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I was looking for a new manga to read, and I was wondering if anybody had any suggestions? I've read Hellsing 1-9, Trinity Blood 1-3, Death Note 1-12, Vampire Knight 1-5, xXxholic vol 1 those I really liked but I've also read D NAngel vol1, Guru-Guru Pon-Chan vol 1 which I liked as well. Thanks so much!!
- Rosario Vampire http://www.onemanga.com/Rosario-Vampire/_Rosario Vampire Capu2http://www.onemanga.com/Rosario-Vampire_II/_ Eureka sevenhttp://www.onemanga.com/Eureka_Seven/"I will be the GOD of this New World"
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Thanks so much for the names!! I'll be sure to check them out!! Thanks again! Human ignorance should and will be painful its only a matter of time...
i like the manga Rurouni Kenshin. the author Nobuhiro Watsuki also did Buso Renkin. i haven't read it yet but it looks interesting so you might want to check it out.
I love Manga and Anime
It's pretty cool Likes headphones... A lot.
Love... is just a different kind of pain.
.hack//yamato nadeshiko ( the wallflower)yu-gi-oh! "blood isnt enough..."
and i have a poster of it "some things are better left unknown"
I recommand you Shaman king, Demon king but, sincerely, Dragon ball. Billy-Bob
"some things are better left unknown"
I mean I like the anime I really do but sometimes it seems a little empty you know??Love... is just a different kind of pain.
< =D =) =. :D :) :. =P =f =B =b =O =X XD >D 8D 8) =5 =E =H :P :B X) >) 0) -) -D 0D o_O >
the manga only goes to the buu saga. dragon ball kai was made solely for anime and only had minimal direction from akira toriyama.
the manga Berserk. Though its more on the adult side, it has an amazing story line, deep characters, at tims funny, gorey, violent, sad, amazing story!
usually i'm into action, gun blazing and wierd magic, but i found a yuri manga called girlfriends. it is about a popular girl who starts hanging out with this smart girl and it is sweet and funny. sometimes it is good to just do a 180 and try something you'd never dream of reading...u might be surprised. "When the heavens do not bring forth justice, man must bring it upon himself to do so. That is the meaning of Jinchuu." -Enishi Yukishiro.
give me some action, guns, swords, magic of all kinds, decent plot, a little gore, actually some gore and blood is absolutely necassary I mean if some guy gets shot or stabbed and theres no blood, I'm like "What? What the hell that guy just got shot wheres his blood??? Thats not natural... :(" for sure some gore is needed and I'm all good.
I like Crimson Hero a lot too, I saw it in my library and I was like nah I wouldn't like it but I picked it up anyway and was quite surprised, it was realy good.Love... is just a different kind of pain.
try berserk, black lagoon, and monster. those should be more to your liking.
I don't really know those manga's, so I'm not sure what your into. There's a really good manga called : Genkaku Picasso. It's a real art themed manga. Really any age could read it. Lots of great moments. Unfortunately, volume one is the only one out at the moment. The second book is out in Feb'11. Try it out!
"Bow ties are cool!"-The Eleventh Doctor.
pig bride (comedy), +anima, ultra maniac (romantic? comedy), cirque du freak, loveless, immortal rain, it takes a wizard, dream saga, kare kano,& happy boys
< =D =) =. :D :) :. =P =f =B =b =O =X XD >D 8D 8) =5 =E =H :P :B X) >) 0) -) -D 0D o_O >
try rurouni kenshin by nobuhiro watsuki and his work buso renkin looks promising. tite kubo's bleach, akira toriyama's dragon ball, trigun/ trigun maximum by yasuhiro nightow,hellsing by kohta hirano, fullmetal alchemist by hiromu arakawa
Bleach is good, love Hellsing, haven't read ruroni kenshin, really really want to read trigun I loved the anime!!!, have to say I'm not much into Full Metal Alchemist though.... I don't know I don't like the drawing style it bugs me....Love... is just a different kind of pain.
rurouni kenshin is a period piece set in the 11th year of the Meiji government. it is about a wandering samurai who has taken the oath to not kill again. pretty good, you can now buy the thicker volumes.
there is a interesting manwha (korean manga) called dorothy of oz
kohta hirano has a new manga called drifters, you can try looking for scans online. it is pretty interesting.
RNR inc.
I feel like a kid in a kandy store when i read too much manga..did i phrase that correctly?
''Come back when you are ready to post again... even so i dont wasted my time for talking to a non believer''
says he likes action and gore, supernatural as well.
'' It hard for me to reach god form.. but i must keeep fighting to survive HUZZAH!''
"i shall return by gen mac aruther"
anything by rumiko takahashi is good, like inuyasha, ranma 1/2 and urusei yatsura have action, romance and comedy.
excuse me, urusei yatsura is out of print in the united states according to wikipedia, sorry.


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Bwhaha....@Baffled. No doubt you're 'baffled.' All left leaning folks are baffled by math, science and common sense. Educate yourself at a school NOT run by liberal professors and wake up from your coma.
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SLapdick, someone who doesnt know what the hell their doing, and proceeds to fuck up
what in the hell where you thinking you slapdick!
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slap dick- one for whom even the simplest task represents a monumental challenge. One who is forced to re-learn all tasks on a daily basis due to exceedingly low intellect.
When Evan confessed he accidently scalded himself in the shower every morning he was instantly recognized as a total slap dick.
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Someone who doesn't know what the hell they are doing or what is going on. An idiot who never knows anything.
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a shit-for-brains who doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground.
Rob is such a slap dick. He pissed all over his roommates key board last night.
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Slapdick,Someone who doesn't know what the hell they're doing and proceeds to fuck up
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af wolf15668 10. oktober 2013
usually referred to as "that guy" at a party or anywhere for that matter who just can't seem to say or do anything remotely intellectual or worth-while..
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Sometimes. Depends on the situation. Honestly, I don't like seeing him skate away from a ***** like Kesler. He should have went with him, whether it was a clean hit or not. Makes our whole team look bad when he just skates away.
I understand where you're coming from but I disagree. I love seeing the other team squirm and lose their focus and try to get retribution when they should be focusing on the game itself. Vladdy said it best: "I don't need to score the goal. I need someone to start thinking about me and forgetting about scoring goals."
