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THE leader of Oxfordshire County Council has said he would back a move which could see Oxford United leave the Kassam Stadium and build a new ground at Water Eaton.
And last night, Ian Hudspeth said it would potentially allow the club's present home in Grenoble Road to be redeveloped for housing.
As revealed in Friday's Oxford Mail, U's owner Ian Lenagan is involved in takeover talks with at least two consortiums, and this newspaper understands any successful negotiations are likely to depend on the club owning their home.
But that might be away from the Kassam Stadium.
While an official approach has not been made for the site, which is located next to the Water Eaton Park-and-Ride and proposed new Oxford Parkway railway station, Mr Hudspeth confirmed informal talks between the county council and United have taken place.
But he warned there would be a number of obstacles to overcome with the land, which falls under Cherwell District Council's authority.
He said: "I had the idea a few months ago that it might be a potential location and did speak to Oxford United about it, but they were informal talks.
"The county council is not the planning authority. However, as an Oxford United supporter, I am obviously keen for the club to own its own facility.
"Water Eaton might do that.
"However, it is on Green Belt land and there would have to be discussions with Cherwell District Council."
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United have paid rent to landlord Firoz Kassam since moving from the Manor Ground in 2001, which is now believed to be around £500,000 a year.
That burden has hindered the club's progress, with the U's posting losses of in excess of £1m for each of the last two years.
Mr Hudspeth believes a move to a new location could suit all parties. He said: "From a transport point of view, it [Water Eaton] would be next to the train station, is on bus routes and there would be car parking, so transport-wise it is a very good location.
"We could then look at the Kassam Stadium, and it might mean that could be redeveloped for housing to assist Oxford City Council to provide the need for homes.
"I am aware that the desire of all Oxford United supporters to own their own ground is great."
Bob Price, leader of Oxford City Council, said the area would be ideal for such a development.
He said: "If ever you were looking at a site that's worth developing, then that would be it. It is obviously a viable site.
"The football club and the rugby club [London Welsh have shared the ground since 2012] are very important parts of the community and they serve a wide section of the community.
"We would be happy to take part in any discussions that ensure they both remain viable. We will look at anything that sounds feasible."
A consortium led by Mark Ashton appear to be favourite to take over the club should it be up for sale, with a team of Oxfordshire businessmen, fronted by Charlie Methven, also interested.
Mr Lenagan and Mr Kassam were yesterday both unavailable for comment.
Cherwell district councillor Michael Gibbard, the cabinet member for planning and the councillor for Water Eaton, said: "This is not something we are aware of and nothing has been put to us yet.
"My immediate thought is that it would be a major visual development in the Green Belt and not one to be encouraged but you could look at whether it is a special case."
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Parents, student aid agencies seeking answers after court's scholarship rulingBy MICHAEL COUSINEAU
New Hampshire Union Leader
June 19. 2013 8:42PM
Hundreds of Granite State students who want to attend religious schools this fall will not be eligible for scholarships tied to business tax credits under a court ruling released this week.
The two scholarship organizations the state approved to dole out the money say they will proceed with granting scholarships to students who plan to attend non-religious schools if a court doesn't put the decision on hold until the state Supreme Court hears a promised appeal from the state Attorney General's Office.
The decision means Litchfield mother Kim Nichols won't be eligible for a scholarship to help pay for her son to attend a Catholic school in Nashua.
Nichols, who pays more than $12,000 in yearly tuition to Bishop Guertin High School, said she was "furious" with the judge's decision.
"It's a very big sacrifice to be able to send him to this school," Nichols said Wednesday. "We're not religious. We chose it because the curriculum works for our son. We're looking for a good school; that's it."
She said her son is doing "unbelievably better" at Bishop Guertin than he did in public school in Litchfield.
Nichols applied to The Network for Educational Opportunity in Concord, a scholarship organization that raised about $250,000 for scholarships from 10 businesses, including about $120,000 in the final week before last week's deadline, said Executive Director Kate Baker.
She said parents are best positioned to make decisions about their children's schooling, and many want to send their kids to faith-based schools. Under a Superior Court ruling, parents wanting to send their children to religious schools can't receive money from a new scholarship program that relies on donations from businesses in exchange for an 85 percent tax credit on their business taxes.
"I've raised the money and my entire purpose to do this is to create options for families and help them overcome barriers," Baker said.
She said 1,018 students applied for scholarships and she estimated about three-quarters could be tied to religious schools. Baker said a child's school choice and the cost of tuition are not factored into the decision-making practice.
"We're going to use their income size and family size," she said. "We have hundreds of families whose incomes fall below $30,000 a year."
The average values of all scholarships awarded by a scholarship organization can't exceed $2,500.
Until a court rules otherwise, scholarship organizations can't award scholarships from those funds to children who want to attend religious schools, according to Richard Head, an attorney in the state Attorney General's Office who argued in court for religious schools to be included.
The Concord Christian Academy Giving and Going Alliance in Concord, the other approved scholarship organization, said it plans to abide by the decision.
"Absent a stay of the Court's decision, we will therefore be required by the tight calendar requirements of this new law and this very restrictive decision to limit our upcoming awards to individuals who are not exercising their rights to take advantage of one of the many fine programs offered in NH by religiously affiliated schools," said a statement released Wednesday.
The AG's office plans to appeal to the state Supreme Court, Head said.
"It's a complicated question and one of first impression for New Hampshire, so it makes sense for the New Hampshire Supreme Court to weigh in on these issues," Head said.
As for determining whether a particular school is "religious," Head said: "I think it is complicated and we at the state level, that's the primary issue we're still reviewing to determine the sort of the mechanics of implementing Judge (John) Lewis's injunction and we may or may not need some clarification from him regarding those mechanics."
According to the judge's decision, the plaintiffs— eight taxpayers and a business — counted 154 non-public schools in New Hampshire using information from the state Department of Education. Excluding 38 special education schools, the plaintiffs said 71 of the 116 remaining general-education schools were religious, or 61 percent.
The intervenor-defendants, which includes the State of New Hampshire, counted 161 or 162 total non-public schools, of which 62 were religious schools, the judge said. The latter included special education, resulting in a 38 percent overall rate of religious schools but not a parallel comparison with the plaintiffs' percentage.
In a footnote in his 45-page ruling, the judge said the parties didn't offer a definition of a "religious" school. "From the positions and evidence the parties present, however, the Court considers a 'religious' school generally to be ... one run by, or affiliated with, a religious sect or denomination, where an important mission is religious instruction and where teaching is generally imbued with a religious dimension," Lewis wrote.
