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Uchiha Itachi:

The fighting style of Itachi is perhaps the most frightening of all those we have seen so far. He has mastered every aspect of the art of Ninjutsu, Genjutsu, and Taijutsu. His fighting style mainly revolves around a combination of many illusionary techniques mixed with ultra-fast moves that even an experienced Jounin such as Hatake Kakashi could barely keep up with. Itachi’s Sharingan provides even more terrifying Genjutsu for him to use, and Uzumaki Naruto has experience it one too many times! But the most terrifying aspect of Itachi is his infamous Mangekyou Sharingan, the deadliest form of them all. The Mangekyou casts off a Genjutsu (Tsukiyomi) that is absolutely impossible to dispel, a technique that can completely submerge the victim in to a parallel world where time for he or she passes much slower for in an instant in the real world, 24 hours passes in this dimension, The World of the Grasping Moon, as Itachi calls it. What really makes this technique deadly however, is the fact that the user can do anything to his victim that he wants, from making him relive moments of his life, to torturing him for 72 hours at a time with the blink of an eye. The proof that this technique is so powerful lies in the fact that even Kakashi has fallen victim to it and remained broken, powerless and ill for days.

Jiraiya:

Jiraiya does not possess the title of Sannin for nothing, he is indeed one of the most powerful ninja ever. His fighting style is refined and original, while still being complete and powerful. We don’t see him use a lot of taijutsu he is still able to execute amazingly strong physical moves and is quite powerful in that domain. And when he needs to pack an extra punch, he can execute the Rasengan, leaving even the most powerful of his opponents on the ground drooling! This technique is one of Jiraiya’s strongest moves and it can easily destroy even a huge boulder. When Jiraiya doesn’t use this technique or taijutsu, Jiraiya relies on his summoning techniques. A number of years ago Jiraiya made a pact with toads, so that he could summon them whenever need be, even the most powerful toad of them all is at his command, Gamabunta. This frog is so powerful that it can even hold back the extremely deadly Shukaku’s attacks! While the toads can perform techniques on their own, Jiraiya can also execute special combination moves with them for an extra big punch. For example Jiraiya can do a Katon (fire) jutsu while Gama will shoot out oil, and you can imagine the result! In addition to this impressive arsenal of techniques, Jiraiya’s experience makes him quite difficult to fool or surprise, thus, making him an even more formidable opponent.

Country: Fire Country; Hidden Leaf Village
Age: 13 Height: 150.1 CM Weight: 35.9 KG
Birthday: March 28th
Bloodtype: O
First Seen: Chapter 003; Anime Episode 001

Sakura is what could be called the cute intellectual part of Team 7 that consists of Uzumaki Naruto, Uchiha Sasuke, and herself. This ninja knows every rule and every technical detail that would be required of a ninja to know. First in her class when it comes to knowledge, Sakura is a totally different person when she’s on the battlefield at the beginning of the series. During the battle she could hardly hold back her feelings and emotions and is often seen panicking or bursting into tears when the battle is not turning out in her teams favor, therefore giving her the reputation of being somewhat unreliable in her teachers eyes. But, even though she sometimes lacks the bravery to act as a real ninja during battle, Sakura progressively takes a more and more active role in her team as time passes by.

Loving Sasuke with all of her heart and finding Naruto to be an annoying brat she spends her free time trying to seduce Sasuke and taking care of her appearance while completely ignoring Naruto and ofen picking a fight with her “friend” and rival for the love of Sasuke, Yamanaka Ino. This only holds true until Sakura begins to understand her other comrade, realizing that he is indeed very special and abandoning the idea that he is a miserable failure, like most of the others think until the end of the Chuunin exams. She admits that she was wrong and has been acting selfishly as if she was always right. Aside from that Sakura is always helping out her teammates, especially Naruto, to understand some of the specific ninja maneuvers that only a veteran could understand, and by doing so helping her team devise a strategy to win against the enemy. She also incarnated the teams good conscience and often acts as a warning bell, or the person who puts her team back on the right track (and Naruto is often the victim of such “reminders”). Sakura is otherwise a very gentle person that never misses an opportunity to help others and find a good thing to do or say to those who aren’t as fortunate.

