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Life in Christian County, Kentucky... More About Birds and Animals...
I'm excited about seeing a pigeon in our yard today. There are several reasons why this is a noteworthy event:
- In 17 years, we've never seen a pigeon in our yard before.
- The pigeon is extremely tame.
- The pigeon has a red band on one leg and a green band on the other leg.
- The pigeon is roosting in the tree outside our living room window tonight.
We think he is a homing pigeon that is supposed to be in a race but has lost his way. I don't know when he arrived, but I first saw him about 2 p.m. He was looking for dropped seed under the bird feeder.
We gave him some water in a dish and sprinkled some sunflower seeds on the ground for him. They are probably not his favorite food, but he ate them.
After pecking around for a while, he nestled against a tree trunk and fluffed up his feathers. He rested there for a couple hours. Then he ate some more. Finally he flew up into the tree late in the afternoon. He's sitting on a little bump on a branch about 25 feet above the ground.
We were thinking about trying to catch him tomorrow to read his legbands, but now I don't know if we should. I've read a page about lost homing pigeons that says the owners want the bird to fly on. Food should be offered just for a couple days, they say.
At least, now I do know what to feed him -- popcorn (unpopped) and rice (uncooked). We'll try that tomorrow.
The pigeon is very jaunty looking -- beautiful, really. He has an irridescent neck, nice markings, and a very smooth set of gray feathers.
I didn't get his picture while he was on the ground. I tried to photograph him in the tree with poor results. So if you want to see what he really looks like, LeggNet has a good photo that looks a lot like our pigeon.
UPDATE (Sunday afternon): We didn't see him this morning and we thought maybe he had flown on. After church, I drove to Murray, KY, to see Keely but my husband came home. He called to tell me that the pigeon was back.
I bought some bird food that has cracked corn and millet in it, and we will try to lure him into a trap with it tomorrow.
Then maybe we can see if any information is on his bands and contact the Pigeon 911 group, as has been suggested in the comments.
There are still several hours of daylight, but he has already roosted high in a tree in the yard.
The pigeon saga continues: Pigeon Games
Related website: U.S. Navy instructions on carrier pigeon care (from 1912)


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1. Holiday Ice Lanterns (my personal favorite!) by Belle Noelle.
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5. Glitter Glass Votives by Shelterness.
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National Parks: America's Best Idea, The (US - BD RA)
Gabe takes a stroll through the beautiful refuges of America with Ken Burns...
America's National Parks have a special place in my heart thanks to my father, who took it upon himself to drag me to as many of these natural refuges as he could. Though my review time is limited these days I was happy to sit through all 12 and a half hours of Ken Burns' latest public television opus. Having seen much of Burns' other work I was prepared for the experience, for the most part. Burns' work quite often devolves into self parody, and concerning simple taste, I often find the man's films overlong, the victim of slow-handed editing. The National Parks: America's Best Idea is no exception. Burns' docs should be grand, and should cover huge arcs of time and history, but in his artistry the director tends to lose focus to flowery quotations read by faceless celebrities, meandering interviews filled with a few too many subjective opinions, false endings and goofy dramatic pauses. The matter of fact presentation of the subject matter is sometimes a bit too easy-going for its own good. There's little suspense or surprise in story. If I were a 12 year-old I forced to watch the series by a zealous teacher I could imagine the process as tortuous. I'm an adult with an interest in the subject matter, and a relatively enduring attention span, and even I dozed off a few times. Otherwise, this stuff is painfully perfect, and thus ends the minutely negative criticism I can muster.
The set's first disc, 'The Scripture of Nature', features an exploration of the very idea of giving ownership of large sections of land to all citizens of a nation. Despite the trumping hobnail boots of manifest destiny a select few were able to convince those in power of the value of maintaining the nation's natural wonders, partially to celebrate the country's natural advantages over Europe, and partially out of sheer awe. The non-natives that first visited these places (in most cases starting with Yosemite) were so struck by the grandness of it all they found themselves religiously enraptured. The success of the system often came out of the same fervent entitlement manifest destiny did – this was our nation, and we were going to maintain this beauty. It's too bad the natives and the animals weren't quite so fortunate in the aftereffects, but at least we didn't chop down the damn redwoods, right? This disc also features stories of the first 'Americans' to 'discover' Yellowstone (our Native American interviewee rightfully thinks this is silly), which was so utterly otherworldly it was considered a fictional place. Those who have visited the park know how hard it is to understand without seeing it. Yellowstone was marked as the first ever National Park, mostly due to railroad interests, and unlike Yosemite the land was quickly exploited. This particular disc ends with tales of continued efforts by the project's godfather, John Muir, to keep the parks from becoming commercialized.
The second disc, 'The Last Refuge', starts with the new parks already in danger, and really picks up the pace concerning likely unknown factoids (I certainly didn't know a lot of this stuff). The rampant tourism was cheapening the nature and literally destroying it with the build-up of hotels, roads, and litter, and there were still few laws concerning logging and the killing of wildlife. The US Army was officially guarding the parks against idiotic tourists, and bloodthirsty poachers, and many of them died in the harsh wilderness. Even more historically interesting some of these soldiers were of the Buffalo variety. Likely the most historically known aspect of the whole story comes into play here – that of Theodore Roosevelt's involvement in the project, and his relationship with Muir following his election as president of the United States. This episode begins to splinter the story towards the end, which opens the door to the chronicles of many unlikely heroes, including Rudyard Kipling, who's cynical reaction to fellow tourists, and beautiful descriptions of Yellowstone's grandeur helped bring attention to the park, and many amateur archeologists who helped insure sites like Mesa Verde would be protected under the then new National Monument title, which was reserved to man-made wonders.
Disc three, 'The Empire of Grandeur', starts with Muir dead, and Roosevelt out of office, but the success of the parks marched on thanks to the efforts of one Stephen Mather. Mather saw that the parks weren't being maintained despite the efforts of Muir, and were reserved in title only. The self-made millionaire basically volunteered to oversee the government project, which is an almost unprecedented story in American political history. The seat almost drove him to suicide. Horace Albright picked up the baton while Mather sat in a sanitarium, and made a special effort to preserve the parks' animals. Mather and Albright ushered the National Parks Service onto the scene to take over for the bored and tried Army soldiers that had been maintaining the parks for so long. This episode attempts to bring the Native Americans back into the story, but things turn back to the same money grubbing habits, which ended up saving and damning the parks once again thanks to the efforts of various railroad companies. WWI, ironically enough, helped. The Indians were hired as additional tourist attractions by the railroads. Not exactly the least demeaning job for a once proud people. Other subjects of this story include the finalization of the Grand Canyon's place as an official National Park, and new park acquisitions, like Hawaii's volcanoes, which were popularized by Mark Twain of all people, Mt. McKinley, which is photographed by Burns more dramatically than anything in the collection, Mt. Zion, the Great Basin, and Bryce Canyon.