Beverly Primeau, chair of the Concord Christian Academy Giving and Going Alliance, said that the alliance believes parents should have a choice of schools whether faith-based or not.
"Our organization is founded on faith and we intend to support faith-based schools," she said.
Primeau said she didn't know how many students applied and declined to say how much money was raised.
In a statement released after the court decision, the New Hampshire Democratic Party called the ruling "a victory for local schools, public education in New Hampshire, as well as Granite State students and their parents."
Officials at the state Department of Revenue Administration didn't return phone messages this week.

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Research and risk are key to buying a foreclosed home
By Drew A. Penner, The Calgary Herald
After a month-long search for the perfect home to remodel, Jason Holt and Jym Genesta were eager to follow the lead of their real estate agent to a foreclosure in the southeast.
But when they walked inside the premises of a bank-owned home that was just hitting the market, the couple discovered a grisly scene.
"It was like a total CSI DNAfest in here," says Holt, a manager at IKEA, pointing out the stains on the subflooring.
What greeted them were walls formerly used as dartboards and punching bags, living quarters that had served as a hockey rink, and a colour palette that featured curry brown and shocking pink.
The foreclosure has become emblematic of our times, at least in the U.S., and stories of Canadians getting steals on distressed properties there abound. Genesta, who runs a salon in Los Angeles, was well aware of the opportunity this sort of property can present to home buyers, but wondered what value they might find here in Calgary.
On his first visit, he kept an open mind, pulled the sleeves of his cashmere sweater below his hands and cautiously peeked around the corner.
The duo uncovered a four bedroom, 3.5-bathroom family home in Riverbend, complete with a backyard next to a green space with a walking path.
"You know, Jason, it does have a lot of potential," Genesta ventured.
Holt couldn't help but agree.
As the U.S. economy spiralled down, Canadians were turning their attention south of the border.
"We had clients who were going down and buying foreclosures from the banks in big blocks," says Jeff Kahane, senior partner with Kahane Law Office in Calgary. "They were buying big houses with a pool for 25 cents on the dollar for what they're worth."
Canadians now represent 60 per cent of business for some U.S. real estate agents.
The hype surrounding foreclosure sales surfaces in Calgary as well. One bank-owned property in the northeast of the city visited by the Herald for this article was shown to 20 interested parties over the course of just three days. Yet Canada is a completely different ballpark.
"I don't see tremendous deals," says Kahane, who founded what is now one of the busiest real estate law firms in Alberta. "There's one every once in a while. . . . There's always been a rationale for it."
The biggest discounts are often former grow ops or properties that need significant work. Since foreclosures don't come with any guarantees, the risks can be jaw-dropping - and there are costs homebuyers may not have considered.
To get a Real Property Report, a survey showing property lines and structures, the new owner can expect to shell out about $700 plus $100 for a stamp of compliance from the city. And what the documentation reveals can be the real surprise.
If a garage or a fence is in the wrong place, you may have to pay for an encroachment agreement, which could cost anywhere from $500 to $20,000. Plus there's a chance you'll discover structural damage or serious mould problems after the fact.
Foreclosures can be a good buy, however, if you're purchasing with the right perspective, says Ann-Marie Lurie, chief economist with the Calgary Real Estate Board.
"It depends on your objective," she says. "Are you going to be able to buy it, hold onto it and expect those strong appreciations that we saw in the boom years? Unlikely."
At one point Lurie herself considered purchasing a foreclosure, but decided against it, realizing she wasn't interested in a fixer-upper.
A month into their reno, Holt and Genesta are still in the thick of it. They're saving a bundle doing all the labour themselves. They've ripped up the carpets, removed all the door moulding, and are constantly patching and sanding the walls. They feel lucky they haven't come across any serious problems - yet.
"You have to look beyond what you're going to walk into," Genesta says. "You make it amazing."
Having saved 17 per cent off the sale price of the average benchmark home in the area that month, and sticking to a $25,000 remodelling budget, they're confident they'll come out ahead, whether they decide to live in the house or flip it.
Holt says buying a foreclosure wouldn't make sense for every-one.
"This would be very difficult to do with children," he offers, adding necessary renovations could also present a cash-flow issue. "For most people, it takes them some time to save down payment money, let alone a whole other pot of money to then start doing renovations."
And they've started to become part of the community, too.
Neighbours wave as they drive by and pass along horrendous stories about former occupants.
"This place was a disaster," remarks Genesta. "But the thing is, would I do this again? Absolutely."
Tips for purchasing a foreclosure
- Pay for a home inspection before making an offer, if you can
- Neighbours can be an excellent resource when researching the history of the property.
- Do your homework on average sale prices for similar homes in the area
- Set a budget and stick to it
- Before making an offer, ensure financing is securely in place
- Check furnace for efficiency and gas leaks
- Do renos yourself if you have the skills, time and expertise required; obtain any city permits needed
- Seek lightly used instead of new appliances
- Home insurance may end up paying for itself
- Buy necessary items in bulk
- Search the Internet for DIY ideas to help speed up home reno projects
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Freshman designated player Taylor Ewing of Goldey-Beacom has been named as the recipient of the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference Softball Rookie of the Week award for the week ending Mar. 17, CACC officials said.
Freshman designated player Taylor Ewing of Goldey-Beacom has been named as the recipient of the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference Softball Rookie of the Week award for the week ending Mar. 17, CACC officials said.
In addition, sophomore utility player Samantha Alonzo was named as an honorable mention selection for the CACC Player of the Week award.
Honored as the CACC Rookie of the Week for the first time in her career, Ewing (North Dorchester H.S./Hurlock, Md.) led the Lightning to four consecutive wins the week before her honor, including a pair of CACC victories over Felician. In four games, she hit .545 with six hits, including three doubles and a triple. She tallied at least one hit in all four games as the Lightning exploded for 39 runs on 43 hits.
In the Lightning's doubleheader sweep over Lincoln on Wednesday afternoon, Ewing had four hits and drove in four runs as Goldey-Beacom defeated the Lions by scores of 14-1 and 9-1. In the second game, she had a season-high three hits, including a pair of doubles, while driving in two runs.
After going 1-for-2 in the Lightning's 8-5 victory over Felician on Sunday afternoon, Ewing helped Goldey-Beacom rally to post an 8-7 win in the nightcap by driving in three runs along with a double.
