the pond. But cleaning up a water body is no easy task; it takes years for phosphorus to cycle through its ecosystem. We need action today, not two years from now.
It really stinks to fish in a green lake (or pond, as it were). Don't believe it? I'm sure my mom would be happy to teach you how to take a bullhead off the line without getting stunned. It will be a valuable skill in the future if we don't take polluted runoff and phosphorus pollution seriously.
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Me and my wife had complete spa treatment and evrything was perfect and so fine. I would recommend it especially to honeymooners.
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This place is over rated. The treatment was below average. The room had a weird smell to it and no music was playing. Actually the only sounds you could hear where the airplane taking off and landing from a nearby airport. The two hour treatment finished in 90 minutes. The showerhead was not working.
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We like there. They were working till night. Last time when we was turn back the hotel at 22.30. But be careful for the price. You find some brochure when u was at the airport.
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Former President Bill Clinton made a return to Ireland over the weekend to take part in the All Ireland Scholarship Awards on Saturday at the University of Limerick. President Clinton was a guest of honor at the event, invited by businessman JP McManus.
Clinton presented 125 students with awards of bursaries worth €6,750 for each year of their studies.
Although the city of Limerick was swept by the US Secret Service for days prior to Clinton's arrival, his appearance at the awards didn't cause quite the spectacle his 1998 visit stirred. His appearance, for which he was paid $250,000, was relatively low-key and largely out of the public eye.
The event, which was closed off to the media, was held at the University's Concert Hall, and had an audience of 600 invited guests, which included the recipients of the awards.
When asked how he managed to get President Clinton to attend the affair, JP McManus said, "I did it with the help of friends. I got a friend of mine to make an enquiry. He's in Europe flying around and this is an extra pit stop."
Also in attendance at the event were other Irish dignitaries, including Minister for Finance Michael Noonan, Housing Minister Jan O'Sullivan, Fianna Fail Deputy Willie O'Dea, Dr Martin McAleese, and Don Barry, president of the University of Limerick.
Two twins who were recipients of the awards, Eadaoin and Niamh O'Donovan from Fermoy in Co Cork, got to meet with the former President.
"He was lovely and said congratulations to us. It was all very fast," said Niamh.
As part of his speech, Clinton noted how he himself was a scholarship recipient as well during his time at Oxford and Yale.
He also said that Ireland's recession will end, and the students' education will endure. "Nobody ever got anywhere by expecting tomorrow to be like yesterday," said Clinton.
After the ceremonies, Clinton and a small number of VIP guests dined in the Bourne Vincent Gallery before the former president was brought back to Shannon Airport, concluding his quick Irish visit.
This guy loves to come here and turn that $ tap on!And you folks continue to pay,that's even funnier!
Clinton ...a Columbian Prositute and a Kilo Short Of Cocaine
clinto picked up a cool $250,000 from erin gone broke in galway. thanks to mickey dickie prez.
Is he gonna charge another $250,000?
Of course this visit didn't come with the same fanfare that of a sitting president would create. There were no media permitted at the college and the audience were invitees only. Had Clinton decided to make a public address, I am confident the people of Limerick and the surrounding area, would have come out in large numbers to hear such a charismatic speaker.


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CVCS graduate promoted to Major in the Air Force
Air Force Officer Jerry Hallett was promoted to the rank of Major on Dec. 1. A 1993 graduate of Cassadaga Valley Central School, Hallett entered the Air Force in September 1993.
Colletti: Dodgers are open to trading an outfielder
A flurry of big-name, big-money moves over the past week have taken some of the star power out of baseball's annual Winter Meetings which begin Monday in Orlando, Fla.
Garage deaths: 3 bodies found weeks later
Neighbors alarmed by an unexplained stench coming from an Orlando, Florida, led authorities to discover three bodies in the garage.
Free holiday orchestra, choral concert at Lake Eola
On Saturday, Dec. 7, the Florida Symphony Youth Orchestra will once again join forces with WMKG-Channel 6 and the City of Orlando to present the fourth annual WKMG Local 6 Holiday Concert.
Cops: One man dead after shots fired in southwest Orlando
Around 1:13 a.m., Orange County deputies received a call about gun shots being fired in the 1300 block of 39th Street.
Smashburger plans more restaurants in Jacksonville, Orlando
Smashburger's Classic Smash: American cheese, Smash sauce, ketchup, lettuce, tomato, pickles and onion on an egg bun.
Langford child faces second case of cancer
Langford resident Hannah Day, 4, is back in hospital after being diagnosed with cancer for the second time in her life, this time a different form from the first.


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Construction Vehicles
Funrise Classic Mighty Front Loader Tonka 93920
Regular Price: $30.00
Special Price: $22.50
Looking for a toy that has stood the test of time? Look to the Tonka brand toy, the one that has been around since the mid 1940s and continues to stay strong. Your little construction worker will enthusiastically take his hard hat and lunch box to the sand pile or to the driveway with the Funrise Classic Mighty Front Loader Tonka.
He or she can move this product easily and realistically with the to-scale giant free wheels. The moveable front loader goes up and down to make this working toy seem like the real thing. It can handle the loads of dirt, rocks and sand, making kids' hard day on the job a breeze.
And how many brands can tout this? The construction is steel!! How's that for the rough and tumble of the sandbox? This toy is easily guaranteed for life. It might just make you nostalgic for the days when you hung out in the sandbox. Join in the fun!
