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Tying the knot in Cooperstown
Don Johnson and Jeannie Gleason love baseball – and each other.
So what better place to share their feelings – and exchange lifetime vows – than at baseball's home in Cooperstown.
Johnson and Gleason were married Saturday at the Hall of Fame, professing their love of the game during a civil ceremony in the Museum. The two diehard New York Mets fans toured Cooperstown for the whole weekend as they launched their life together.
"Baseball is my second love – right behind Jeannie," said Don, a subway motorman for the Metro Transit Authority in New York City. "I've got six years left until retirement, and then we're moving here. This place is awesome."
The Johnsons had planned a simple ceremony for their wedding, but hit upon the idea of getting married at the Hall of Fame when they picked up their wedding license.
"We were coming here for the honeymoon, and we thought: 'Why not just get married here?'" Jeannie said. "We asked, and everyone at the Hall of Fame was so nice. They said: 'Sure, come on up!'"
Now, the Johnsons' history is part of the home of baseball history.
"I want to come to work here after I retire," Dan said. "There's no place like the Hall of Fame."
Craig Muder is the director of communications for the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.
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Pabst wrote:I'm pretty interested in this news of Deadman Wonderland. Been a fan of the series since before it was even published in the states.
And I remember all those anime shows/movies they had on AniMondays... I miss that. I got to watch some pretty good stuff there before they botched it and threw it around from day to day without telling the viewers when they moved it, and to when. Sometimes it showed on Tuesdays, other times Thursdays. I remember watching Black Jack on there to be a real treat.
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Finally, last spring, with the youngest of her kids in high school, Ferguson had time to focus on that missing link. "I started praying for guidance," she says. Around that time, she began noticing a rash of Facebook posts seeking lost relatives. She thought maybe she could create one about her sister, although she knew it was a long shot. The prospect brought a wave of fear. "I was afraid it wouldn't work — but I was also afraid it would work," she says. "I didn't know what I would find. What if I found her dead?" She also worried about opening the family door to cyberspace. After mulling it over for about a month, she decided it was worth the risk.
Ferguson told no one of her plan except for one friend, who snapped a photo of her holding a sign that asked for help with her search. Up it went on Facebook, along with the few details she knew about her family background: the fire, and her sister's name and estimated age.
Next, Ferguson asked people to share her post: There could be one person in your network who could help us reunite, she wrote. That night, she told her husband what she had done. "He worried we would hear from a bunch of nutcases," she says. Her siblings found out soon enough, too. Dena, for one, was excited.
Within days, replies started rolling in. One woman had known Ferguson's parents in Kentucky; another had taken care of Raylene for a short time after the tragedy. They unearthed and e-mailed old photos, little postcards from another life. Ferguson posted those pictures on Facebook, building a narrative. She became "obsessed" at times, she says, neglecting friends and family. She couldn't tear herself away from the notes — any of them could hold an important clue. "My 14-year-old son started getting tired of fixing his own dinner," she says. "My husband never complained, but he was cleaning up after the kids. Laundry was piling up. Life was going on in the house without me. I was always busy wading through messages."
She was amazed by the kindness people showed her, but not every response was helpful. Some were "crazy," Ferguson says. "One guy said he was a Hollywood producer; he wanted to come take pictures of me," she says. "Another guy said, 'I have your sister here with me in Alaska.' " There were moments when she wondered if she should shut it all down.
In an unexpected twist, the oddest response of all, she says, came from a woman who turned out to be invaluable — Charlene Summers, or "Char," a self-described "search angel." Summers, who lives in Wisconsin, helps people find lost loved ones as a hobby, on her own time and generally on her own dime.
But Ferguson was suspicious, thinking Summers might be running a scam: "She started asking all these personal questions, like 'When were you born?' I thought, What a sicko; this person is trying to take advantage of me in a vulnerable situation." So she decided to block Summers on Facebook.
Summers, however, came back at her again from another Facebook account — her personal one, not the one she used for her volunteer work. Summers also wrote to one of Ferguson's Facebook friends, explaining that she wanted to help. Ferguson decided to hear her out.
Speaking on the phone from Kenosha, WI, Summers laughs about the initial cyber-encounter, saying this is typical. In an age of Internet fraudsters, people often assume she is one of them. She persists, she says, because she likes solving mysteries and helping splintered families reunite. "I love the feeling I get when I find answers that change people's lives," she says, adding, "Not everyone is sunshine and flowers — some people just don't want to face the past. But for those that do, I'm happy to help."