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February 19. 2013 11:05PM
Hooksett school board reassures parents, stands firm on high school reassignments
By BRENDAN CLOGSTON
Union Leader Correspondent
From left to right, SAU 15 Superintendent Dr. Charles P. Littlefield, School Board Chairman Trisha Korkosz, and board members Cheryl Akstin, David Pearl, and Michael Dubisz.
HOOKSETT - Members of the Hooksett School Board Tuesday night assured parents of children whose students had been accepted to high schools outside the Manchester School District that "nothing was different" after the city issued Hooksett a letter demanding the students be reassigned to Manchester.
The board approved eight more such out-of-district placements Tuesday night.
Hooksett formally declared in December that the Manchester School District was in breach of contract with the town, largely due to classroom overcrowding. A number of parents decided to send their students to other districts in the months prior and since the letter - mostly to Pinkerton Academy and Londonderry High School.
On Feb. 15, a letter signed by Manchester Superintendent of Schools Dr. Thomas Brennan was issued to Hooksett denying that the city was in breach. The letter also contended that Hooksett was in breach due to the number of students who had been allowed to attend schools outside the Manchester School District.
The letter went on to demand that the approval of these placements be rescinded, and that these students be reassigned to Manchester schools.
The letter was outraged many parents in Hooksett.
"Manchester has once again publicly bullied our town. They have once again bullied the children of Hooksett. The letter sent by Mr. Brennan ... is another attempt to bully our town into accepting the underfunded education that they provide the Hooksett children," said parent Stacie Berry
"If the mayor would stay off the Rich Girard show, which is a voice-box for the mayor, and focus on the children of Manchester and Hooksett, he would have less things to worry about," said parent and school board candidate John Lyscars.
He called the Brennan letter "not even factually correct, not even quoting the contract that we're following."
Berry asked the board for clarification on what the letter meant for the children who had already been accepted to other schools.
"How can we assure as parents our children who have now chosen their courses of study, bought sweatshirts and T-shirts from the schools that they were approved to and begun to develop pride in that they have nothing to worry about?" she said.
The board assured the public that the letter changes nothing.
"I don't think that the letter in any way affects my vote about children attending other schools. This school board has taken no policy change. There is no difference since the letter has been sent, so I don't believe the letter affects children attending other schools at all," said school board member David Pearl.
Board Chairman Trisha Korkosz agreed.
The board voted to approve eight requests for students to attend schools outside of Manchester - seven to Londonderry High School and one to Pinkerton Academy.
The Hooksett board also voted Tuesday evening to send a letter to the Manchester School District notifying them of the town board's disapproval of a redistricting plan unanimously approved by Manchester's curriculum and instruction committee and the building and sites committees and set to appear before the full board in coming weeks.
The plan for the 2014-2015 school year would consolidate the district from three to two high schools, closing Manchester High School West.
"I think it's very clear by the contract that currently we have a requirement that allows us to send students to West, and that we are supposed to take part in those kinds of discussions," Pearl said.


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HOOKSETT - A 24-year veteran of Hooksett's town administration will see her last day in town hall this week, having been hired to serve as Milton's town administrator.
Hooksett human resources coordinator Elizabeth Dionne will serve her last day in Hooksett Friday before assuming the role of Milton town administrator Monday.
"I think it's a great opportunity for her," said Hooksett town administrator Dr. Dean Shankle. "She knows how towns work, and what needs to be done, and the fact that she's moving on to become a town administrator in another town is a great thing ... I know they're looking for somebody who can bring stability, help them get things organized, put processes and procedures in place, and that's what she's good at."
Dionne has been an employee with the town of Hooksett since Aug. 7, 1989, spending most of that time as assistant town administrator until the position was changed to human resources coordinator in 2005. After 24 years, her tenure has seen immense changes.
"I've seen a lot of growth in the town over the years, a lot of good things have happened. A lot of changes over the years," she said.
The short list includes the town government moving into the new town hall, the rebuilding of fire station 1, the moving of the highway department, a succession of town administrators, the discovery of a "time capsule" inside the walls of the old town hall during renovations, and the July 7, 1997, grand opening of the town's public safety center complex on Legends Drive, an event which Dionne says is a particularly fond memory.
"It was really something to be proud of, to be witness to and to be a part of," she said.
The two-plus decades were not without other accomplishments. One Dionne remembers fondly is a problem involving beavers along the Merrimack eating the inside of tree bark, causing the trees to fall and create a hazard for power lines, residents, and homeowners. The default response would have been to hire an exterminator. Dionne was a part of a group that decided to go another route.
"The youth services director, myself, and the parks and rec superintendent at the time, rather than trap the beavers or having them killed by professional hunters, (we) wrapped the trees with chicken wire to prevent them from chewing the trees; that way it saves the trees, ends the hazards, and the beavers simply move on."
Dionne said she had been considering moving on to a town administrator's position for about two years. The moment, having finally come, is bittersweet for her.
"It's going to be very sad to leave Hooksett," she said. "I've been here for almost 24 years. It's like a second family to me. I've met so many people over the years. Residents, business owners, board and committee members, and they've all been wonderful to me. That's sad for me. It's going to be a little difficult for me to move on. I'll miss the people the most."
"One the other hand, I'm excited to be taking this step," she said.
"I'm looking forward to it. Change is kind of scary sometimes, but it's also good."
As she begins that change, however, Dionne is thankful for those who were part of her experiences in Hooksett.
"I just want to thank everyone for everything that you've done for me over the years," she said. "I appreciate it so much. I just want to thank everyone and say that I'll miss everyone and to stay in touch."


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Jobs & priorities: Obama's sputtering economy
On Friday, the federal government released its monthly jobs report, which showed that the U.S. economy created only 73,000 jobs in December. The Washington Post called it "the latest stumble in the nation's sputtering recovery from recession."
Two days earlier, Rep. Cindy Rosenwald, D-Nashua, vice-chairman of the New Hampshire House Finance Committee, had argued on the House floor that expanding Medicaid is the single most-effective step the state can take to expand access to health insurance and boost the economy. Given the choice, we wonder how many Granite Staters who earn between 100-138 percent of the poverty level would take Medicaid over a better-paying job that offers good insurance.
It is a sign of their priorities - and their views about economics - that New Hampshire Democrats made expanding Medicaid, rather than faciitating job creation, their top legislative goal of 2014. In Washington, it is a sign of their priorities, their economic thinking and their policy failures that the No. 1 priority of Senate Democrats and the White House is to expand yet again the emergency unemployment insurance benefits that were created in the summer of 2008.
