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Sunday, June 19, 2011
Father's Day without Father Corapi-UPDATED 7-9-2011 GUILTY
SOLT's fact-finding team has acquired information from Fr. Corapi's e-mails, various witnesses, and public sources that, together, state that, during his years of public ministry:
He did have sexual relations and years of cohabitation (in California and Montana) with a woman known to him, when the relationship began, as a prostitute; He repeatedly abused alcohol and drugs; He has recently engaged in sexting activity with one or more women in Montana; He holds legal title to over $1 million in real estate, numerous luxury vehicles, motorcycles, an ATV, a boat dock, and several motor boats, which is a serious violation of his promise of poverty as a perpetually professed member of the Society.
SOLT has contemporaneously with the issuance of this press release directed Fr. John Corapi, under obedience, to return home to the Society's regional office and take up residence there. It has also ordered him, again under obedience, to dismiss the lawsuit he has filed against his accuser.
SOLT's prior direction to Fr. John Corapi not to engage in any preaching or teaching, the celebration of the sacraments or other public ministry continues. Catholics should understand that SOLT does not consider Fr. John Corapi as fit for ministry. I share a personal story of my meeting Fr. Corapi as well as an open letter. However, before I begin, for the record it should be said that on the National Catholic Register as well as the Catholic News Agency sites, there have been further clarifications.
Perhaps the biggest is that Fr. Corapi was not asked to leave the priesthood but has chosen to do this on his own. His superiors have begged him to reconsider. Even though the religious order he took vows to SOLT or Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity has asked him to reconsider, it seems that the "Black Sheep Dog" as he now calls himself or John as he now refers to himself, will not be moved. http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/fr.-corapis-order-places-him-on-leave-after-misconduct-accusation/
"The investigation was halted after Father Corapi "sent us a letter resigning from active ministry and religious life. I have written him a letter asking him to confirm that decision. If so, we will help him with this process of leaving religious life," said Father Sheehan.
He expressed disappointment that Father Corapi chose not to remain in SOLT and to refuse the order's invitation for him to live in community, leaving his Montana home. Father Sheehan said he had tried to arrange a meeting with Father Corapi before any final decision was announced, but had not heard back from him. Father Sheehan said that SOLT would issue a statement shortly.
"We wanted him to come back to the community, and that would have meant leaving everything he has. It would have been a drastic change for him," Father Sheehan said. "We will continue to move pastorally and charitably, taking steps to protect his good name."
So it seems that John Corapi has decided to leave but the intention was never to ask him to leave the priesthood. It seems, from this statement, that this is John Corapi's decision.
I also want to make note that Mark Shea's blog has some insights that should be considered as well. end update)
I met Fr. Corapi at a Conference many years ago. I was a speaker there and so was he. I was in much need of some spiritual direction and he gave it to me. I was struck by his candid way of stating fact and his desire for other's to do the same.
One thing I will say, not knowing his accuser or if there was any truth to the accusations, is that when I met a woman working there for him at that conference, I thought her to be odd. I would like to share something only a few people have knowledge of and I do so in case it would help in any way.
When I was at that conference, I could not help but notice the way in which she acted. She acted as if she owned him. I thought at the time that it may have been due to being star struck. I am sure that an assistant of a man of such a charismatic personality would be immune to his ability to inspire and connect with people. She did not realize I was a speaker at the same conference and when I approached her to ask if Fr. Corapi was around and that I would like an opportunity to speak to him and perhaps go to confession with him, she was, in my opinion, not only rude to me, but I felt she treated me as if I was something or someone that she had to "protect" Fr. Corapi from.
In her defense, I realize that her job was to allow him the time to pray, to get to his talks etc, but it was more than that. She acted as if she owned him some how. I recall then holding up my speaker's badge which I was wearing and showing it to her saying "I will just talk to him in the speakers lounge", a place even she could not go. I regret doing that now, it was my own lack of humility and my stubborn and quick to anger ego that just wanted her to be nice to me and treat me like I mattered, instead I probably ended up making her feel like she did not matter. I am truly sorry for that.
The look on her face suprised the hell out of me. She looked at me with a seering hate. Yes, hate. I remember thinking how very weird she was and how weird she acted about Fr. Corapi. I never saw them together so I can not say how she acted with him or he with her, but my feeling of how she talked about him and acted as his assistant seemed out of the ordinary.
A few weeks later, I had reason to call Fr. Corapi based on some advise he gave me. I called his office and this woman, whom I will not name, answered the phone. When she found out it was me, she proceeded to threaten me telling me that I was never to call there again or she would have legal action brought against me. I even tried writing him a letter thinking to myself, what the heck is going on?
I then called my good friend Terry Barber of St. Joseph Communications and told him about what happened and not only did he agree that it was really weird but that he was friends with Fr. Corapi and that I should try to reach him again and just tell him what was going on.
I called and left 2 or 3 messages on the answering machine (in which her voice was the recording). I also had another friend call thinking maybe she was just upset with me over what took place between us and if someone she did not know called her I could get through.
Well, this woman called and left a horrific message on my friends voicemail. I listened to it shaking my head the whole time thinking, how can this woman be working for Fr. Corapi and does he know what she is doing?????
The next thing I know I got a letter from his office, signed by him, saying I was to cease and desist from contacting their office or there would be charged brought up against me. I was in shock. It had to be a mistake right? I mean, he knew me! I talked to him! Wouldn't logic make him say, wait, this is the woman I talked with for almost an hour at the conference in Houston? The only possibility, I thought, was that he probably had no idea who I was and she was telling me him something. I regret never acting on the inspiration to send the photo of the two of us and to tell him what was going on.
Perhaps if someone needs this information now, if it is in fact relevant at all, they can read this and let me know if my testimony is needed in anyway. My experience with him and this woman, who may not even be the woman in questions, either proves that there was something very unhealthy going on between them, or that there was something very unhealthy about this woman. I have no idea or opinion about which is the case.
If however, there is something there, then we must pray for him, regardless we should pray for him, but especially if there is any truth to this because the enemy is clearly at work here. If any of the allegations are true, then you can imagine the horrific suffering he is going to endure. It is one thing to bare the burden of being falsely accused, but interiorly you know you are right with God and I believe that they endure knowing they are like Christ in their martyrdom. However, if he is guilty, then the suffering will be like a horrific internal torture and I am sure the enemy will inflict even more further damage. We must pray for him and for this woman so that Christ's will be done. I for one will be praying for light to shine and reveal the lies whatever they may be.
Thank you John Corapi for taking the time to help me deal with an incredible burden I was carrying during that time in my life. That day at least, you gave me much peace on the subject matter.
However, I must implore you to consider what you are doing. We are all called to lay down our lives and to pick up our cross and follow Christ. Right now, it seems you are rejecting that suffering. Your new website "Black Sheep Dog" and the referring to yourself as the "Dog" is down right spooky and very disconcerting.
I am also worried by the responses on your blog/website. It seems many see you as some sort of rock star or cult leader and have expressed their willingness to leave the church to follow you anywhere you go. Doesn't that worry you since your job is to lead people to Christ and not to your guilt or innocence? Why did you get into evangelization? If it was to lead people to Christ then why do this thing which surely is a huge distraction from knowing, loving and serving God. Your actions are somewhat frightening, because I can now see how the enemy could take this great conversion story and ministry of your big personality and instead of these things leading people closer to Union and Communion with Christ, he may instead use this as an opportunity for his own diabolical purposes.
Would people really leave the church to follow a mere mortal man? I pray it would not be so, but judging from those leaving comments on his site, clearly they would.