- Steel Construction
- Free-wheeling vehicle
- Moveable Front Loader
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Funrise Tonka Classic Steel Trencher 92534
Regular Price: $17.00
Special Price: $12.75
The Tonka Classics Trencher is specially designed for digging and dumping fun! Use the backhoe to dig trenches, then scoop and dump the load with the working bucket. There's no job too big for this hardworking vehicle. With Tonka tough styling, this vehicle is built to last and guaranteed for life! Learn MoreOut of stock
Funrise Tonka Classic Pick Up Truck 4x4 92013
Regular Price: $20.00
Special Price: $17.00
The Tonka Classic Steel 4x4 Pickup truck is ready for tough off road adventure! Built to take on the most treacherous trails, this sturdy pick-up truck also features a working winch for towing action and is guaranteed for life! Features: Steel Construction Free-wheeling Truck Working winch for towing Learn MoreOut of stock
CAT 14" Junior Collection 2 Pack Dump Truck and Bulldozer 32720
Regular Price: $15.00
Special Price: $11.25
Two free-wheeling construction trucks with kid-friendly styling! Perfect for the beach, sandbox, or anywhere else serious earth moving is required! Learn More -
Funrise Tonka Steel Quarry Dump Truck 92207
Regular Price: $20.00
Special Price: $17.00
Haul and unload piles of rocks and gravel with the Tonka Classic Quarry Dump Truck. Built to last and maneuver through the deepest quarries, your Classic Tonka truck is sure to get the job done and guaranteed for life! Features: Steel Construction Free-wheeling Truck Moveable bed for dumping
- Approx size: 14.75"L x 7.0"W x 6.75"H
- Steel Construction Free-wheeling
- Moveable bed for dumping
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New Ray 1:32 Scale Kenworth W900 With Front Loader W900
Regular Price: $20.00
Special Price: $15.00
1:32 scale heavy-duty truck replicas feature die-cast cab and functional door, moving wheels and lifelike details. Each with authentic colors, realistic graphics and various moving parts. Ideal for both collectors and kids.
- Material Type: Die-cast metal
- Scale Size: 1:32
- Items Included: (1) W900 w/front loader
- Movement: Functional door, moving wheels, and other moving parts
- Dimensions L x W x H (in.): 24 x 4 1/2 x 8. .
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CAT 23 inch Massive Machine Remote 10-Wheel Crane with Light and Sound
Regular Price: $50.00
Special Price: $37.50
Recommended Ages: 3+ Years
- Bringing the job site to you with motorized Cat machines, and make your kids more industrious members of society
- Boom arm manually extends to 28"
- Push buttons control forward and reverse driving
- Open cabs are capable of holding 3.75" action figures
- Each machine features classic Cat style with working lights, foreman vocals, motorized driving and machine bed, bucket, blade or boom features, as well as hard drivin' construction tunes
- Requires 4 "AA" batteries (included)
Funrise Tonka Classic Mighty Dump Truck 93918
Regular Price: $20.00
Special Price: $17.00
This Classic Mighty Dump Truck is built for hauling! This sturdy, steel construction vehicle is ready for the toughest loading jobs. Move the bed up and down to trigger its unloading action! Constructed with Steel and guaranteed for life!
- Steel Construction
- Free-wheeling Truck
- Moveable bed for dumping
- 16in L x 10in H x 8.5in W
Funrise Tonka Toughs Steel Road Grader 92510
Regular Price: $20.00
Special Price: $17.00
Since 1987, Funrise has been producing and distributing some of your family's favorite toys, including industry-leading Tonka brand. For generations, Tonka has been manufacturing well-recognized toy trucks and construction equipment. Known for their durability and attention to detail, Tonka toys are built to last.
Clear the way for new construction! Scrape dirt, small rocks, or even sand out of your way! Built from steel, this Tonka Toughs Road Grader is the toy for the job! Use the handy lever to steer the blade from side to side. Free-wheeling design allows the front wheels to move easily for added maneuverability. And be confident knowing this is a toy your family can enjoy for years to come. Tonka toys come with a manufacturer's lifetime warranty.
Vivid yellow color and chunky wheels round out this toy's appealing design. Adds great fun to any indoor or outdoor play construction site. Makes a great addition to any vehicle collection or toy truck fleet.
Key Features:
- Made of steel
- Movable grader blade and front wheels
- Manufacturer's lifetime warranty
- Measures 7.5" x 7.5" x 17.88"
Funrise Tonka Toughs Steel Bulldozer 92961
Regular Price: $20.00
Special Price: $15.00
The Tonka Classic Bulldozer is ready to demolish and clear away anything in its path. Move dirt, sand and gravel with the workable blade and take control of any job site! This Bulldozer is built to last and guaranteed for life!
- Steel Construction
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Bender's higher functions began to reactivate as he opened his eyes on an early Sunday morning.
"Uhhh." said Bender.
He sat up off the floor of his filthy apartment, then rubbed his face feeling the five o'clock rust telling him he needs beer.
So Bender stood up, then made his way into the kitchen.
As Bender walked into the kitchen small owls were startled, that ran away to hide in the small mouse like holes they made in the wall in places.
"Dammit, we got owls again!" Bender opened the fridge to find no alcohol inside. "And we're outta beer. Great, just great."
Bender walked out of the kitchen into the bathroom to pick up a bottle of aftershave off the sink with his right hand, then looked at it's label on the back.