Those federal unemployment insurance benefits were to provide temporary relief for the long-term unemployed who could not find work because of the recession - which ran from December of 2007 to June of 2009. Yet the
benefits have continued through the entirety of Barack Obama's administration, and Democrats insist that the best thing we can do for the long-term unemployed is to extend the benefits
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. Such is their confidence in their own economic policies.
In February of 2009 - five years ago next month - President Obama said of the economy, "if I don't have this done in three years, then there's going to be a one-term proposition." Since the recession ended four months after Obama made that statement, the labor-force participation rate has fallen even more rapidly than it did during the Bush adminstration. It has reached levels not seen since 1978, meaning that, as a percentage of the population, fewer Americans are looking for work today than in the last year of the Carter administration.
This is the Obama economy.
This is the economy under a government that favors expanded benefits over expanded private-sector job creation. A study last April by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia reached this conclusion about the perpetual extension of unemployment benefits: "Our estimates imply that most of the persistent increase in unemployment during the Great Recession can be accounted for by the unprecedented extensions of unemployment benefit eligibility."
This is the economy with which we will continue to be saddled until we switch the government's focus from fostering dependency to fostering independence and self-reliance.


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Montezuma County Sheriff Dennis Spruell's views on gun control and proposed new laws relating to this matter mirror what other numerous law enforcement agencies across the country are saying.
President Barack Obama's comprehensive plan to address gun violence that was based on the recommendations from a task force led by Vice President Joe Biden, calls for legislation to ban some assault weapons as well as a variety of executive actions.
Obama's plan has come under fire since the president unveiled it on Wednesday afternoon.
Spruell rarely minces words and made his stance on the issue very clear.
"I am a strong believer in the Second Amendment, and I believe people have a right to bear arms," Spruell said on Thursday. "It's a mental problem, a mental health issue. It is not a gun issue."
Spruell, speaking from his perspective, said there are enough laws on the books now that deal with gun crime.
"We have the right to carry arms," the sheriff said. "We have enough laws, and I am opposed to creating (new ones)."
Cities, counties and states across the nation are attempting to create legislation to make it a felony for the federal government to come in to try to confiscate certain types of firearms. However, a University of Denver law professor said federal law trumps state law.
Cortez gun business owners also are disappointed with what was included in the president's proposal.
They agreed with Spruell that the plan does not address the real problem of keeping firearms away from "crazy" people.
Ken Banks, owner of Shooter's World, said nothing in the proposal made much sense or addressed the real problem.
"He is just talking words. He is not addressing the problem of insane people having guns," he said.
Banks also questioned why the government calls insane people mentally challenged because insane is the proper word.
"You have to take the guns out of the hands of the crazy people," he said adding the new proposed laws are aimed at the people who are already obeying the law to the fullest.
Larry Chandler, owner of Summit Shooting Center, had a similar view.
"We all know that this does not solve anything," he said. "This will not solve any problems whatsoever."
He also said more gun laws will not reduce crime, and pointed to Chicago's high gun-related crime rate despite the fact that city has some of the toughest gun laws on the books.
"Guns don't kill people, people kill people," he said. "This is ridiculous that this man, the so-called president, is doing this."
He said the proposed law and any possible future laws could result in his business closing someday.
"It's just going to make it hard on the citizens (who want to have firearms)," he said.
Chandler also thinks criminals are not going to submit to any new stringent measures to get guns and will instead get them in a different, and often illegal way, so any new regulations will not affect the people who should not be allowed to own a firearm.
Included in the proposal is to have more federally funded school resource officers stationed at schools. Montezuma-Cortez School District Re-1 Superintendent Alex Carter said he would support such a measure to have an officer at every school in the district - if funding was indeed provided to pay those salaries.
"We have two excellent school resource officers assigned to Montezuma-Cortez School District Re-1," Carter said via email.
Vern Rucker works mainly with the elementary schools and is the lead on the D.A.R.E. program district-wide, and Buck Woodman works mostly with the secondary schools.
"They are great partners with our schools and we value their participation in our program hugely," Carter said. "They are both members of our district safety team and provide great insights and support for the development and improvement of our district Emergency Operations Plans."
That being said, Carter said if someone offered to give the school district more support in the form of funding for additional school resource officers, he would welcome it. "I would jump at the opportunity," Carter wrote in the email. "In my opinion, there is nothing that makes our schools more safe and secure than having on-duty uniformed officers present. I would love to have one stationed at every school."


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It was wet, it was cold, and the field was fairly muddy as the rain came down as it had for a good chunk of the day near the end of the College of the Siskiyous versus Chabot football game Saturday afternoon.
But for these players, coaches and fans, it did not matter, because history was being made as the COS Eagles earned its 10th win of the season. This is the first time in school history a football squad has earned 10 wins.
The Eagles downed the Gladiators of Hayward 47-18 to win the Top of the State Bowl. It was the first time since 1985 that the Eagles had hosted a bowl game.
With only a few minutes left in the contest, players grinned from ear-to-ear as shouts of "10-1, 10-1" could be heard on the COS sideline. Despite the fairly cold weather, it did not stop the players from dousing the coaches with water, as has been the tradition for years in football. Despite it being quite cold even without water covering their clothing, the coaches just laughed it off and smiled as they savored the victory.
After the game, second year head coach Charlies Roche said that it was a special feeling to know what his team had just done. "It probably won't sink in for a few weeks," he said.
Sophomore running back Christian Reyes set a school record by running for 357 yards against the Gladiators, ending his COS career as the season record holder with 1,633 rushing yards. This included an impressive 74-yard run where it appeared at first he would be taken down, but Reyes would not go down quietly as he made a few nifty moves and eluded defenders as he ran all the way to the one-yard line.
"That kid is as tough as nails" Roche said.
Reyes and sophomore standout linebacker Myke Tavarres were named the offensive and defensive MVP's of the game. Tavarres was a force of nature on the field and seemed to be involved in the majority of the defensive plays and was a disruptive force all day,
After the game, a beaming Tavarres was asked what this victory meant to him and his team.
"Words can't describe how I feel," he said, adding that it "was a total team effort."
Roche commended Tavarres for his stellar play and "buying into what we're doing here."