The plot thickens on disc four, 'Going Home', as the terminally depressed hero (Mather) and his stalwart sidekick (Albright) make a deal with the Devil by supporting the latest form of cross-country momentum – the automobile. Mather wanted tourists, at almost any cost, and found it difficult to find a balance between commerce and conservation. By supporting cars and highways the keepers of the park service were able to wrestle the parks away from the railroad companies, but the vehicles obviously created pollution in the parks. The cars weren't a great idea, but the newly hired park rangers were. Unfortunately impending doom is more dramatically interesting than the story of Dudley Do Right, so I'm forced to admit that Burns lost me for a bit at this point. This eventually leads us to the story of Margaret and Edward Gehrke, who were the first people to officially start 'collecting' National Parks – a term that came to signify the process of gathering the windshield stickers that came with car payments. Clearly the car support worked, because this obsessive behavior is still practiced today. Meanwhile, another clinically sad man named Horace Kephart, joined forces with a Japanese immigrant named George Massa, and the two set out to topple an industrialized logging firm that was destroying the Smoky Mountains. Between increasingly long soliloquies on the beauty of nature, we also learn of continued trouble in the Grand Canyon, the acquisition of Grand Teton (boobs), and the quiet death of Stephen Mather.
Disc five, 'Great Nature', features the United States entering the Great Depression and WWII. Despite these hardships, and the deaths of Mather and Muir, President Franklyn Delanore Roosevelt made efforts to expand the park idea to include even more areas, including historic battlefields. During the Depression many young Americans found work in the parks, and in return the parks were given a lot more money and maintenance attention. Later WWII soldiers found solace in the parks between tours. Beyond these arching histories, the disc features another handful of interwoven stories. A young park employee named George Melendez Wright took it upon himself to take a scientific survey of the wildlife in the parks. This continues the theme of people going out of their way on their own time and dime to make the parks better, and reiterated the importance of the animals, which were often overlooked in favour of mountains and plant life at the time. Other parks brought into the fold during this era include The Everglades, Joshua Tree, the Olympic Peninsula and the Channel Islands. This disc also features the story of artist Chiura Obata, and other Japanese immigrants that found solace in America's natural beauties, and the story behind Ansel Adams' influential photography. In a stroke of filmmaking genius the two stories come together when Adams photographs the Japanese internment camps.
This take on the story comes to an end with 'The Morning of Creation', which covers the years between 1946 and 1980. The post war years were rough on the parks, as vets and their boomer children visited en masse. Yellowstone bore the brunt of the Eisenhower era, as seen in those famous Disney nature docs. The good news was that the Baby Boomers grew up with the parks, and were more likely to fight to preserve them in the future. The story pauses to tell the story of Adolph Murie (not Muir), who took effort to protect the wildlife in the parks, and who had more success in the long term than Wright, who died young. Murie's work defending predators was not immediately popular, but has had a lasting effect on the world's perception of wolves. Unfortunately the documentary barely touches upon the more recent reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone. The final chapter also features stories of continued battles between environmentalists and industrialists concerning the building of more dams, and more park acquisitions than you can shake a federally protected sequoia branch at thanks to the efforts of President Jimmy Carter. The doc ends before the narrative gets to the modern story of the George W. Bush administration's aims to draw oil from protected Alaskan lands (though continued conservation is an obvious theme).
The National Parks: America's Best Idea looks better on 1080i Blu-ray disc than it does on 1080i broadcast, but not enough to damn the television version. The advantage is a lack of compression artefacts, which cropped up on my set when I double-checked for the hell of it. The disc is far from perfect, but the problems that crop up are not the fault of the disc, rather they are a product of some less than perfect original footage. Burns and company have seemingly used state of the art cameras to record current footage of the parks, but the footage itself is often lacking in the clarity and cleanliness departments. Inconsistency is the name of the game. Occasionally an image will appear crystalline, almost too clear for reality, while other images will be wrought with digital grain and muddled details. The colours are usually impressive despite the clarity, but at times I think we're looking at upscaled NTCS footage rather than a full HD image. I'm not exactly disappointed, but there are surely better looking nature docs on the market. The interview segments are similar in their inconsistency, usually depending on the lighting schemes used to film the interviewees. Higher contrast lighting leads to more facial details. The most consistent pieces of the transfer are the black and white period photographs, which are almost exclusively beautiful in the purity of their hues and details.
The National Parks features a modestly mixed Dolby TrueHD 5.1 soundtrack. There's very little room for dynamic sound in the series' tone, which is akin to one deep, relaxing breath after another, but the important elements are clear and warmly represented. Directional effects are a practical non-entity, but there are several bits of folley and catalog sound effects used to illustrate the otherwise silent imagery. This is often pretty clunky once noticed, but for the most part the effects are low on the track, and presented softly in the center channel. Otherwise the track is devoted to the musical score, and narrative and interview dialog. Peter Coyote's voice is so ingrained in my mind as the voice of the documentation of Americana that he's actually startling to see on screen. The track does a fine job of subtly separating the tone of the narrator, and the celebrities that speak period quotes from the expert interviewees. The music is tonally perfect, though a bit repetitive come hour three or four (except the period popular music). For the most part the stereo and surround channels are devoted to this music. The center channel features very little music. The mix sets the music as a sort of wall of stereo on both sides, with very little discernment between the front and back channels of each side. The LFE is used mostly with subtly, but is important to the bass of the strings, drums, and Coyote's voice.
The extras start on disc one with 'The Making of The National Parks: America's Best Idea' (25:00, HD). This is less of a 'making-of' and more of an elongated trailer for the series (it's marked as a PBS Preview), featuring excerpts and interviews with Burns and the other filmmakers concerning the why of the production, a few shots of behind the scenes footage, and some even more subjective interviews with some of the series' interview subjects.
Disc two features 'Capturing the Parks' (23:00, HD), a location featurette and obvious companion piece to the first disc's featurette. This bit is more of a genuine behind the scenes exploration, covering many large and small aspects of the photography process, with a special emphasis on the people behind the cameras, some of whom were children when the production began.