"Hmm, it says it has alcohol in it?" he thought in his own head.
Bender knocked back the aftershave drinking it down all at once.
"Eh not bad, not enough alcohol though." There is a blinding flash of light followed by the appearance of Discord in the mirror over the sink. "What the?! Who the hell are you and what's with the lame ass background?!" he shouted.
"Oh, this is gonna be fun." said Discord with a nasty grin.
"Oh crap, I feel like something bad is about to happen." Discord flicked his fingers turning Bender's hands into footcupes like his feet, and his right hand despite being a footcupe now is still able to hold onto the aftershave. "What the hell are you doing?!" He threw the aftershave at the mirror smashing it, but within seconds the mirror magically regenerated.
"Why I am having fun Bender." Discord flicked his fingers causing Bender to magically shape shift into a pony like body.
Bender gasped in horror looking at his body.
"What kind of sick joke is this?!" Bender checked his body for all the essentials to find he still has; an antenna on his head, a chest cabinet under his belly, his Thingy, a new tail, a new cutie mark of a brown beer bottle and a new neck. "Dammit, now I get both ass whiplash and neck whiplash because of you! And also how am I supposed to get hookers with this body?!"
"Why Bender you can get fully sapient alien pony hookers. That wouldn't be bestiality."
"No thanks. I'll stick to humanoid robots, Humans and humanoid alien babes."
"Oh you're so closed minded. But anyway I don't think they have hookers where I think I'm gonna send you."
"Just tell me who you are now?!"
"What's the point? You're gonna forget this conversation anyway."
"What?!" shouted Bender.
Discord flicked his fingers causing Bender to fall asleep standing up.
"Hmmm, where should I send you? Ah I know." Discord flicked his fingers making Bender teleport with a blinding flash of light, to reappear in Equestria in the middle of the Everfree Forest at night.
Suddenly the sounds of hooves walking can be heard. "Oh, why do they keep following me in the Multiverse?!"
The Mane Six wielding the Elements Of Harmony accompanied with Princess Celestia and a dozen Royal Guards walk around the lounge looking for Discord.
"Where's Discord?" said Rainbow Dash. The room began to shake violently causing everypony to fall over on the floor apart from Rainbow Dash flying slightly off the ground. A powerful force coming from the bathroom sent the bathroom door flying across the room slamming into the wall, followed by a blinding flash of light coming out from the bathroom. "Well, looks like he's escaped again."
"What's going on?!" shouted Fry's voice. Fry only wearing his white underpants ran out from his bedroom to see all the Ponies in the room. "Am I on drugs again?"
"No, this is just a dream go back to bed." said Celestia.
"OK talking unicorn thing with wings."
With that Fry went back to bed.
While Bender was still asleep standing up in the Everfree Forest a huge Manticore curiously walked over to Bender and poked him on the forehead waking Bender up with a start.
"What the?! Rawr!" Bender wrapped his arms and legs around the Manticore like a constricting snake, then proceeded to twist and bend the Manticore's arms and legs breaking them causing the Manticore to roar in pain. "Thought I was weak did yeah?!"
Bender retracted his arms and legs letting go of the crying Manticore to stand back up on his two back footcupes like a Human, it was then that Bender realized he wasn't in his own body.
"What's happened to me?!" He went down on his four footcupes. "How am I supposed to get hookers with this body?!" he shouted.
Bender then looked at his rump.
"Well, at least my ass is still shiny." He rubbed his face feeling the five o'clock rust. "I need beer."
Bender checked his surroundings noticing a dirt path near by.
"Ah, a road." he thought in his own mind.
He made his away to the road, then went along the road noticing all the bright colors of this universe he was in when compared to the darker colors of his universe he was used to.
"I don't think this is my universe."
As Bender walked along the road he began to feel weak, due to being low on alcohol in his body, so thus was low on power. Until finally his body when into emergency hibernation mode to reserve power by falling asleep while standing up just at the eves of the Everfree Forrest.
In Fluttershy's cottage the young beautiful Pegasus Fluttershy herself was sleeping peacefully in bed with a blue night light near on a dresser, however Angel Bunny near by was on high alert with his ears raised.
Angel went outside to investigate the sounds he heard and the strange smell of smoke and stale alcohol. It wasn't very long for Angel to find the source of the smell, which was Bender.
At first Angel was startled thinking of running for help, but then soon realized this strange machine Pony's eyes where closed indicating it was asleep.
Angel ran over to Bender to touch his cold metal right front footcupe to gain no reaction from Bender.
Angel had no idea what to make of this Pony, for he had never seen nor even imagined anything like it before, all he knew that one of Fluttershy's friends Twilight Sparkle may have a good idea what type of pony this is.
So Angel went hopping his way to Twilight Sparkle's house.
The young beautiful purple unicorn Twilight Sparkle was fast asleep in her bed covered with a light blue blanket themed with stars, when suddenly there was knocking on the door waking both her and Spike near by in his basket.
"What... What's going on?" said Spike.
While the knocking continued Twilight looked at the clock on the wall telling her it was three o'clock in the morning.
"What kind of Pony is up at this time?!" shouted Twilight. The knocking still continued. "I'm coming! Hold your horses!" she shouted.
Twilight walked down stairs to open the door to see Angel Bunny.
"What is it Angel?" Angel communicated with Twilight using Sign Language. "You saw a machine Pony? It's asleep? OK, I'll go check this thing out."