The Eagles did not start off well, when the Gladiators scored on its very first offensive play on a trick play that went for a 54-yard touchdown reception to give them a 7-0 lead after the successful extra point attempt. But while Chabot kept things fairly close in the first half but the second half belonged to the Eagles. In the third quarter, with the Eagles up 33-16, Chabot blocked a punt and ran in for a safety with around a minute left in the quarter. In the fourth quarter, David Guthrie of COS snatched the ball for an interception and ran 80 yards for the score as the players on the sideline knew with almost certainty that they would be winning this game,
Sophomore defensive back Jarrius James said that it meant a lot for him to have been a part of a season like this. He emphatically added that he felt that the COS football program is doing things the right way and believed that this was the start of a" football dynasty" at COS. He added that Roche had "something special" taking place at COS.
Another player who did well on Saturday was freshman running back Aaron Williams, who had two scores.
Roche commended his team for "playing our game plan well" and playing a "tough and physical" brand of football that is perfectly suited for the area "You have to be tough to live up here," he said.
He said that these group of kids have worked tirelessly this season, starting at spring practices, and have been rewarded for their hard work with a special 2012 season.
"It feels like mission accomplished," Roche said.
COS Eagles soar into history: Defeat Chabot in bowl game to go to 10-1
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MILFORD - Investigators thwarted an elaborate plan to burn down a building on the Milford Oval, and the owner of that building has been arrested, police said.
According to a statement by Milford Police, on Tuesday they learned Colleen Carr, owner of the building at 139 Union Square, had an alleged plan to burn the building to collect the insurance money.
The building is home to two businesses including the Tasty Tobacco Shop and PC Carr Realty, along with two apartments.
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Swift 4.0 has introduced a really helpful API. If you have been following the Swift project and the new features in this version on the language you have probably already heard about it. I ran into some issues when working with some of our REST APIs so wanted to document them here in case other people run into the same situations.
If you are familar with you can skip this sections, if not this is how Apple summarise is on there docs page :
There is already quite a lot of good articles out there on how to use this new API. These are the best ones, I would suggest reading them as an entry point:
Encoding and Decoding Custom Types
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Firstly, the models need to be defined, conforming to protocol. Starting with the base class and then the subclass.
This is the base class and defines all the attributes associated with it. There is nothing complicated about this, so no custom code needs to be written, it just uses the standard API.
has the additional attribute of so we need to add that. This class needs to be initialised before the base class. We need to write our own custom init method. You can see on line 11, we pass the same decoder object to the super class so that it can decode the base classes attributes.
This is how we convert the json into memory. Nothing complicated here, but we now need to define the object. This object contains a heterogenous array so we will need to implement the protocol ourselves.
Line 2 shows that we add an array of objects as a property to this class.
Next we create an enum which is used to decode the dictionary containing the array of drinks.
We also define an enum which is used to serialise the type field for each object in the array.
And a final enum with specifies all the possible drink types.
With all the enums specified we can get to the serialisation.
Line 19: Get the drinks dictionary —
Line 20: Get the array of drinks —
Line 23: Make a copy of the drinks array — This is needed as we be iterating the In doing so we will have no way to get the decoder object for each element in the array.
Line 24: Iterate the container
Line 25: Get the current drink container
Line 26: Decode the type attribute
We can now use this decoded attribute to identify which class to decode. We have to use the copied object for decoding however, as the iterator of has moved onto the next object. Viola!
This last step was the only way I could get the API to do my bidding. As far as I can see there is no way to get a decoder from an or This seems like a limitation of the API, but Im sure there are good reasons for it not to be possible. It does seem a little strange to expose that dependency just for this use case of decoding.
If you think otherwise, let me know, it may be worth thinking about it a little further and adding a suggestion for improvement to the Swift API itself. After all this is only the first iteration of the this API, its possible developers may have missed this use case.
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Despite lack of experience, P-W baseball team is ready to compete in CMAC
The Pewamo-Westphalia baseball team only has three players returning with varsity experience, but that is not going to change their team goals in 2013.
The roster is quite different from last season's, which was senior heavy. Because of that, P-W coach Mark Rademacher said many of his players have talent, but lack varsity experience.
"We are young, but we have a lot of talent," he said. "We bring back five seniors, but only three of them have varsity experience. The biggest thing we are looking for out of our seniors is leadership.
Seniors Jason Wohlfert, Travis Winans and Blake Thelen will be back to captain the young group of Pirates as they look to challenge for a Central Michigan Athletic Conference championship.
Juniors Adam Wesley, Drew Bergstrom and sophomore Trey Bauer are some of the newcomers that will be looked upon to contribute right away for P-W.
Along with having raw talent, Rademacher said there were a large number of players that went out for the squad this year, and he hopes that his team can build on that enthusiasm.
Another change for the Pirates will be on the mound. Due to having a pitching staff laden with seniors in 2012, Rademacher is looking for his team to be strong in the field to help the youthful hurlers this spring.
"We have some young guys that can get the ball over the plate, but we don't have any real dominant arms," Rademacher said. "We are going to have to field the ball well behind them and not get them into bad spots."
The CMAC is expected to be tough once again with Bath, Portland St. Patrick, Potterville and Saranac being teams Rademacher said he expects to be the top competition.
"Bath and St. Pat's return a couple of the best pitchers in the league and Saranac was a young and competitive team last year, too," he said. "Potterville also has some good players, so I think the league will be fairly competitive.
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They will travel to Carson City-Crystal High School on Tuesday for a non-league doubleheader. P-W will open CMAC play on Thursday in Portland against the Shamrocks of St. Patrick's.


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Quote from: Anfauglir on March 02, 2013, 10:58:48 AMQuote from: WayneHarropson on March 01, 2013, 02:04:43 PMQuote from: Anfauglir on February 28, 2013, 04:34:10 AMQuote from: WayneHarropson on February 27, 2013, 10:46:03 PMThere is a prophecy currently pending within one of the stories on my premonitions link page. I'll let you know if it comes true, If it doesn't, you won't hear a peep.Please be specific. What is the prophecy you are referring to?Sorry. I'm going to stay coy here. I have my reputation to protect. I have been wrong about so many things and it has just been my luck not to have broadcast them it like so many failed prognosticators have. So your track record of success lies in the fact that you only class as a "prediction" something that later comes true? Then any one of us has the same 100% success rate.I'm not in a competition. I'm a reporter. What I report is true and proves God exists. Now I have said that Obama is America's Idi Amin. I stand by that one and there seems to be more fufilling to be done. Wait and see.
