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An Arizona college has backed out a deal for a free 217-acre campus in Northfield, Massachusetts, citing unanticipated costs and significant resistance from the town.
Grand Canyon University, a for-profit Christian college announced last week they would no longer pursue opening a campus on the former Northfield Mount Hermon site. The college says it would have cost tens-of- millions of dollars to make necessary infrastructure improvements to house 5-thousand students. The college also says many Northfield residents were uncomfortable about the school bringing a large number of students to the town of 3-thousand people. Grand Canyon became the second group in less than a year to turn down the free piece of property due to financial reasons. Tom Hutchison is Northfield's Town Administrator. He says the town cannot afford to pay for any infrastructure improvements surrounding the property.
"The town has about a $6.6 million operating budget, out of which, $4.1(million) goes to the schools. So we're really left with two and a half million dollars in operating funds. And that's really not sufficient for the town to provide the any increased infrastructure needs for any group that might come in."
The founders of the Oklahoma-based Hobby Lobby retail chain bought the land in 2009 to donate to a Christian group. Jerry Pattengale represents the land owners. He says they will continue to consider institutions with enough money to cover developing the campus.
"We tried our best twice, and we'll keep trying. We know we could divide it up. We know we have a lot of groups that would like a building or two. It makes more sense for the town and for the campus to have one major recipient."
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What Is Regulation?
Barak Orbach
University of Arizona
September 7, 2012
30 Yale Journal on Regulation Online 1 (2012)
Arizona Legal Studies Discussion Paper No. 12-27
People hold strong views about regulation, but do they know what "regulation" means? National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) is a landmark in regulation jurisprudence, yet the NFIB Court was divided over the meaning of the term "to regulate." Long ago, John Stuart Mill observed that "we do not [always] understand the grounds of our opinion. But when we turn to . . . morals, religion, politics, social relations, and the business of life, three-fourths of the arguments for every disputed opinion consist in dispelling the appearances which favor some opinion different from it." The controversy and confusion about regulation illustrate the phenomenon. This Essay explores the meaning of the term "regulation."
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Temporal range: Early Oligocene to Holocene
|Brown-throated sloth
(Bradypus variegatus)
Gatun Lake, Republic of Panama.
|Scientific classification
Delsuc, Catzeflis, Stanhope, and Douzery, 2001
Sloths are mammals classified in the families Megalonychidae (two-toed sloths) and Bradypodidae (three-toed sloths), including six extant species. They are named after the capital sin of sloth because they seem slow and lazy at first glance; however, their usual idleness is due to metabolic adaptations for conserving energy. Aside from their surprising speed during emergency flights from predators, other notable traits of sloths include their strong body and their ability to host symbiotic algae on their furs.
They are classified in the order Pilosa because they are related to anteaters, which sport a similar set of specialized claws. Extinct sloth species include many megafaunal ground sloths, some of which attained the size of elephants, as well as a few species of marine sloths. Extant sloths are medium-sized arboreal (tree-dwelling) residents of the jungles of Central and South America.
Sloths make good habitats for other organisms, and a single sloth may be home to moths, beetles, cockroaches, fungi, ciliates, and algae.[2]
Taxonomy and names
The sloth's taxonomic suborder is Folivora, sometimes also called Phyllophaga (Owen, 1842) or Tardigrada (Latham and Davies, 1795). The first two names both mean "leaf-eaters"; derived from Latin and Greek, respectively. Names for the animals used by tribes in Ecuador include ritto, rit, and ridette, mostly forms of the word "sleep", "eat", and "dirty" from Tagaeri tribe of Huaorani.
The English word "sloth" (a derivative of the adjective "slow") is recorded as meaning "laziness", "indolence" from the twelfth century onwards, and is considered as one of the seven cardinal sins.[3] It was applied to the animal in the early seventeenth-century, as a calque of the Portuguese preguiça ("laziness").[4] The pronunciation is /ˈsloʊθ/ SLOHTH or /ˈslɒθ/ SLOTH.[5]
Sloths are classified as folivores, as the bulk of their diets consist of buds, tender shoots, and leaves, mainly of Cecropia trees. Some two-toed sloths have been documented as eating insects, small reptiles, and birds as a small supplement to their diets. Linnaeus's two-toed sloth has recently been documented eating human faeces from open latrines.[6] They have made extraordinary adaptations to an arboreal browsing lifestyle. Leaves, their main food source, provide very little energy or nutrients, and do not digest easily. Sloths, therefore, have large, specialized, slow-acting stomachs with multiple compartments in which symbiotic bacteria break down the tough leaves. Sloths' tongues have the unique ability to protrude from their mouths 10 to 12 inches (25 to 30 cm), an ability that is useful for collecting leaves just out of reach.[7] As much as two-thirds of a well-fed sloth's body weight consists of the contents of its stomach, and the digestive process can take a month or more to complete.
Since leaves provide little energy, sloths deal with this by a range of economy measures: they have very low metabolic rates (less than half of that expected for a mammal of their size), and maintain low body temperatures when active (30–34 °C or 86–93 °F), and still lower temperatures when resting.
Although unable to survive outside the tropical rainforests of South and Central America, within that environment sloths are outstandingly successful creatures. On Barro Colorado Island in Panama, sloths have been estimated to comprise 70% of the biomass of arboreal mammals.[8] Four of the six living species are presently rated "least concern"; the maned three-toed sloth (Bradypus torquatus), which inhabits Brazil's dwindling Atlantic Forest, is classified as "vulnerable",[9] while the island-dwelling pygmy three-toed sloth (B. pygmaeus) is critically endangered.
Sloth fur exhibits specialized functions: the outer hairs grow in a direction opposite from that of other mammals. In most mammals, hairs grow toward the extremities, but because sloths spend so much time with their legs above their bodies, their hairs grow away from the extremities to provide protection from the elements while the sloth hangs upside down. In most conditions, the fur hosts two species of symbiotic algae, which provide camouflage.[10][11] Because of the algae, sloth fur is a small ecosystem of its own, hosting many species of non-parasitic insects. Sloths have short, flat heads, big eyes; short snouts, long legs, and tiny ears. Some species have stubby tails (6–7 cm long). Altogether, sloths' bodies usually are between 50 and 60 cm long.
Sloths' claws serve as their only natural defense. A cornered sloth may swipe at its attackers in an effort to scare them away or wound them. Despite sloths' apparent defenselessness, predators do not pose special problems: sloths blend in with the trees and, moving only slowly, do not attract attention. Only during their infrequent visits to ground level do they become vulnerable. The main predators of sloths are the jaguar, the harpy eagle, and humans. The majority of recorded sloth deaths in Costa Rica are due to contact with electrical lines and poachers. Their claws also provide a further unexpected deterrent to human hunters; when hanging upside-down in a tree, they are held in place by the claws themselves and often do not fall down even if shot from below.