Following disc three's six music video selections, disc four features two sizable outtakes. The first is an interview with Nevada Barr (7:20, HD), an apparently famous writer and ex-park ranger. Barr worked at various parks, so she has an interesting perspective on the subject. Her interview would've slowed the pace of the doc (even more), but her stories are a fine addition as an extra. The second outtake is entitled 'The Boss' (10:20, HD) chronicles the story of Frank Pinkly, who found himself in charge of Casa Grande monument in Southern Arizona. Pinkly fell in love with the site, and elected to stay even after he was offered a more illustrious assignment. In a case of truth being truly stranger than fiction, Pinkly died after giving a speech he'd waited his whole to give, and was buried near the ruins. Again, this outtake doesn't quite fit in the whole of the film, but stands as a nice mini-doc.
Disc five features a bonus mini-doc entitled The National Parks: This is America (44:20, HD). I suppose these sequences could be considered outtakes, but overall there's a whole lot of repetition between this section and the series proper. This is more like a re-editing of the majority of the person specific information found throughout the doc, mixed with a few more interviews. I'm not clear on the point of the exercise, but suppose that it at least works as an elongated preview reel, and the stories of some of the interviewees do add something to the whole experience.
The final disc features five more mini-docs that were shown on PBS between other shows. San Antonio Mission: Keeping History Alive (12:10, HD) visits the San Antonio Mission national historical park during the Day of the Dead celebration, and gives a brief history of the area and the mixed Catholic and ancient Indian celebration. Yosemite's Buffalo Soldiers (11:30, HD) delves a little more into the story behind the parks black soldiers than the documentary proper did, and follows a ranger named Shelton Johnson who enacts a sort of S.C.A. version of a Buffalo Soldier. Mount Rushmore: Telling America's Stories (9:30, HD) tells the tale of Ranger Gerard Baker's role as the first Native American on the site. Through Baker we learn about the alternate historical importance of the Black Hills area. Manzanar: Never Again (14:15, HD) looks at the current state of one of the Japanese American internment camp sites. I'd personally like to see even more on the subject, which I admittedly know very little about. City Kids in National Parks (13:50, HD) closes out the whole set with a trip to Death Valley on a bus filled with Las Vegas 7th graders.
Ken Burns' The National Parks: America's Best Idea is a bit of a trudge, but it's quite educational, and works to spurn interest in these magical places. This Blu-ray version of the series isn't the most perfect hi-def nature doc, but it's more than DVD can manage, so collectors with the ability will want to spend the extra cash. Those that thought they gotten enough the first time around when the series premiered on public television might be enticed by some solid additional features. The collection's a bit pricy, but sort of counts as a donation to public television, so buyers can feel a little better about the karma that will likely immediately sprout from their investment.
My personal checklist of National Parks I've genuinely explored looks something like this, assuming I'm remembering everything correctly: Saguaro (near where I grew up), Coronado, Casa Grande, The Petrified Forest, The Grand Canyon, The Santa Monica Mountains, Redwood, Mojave (the sand dunes), Bryce Canyon, Glen Canyon, Rainbow Bridge, Yucca House, Mesa Verde, Carlsbad Caverns, Grand Teton, Devil's Tower, Yellowstone, Mt. Rushmore, and The Badlands. I may have been to Yosemite when I was very young too, but I don't recall with certainty. I'm sure I've forgotten something. Where have you been? And Burns, where's that six part doc on American exploitation cinema I'm pretending you're producing?
Review by Gabriel Powers
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Disc Details
Release Date: 6th October 2009
Discs: 6
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080i
Aspect: 1.78:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby TrueHD 5.1 English, Dolby Digital Spanish
Subtitles: English SDH and Spanish
Extras: Making-Of The National Parks, Capturing the Parks, Outtakes, Music Selections, The National Parks: This is America, San Antonio Mission: Keeping History Alive, Yosemite's Buffalo Soldiers, Mount Rushmore: Telling America's Stories, Manzanar: Never Again, City Kids in National Parks
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Ken Burns
Cast: Adam Arkin, Philip Bosco, Kevin Conway, Peter Coyote, Tom Hanks
Genre: Documentary
Length: 720 minutes
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DOVER — St. Mary Academy officials are hoping baby Jesus makes a reappearance Christmas morning following the figurine's disappearance from the creche outside of the Central Avenue school sometime over the weekend.
Principal Carrie Wood said school custodian Paul Carle noticed that only half the manger in front of St. Mary Academy was lighted when he and his wife drove by Saturday.
Wood said whoever stole baby Jesus had to have put in some effort as the figurine was fastened into the creche with cable ties.
In stealing the baby from the manger, the thief or thieves disconnected about half the lights from the display.
The school reported the theft to Dover police. Calls to the department about the stolen figurine were not immediately returned.
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|Oct 28, 2013
Researchers discover a new protein fold with a transport tunnel
|(Nanowerk News) The protein LIMP-2 is vital for both humans and animals. If it is absent due, for example, to a hereditary disease substances of an unknown nature, probably lipids, accumulate in the organism. Up to now, scientists were unsure what the protein looks like and how exactly it functions. Privatdozent [senior lecturer] Dr. Michael Schwake from the Faculty of Chemistry at Bielefeld University (Germany) is doing research on the protein and thereby preparing the way for future therapies. Together with colleagues in Kiel, Toronto, and Boston, he has now discovered that the protein LIMP 2 possesses a novel protein fold together with a nanomicroscopically small transport tunnel. The researchers have published their findings on Sunday (27 October) in the globally renowned scientific journal Nature ("Structure of LIMP-2 provides functional insights with implications for SR-BI and CD36").
|The Bielefeld chemist Michael Schwake and his colleagues have discovered a new protein fold. At its head (the red helices), this protein can bind enzymes and viruses. The tunnel in the protein structure is coloured yellow.
|Proteins are composed of amino acids. Although these are lined up as if along a string, they produce a twisted three-dimensional structure of helices and sheets. It is only this pleating that enables them to influence biological cells. We are decoding the structure and function of proteins in order to find out how biochemical processes within them take place, says Schwake.
|To study LIMP-2, Schwakes colleagues from the Canadian University of Toronto have crystallized the protein. Then they can use X-ray diffraction analysis to ascertain its crystalline structure. When analysing the images, we detected a protein fold that has not been described in any other protein up to now, says Schwake.
|LIMP-2 is present in every cell of the human body. It is found mostly in the lysosomes of the cells where it ensures that a specific enzyme reaches them. Lysosomes are the stomachs of the cells and they break down harmful and unusable substances. A specific enzyme called beta-glucocerebrosidase is responsible for breaking down lipids. If this enzyme is defect or does not reach the lysosomes, these lipids will accumulate. Biochemists suspect that this is what causes Gauchers disease that leads to an enlarged liver and spleen.
|Schwakes studies confirm how LIMP-2 transports this enzyme. The protein has a head consisting of several helices on which the enzyme docks. We also managed to show that the protein is equipped with a tunnel through which it transports substances through membranes, Schwake reports. The biochemists have determined that it is highly probable that this channel is used to transport lipids away from the lysosome. We determined that by comparing the structure of LIMP-2 with that of related proteins, says Schwake. Two of these proteins are known to bind and transport lipids. The comparison suggests that LIMP-2 must possess the same ability.
|As a biochemist, it is not Schwakes job to develop a therapy his interest is in basic research, that is, in finding out how the proteins work in the cells. Our findings could be used to develop substances to cure diseases, he explains. Through our research, we now how ligands bind to the head and lipids are transported through the tunnel. One way to prevent this would be to deliberately disrupt the binding at these locations, says Schwake.
|Source: Universität Bielefeld
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Not just the economy
In the coming days the Republicans will try to distance themselves from U.S. Rep. Todd Akins' idiotic idea that women cannot get pregnant from "legitimate rape." They will even say that the whole issue is a distraction from the "real issues," but let's look at the history.