Quote from: WayneHarropson on March 01, 2013, 02:04:43 PMQuote from: Anfauglir on February 28, 2013, 04:34:10 AMQuote from: WayneHarropson on February 27, 2013, 10:46:03 PMThere is a prophecy currently pending within one of the stories on my premonitions link page. I'll let you know if it comes true, If it doesn't, you won't hear a peep.Please be specific. What is the prophecy you are referring to?Sorry. I'm going to stay coy here. I have my reputation to protect. I have been wrong about so many things and it has just been my luck not to have broadcast them it like so many failed prognosticators have. So your track record of success lies in the fact that you only class as a "prediction" something that later comes true? Then any one of us has the same 100% success rate.
Quote from: Anfauglir on February 28, 2013, 04:34:10 AMQuote from: WayneHarropson on February 27, 2013, 10:46:03 PMThere is a prophecy currently pending within one of the stories on my premonitions link page. I'll let you know if it comes true, If it doesn't, you won't hear a peep.Please be specific. What is the prophecy you are referring to?Sorry. I'm going to stay coy here. I have my reputation to protect. I have been wrong about so many things and it has just been my luck not to have broadcast them it like so many failed prognosticators have.
Quote from: WayneHarropson on February 27, 2013, 10:46:03 PMThere is a prophecy currently pending within one of the stories on my premonitions link page. I'll let you know if it comes true, If it doesn't, you won't hear a peep.Please be specific. What is the prophecy you are referring to?
There is a prophecy currently pending within one of the stories on my premonitions link page. I'll let you know if it comes true, If it doesn't, you won't hear a peep.
Allowing yourself to believe that an unvalidated feeling, idea or situation is true is self-deception.
I care that I'm being directed by the one true God. If any one belief I'm harboring of him is wrong I want to change that belief. When navigating the physical world the disciplines you employ here are really important, and I intend to employ them to the best of my ability as they apply to me here. In that way I probably have a lot to learn from some of you here. But in the matters of God, those criteria don't always apply, and by design. His is a spiritual Kingdom in which he employs different rules. I'm here to report to you evidence in my life of that other kingdom.
Yes it is a good thing. You might have noticed that my arguments are all devised to open you to the reality of a supernatural God where man's rational abilities don't apply in the same way they do in the material.
Is it BIAS if it is correct? I look at all the other interpretations that have come to my attention and make my reasoned judgement.
I think that all of you here that have read my plethora of accounts of episodes that individually and collectively defy normal chance are being unreasonable to insist on only a materialistic explanation for it all. You have a crippling bias.
The new sound evidence is going to come in a form that you may not like, and that is likely the reason you have turned from trust in God.I could only agree with your reasoning if it were proven that there is no God, and that is preposterous. I reject it out of hand, just as George Washington did, who said:QuoteIt is impossible to account for the creation of the universe without the agency of a Supreme Being. It is impossible to govern the universe without the aid of a Supreme Being. George Washington, A Life of Washington (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1835), Vol. II, p. 209I hardly needed George to affirm the obvious to me, but he seems to agree with me now doesn't he?
It is impossible to account for the creation of the universe without the agency of a Supreme Being. It is impossible to govern the universe without the aid of a Supreme Being. George Washington, A Life of Washington (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1835), Vol. II, p. 209
This seems flawed from the start, but I could be deceiving myself It may be semantics, but to me, the idea that you "believe" something to be true is different than "knowing" something to be true. Self-deception, imo, seems to imply believing something false to be true. We may agree or disagree (which makes it subjective) the degree to which we ourselves "believe" someone is in error, but unless we can prove it, calling it self-deception means we're making a judgment call.
Amin's rule was characterised by human rights abuse, political repression, ethnic persecution, extrajudicial killings, nepotism, corruption, and gross economic mismanagement. The number of people killed as a result of his regime is estimated by international observers and human rights groups to range from 100,000[1] to 500,000.
I don't even buy the Bush/Idi Amin comparison that's being suggested as an alternative.
2. The next thing to mention is that the "affordability goals" of the GSEs, as well as the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), didn't cause the problems. Randy Krozner summarized one of the better studies on this so far, finding that "the very small share of all higher-priced loan originations that can reasonably be attributed to the CRA makes it hard to imagine how this law could have contributed in any meaningful way to the current subprime crisis." The CRA wasn't big enough to remotely cause these problems.
Two isn't enough median. My validation is based on the plethora of episodes. If you are not willing to investigate more of my proof, but only continue to say Prove it, then we will be going nowhere. You are wise not to take my word at face value for two accounts. Read more and then let's talk, but until then I will never be able to make my case for you because you haven't seen but 10% of it. That's fair isn't it. I went around and around with screwtape who never read any of my accounts to my knowledge. it was total futility, so lets not waste any more of your time until you have the base of my case first. Read the stories and you will know that God intervenes.
Median, why don't you prove to me that you aren't addled with confirmation bias. I say you are, prove to me you aren't.
I'm going to entertain your use of the word childlike to make an important point. Yes, my faith is childlike. Absolutely it's childlike, for the very reason that Jesus said:Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein.
That could be true for others that haven't had the interventions I have, and you may get some headway with them, but having been visited with so many and redundant proofs, I do not in any way fit that category, nor can you corner me into that category. You can either read more of my accounts of proof of God or move on to another target.
I cannot deny the interventions of God, I can however examine my understanding of them, because it has been the case that at first I didn't fully understand, and was guided later to a greater understanding. So, yes, I'm flexible. Now it's your turn. Read five more of my accounts and open your mind up to what you have been missing.
There were loan officers for private lending institutions that were making a commission of $10-15,000 per loan for approving mortgages. And there was no repercussions against those loan officers of the person didn't repay. What was their incentive to be honest with either the potential borrower or the lending institution (which didn't care because they just sold the loan as part of a package to investors anyway). There are numerous documented cases where these loan officers altered the paperwork to make it look like the borrower was eligible. And there was often times no effort on the part of the loan officer to tell the people they had nowhere near the qualifications.This was not due to the failure of government institutions. It was a moral failure. A social failure. A monetary failure. And a criminal success.There is plenty of blame to go around, and there should be prosecutions, etc. But it is silly (and harmful) to think that the problem was caused by only one inept entity. Even the bad-guy loan officers weren't the only problem. But no problem is ever as simple as people like Wayne want it to be.