Despite their adaptation to living in trees, sloths (like many other rainforest animals) make competent swimmers. This is likely to have been true of the extinct ground sloths, as well, as evidenced by the fact that megalonychid sloths were able to colonise the Antilles by the Oligocene, and that the megalonychid Pliometanastes and the mylodontid Thinobadistes were able to colonise North America about 9 million years ago, well before the existence of the Isthmus of Panama. Additionally, the nothrotheriid Thalassocnus of the west coast of South America became adapted to a semiaquatic marine lifestyle.[12]
Sloths move only when necessary and even then very slowly; they have about a quarter as much muscle tissue as other animals of similar weight. They can move at a marginally higher speed if they are in immediate danger from a predator (4 m or 13 ft per minute for the three-toed sloth), but they burn large amounts of energy doing so. Their specialised hands and feet have long, curved claws to allow them to hang upside down from branches without effort.[13] While they sometimes sit on top of branches, they usually eat, sleep, and even give birth hanging from limbs. They sometimes remain hanging from branches after death. On the ground, the maximum speed of the three-toed sloth is 2 m or 6.5 ft per minute.[14]
Sloths were thought to be among the most somnolent animals, sleeping from 15 to 18 hours each day. In 2008, however, Dr. Neil Rattenborg and his colleagues from the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Starnberg, Germany, published a study testing sloth sleep patterns in the wild; this is the first study of its kind. The study indicated that sloths sleep just under 10 hours a day.[15] Three-toed sloths are mostly diurnal, while two-toed sloths are nocturnal.[16]
Sloths go to the ground to urinate and defecate about once a week, digging a hole and covering it afterwards. They go to the same spot each time and are vulnerable to predation while doing so. The reason for this risky behaviour is unknown, although some believe it is to avoid making noise while defecating from up high that would attract predators.[17] Consistent with this, they reportedly relieve themselves from their branches during storms in the rainy season.[18] Another possible explanation is that the middens provide the sloths with one of their few methods of finding one another for breeding purposes, since their sense of smell is far more acute than their eyesight or hearing.[19] Still other recent studies have suggested that it might be relevant for maintaining the ecosystem in the sloths' fur.[20] Individual sloths tend to spend the bulk of their time feeding on a single "modal" tree; by burying their excreta near the trunk of that tree, they may help nourish it.[21] Recently there has been some speculation that sloths go to the ground to defecate because of their mutually beneficial relationships with moths. While the sloth defecates, female moths that otherwise live on a sloth will get off and immediately lay their eggs directly on the fecal matter, on which the larvae survive until they mature to adulthood and are able to fly onto sloths. Incidentally, it appears that sloths benefit from their relationship with moths because the moths are responsible for fertilizing algae on the sloth, which provides them with nutrients.[22]
Infant sloths normally cling to their mothers' fur, but occasionally fall off.[citation needed] Sloths are very sturdily built and rarely die from a fall. In some cases, they die from a fall indirectly because the mothers prove unwilling to leave the safety of the trees to retrieve the young.[citation needed] Females normally bear one baby every year, but sometimes sloths' low level of movement actually keeps females from finding males for longer than one year. Sloths are not particularly sexually dimorphic and several zoos have purchased sloths of the wrong sex.[23][24]
Almost all mammals have seven cervical vertebrae (neck bones), including those with very short necks, such as elephants or whales, and those with very long necks, such as giraffes). The few exceptions include manatees and two-toed sloths, which each have only six cervical vertebrae, and three-toed sloths with 9 cervical vertebrae.[25]
Sloths are members of the superorder Xenarthra, a group of mammals that appeared in South America about 60 million years ago (Mya),[26] although at least one source puts the date at which sloths and related animals broke off from other placental mammals at about 100 Mya.[27] Also included among the Xenarthra are anteaters and armadillos. The earliest xenarthrans were arboreal herbivores with sturdy spines, fused pelvises, stubby teeth, and small brains.[26]
The living sloths belong to one of two families, known as the Megalonychidae ("two-toed" sloths) and the Bradypodidae (three-toed sloths). All living sloths have in fact three toes; the "two-toed" sloths, however, have only two fingers. Two-toed sloths are generally faster-moving than three-toed sloths. Both types tend to occupy the same forests; in most areas, one species of three-toed sloth and one species of the larger two-toed type will jointly predominate.
However, their adaptations belie the actual relationships of the living sloth families, which are more distant from each other than their outward similarity suggests. The common ancestor of the two families apparently lived 35–40 Mya, making the living forms exceptional examples of convergent or parallel evolution.[28] The two-toed sloths of today are far more closely related to one particular group of ground sloths than to the living three-toed sloths. Whether these ground-dwelling Megalonychidae were descended from tree-climbing ancestors or whether the two-toed sloths are really miniature ground sloths converted (or reverted) to arboreal life cannot presently be determined to satisfaction. The latter possibility seems slightly more likely, because the small ground sloths Acratocnus and Neocnus, which were also able to climb, are among the closer relatives of the two-toed sloths, and these together were related to the huge ground sloths Megalonyx and Megalocnus.
The evolutionary history of the three-toed sloths is not well known. No particularly close relatives, ground-dwelling or not, have yet been identified.
The ground sloths do not constitute a monophyletic group. Rather, they make up a number of lineages, and as far as is known, until the Holocene, most sloths were in fact ground-dwellers. The famous Megatherium, for example, belonged to a lineage of ground sloths that was not very close to the living sloths and their ground-living relatives, like the small Neocnus or the massive Megalonyx. Meanwhile, Mylodon, among the last ground sloths to disappear, was only very distantly related to either of these.
The following sloth phylogeny was obtained by morphological analysis of craniodental characters,[29][30] and places Bradypus as the sister group to all other extant and known extinct sloths (extant genera are in bold).