The Following is a reprint of John Corapi's statement this Father's day:
This Sunday, June 19, 2011, is both Trinity Sunday on the Catholic liturgical calendar and Fathers' Day on the secular calendar. It is a day I'll never forget, and sadly so. It is the twentieth anniversary of my ordination to the priesthood in the Catholic Church. For twenty years I was called "father." I am very thankful for those twenty years. I could have easily died any number of times, any number of ways in my life before that, so I consider it all a bonus, an undeserved bonus. To all of you that have communicated support, ordination anniversary congratulations, and other kind sentiments, I am greatly thankful, and I do not take that for granted.
All things change, only God stays the same, so I have to tell you about a major change in my life. I am not going to be involved in public ministry as a priest any longer. There are certain persons in authority in the Church that want me gone, and I shall be gone. I have been guilty of many things in the course of my life, and could easily and justifiably be considered unfit to engage in public ministry as a priest. The present complaint that you have heard about is, as far as I know, from the one person that I can honestly say I did more to help and support than any human being in my entire life. I forgive her and hope only good things for her. I am not going to get into a back and forth or argument with the Church or anyone else about this matter.
Suffice it to say that I love the Catholic Church and accept what has transpired. Unfortunately, the process used is inherently and fatally flawed, but the bishops have the power, apparently, to operate anyway they see fit. I cannot give a lengthy explanation of what has transpired, but I can tell you that the most likely outcome is that they leave me suspended indefinitely and just let me fade away. They can't prove I'm guilty of the things alleged because I'm not, and they can't prove I'm innocent because that is simply illogical and impossible. All civilized societies know that. Certain leaders in the Catholic Church apparently do not.
I accept moving on, but I am not ready to be altogether extinguished just yet. In the final analysis I have only one of only two viable choices:
1. I can quietly lie down and die, or
2. I can go on in ways that I am able to go on.
I did not start this process, the Bishop of Corpus Christi, Texas ordered my superiors, against their will and better judgment, to do it. He in fact threatened to release a reprehensible and libelous letter to all of the bishops if they did not suspend me. He has a perfect right to do so, and I defend that right. Bishops aren't bound by civil laws and procedures in internal Church matters. I agree with that, and would defend to the death the Church's right to proceed as they see fit. He is the bishop and he has the right to govern as he sees fit. It isn't an easy task. Many forces besiege him, including pressure from other bishops.
My canon lawyer and my civil lawyers have concluded that I cannot receive a fair and just hearing under the Church's present process. The Church will conclude that I am not cooperating with the process because I refuse to give up all of my civil and human rights in order to hold harmless anyone who chooses to say defamatory and actionable things against me with no downside to them. The case may be on hold indefinitely, but my life cannot be. Some of the things that might surprise you about the way some of the bishops treat accused priests are as follows:
1. The identity of the accuser is not revealed. You can guess, but you don't actually know. Nor are the exact allegations made known to you. Hence, you have an interesting situation of having to respond to an unknown accuser making unknown accusations (unknown to the accused and his counsel).
2. The persons chosen to investigate the allegations normally have no qualifications to do so. They certainly didn't graduate from the FBI academy, nor do they have any other background to qualify them to interrogate or otherwise interview witnesses.
3. There are no set rules of evidence or norms of procedure.
4. You are for all practical purposes assumed guilty until you can prove you are innocent. This one is truly baffling. No civilized society operates that way. If you are accused of something you are considered innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
5. The accused and his counsel have no right to obtain and review any of the evidence against him.
6. The accused and his counsel are not provided the names of witnesses, nor are they permitted to cross-examine them.
7. There is a general unwillingness or outright refusal by certain of the bishops to abide by applicable statutes of limitations, both in canon and civil law. There are good reasons for these statutes. Time has a way of clouding memories and distorting perceptions.
By the way, Canon Law does not dictate this. They choose to selectively ignore or violate both Canon Law and Civil Law, as they deem appropriate and or expeditious. Once again, they apparently have the discretionary power to do this, and if that's the way it is I have to accept that as reality.
The bottom line is that the only way a just outcome is likely, in my view and that of my counsel, both civil and canon lawyers, is by accident, rather than as a result of the process.
I will not try to fight this irrational and unjust situation for the simple reason that I don't want to be placed in an adversarial posture against the Church. For 20 years I did my best to guard and feed the sheep. Now, based on a totally unsubstantiated, undocumented allegation from a demonstrably troubled person I was thrown out like yesterday's garbage. I accept that. Perhaps I deserve that.
I can't do what I can't do. I can only do what I can do. I shall continue, black sheep that I am, to speak; and sheep dog that I am, to guard the sheep—this time around not just in the Church, but also in the entire world. I am, indeed, not ready to be extinguished. Under the name "The Black Sheep Dog," I shall be with you through radio broadcasts and writing. My autobiography, "The Black Sheep Dog," is almost ready for publication. My topics will be broader than in the past, and my audience likewise is apt to be broader. I'll do what I can under the circumstances.
Please don't bother the bishop or complain because it will do no good and it wastes valuable time and energy, both his and yours.
I hope you stay with us and follow us into our new domain and name of "The Black Sheep Dog." Through writing and broadcasting we hope to continue to dispense truth and hope to a world so much in need of it. For those of you who choose to part company and go away from us, we wish you well and thank you for your many kindnesses over the years. We'll miss you in our usual meeting places, but assure you that there will be new places for us to meet, just like in "the good old days," so for now,
God bless you, God love you, and goodbye.
John Corapi (once called "father," now "The Black Sheep Dog")
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Perhaps, since you say you do not know whether the woman you describe (who can be easily identified from the details you have provided) is "the woman in question," by which I presume you mean the accuser described by Fr Corapi, your most prudent course would have been to share this information with him and with his superiors privately and allow them to determine whether it was relevant, rather than potentially defaming someone in a public forum.
- June 19, 2011 at 5:37 PM
- ChristinaKing.com said...
I have contacted several persons with this information. It is unclear if they passed it along to anyone who could determine if it is relevant.
It is my opinion that I have been vague and non-descriptive. I also have have only given my opinion therefore I have hardly defamed anyone. However, I thank you for your suggestion and will keep that in mind for the future.
- June 20, 2011 at 8:28 AM
Just a thought....maybe this is why he chose to terminate her employment with the company. Maybe she was treating others like this as well.
- June 20, 2011 at 8:58 AM
- ChristinaKing.com said...
Unfortunately if you go and read his new website "Black Sheep Dog" it seems he will not be lying down to die and picking up his cross. He says he WILL NOT lie down and die. But doesn't the bible say to do that? Whomever believes in me will die to self, deny himself...?
I am also worried by the responses on his blog/website. It seems many seem as if they would follow him like a rock star or cult and deny our church and are encouraging him to do the same. Frightening, because now you see that perhaps the enemy will now take this great conversion story and personality in the church and use it to for diabolical purposes.
Would people really leave the church to follow a mere mortal man?
- June 20, 2011 at 10:31 AM
- JoannaB said...
It seems likely that at that time you would have been wasting your time to send the letter and photo because she would probably have intercepted it and may even have written the 'supposed' letter off Father Corapi. The only thing to do in these situations is to pray and let Truth come out eventually. God will reveal all. The devil is a liar and an accuser of the brethen.
- June 20, 2011 at 1:49 PM
I have also been prayful about the people who seem so attached to him. He has been very helpful in his instruction and started me in the search for the truth of our glorious Holy Church which teaches the truth. It is our responsibility to read and study the truth it does teach and to want to belong to Christ and His Church and not individual men of the Church and in doing that we will obey the truth and authority of the priests but not leave the Chruch because we are disappointed.