As Twilight and Angel walked through Ponyville to make their way to this strange machine Pony Angel saw they found they had been spotted by a certain rainbow colored Pegasus who flew down onto the ground landing in front of them.
"Hey, what are you two up too at this time at night?"
"Angel said he saw something."
"What did he see?"
"Come with us and find out."
"OK, this sounds exciting."
Rainbow Dash keeping herself slightly off the ground with her wings flew slowly along side Angel and Twilight walking on the ground.
"So what are you doing up at this time of night Rainbow Dash?"
"Eh, I just had a bad nightmare about Discord taking my wings again, then I saw you two."
"Oh, OK."
"So how much longer will it take for us to see this thing Angel saw?"
"It's just at the edge of the Everfree Forest near Fluttershy's--" Rainbow Dash flew off at lightning like speed. "… house."
Rainbow Dash within seconds arrived at Bender to land in front of him.
"What are you? Some kind of machine Pony?" Rainbow Dash made faces at Bender sticking her tongue out getting no reaction from him. "Hey wake up!" She started poking Bender, but then soon realized how bad he smelled. "Ewww, you smell of smoke and stale alcohol." She sniffs him. "And body odor? But how's that possible you're a machine?" Rainbow Dash thought for a moment. "Unless maybe you're a robosexual and that's the smell of your lovers they left on you? I personally don't see why anypony would find you sexy smelling like that? But than again if you cleaned yourself up a bit, I might give you a shot at me. I don't know if it's magic or not, but I find you for some strange reason sexy."
"Yeah, he does kinda look hot." said Twilight from behind her laughing.
Rainbow Dash went red in the cheeks. She then turned around to see Twilight and Angel.
"How long were you two listening?"
"Around the part when you mentioned robosexual."
"You two won't tell anyone about my sick fetish will you?" Angel and Twilight nodded. "Thanks."
"Come on, let's take him back to my house to study him."
Angel left to go back home to Fluttershy's cottage, leaving Rainbow Dash and Twilight to drag Bender by his back legs along the ground away from the Everfree Forest.
Back in Bender's own universe Fry was still asleep in bed.
Back in Ponyville Twilight and Rainbow Dash dragged Bender inside Twilight's house.
"I don't think anypony spotted us." said Twilight.
"Hey guys! Whatcha doing?"
Twilight and Rainbow Dash looked up to the ceiling to see where the voice came from to find Pinkie Pie standing in mid air above them.
"How are you doing that?." said Rainbow Dash.
"Yes Pinkie, how are you defying the laws of physics?"
"I dunno. I don't even know how I got up here from waking up." Suddenly gravity kicked in causing Pinkie Pie to fall to the floor. "Ow!"
Outside Twilight's house there was rustling of leaves up an Oak tree with the sounds of laughter coming from it.
For within that tree there was Discord hiding up there sitting up on a branch high up the tree, whom was crying with laughter covering his mouth with his hands trying not to be too loud to stop himself alerting the Ponies to his presence.
"Sometimes a little subtle chaos is more fun." thought Discord in his own mind. "I best get out of here. They'll follow me here to this universe as well and alert everyone, thus ruining my fun." Discord teleported far away from Ponyville in the middle of the Everfree Forest.
Discord created a light blue see-through sphere shaped bubble like force field around himself, soon the ground started to shake, followed by a blast of magical energy out from Discord, and then Discord disappeared in a blinding flash of light.
Back inside Twilight's house Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash watched Bender lying on his back while Twilight took stuff like porno magazines, circuit diagram sheets and magnets out from Bender's chest cabinet.
"OK, I can understand he likes porn of an unusual taste." said Rainbow Dash while pointing her right hoof at one of the naked Human women on one of the open porno magazines on the floor. "But what's with the magnets?"
"Maybe he likes magnets." said Pinkie Pie.
"Well yeah, but why does he like magnets?" Twilight's horn lit up with light to levitate a bottle of red wine into the room. "What's with the wine?"
"I think this machine is powered by alcohol."
"Oooh wow!" said Pinkie Pie. Twilight poured the wine into Bender's mouth causing the five o'clock rust to fade away from his face. "Did it work?"
There was a humming sound, then Bender's eye hatches opened.
"Huhhh, what?" He noticed his stuff on the floor looking alarmed. "Hey my stuff!" He quickly stuffed his stuff into his chest cabinet, it was then he noticed the three Ponies standing before him. "Ponies?!" Bender stood up on his four footcupes. "How am I supposed to get hookers with this body now?
"What's a hooker?" said Pinkie Pie.
"You pay one of them about fifty bucks to have sex with."
"What kind of Pony would want to grow up to become that?" said Rainbow Dash.
"You know I bet you Ponies must of done this to me?!" shouted Bender.
"Done what?" said Pinkie Pie.
"Never mind killing all Humans, kill all Ponies instead!" Just as Bender was about to charge at them Twilight blasted Bender's with a powerful magical force slamming him against a bookshelf causing it to fall on him. "Ow, that hurt slightly."
"Just calm down please! We didn't do anything to you!" said Pinkie Pie.
Bender stood up pushing the bookshelf off himself and despite what just happened he looked calmer than before.
"I dunno magical pony things, if you didn't do it, who did?"
"We don't know either, but we'll help look for who did it to you." said Twilight.
Spike walked down the stairs to see Bender.