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|When DNA Needs to Stand Up and Be Counted
DNA microarrays are small metal, glass, or silicon chips covered with patterns of short single-stranded DNA (ssDNA). These "DNA chips" are revolutionizing biotechnology, allowing scientists to identify and count many DNA sequences simultaneously. They are the enabling technology for genomic-based medicine and are a critical component of advanced diagnostic systems for medical and homeland security applications. Like digital chips, DNA chips are parallel, accurate, fast, and small. These advantages, however, can only be realized if the fragile biomolecules survive the attachment process intact. Furthermore, biomolecules must be properly oriented to perform their biological function. In other words, the DNA literally must stand up to be counted. Understanding both the attachment and orientation of DNA on gold surfaces was the goal of recent experiments performed at ALS Beamline 8.0.1 by an international collaboration of scientists.
The cornerstone of molecular biology is the study of the structure and function of biomolecules in solution. Likewise, the modified behavior of biomolecules on the surface of a chip or nanoparticle is the foundation of many areas of bio- and nanotechnology. However, characterizing the interactions between biomolecules and surfaces requires new measurement techniques, because most current bioanalytical methods are hindered by the inherently small number of molecules bound to a surface. Complementary surface-sensitive spectroscopies come to the rescue. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) provides quantitative information about elemental composition and surface chemistry. Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy adds molecular fingerprints and orientational information. Near-edge x-ray absorption fine structure (NEXAFS) spectroscopy probes electronic transitions between core levels and valence orbitals.
Short strands of synthetic ssDNA typically used in bio- and nanotechnology are called oligonucleotides or oligos. Oligos with "trivial" sequences composed of only one letter of the DNA alphabet (A, C, G, or T) provide simplified spectroscopic signatures while maintaining realistic DNA structure. Thymine (T) has the simplest nucleobase structure and provides nitrogen atoms and carbonyl groups suitable for complementary measurements by XPS, FTIR, and NEXAFS. Furthermore, features in thymine spectra allow one to distinguish DNA strands lying down on the surface from those standing up.
In excellent agreement, all three techniques showed that strands of five Ts (T5), synthesized without special "linker" groups for surface attachment, lay flat against the surface, while strands modified with a thiol (T5-SH and T25-SH) stood upright, anchored by strong sulfur–gold bonds. Furthermore, signatures of internal molecular ("secondary") structure could be observed by NEXAFS for the upright T5-SH and T25-SH strands. The nitrogen π* orbitals within the T bases could be selectively excited by photons with energies around the nitrogen absorption edge. The polarization dependence of the nitrogen π* intensities then provided information about the orbital orientations, from which the T-base orientations could be deduced. Only minimal preferential orientation was observed for Ts in T25-SH films, consistent with a random-coil-like secondary structure. The Ts in T5-SH, however, showed a surprisingly strong orientation parallel to the surface. This result was corroborated by XPS and FTIR.
The significance of these results goes beyond the structure of a few DNA oligos. For DNA, RNA, and particularly proteins, secondary structure strongly affects function and contains valuable information about molecular interactions. Therefore, the researchers are already extending these analysis methods to larger biomolecules, such as proteins, on surfaces.
The consistent structural information from all three ex situ methods can be best understood if it reflects the common initial in situ structure, thus providing an affirmative answer to the long-standing question, "Can ex situ measurements provide relevant information about biomolecules on surfaces?" Furthermore, both FTIR and NEXAFS with fluorescence detection (as used in this work) can be performed in situ, opening the possibility of studying biomolecules on surfaces using a label-free method that provides a revolutionary combination of chemically specific, structurally sensitive, quantitative results.
Research conducted by D.Y. Petrovykh (University of Maryland and Naval Research Laboratory); A. Opdahl, H. Kimura-Suda, and M.J. Tarlov (National Institute of Standards and Technology [NIST]); V. Pérez-Dieste and F.J. Himpsel (University of Wisconsin); J.M. Sullivan (Northwestern University and Naval Research Laboratory); and L.J. Whitman (Naval Research Laboratory).
Research funding: Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Office of Naval Research, National Research Council postdoctoral program at NIST, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Operation of the ALS is supported by BES.
Publication about this research: D.Y. Petrovykh, V. Pérez-Dieste, A. Opdahl, H. Kimura-Suda, J.M. Sullivan, M.J. Tarlov, F.J. Himpsel, and L.J. Whitman, "Nucleobase orientation and ordering in films of single-stranded DNA on gold," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 128, 2 (2006).


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Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett is taking a political football and running with it.
And by filing a federal anti-trust lawsuit Wednesday against the National Collegiate Athletic Association, with the goal that a judge will throw out the harsh sanctions against the Penn State football program for its mishandling of the Jerry Sandusky case, Corbett is clearly in the open field.
Corbett claims the penalties, which include an unprecedented $60 million fine and a four-year ban on bowl games as well as drastic scholarship reductions and the vacating of 111 wins from 1998 through 2011, were "overreaching and unlawful."
He accused the NCAA of "piling on" for its own image at the expense of not only Penn State but the entire state that counts on the school - and its football program - as an economic engine.
On one hand, very few, especially inside Pennsylvania, would disagree with Corbett.
Sandusky was arrested, convicted on 45 counts of child sexual abuse, sentenced to 30 years in prison - and likely will spend the rest of his life behind bars - while other officials in power at Penn State at the time either were charged for their roles and/or lost their jobs.
That includes former PSU President Graham Spanier, Vice President Gary Schultz and Athletic Director Tim Curley. Each was charged with perjury before a grand jury, obstruction, endangering the welfare of children, conspiracy and failure to properly report suspected abuse. They maintain the innocence and await their day in court. Former football coach Joe Paterno was also fired after admitting he did not do enough to stop Sandusky. He died last January.
To that end, those directly involved in the Sandusky matter were penalized severely.
Corbett is right that the sanctions too harshly affected those not involved - such as the current football team, the new football staff, all of Penn State's student-athletes and State College and regional business communities.
Penn State is not involved in this lawsuit. It was afraid if it challenged the NCAA after the sanctions came out in July, it might further risk its program so it accepted the sanctions and the Freeh report and used the terrible ordeal to create a better working relationship between the university and its athletic department.
On the other hand, obviously Corbett is considering the political ramifications.
He is a member of PSU's unpopular Board of Trustees and reportedly was a vocal proponent of firing both Spanier and Paterno. As attorney general, he originally started the Sandusky investigation and was widely criticized for taking too long to complete it while he was running for governor.
When the NCAA sanctions were declared, he accepted them but has now changed his mind.
He dismissed the notion that the state's historic lawsuit is tied to his attempt to get re-elected when he must run again in 2014.
"We're not going to get into the politics of this," he said.
Others will do that for him, but that doesn't mean this particular case isn't worth exploring to see if someone else - someone neutral - agrees that the NCAA overstepped its bounds. It's possible the sanctions could be reduced if not dropped.