This idea is not a Republican Party anomaly as they want you to believe. Last March, in a discussion in the Kansas House about abortion policies, Republican State Rep. Pete Degreaf suggested women should plan ahead for rape the way he keeps a spare tire in his car. This year Rick Santorum suggested rape victims who become pregnant from an attack should be forced to keep the baby and make the best out of a bad situation.
More than 200 Republican members of Congress joined Todd Akin in sponsoring House Resolution 3. VP hopeful Paul Ryan can try to distance himself from Todd but Ryan's name is still on record in support of that bill.
Ryan says he changed his mind after the Todd debacle. He says he now stands with Romney and would not ban abortions in the case of rape, but he signed on to House Resolution 212 Sanctity of Human Life Act which would have done just that. It fits that Romney chose Ryan as his running mate. Who wouldn't admire the quickness with which Ryan can flip flop?
So yes, the GOP would want you to think that since 2010 their objective has been the economy, but don't be fooled. Close to 1,000 abortion bills have been introduced across the country and I don't see that many bills introduced to increase jobs, do you?
Even the Republican platform for their convention prohibits abortion for rape and incest. It is hypocritical that the GOP is for less government interference, and yet in women's issues, these Republicans feel they have the right to interfere.
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Blame falls everywhere
In response to Jon Laraway (Our readers write, Aug. 22):
Jon, you are entirely correct that Congress spends money, not the president. However, you have simply turned around and "blamed" Democrats when you chastise Anne Vance for "blaming" Republicans.
This is a national problem and the more we argue about who is to blame, the longer politicians will pocket special interest money and look out for what's best for themselves and who gives the most money, rather than the greater good of our country.
Dating back to President Nixon, Republican presidents and Republican-led congresses have added more to the debt-GDP ratio than Democrat-led presidents and congresses. That's just fact.
If you really believe Barney Frank and Chris Dodd are responsible for the economic meltdown in the financial services industry, then the county has a wonderful 30-acre tract of land to sell you out on Barrett Drive you can make into a nifty park.
The repeal of the Glass-Stegal Act of 1933 was lobbied for by the banking, securities and insurance industries to the tune of $225 million; we ended up with a piece of legislation written by the above industries and the names Gramm-Leach-Bliley (Republicans) attached, and named the Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999 signed by Bill Clinton (Democrat).
However, it should be noted that the bill had enough support in the House and Senate to override a threatened veto by Clinton. The safe guards that protected the American people for more than four decades after the Great Depression were now wiped out and a free-for-all ensued.
Both Fanny and Freddie were victims of the Financial Services Modernization Act; I will agree that poor decision and choices were made by Barney Frank, and yes, President Bush did request more oversight in regards to both institutions, but you left out the part of President Bush actually urging Congress to allow low-income families on welfare the ability to access funds through Fanny and Freddie to pursue the American Dream of owning a home. (Yes, he suggested using welfare money to help purchase homes.)
The majority of blame for the condition our economy is in today falls on the backs of the banking, securities and insurance industries and the $225 million they used to grease the wheels of Congress to push the FSM Act of 1999 through, and the myriad of poor choices by many since that day.
I think it's best summed up by a economist from Princeton University: "Instead of pointing our finger at a single, politically self-serving source, let's all grow 90 more fingers, so we can point the blame in all directions where it rightly deserves to be."
Peter Dallman
Hood River
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We've had countless discussions on here about the religious colloquialisms and sayings that others say that we tolerate (e.g. many don't mind something like, ("I hope you get better soon - I'll pray for you", or something as simple as "bless you" after a sneeze). But what about the other end of the spectrum?
What are the xian, or religious for that matter, sayings that drive you crazy or get under your skin? For instance, here are a couple of mine...
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Right, that does sound terrifying, because she's given up hope of any human providing a solution to a serious problem...which almost always equates to nothing changing. The worst part is, your attempt to get your needs met has just been totally shut down by that little phrase...because to a believer, only a person with weak faith would feel that waiting for the lord to provide is not good enough. In my family, that little phrase would be accompanied by an overt or covert message letting me know that my questioning the situation is akin to doubting god will provide, and perhaps our current situation was due to 'our' lack of faith. Mmmm, guilt, chicken soup for the Catholic soul. Sorry, I don't mean to be glib but I missed my share of meals too, and innapropriate, bad puns is how I deal with it.
You already mentioned the praying for and the sneezing ones so that's my biggest two... But they bother me so damn much. I'm tired of being told to pray for people, I'm not. I don't come to your house and tell you to read medical books about my problems, quit doing the same to me. And the sneezing garbage needs to stop solely because we're fully aware as a society now that it's not demon expulsion.
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"We are using the same data, we just have different interpretations" saith the creationist to the heathen.
I, the heathen, typically respond something akin to "Assuming that we are looking at the same data, has it ever occurred to you that you shouldn't start with a conclusion and force the data to fit the conclusion?" The typical creationist response is "You start with the conclusion that the Earth is 4.6 billion years old and life evolved because you don't believe in God. . ." It is difficult, from this point on, to explain how the scientific method works, and how "beliefs" like the old earth are reasonably supported claims, not conclusions or assumptions, and that there is much evidence for biological evolution. It is equally frustrating to show (prove, I suppose) that I did not start with these "conclusions". I had to see the data for myself in peer reviewed journals and text books. I may just stop arguing with creationists. It is tiring.
Or how about "You have just as much faith as I do", "Do you have faith in anything", or "Can't you just believe?" I could write pages about these alone, so I'll spare us the TL;DR.
Another one that gets on my nerves, as it does so many, is the ubiquitous "What would Jesus Do?"