She became interested in people-finding when she helped a friend track down a brother two decades ago and witnessed the emotional reunion. Summers started helping other people find lost relatives, eventually creating a website called Wisconsin Family Finders Registry. On occasion, she has worked as a paid researcher for professional search services, but she doesn't enjoy that as much, she says, because she's anonymous: "The people never know that I'm the one who found their family."
A 47-year-old mother of three, Summers runs a small karaoke business and says she is "dirt poor," but doesn't let that stop her. "If I can give someone a life-changing gift, I will," she says. "I'm a karma girl."
She began scanning her sources online — ancestry.com, peoplefinders.com, archives.com — looking for public records of girls named Raylene born in the early seventies near Saul, Kentucky. Raylene's birth record would have been amended at the time of her adoption with her new last name; Summers had to figure out that name. She hoped the adoptive parents hadn't changed the girl's first name, too.
Texting Ferguson into the wee hours of the night, Summers asked questions about her past. "My life became 100% consumed" with the search, Ferguson says. "I started to feel mentally exhausted. I cried every day for a while."
Summers, for her part, was having trouble finding a Raylene who filled the bill. Then Ferguson had a flicker of a thought that turned out to be a major brainstorm: Maybe the name is off.Perhaps it's "Rae Lynn," which sounds a lot like "Raylene." After hearing this, Summers began a new sweep of the birth records.
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In the meantime, Ferguson posted a Facebook note asking if anyone from her hometown in Kentucky could look for old newspaper articles about her birth family or the fire. Enter another helpful stranger. "A woman spent an entire day at the library searching through microfilm," Ferguson says. That evening, the good Samaritan sent a message in all-capital letters: OMG. She had found an article about Ferguson's father.
The powerful little news clip — "Saul Man Dies in Explosion" — summed up the tragedy of Frank Williams and his family in just a few paragraphs: Williams was working under his home about 1 P.M. Friday when a gas line apparently broke, causing an explosion, the newspaper read.
"To see that story was just incredible," Ferguson says. "Stories change when they're passed down through families. But seeing it in print, it made everything that much more real." She posted it on Facebook, filling in the pieces of the family puzzle.
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Across the country, Summers unearthed a birth record for a "Rae Lynn" born in the right place, but possibly a bit later than the right time. That woman still lived in Kentucky. Ferguson got her hopes up. "It was like when you strike a match and it bursts into flame — that's how I felt," she says. She excitedly wrote to the woman on Facebook, sending a "rambling message with many typos," she says. "I sounded crazy!"
The woman said she didn't think they could be sisters — she hadn't been adopted. Ferguson thought that perhaps this woman's parents had concealed the truth from their child and asked if she would take a DNA test. On June 21, Ferguson posted on Facebook:SISTER UPDATE!!! She has agreed to DNA testing in person!
They met at a bar and grill along the banks of the Ohio River. "We were nice to each other, but neither of us felt a deep connection," Ferguson says. "Still, I was holding out hope." The two women went to the bathroom and scraped the insides of their cheeks with swabs; these samples would contain enough cells for DNA analysis. Ferguson sent the swabs off to a lab in New Mexico she had found online.
The day the verdict was due, "I was checking my e-mail every hour," Ferguson recalls. "I finally got the e-mail at 4:15 P.M. I couldn't look at it — I made my husband read it. He told me she was not my sister." After that, "I felt absolutely devastated," she says. "It felt like I had lost my sister all over again. I needed some time to recover before I could dive back in, but Char wouldn't let me." Indeed, Summers vowed to find the right Rae Lynn: "I made a promise," says Summers. "And I had to keep it."
She set to work studying more birth records — including one on ancestry.com for a Rae Lynn Bailey, born at the right time and in the right place. She began tracking her down, spotting a "Lynn Bailey" on Facebook who lived in Gainesville, FL. Summers felt her heart race: Perhaps this woman had just dropped the "Rae" from her name. She dashed off a note to her.
"She immediately told me off," Summers says. "She said, 'I'm not sure what your game is, but I am not interested!' " So Summers explained herself. "I had to talk fast," she says.
Bailey decided to give the stranger a chance. She said she had indeed been adopted, and she knew she might have siblings. She had once tried to find them through an ancestry site, but hadn't known enough about her history to get anywhere.
Ferguson then connected with Bailey on Facebook, her hopes up once again. She wrote, I think you might be my sister. The two began sharing photos and comparing physical features. Both are blond, hazel-eyed, and have "backward-bending elbows," Ferguson says. "I felt an immediate connection." Her husband was more skeptical: "I thought, Here we go again," he says. "We'll need a box of Kleenex in three days when she's not the right one."