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Found in the State of Massachuetss (mass-of-chusetts). Little boys who make shitty boyfriends and turn into heartless monsters after about a year and a half.
Trevor is a Chusett!!!!!!
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Noun. A humorous name for an unborn child. Could be for a boy or a girl. Not meant to be taken seriously.
There's a chusetts in there.
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The 5 Best Places to Make (Creepy) Friends
It's hard to meet new people once you leave school and enter the working world, especially if you are like me and majored in drunkenly surfing the Internet and watching Frasier reruns instead of going outside (with a minor in Russian literature). You could join a club for people who share your interests, but if your hobbies are mostly solitary (playing video games, reading, quietly crying into your whiskey at four in the morning and wondering where it all went wrong, etc.), they don't exactly have meetings down at the local community center.
Luckily, the Internet was invented to help the awkward and socially challenged find companionship. So if you want to make new friends but are worried you'll creep them out, you're in luck! At the following gatherings, nobody could possibly be any stranger than the concepts themselves.
#5. Eye Gazing Parties
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Have you tried speed dating but found the conversation to be stiff and forced? Then it's time to try something new! No, don't do anything drastic, like find a way to have meaningful conversations with people -- go to an eye gazing party, which combines speed dating with all the fun of silent, judgmental stares.
It's just like having a romantic evening out at the public library.
The creator of eye gazing parties, Michael Ellsberg, claims that his invention is a great way to "Meet Tons of New Singles Who Want to Meet You, and Be the Life of the Party." How will you be the life of the party? By looking into your partner's eyes and doing absolutely nothing else. We're told "the pairs switch up every two minutes, for a total of 45 minutes," suggesting that Ellsberg is as bad at math as he is at partying. But don't worry, it won't be awkward, because there will be "inviting beats in the background," which hopefully means "Hungry Eyes" on repeat.
Those of us who find extended eye contact with strangers uncomfortable (and I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that's basically everyone reading this) would disagree with Ellsberg's claim that eye contact is the "Cadillac of icebreakers." Unless he means it's like actually driving a Cadillac over thin ice, and under the ice you can see the Arctic piranhas gathering. Their teeth glimmer in the bright winter sun. They hunger.
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"I can tell by your cold and unfeeling shark eyes that you are indeed the life of the party."
But don't worry, the party's not all serial killer training. After the 45 minutes are up, you switch to afterparty mode, where the drinks flow and the music shifts to "luscious beats vibing." That's how you know shit's getting real. At this point, you can talk to the owners of the irises you memorized, allowing you to exchange contact information or, more likely, ask each other what you were thinking about while you eye-fucked.
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"This music sure is luscious, wouldn't you say? I'm sorry, where are my manners: My name's Chad and I'm a registered sex offender."
In fairness to Michael "The All-Seeing Eye" Ellsberg, he claims that the intensity of staring at strangers like you're a prison guard and they're an inmate on suicide watch is part of the experience, because compared to typical first date chatter, it's "fresh, frisky, and risky." Supposedly it's a lot easier to have a "mesmerizing conversation" with an "alluring new person" after exchanging blank looks for two minutes, and I suppose that's true. But while Ellsberg says it's because eyes are the windows to the soul, I say it's because you can both giggle about what an uncomfortable and stupid experience you just went through together and race to see which one of you can say "My friends convinced me to do this" first. With that in mind, you can look forward to my own new dating idea, Sexy Singles Farting on Elevators.
#4. Edwardian Foosball
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Foosball and the Edwardian era go together like albatrosses and OPEC -- nonsensically, because no sane person would think there was any sort of logical connection between them. But that didn't stop them from combining their powers like deranged Wonder Twins to form "A Game of 2 Halves," a speed dating experience with more arbitrary rules than most cults.
First, couples are paired up to play foosball. You probably already figured that out, but be patient for the sake of the slow readers, OK? Next, you have to choose a fantasy pseudonym to go by, like Lady Audley or Captain Constantinos. That, along with optional stick-on mustaches, forms the Edwardian portion of the evening (although it seems they're a little lax on name enforcement, as I don't think Sir Cookie Crumbles or Sir Cycle-a-Lot were actual members of the aristocracy).
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The first (and last) of his name.
Addressing other human beings by ridiculous fantasy names is fine if you're speed dating in Azeroth, but it's tough to pull off in reality without breaking into a mocking accent and wondering if you should have saved your time, stayed home, and e-masturbated with the gnomish shaman who claims to be a bisexual dance major.
Then there are the rules -- you can't ask anyone how old they are, what they do for a living, or how much they make. That's fair (especially since my answers would be "young enough that I should have better things to do," "write crude jokes for the Internet," and "not enough to pay for this beer, so if you could do me a solid ..."), but the enforcement of said rules with yellow and red stickers is a bit much. The last thing people attending the Speed Dating Game of Doctor Moreau need is to have a referee plant a red sticker on their chest and declare that they've been banned from the pursuit of love.
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"That's a penalty for discussing religion! Step 10 yards away from your date!"
The moderator helpfully suggests other topics, like how you eat your cream eggs (there's the real window into the soul) and what celebrity you'd want to be your butler, because that fits with the Edwardian theme, kind of, I guess. Presumably they also ask you what your favorite opium den is and which of the colonies you think produces the finest silks and spices.
Being in an environment where you have to refer to everyone by code names and obey the arbitrary conversational laws laid forth by an overseer sounds like speed dating in a soulless dystopia, but if you like foosball and being punished for expressing free speech, you're welcome to give it a shot. Just don't get a red sticker, because then you'll be suspended from your next few dates and they'll have to bring someone up from the minors to have sex with all the people you thought were attractive.
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"I say, that's hardly appropriate behavior for my loyal subjects."
#3. Pheromone Parties
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What if you want to have the terrible dating experience of an eye gazing party but have been afraid of eyes ever since you visited the optometrist as a child and he murdered your parents? Never fear, unusually specific demographic -- thanks to pheromone parties, "a matchmaking experiment based on scent," you can follow your nose just like Toucan Sam, except instead of finding sugary cereal, you'll discover the shattered remains of your innocent dream of finding love. So I guess it's more like being the Trix Rabbit.
Anyway, pheromone parties are based on the idea that we all create a unique scent to attract partners, while ignoring the fact that for millennia mankind has used perfume and cologne to disguise our natural musk. Hey, it works for lizards and spiders, so why not us?
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Although some just get by on their natural looks.