However, a limited 2016 study of retrovirus and mitochondrial DNA sequences groups Choloepus with Mylodon, and Bradypus with Nothrotheriops.[31]
Suborder Folivora (sloths)
- Family Bradypodidae (three-toed sloths)
- Bradypus
- Pygmy three-toed sloth (Bradypus pygmaeus)
- Maned sloth (Bradypus torquatus)
- Pale-throated sloth (Bradypus tridactylus))
- Brown-throated sloth (Bradypus variegatus)
- Bradypus
- Family Megalonychidae (two-toed sloths and extinct ground sloths)
- Subfamily Choloepodinae
- Acratocnus
- Choloepus (two-toed sloths)
- Linnaeus's two-toed sloth (Choloepus didactylus)
- Hoffmann's two-toed sloth (Choloepus hoffmanni)
- Neocnus
- Subfamily Megalonychinae
- Incertae sedis: Imagocnus
- Subfamily Choloepodinae
- Family Megatheriidae (extinct ground sloths)
- Family Mylodontidae (extinct ground sloths)
- Family Nothrotheriidae (extinct ground and marine sloths)
Until about 10,000 years ago, ground sloths such as Megatherium[32] lived in South America as well as in much of North America; they colonized the latter as part of the Great American Interchange. Along with many other animals, however, they disappeared shortly after the appearance of humans on both continents.[32] Much evidence suggests human hunting contributed to the extinction of the American megafauna (including giant ground sloths), like that of far northern Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and Madagascar.[32] Simultaneous climate change that came with the end of the last ice age may have also played a role in some cases. However, the survival of ground sloths on the Antilles until about 5000 years ago (after these islands were finally settled by humans), long after they had died out on the mainland, points toward human activities as the agency of extinction.[33]
In Peru and Chile, sloths of the genus Thalassocnus adapted to a coastal marine lifestyle beginning in the late Miocene. Initially they just stood in the water, but over a span of 4 million years they eventually evolved into swimming creatures.[34] It is thought that when the Isthmus of Panama closed about 3 million years ago the water grew colder, perhaps contributing to their extinction by the late Pliocene. The plants these sloths fed on may have grown sparse, or they may have been unable to adapt to the lower water temperatures.
In Costa Rica, the Aviarios Sloth Sanctuary cares for wounded and abandoned sloths. About 130 animals have been released back into the wild.[35] However, a report in May 2016 featured two former veterinarians at the facility who were intensely critical of the sanctuary's efforts, accusing the sanctuary of mistreating the animals.[36]
In popular culture
Sloths increased in popularity during the early 21st century,[37][38] with the release of the first of the Ice Age movies, which featured Sid, a prehistoric ground sloth, as a central character.[37] As of 2013, there are four Ice Age movies, with the fifth planned to come out on the 15th of July, 2016.[39] The Croods, which came out in 2013, features a sloth as a family pet.[37] In Disney's animated film Zootopia, Flash is a sloth who along with other sloths works at the DMV, who all speak and perform various actions extremely slowly, much to the other characters' frustration.[40]
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- ^ Slater, G. J.; Cui, P.; Forasiepi, A. M.; Lenz, D.; Tsangaras, K.; Voirin, B.; de Moraes-Barros, N.; MacPhee, R. D. E.; Greenwood, A. D. (2016-02-14). "Evolutionary Relationships among Extinct and Extant Sloths: The Evidence of Mitogenomes and Retroviruses". Genome Biology and Evolution. 8 (3): 607–621. doi:10.1093/gbe/evw023.
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Skip to comments.Environmental groups sue over Shell offshore plan
Posted on 06/10/2011 10:38:19 PM PDT by smokingfrog
WASHINGTON -- Lawsuits filed Thursday that challenge the federal government's approval of a Shell Oil Co. offshore exploration plan present a major test of regulators' power to swiftly review deep-water drilling blueprints.
In two separate but overlapping filings, conservationists argue the government was bound by federal law to first finish a post-spill environmental study of the Gulf of Mexico before approving Shell's plan last month.
The legal complaints were filed in the Atlanta-based 11th Circuit Court of Appeals one by the Defenders of Wildlife, Center for Biological Diversity and the Natural Resources Defense Council and the other by Earthjustice, the Gulf Restoration Network, the Florida Wildlife Federation and the Sierra Club.
The Defenders of Wildlife coalition alleges that by approving Shell's exploration plan, the government violated the National Environmental Policy Act and several other federal laws that generally require environmental studies and coordination with other agencies before actions they take that could hurt marine life or affect the environment. Earthjustice's more limited challenge focuses on the environmental policy law.
The litigation carries high stakes for the government and the oil and gas industry. A ruling against the Interior Department's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement could deal a crippling blow to the agency and thwart chances of companies quickly launching new deep-water drilling projects in the Gulf. By contrast, a decision in the agency's favor would bolster its chances of swiftly reviewing offshore drilling plans in the future.
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How much offshore oil money do these groups get?
AH!... but WHO funds the environmental group in question?..
Soros or some other left wing enabler?..
Usually its not about the environment..
Before groups like Defenders of Wildlife, Center for Biological Diversity, Natural Resources Defense Council, Earthjustice, Gulf Restoration Network, Florida Wildlife Federation, and Sierra Club are allowed to object to an oil project, they should be required to show when they have ever favored any oil project anywhere.
The fact is that they oppose any project that is not an OPEC project. They will produce reams of paper detailing their objections to whatever project you've got in mind but the short version is simply this: its not OPEC, and they aren't for it. OPEC projects are good for the earth. Non-OPEC projects have to be smothered in the crib where ever you find them.
Granted, once Palin is elected she'll have plenty to do, but I hope she makes it impossible for these communist front groups to have any standing whatsoever. I'd prefer they were outlawed entirely, but I'll take what I can get.
If we get all 3 back, Legislate that domestic/offshore drilling/mining for natural resources is a matter of national security and attempts to stop it are treasonous.
Enough of this crap.
It Begins First Oil Rig Relocates From Gulf to Foreign Waters
"As a result of the uncertainties surrounding the offshore drilling moratorium, we are actively seeking international opportunities to keep our rigs fully employed," Dickerson said. "We greatly regret the loss of U.S. jobs that will result from this rig relocation."
Idled Gulf Rigs Head For Africa
It is not just Gulf operations that are being effected either.
Wait and see for Shell {Shell puts Arctic drilling plans on hold, waiting on feds}
Let's not leave the refineries out.
EPA gives final "no" to Texas refinery permits
Then there are the land-based oil leases.
Judge Grills Feds on Pulling Drilling Leases
"A federal judge on Wednesday questioned Interior Secretary Ken Salazar's justification for canceling 77 drilling leases sold by the Bush administration around national parks in Utah."