In mid-July, Ferguson posted on Facebook: I do believe I've found my sister! Our stories are the same! She wants to confirm with DNA before we get "too excited." Thanks, everyone. God bless you.
The women separately sent off DNA samples to the lab. "It was supposed to take a few days, but I made a mistake in the paperwork," Ferguson says. Several days passed. "I kept asking my husband, 'Why is it taking so long?' "
At the same time, she began to feel overwhelmed by all the Facebook notes from people who had been following the saga: They wanted to see pictures; they wanted more information. Bailey wanted privacy, and now Ferguson did, too. She took her Facebook page down, but that infuriated some of her followers. On an ancestry message board, one person said the whole thing was clearly a scam. Ferguson reinstated the Facebook page, apologizing to those she'd disappointed.
The DNA results finally arrived around two weeks later, in early August. Ferguson had lost six pounds by that point "from nerves," she says.
The news came via e-mail on Ferguson's phone; when she saw the message, she couldn't wait to click on it, but she also could hardly bear to: "I was on the edge of the sofa, biting my nails." So much was riding on that moment.
She made her husband open it, and he read the results in a mock Maury Povich voice. She heard the news she had dreamed of: It was a match. "I felt like I could jump over the Empire State Building," she says. "The search was over. The second I got that DNA report, I shot Lynn a copy via e-mail. She called me, bawling." It was the first time the two had spoken by phone.
Ferguson posted the news on Facebook: In the case of Tessa Ferguson and Rae Lynn…. It is 99.99% proven! Rae Lynn YOU ATE MY SISTER.
In her excitement, she had mis-typed "are," sparking some teasing from friends; she had more than 2,000 followers by then, some from as far away as France and Australia.
The two sisters began making plans to meet, texting and calling each other every day. "We started telling each other 'good night' every evening," Ferguson says. "About two weeks in, I wanted to say, 'I love you,' but I was afraid of how she'd take it. One night I just said it. She came back and said, 'I love you, too.' It was a moment of instant joy. That was the moment I felt complete. I slept with a smile on my face that whole night. We have told each other that we love each other every day since."
All Together Now
Early on the morning of August 17, Bailey was on a plane to Indiana.
Down a winding country lane in a leafy front yard, the two sisters met for the first time in four decades at Ferguson's home. They came together in a shaky, emotional embrace, hugging each other hard in the shade of the trees. They laughed and cried at the same time, then stepped apart and stood face-to-face, holding hands and just gazing at each other. "Well, hi!" Ferguson said.
"Hi," Bailey said back, laughing. "I can't believe this is happening." Then they wrapped their arms around each other again, hanging on tight. The little girl with the outstretched arms had finally come home.
Their sister Becky Hilliard joined them in the embrace. "The last time I saw you, you were a little baby," she said to Bailey, sending the trio into a new flood of tears. The afternoon was cloudless, breezy; leaves rustled in the trees. Other family members — kids, husbands — stood by, giving the sisters time before piling in.
Later on the porch, Ferguson, Bailey, and Hilliard had a natural ease with one another, sitting barefoot and comparing coffee-drinking habits. They sipped iced tea from jelly jars and couldn't stop smiling. Ferguson says there was simply an intangible bond: "It's like your best friend who you go a few months without talking to…then you get together and it's like no time has elapsed."
A mother of two who works as a revenue analyst in Florida, Bailey was raised knowing that her biological parents had died in an accident; she assumed it had been a car wreck. The day Summers contacted her, she says, she was astounded — and suspicious.
"Her note was so intimate and out of the blue," she says. After her initial mistrust, Bailey decided it was worth a shot — perhaps there was another family, her birth family, to connect with after all.
Late in the afternoon, the women's brother, Frank Williams, pulled into the driveway from Ohio. (Dena Barger, the other sister, was unable to make it in from Kentucky, but planned a later reunion.) Williams, red-haired with a boyish grin and a reputation for being the life of the party, embraced his long-lost sister. Bailey's eyes got misty as she studied her brother's face. "Now I know what my son will look like when he grows up," she said.
The next day on Facebook, Ferguson posted the reunion photos. Special thanks to the many good-hearted family, friends, and especially the strangers who shared in the search effort! she wrote. Her followers wished her well and moved on, content that the mystery had been solved.