To prepare, you need to spend three nights sleeping in a clean cotton T-shirt. Once the shirt is drenched in eau de you, it's placed in a plastic bag and brought to the party, where it's numbered, colored blue or pink for gender, and thrown in a big pile of dirty laundry. You then party like you normally would, except throughout the night you go take whiffs of other shirts. Find one that excites the foreman of your olfactory? Head to the photo station to get a picture of you with the bag, preferably while flaring your nostrils and grabbing your crotch.
"Why does every woman I meet smell like Febreeze?"
At the end of the night, the photos are shown in the world's most unsettling slideshow. If you see someone holding your bag, you can go chat them up, safe in the knowledge that they won't be repulsed by your natural odor. It's the first dating game for people too lazy to do their laundry, and the only context in which a member of the opposite sex introducing themselves with the line "I love the way you smell" doesn't lead to you getting tied up in their murder sex basement. Have fun discovering a cute "how we met" story that you will absolutely never share with anyone!
The 'sex' part of 'murder sex basement' is a very loose interpretation of what she plans to do to the owner of that shirt.


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when two hobos partake in combat usually armed with nothing or maybe a broken beer bottle or pipe
bum fights usually happen under bridges
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When you pay two bums to fight each other to the death. The winning bum gets the deads bum's money
You: Hey, i'll pay you 20 bucks each to fight to the death
Bum 1: ok
Bum 2: sounds fair
-The fights starts-
-Bum 2 wins-
You: ok heres 40 bucks
Bum 2: cool
Bum 1: ok
Bum 2: sounds fair
-The fights starts-
-Bum 2 wins-
You: ok heres 40 bucks
Bum 2: cool
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Best damn video ever.
I'ma serve rocks. All day, all long.
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when two homeless people brawl for cash or booze
" it's called bumfights"
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Where you get stupid-ass hobos and pay them little or no money to fight and do other stupid shit for your own sick amusement.
Paying on to tattoo BUMFIGHT across his knuckles or his forhead for a couple slugs of whiskey.
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(noun) A well attended and lengthy drinking session.
"Where are we going for the bumfight this week?"
"How about Weatherspoons?"
"How about Weatherspoons?"
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Controversial homevideo, or "documentary", where young men decided to video tape the real "street life." Includes bums fighting, bums being tied up, and vandalism.
BumFights is even too sickening for Tom Green! But Tom Green is some one-balled faggot so who cares! Go Rufus!
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UNB Report
It is not possible to make Dhaka a livable city again unless a comprehensive plan is put in place to divert the huge population influx to it, observed experts and city planners.
They proposed building alternative cities with facilities equal to that of capital Dhaka as well as relocating its industrial units, particularly the readymade garment (RMG) factories and tanneries, to reduce the population pressure the capital has been enduring for decades.
Besides, they stressed the implementation of the Detailed Area Plan (DAP) as early as possible.
Local government expert Dr Tofail Ahmed said some major planning initiatives are needed to develop alternative cities outside Dhaka for making it livable. "If the government can develop modern cities ensuring education, jobs, health service and civic amenities outside Dhaka, the pressure of population on the capital city will come down," he said.
More importantly, Dr Tofail said, the nagging traffic congestions in the city cannot be eased without making its footpath suitable for pedestrians. "Only building a number of flyovers will not work."
The government should first free the footpaths from hawkers, illegal occupation and establishments, which will reduce 30 percent pressure of transports on roads of the capital, the local government expert suggested.
He noted that only eight percent of transports will use flyovers, while the percentage of commuters using the facility will stand at one percent only. "So, there is no alternative to making the city's footpaths suitable for pedestrians."
Dr Tofail advocated for the relocation of RMG factories of the city elsewhere in close proximity to the Dhaka-Chittagong Highway saying that it will create jobs outside capital Dhaka, too. Transportation costs and tailbacks on highways may come down as most of RMG products are exported through Chittagong seaport, he added.
About water accumulation in Dhaka city, Tofail Ahmed said if the natural canals can be recovered from illegal occupation, 50 percent of water-logging of the capital will decrease automatically.
He also stressed the need for immediate implementation of the DAP for the proper development and management of lands in the city. "It's tough to save Dhaka as almost 10 percent of the country's population is now cooped in the city," former chairman of the University Grants Commission (UGC) Prof Nazrul Islam, who is also a city planner, told UNB.
He observed that the political leadership as well as the administration are least bothered about the growing pressure of population on Dhaka. "Well-thought-out plans need to be taken to save Dhaka. Monitoring is also essentials to ensure proper implementation. Frequent changes in planning must be stopped," he said.
Noting that Dhaka's population is expected to increase three-fold over the next 20 years, the urban expert said there is no alternative to decentralization to save the capital from this population influx.
He stressed implementing the Strategic Transport Plan for the city. "Building too many flyovers is not a good solution. Many give emphasis on building flyovers as more investment is involved here. Rather, it's important to give emphasis on traffic management of the capital," he said.
Architect Iqbal Habib said, "We've made Dhaka a centre of everything for no reason."
The architect suggested taking three steps - reducing the population flow from across the country to Dhaka, introducing city government and creating cities surrounding Dhaka -- to resolve the problem.
Meanwhile, at a meeting recently with the officials of Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives Ministry, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina stressed the need for undertaking a master plan in each upazila to ensure planned urbanization and thus render better services to people.
According to a recent United Nations report, Dhaka is the 11th most populous city of the world with a population just under 1.7 crore.
Dhaka was the 24th in 1990 with only 66.21 lakh people and saw a 3.6 percent annual rise in its population between 2010 and 2015. The report projected that Dhaka would become the 6th most crowded city by 2030 with a population of over 2.7 crore.


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n. the act of anal sex followed by a blowjob
My first offer was a blumpkin but she haggled me down to a wolf cookie. She drove a hard bargain. But, in the end, there are only winners in this game.
by Manhattan Transfer March 23, 2003
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when you fuck a girls ass and she sucks your dick after.
if i only had a picture of it lol
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When ya fuck her in the ass, then stick it in her mouth.
Hey babe, you ready for your wolf cookie?
by Craig-James August 01, 2006
When you jizz on a girls mouth then the morning after she rolls the jizz off her face with her fingers into a ball and pops that shit into her mouth. Y eah baby.
Yeah dude, bitch was cray. Sucked on my wolf cookies all morning, I threw up a little bit in my mouth.
by Lythagyd April 14, 2013
When a person has anal sex and cums inside of their partner, and said partner deficates the rsulting fecal matter is refeered to as a wolf cookie.
I knew my boyfriend loved me when he ate my wolf cookies.
by Don Keynuts April 17, 2011
when you eat a chick out and then you wake up the next morning and take the crust around your mouth (from her vagina) roll it up into a ball and eat it.