U.S. Saw Drill Ban Killing Many Jobs [ie. Obama KNEW he was destroying jobs, kept it secret]
Obama and O'Malley are Hurting the Poor in Md by Shutting Down Nuclear Power
Obama Administration Blocking 103 Gulf Drilling Permits February 03, 2011
Obama Clears the Way For America's 2 Largest Oil Wells to be Shutdown in Texas April 25th, 2011 (to "save" an "endangered" lizard)
EPA threatens Utah with air quality sanctions
Energy in America: EPA Rules Force Shell to Abandon Oil Drilling Plans
How come THEY are never found to be 'WITHOUT STANDING'?.........
Indeed. Because it is.
Congress could fix this Monday morning by repealing the "National Environmental Policy Act and several other federal laws that generally require environmental studies and coordination with other agencies before actions they take that could hurt marine life or affect the environment."
Do environmental groups ever do anything besides sue?
these assholes, AND the EPA need to be shut down, they are not concerned about the environment, they are enemies of American progress.
Will they sue to protest BHO-Brazil offshore deal?
"How come THEY are never found to be WITHOUT STANDING?........."
It would then stand to reason that a well funded group of Americans who are pro-drilling should be formed to sue the environmental groups for harming America.
There are numerous cases where "unintended consequence" have done more damage then good. They need to be held accountable for their actions.
While a great idea (and one that should happen as well), It would still leave econazis an easy hurdle. They would still have near-unfettered access to move their crap through the courts.
By officially codifying all energy and resource matters as a National Security issue (eliminate the DOE/EPA/BLM) and sticking it under the NSA, that makes it one hell of a hurdle and really insurmountable. Since all drilling and mining would be a security issue, the ecos would be barred from accessing both the sites themselves and all the paperwork involved.
They cannot get classified docs turned over.
As for the companies/employees, give them special government clearances. Then they can't be sued personally as they are acting as agents of the government on official business.
Now I'm sure someone will come along and call me a Communist, but this isn't federalizing and I don't really give a damn. Something 'extreme' needs to be done to stop this insanity. The companies are still private entities acting on Govt authority. Think security agencies in Iraq/Afghan.
As someone replied earlier, this IS a NatSec issue and why in the name of God is our national security beholden to a bunch of agenda driven liberal/communists? There is no justification for ANY lawsuit to go forward. And since the judiciary cannot be relied on to protect the public interest when fish and flies are involved, We'll have to get it done like they did in the old days. Ram it down their throats.
Can a dead lawyer still litigate
Anybody else looking forward to the day reality doesn't tolerate groups like this?
Well, who couldn't smell that one coming?
The Feds really should stop funding these people; they're shooting themselves in both feet.
Simply eliminating all government funding of these groups would take them down a few notches.
Smoke pot, smell bad and gloat over the destruction of America?
And a loser-pays legal system would swiftly drain these groups through paying the other side's legal fees whenever one of their stinking lawsuits flames out.
"And a loser-pays legal system would swiftly drain these groups through paying the other sides legal fees whenever one of their stinking lawsuits flames out."
"Simply eliminating all government funding of these groups would take them down a few notches."
Definitely to both. Having fought with them over land use issues in the past, I quickly discovered that it's all about power and money with these groups. They exist only because they managed to get into a position of power - through money donated by the 'guilt ridden' libs. Once that money bought them a level of power in the Governmental sense, they used that power to force the govt. to give them money. It's now a perpetual spending machine that does not need to answer to the guilty membership or anyone else.
Everyone is so up in arms over the budget. (Everyone should) spend some time looking into how much one governmental department 'charges' the other to comply with Sierra Club/EPA mandates. We are talking in the 10s of BILLIONS every year. And that's just taxpayer-paid government spending, not the damage it does financially to the private sector! Look up things like the BLM charging the Border Patrol millions of dollars annually to 'mitigate the environmental damage' of patrolling the border to get an idea of what I mean. That's ONE example out of THOUSANDS that do the same thing. Costs rise VERY quickly.
That's tens of BILLIONS the govt charges itself that YOU have to pay for and NONE of it is needed for anything other than to keep the spending machine going and keeping the Eco groups in power.
I know there are so many things that are NEEDING to be done and that this is one issue among thousands that NEED our attention. But that's how Govt keeps this fiasco going...there is simply so much crap going on the average person gust says to hell with it...nothing can be done. That's what they count on.
All we need to get the ball rolling is one elected rep UNAFRAID to publicly push the issue and make people understand that all their 'bennies' could be saved if we just gutted the eco machine in govt.
Between those 'bennies' and the endangered 'Spotted Snarfblat Chub' I can easily guess which the public would vote to 'save'.
Then we can fix the 'bennies' issue.
"Anybody else looking forward to the day reality doesnt tolerate groups like this?"
Yup. Me.
That would mean that persons working on drillsites, etc. would have to have some sort of security clearance, even a low grade one. That might complicate the dickens out of getting enough rig hands, not to mention the guys who do earthwork, etc.
It isn't that they aren't reliable, or that they would do anything to mommick up the works, but they might not pass someone's idea of being squeaky clean enough in their past or days off activities to retain employment.
I'd be pretty leery of letting a bunch of Governmrnt 'suits' decide who is holy enough to get dirt under their fingernails at work.
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1. Berserk
2. Gantz
3. Deadman Wonderland
4. Freezing
5. Wolfguy
1. Monster
2. 20th and 21st Century Boys
3. Change 123
4. Ecchi the Killer
5. Parasyte
1. Berserk
2. Shamo & 20 century boys
3. Sun-ken Rock
4. Gunnm
5. GantZ & Blame! & Biomega
- Sundome
- Yubisaki Milk Tea
(^Defective characters and their messed up relationships with their peers are much more entertaining than sword swinging retards from battle manga... But, each to their own.)
- Dance in the Vampire Bund
- Biomega
- Dorohedoro (The only extremely gory and violent title that I actually find entertaining.)
1.Sun-ken rock
2.DeadMan Wonderland
4.Zet Man
^@dct21, Actually agreed with a lot of them.
But it's interesting, never really seen any1 else that interested in Sun-Ken Rock. It is definitely a unique series
My top 5
1. Zetman
2. Ubel Blatt(Wish these 2 ^, would go faster and not have these large gaps)
3. Unbalance x unbalance
4. Deadman Wonderland
5. Akumetsu, Holyland, Black Lagoon
Close runners up are
There are more things in heaven and earth then is dreamt of in your philosophy
i just started to read sun-ken rock last week and it awesome, i went to the book store looking foward to buying the volumes but its only out in france.
Not in particular order (I've forgotten many, I just put down some that left me deep impression, more than 5... Haha long list)
Stuffs that I love
20th Century Boys (and its sequence), PLUTO, Monster, Billy bat (you should know why)
Eden: it's an endless world (I love it on par with 20th CB)
Historie (Eumenes!!!)