"Are you a baby dragon?"
"Uh, yeah. What are you?"
"A robot."
"OK then."
Spike walked back up the stairs.
"What was done to you exactly?" said Rainbow Dash.
"I woke up to find I was turned into one of you!"
The Ponies gasped in shock.
"Well, that explains the strange porno you have." said Pinkie Pie.
"Hey rainbow pony?"
"Yeah?" said Rainbow Dash.
"Can you turn around for a second?"
"Just turn around."
Rainbow Dash turned around for a moment.
"Nice ass, but I still don't think I'd screw you."
"Awww, why not? What are you gay?"
"No, I just don't like animals that way."
"Why you closed minded jerk!"
"Eh don't worry, I'm sure in some other parallel universes there's sick parallel versions of myself visiting universes like this in order to screw you Ponies in a big steaming hot orgy."
"Okay, knock it off you two." said Twilight. "Now, Bender we need rest. So we'll help you in the morning, OK?"
"OK, just one thing."
Bender dropped a red brick onto the floor.
"Hey crap in the toilet!" shouted Rainbow Dash. "Wait is that a brick? Whoa I wish we could crap useful building material as well, just crap enough of them and you'll be able to build yourself a house here."
"Yeah, our crap is useless." said Pinkie Pie.
"Hey our crap is used as fertilizer!" said Twilight.
"Robots always have the best crap."
With that Bender closed his eye hatches falling asleep while standing up.
"Twilight, I don't know about leaving you and Spike alone in this house, so I'm gonna stay with you here tonight." said Rainbow Dash.
"I'll stay too." said Pinkie Pie.
"Yeah, who knows what this machine Pony could do."
Rainbow Dash, Twilight and Pinkie Pie took turns falling asleep on the floor in the same room to watch the sleeping machine Pony just in case he tried to do something both he and themselves would regret.
On the following morning Bender opened his eyes to see Rainbow Dash stood in front of him looking at him suspiciously.
"I'm watching you robot."
"Can you stop looking at me?"
"No, just in case you try something."
Bender decided to change the subject.
"Know any good place to drink?"
"Is drinking what your Cutie Mark means?"
"Cutie Mark? What's that?"
"Oh sorry, I forgot for a second you're not from around here. But anyway, I bet I could beat you in a drinking competition!"
"You're on chumpette! But what are the terms?"
"If I win you'll have to pay me back for the drinks with some good honest hard work."
"Right. And I guess you'll have to pay me if I win?"
Just as Bender and Rainbow Dash were about to walk out the front door Twilight ran in front of them.
"Where are you two going?"
"To have a drinking competition." said Rainbow Dash.
"This early?"
"OK then."
Bender and Rainbow Dash walked out the front door.
As Bender walked with Rainbow Dash through Ponyville on a sunny morning some local Ponies stared at Bender in wonder while talking to one another in hushed tones.
"I take it their not used to seeing Robots."
"Well I've never seen anything like you either, except in science fiction."
"And I've never seen anything like you except in fairy tales. By the way, I'm Bender."
Bender put his right hoof out which Rainbow Dash shook.
"I'm Rainbow Dash."
Bender and Rainbow Dash came to the outside of a bar which was closed.
"It's closed."
"Hold on Bender." Rainbow Dash knocked on the door. Within seconds a large grey muscular blue eyed bald male Earth Pony with a big long black grizzly beard answered.
"Yeah?" said the stallion with a deep voice.
"Beardy, I need to use your bar for a drinking competition against him."
"Don't you think it's a little early for---"
"Come on!" shouted Rainbow Dash interrupting him.
"OK fine! Come on in."
Bender and Rainbow Dash entered the dark bar, then sat down on two wooden stools opposite one another around a small wooden round table.
"Be prepared to lose Bender."
"Oh I will."
Beardy left two shot glasses of vodka on the table, which both Bender and Rainbow Dash drank down.
As time went on the table began to fill with dozens of all manner of empty bottles of alcoholic beverages. Bender was still sober apparently unaffected by the mass of booze he drank, as for Rainbow Dash on the other hand she became so intoxicated at one point she wet herself. And finally after a few more shots of vodka after wetting herself Rainbow Dash vomited on the floor, followed by falling off her stool landing in a heap on her own vomit.
"Listen sweet heart I think you had enough, if you drink anymore I think you might die."
"Uhhhh, nos......... I cans..... I still beats you.... yous.... you jerk!" she said while rolling around on the floor on her own vomit.
Bender picked up Rainbow Dash carrying her out of the bar.
"Heyheyheyyoudon'thavetocarryme." She flew out of Bender's hooves to wobble in the air uneasily. "Whoa!" She fell but luckily landed down on a low cloud.
"How are you doing that?"
"Something …. about what …. about what's it... Hmmmm, oh my kind is sorta able to kinda control the weather."
"Could you fire lightning at me?"
"Yeah, buts …..... that's coulds kill you."
"Not me, I like lightning."
"And …. what's …. woulds I …... gets in return."
"Uh, I'll give you a hug."
"Yay, I likes hugs! I'll go get you a storm cloud right away."
Rainbow flew off wobbling from side to side in the air.
Bender sat on a stump while he waited for Rainbow Dash to find a storm cloud for him. When all of a sudden Lyra dived on Bender knocking him over.
"What? Get off me!"
Lyra stood off Bender coming back to her senses, then helped him up.