"We bet matt wouldnt make a wolf cookie and eat it....he did"
by holi64 July 10, 2008
When you blow your load in a chicks ass, suck it out, & then spit it in her face.
That bitch Brittney is such a slut, she let me give her Wolf Cookies all night last night!
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Scooping up the first award of the night Sunday at the network's annual Movie Awards, Jennifer Aniston was crowned best on-screen dirtbag for her role as over-sexed (but still sexy) dentist Dr. Julia Harris, beating out costar Colin Farrell, Bryce Dallas Howard (The Help), Jon Hamm (Bridesmaids) and Oliver Cooper (Project X).
Introduced by Mila Kunis and Mark Wahlberg, who made references to some not-so-dirty do-gooders in their introduction, including Mother Teresa, the actress was more than happy to accept the honor.
"Do you know how long I have tried to have somebody let me unleash my onscreen dirtbag?" Justin Theroux's girlfriend, 43, asked the star-studded audience gathered at Los Angeles's Gibson Amphitheatre. "A long time, and thank god this category just popped up."
But she hasn't forgotten her nice-girl roots. "I would like to say thank you to the television show Friends for letting me unleash my inner sweetheart," added Aniston, who rocked a little black dress. "And here's to [director] Seth Gordon for letting me be a dirtbag."
The Big WinsAnd the odds were ever in their favor after all.
Much like their characters took down killer bees, blood-hungry mutts and those good-looking Careers, Josh Hutcherson and Jennifer Lawrence won big for their roles as Peeta Mellark and Katniss Everdeen, respectively, in the book-to-screen adaptation.
But the night's top honor favored fangs over fighting-to-the-death, and The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part I was deemed the movie of the year. Once again, the smash franchise's stars, Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, sealed a win in the best kiss category – their fourth victory since 2009.
Also receiving recognition: Johnny Depp, who took home the coveted generation award – or the "get-out-of-the-business award," as he jokingly described it.
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The health world, it seems, is fully in the grips of a powerful hysteria...juicing. This isn�t your mama�s orange juice, though�we�re talking the new generation of cold-pressed, unpasteurized vegetable juices that have burst triumphantly onto the scene throughout the past year. Vibrantly-colored concoctions of pulverized fruit and vegetables such as kale, celery, ginger, chard and beets, these juices are touted as magical elixirs for better health. Why juicing has attained such a widespread appeal is fairly easy to grasp: Unlike standard juices, which are heat-pasteurized, the cold-pressed method of juice extraction is thought to preserve more of the nutrients and enzymes of whole fruits and vegetables. Simply gulp down 16 ounces of juice, and bam�you�ve gotten your daily dose of fruits and vegetables. Better health, in bottle form. That�s the idea, at least. There has been considerable debate about whether juicing is really worth the health hype�health experts warn about juice's high sugar content and lack of soluble fiber. Granted, eating vegetables in their whole form is the best answer. But for individuals who haven�t so much as touched something green in years, vegetable juices might a good way to shower their bodies with much-needed vitamins and minerals. Jimmy Rosenberg, the founder and chief officer of premium juice distributor Evolution Fresh, agrees. �While we believe that everyone should consume fruits and vegetables in their natural form whenever possible, we know it can be difficult to get enough servings into the day,� Rosenberg says. �Drinking a cold-pressed green juice provides a great way to get nutrition from vegetables �on the go.� And the appeal has caught on: Once a fringe practice reserved for health nut enclaves, juicing has now gone rampant, appearing everywhere from grocery store shelves to Starbucks chains. The story of Evolution Fresh illustrates the rise of cold-pressed vegetable juices from a fringe practice into a multimillion-dollar industry. Rosenberg founded Evolution Fresh over 30 years ago, well before green juices were "trendy." After being acquired by Starbucks in 2011, the company recently opened a new state-of-the juicery in Rancho Cucamonga, CA, that will quadruple the brand�s production of cold-pressed juice. By expanding on a commercial scale, the company seeks to make delicious nutrition accessible to people all across the country. �Our cold-pressed juices are available in 8,000 Starbucks and grocery stores nationwide, and in August 2013, we announced our national availability in Whole Foods Market,� Rosenberg says. If you�re ready to make the plunge to juicing, here are some of our picks for delicious, readily available bottled juices. Sambazon This article originally appeared as on Spry Living
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In every job, there are things you like to do and things you have to do.
Sean Payton did the latter on Wednesday.
The Saints head coach didn't want to fire defensive coordinator Gary Gibbs.
But he had to.
There was no other option.
Whatever chance Gibbs had of avoiding the ax was eliminated when Denver, Green Bay and Houston - three similarly defensive challenged teams -- cleaned house in the days following the regular season.
Payton and general manager Mickey Loomis made the wise but difficult choice on Wednesday to move in a new direction before the Who Dat lynch mob showed up at their Airline Drive offices.
The court of public opinion had weighed in long ago. And even Payton couldn't argue with the logic.
The Saints defense had not improved significantly enough in the past two seasons to merit keeping Gibbs around. The Saints finished in the bottom third of the league in total defense and passing defense in each of the past two seasons. And while injuries were undoubtedly a factor, they weren't an excuse.
I keep thinking of what Tennessee Titans defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz said last month after watching his unit dominate Pittsburgh in a 31-14 rout with a pair of backup tackles playing in place of starters Albert Haynesworth and Kyle Vanden Bosch.
"This team is not built to say, 'Hey, we'll be good as long as we don't get any injuries,'" Schwartz said. "This team is built to say, 'When we get injuries, we'll still be good, because we have the depth to withstand them.'"
Indeed, injuries weren't a factor early in the season against Washington, Denver and Minnesota when the defense suffered the same fourth-quarter implosions that would be repeated later in losses to Chicago and Carolina.
In the end, there were too many breakdowns, too much miscommunication and too little innovation for Gibbs to survive.
That's the inconvenient truth.
We'll have more on this story in Thursday's Times-Picayune


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Charles C. Snider, 89, of Geneseo, died Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2012, at Kewanee Care Home. Per his request, cremation has been accorded. Memorial services celebrating his life will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, Oct. 12 at Vandemore Funeral Home & Cremation Services, Geneseo. The Rev. Joe Kobernat will officiate. Military honors will be accorded at the funeral home following the service. Inurnment will be in the Rock Island National Cemetery. A visitation will be held from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Friday prior to the services at the funeral home. Memorials may be directed to the Kewanee Care Center.