Real (it crosses shounen a little bit, but the feeling is definitely seinen. It's goood, one scene from the first chapter is kind of "disturbing")
Hotel!(one shot)
If anime is okay(well, it has a manga) Legend of galactic heroes (I'm Yang Wenli's fan)
Desert Punk (this one is different, really great)
Stuffs that I like
Gantz (it falls a little now, but well,..)
Kokou no Hito
Liar game (the reason I don't love this is that Kanzaki annoys the hell out of me often)
Vinland Saga, Vagabond
Battle Royale
Gyo (disgusting!!!)
Stuffs that are okay
Bokurano (the theme is definitely awesome, but it did not have the right feeling)
Ubel Blatt
Stuffs that will not appear(for awhile, at least): Berserk, Basilisk, Hellsing. Well, they are undoubted great, but just kind of off my genre.
Stuffs that might appear (because I have not read or not in the right time to read it)
Homonculus, Kiichi!, Akira (this will probably be a yes), Blame!, Biomega! (the last 2 are "not right time"), Blade of Immortal...
In summary, after reading Urasawa Naoki's works, and Eden, I was sad, since I know there wouldn't be any other thing that completely suits my taste anymore :(((((((((((
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1. Berserk
2. Vinland Saga
3. Sun Ken Rock
4. Desert Punk
5. Gants
Had to adjust it. If you read seinen mangas and haven't read Beserk , Vinland Saga or Sun Ken Rock. Then I don't know what the f*ck you is doing!?
Is Vagabond really a seinen? Thought it was shonen. Might try it out.


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Toddlers and preschoolers require finesse to gain their cooperation, because they have not yet reached the age at which they can see and understand the whole picture, so simply explaining what you want doesn't always work. Robert Scotellaro is quoted in The Funny Side of Parenthood as saying, "Reasoning with a two-year-old is about as productive as changing seats on the Titanic." (He must have had a two-year-old at the time.)
You can get around this frustrating state of affairs by changing your approach. Let's look at two situations - first the typical (Titanic) way:
Parent: David! Time to change your diaper.
David: No! (As he runs off)
Parent: Come on honey. It's time to leave, I need to change you.
David: (Giggles and hides behind sofa)
Parent: David, this isn't funny. It's getting late. Come here.
David: (Doesn't hear a word. Sits down to do a puzzle.)
Parent: Come here! (Gets up and approaches David)
David: (Giggles and runs)
Parent: (Picking up David) Now lie here. Stop squirming! Lie still. Will you stop this!
(As parent turns to pick up a new diaper, a little bare bottom is running away)
I'm sure you've all been there. Oh, and by the way, David is my son. And this was an actual scene recorded in his baby book. Like you, I got very tired of this. And then I discovered a better way:
Parent: (Picking up diaper and holding it like a puppet, making it talk in a silly, squeaky voice)
Hi David! I'm Dilly Diaper! Come here and play with me!
David: (Running over to Diaper) Hi Dilly!
Parent as Diaper: You're such a nice boy. Will you give me a kiss?
David: Yes. (Gives diaper a kiss)
Parent as Diaper: How 'bout a nice hug?
David: (Giggles and hugs Diaper)
Parent as Diaper: Lie right here next to me. Right here. Yup. Can I go on you? Oh yes?!
Goody goody goody! (The diaper chats with David while he's being changed. Then it says, Oh, David! Listen, I hear your shoes calling you - David! David!)
The most amazing thing about this trick is that it works over and over and over and over. You'll keep thinking, "He's not honestly going to fall for this again?" But he will! Probably the nicest by-product of this method is that it gets you in a good mood and you have a little fun time with your child.
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Skip to comments.Anti-gay Vatican plays victim card, wants tolerance for homophobia
Posted on 03/28/2011 3:09:36 PM PDT by presidio9
The Vatican is upset, and feeling like a victim. The Vatican is angry that the world is no longer willing to tolerate the alleged homophobia of the Catholic Church. However, not everybody is sympathetic to the Vatican's claim of victimization.
Tuesday the Vatican condemned a United Nations Human Rights Council resolution in support of gay rights. The resolution was sponsored by 85 countries including the United States. The Vatican objects to this resolution that simply and clearly states that human rights apply to everyone, no matter who they are or whom they love.
By Thursday, the Vatican's statement was being met with scorn and derision on social media sites across the web. Many are baffled at what appears to be a plea by the Catholic Church for the world to tolerate bigotry and intolerance towards the gay and lesbian community.
Apparently the U.N. resolution affirming that "gay rights are human rights and human rights are gay rights" is unacceptable to the hierarchy of the Catholic Church. Archbishop Silvano M. Tomasi, the Vatican's representative to the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva, explained the position of the Catholic Church:
People are being attacked for taking positions that do not support sexual behavior between people of the same sex. When they express their moral beliefs or beliefs about human nature they are stigmatised, and worse they are vilified, and prosecuted.
Adding insult to injury, Tomasi also likened being gay to pedophilia and incest:
"States can and must regulate behaviors, including various sexual behaviors. Certain kinds of sexual behaviors must be forbidden by law. Pedophilia and incest are two examples.
A sample of Thursday's Twitter stream concerning the Vatican's reaction to
(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...
homoPhiles on the march!
I like the Catholics stand on Homosexuals and Pedophilia, Now if they would place actions where their words are and dump Homosexual and Pedophile Priests we would be in complete agreement.
What part of "unnatural" and "disorderd" do they not get?
All any journalist has to do is a simple search on official Church documents, like the following, and then read, in order to get the Vatican's stance on any of these matters.
On the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons
Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
October 1, 1986
Some "human rights" council.
"...for the world to tolerate bigotry and intolerance towards the gay and lesbian community."
Since when is a phobia bigotry? Intolerance, maybe, but not bigotry. If I have claustrophobia, I'm intolerant of closed places. If I have agoraphobia, I'm intolerant of open spaces. But bigotry? No.
I think the term "homophobia" as applied by those who oppose it is a bastardization of the concept of phobias and should not be used, but if they want to use it then they should treat it like other phobias.
The United Nations should do more to rid itself of perverts who exploit woman and children for sexual slavery.
THOSE are human rights being wronged.
no barf alert?
Love the lib use of the "phobia" appendage.
IMHO, I'm not phobic if I'm repulsed by the thought of fudge packing.
(Doesn't stop me from knowing and liking homosexuals...but it's still gross. Period.)