"Sorry about that I was a little excited to find out you know Humans? Can you tell me everything you know about them please?"
"I'll tell you later, just please leave me alone for awhile."
"OK then, later."
Just as Lyra walked away Rainbow Dash came flying back dragging a small storm cloud.
"I …. I.... gots the cloud Bender." she shouted while still drunk.
"Hold on a second." He took a magnet out from his chest cabinet. "Hit me!" Rainbow Dash hit the cloud blasting Bender with lightning making him high. "Awwwwww, yeah! Give me more!" Bender placed the magnet onto his forehead getting him even more high also making him sing the song Wild Rover, while Rainbow Dash kept hitting Bender with lightning bolts from the cloud. "I've been a wild rover for many a year..."
Bender's antenna began to glow brightly while he sang Wild Rover, followed by a vast shroud of yellowish storm clouds gathering all over Equestria blocking out the sun, and then it began to rain beer all over the land.
Rarity looked her window in disgust watching it rain beer.
"Beer? Why couldn't it rain red wine?"
In Sweet Apple Acres Applejack along with her brother Big Macintosh simply stared up at the sky in shock.
"What in tarnation is going on?" said Applejack.
In Canterlot many of the Ponies as if they were under control by some spell rejoiced in the rain of beer while lying on the ground with their mouths open drinking the beer and having orgies in the street with the many loose drunk mares joining in on the fun, with even most of the Royal Guard joining in on the orgies. However not all of the drunkards were peaceful, many of the drunkards were fighting over stupid things, starting fires in buildings, vandalizing shops and stealing from the shops. While all the drunkards were doing what they were doing, the non drunkards panicked in the streets trying to find safety all the while covering their children's eyes to protect their innocence from what the dirty things some drunkards were doing in the streets.
Back in Ponyville Rainbow Dash was no longer firing lightning at Bender, but was instead looking at Bender with concern, whom was screaming as if he was in pain along with the magnet no longer on his head.
"Bender, are you OK?"
"Why I am find Rainbow Dash." said Bender with Discord's voice.
"Discord?" she shouted in shock.
"Yes it is I Discord."
Rainbow Dash gasped in horror.
"I have to thank you for allowing me take full control over Bender." Bender's right hand punched himself in the head. "Ow!"
"This is my body virus!" shouted Bender with Bender's voice.
Bender fought himself by punching himself, until a ghost like avatar of Discord rejected out from his body, followed by Bender shape shifting back into his normal robot body.
"Well, this was fun while it lasted."
The Discord avatar disappeared in a blinding flash of light, followed by the beer rain stopping along with the sky clearing up with the sun coming back out.
Back in Canterlot, everyone was sober again and chaos had stopped.
Back in Ponyville Bender was lying on the ground groaning while rubbing his head.
"Oh, my freaking head."
"How did Discord take control over you?" said Rainbow Dash.
"He did some sort of spell on me."
"Yeah, that does sound like Discord."
"So... are you nicer when not under the control of Discord?"
"Eh, not that much."
There was a blinding flash of light, followed by the appearance of Farnsworh.
"Bender quit messing around and get back in your own universe with me!" shouted the old man.
"You're late for work."
Bender took hold of Farnsworh's left shoulder, then disappeared in a blinding flash of light along with Farnsworh.
"Well this was a weird day." said Rainbow Dash.
The End
"Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, I never got to ask him about Humans!" shouted Lyra's voice which was so loud it could even be heard by Princess Luna on the moon.


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BYESVILLE - The two-week trek to the Ohio State Track and Field Championship in Columbus is simply grueling.
However, several area Division II thinclads find themselves on the doorstep of a trip to the campus of The Ohio State University after punching their tickets to the regional meet, which opens Thursday at The Plains High School in Athens.
Prior to checking out marks for next week, area thinclads had to contend with a 13-team district meet at warm and sun-drenched Meadowbrook High School Saturday afternoon.
St. Clairsville will send a solid delegation to Athens County after the Red Devils finished as district runnerup with 87 points.
The Red Devils advanced in 11 events, but had only won one district championship.
Junior talent Drake Walker continued his impressive campaign in the 800 meter run. After flirting with going under the coveted 2-minute barrier, he broke it with his victory by two hundredths of a second.
The Red Devils did produce six district silver medalists, which is good for 48 team points.
Junior flash Jaylon Brown was second in both the 100 and 200 meter dashes, posting an 11.32 and 22.64, respectively. Senior Andy Thornburg, who is heading to UNC-Asheville, was runnerup to John Glenn's Zak Geiger in both the 1600 and 3200 meter runs. He posted times of 4:28.50 and 10:16.08. Senior Cole Antolak, who received an Eastern District Track Scholarship from the officials' association, was second in the 400 meters with a 50.69. Sophomore Colby Lindsay was runnerup in the discus with a twirl of 149-ft-5.
The Red Devils' sprint relay teams, which were seeded first entering Saturday's finals, had to go with a make-shift lineup after Brown was pulled due to precautionary reasons. However, the St. C. 4x100 team was third in 44.61 and 4x200 team was fourth in 1:33.79. The Devils were also third in the 4x400 with a 3:34.38.
During Thursday's action, sophomore Michael Eaton advanced in the pole vault by virtue of a fourth-place finish.
Martins Ferry relied on its elite personnel, including senior standout Richie Padyjasek and junior strongman Sean McGee to finish fourth overall with 67 points.