Idi Amin appealed to the masses with platitudes of how the spoils of the wonderful Ugandan economy was finally in the hands of the people. He then proceeded to destroy that economy. Like ObamaAmin commandeered a complicated machine with absolutely no clue how the machine worked, and then just drove it off a Cliff. Like Obama.Here's the scary part. Obama was a lawyer working for Acorn that sued Citibank forcing them to give loans to unqualified homeowners. That started the process that spread throughout the banking system until the system finally broke in Bush's second term. Bush's White House warned the fed Thirteen times that the policies were leading to disaster, but was powerless to reverse the trend started by.....Obama and his Acorn thugs in Chicago. Now Obama waltzes into the presidency blaming Bush for failed economic policies that he (Obama) initiated starting before Bush's first term. Now, the guy that crashed the greatest economy on the planet is now the president.Just wait until the riots start. As they say, socialism only works until you run out of other peoples money,and that's about where were at. Don't you think?Now remember, this is God's metaphor, not mine. Just think of some of Idi Amin's other quirks, and then you can speculate how those quirks might have their counterparts in an Obama administration. Think drones, think gun confiscation. Just think.
Nope. If all a person "reports" are the hits that feed a particular viewpoint, then there is no proof offered at all. Its the favourite trick of sham psychics and con-men, to remain vague and to ensure only their hits are broadcast.
Take your "stone" story. You present it that the ONE time you decided to pick up something slightly unusual, it was worthwhile - so you present a 100% success rate. But the true success rate - if there had been, let's say, a dozen other times when you picked up something slightly unusual and it was NOT proved worthwhile - may be significantly less.
Reporting ONLY the successes is no proof at all - no matter how many of them you report. For your stories to be "proof", they need to be balanced against all the times when a prediction did NOT come true, the times when a feeling did NOT translate into a "hit".Unless and until you are prepared to be completely open about your predictions and feelings, there is no need at all to analyse the "hits" you present - however many of them there may be, and however "oooh!" they may be - because without the full story of misses, they mean precisely nothing.
Wayne, your "repetitive demonstrations" simply aren't stringent enough to meet the standard of evidence we look for here. You've interpreted a group of events as being divine in origin, but we don't have an objective data pool to analyze. All we have is your post hoc interpretations, and so far the events only seem to be meaningful to you.
To paraphrase what I said earlier in the thread, what does any of this have to do with us? What do we do with all this stuff?
So even if what you're experiencing is legitimate, factual and divine, from our POV it might as well be "feelings" because we can't test it, duplicate it, falsify it, or utilize it in any practical way.
It was broke when he got it as a result of Bush tax cuts, two wars, a housing bubble and a financial meltdown from deregulation of the financial industry. Specifically, what did Obama do to "destroy" the economy?
They are then testimonies that are meant to persuade you of the truth of a God who has chosen to work outside the standards you have set.
Here's what I'd do with this stuff if I was you. Compare it to other people's reports of interventions... What's great about reading others accounts and believing them, because they appear to be written by honest people...
...you begin to appreciate the mystery of the Heavenly Father, and in so doing cultivate a faith that has a chance of attracting personal demonstrations of your own. He will require coming to him on his terms however, so be ready to submit to his principles.
jaimehlers you portray my beliefs as having only a foundation in feelings when you know that they are based upon God's direct demonstrated interventions in my life.
I know no such thing.
The reason is because you have consistently refused/been unable to provide any solid evidence to back up your stories. You believe them to be true because they feel true to you, but that is not even close to the same thing to being able to demonstrate them to be true. This goes back to your mistake of certitude when there's nothing solid to base it on - you might as well build a house on sand.
On the contrary, it's exactly like the following quote: "Search your feelings, you know it to be true."
What you are trying and failing to do is box me in with others whose faith you have managed to dislodge that base their "beliefs" on un-demonstrated faith. You cannot do that with me though you're doing your best.
I'm not trying to 'dislodge' anyone's faith.
This isn't about 'dislodging' faith in the first place. I couldn't care less that you believe in your god. It's about getting people off of the idea that their faith can substitute for actual knowledge.
But what has happened is you discredit your arguments and diminish the credibility of your reason to continue hounding me about having unsubstantiated faith, when you know all too well that I would be unreasonable to dismiss the continual interventions. They may fail your standards of courtroom evidence but only if a circumstantial cases were never allowed, but you know that a circumstantial case can be a good case, and in my case it's open and shut.
This is not a courtroom, Wayne (thankfully). It isn't about technicalities, or objections, or any of the other things you see in courtrooms. What it's about is providing us with evidence to support your argument. And you've not been able to do that. What you're actually giving us are stories which you believe are so compelling that a person who hears them all cannot help but agree with you that your god exists (which, incidentally, is why you've declaring that I know your stories are true, etc). But they aren't compelling, especially to someone who doesn't share your belief system to begin with.
Your certitude that you know the truth is blinding you to the way things are actually working out. That's why it's such a serious flaw for you.
I'm absolutely uncertain of my interpretations of God's intentions, but in all that uncertainty of myself is absolutely no uncertainty about God's repetitively demonstrated power in my life. That repetitively demonstrated power does find its counterparts in the Scriptures so my reasoned judgement is that those that wrote the scripture were experiencing the same repetitive demonstrations that caused them to write of the phenomena that characterizes my experience. It is both reasoned and rational to arrive at the certainty that God exists, and for me it would be the height of idiocy to arrive at any other conclusion.
You having "no uncertainty about God's repetitively demonstrated power" is exactly the problem.
For all that you actually know, for all that you've actually been able to prove, it could simply be coincidence (you've admitted as much by saying that my explanations are plausible). Therefore, your certitude is built on a foundation of sand.
It may seem solid to you, in your own mind, but it doesn't stand up to examination. Yet your certitude is actually leading you to ignore the warnings of others who are able to see the problems that you've blinded yourself to. It is leading you astray.
Blindness takes more than one form. Convincing yourself that what you want to believe in exists and then refusing to even consider the slightest possibility that it doesn't actually exist is also blindness.
What you're actually asking us to do is to take your word for it, and that isn't going to work.
What's so touchy feely about an earthquake for heaven sake?, give up jaimehlers.
Earthquakes happen all the time, as you said yourself.
You hold your own arguments in high regard, yet how many people have you actually managed to persuade with them? And how many of those didn't already share your religious belief?
Your explanations were worthy of regard even though they fell short of overturning the repetitive pattern they sought to dismember.