Through the series we learn that Sakura was not always as she is now. When she was younger she was generally rejected by the other girls, for no reason other than her being ashamed of her rather large forehead. When the other kids at the ninja academy saw that, they didn’t miss an opportunity to make fun of it! Sakura would spend her days all alone until one day a popular girl, Ino, saw her sitting alone on the bench crying and began talking to her. From then on, Ino gave Sakura a whole new attitude and boosted her self confidence as she began to make some more friends, and even fall in love. Until then Ino was always helping her when she got insulted or bulled around by other girls, acting as a mentor giving her advice on how to act and how to be a better student and person, physically and mentally. This lasted until Sakura fell in love with the boy that every other girl at the academy had their eye on: Uchiha Sasuke. From there her relationship with Ino became cold and formal, neither of the two ex-best friends would openly declare war upon the other, which resulted in a few quarrels, some serious and some absolutely ridiculous! Recently though Sakura’s relationship with Ino has become less tense and more friendly, but we have yet to see what happened to them during a three year time jump.

Sakura’s fighting style was very basic before the three year jump in the series, but that does not mean it was bad as she excelled at the “basic stuff”. Sakura, as Hatake Kakashi states, is the best of the original genins at controlling her chakra. Basically, she’s as good at that as a jounin would be: nearly perfect. She uses this near perfection over her chakra to execute all the basic ninjutsu that a ninja knows without a single flaw. These, mixed with some basic taijutsu makes Sakura tricky and sometimes very tough to deal with. It also seems that she is good at manipulating shuriken and kunai, making her even more dangerous at a long range. With all of these characteristics she is a ninja that should be taken seriously, unless you want to get beaten to a pulp! Being trained under Tsunade, Sakura acquired unbelievable physical strength, being able to easily split a large piece of land in two by just punching the soil. Adding to that, she is now a skilled medical ninja. Under the training of this new sensei there is no doubt that Sakura now possesses some significant knowledge of healing techniques, and some great talent that we have not seen all of… yet.

Michelle Duggar and Jim Bob have managed to make baby making into a media news item, having had so far 17 babies and being prominently featured in many well known news articles, including Discovery Health.

What most people don’t seem to know is that in India someone has 19 babies and that was in 1997 but they are Indians living in the slums of Bangalore! What is however astounding is that an American family with 17 gets press and notoriety vs. an Indian couple does not, is this once again an example of how life is valued higher in other parts of the world because of the priviledge they have?

 I repost the article here:

19 babies: Some moms do have ‘em

ASIA NEWS INTERNATIONAL

BANGALORE, May 4: Even as India grapples with its ever-increasing population, a few families in the Gauripalya slum in the metropolis of Bangalore are defying all laws of family planning. The news that Noorjahan Begum, one of the residents of the slum, is expecting her 19th child does not surprise anyone.

The concept of having large families is a tradition here and most families have an average of six to seven children. Married at the age of 19, Noorjahan, now 40, has nine sons and nine daughters. Two sons are already married, with children.

Noorjahan says she is scared of having a sterilisation operation. She adds that it goes against the teachings of her religion. “I din’t want to have a (sterilisation) operation. I was scared of undergoing it,” Noorjahan said. “Our religion forbids the concept, also, our priest was against the idea.” While her grown-up sons earn their living by driving autorickshaws, the younger ones have the responsibility of cleaning the vehicles. The average daily income of the entire family is about Rs 70.

Noorjahan, who frequently gets her children’s names confused, makes a living by making hand-made cigarettes and incense sticks. None of her children has been to a school.

Copyright © 1997 Indian Express Newspapers (Bombay) Ltd.