- June 20, 2011 at 2:23 PM
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- June 21, 2011 at 1:05 PM
You are not the first to say this, I did some research and there seems to be many who were treated badly by a woman at the Father Corapi events, and this was before she made any accusations. Also, prior to this incident the accuser posted positive things about Father Corapi on different Bloggs but when I read them, I also like yourself came away thinking she was a control freak. The accuser is mentally un-stable, and yes Father did try to help her. Her self esteem is completely wrapped up in is image. I know this because I had a similar thing happen to me. I believe Father Corapi is kind person and because of his past he thought that he could help her and her husband who did work for him. The Problem was that he became their Life and they saw him as a their possesion. My advice would be to give this evidence to the authorities.
Father Corapi is innocent I believe this very strongly. He needs our help and our prayers. you are not the first to say this a person was cursed out by this woman at a conference another when he phoned and I do not think Father Corapi was aware of these incidents. One man was very hurt she said get to the back of the F...ing line. There is much out there about her she was called"the Gate Keeper"
- June 22, 2011 at 6:10 AM
- ChristinaKing.com said...
While I have tried to get this information to someone that would need it, it seems I am not able to.
- June 22, 2011 at 10:31 AM
- Marian said...
I absolutely do not believe this "after" picture is real. It is doctored, photo shopped, whatever you want to call it. It is not a real image.
- June 23, 2011 at 7:25 PM
- ChristinaKing.com said...
Just google Father John Corapi then press "images" you will see that it is not photoshopped. There are not only thousands of these images, but video's as well. He must have died his hair.
- June 23, 2011 at 9:05 PM
- ChristinaKing.com said...
Here is the point; Fr. Corapi is leaving SOLT and has given a letter of resignation. If granted, he would no longer be able to hear confessions, say Mass, in fact he would not be able to function as a priest in any sacramental way whatsoever. He says that preaching is what he was called to. How many of you think his preaching is more important than him being able to give us the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass? If you think his preaching is more important than sacraments, then you are protestant and not Catholic.
- June 23, 2011 at 9:24 PM
Father has said many times, that his ministry was to preach first and foremost. He has a great love for the Eucharist ,as he has plainly said in many of his talks. He said as a diocesan priest, his duty would be to administer the sacraments, but he is not a diocesan priest.
Truly this woman you speak about , makes no bones about being Father's accuser. She has posted such on many Facebook pages and even revealed the name of one of the SOLT investigaters on one of those pages. It was revealed in a newspaper article, by one of Father's friends, that Father Corapi even paid for her to go to Rehab for her alcohol abuse. She has a history of physical abuse as an abuser as well as being abused. She truly has a believability problem as anyone who reads her posts can attest. Both she and Fr. Corapi need our continued prayers.
- October 16, 2011 at 10:11 PM
I am persuaded that Father Corapi is doing God's will. God laid down his life innocent for all of us who are guilty. He could not be found guilty of blaspheming himself! Neither can a priest be found guilty of denying God's spirit within himself, nor can any person who is confirmed or baptized with the Holy Spirit be deemed guilty of offence, if his or her intention is only to forgive offence and extend God's mercy. But, for that will to forgive and extend God's mercy to be transferrable from Holy Priests to those who have personally offended others, or the general public, the civil rights of those slandered or subjected to calumny as wrongfully accused must be respected in courts of law, equally as those granted leave to bring true allegations to Judges in the same courts of law. "Covering up" crime does not serve the general public good. There has been Torture and capital punishment (murder) committed with impunity in many cases in which juries and judges have presumed guilt without proof beyond doubt. Father Corapi undoubtably knows that at least as well as those who work with agencies like Amnesty International. I believe he is doing God's will, and pray for his protection, health, and exoneration. I am in similar circumstances of false accusation myself.
Alison Beil, Stony Plain, Alberta.
- October 31, 2011 at 1:32 AM


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Lost in a topsy-turvy NFC title bout that came down to one fateful gaffe by the 49ers' offense was an effort by San Francisco's defense that left coordinator Vic Fangio grateful.
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In the quiet minutes after the Seattle Seahawks pulled off a 23-17 win at home Sunday, Fangio approached each of his 49ers players and told them he loved them.
"I kissed most of them. I don't think I've ever done that before," Fangio said, per the San Jose Mercury News. "They're a bunch of fighters we've got here. They're class guys. Great players. Great individuals. Great football character. It doesn't surprise me."
While the 49ers registered four sacks against Seahawks signal-caller Russell Wilson, none of those came in a second half that saw Seattle post 20 points down the stretch. San Francisco's typically stout run defense also lost the battle to Marshawn Lynch, who blasted his way for 109 yards, including an earth-shaking 40-yard touchdown volt midway through the third period.
Wilson hadn't thrown for 200-plus yards in over a month, but San Francisco allowed him to cross that barrier as the 49ers blew a 10-point lead for the first time with Colin Kaepernick at quarterback. It didn't help that San Francisco's offense, over its final four drives, went three-and-out, lost a sack-fumble and tossed back-to-back interceptions.
On Sunday, only four of Seattle's drives topped 25 yards, but a failure to shut down a handful of big plays in the second half sent Fangio's troops into their offseason with plenty to think about.
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God chooses to fill empty vessels, but He cannot fill people with the Spirit if they are already full of themselves, and there is a real danger in the church of having a sufficient spirit. That is why we don�t see many revivals; people thinking they have a sufficient, satisfied spirit.
God chooses to fill empty vessels, but He cannot fill people with the Spirit if they are already full of themselves, and there is a real danger in the church of having a sufficient spirit. That is why we don�t see many revivals; people thinking they have a sufficient, satisfied spirit.
When we humble ourselves, God promises to hear and respond � and he never breaks that promise. You will never find a time in the Bible when men humbled themselves before God and he did not hear and respond. God puts the responsibility to humble ourselves on us.
Seeking humility means we confess our burden for the way things are. The circumstances of people carrying crosses, living far from God, precede every revival in the Bible.
We must feel a burden for our own lack of righteousness.
Fast, weep and mourn
Why do we get upset when sinners sin? What do we expect them to do? They don�t have the truth of God, the cover of the blood of Christ or the Holy Spirit to guide them.
God says in Joel 2, "Even now, return to me with fasting and weeping and mourning. Rend your heart and not your garments. Return to the Lord, your God, for He is gracious and compassionate, abounding in love and He relents from sending calamity."
That�s what it means to humble ourselves, to feel that burden. However, I wonder if we have become too proud to rend our hearts, weep and mourn.
Even in desperate times, we have one great source of hope. We can move God�s heart by our pleas, and a passionate calling on God�s name by his people always precedes revival.
However, God is moved by someone�s kneeling, not his or her standing.
God tells us repeatedly that if we are serious about humbling ourselves, we must pray and fast.
Jesus, in His teaching, did not say �if� you fast. He said �when� you fast.
Fasting is one of God�s ordained ways of humbling ourselves.
Psalms 35:13 says, "I put on sackcloth and humbled myself with fasting."
In Ezra 8:21, the prophet Ezra proclaimed a fast so that he and his companions might humble themselves before God.
Fasting is a sign of humility to the Lord God because it is our attempt to subject our desires so we can focus on God�s desires. Also, fasting communicates availability and yielding to God for whatever He wants instead of what we want. Most of all, fasting enables us to give our full attention to God�s leading and not to our own agenda.
Fasting means you are willing to give up something your body demands to fervently seek something you spirit needs.
Overcoming fear
You want revival? Pray and fast.
So why don�t we?
First, we are afraid because some denominations don�t do it.
The second reason is pride. It is humbling to fast. If you decide to pray, mourn and fast, some people will ridicule you because you are doing something radical and not going with the crowd. See Psalms 69:10-13.
Revival doesn�t come because we see the importance of humility and declare its virtues. Revival comes because we intentionally seek it.
God clearly says, "This is what you do if you want to humble yourselves before me."