He was born on April 3, 1923, in Montezuma, Iowa, the son of Clark and Margaret "Madge" (McCoy) Snider. He served his country in World War II as a member of the United States Army. He married Levie Kelley on Dec. 21, 1963, in Moline. She died on May 13, 2012. He was a welder at the American Air Filter Company in Moline. Prior to that, he worked at the Servus Rubber Company in Rock Island. He belonged to First Baptist Church, Geneseo and was a lifetime member of the Don Cherry VFW Post No. 5083. He enjoyed doing leather work and camping.
Survivors include two daughters and spouse, Joyce and David Bradley of Junction City, Kan. and Charlotte Snider of Geneseo; two granddaughters and spouses, Rebecca and Michael Baramidze of Macomb and Ronda and Jeff Bradley of Junction City; and one sister, Margaret McCulley of Grinnell, Iowa. He was preceded in death by his wife; a daughter, Marlys Morrell, and two brothers.
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Monday, October 14, 2013
The Wando football team is 1-0. Sort of.
The Warriors defeated West Ashley, 38-32, in their first region game of the season this past Friday night at Wando Stadium. They head into the thick of region play after going 2-4 through its non-region schedule.
The prescription for halting a three-game losing streak: Kenny Waring. The junior running back scored five touchdowns and had 208 yards on 26 carries.
"He's a special football player and a great kid," coach Jimmy Noonan said of Waring. "A lot goes into what we do: the offensive line has to make holes and we have to block on the perimeter if we're going to spring somebody loose for long runs."
After jumping out to a 14-0 lead in the first quarter, West Ashley scored 24 unanswered points to take a double-digit lead early in the third quarter. But, the momentum changed quickly.
After Wildcats quarterback Pedro Manigault scored his second rushing touchdown of the game, Waring returned the ensuing kickoff to the Wando 48-yard line. Then, the former Mount Pleasant Track Club All-American took the first-down play 52 yards for his third touchdown.
West Ashley (4-3 overall, 0-1 region) botched the next kickoff and had to start its drive on its own 12-yard line. Two plays later, Wando recovered a fumble, and then took a 29-24 lead after Waring's fourth score and a two-point conversion.
Waring wasn't done, though. He found the end zone for his fifth touchdown on a 32-yard run with just over four minutes remaining in the third quarter. In about three and a half minutes, Wando turned a 10-point deficit into an 11-point lead.
West Ashley narrowed its deficit with a touchdown and two-point conversion in the fourth quarter, but Wando kicker Clayton Rosenbaum answered with a 40-yard field goal. Trailing by six, the Wildcats faced a touchdown-or-bust possession.
They traveled into Wando territory, but the Warriors made a defensive stand to win the game. "That was huge," Noonan said. "It was feast or famine all night. We were stuffing them, or they were getting big chunks of yardage. I'm very proud of the defense."
Wando travels to Stratford (7-0, 1-0) on Friday. "Right now, the standard (in 4A Region 7) is Goose Creek and Stratford, but we have a scrappy little bunch here," Noonan said.
Is Wando capable of pulling off an upset?
"Oh heck, I will never undersell any of our kids, as long as they're willing to work."
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A chilly, showery opener for archery season, as we had here Saturday, is to the hunter's liking. Deer are apt to feed nearly all day and the woods are quiet so the archer can still-hunt if he chooses. I love sneaking around in damp woods. As scentless as I can be, coupled with quiet walking, gives me considerable advantage. And since deer can smell from a half-mile away and run far faster than I can, I need any advantage I can get.
Still hunting while archery hunting, especially after the morning watch and before the evening watch, can be very productive if the hunter hunts slowly, watching not only for deer ahead of him in the woods but also for signs of deer. Tracks in soft, muddy places, rubs on trees (the hunter generally knows that the bigger and deeper the rub, the larger the antlers are of the buck that made the rub), droppings, food sources all indicate to an observant hunter exactly where it could be profitable to put his tree stand or even to take up a ground watch.
So many wonderful things happen around a quiet, camouflaged hunter on watch in the fall woods. Squirrels and chipmunks scurry around quickly gathering up a winter food cache. There is no hunter who does not thrill at the wild sound of geese flying overhead as they head for warmer climates. Foxes and coyotes mince around the woods, looking for their suppers and the glimpse of one trips a hunter's heartbeat a notch or two.
As much as I am not a fan of coyotes, there is something about their predawn howling that identifies with that wild sound. Usually the leaves are such a riotous canopy but this year, not so much. Whatever it takes to make the leaves blaze with eye-popping color seems to be missing this year. Oh, well.
Everything is in a hurry it seems, in the woods, to get ready for a long winter. As exciting as it is to be in the woods when wild things seem to just pop up all around, the hunter knows that it also signals a time of survival and endurance for him as well. At least, this is how I feel about it.
The Game Commission, in an effort to make hunting and enjoying and learning times more available to prospective young hunters, has proposed to expand its mentored youth programs. Already this year, mentored youth can hunt fall turkeys under the guidelines set out for the safety of all involved.
Preliminary approval has been given beginning next year, with the 2013-2014 seasons, to expand antlerless deer hunting opportunities for mentored youth. Sporting organizations and other interested groups have continued to express an interest in having the Game Commission expand the opportunities, said Ralph A. Martone, board president. The proposal is that the mentor can forfeit one of his own Deer Management Assistance Program (DMAP) permits to the young person. So this is not an across the board program for mentoring youth but is for those who hunt under the DMAP program.
The DMAP program is one in which landowners who are affected by having too many deer on their own land yet do not want to open their land to public hunting, can obtain, under specified guidelines, permits for hunting on his land that he can give to those he wishes to hunt on his land to help reduce the number of antlerless deer on his land.
I hunt antlerless deer under the DMAP program. My hunting buddy in Armstrong County has land on which she does not want the public tramping around but does want some does taken for the health of the herd. She applies for DMAP permits for her land and then I am allowed to have one or two of those permits. It is a good program for helping the landowner balance the deer herd on his or her land.
Martone noted that this action will not significantly affect the DMAP antlerless deer harvest and is consistent with the goal of providing additional mentored youth hunting opportunities. Also, it will work in the same manner as the recent change in regulations to allow adult mentors to transfer one Wildlife Management Unit-specific antlerless deer license to a mentored youth. In other words, if I have DMAP permits to hunt on someone's land, I can simply transfer a permit to a mentored youth I am interested in helping get off to a good and safe start in deer hunting. A mentored youth would be allowed to be on the receiving of not more than one DMAP permit. This regulation will probably pass and be instituted as law for next year.