Since the reunion, Ferguson and Bailey have been in constant contact. "We e-mail every day and call on weekends," Ferguson says. They have also seen their sister Dena Barger in Kentucky, where Bailey went to their parents' graves and the family homesite — an intensely emotional visit for her. "I feel complete now, knowing where I was born and where my parents are buried," she says. "I'm proud of the fact that we all found our way back to each other after 40 years." They're all planning another family reunion for this coming summer.
Their "search angel," Summers, says she'll be there, too. "It's like she's part of the family," Ferguson says. The Facebook page that set her journey in motion has been retired; the time has come to move forward, she says. "We have a chance to create a whole new life, a whole new history."
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Part I: Mike Warnke's Story
In January 1972, televangelist Morris Cerullo introduced a young man named Mike Warnke to the evangelical Christian community. Cerullo had a rare specimen, indeed: A real, live former Satanist who had found Jesus and wanted to share his testimony with the world. And he had the ability to do it. Warnke possessed native speaking ability and natural charm, enrapturing revival crowds with no visible effort. And to top it all off, he was funny. Warnke's blend of true confession, Christian stand-up, and born again sermonizing was a winning combination.
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So winning that by 1973, Warnke had broken away from Cerullo to form his own Alpha and Omega Outreach ministry and published his autobiography (co-written Les Jones and David Balsiger of Noah's Ark infamy), The Satan Seller. It pushed Warnke into the national Christian spotlight, winning him speaking engagments at some of the nation's most popular evangelical venues.
With his niche firmly established, Warnke enrolled at Trinity Bible College in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In 1975, his first Christian comedy album (Alive!) cemented his fame. Warnke quickly became the best-selling Christian comedian of all time.
Despite his chequered past, Warnke seemed stable and well-prepared for ministry. He was a Vietnam vet married to his college sweetheart, the former Sue Studer. The Warnkes had two young sons. Fellow Christians were amazed at how far Mike had come in such a short time. Truly, this was God's hand at work.
Less than ten years earlier, Mike Warnke had been high priest in a violent Satanic cult, a drug dealer, and an addict. He viciously dominated and abused the women in his life, cut himself off from his family, and led his followers into increasingly demented behaviour. The way Mike describes himself on Alive!, he was a ruthless gangsta junkie - as badass as 50 Cent, looking worse than Sick Boy from Trainspotting:
"I'd had hepatitis four times from shooting up with dirty needles. I had scabs all over my face from shooting up crystal. I was a speed freak. I weighed 110 pounds soaking wet. My skin had turned yellow. My hair was falling out. My teeth were rotting out of my head. I'd been pistol-whipped five or six times. My jaw had been broken. My nose had been almost ripped off. I had a bullet hole in my right leg. Two bullet holes in my left leg."His childhood, while not as tragic as Doreen Irvine's, had been rough. Born in 1946, he grew up in Coffee County, Tennessee, son of a truckstop owner called Whitey and his fifth wife. Whitey sold drugs and was mixed up with gangters; he carried a tommy gun in his car, which was full of bullet holes from deals gone bad. He had affairs with many young women, including the teenage waitress who became his sixth wife after Mike's mother died in 1955. For the next three years, Mike was at the mercy of a stepmother who whipped him with a dog leash at every opportunity.
Whitey died when Mike was 11. The orphaned boy lived for a short time with his mother's devoutly Christian sisters, and their influence stayed with him, just as Doreen Irvine's Sunday school teachers planted the seeds of salvation in her youth. Then he was sent to California, to live with half-sister Shirley Schrader, her husband, and their son. The Schraders raised Mike as their own child, bringing him up Catholic in the tight-knit community of Crestline.
Warnke's teen years were typical for a Catholic California boy in the '60s: Dances, parties, cruising with the guys. He never got into serious trouble, but he loved to tell tall tales and act out weird jokes. A favourite trick was to go into a restaurant with one of his pals and pretend he was a Russian who couldn't speak much English. The friend would "translate" for him. Later, at a college coffeehouse, he pretended to be an Englishman for eight months. In The Satan Seller, he boasts repeatedly that he could talk his way out of anything.
After graduating from Rim of the World High School in 1965, Warnke enrolled at a junior college, San Bernadino Valley College. It was here, on a grassy campus full of mission-style buildings, that he went to the dark side. He had already abandoned the church, having been kicked out of Bible study for asking too many questions.
College gave him the opportunity to break away entirely. He severed contact with this family in Crestline, grew his hair long, and bought outrageous clothes that made him stand out on campus. He became a kind of guru of the quad, dispensing wisdom to like-minded freshmen. He hung around campus all the time even after flunking out of all his classes.