The question is, are we too proud to do it? Humility means we have a burden with present conditions � and then we pray, fast and start addressing our desperate need for holiness.
Revival always makes us address our need for holiness. I have wondered why revival comes so slowly and so infrequently, when every church would say they are for revival. So why do we rarely see it?
Many people ask for revival because they think it would be fun. They have never been in a revival.
Long term, revival is glorious; short term, it is painful. Because if there were a movement of the Spirit in church, there would be a conviction of sin like we have never seen before. And are we sure we want that?
Every time you start to tell a dirty joke, or keep your money from God, make a dishonest deal or skip church over some silly, selfish reason, do you really want the spirit to crush you so that you have to fall to your knees and ask for forgiveness?
That is what you are asking for if you are asking for a revival.
Peter says in the fifth chapter of his first letter that we need to clothe ourselves with humility because God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble. Therefore, we must humble ourselves under God�s mighty hand.
Humble or be humbled
Every time something bad happens, we are too quick to say, "That must be spiritual warfare." Many times, it is God�s discipline. It is God keeping his promise to humble the haughty in spirit.
Do you remember how proud and arrogant King Nebuchadnezzar was before God, even though he had been warned in a dream to humble himself? He didn�t, of course. Therefore, God sent him into the wilderness for seven years to live like an animal. In Daniel 4:37, he says, "I learned a great lesson. I learned that all those who walk in pride He is able to make humble."
The Bible says that one day every knee will bow. We are not talking about whether you will be humble before God. We�re just talking about when you will humble yourselves and how. God will humble all that do not humble themselves, The Bible says.
If you will not fall flat on your face before God, he will put you flat on your back � but one way or the other, you�re going down.
If you want purity and rightness in your life and in this church, you must humble yourself and ask God for revival.
Rev. Albert Corey is pastor of Oak Ridge Assembly of God in Crestview.


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BURLINGTON, N.C. --- Lees-McRae senior Jessica Smith capped off her career with a two-hit performance while No. 8 LMC fell victim to No. 1 Limestone, 5-1, in the Conference Carolinas Softball Tournament Saturday afternoon at Springwood Park in Burlington, N.C.
The Saints (30-17) were powered by Leea Polin, who connected on two solo blasts, and defeated LMC for the fourth consecutive time in the last two weeks. The Bobcats (9-37) saw their top three hitters register a hit while four seniors played their final game in a Bobcat uniform.
LMC threatened in the first when Sarah Stallings (Greensboro, N.C.) and Valerie Hickey (Umatilla, Fla.) used back-to-back singles to open the frame, but the Bobcat offense was unable to push across a run.
Coach Merritt Yackey's squad would take a 1-0 lead in the top of the third when First-Team All-Conference catcher Sadie Lagle (Harmony, N.C.) roped a RBI double to left, plating Hickey.
LC used three singles in the bottom of the third, including a run-scoring bloop to right field by Bailie Maybry to tie it at one.
Polin connected on her first homer of the day with a blast in the bottom of the fourth.
The Saints stretched the lead to two when Ashley Cox drove in Paige Bolding with a single. Bolding opened the frame with a leadoff triple.
Polin smacked her second round tripper to lead off the bottom of the sixth before Cox struck again for a RBI single to cap off the scoring.
Smith (Gastonia, N.C.) doubled in her last at-bat as a Bobcat.
Taylor Wigmore went the distance in the win and scattered six hits while striking out five.
Celeste Sheppard (East Julian, N.C.) took the loss after allowing two earned runs in four innings of work.


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Ellie Cole, the British woman who was filmed dancing at a bus stop earlier this year, got a role in a play at the The Point Theater after the clip went viral.
Cole's viral video was secretly shot and posted on the Internet by passerby Jane Rowland in April. Five months later the woman's street performance landed her a role in "AH Men."
"I'm just a normal everyday person who happens to like dancing at bus stops. Still to this day I find it hard to believe what happened with the video," Cole, 35, told the Telegraph. "It's like 'wow, why me?'"
Lynne Paris, the writer and director of the show, explained that she chose Cole because she likes to include local performers in her plays and she ran across her viral clip by chance.
"My son saw the video and he said 'you've got to see this mum, she's just like you.' Wherever I am, if there's music I find myself jigging along to it," Paris said. "I think anybody who likes music could identify with it."
"AH Men" is based in Paris's experience after finding out her husband wanted to become a woman. Cole is featured in the chorus line in the first act.
After Cole's performance last Saturday, the crowd reportedly got up and danced to ABBA's "Dancing Queen" in honor of her viral clip, which was set to that song. She later revealed that at the time the clip was shot she was actually dancing to Alesha Dixon's hit "Knock Down."
"I have my headphones in every day on the way back from work and I just can't help myself -- I just dance," Cole said.


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Baltimore 28
49'ers 24
A rare close-score super Bowl. Ravens D beats Kapernick O.
Niners 28 Ravens 17
Ravens D is going to feel like they won't know what hit them going from a statute in the pocket (Peyton) and a guy who runs into the ref (Brady), to a guy that can kill you with his speed and his arm. They can prepare for it all they want, the real thing on the field is different. I think their D is still old and slow. Ravens offense has looked good in the playoffs, but I think the Niners D with time to prepare will give more of a vintage effort. They will be ready for the deep ball (and nobody like Julio Jones on Balt) and they have the front 7 to contain Rice. Everyone keeps saying this will be a classic, but I see a comfortable SF win.
Baltimore 28
49'ers 24
A rare close-score super Bowl. Ravens D beats Kapernick O.
Ravens. 24-17.
Flacco for 200+ passing, 2 TD. Rice 120 rushing, 1 TD.
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San Fran 24
Balitmore 23
and my numbers hit in my $500 box
34-24 Ravens.
Long live the long ball, Flacco is going to write himself a nice check with this performance.
I want to see OT.
Would an elite QB have a 22 TD pass season in the midst of his prime? I mean come on, this is classic case of people overreacting to small/fluky 3 game sample
People forget how much better the NFC was than the AFC this year. The Ravens would have likely been eliminated by the Seahawks in the wildcard round if they had been in the NFC.
35-28. The difference , a Ray Lewis sack ,fumble recovery for a TD, perfect ending for a lifetime player. The 49'ers will be back.
Ravens 31
49ers 27
Really, I have no feel for this game. I just hope it's entertaining. Do they still do the "I'm going to disneyworld" thing? Not a ray lewis fan by any stretch but I would kind of like to hear him say that in some overdramatic tone, with "tears" in his eyes and pointing up to the sky at baby jesus et al.
San Francisco 31
Baltimore 24
Decisive win by the 49'ers, score does not tell the whole story of San Francisco's domination of almost every aspect of the game. Last quarter ball slinging by Flacco prevents the scoreboard reading as a total blowout by the 49'ers.
Ravens 24
49ers 20
Jets 27
Seahawks 20
Tyler Bray proves why Jets took him in 2nd rd of 2013. Oops, wrong thread and year.
Ravens 27
Niners 24
Ravens 24
Niners 13


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Emily Barrel, 31, Marion, arrested Aug. 12 by Marion police on a Dickinson County warrant for bond revocation.
Dicy Durham, 34, Manhattan, arrested Aug. 15 by Peabody police on a Geary County warrant for failure to appear in court.
Cody Fistler, 23, Peabody, arrested Aug. 13 by sheriff's deputies on charges of failure to appear in court and probation violation.
Darren Geissert, 31, Burdick, arrested Aug. 14 by sheriff's deputies on a charge of probation revocation.
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David Santigo, 24, Fowler, arrested Aug. 12 by Marion police on charges of driving without a license and passing in a no-passing zone.