Padyjasek won a pair of events. He was the champion in the high hurdles, posting a 15.04. He also pocketed the long jump with a mark of 20-ft-7 1/2. The Seton Hill-bound hurdler also finished second in the 300 hurdles with a time of 40.68.
McGee, meanwhile, won the shot put crown on Thursday with an impressive put of 52-ft-8. He added a bronze medal in the discus thanks to a mark of 147-ft-9.Sophomore Brian Styles was fourth in the long jump with a mark of 19- feet.
The Purple's 4x100 team also earned a trip to next week with a fourth-place finish in a time of 45.00.
Steubenville finished sixth overall with 57.5 points. Big Red was led by their victorious 4x400 relay. Coach Jason Kernahan's club struck gold with a 3:30.90 in the meet's final event.
Steubenville was runnerup in the 4x200 with a 1:31.61.
Senior Najee Murray - the Ohio State football signee - advanced in the 100 meter dash after posting an 11.59. Sophomore Jaquan Lavender was third in the 400 with a 52.25.
Union Local will send a pair of individuals to the regional. Junior hurdling ace Collin Jones advanced in both the high and intermediate hurdles. He skimmed the highs in 15.92 to finish third. He was also third in the intermediates with a time of 41.98.
During Thursday's action, senior Kurtis Ogilbee advanced in the high jump with a victory. He cleared 6-feet.
Buckeye Local scored 28.5 points and senior speedster Jordan Piergallini played a role in 28 of those.Piergallini powered his way to the district title in the 100 and 200 meter dashes. He posted times of 11.26 and 22.58, respectively. He also ran a leg on the Panthers' 4x100 team, which finished second in the meet in a time of 44.34.
Edison's Kyle Minger pocketed the gold medal in the 400 meter dash, posting a solid time of 50.23. During Thursday's action, he also qualified fourth in the high jump.
Indian Creek will send a trio of distance runners to the regional in individual events. Junior Frank Kamarec was second in the 800 with a time of 2:01.67. Freshmen Max Lewis and Tyler Gaydosh finished fourth in the 800 and 3200 meter runs, respectively.
During Thursday's action, the Redskins' 4x800 team earned the right to run again.


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Every weekday morning around 6, we'll hit the top five stories of the day and clue you in on a few other buzzy items.
Decision time nears:
We're likely to get more verbal fireworks when Mark O'Mara, George Zimmerman's lead attorney, makes his closing arguments today. We're pretty certain he won't start or close with a knock-knock joke.
Yesterday a prosecutor painted Zimmerman as angry, armed and on a power trip. Today, O'Mara has three hours in which he'll try to convince the six-woman jury his client had to shoot. After that, the prosecution can offer a rebuttal to O'Mara's remarks. And then the verdict watch begin.
"Mountains of information":
In a few days, the NTSB will head back to Washington and start to go through the evidence it has gathered. The head of the agency says the investigation will be a priority, but it will take about a year to go through "mountains of information."
Meanwhile, the San Francisco runway where the crash happened should reopen this weekend.
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Or you might want to get that bus pass reloaded. Oil prices have been headed up recently, which means gas prices are about to jump. So if you don't have $4 a gallon gas now, by August ....
Mystery donor pays bail:
Justin Carter still has a long legal battle ahead for his comments made on Facebook. But after five months in jail, the teenager, who police say threatened to shoot up a school, was happy to be out on bail.
Road to recovery:
It's cleanup time for thousands of people hit by this week's floods or mudslides. For some, it may be only temporary as the remnants of a tropical storm are headed toward the rain-soaked Southeast. They'd probably like that rain in the West, where wildfires are raging.
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So the maintenance team at Death Valley National Park has a hard enough job as it is. I mean, it's hot enough to fry an egg out there. And that's what people are doing after watching a video on the park's YouTube channel. Except ... people need to stop just cracking eggs on the sidewalk and leaving their trash behind. We're sorry to say this, park folks. Yolks on you.
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Where is the line between constructive off-season interest in college football and the excess of National Signing Day? As always, the first Wednesday in February was like Christmas for the recruiting-obsessed. For the national media, however, it was an opportunity to probe recruiting issues and practices.
The annual college football recruiting circus is out of control.
Sorry, but that's how I feel.
Sadly, the only tool available to put this bulked-up genie back in the bottle is an appeal to common sense − a tactic with a low success rate.
Over the years, we have traded one set of recruiting-marketing excesses for another. Long ago, 17-year-old football recruits were paraded out at college basketball games before frenzied crowds that became delirious when the prospect committed on the spot to the home team. The 1980s brought comical (there's no other word for it) moments, when kids reveled in their celebrity status by announcing college choices from hot tubs at exclusive hotels.
That stuff has been legislated away, which certainly is a change for the better. Nowadays, however, the excesses are institutional. The media, with generous complicity from the college football establishment, has taken recruiting marketing to new levels of excess.
Are there any answers to this? Certainly nothing can be done to stop media and entrepreneurs from marketing recruiting rankings. Nothing can be done to stop fans from being interested.
But colleges themselves can consider how much they should participate in the circus. That's a hard ask, of course, since technology has made it easier for football programs to capitalize on the mania. Real-time signing-day updates are the norm, along with videostreams of coaches' news conferences and a social-media blizzard that generates highly coveted web traffic.