I'd think a number of religious groups would oppose the UN resolution inasmuch as it encroaches on that religion's right to enforce standards of conduct on its adherents in order to remain in good standing. Where Are The Moose? These are about the only ones that answer homosexual relations with violence today. One would think this would bring about a brouhaha over Islam, but no! Instead churches, which are much laxer and forgiving, are being drubbed on.
When government constructs like the United Nations seeks to redefine what IS and IS NOT a sin, they are pushing their OWN religious view.
Screw the United Nations. They don't speak for ME or my religious traditions that have lasted for THOUSANDS of years.
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In checking out the author of this piece it says: Michael Stone is a freethinker and freelance writer residing in beautiful Portland, Oregon. As the National Humanist Examiner, Michael's concern is the place where politics and religion intersect. The task is to promote civil rights and the separation of church and state; to explore and expose religious bigotry, oppression and discrimination; to promote reason and eschew superstition and dogma. You can contact Michael at email@example.com.
In other words Mr Stone believes that the only valid opinion is his. Too bad he's wrong.
To be fair, the mop-up has been underway for years now.
I want to see the U.N. take the Moose head on, then I'll know they're SERIOUS.
What do they have to complain about, the Holy Roman Catholic Church should be prosecuted in the RICO statues.
On behalf of sodomites?
"As the National Humanist Examiner. . ."
Is that an elected or appointed (or self-anointed) position? Whichever, its bearer certainly doesn't lack for pompous, solipsistic self-aggrandizement, does he?
The pope of unbelief? Surely it meant to say "At" rather than "As" but it could be a Freudian slip.
Are these people stupid? What is all this hooker and pimp talk from the left? The Vatican helps prostitutes and gays and displays affection to gays for condemning this perverted satan and animalistic baiting human rights charter glorifying sex abuse covered up by drugs, misleading emotions, body pleasure and a biscuit.
Sam Kinison years ago was targeted by gays for his simple (yet graphic) routine about what they actually do. It really put things in perspective, especially when they called him sick for being "anti-gay."
The Catholic Church in its teachings follows reasonable scholarship,concluding Christian faith cannot advocate homosexual relationship or marriage. The entire Bible, in speaking of the character, identity, and purpose of God, continuously addresses the issue of homosexual behavior. The scriptures say that in addition to creating all things, God created a single institution, which was marriage between a man and woman as the earthy manifestation of the oneness of relationship He seeks with all human beings. Any arguments from the scriptures including the catechism must move forward from that foundation.
Throughout the Bible He is spoken of as masculine, and all humans become feminine in relation to Him; become the Bride of Christ. To restore relationship lost in Eden, God sent Christ to die for all human sins, but people must repent of, reject all their sins. To pursue sexual sin including fornication, adultery, or homosexual behavior is to reject His identity and His character, and therefore repudiate His gift of salvation enabling relationship with Him.
In Him absolute righteousness and absolute love achieves perfect justice. The scriptures provide no prescription or no equivalent of a legal safe haven for this issue. Humans are left with a moral paradox requiring them to come before Him in faith. His solution compromises neither His righteousness, nor His unconditional love in guiding each person who lives in a fallen world, and struggles with aspects of a fallen nature which may include falling into a trap of homosexual behavior.
Others may construct apologetics for homosexual relationship or marriage by using comforting social justice homilies to weave together selected Old and New Testament scriptures, but these are intellectually flawed approaches. Jesus teachings are prophecies about life based on relationship in Him, and not prescriptions of behavior standards to gain admittance to His Kingdom of Heaven. In advocating homosexual relationships, Christian leaders must abandon sound scholarship to fabricate a god of their own design. The result is comforting, popular, and easily controlled.
C. S. Lewis knew that the Christian God was not a tame lion. The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob remains timeless, all knowing, all powerful, terrible, unconditionally loving, and awaits humanitys plea to Him.
Sodomites were the problem.
This whole shameful, inexcusable, gut-wrenching abuse crisis has revealed two "links" concerning the Church: the "strong link" here is doctrine, which is excellent; the "weak link" has been discipline, or in other words, enforcement, which in many places ha been disgustingly lax. But that's turned around under Benedict XVI: he has made it his priority, and that has made a world of difference. And it's about time. Thank God.
Good article here (Link), followed by some very penetrating comments. It may be of interest to you.
They started dumping them when they had to shell out millions; now it is reason to be barred from the seminary. Took a lot of money lost to motivate them, but I think that little lesson in tolerance is over. The days are gone when anyone is going to cover up for a freaky priest; costs just too much, and some of these officials must know how close they themselves came to being charged as accessories.
Hmm... Homophobe = victim = government grant. I sense a business opportunity here.
The countries that oppose the liberal/progressive agenda are the ones populating the world, while the decadent West recedes into the shadows with their diminishing birthrates. Unfortunately for Western libs, the pets they have instead of children can't be indoctrinated in the New Way...
Some African countries that also have Christians and animists are very "intolerant"; the Anglican bishops in West Africa were furious about the promotion of that "gay bishop" (Robinson?), and many left the larger body in protest. When the Western churches threatened to withhold funds from their African brethren, most of them didn't bat an eye and walked out. One of their bishops publicly proclaimed that the episode demonstrated that Satan was alive & well in the Anglican union.
The whole structure of the Church is filled with the enablers or sex offenders who have assulted the most vulnerable among us.
Not everyone is guilty and the Catholic Church is one of the few standing up to the homosexual agenda. And I'm not Catholic.
Sodomy nazis invented the word homophobe to disparage and prevent rational thinking on same-sex attraction disorder.
What sodomites really want in our society is affirmation—enthusiastic endorsement—and they dont care if it comes at the point of a gun. There is a reason that they seem compelled to broadcast their practice of sodomy to the entire world, with stickers, flags, marches, indoctrination of children, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Its not about rights: thats just boob-bait for liberal bubbas. What they really want is for every single human being to applaud, pat them on the back, and tell them how strong and great they are for being sodomites, whenever and wherever they prance in and commence to swan about. They want to thrust their perversion into the face of each individual resident of planet Earth, and be met with nothing but compliments and homage. Not even that will make them happy, though, as theyll still have to deal with their awareness of the disordered nature of their behavior.