Though he doesn't give us many time markers, we know that everything Warnke experienced at college occurred between his enrollment in the fall of '65 and his enlistement in the Navy in the summer of '66. Keep that in mind.
In The Satan Seller, Warnke tells us he was already an alcholic by the age of 18. At college, a clean-cut fellow student he calls "Dean Armstrong" offered him some pot to counteract the sour stomach and blackouts that resulted from his continuous heavy drinking. Dependence on pot led to a dependence on speed, also supplied by Dean. He also dabbled heavily in peyote, mescaline, and LSD supplied as part of a government-funded research experiment. Then Dean suggested he try something even stronger. He directed Warnke to a gathering held at a posh house in the hills; beautiful hippies smoking pot, talking religion and philosophy before having a free-love orgy.
As Mike realized after attending several such gatherings, these people were Satanists or witches (just like Doreen Irvine, Warnke uses the terms interchangeably). The sex parties were just a lure to bring selected people into the coven.
His introduction to the coven was extremely gradual, unlike the sudden initiation described by Irvine. Though time markers are few and far between, Warnke gives us the impression that a significant amount of time passed before he was allowed to proceed to the "second level". In the meantime, he became a big-time drug smuggler and dealer for Dean Armstrong. He tells us the coven was handling a "large percentage" of the drug traffic for the Inland Empire at that time.
The "secondary meetings" consisted of rituals that were blasphemous but surprisingly tame. Initiates learned simple witchcraft. Warnke estimates there were "several hundred" regional coven members at this, from all walks of life. There were even a few ministers and priests.
Warnke itched to explore the deeper mysteries of the group, so he obediently served as Dean's drug gofer and message boy until he was admitted to the "third stage". This was the inner sanctum, the core group of real Satanists. Dean revealed that he was one of the leaders, a "Master Counselor" (there were three Master Counselors at a time, which is rather bizarre).
Warnke's first "third stage" meeting was a Black Mass held in a barn near Redlands. A nude girl laid on an altar consisting of a granite slab atop two sawhorses while the three Master Counselors desecrated the sacraments, uttered blasphemies, and read from the Satanic bible, which Warnke calls The Great Mother. It was apparently far less weighy than the massive Book of Satan used by Doreen Irvine's cult, because Dean was able to rest it on the naked altar-girl's stomach without crushing her. You'll notice, in the course of this series, that the world-wide church of Satan doesn't seem to have standardized scripture. At all. Each ex-Satanist describes different books, different magical systems, and different modes of worship. Orgies are the only consistent feature. You'd think that a secretive cult angling for world domination would be slightly more organized than this.
At the end of the Black Mass, the Satanists cast curses on enemies (i.e., ex-members who were telling people about the coven and Christians who were preaching and praying against Satanism). Warnke was so impressed with this that he asked to be initiated as soon as possible. Dean told him he could join the coven at the next full moon, three weeks later.
We now see the darker side of Warnke. Up to this point, he's just a speed freak curious about Satanism. After the third meeting, he's kind of a monster. He admits to holding his girlfriend captive in his apartment for a week, using her as his "whipping girl", then pushing her out on the street for no reason.
At his initiation, also held in the barn, Mike knelt naked in the center of a circle and received a new Satanic name, Judas. He was "baptized" with holy water mixed with urine. He was given a black robe, a hood resembling those worn by Eastern Orthodox priests, a silver ring to be worn only for "Satanic business", and a necklace bearing his zodiac sign. This ceremony bears little resemblance to Doreen Irvine's initiation ritual, which involved drinking the blood of a sacrificed rooster. Instead of signing a parchment, Warnke signed his name (in his own blood) within a large leather-bound book. Some of the names already inscribed in it appeared in green ink, and Dean explained that the blood magically turned green as soon as someone betrayed Satan.
This group called itself The Brotherhood.
To his credit, Warnke tells us much more about the beliefs and attitudes of Satanic witches than Doreen Irvine did. He informs us that Satanists believe in God, but reject God in favour of the thrills and short-term benefits Satan can provide. They have elaborate rituals and spells. They don't just burn Bibles, like Irvine's "black witches". Nor does Warnke claim to have superpowers like those Irvine developed; he can't levitate, kill birds with his mind, or make himself invisible.
But Warnke doesn't get too specific about the doings of his cult. He doesn't reveal any of the contents of The Great Mother, doesn't provide real names, and gives only vague descriptions of meeting places.