That's all true, but is it good? Many of the headlines from National Signing Day don't exactly say "celebration of football":
Elite athletes say many coaches stretch the truth in recruiting (Chronicle of Higher Education)
Florida president: Grayshirting is morally reprehensible practice (J. Bernard Machen, Sports Illustrated)
Floyd Raven signs with Texas A&M after mom sends letter to Mississippi (USA Today)
Recruit: 'Bama media tried to influence decision (SportsByBrooks)
Top recruit quits Facebook following 'living nightmare' (Yahoo Sports)
Saban defends practices of oversigning and grayshirting (Birmingham News)
Here's one recruiting evil the NCAA can fix (Michael Rosenberg, Detroit Free Press)
Grayshirting still an issue in recruiting (Orlando Sentinel)
Colleges skirt recruiting rules by signing too many [The Tennessean (Nashville)]
The Big Ten's take on oversigning, Part I (ESPN)
The Big Ten's take on oversigning, Part II (ESPN)
Rules fail to curb schools from oversigning football players (USA Today)
SEC school complains about Alabama web cam (Associated Press)
Other headlines were more benign:
For top college recruits, a day no longer set in stone (New York Times)
In college football recruiting, the star player is the fax machine (Wall Street Journal)
More stars consider beginning college early (Indianapolis Star)
Sometimes best recruits are the ones you keep (Dennis Dodd, CBSSports.com)
Signature moment (NCAA.org)
The human toll of gambling. So much attention focuses on the corruptive effects of sports gambling (that is, the betrayal of teammates or the public's loss of faith in the competition itself) that people often overlook the broader human consequences. Kudos to the Orlando Sentinel's Gary Taylor for taking a look at the many who are unable to control their betting behaviors during the one-two punch of the Super Bowl and March Madness.
For compulsive gamblers, Super Bowl outcome could be life or death (Orlando Sentinel)
From the story: "Statistics from calls placed to the statewide Gambling Helpline … show 83 percent of gamblers are affected by depression and 81 percent are experiencing anxiety. Suicidal thoughts and/or attempts were confirmed in 11 percent of those who called, and it is estimated that one out of every five pathological gamblers will attempt suicide."
Let's put some meat on those bones.
The National Council on Problem Gambling says that 1 percent of all Americans – about 3 million people – meet the definition of a pathological gambler. If one in five attempt suicide, as the Orlando article claims … well, you can do the math.
Compulsive gambling is often hidden from view. There is no boozy odor. There's no altered behavior. There's just a hole that gets deeper and deeper.
The experts say that if you believe you may have a gambling problem, you probably do. Gamblers Anonymous provides a test for those who need guidance.
If you decide you need help, please call the National Council on Problem Gambling hotline at (800) 522-4700.
Meanwhile, the gambling industry contemplates ways to throw gas on the fire.
Betting revolution sweeps Vegas' gaming industry (Yahoo Sports)
Care and fee-ing. A recent report about athletics spending gained some media traction.
Ignorance is not bliss regarding spending on athletics (Richard Vedder, Chronicle of Higher Education)
Student fees that go to sports get scrutiny (Wall Street Journal)
Study: Students are unaware of where fees go (USA Today)
First, the Chronicle should do a better job of clarifying opinion content on its website. The breadcrumbs reveal that the article rests in the "Opinions & Ideas" section, but there's no explanation of who the author is or that the Drake Group (a group critical of high-level athletics) performed the study. Readers need that kind of information to determine perspective.
As for the study itself, readers may want to consider the following thoughts:
- Student fees vary from campus to campus, and the amounts allocated to athletics are quite different depending on the institution.
- The study surveyed 1,000 students at one institution through the Internet.
- The authors implied that athletics is "crowding out" other higher education activities by taking more and more money. Spending on college athletics makes up only about 5 percent of institutional spending and has stayed near that rate for several years.
- The setting of student fees is an institutional issue, and in many cases, students themselves approve the fees. In all cases, the fees are approved by the trustees of the college or university.
Smaller ball for all? College baseball season begins this month, and the new bat-performance standards are drawing attention:
New bat rule means fewer college HRs (Charleston, S.C., Post and Courier)
LSU baseball team isn't fazed by new players, bats (New Orleans Times Picayune)
Iowa follow-up. Some additional stories on last week's football off-season training incident at Iowa:
S. Carolina swimmers had disorder affecting Iowa football players (Associated Press)
All Iowa football players out of hospital (ESPN)
A preventable danger for athletes (Inside Higher Ed)
Hospitalization controversy not affecting recruits (Daily Iowan)
Hospital firing 3 over Hawkeyes' records (Associated Press)
Vive la difference – not. In Divisions II and III, men's and women's basketball games often are played back to back as teams consolidate their travel to save money. Last year, a Title IX complaint challenged Division II's Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletics Conference, claiming that the sequencing of the games (women's game usually first) violated Title IX. Now the order of the games has been reversed – and administrators say crowds have become smaller.
GLIAC college basketball crowds dwindle between men's and women's games (Grand Rapids Press)
Art of the matter. The Los Angeles Times recently posited the following:
USC art exhibition raises a question: Has any strong visual artist also been an accomplished athlete? (Los Angeles Times)
In fact, athlete-artists are more common than you might think. They are some of the most interesting student-athletes around, as illustrated in these two NCAA Champion magazine articles.
Artists' statements (NCAA Champion magazine)
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-Ms. C.M., Auburn, CA


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