A good refresher is always helpful:
No need to differentiate between "homosexual" and "pedophile" priests, as they are virtually always one in the same. The media never wants you to know that overwhelming majority of complaints against Catholic priests were based on "consensual" relationships between those priests and gay teens who later found out from lawyers and people who played lawyers on TV that the money store was officially open. Not that statutory rape is excusable, but hardly the same as honest to goodness pedophilia. Sad, really, because a lot of that money that went to pay off those fag teenagers who had second thoughts would have gone to people who really needed it. The Catholic Church is the largest charitable organization on the planet. Sad also, because the idea of a "pedophile priest" is basically a fallacy. For all intents and purposes, none of the "victims" were little boys (or little girls for that matter). A Catholic priest is actually less likely to sexually abuse a minor than the male population in general. And pedophilia accusations are generally less common among among the Catholic clergy than among the clergy of just about any other religion you can name? Why? Easy: There is significantly more accountability and oversight within the Catholic clergy than in the other major (and minor) religions. That's the point of a hierarchy in the first place.
So where did this stereoype come from? Partially from the liberal media: The Catholic Church is, of course the world's greatest advocates of the pro-life, pro-family, anti-homosexual, pro- private charity, and pro-decency initiatives. Liberals hate that. Also, Catholicism being the nation's (and the world's) top religious denomination, there is a larger sample of priests to choose from, and a story makes a greater impact when it comes from there. Finally, as evidenced on FR, there is still plenty of anti-Catholic bigotry to go around in this world. A perfect example is a thread like this. A story written by homosexual criticizing the Church, always attracts a few jackasses who need to take his side and find another irrelevant fault to pile on.
The MSM loves to attack priests for something they are statistically no more guilty of than anyone else. Kids are actually in far greater danger in any number of situations, so why doesn't someone try to hijack every thread about coaches, or karate teachers, or scout leaders, or camp counselors, or day care providers, or rabbis, or ministers, or public school teacers. Shouldn't have to think too hard. You already know the answer.
And what about your own religion (as Christ would certainly say if he were on this trhread)?
The number of convicted priests the amounts of money spent to settle claims, the bankruptcy threats of dioceses and the institutional cover ups by relocating priests are overwhelming evidence of RICO violations.
Don't go for the head fake. Look at what they are doing not what they are saying.
Christ had not trouble with driving out the money changers from the temple; I'm sure he would have no trouble taking aggressive action to the perverts that institutionally abuse those whom he said, "Suffer the little children and bring them unto me."
Do your home work an the concept of "Turn the Other Cheek" it's not what you think.
God, and by extension, Christ can be angered. They are just slow to anger.
Clearly you either do not understand the nature of the problem itself, or you are being intentially liberal with your metaphor. Either one disqualifies you as an imparial critic.
And the first thing Christ would tell you would be to fix the problem in your own house before worrying about what goes on in other houses.
Catholicism does not presume to be perfect. Identify your own perfect faith and I'll look into it.
Just gotta say that it seems like you're baiting the trolls by posting this crap. I mean, seriously. A homosexual activist from Portland, Oregon in "The National Examiner??? At least the comments on this thread are better reasoned than the original article.
I think they had a deeper problem with a seminary cabal similar to those organized by gay men in other churches. The gays succeeded in rolling the Western Anglicans. (IMHO they used female ordination both as a stalking-horse and as a strategic ploy: I'll scratch your back if you'll scratch mine, and together we'll mug the squares totally.)
s The homosexual Anglicans still have to deal with the Imperials -- Church of India, Anglicans in Africa and elsewhere who refuse to drink the Kool-Aid.
The Catholic Rota is on the job now after taking four or five years to realize the depth of the problem.
The Lutherans, Methodists, and Presbyterians are very, very close to getting rolled, if they haven't been already. This conspiracy has been underway since the mid-60's.
My estimate of the situation, anyway.
Gays abuse "phobia" and "phobe" deliberately as a propaganda technique called "jamming", trying to make righteous, honest people feel bad about themselves not on merit but out of direct, hostile malice aimed at shutting them up and shaming their honesty, dishonestly.
It's pure evil. Pay them no mind, except to contradict them -- with a bullhorn, if necessary.
Many good points; the homosexual priests set up the Church as an easy target for detractors. The consensual side of many of these relationships has consistently been ignored by the media; I have no problem with ignoring that for a minor, but here in NJ we had a 53 year-old man claim he had been abused 20 years before...at the tender age of 33. The media reporting the story felt no need to question or analyze this bizarre claim.
As long as the Church was acting in a similar manner to the civil authorities in terms of treatment and return to work, it is difficult to attack them; later actions (when governments started "civilly committing" such predators - imprisoning them beyond their sentences due to their own admissions that it would happen again) were unexcusable. The number of teachers in the NYC public schools involved with these crimes was incredible, as exposed by the Catholic League in demonstrating how the Church alone was being targeted.
Some people had valid reasons to attack the Church; others saw it as a useful battering ram. Groups like Voice of the Faithful were exposed when they switched from demanding accountability from to changing the structure of the Church.
Well put; many of those Protestant denominations will split with a smaller, conservative group remaining true to some form of Christianity while the larger, "progressive" body becaomes a political shell organization with nothing that can be traced to the New Testament. The basic flaw of their model is that the diseent that created them is their undoing; permissive attitudes towards abortion/contraception, divorce, homosexuality, etc. means that NOTHING can be "off-limits". The "religious left" is a myth because there are no 2 members that agree on anything theologically; their unity is political, as is their whole focus.
What a lovely precedent to set for suing and closing churches./s
I guess that's why the Philadelphia just suspended 21 Priests on March 8 of this year. Also they have a Monsignor up for covering up and hiding these Priests.
Yes: I thought it was taken care of too, but it seems there are a few lingering around.
The word he is trying so desperately to avoid writing (as it would expose his true agenda) is "acceptance".
I don't have to do any such thing. These organized perverts, under the guise of religion, need to be prosecuted.
It it telling that you do not attempt to discuss the facts; you just want to immune the character of one who is just shining a light on a very despicable practice.
The pervasive and ongoing behavior of the vilest kind, in the name of religion, should be confronted and rooted out, not given a pass by selling it as a religion.
Just do the research and do the math; what is happening is pure evil and it is systematic. The Church is being given a pass by letting it buy its way out of this mess. But, the mess goes on.
But I believe these are the end times and you WILL eventually get your wish. It won't be to your liking though.
That's right, the Archdiocese suspended 21 priests in response to a GJ report, one whose fairness is easily questioned.
These priests haven't been convicted, and only two priests and one archbishop have even been indicted, along with a former priest who was laicized before the FIRST Philadelphia GJ. And the behavior alleged took place in the 90's and earlier.
Of course, I guess the 4 indictments justifies taking another bite at the GJ apple, since the 2006 GJ returned ZERO indictments.