Dedrick Thiessen, 18, Hillsboro, arrested Aug. 14 by sheriff's deputies on a charge of probation revocation.
Remaining from previous weeks:
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Todd Beneke, 29, Herington, since July 24.
Justin Brasher, 20, McPherson, since June 10.
Leslie Coker, 53, Wichita, since July 24.
Cody Cook, 22, Canton, since Aug. 8.
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At BMC our core values drive a desire to give back to the community through volunteer efforts. We provide employees the ability to take paid Volunteer Time Off (VTO) to participate with organizations in hands-on activities that make a difference in people's lives. Here's how some of that time and effort was spent:
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L.A. mayor: 44 continues 42's policies
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa says President Barack Obama is a centrist alternative to a backward-looking Republican Party — and there's a direct line from the president back to Bill Clinton.
"The Clinton policies are the Obama policies," Villaraigosa said, speaking at the kickoff POLITICO Playbook breakfast of the Democratic National Convention here.
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The former president has become an active surrogate for Obama, and he'll address delegates here in a showcase speech Wednesday night. But Villaraigosa, who's serving as the Democratic convention chairman, didn't even wait for the opening session to keep stoking the nostalgia of a time when the economy was stronger and terrorism was a more distant threat.
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"The Clinton years were great years," he said.
And Villaraigosa said Obama has learned the lessons from his predecessor about the kind of politics to practice to get there.
"I'm a Democrat with a small 'd.' I believe very strongly in what I call the radical center," said Villaraigosa. "I believe that the president is moving down that path."
Villaraigosa pointed to Obama's willingness to tackle entitlement reforms and his own efforts to dismantle some of the seniority protections and pension benefits for teacher's unions as examples of Democrats being willing to challenge their own party orthodoxies.
By contrast, Villaraigosa said that the GOP has moved sharply to the right in recent elections — a move that he said would hurt them with voters.
"You read the Republican Party platform — you close your eyes for a moment — and it could easily be 1812 with the things they're proposing."
"I think that's very different from us," Villaraigosa said. "We're a party that's looking within and challenging ourselves."


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T.P. & W. Train Derails in Iroquois County
CRESCENT CITY -- Six cars on an eastbound Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad (T.P. & W) freight train derailed Saturday (7/7/12) along U-S. Route 24, east of Crescent City.
There was no injury. There was no hazardous material involved, and railroad repair crews were expected to have the rail line running again by Monday.
The cause of the derailment, which may have been heat related, is under investigation, according to T.P. & W. spokesman Steve Lee. The derailed cars remained upright.
The six derailed hoppers were the final cars on a 112-car freight train. The derailment, just east of Iroquois County Road 1800 N, was reported at approximately 1:17 pm. Crescent-Iroquois firefighters responded to a minor timber fire resulting from the derailment.
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Height has historically been regarded as a marker of health and robustness. We seem to implicitly accept that bigger is indeed better, even if we don't want to admit it. On average, tall people attain more professional success and make more money [1], the taller presidential candidate almost always wins, and women are more attracted to tall men. On a very visceral level, the taller person is more physically imposing. After all, who would you rather fight – the dude with a long reach raining punches from up high or the shorter guy with stubby arms who has to work his way inside your guard (although Mike Tyson did pretty well for himself with such "limitations")? And on that note, who would you prefer as a mate – the physically imposing specimen or the shorter, presumably weaker male?
We in the Primal health community are quick to point out that agriculture reduced physical stature. Generally speaking, bone records indicate that Paleolithic (and, to a lesser extent, Mesolithic) humans were taller than humans living immediately after the advent of agriculture. Multiple sources exist, so let's take a look at a couple of them before moving on:
According to one study [2] on remains of early Europeans, prior to 16,000 BC, European males stood 179 cm tall, or 5'10.5″, and females stood 158 cm, or 5'2″. Between 8,000 to 6,600 BC, average heights had dropped to 166 cm for males. Heights fell even further in Neolithic populations, dropping down to 164 cm for males and 150 cm for females, only reaching and surpassing 170 cm at the end of the 19th century.
Another source [3] found that Paleolithic humans living between 30,000 and 9,000 BC ran almost 5'10", which is close to the average modern American male's height. After agriculture was fully adopted, male height dropped to 161 cm, or 5'5.4″. Females went from 166.5 cm to 154.3 cm under the same parameters.
We know these changes to height also reflected worsened health, because with shortness came dental pathologies like caries, plaque, and decay, signs of arrested growth indicating instances of severe malnutrition, and skull abnormalities that stem from iron deficiency. People got shorter, sicker, and less healthy. Height wasn't a cause of poor health, of course, but it was an indicator.
And that's where the statistic of height shines – as an indicator. On a large scale, height increases indicate improved nutritional or socioeconomic status, while decreases indicate poor nutrition, famine, war, or economic hardship. Thus, as a population increases in height, it's safe to assume that its people are either eating better, making more money, or both. If a population shows decreasing height (or stagnation, which the US is showing), we surmise that something is amiss. There exists no better modern day example of height following health than with North and South Korea [4]. Several studies show that South Koreans are taller than their counterparts to the north. Since the two populations are so closely related, genetic differences can't explain the discrepancy; it's got to be environment, especially childhood nutrition. North Koreans are famously malnourished, and the height discrepancy between North and South – about three or four inches on average – is similar to the height discrepancy observed between Paleolithic and Neolithic populations.
There are numerous other examples. Up until the late 1800s, Northern Plains Indian tribes were the tallest people in the world [5], standing over 172 cm (or about 5'8″) and subsisting on a nourishing diet of wild game, fish, berries, and native plants. That height advantage disappeared with reservation life, of course. Fry bread, vegetable oil, sugar, and white flour mixed with extreme stress and economic hardship are poor substitutes for fresh buffalo and open plains. What about Americans, the ones who supplanted the Plains tribes? For most of the past two hundred years, Americans have been the tallest people in the world, until about fifty years ago when height began to stagnate [6]. Today, American males stand around 5'10.5″, but we haven't grown in decades and other countries have long since passed us. Meanwhile, European and Asian countries have steadily gained on us. The Dutch, whose men stand over 6′ and whose women stand over 5'7″, are now the tallest in the world. American males are ninth tallest and American females are fifteenth, and any regular reader of mine knows that the nutritional situation in America needs a lot of work. It's no surprise that we're stagnating while other countries with better nutrition are growing.
And yet for all the concrete links between a population's height, health, and nutrition (especially childhood nutrition), some researchers have linked "excessive" height to poor health and longevity. Barring the obvious examples of short-lived people with gigantism and other endocrine disorders, there is some evidence that the shorter among us live the longest. Thomas Samaras, a height/health researcher, has authored several papers arguing that bigger is not necessarily better. In one [7], he reviews human and animal evidence and seems to present a strong argument, but others have argued [8] that Samaras overlooks evidence to the contrary. While Samaras chooses to focus on increased mortality from non smoking-related cancers in the tall, he ignores the bevy of evidence showing that in industrialized nations, taller people enjoy more protection from all-cause mortality, including heart disease, stroke, and respiratory disease.
But what about those centenarians? As Samaras notes, they, along with nonagenarians (between 90 and 99 years old), are on average shorter than the rest of the population. The long-lived Okinawans are famously dimunitive [9], and it seems like every other Mediterranean centenarian in the news is a spry old lady.
I like one possible explanation for centenarians being shorter and slighter while enjoying better health and longevity: insulin-like growth factor, or IGF-1, a protein produced in the liver and stimulated by growth hormone that induces systemic growth in almost every cell of the body, including muscle, bone, various organs, cartilage, skin, nerves, and lungs. It even affects DNA synthesis and individual cell growth. IGF-1 is perhaps the biggest determinant of height in humans: in infants [10], IGF-1 correlates strongly with growth, IGF-1 is highest during growth spurts [11] in pre-teens and teens, and higher levels of IGF-1 usually correlate [12] with adult height. Clearly, enough IGF-1 is required for proper musculoskeletal development, but what about too much? Can you have too much IGF-1?