Oh, I don't know for sure, but he sure as hell wouldn't store up riches for himself. Didn't he advocate selling all of ones possessions as the way to perfection? Sorry, I suppose that means you can forget about that private jet and big house, huh?
Ben a heathen is not an atheist it was usually referred to tribes that had their own god outside of the main religions. The scientific method is easy to understand. Someone comes up with a theory and a large group try to prove or disprove the theory. Galileo had his theory about gravity but in his day they didn't have rockets. So his theory that anything that went up came back down was wrong. For it's time it was correct. I imagine many of today's theories will fail the test in the future. As far as proofs about evolution there are many. Darwin did not say god had anything to do with it.
regarding heathen - I disagree quite strongly, and the "official" resources bear out my beliefs. As have many other words, the meaning of "heathen" has shifted - so much so that today the "common" or "slang" use has become the official meaning, i.e. heathen == nonreligious or atheist.
Just to verify that my thoughts were right on this, I did some checking here are my results - at least the top examples:
Google Definition (found by searching for "definition heathen" on G...
Noun:A person who does not belong to a widely held religion (esp. one who is not a Christian, Jew, or Muslim) as regarded by those who do.
TheFreeDictionary.com defintion for "heathen"
1. Offensivea. One who adheres to the religion of a people or nation that does not acknowledge the God of Judaism, Christianity, or Islam.b. Such persons considered as a group; the unconverted.
1: an unconverted member of a people or nation that does not acknowledge the God of the Bible
2: an uncivilized or irreligious person
1. an unconverted individual of people that do not acknowledge the God of the Bible; a person who is neither a Jew, Christian, nor Muslim;
As I just reread my response I think it could come across as brusk at the beginning - and I apologize for that, Halidom. I know that your statement about heathen was done as basically an aside, and was not the major part of your response.
So, please do not take offense, as none was intended. I just wanted to put my thoughts - and proof - out there about the term heathen. In fact, I have started a new discussion about it so we don't muddy the waters here with my sidetrack.
Move along, you looky-loos, mooove along... ;)
You could try saying that you start with no prior assumptions and just follow the evidence. And that he should do the same - ie, don't start with the assumption of God, etc.
Penn Jillette said it well (paraphrase from memory): If all religious things were to disappear, then people would re-invent them differently. If all scientific knowledge were to disappear, then it would all be re-discovered to be exactly the same.
Make him aware that scientists too used to believe the world was young. When biologists put forth the theory of evolution, the common _scientific_ argument against it was that the earth simply wasn't old enough for it to have happened. Even when geologists started to agree that it was, the astronomers and physicists said no, on the grounds that the sun could not be that old. Nuclear fusion had to be discovered before that issue was settled.
Far from "starting with" 4.6 billion years as the age of the earth, science had to be slowly convinced of it.
2 Corinthians 5:7:
"We live by faith, not by sight."
I've seen it all over religious merchandise, and it's profoundly irritating.
I have actually have gotten some of close coworkers to stop saying 'bless you' to me. But for that you have to be out at work, which can cause it's own set of issues. But what drives me nuts is "Maybe "insert good thing here" would happen if you believed." But at least they leave me alone because they have realized I know more about their own religion then they do...


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When they begin law school, many students are highly idealistic. They sometimes lose their way when they come to grips with the fact that their student loans are significant and the job prospects in the public and nonprofit sectors are weak.
Still, researchers trying to quantify the financial value of law school have found that, over the career of the typical lawyer, a law degree can generate up to a million more dollars in income than other college graduates will earn. For every dollar a law student spends to earn her degree, she has the possibility of earning between six and ten dollars in return. Some will make much more throughout their careers.
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A new fellowship, the Civil Legal Corps, hopes to encourage young lawyers to explore new models for financing the provision of legal services to low- and moderate-income Americans. Foundations and corporate philanthropic efforts have helped to fill the gaps in the provision of legal services to those in need. But all of these efforts are not sufficient to close the so-called "justice gap" — the overwhelming number of low-income people who must face great hardship without the benefit of legal representation. Many providers of free legal services turn away four prospective clients for every one they represent, and not because those prospective clients are not eligible for the services offered. It is simply because these providers do not have enough funding to meet the need.
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Increased funding for free legal assistance from all levels of government, and from the private and philanthropic sectors, makes good economic sense. It can channel the reservoir of idealism brimming in many incoming law school classes, even despite the many naysayers who assert that a law degree is not worth much.
Those lawyers of tomorrow who are committed to public service will find many legal needs await them upon graduation. Creativity and idealism can spark not just ideas for the delivery of legal services, but also generate new avenues to fund them, and stiffen the resolve of those committed to equal and full access to justice.
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IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 513-12June 19, 2012
The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office announced today that the remains of a serviceman, missing in action from the Korean War, were identified and will be returned to his family for burial with full military honors.
Army Cpl. Robert I. Wax of Detroit will be buried June 20 at Arlington National Cemetery. In August 1950, Wax and Battery A, 555th Field Artillery Battalion, were fighting against North Korean forces in a battle known as the "Bloody Gulch," near Pongam-ni, South Korea. After the battle, on Aug. 11, 1950, Wax was listed as missing in action.
IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 494-12June 14, 2012
The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the remains of two servicemen, missing in action from the Vietnam War, have been identified and are being returned to their families for burial with full military honors.
Air Force Lt. Col. Charles M. Walling of Phoenix will be buried June 15 at Arlington National Cemetery. There will be a group burial honoring Walling and fellow crew member, Maj. Aado Kommendant of Lakewood, N.J., at Arlington National Cemetery, on Aug. 8 -- the 46th anniversary of the crash that took their lives.
IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 464-12June 05, 2012
The Department of Defense announces that the United States and India have agreed to resume remains recovery activities in parts of Northeastern India.
The Department assesses that there are approximately 400 unaccounted-for service members from some 90 aircraft crashes in the area during World War II.
WASHINGTON, June 1, 2012 - A major retirement savings tool available to all service members and DOD civilians is the Thrift Savings Plan, and soon there will be a new way to save for retirement -- the Roth TSP, a senior Defense Department official said.
The Roth TSP, which uses after-tax dollars, will begin phased implementation this month for the Marine Corps, and in July for DOD civilians, said Barbara Thompson, the director of the Defense Department's Office of Family Policy/Children and Youth.
By Donna Miles American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, June 30, 2011 - Bronze campaign stars are now authorized for service members who have served in Iraq since Sept. 1, 2010, or in Afghanistan since Dec. 1, 2009, Defense Department officials announced today.
The new campaign stars, worn on the Iraq and Afghanistan campaign medals, recognize service during Operation New Dawn in Iraq and the Consolidation III campaign phase in Afghanistan.