Frankly, getting a young person to start deer hunting is probably best done on private land since that is where the bulk of Pennsylvania's deer population is at this point. As the farmers begin to harvest corn soon, everything from rabbits to black bears will descend on those fields. When mast and berries and apples are in short supply, as is the case this year in many areas, animals quickly move in to take up temporary residence on the fringes of every cornfield in the state.
Drivers need to be especially vigilant and careful from now until Christmas as the rut or breeding season for deer will soon be in full swing and animals of all stripes will be moving across roads to get to the corn and soybean fields. It's an exciting time for hunters but a dangerous one for the animals. Drivers speeding down country roads will come into a collision course with rutting deer. And in such a collision it is always the driver that loses the most.


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The Washington Post is reporting that the chairman and chief executive officer of Ohio-based coal company Murray Energy, Robert E. Murray, has laid off 156 workers, citing as the cause the re-election of President Obama. Murray prefaced his lay-off announcement by reading a prayer to staffers less than 24 hours after the election.
Murray laid off 54 people at American Coal, one of his subsidiary companies, and 102 at Utah American Energy. He cited Obama's putative "war on coal" as the principal reason for his actions.
Murray Energy is the largest coal mining company in the United States. It employess roughly 3,000 people and produces 30 million tons of bituminous coal every year.
An article in the New Republic reported that the company required its workers to attend a Romney campaign speech in southeastern Ohio in August. The New Republic also said that Murray Energy employees have contributed over $1.4 million to Republican candidates since 2007.
Neither Murray nor his company are strangers to controversy. He's been a favorite target of environmentalists because Murray Energy has spilled (or dumped) coal slurry into a creek on seven occasions.
Murray's prayer before his lay-off announcement is the definition of self-serving. I reproduce it in its entirety below.
"Dear Lord:
"The American people have made their choice. They have decided that America must change its course, away from the principals of our Founders. And, away from the idea of individual freedom and individual responsibility. Away from capitalism, economic responsibility, and personal acceptance.
"We are a Country in favor of redistribution, national weakness and reduced standard of living and lower and lower levels of personal freedom.
"My regret, Lord, is that our young people, including those in my own family, never will know what America was like or might have been. They will pay the price in their reduced standard of living and, most especially, reduced freedom.
"The takers outvoted the producers. In response to this, I have turned to my Bible and in II Peter, Chapter 1, verses 4-9 it says, 'To faith we are to add goodness; to goodness, knowledge; to knowledge, self control; to self control, perseverance; to perseverance, godliness; to godliness, kindness; to brotherly kindness, love.'
"Lord, please forgive me and anyone with me in Murray Energy Corp. for the decisions that we are now forced to make to preserve the very existence of any of the enterprises that you have helped us build. We ask for your guidance in this drastic time with the drastic decisions that will be made to have any hope of our survival as an American business enterprise.
Notice that this "prayer" hits all of the talking points of not just the now defunct Romney campaign, but so-called "conservative" ideology.
The lay-offs will take effect just before Christmas – naturally.
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Journeys to Orthodoxy? - John Charmley - 26-09-2006
Dear Michael,
Yes, I think it is important that we try to get this off the ground, not least because of the dispersed nature of our 'community'.
I am at a much earlier stage than yourself, having become a catechumen only this past Saturday, when Abba Seraphim received me into this first stage of my journey towards being fully Orthodox.
I am interested to know from others how they found their way to whatever point they are at. For me it was the growing realisation that Anglicanism had gone to a place I could not follow it and that it was never coming back. This was disconcerting, and the precise process that led me to the BOC rather defies reconstruction, since it came through reading and on line searches; but I am glad I have found it.
Peter and Abba Seraphim have been most supportive, and I am eager to know from those further down the line, or indeed at any stages, what they have found helpful in terms of a growing knowledge of Orthodoxy.
Bishop Kallistos' books were obvious ways in, but I have also found some of Matthew the Poor's books helpful. What other suggestions do people have?
In Christ
- Michael Kennedy - 26-09-2006
Dear John,
I guess my disillusion with the Church of England is probably similar to many others. I summed it up for myself in one word 'authority'. I came to believe that the C of E did not have the authority to do many of the things it proposed, most obviously for me, and at that time, the ordination of women to the priesthood. This was not the only issue but it was a watershed. At the time of the vote in synod I was serving as a Reader but stood down in order to take stock of the situation. After a year or so I started worshipping with the Russian Orthodox - I had always been drawn to Orthodoxy - and soon after providentially encountered the then Orthodox Church of the British Isles, soon to become the BOC, through Fr Michael who I had known for some while previously. When the OCBI became the BOC I asked to be received and have not looked back since. Recent history I think demonstrates the rightness for me at least of the move.
As far as helps along the way, yes, Bishop Kallistos and later Matthew the Poor, and at the time of my move various publications, meetings etc, by the Antiochans and what was then called Pilgrimage to Orthodoxy. Also Fr Lev Gilet, the Monk of the Eastern Church, whose writings I had known to some extent much earlier. More recently works (in often dubious English translations!) by current Coptic Fathers, Fr Tadros Malaty particularly. And not forgetting HH Pope Shenouda's works which seem to me to be consistently helpful. I was also fortunate enough to make two visits to Egypt which was each time a faith building experience. This touches on a previous topic - our relations with the Mother Church. In my experience these are very good indeed. I have always been welcomed and accepted by Coptic Orthodox faithful, at home and abroad. It's always very moving and humbling.
Journeys - John Charmley - 27-09-2006
Dear Michael,
You were more far-sighted than I was, and it is so good to know that the decision you took then has been blessed; it is an encouragement.
I have found Pope Shenouda's works enlightening, and I shall certainly follow up some of your other suggestions.
Have any other members of the Fellowship any advice from their own experience?
It is interesting to see that we come from a variety of Christian backgrounds - which says much for the mission of the BOC.
We are fortunate in Norfolk to have Babingley, but that is a good ninety minutes drive from here, which is why Mark Wright and I are trying, with Abba Seraphim's encouragement, to hold an Orthodox evening service twice a month at Mickfield. It is slow progress, but the spirit there on Sunday was a good one.
In Christ,
- Paul Harrison - 29-09-2006
Dear John
This is a somewhat personal question, but I'll ask it anyway: as you have just been received as a catechumen by Abba Seraphim, have you now severed your scaramental ties with the Church of England? Personally as a high churchman I find receiving the Body and Blood of our Lord an awesome, indeed mystical experience. As a catechumen, which I suspect for a church like the BOC could be quite a lengthy process, you will presumably be unable to receive. In a sense it matters not, if we can't trust the sacramental assurance of the Church of England then there is no point in receiving there.