Staffan Lindeberg thinks that excessive serum levels of IGF-1 [13] from diet-induced hyperinsulinemia are causing unhealthy amounts of growth, which manifest as higher rates of cancer and, yes, height, in Western populations. Simply put, Lindeberg agrees that a population's height is an indicator of health, but only to a point, after which it indicates excessive and potentially problematic levels of IGF-1. There's probably something to this; female centenarians are more likely to have an IGF-1 receptor mutation [14] that results in elevated serum levels of IGF-1 while reducing IGF-1 receptor activity. In other words, the body was producing more IGF-1 to make up for the lack of receptor activity. This same receptor mutation has been linked to longevity in multiple animal models resulting in higher serum IGF-1 and lower IGF-1 receptor activity – just like in the human centenarians. In male and female offspring of the centenarians, however, only females showed elevated serum levels. Male offspring had similar IGF-1 levels to control males (those with no familial history of longevity). Female offspring were also 2.5 cm shorter than control females; male offspring were of similar height to control males. Perhaps short stature is more beneficial to women [15]?
Maybe so. Gavrilova looked at draft cards [16] filled out by 30 year-old Americans who would eventually grow up to become centenarians and analyzed the differences between the physical stats of those who would eventually grow up to become centenarians and those who didn't. While obesity (or "stoutness," as it was called back then) had strong negative links to longevity, height did not. The group of future centenarians was mostly people of medium height. Being soldiers, however, these were exclusively males. According to the IGF-1 receptor mutation study, only in females is the mutation linked to lower heights and greater longevity.
Overall, though? Height is linked to a population's health and good childhood nutrition. In certain individuals, given certain genetic differences, short stature may indicate the potential for greater longevity, but not on a population-wide scale. Besides – barring pharmaceutical (or cybernetic) interventions, there's not a whole lot we full-grown adults can do to alter our heights.
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RICK FOX GUEST STARS � Derwin (Pooch Hall) resists going to the Sabers' victory parade until Melanie (Tia Mowry) not only convinces him to go, but drives him there. Unfortunately, neither of them notice that Janay (guest star Gabrielle Dennis) is at the parade too, which eventually leads her to challenge Derwin's feelings for Melanie. Tasha (Wendy Raquel Robinson) has to prove she can be more than a "Mama Wrangler" and Jason is furious that he still doesn't have a contract. Rick Fox guest stars as himself. Hosea Sanchez, Coby Bell and Brittany Daniel also star. Lenny Garner directed the episode written by Elaine Aronson (#40596-039)


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Hi, I'm Hobbes.
I really like Grand Theft Auto IV. I got it soon after it came out and I've been loving it ever since! My favourite character is definately Gordon Sargent, but I also like Gerald McReary. My favourite car is the Blista Compact, because it is small, quick, and easy to handle. I like the Irish mission strands and I wish they played a bigger part in the game.
As for DLCs, I own both The Lost and Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony. I preferred TLaD because I liked the story and multiplayer better, but I play TBoGT more because of the edits to free roam (such as the extended height limit). Apparently, there was supposed to be a third DLC called Blood and a Four-Leaf Clover, which would follow Gordon Sargent and would focus more on the Irish. I was very excited to hear this but apparently it was just a rumour.
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Leaves generally compound, alternate, stipuled; leaflets generally entire
Inflorescence: generally raceme, spike, umbel or head; flowers sometime 12 in axils
Flowers generally bisexual, generally bilateral; hypanthium generally flat or cup-like; sepals generally 5, fused; petals generally 5, free, or the 2 lower ± fused; stamens 1many, often 10 with 9 filaments at least partly fused, 1 (uppermost) free; pistil 1, ovary superior, generally 1-chambered, ovules 1many, style, stigma 1
Fruit: legume, sometimes including a stalk-like base above receptacle, dehiscent, or indehiscent and breaking into 1-seeded segments, or indehiscent, 1-seeded, and achene-like
Seeds 1several, often ± reniform, generally hard, smooth
Genera in family: ± 650 genera, 18,000 species: worldwide; with grasses, requisite in agriculture and most natural ecosystems. Many cultivated, most importantly Arachis , peanut; Glycine , soybean; Phaseolus , beans; Medicago ; Trifolium ; and many orns
Reference: [Polhill & Raven (eds) 1981 Advances in legume systematics; Allen & Allen 1981 Leguminosae]
Family description and key to genera by Duane Isely.
Annual or perennial herb, unarmed
Leaves generally palmately compound; stipules conspicuous, partly fused to petiole; leaflets generally 3, sometimes 59, ± serrate or dentate
Inflorescence: raceme (often umbel-like), head, or spike, axillary or terminal, generally many-flowered, often involucred, generally peduncled; flowers bracted or not
Flower generally spreading to erect, often becoming reflexed; corolla generally purple to pale lavender, sometimes yellow, persistent after flower; 9 filaments fused, 1 free
Fruit generally indehiscent, but often breaking, short, plump, generally included in corolla; base often stalk-like
Seeds 16
Etymology: (Latin: 3 leaves)
Reference: [Gillett 1980 Can J Bot 58:14251558; Zohary & Heller 1984 Genus Trifolium]
Annual, hairy
Stem decumbent to erect
Leaves cauline; stipules small; leaflets 13 cm, oblanceolate to obovate
Inflorescence: spike, 520 mm wide, ovoid to short-cylindric
Flower: calyx 415 mm, lobes > or >> tube, tapered or bristle-like, plumose; corolla < or > calyx, 2-colored (purple and white)
Seeds 12
Chromosomes: 2n=16,32
Ecology: Coastal dunes, grasslands, wet meadows, open slopes, oak chaparral, pine woodlands, roadsides, other disturbed places
Elevation: < 2100 m.
Bioregional distribution: California Floristic Province
Distribution outside California: to British Columbia, Baja California
Formidable complex here ± arbitrarily divided into 3 intergrading vars.; probably should including T. amoenum.


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"Those Old Memories" will include stories, photographs, genealogy, scrapbooking, recipes, and interesting history of my family. Some family surnames: Troyer, Gardner, Moore, Hopkins, Allen, Amsberry, McPherson, Wyatt, Godfrey, Lee, Henley, Cutbirth, Tudor, Gustafsson, Larson, Hellgren, Farley, Harshbarger, Harvey, McComsey, Johnston, Hyndman, and Buchanan.
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Railroaders: The Men in My Family
Railroading seems to be in the blood of the men in my family. The combined service of my Grandfather, Dad, brothers, nephew and husband covers just over 150 years. In fact they have been in the business of riding the rails across Nebraska and into the Dakotas for what has now been the continuous service of a century. Their lives started in the days of steam engines, wooden boxcars and cabooses and stretches into today with the modern diesel locomotives with their high tech controls and sleek designs.
Frederick Millard Coleman, Grandpa, was living in Broken Bow, Nebraska when he started his career. In 1911 he married Opal Gardner there and was at that time working for the Chicago, Quincy and Burlington Railroad. He worked on the West Local between Broken Bow and Seneca, Nebraska. In 1917 he brought the family to Alliance and worked out of here for about 3 years and then returned to Broken Bow where he worked until 1930. The family then again moved to Alliance which was a division point for the CB&Q Railroad. Fred held conductor rights and worked both freight and passenger trains until his retirement in about 1958. Grandpa had put in 47 years with the railroad by the time he retired.