Mike learned a lot about Satanic witchcraft in a very short time. First, a female witch revealed to Warnke that the powers of spells, curses, and potions came from demons. These demons had been pressed into service by their master, Satan, and performed their tasks reluctantly. So if any rule was broken or any mistakes made, the demon could lash out violently against you. An "enraged demon" had clawed her forehead once, leaving a nasty scar. Later, he learned that two Satanists had been crushed to death by an invisible force because they carelessly stepped on the wrong part of the circle during a ceremony.
Next, Dean made it clear that he was expected to go out and recruit new members. In stages, he would lure them to a female witch's apartment for sex, then offer drugs, then ease them into witchcraft. Dean supplied him with a fake ID so that he could cruise bars for "marks". Mark brought 1000 people into the Brotherhood in this manner, raising regional membership to 1500. He repeats this number at least four times in the book.
At some point, Dean told Mike that the "big guys" were giving him a big promotion, and Mike would be taking his place as a Master Counselor.
One week later, again on the night of a full moon, he was initiated into his new role. He became the "Master of Ritual" (the other two counselors were known as the Keeper of the Seal and the Keeper of the Books). Perks of Mike's new job included free rent, free groceries, a chauffeur, unlimited drugs and alcohol, and two pretty "roommates" who submissively catered to his every whim. According to Warnke these two young women were considered "slaves, or menials, or whatever", and were "just there for show and for my pleasure". But they also performed secretarial tasks, did all the cooking and cleaning and entertaining, and prepared his snacks and his drugs.
At meetings, Warnke intoned certain chants while he "exorcised" ritual knives with belladonna-laced incense, outlined a pentagram on the floor with the tip of a sword, and mock-disemboweled the naked girl on the altar. At some point he would summon a demon to do the bidding of the coven (the pentagram had to be outlined perfectly, because it magically "caged" the demon; if there was even the slightest break in the pentagram, the demon could escape and do serious damage).
After this was done, Satanists could step forward with petitions to curse their enemies.
Warnke introduced two innovations into meetings: Blood-drinking and host desecration. These things had never been done by the coven, and Warnke says he took "sadistic pleasure" in watching the female witches nervously take their first sips of blood.
From this point in his narrative, Warnke begins to hint that the "fourth step" in the Satanic hierarchy is the Illuminati. The people at this level were well-dressed professionals, almost aristocratic in bearing. Strangely, Warnke never asked his fellow Satanists about the fourth level. He seemed content to let the upper echelons remain shrouded in mystery until he was considered worthy to join their ranks.
Perhaps he was satisfied with the power he wielded. Warnke ritually summoned demons at each Satanic ceremony, and the demons did his bidding. He tells us demons are capable of possessing people and driving them to insanity and suicide. They can cause disease and impede spiritual growth.
One night, to impress a childhood pal who was visiting, Warnke summoned a demon and ordered it to burn down a bar. A short time later, the building was ablaze.
Later, the coven cursed the two young daughters of a Valley College professor who had spoken dismissively of witchcraft, and caused an ex-member to have a near-fatal car accident.
Impressed with his performance as a Master Counselor, some fourth-stagers sent Warnke to a gathering of high-level witches organized by Bridget Bishop of Salem, Massachusetts - a descendant of the first witch executed during the Salem witch trials. (Some of Bishop's descendants do still live in the area, and a decade ago several of them called for Bridget's full exoneration. A "Bridget" was not among them. According to Warnke, Bridget Bishop was a stunningly beautiful young woman who lived in a large old house stuffed with antiques.)
At this witch convention, the main topic was organization. We learn that the U.S. Satanic witch movement has a corporate-style structure and uses tactics culled from big business and the military to keep everything running smoothly.
Hearing this, Warnke had his New World Order revelation. He suddenly realized there could be a fifth stage controlling everything, not just Satanism but world events.
"A world-wide, super secret control group with perhaps as few as a very dozen at the top...with key men controlling governments, economies, armies, food supplies...pulling the strings on every major international event...and not just now, but for generations, centuries, since the beginning of civilization...manipulating men by their egos and their appetites, rewarding and depriving, enraging and pacifying, raising up first one side and then the other, maintaining a balance of frustration, bitterness, and despair?" (p. 93, ellipses in original)
He heard other attendees talking about the demons that had controlled the worst dictators of history: Nero, Hitler, Stalin. A light went on in his head, showing him that demonically inspired Satanists and their human puppets were the force beyong international finance, politics, war, industry, and everything else.
"I laughed, a little hysterically, but the light show wouldn't shut off. So that was how it was done! The global-conspiracy buffs were right, after all. Lee Harvey Oswald, James Earl Ray, Sirhan B. Sirhan - they were the pawns of a much bigger plot."