As for the suspensions, I suppose you could criticize that, but I thought people wanted the Church to act on any allegation, no matter how spurious.
I'll wait for convictions, myself.
What? Unconstitutional? All I'm saying is prosecute, using the Law under the Constitution to purge the Church of the sickest and most vile of perps. If there is enough left to have a church, so be it. That church doesn't have just one Elmer Gantry, Swaggert, or Baker, it is rife with pedophiles. Why are you defending that mess?
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Forest's resounding win left the club in eighth place, just one point adrift of the npower Championship play-off places.
But it was not enough to save O'Driscoll, who left Crawley in the summer to take over at the City Ground, and Forest are now targeting a replacement with Premier League experience.
Reds chairman Al Hasawi told club's official website: "The timing of our decision may look a little odd after the win over Leeds but sometimes you need to make changes with the long-term future in mind.
"Sometimes those changes need to be made from a position of strength rather than weakness and that is what we are trying to do.
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Al Hasawi admitted the decision was tough on O'Driscoll.
He said: "We cannot speak highly enough of Sean as a man.
"He was appointed at an extremely difficult time for the club and can count himself unlucky to have lost his job with the team just one point away from the top six.
"But we have a responsibility to look to the future for this great club because we have huge ambitions for it.
"We knew when we bought the club in the summer that it would take time for the players we bought in to settle but that process has taken longer than we anticipated.
"We feel we have developed a really strong squad of players but are still searching for consistency in terms of team performance, underlined by the fact that we have not won more than two games in succession in the Championship this season.
"And with the January transfer window approaching, we feel it's the right time to make a change."
The statement concluded: "The club will be making no further comment at this time."
Forest striker Billy Sharp, who turned the match against Leeds around with two goals, responded to O'Driscoll's shock departure by tweeting: "gutted that ruins a decent day".


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China's Shenhua Ningmei Coal Group has placed a follow-up order with Siemens Energy for four identical CO2 compressor trains. Each train consists of one STC-GV integrally geared compressor driven by an SST-600 condensing steam turbine via an intermediate gear.
The SST-600 is a single casing steam turbine designed for operation with speed ranging from 3000 to 18 000 rpm for generator or mechanical drives up to 201,153 hp (150 MW). The turbine is used for both condensing and back-pressure applications, either geared or directly coupled, the company said.
The scope of supply also includes the associated auxiliary systems.
The compressor trains are destined for a coal liquefaction plant in Ningxia Province, in the northwest part of the country, and are scheduled for delivery in the summer of 2015. The end customer is Shenhua Ningxia Coal Industry Group Co. Ltd. (SNCG), a subsidiary of the Shenhua Group, the largest coal producer in China.
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Do Double Taxation Treaties Increase Foreign Direct Investment to Developing Countries?
Eric Neumayer
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
February 1, 2006
Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 43, No. 8, pp. 1501-1519, 2006
Developing countries invest time and other scarce resources to negotiate and conclude double taxation treaties (DTTs) with developed countries. They also accept a loss of tax revenue as such treaties typically favour residence-based over source-based taxation and developing countries are typically net capital importers. The incurred costs can only pay off if developing countries can expect to receive more foreign direct investment (FDI) in return. This is the first study to provide evidence that developing countries that have signed a DTT with the US or a higher number of DTTs with important capital exporters actually do receive more FDI from the US and in total. However, DTTs are only effective in the group of middle-, not low-income developing countries.
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Veterans Day 2013 is the highlight of the year for all vets and those who honor and support them.
Nov. 11 is Veterans Day throughout the United States and territories.
'This day is specially set aside by a grateful America to honor it's nation's military heroes and all those who serve now and have served our country in the armed forces, here at home and abroad, in war and peacetime." Noted Lt. Colonel Jim D. Henderson (USAF ret.) coordinator and master of ceremonies. He added, "Freedom is never free and this day honors those who know this very well in terms of sacrifice, time and sometimes even the dearest things one cherishes."
Activities for Wilson County and communities will get underway in Lebanon at 10:30 a.m. at the corner of South Hatton Avenue and West Main Street as the annual parade begins. It is expected to one of the largest ever held in Lebanon on this day. The parade will travel to the square and continue up East Main to the Wilson County Courthouse where the ceremony will be held at 11 a.m. concluding in approximately an hour with a 21 gun salute and playing of taps.
Restored and preserved military vehicles, grand marshals, Gold Star Mothers, color guards, bands, veterans organizations, JROTC units, emergency providers and equipment, active services, and many others will parade up West Main Street, around the square and East Main St. in front of cloud waving, applauding and appreciative persons of all ages who line the parade route. All veterans are very much encouraged to attend with their families and participate by marching with other vets or riding and fellowshipping with others. Transportation will be provided for them and their families back to their parked vehicles at the library after the event.
Grand Marshals for the parade this year are: Army Captain (Dr.) H. Bert Coble and Private First Class Paul Curtis. Both are veterans of WWII in which PFC Curtis was a prisoner of war and Capt. Coble is also a combat veteran of the Korean War and former tank commander.
Capt. Coble is the principal speaker at the ceremony which begins at 11 a.m. He is a noted lifelong educator serving as music director and professor at Cumberland University, and founded and toured with an international and national choral group. This year is especially notable for him as he has just turned 90 years of age and this is the 60th anniversary of the end of the Korean War.
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And On the Eight and Final Night of Chanukah My True Love Gave to Me . . .
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December 08, 2010:
The 8th and final Night of Chanukah
Chabad put out a series of promotional videos for Chanukah 2008 that were inspired by the "Yes We Can" video created Will.I.Am (which in turn was inspired by a speech given by Barack Obama). It seems each Chabad center had their own version. This version is for Chabad Poway (Ca). Other versions included Chabad Malibu (Ca) and Chabad Stony Brook (NY)
And even though these are from a few years ago I felt that they were very inspiring and a great way to finish up Chanukah 2010. With a little "Hope."
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It was the bold encouragement offered by Moses to a nation yearning for freedom
Yes, we can!
It was the phrase that kept our hopes alive during historys harshest times
Yes we can
Yes we can
It was spoken defiantly to those wishing to stamp out religious freedoms
Yes we can
When triumph seemed beyond reach; G-ds miracle was not. In hidden caves, attics and cellars His people courageously whispered:
Yes He can
THIS was the message that G-d sent the world when a small team of Maccabees vanquished an entire army. Restoring unity, freedom and hope.
Yes we can
Yes we can
And was the comforting answer to the girl in Communist Russia who wondered: Will the Menorah ever openly shine in my life?
Yes. We. Can.
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