My Dad, Frederick Dale "Freddie" Coleman, grew up in Broken Bow, Nebraska and rode trains with his Dad at an early age. (In those days is was quite common for family members to occasionally go along on a run. I even rode the caboose with my Dad to Edgemont S.D. when I was 6 or 7 years old, during the 1950's). Dad was in the 5th grade when he rode with Grandpa on a trip to drop off cinders or "track ballast" between Anselmo and Dunning, Nebraska. As kids are known to do, he was doddling along the track playing while the train was slowly dropping the ballast and he got left behind. The engineer happened to see him and backed up to pick him up. Dad always recalled that he rode both the steam engine and caboose on that one trip. His railroading career really started at quite an early age! Freddie made several memorable trips as a kid with his Dad from Broken Bow before the family moved permanently to Alliance in 1930.
Living in Alliance, my dad and a friend ran a motorcycle delivery business, worked part time as a painter for his future father-in-law and graduated from Alliance High School in 1932. Dad went to work for the CB&Q Railroad in 1935 and continued to work for O.C. Moore's painting business during the first few years of his railroad career. In those years it was common for the railroaders to get laid off and only work minimally. Freddie married Irene Moore in 1936 and by the early 40s had fairly steady employment with the railroad. Dad spent 40 years railroading between Ravenna, Nebraska and Deadwood S.D. He worked the "extra board", rode the front motor as a flagman and brakeman, worked passenger trains and was also a rear brakeman. All types of freight and passengers were shipped through the Alliance rail yards in those days. Cement, coal, oil, gas, sand, lumber, feed, farm implements, machinery, livestock, grain and gold were all moved through Alliance. Dad was a brakeman in the latter years of steam engine days and also was an express messenger between Alliance and Deadwood, S. D., on the "Highlines". He made many trips from the Homestake Gold Mine, carrying armed shotgun messengers and well over 1 million dollars worth of gold bullion that was destined for the Denver mint. World War II brought many trains which carried war materials, troops, prisoners of war, and even poison gas that was shipped east from Provo, S.D. to be used in bomb production. Railroaders were considered essential to the war movement and were not routinely drafted into military service, although many did serve during WWII. Presidential trains went through Alliance, including those of Harding, Roosevelt, and Coolidge. Both Grandpa and Dad worked during those years and witnessed the diversity of travel through our area. All of my "railroading men" have worked under arduous weather conditions including the famous Blizzard of 1949 and other fierce Nebraska and South Dakota blizzards. During the '49 blizzard, the trains carried extra crews and it often took two and a half days to go the 111 miles to Edgemont, S.D. (A trip that can be made in 4-5 hours). Many railroad men lost their lives working the rails during adverse weather conditions. Dad once recalled a wind and hail storm that actually blew so hard that their normal train, No.79 which was headed west from Hecla, Nebraska was blown to a full stop for several minutes! After the demise of passenger trains, Freddie worked freight trains full time and he retired on April 30, 1975 with 40 years of service.
Next was the third generation to go to work for the CB&Q. William G. Coleman, my brother, followed in Grandpa and Dad's footsteps. "Bill" went to work for the railroad in 1956. He worked night baggage and as a dispatcher/clerk until 1958 when he became a brakeman and went into road service. He worked at the same time as his Dad and Grandfather until Fred M. Coleman retired later in 1958. Bill worked freight and some passenger trains and spent quite a bit of time working the "Highlines" through the Black Hills area of South Dakota. Bill saw some passenger service but mostly worked freight trains, was promoted to conductor in the mid 1960's, and served in that capacity on the Alliance Division until he retired in 1995. Bill Coleman had worked for 39 years upon his retirement. Another brother, Richard "Dick" Coleman was a crew caller out of Edgemont, S.D. during the year 1959 but decided that he did not want to follow railroading as a life long career.
My fourth generation railroader is William R. Coleman, "Billy". He is the great grandson of Fred M. Coleman and son of William G. "Bill" Coleman. He started his career working for several years for what had become the Burlington Northern Railroad here in Alliance, Nebraska. He worked in the roundhouse and drove the crew taxi before he moved on to another career. Billy rejoined the ranks of railroaders in about the year 2000 when he became a conductor for the Union Pacific Railroad, working out of western Nebraska. His job is mostly hauling freight and coal out of the Wyoming coal fields. As of this writing, he is still employed with the UP Railroad.
In the year 2004, my husband, Geoffrey T. Hopkins, joined the family ranks to further the legacy. Geoff retired in 2001 from a 30 year career as a communications tech with Quest Communications. After about three years of being retired, he decided to apply at the BNSF Railroad as they were again hiring. He met the "age quota" and trained to go to work. Geoff works all directions from Alliance: east to Ravenna, west to Edgemont, S.D., and south to Guernsey, Wyoming. They mostly haul coal but on occasion there is some other freight and specialty items such as Boeing airplane bodies and parts. I can still remember the day in 1971 when my husband was offered a job with the railroad here and also with the telephone company which was then Northwestern Bell. My Dad and brother both advised him to take the telephone job which he did at that time. Here we are now and have come full circle back to the beginning and he is employed by the Burlington Northern Sante Fe as a conductor in this year of 2010.
Four generations of the Coleman family plus a son-in-law: all together my men have a proud legacy as Railroaders. Over the years I have heard hundreds of their stories, some told with great pride and others of disgust with the railroad company itself, but all have imparted the TRUE story of their 150 years of combined service. For each one I have a great pride in their honored service to their company, country and especially to their families as railroaders and their families sacrifice much of their private lives for their work. All of my men have displayed prime loyalty to their profession and to them I would say: "You are the best!" With love to Grandpa, Dad, brothers, nephew and my loving husband.
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Bill O'Reilly, host of the Fox News Channel program The O'Reilly Factor, has offered his own solution to fighting terrorism: A multi-national mercenary army, based on a NATO coalition and trained by the United States.
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"We would select them, special forces would train them–25,000-man force to be deployed to fight on the ground against worldwide terrorism. Not just ISIS," O'Reilly said on "CBS This Morning" on September 24.
Searching for allies to back his proposal, O'Reilly invited Tom Nichols, a professor at the US Naval War College, onto his show.
Nichols' response: "This is a terrible idea…not just as a practical matter but a moral matter. It's a morally corrosive idea to try to outsource our national security. This is something Americans are going to have to deal for themselves."
Actually, O'Reilly's idea is in fact being tried out, albeit unofficially.
Sixty to 70% of America's Intelligence budget doesn't go to the CIA or the National Security Agency (NSA) or the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA).
Instead, it goes to private contractors who supply secrets or "soldiers of fortune."
The outsourcing of government intelligence work to private contractors took off after 9/11.
This was especially true after the United States invaded Iraq in 2003–and found its Intelligence and armed services stretched to their furtherest limits.
The DIA estimates that, from the mid-1990s to 2005, the number of private contracts awarded by Intelligence agencies rose by 38%.
During that same period, government spending on "spies/guns for hire" doubled, from about $18 billion in 1995 to about $42 billion in 2005.
Many tasks and services once performed only by government employees are being "outsourced" to civilian contractors:
- Analyzing Intelligence collected by drones and satellites;
- Writing reports;
- Creating and maintaining software programs to manipulate data for tracking terrorist suspects;
- Staffing overseas CIA stations;
- Serving as bodyguards to government officials stationed overseas;
- Providing disguises used by agents working undercover.
More than 500 years ago, Niccolo Machiavelli warned of the dangers of relying on mercenaries:
"Mercenaries…are useless and dangerous. And if a prince holds on to his state by means of mercenary armies, he will never be stable or secure; for they are disunited, ambitious, without discipline, disloyal; they are brave among friends; among enemies they are cowards.