Keep in mind that Warnke was supposedly having this revelation in 1965 or '66. Ray and Sirhan were nonentities.
He also realized that he and all the other Satanists were just pawns in Satan's campaign of jealousy and hatred, and that Satan probably hated humans just as much as he despised the God who had denied him his rightful place in heaven.
It didn't bother him too much. He just got on with his Satanic business. He attended another witchcraft convention in New York, where he learned that some Satanists were sacrificing their fingers (mentioned repeatedly by Doreen Irvine) and eating human flesh.
Warnke introduced both practices to his coven, and added cat sacrifice to the rituals as well. He also suggested that his group collect blood from stray dogs if they couldn't get enough human volunteers, and he later learned that reports of exsanguinated dogs shot up 500% in the area.
After an occult convention in San Francisco (where he met Anton LaVey), he used a new "formula" during a meeting and inadvertently sent a young woman into a screaming, frothing fit of demonic possession.
In accordance with The Great Mother, he decided it was time to start raping virgins at sabbats. He and three other Satanists convinced a college student named Mary to accompany them to the orange grove where they usually held their rituals, then violently forced her to disrobe and lay on the altar. She was raped by an unspecified number of men before being taken to a doctor affiliated with the coven - someone who wouldn't talk.
Meanwhile, Warnke's speed use was spiralling out of control and he was becoming very paranoid. He feared the Mafia, Communists, and every bump in the night. The higher-ups evidently decided he was a liability, so his slave-girls were instructed to give him an overdose of heroin. While he was drifting in and out of consciousness, cult goons removed him from his apartment and dumped him on the sidewalk in front of a hospital. He registered as John Doe and went through agonizing withdrawal for a week.
When he returned to his pad, the slave-girls were gone and most of his Satanic paraphernalia had been removed. He had been ejected from the Brotherhood. He also lost his part-time job at a hamburger stand.
With few choices left, he joined the Navy. Withdrawal made bootcamp a nightmare, but the two Christian men in his unit lovingly tended to him day after day. These guys, Bob and Bill, seemed to be filled with a calm and peace that the others lacked. One day, Warnke's eye fell on Bill's Bible. It was open to John, and 3:16 caught his eye. He picked up the book and began reading it in the privacy of a broom closet. He found himself unable to put it down, so he read throughout the night. By dawn, he was saved.
After basic training, Warnke visited his family for the first time since he left Crestline for Valley College. While there, he ran into an old classmate named Sue Studer, another born again Christian. They were soon engaged. He told her all about his Satanic past. Both Sue and Mike claim that Satanists were gunning for Mike at this time; their friend Lorrie narrowly escaped being shot while snooping around a warehouse where the Brotherhood was gathering, and someone fired on Mike's car from a Cadillac.
Mike himself was a danger to those around him. Still in the grip of demons, he tried to strangle Sue one night. She realized what was happening and ordered the demons to depart in the name of Jesus, which seems like a rather strange reaction to a murder attempt by your fiance.
In 1967 the newlyweds settled in San Diego, where Mike went through training to become a Navy medic. They befriended a pastor who is now a household name: Tim LaHaye, co-author of the Left Behind novels. When Warnke told him about the Brotherhood and their efforts to scare him, LaHaye replied, "I've been attacked by witches," and filled him in on the history of the Bavarian Illuminati.
Every Christian who heard Mike's story was equally supportive and accepting. No one suggested that he turn himself in to the police for abduction and rape. No one advised him to seek psychological help or drug treatment. In fact, church members urged him to become a Sunday school teacher!
Just as Sue learned she was pregnant, Warnke was shipped to Vietnam. In this dismal atmosphere of death and devastation, he soon reverted to drinking and popping pills. His newfound faith in Christ dwindled. Though he was not supposed to be armed, he was, and one day an officer ordered him to execute a suspected Vietnamese spy.
In October '69, his unit was withdrawn. He returned to California in March of the following year. By this time, he had 3-month-old son, Brendon.
Their Christian friends helped Warnke regain his footing in the faith. He began giving his testimony at Jesus People gatherings in San Diego, Coronado, and La Mesa. Dick Handley introduced him to Anaheim Bulletin writer/photographer David Balsiger, who would become one of his co-authors. Balsiger was also a media director for Morris Cerullo at this time, though Warnke doesn't mention that. Cerullo and Balsiger had constructed an educational "witchmobile" full of occult paraphernalia, and Cerullo wanted Balsiger's help in writing a book titled Witchcraft Never Looked Better. In the end, Balsiger and Warnke left Cerullo out of their collaboration (Balsiger assisted Cerullo with his '73 book The Back Side of Satan).