I have been a member of Forward in Faith for a few years which seeks to preserve that assurance within a church which has lost its way. I have been passionately committed to that cause, but I think it has failed. Also, when women become bishops, I don't see how any FiF bishop could give any further allegiance to Canterbury. In the last few years I have come to realise how much more sense I find in Orthodox theology than I do in Western, Catholic or Protestant, influenced so deeply as they are by Augustine. I already knew of the BOC from a contact I had with it several years ago and now I feel impelled to find out more.
By the way are any of Pope Shenouda III's writings available in English and if so, where can they be obtained?
On the journey: Pope Shenouda's works - John Charmley - 30-09-2006
Dear Michael,
The only difficult part in deciding to become a catechumen was the knowledge that I would have to cease communicating at my Anglican church. That was very hard, at one level, but I see it as a form of spiritual fasting, and as such a discipline to be followed like others in the Church.
For some time I had been uneasy when partaking of the eucharist at my local church, and this has made matters a little less hard than they would have been, but I can't pretend they are easy!
I don't want to criticise the Anglican Church. I have been a member of it for most of my life, and it has given me a great deal; I am simply sad that it has gone to places where I cannot follow - and happy to have found the BOC.
Pope Shenouda's writings can be ordered at:
http://www.copticcentre.com/bookshop.html
as can other works on the Coptic Church. The translations are not always what one would wish, but the message is crystal clear.
In Christ,
- Paul Harrison - 03-10-2006
Dear John
I agree that the Anglican Church is going places I can't follow too. I would hope you will keep us updated on your experience as an Orthodox catechumen. I can only speak from personal experience, but I find receiving the Body and Blood of our Lord a mystical experience, in which the veil between heaven and earth is at its thinnest and we who are still on earth can join the Communion of Saints at the heavenly banquet. At services of Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament there is the awe of being in the presence of God's creative Word.
It is therefore an almighty leap to give all that up for an extended period to become a catechumen. I'm not sure how long the process takes in the BOC, but Orthodox Churches, quite rightly IMO, are very strict on who they admit to communion. In the West, especially in the Protestant tradition, we have trivialised Christ's gift of His Body and Blood to sustain us on our spiritual journey and let us thank God that there are still some churches in the world which make no compromises on such a vital issue.
So there's much to think about and a lot of prayer and soul searching required of those of us who feel inclined to take the step you have taken but haven't yet made that commitment. Please keep us updated.
On the road - John Charmley - 03-10-2006
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Dear Paul,
I concur with everything you write, and whilst we all need praying for, I sometimes feel that those of us who are in these dark places may stand in even more need than we usually do.
For fifteen years or so I have struggled with remaining an Anglican. I found the so-called ordination of women very problematic given my beliefs on the nature of the priesthood, and I have always had a problem with the 'filioque' clause and have never understood why the C of E has not followed up its own advice to itself to omit it. But, as a matter of obedience, I have stayed with it.
It was, I suspect, the spiritual aridity of where I was that made me realise that the time had come to look inwardly. The Eucharist apart, Anglican worship had simply ceased to do anything for my spiritual life. The Eucharist is vitally important to me, but if I can no longer believe that the Anglican church is the orthodox 'branch' of the Church, I had to question the nature of that communion.
The discovery of the BOC was a great breakthrough, as it seemed to offer Orthodoxy with a British ethos, and the more I have explored it, the clearer it has become that this first impression was spot on. It is, of course, a small church in this country, but that does not bother me - there was once a time when the entire Church could fit into an upper chamber in Jerusalem. The question for me was how to grow spiritually. It was the realisation that I could not grow where I was that made me take the step I have taken, because my nourishment was coming from Orthodoxy.
It is, though, as you have intuited, hard; but that, I take it, is part of the discipline required to lead an Orthodox life. I have found Abba Seraphim and Peter great standbys here, and however problematic reaching a decision was, and however difficult the road appears, the spiritual feeding that I am getting on the journey makes me know it is worth it.
As for how long it takes, I suspect it will take the whole of my life on this earth, but I trust in my spiritual advisers to know when I am ready for the next step in this world.
Thank you for your interest, and I hope others will feel emboldened to join us in this dialogue.
In Christ
Catechumenate - Michael Kennedy - 03-10-2006
Dear Paul and John,
May I as an ex-Anglican from a High Church background offer some thoughts?
I sympathise Paul with everything you say. When I broke my ties with the Cof E, in which I had grown up and in which at the time I was very active, as was my entire family, I went into the wilderness. Everyone around me was very understanding but it was a very painful experience. Indeed, it is still painful that as an Orthodox I am separated at Holy Communion from my family, and especially from my wife, who all remain Anglicans. But I could not with any integrity stay where I was and I will have to live with it. FinF seemed to offer a solution but in my opinion it could only ever be temporary and events seem to have justified that assessment.
During my wilderness period, although for some of the time I continued to attend Anglican services, I was out of communion - as I say very painful. I thought it was right - no one asked me to do it. I think it was right. It is I am sure a mistake to think we must communicate at all times; it is surely not an Orthodox understanding. Many Anglicans hold dear an understanding of a 'spiritual communion', ie one that is passive rather than actively receptive. My point is simply this, that it is right to trust in God and be led by the spirit. I am not encouraging anyone to do anything against their conscience but I would say that some time in the wilderness is not necessarily a bad thing - and there is of course good Gospel precedent, and in the lives of many of our fathers among the saints.
In Christ as ever,
On the road - John Charmley - 04-10-2006
Quote:During my wilderness period, although for some of the time I continued to attend Anglican services, I was out of communion - as I say very painful. I thought it was right - no one asked me to do it. I think it was right. It is I am sure a mistake to think we must communicate at all times; it is surely not an Orthodox understanding. Many Anglicans hold dear an understanding of a 'spiritual communion', ie one that is passive rather than actively receptive. My point is simply this, that it is right to trust in God and be led by the spirit.
Dear Michael,
Thank you for this, which I found very encouraging. Although I know that I can still go to my local Anglican church, for the moment I have taken the decision not to. Your feeling of being 'in the wilderness' is one I share; but there are times when this seems preferable to being in the wrong place. There is a spiritual aridity about my local Anglican service which does not lift me from where I am.
One of the things that kept me where I was for so long was the feeling that to take a decision to move elsewhere would be a 'protestant' thang to do. But gradually I came to understand that what was motivating me was the desire to be, as I saw it, orthodox and within the tradition of the ancient undivided church - and the realisation that that could not be done in the C of E.
I have decided to go with the flow of this spiritual river and rely upon the Lord to provide.
In Christ