That 'pattern' only exists in your own mind and those you've successfully managed to convince, you know. To everyone else, it's meaningless. And as long as you refuse to provide verifiable evidence, you're not going to succeed in proving that this pattern you've detected has any real meaning.
But let's get real here, do you honestly think the first thing people think when the name Idi Amin is mentioned is "Wow, that guy was a lousy economist!"? Of course not, because the thing for which Amin is primarily known is butchering hundreds of thousands of his own countrymen. This is not some "quirk". While you certainly don't have to agree with Obama's politics, there is no way he (or any U.S. president) even approaches the level of this brutal, genocidal dictator. You are so desperate to paint Obama as a villain that you will believe and/or fabricate anything negative about him, even that which is clearly false.As I said weeks ago, the only real similarity between Obama and Amin is that they both have darker skin tone than yours, and that says more about you than it does Obama.
People tend to give American Presidents far too much credit or blame for the US economy. They simply do not have the power to change it or even shift it very much or very quickly. They are much more at the mercy of the economy than it is at theirs. A dictator like Idi Amin had almost direct access to the economic engine of Uganda. He forcibly took many businesses from their legit owners and handed them to party cronies, who mismanaged them. The damage to the economy was a direct result of his policies and actions.
So, no, I don't buy this Obama/Idi Amin comparison.
. Wayne, as usual, you are quite mistaken. Two or more fallacious arguments (put together) don't make a sound argument.
What is in question here Wayne is your interpretation of what you think happened (i.e. - how you are so sure it was Yahweh who caused these things - Muslims have similar premonition stories for their Allah!). If I took every one of your claims at face-value those claims would still require interpretation. Again, coincidences and rare occurrences are not extraordinary evidence. You need to first establish how you differentiate between a "miracle" and a rare occurrence. If you have no verifiable method for distinguishing between the two, then all you really have is credulity.
...You simply refuse to......it shows by you resorting to the feelings thing when you know it doesn't apply......If you were honest with your fellow bloggers here...
You simply refuse to differentiate my evidence which has a solid basis with the kind of faith you usually pillory. You act like I don't have you off guard with the reality of intervention but it shows by you resorting to the feelings thing when you know it doesn't apply.
It would be a mistake not to have certitude with the evidence I have. It would be a mistake for you to have certitude that my evidence is true, but not for me. If you were honest with your fellow bloggers here that speak with certitude that god isn't real, or that it is a fairy tale you would correct them.
Certitude that there is no God is a bigger fallacy than ones certitude that there is one, particularly if that person has the evidence I have.
So let's hear it, "It is wrong to speak with certitude that Wayne's God is a fantasy". "It is wrong to speak with certitude that confirmation bias controls Wayne's accounts of intervention, thus renders them invalid."
Can you be honest and make those to declarations, or are your peers going to punish you for going off the reservation?
Are you saying I said that?
Really. Let me think about that. Let's take a poll and see how many of you here can make that declaration. Having heard that statement I will look at your arguments differently than before because I may have been under a false impression. Maybe you could suggest that it become a Forum Maxim. Would anyone else here like to make that statement?
Who said it was a substitute for knowledge? Men of faith have helped get us to the moon. Give me an example of how I've substituted faith for knowledge, that you need to save me from.
Thee's that belief system thing again. If you put together all the interventions and remove the Christianity, you would still have a bunch of supernatural stuff to rationalise.
You would have to attribute it to something unnatural.
I know that philosophically belief systems exist for other people, but you must allow for the possibility that there is one overarching truth of which those who are aware of it, and point themselves to it, end up transending the world of "belief systems". Jesus Christ was the truth incarnate, so much so that a whole lot of faulty belief systems make the best use of his name as they can, but apart form the fallacies that men are afflicted with there is a core truth, Christ, and he is that one solid rock. With regard to that truth, belief system seems a little inappropriate... for me anyway.
Things could work out bad for me, and it wouldn't change the reality of God. It couldn't change the certitude that is the natural result of all the interventions. It was like with Job. He may not have liked what was happening to him but it didn't cause him to say God didn't exist. I suppose you could even curse God as many have but in cursing him they acknowledge him.
It's funny to hear you say that. You should feel funny saying it.
I like that. Where did you get that building on sand thing anyway?
I may be the biggest fool in the world in how I have conducted my life, and for being that way it would be true that I've built my life on a foundation of sand, and earthly failure may be my just dessert, but none of that has any relevance to the fact of God. I am a man, I am imperfect, but none of my folly changes the truth of God. Your sand argument is good for me, but irrelevant to the reality of God.
Again, don't make the mistake of equating my certainty of God with a certainty of my understanding of God. My faulty understanding of him and his machinations doesn't make him not exist. The interventions prove Him, my understanding of it all is subject to scrutiny, even my own.
What if I didn't want to believe and all this stuff happened to me? Would you not be hounding me for not allowing for the possibility that he exists? What you are exposing here is your flaw not mine.
I just can't wait to here one of "you say, well, now, I guess God could be real if what Wayne is saying is true'. But I'm not sure if any of you are honest enough about it to concede that point. You have this certitude hang up. I'm waiting.
I don't know how my conceding that earquakes happen all the time has any relevance to my having been specifically placed, and directed, and given visions. Of course they happen just as often as they happen, that has nothing to do with diminishing the impact of my experience with them. You have a useless argument to even point out frequencies. A lightning strikes happen all the time as well, so what?
You wanna know something? I don't have a particularly high regard for my ability to argue, I just have true incidents to report, and against the background of that reality all I need to do is navigate to the best of my ability around all the unnecessary scepticism. Now, OJs defense team, they have the argument down to a science, and they better, because they are perpetrating a lie.
It's funny to hear you say it is a pattern in my mind, when, truth be told, some of this is as bizarre as a mind can conceive. Now if Idi Amin that I had only a passing knowledge of was driving a big black Crown Vic ascending a hill with US Government Plates and a big Obama Grin in nineteen ninety and he was conceived from a pattern that I picked up in my sunday school class when I was eight years old... that is some pattern.
I will remind you that I was awakened, lead to the scriptures, and was made to read one passage specifically that said that the Holy Ghost would teach me all things and then bring those things back to my memory. John 14:26
He instructed me with the obscure dream of Idi Amin, and then lead me to find it 20 years later when I had forgotten completely about it to remind me so I could write about it. Hardly the stuff of patterns in the mind. Re Read the account here and then use your critical analytical skills to determine how that could be a pattern in my mind. http://tinyurl.com/ObamaAmin
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