NEWS RELEASE: 11-032June 29, 2011
DALLAS - With a value proposition of "You Save. We Give Back" and a mission to provide military shoppers with quality goods and services at competitively low prices, the Army & Air Force Exchange Service has to work double-time to deliver the savings troops have come to expect.
Military shoppers trying to squeeze the most out of their dollar, of course, have an edge thanks to the tax-free advantage they find at the Exchange. But the Exchange can save troops and their families even more thanks to Market Price Coordinators whose main duty is to compare the prices of top sellers in key categories with local competition at least once a month.
By Elaine Sanchez American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, June 29, 2011 - In an effort to address military spouses' employment challenges, the Defense Department today launched a program to expand career opportunities for military spouses worldwide, and to recognize the skills and talents they bring to the employment table.
Flanked by military spouses and corporate leaders, top government and military officials unveiled the Military Spouse Employment Partnership during a ceremony at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce here. The partnership encompasses more than 70 employers who have committed to opening their doors to spouse employment.
By Karen Parrish American Forces Press Service
MCLEAN, Va., June 29, 2011 - The parents of a Marine Corps sergeant killed in Afghanistan accepted a posthumous National Intelligence Medal for Valor on their son's behalf at the National Intelligence Directorate headquarters here today.
Sgt. Lucas T. Pyeatt, 24, a signals intelligence team leader from West Chester, Ohio, died Feb. 5 during combat operations in Helmand province. He was assigned to the 2nd Radio Battalion, II Marine Expeditionary Force Headquarters Group, Camp Lejeune, N.C.
By Julia LeDoux Fort Belvoir Public Affairs Office
FORT BELVOIR, Va., June 28, 2011 - Officials gathered here yesterday to break ground on a USO center that will offer a "home away from home" to wounded warriors and their families.
The event also marked the official launch of Operation Enduring Care, USO's $100 million support initiative.
By Cheryl Pellerin American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, June 22, 2011 - A new program called Hero Health Hire is the health care industry's commitment to make jobs available to some of the 10,000 wounded warriors who transition each month from the military into the workforce.
The 2011 Hero Health Hire Employment Summit, held here today, brought together senior government officials and military leaders, federal and local legislators, and health care industry representatives.
IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 539-11 June 22, 2011
The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the remains of five Army Air Forces servicemen, missing in action from World War II, have been identified and returned to their families for burial with full military honors.
IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 531-11 June 20, 2011
Airman Missing in Action From WWII Identified
The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the remains of a serviceman, missing in action from World War II, have been identified and are being returned to his family for burial with full military honors.
Army Staff Sgt. Marvin J. Steinford, of Keystone, Iowa, will be buried on June 21 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. On March 24, 1945, Steinford, along with nine other crew members, bailed out of their B-17G Flying Fortress bomber over Gic, Hungary. It had been hit by enemy anti-aircraft fire while on a bombing mission over Germany. Steinford and another crew member were struck by small arms fire while parachuting into a firefight between Soviet and German forces. The remains of the other crew member were found after the war where they had been buried by Hungarian villagers. The remaining eight members of the aircrew were captured by the Germans, held as POWs, and released at the end of the war.
According to accounts gathered by U.S. Army Graves Registration Service personnel in the late 1940s, Steinford's body was seen beside a German tank near Gic, but no further details about his exact whereabouts were recorded. Growing tensions in Soviet-controlled Eastern Europe closed off further U.S. access to Hungary.
In January 2003, in an effort to develop archival leads in Hungary from the Vietnam War, Korean and Cold Wars and World War II, a U.S. commissioner with the U.S.-Russia Joint Commission on POW/MIAs met with Hungarian officials in Budapest. Additional follow-up in Hungary by a DPMO researcher began to uncover specific information related to Steinford's loss. A second DPMO staff member, assisted by Hungarian academics and researchers, discovered archives and interviewed villagers who related first-hand information about the B-17G crash. Shortly thereafter the U.S. Embassy in Budapest notified DPMO that a local cemetery director had information directly related to Steinford.
He related that during a 2004 excavation and transfer of Soviet soldiers' remains at a war memorial and grave site in the city of Zirc, Hungarian workers discovered remains with a set of identification tags that bore Steinford's name. The dog tags were removed and all remains were transferred to another site on the outskirts of Zirc. What was believed to be Steinford's remains were marked with the Hungarian word "Cedulas," [translation: the one with the tags] and reburied. The dog tags were returned to U.S. officials in March 2005.
From 2005 through late 2007, DPMO facilitated negotiations between U.S., Hungarian and Russian officials. Finally, in December 2007, the U.S. chairman of the commission secured agreement with the Russian first deputy minister of defense to allow a July 2009 exhumation from the war memorial site by specialists from the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command.
Among other forensic identification tools and circumstantial evidence, scientists from JPAC used dental comparisons in the identification of Steinford's remains.
At the end of the war, the U.S. government was unable to recover and identify approximately 79,000 Americans. Today, more than 73,000 are unaccounted-for from the conflict.
For additional information on the Defense Department's mission to account for missing Americans, visit the DPMO website at http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo. Photos are available of Steinford and can be obtained by calling 703-699-1169.
Airman Missing in Action From WWII Identified [ http://www.defense.gov/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=14590 ]
IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 523-11 June 17, 2011
The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the remains of a serviceman, missing in action from the Vietnam War, have been identified and are being returned to his family for burial with full military honors.
Air Force 1st Lt. David A. Thorpe of Seneca Falls, N.Y., will be buried June 23 at Arlington National Cemetery. On Oct. 3, 1966, Thorpe's C-130E, with four other men aboard, failed to arrive at Nha Trang Air Base following their departure from Tan Son Nhut Air Base in South Vietnam. Rescue personnel found their remains at the crash site in South Vietnam eight days later approximately 40 miles west of Nha Trang. The cause of the crash is not known.
*IMMEDIATE RELEASE* *No. 518-11 June 16, 2011*
The Army announced today the promotion of a soldier listed as Missing-Captured while supporting Operation Enduring Freedom to the rank of sergeant effective June 12, 2011.
Sgt. Bowe R. Bergdahl, 25, is assigned to 1st Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, Fort Richardson, Alaska.
WASHINGTON, June 14, 2011 - WASHINGTON, June 14, 2011 ? The entertainment industry can help to shine the light on military families by incorporating their compelling stories into movies and television, First Lady Michelle Obama said yesterday during a panel discussion hosted by the entertainment guilds in Los Angeles.
Speaking to an audience of about 500 producers, writers, actors and directors, the first lady discussed her "Joining Forces" military-support campaign and how Hollywood can play a role in her quest to stir up national support for military families.