"They have neither the fear of God nor fidelity to men, and destruction is deferred only so long as the attack is. For in peace one is robbed by them, and in war by the enemy."
Americans–generally disdainful of history–have blatantly ignored both the examples of history and the counsel of Machiavelli. To their own peril.
Mark Mazzetti, author of the bestselling The Way of the Knife, chronicles how the CIA has been transformed from a primarily fact-finding agency into a terrorist-killing one.
Along with this transformation has come a dangerous dependency on private contractors to supply information that government agents used to dig up for themselves.
The U.S. Navy SEALS raid that killed Osama bin Laden has been the subject of books, documentaries and even an Oscar-nominated movie: "Zero Dark Thirty."
Almost unknown by comparison is a program the CIA developed with Blackwater, a private security company, to locate and assassinate Islamic terrorists.
"We were building a unilateral, unattributable capability," Erik Prince, CEO of Blackwater, said in an interview. "If it went bad, we weren't expecting the [CIA] chief of station, the ambassador or anyone to bail us out."
But the program never got past the planning stage. Senior CIA officials feared the agency would not be able to permanently hide its own role in the effort.
"The more you outsource an operation," said a CIA official, "the more deniable it becomes. But you're also giving up control of the operation. And if that guy screws up, it's still your fault."
Increased reliance on "outsourcing" has created a "brain-drain" within the Intelligence community. Jobs with private security companies usually pay 50% more than government jobs.
Many employees at the CIA, NSA and other Intelligence agencies leave government service–and then return to it as private contractors earning far higher salaries.
Many within the Intelligence community fear that too much Intelligence work has been outsourced and the government has effectively lost control of its own information channels.
And, as always with the hiring of mercenaries, there is an even more basic fear: How fully can they be trusted?
"There's an inevitable tension as to where the contractor's loyalties lie," said Jeffrey Smith, a former general counsel for the CIA. "Do they lie with the flag? Or do they lie with the bottom line?"
Yet another concern: How much can Intelligence agencies count on private contractors to effectively screen the people they hire?
Edward Snowden was an employee of Booz Allen Hamilton, a consulting/security firm. It was through this company that Snowden gained access to a treasury of NSA secrets.
From September 11, 2001 to 2013, the government has spent more than $500 billion on intelligence.
A 2010 investigative series by the Washington Post found that "1,931 private companies work on programs related to counterterrorism, homeland security and intelligence in about 10,000 locations across the country."
Jesus never served as a spy or soldier. But he clearly understood a truth too many officials within the American Intelligence community have forgotten:
"For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."


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Q: Why do you always quote Scripture from the King James Version of the Bible? It really grinds me. I came out of a cult church where that was the only version used. They could twist that old language to mean what they wanted it to say. Why not use a more modern language version of Scripture?
The Bible wasn't written in a language that was a couple of hundred years old at the time; it was written in the street language of the day. Something like "The Message" version is contemporary. Other than that, I enjoy and appreciate your column. - L.
A: The main reason I always use the King James translation of the Bible when citing Scripture verses is that it is old. I don't want the word of God to sound like street lingo. The fact that the language of the KJV is different from common English today helps set it apart for me.
You might be interested to know that the Hebrew word for "holy" is kadosh, which literally means, "something set apart from the ordinary." I appreciate your legitimate concern that the language of the KJV may be hard to understand at times, but sometimes old is good, not just old. I love the music of old English. I'm just not on board when some modern translations render Joseph's "coat of many colors" as "an ornamented tunic," even if the garment given to Joseph by his father, Jacob, was, well, an ornamented tunic!
Remember, too, that every translation of the Bible into any language other than the original Hebrew is also an interpretation. Therefore, every translation, including the KJV, changes the meaning of the text, sometimes in ways completely contrary to the original language.
The most famous bad translation of a biblical text comes from rendering of Isaiah 7:14: "Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel." This translation gives great support to the Christian belief that the virgin birth of Jesus was prophesied in the Hebrew Bible. However, the Hebrew word used in Isaiah is "alma," which means a young woman of marriageable age. Rebekah and Miriam are referred to with this word (Gen. 24:43 and Ex. 2:8).
Unfortunately for this audacious translation - actually the result of the mis-translation of the verse from Hebrew into Latin by Jerome in the 4th century Vulgate Bible - the actual Hebrew word for virgin is "betulah" - not "alma."
However, I respect the KJV as one of the masterpieces of English literature and as one of the main reasons the Bible has had such a deep penetration into Western cultural traditions. To illustrate the genius of the KJV, I've included a couple of translations of the last verse (15) of Psalm 17. You decide which translation you like best.
Here's the KJV translation: "As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness."
The modern Jewish translation by Robert Alter translates this verse: "As for me, in justice I behold Your face, I take my fill, wide awake, of Your image." I find this way too choppy.
The American Standard Version says: "As for me, I shall behold thy face in righteousness; I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with beholding thy form." This is an obvious imposition of Christian belief that in seeing Jesus people saw the form of God. It may be true for Christians, but it is not in the text.
God's Word translation: "I will see your face when I am declared innocent. When I wake up, I will be satisfied with seeing you." The problem here is that the original text is about righteousness, not innocence, which is a very different idea.
"The Message," which you like so much, offers this wildly loose translation: "And me? I plan on looking you full in the face. When I get up, I'll see your full stature and live heaven on earth." The first problem is that there's nothing in the verse about looking God "full in the face" and also nothing in the original verse about heaven on earth. In fact, the whole idea of actually seeing God is explicitly rejected by God in the Bible when Moses is refused permission to see God's face because, as God succinctly explained to him, "No man may see me and live." (Exodus 33:20)
So have patience with the KJV. I think you ought to give the grand old book another chance.


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Forgive us for eating our dessert first, as Game Seven despite its inherent drama proved to be bland and lukewarm compared to Thursday night's feast for the senses. The deciding runs were scored with a third inning Allen Craig homer and in a fifth inning during which St. Louis brought two home without actually hitting the baseball past the infield. Chris Carpenter managed a laudable performance and both teams' bullpens elected to do their jobs instead of derping all over themselves as we saw in Game Six.
Here's the final out & the celebration. Congratulations to the Cardinals, St. Louis, and our editor emeritus. It was certainly earned.


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Richard Jones's production of Il tabarro is to be broadcast on BBC Four tonight (Friday 15 June) at 8pm. The three operas that make up Il trittico are to be broadcast on consecutive Fridays, with Suor Angelica to be shown next week and Gianni Schicchi the week after.
The broadcast offers another chance to catch a Royal Philharmonic Society award-nominated performance from Eva-Maria Westbroek. The Dutch soprano sings the role of Giorgetta.
The luscious score was explored by our Music Director, Antonio Pappano, at an ROH Insights event last year. The evening saw Antonio showcasing extracts from the piece, as well as discussing Puccini's composition. You can watch a clip from the session below or download it from iTunes U.
In the run up to opening night, ROH News contributor Gavin Plumley wrote a series about Il trittico on his blog, Entartete Musik. Find out what influenced the piece.
And if you can't wait until next Friday for another Il trittico fix, it's just been released on DVD and is available from the Royal Opera House shop and online from Opus Arte.


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Ed Sullivan's Top Performers 1966-1969 (My Music)
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text: Isabel Marant's Western Fall – Not a label known for following trends, the fall 2012 collection from Isabel Marant let its carefree spirit fly with the designer's latest presentation shown during Paris Fashion Week. Inspired by southwestern style and cowgirls, autumn embraced feminine ruffles, floral detailing, casual denim and leather. Fringe and metallic accents brought an authentic touch to the well-tread theme. A muted color palette with pops of scarlet, electric blue and pink grounded the new season with a modern take on old west style.