Hi there,
We are looking for people with a friend or family member who is on activeduty in one of the branches of our military that will be returning homesoon and have beat up/clunker/junker cars.
The Speed Channel want to surprise them upon their return with a car theycan be proud to drive.
June 10, 2011 - Elite Warrior Training Center (EWT) of Woodstock, IL recently announced that a portion of proceeds from its REAL Results for a Cause - a weight loss and nutrition program - will benefit military charities.
REAL Results for a Cause is designed to help non-profit organizations raise money while encouraging healthy eating habits and lifestyles among their members. The program offers a 35-Day REAL Food Meal Plan focused on helping participants lose weight and develop a lifetime of healthy eating habits. It includes over 100 recipes, 35-days of breakfasts, lunches, dinners, and snacks, convenient lists for Go For It foods and No-No foods, and more.
By Lisa Daniel American Forces Press Service
ARLINGTON, Va., June 13, 2011 - A Defense Department organization is making it easier for military spouses to maintain professional licenses as they move from state to state.
State Liaison and Educational Opportunity, an office of military community and family policy here, today announced that 16 states have adopted laws, or are close to doing so, to make it easier for military spouses to work in their career fields.
WASHINGTON, June 13, 2011 - A month after the Veterans Affairs Department began processing applications for primary family caregivers of eligible post-9/11 veterans, officials report steady progress toward delivering the new services and benefits.
VA began processing applications for new services May 9, four days after President Barack Obama signed the Caregivers and Veterans Omnibus Health Services Act of 2010 into law.
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|2007-02-24, 21:02
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'Struggling Single Guy' Stories
Hey, Im currently watching through 'Welcome to the NHK!' and I like the kind of themes this anime has. Im wondering if there are any of a similar description that I can watch once Ive finished with this one.
Basically, young-adult struggling with life, mundane jobs or unemployment, being single, maybe some kind of Otaku sorta theme might be cool, dont mind a bit of romance sorta stuff but not too heavy.
Ive seen Welcome to the NHK but nothing else of this description so any and all suggestions are welcome.
Thanks a lot
|2007-02-25, 04:18
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Thanks I'll check Planetes out - sounds cool from the description on AniDB.
Ye I should have mentioned Ive already seen Genshiken - and that is the kind of thing Im looking for. Doesn't have to be pure Otaku themed of Anime as I know there arent many of those but any that depict the dullness of 'regular' life and themes such as unemployment and being single would be cool.
|2007-02-25, 05:47
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Rozen Maiden Season 1.
It's main character is a NEET, trapping himself in his own room while he deals with living dolls parading around his house and fighting a game called Alice Game. The only issue is that the conflict of the single guy story is mostly secondary to the dolls.
Traditionally, there's always a number of "phoenix from the ashes life of one person" story. Rocky stories are always a famous story medium but I can't think of many that addresses the main character's issue from problems of such that's addressed in NHK.
|2007-02-26, 02:09
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Join Date: Apr 2006
I started watching Honey and Clover ages ago but couldnt get through it, I'll give it another shot once I finish NHK (3 episodes left).
Has anyone seen Bartender? If so what do they think of it? Sounds like a cool concept for an anime if its what Im thinking it is...
|2007-02-26, 08:52
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Hokkaido
Age: 69
I'll speak up for Bartender, one of the series I voted for (along with NHK) in that tops-in-2006 poll mentioned in the General Anime section. I like this show for a variety of reasons. First, it's definitely targeted at adults. Many of the characters are over 30, some are in their 60's. Much of the show concerns memories and regrets and how they might be tied to a particular alcoholic beverage, or perhaps resolved by consuming one. Even though Bartender might be seen as a slice-of-life type show, it's actually a fantasy as can be seen by the characters breaking through the "fourth wall," and by the theatrical lighting and staging effects that are used.
I recommend watching the first two episodes to see whether this show is for you. The first episode is mostly setting up the rest of the series, though it gives you an introduction to why Ryuu is called the "Glass of the Gods," the central conceit of the show. The second episode, about the hotel heiress Miwa, is one of the best anime episodes I've ever watched. If you don't like the show after that episode, you probably won't like the rest, either.
There isn't anyone in the show who's a parallel to Satou-san though, so it doesn't really fit this category of "struggling single guy" stories. If you're open to a "struggling single girl" story, I recommend Hataraki Man.
|2007-02-26, 18:31
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Age: 35
Otaku no Video. If you like otaku themed animes, you shouldn't miss out on this short, 2 eps, OVA.
|2007-02-26, 21:36
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Thanks for the suggestions so far, Im going to try Planetes and I'll try rewatching Honey and Clover again. Maybe I'll enjoy it this time around
Yeh so keep the suggestions coming, I'll give you more to work with:
Im looking for something with the same kind of atmosphere as Beck and things like NHK! - just a chilled out series with maybe a little bit of drama but not too much soppy romance sort of stuff. Is there anything with people just like, hanging out? I suppose kind of like Genshiken where they just hang out together and talk about Anime.
Maybe things set in a school environment but not too young.
Im going to check that Bartender out, but the Lunar release doesnt work well on my Computer so I'll try and find an alternative one. So far Ive only found Conclave's AVI version - if anyone knows any others that arent listed on AniDB please let me know. (Also I hope that its ok to talk about downloading Bartender, Im aware its still unlicensed. If im wrong let me know and I'll take it out of the post)
I also dont really like any 'cute' style stuff, or things with all female characters that are 8 years old.
So yeh without meaning to be too picky or annoying, keep the titles coming I appreciate all the suggestions! If you feel something is worth watching, then ignore everything I have posted and let me know about it. Im open to new things as long as they are good. I believe if something is truly good then it doesnt matter what Genre or Themes it has, anyone can like it!
|2007-02-26, 21:45
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Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: USA
Salaryman Kintaro
While it is quite different from Welcome to the NHK, another show you might check out is Salaryman Kintaro. The main character is a little older (probably in his late 20s), and he has a kid, but his wife is dead, so he fits the "struggling single guy" theme. Plus the show is pretty funny.
If you know about GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka, it is kind of like that. If you don't know about GTO, I suggest you check that one out as well.
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Car Deals
Truck Deals: May 2014
If you're looking for a new pickup, you've come to the right place to start your search, as we've listed today's top truck deals and incentives on several of our favorite new trucks. We've even focused on offers available for shoppers looking to lease, finance or pay with cash, meaning there's a deal for nearly everyone.
Chevrolet Silverado
The newly redesigned 2014 Chevrolet Silverado is available with several incentives in May, including a rare lease deal, which is good news for truck shoppers eager to switch pickups often. That offer covers the 2014 Silverado LT Double Cab, and it touts monthly payments as low as $299 per month for 36 months after $2,789 down at lease signing. Drivers who would rather pay with cash can also get a good deal, as Chevrolet is offering up to $3,750 cash back, depending on the Silverado of choice. Finally, qualified shoppers looking to finance can get interest rates as low as 3.9 percent for up to 60 months, a deal that also includes $500 cash back.
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Ford F-Series Super Duty
The full-size Ford F-Series Super Duty is a heavy-duty pickup that offers commercial-grade towing and payload capacities for drivers who need a serious truck. In May, it's available with several strong incentives for qualified drivers looking to finance or pay with cash. For finance shoppers, Ford has several available offers, including 0 percent interest for 36 months, 0.9 percent for 48 months or 1.9 percent for 60 months. Best of all, those deals are also available with up to $1,000 cash back. For shoppers looking to pay in full, Ford is offering up to $3,500 cash back on all 2014 Super Duty models.
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GMC Sierra
The newly redesigned GMC Sierra is a muscular full-size pickup with a luxurious edge. In May, the 2014 Sierra is offered with several incentives designed to entice shoppers interested in a new truck. For qualified drivers looking to pay in full, that means up to $5,250 cash back, depending on what model you get. For those looking to finance, GMC is touting interest rates as low as 3.9 percent for up to 60 months, which isn't as low as some rivals but understandable given the truck's new design. Finally, qualified drivers looking to lease can get a 2014 Sierra SLE Double Cab with payments from $299 per month for 36 months after $3,959 down at lease signing.
The RAM 1500 pickup is a brawny full-sizer with a long list of available bed, cab and engine configurations. In May, it's also available with a few incentives for shoppers interested in financing or paying cash for their next truck. For qualified drivers looking to finance, the 2014 RAM 1500 is available with 1.9 percent interest for up to 36 months, an excellent deal in itself but an even better one when paired with an available $2,500 cash back. Drivers looking to pay with cash can also get a good deal, as some trim levels of the 2014 RAM 1500 are available with up to $4,000 cash back.
Toyota Tundra
The full-size Toyota Tundra offers brawny styling, muscular V8s and a newly reworked interior with a focus on creature comforts. In May, it's also available with two incentives for shoppers interested in a good deal on their next truck. Qualified drivers looking to finance get the best deal, as Toyota is offering the 2014 Tundra with 0 percent interest for up to 36 months. Interestingly, Toyota also has a lease deal available this month on the Tundra: Put down $3,338 at lease signing and you can get a 2014 Tundra Double Cab for 36 months with payments from $339 per month.
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Hi, Hoboes! First, I apologize for this column's absence last Saturday. I was experiencing some technical difficulties and couldn�t email it. But those issues are now resolved.
Hi, Hoboes! First, I apologize for this column's absence last Saturday. I was experiencing some technical difficulties and couldn�t email it. But those issues are now resolved.
Anyway, I trust everyone has been enjoying our cooler temperatures and bright, clear skies!
Fall Festival recap
The long awaited "A Day in the Country Life� Fall Festival had a few glitches but was a wonderful, sunny occasion.
Due to military cutbacks and closures, the 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne)�s Green Beretscouldn�t participate in the opening ceremony as planned. And Pegasus, the famed miniature horse from Safe Haven Horse Rescue Center, attempted to leave the festival early, resulting in about 20 residents successfully subduing the stallion.
My booth with desserts, clothing, and arts and crafts didn't do so well due, I think, to where I set it up. However, we enjoyed the weather, music and other booths.
School happenings
Laurel Hill School report cards should go home on Tuesday. The second grading period has begun, and tutoring for LHS students � with parents� approval � is available every Tuesday and Thursday, except early-release day, until April. Sessions start immediately after school and wrap up around 3:45 p.m.
Tuesday, pre-K, kindergarten and first-grade students threw a "fall blast" on school grounds instead of going on the originally planned trip to a pumpkin patch. We Bounce provided bounce castles for the occasion. Thanks to them!
Meanwhile, second-graders ventured out to the Baker Corn Maze, and our itty-bitty Hoboes from Head Start went to the pumpkin patch at Oliver's Nursery in Holt. There, Head Start participants picked pumpkins, had their faces painted and enjoyed other activities.
Finally, you have until Nov. 22 to buy fruit to support the Hobo athletic department! Let�s support our Hoboes!
Amber Kelley lives in Laurel Hill. Send news or comments to email@example.com or P.O. Box 163 Laurel Hill, FL, 32567.


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"Going to Jail for Justice"
In December 2008, during the closing weeks of the Bush White House, 27-year-old environmental activist Tim DeChristopher went to protest the auction of gas and oil drilling rights to more than 150,000 acres of publicly-owned Utah wilderness. But instead of yelling slogans or waving a sign, DeChristopher disrupted the proceedings by starting to bid. Given an auction paddle designating him "Bidder 70", DeChristopher won a dozen land leases worth nearly two million dollars. D
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John is one of the funniest entertainers you will ever see! His comedy is funny and his magic is strong. What more could you possibly want from a performer?
On this DVD you will learn some of John's favorite routines that have made him one of the busiest magicians in the UK.
If you like good, strong, entertaining and funny presentations accompanied by strong magic and mentalism, you will absolutely love this DVD.
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My Party: Elise & Anna
Michelle and Kevin transformed their dining room into a happy, bright party space for Elise & Anna's very first birthday party: We used multiple variations on a polka-dot theme to create a springtime flavored birthday party for our twin daughters.
Friends and family snacked on bite sized treats including candies and sandwiches while being surrounded in a palette of orange, yellow and pink. The festivities were contained to the dining room which kept the atmosphere intimate.
When entering the dining room from the foyer, the guests were greeted with a Happy Birthday banner above the entryway made from a variety of card stock paper and foam backing to give the letters a 3-dimensional effect. The snack table was surrounded by floating paper lanterns each made up of two to four lantern balls arranged in a random pattern. Above the snack table hung a custom Happy Birthday poster that was a silly birthday theme variation on traditional Victorian wallpaper design.
The dining table was filled with white ceramic dishes each containing candies wrapped in the orange, pink and yellow colors and sitting on a white paper runner with paper polka-dots. The girls normally rain forest-themed high chairs were covered with white fabric and hand-sewn velvety polka-dots. The lunch ended with everyone eating chocolate cupcakes with homemade cream cheese frosting and ice cream. The cupcakes were topped with handmade folded paper flowers attached to a circular chocolate candy.
The party was a wonderful celebration of our first year as a family.
Thanks Michelle and Kevin!