Balsiger considered himself something of an occult expert, and Warnke donates several pages to his "knowledge". Among Balsiger's pearls of wisdom:
- "We discovered that occult practitioners open themselves to mental derangement, criminal tendencies and possible self-destruction or the destruction of other persons...many witches say that only Satanists and black arts practitioners go off the deep end and kill people or commit other crimes, but we researched eleven recent criminal cases...[and] occult practices were directly or indirectly linked to each case." He doesn't explain who conducted this research, how it was conducted, how occultism was connected to the cases, or even which cases were examined. We pretty much have to take his word for it.
- "witchcraft is being taught as an official course or as part of a lecture series in public schools all across the country under a variety of course titles, including the 'Literature of the Supernatural'."
- "40 to 50 percent of those undergoing treatment for various neuroses in and out of mental institutions have dabbled in the occult, and it never occurs to most psychiatrists to ask about this, nor would they know how to deal with it if they did ask." (Balsiger's wife, Janie, chimes in, "That's because it's a spiritual problem, and only a Christian psychiatrist would be able to cope with it successfully.")
- The peace symbol has a Satanic origin. Also, "it was used on Hitler's Nazi death notices and as part of the official inscription on the gravestones of Nazi officers of the SS, the leaders of which, incidentally, were Satanists." (The Morning of the Magicians by Bergier and Pauwels is cited as a source for this factoid)
- "In some parts of the country the occult epidemic is more serious than the drug-abuse scene among young people."
At the urging of Balsiger and others, Warnke applied for early release from the Navy (he had four years left to serve) so he could launch an anti-occult ministry.
He tries to convince us that Satanism poses a real threat to the average American. On page 195 he writes, "Drug pushers and political revolutionists are using devil worship as a way to rake in millions of dollars, weaken the government, and destroy law enforcement." When a reporter asked for his opinion on the Manson murders, he said, "Well, the main point here is that lots of crimes are committed as a result of occult involvement, and people should report to the police if they see someone going around wearing human bones as jewelry, or if there's a group meeting under a full moon."
What Warnke advocates, basically, is a new witch hunt. He even scoffs at the notion that Medieval and early modern witchhunts were "nothing but mass paranoia". At a press conference, he urged people to "get uptight" with bookstores that sold occult literature and theatres that screen horror movies.
As soon as his early release was granted - which Warnke portrays as a miracle - he began setting up speaking engagements to share his testimony.
Morris Cerullo, the preacher who got him started on this path, is not mentioned anywhere in The Satan Seller. He and Warnke had a falling-out when Warnke went off on his own, and Warnke reportedly forbade Cerullo from using any part of his life story in his revival sermons. Cerullo did include some of Warnke's anecdotes in his '73 book, The Backside of Satan, however, and those tidbits would come back to haunt Warnke.
The story of The Satan Seller concludes with Mike and Sue starting out on their glorious new ministry. At the end of the book is a list of suggestions for combatting the occult: write to congressmen and senators about the occult menace, picket bookstores and movie theatres, and "investigate schools" to make sure they aren't teaching kids about things like supernatural literature.
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Charleston 3rd mo 12th 1839Dear BrotherI have intended writing to thee for several days and expected ere this to have had a letter finished for thee but I was delayed beyond what I had expected to be by a headache the result of my first seasickness; and my first letter from Charleston I wished to send to some one at home as they wished to hear from me as soon after my arrival at Charleston as I should be able to write--I do not know whether I even have much time now to give to holding some conversation with thee as the evening is pretty well advanced towards 8 o'clock and at 9 we have supper. But I do not know whether I should have an other opportunity of writing for some time and I think perhaps that a letter short though it be if it is as long as circumstances will permit me to write will not be altogether inacceptable to thee-- perhaps thee has heard from Father & Mother such circumstances of our journey as I have related to them in my letters or if thee has not thee must get them to come out (tell thee for I cannot think of travelling over the same ground twise in writing-- I wrote to Sister Mary yesterday (sent the letter this morning having barely room left to acknowledge the receipt of Father's letter-- It is the only letter I have yet received while this makes the fourth I have written to begun to write rather. I hope we shall find some tomorrow at the post office for us & I shall be glad if I see one directed in thy hand waiting-- If thee has not written it will be too late to tell the now to write to me at Charleston-- but any letter written & sent on or before the 19th will find me at Richmond Va-- we have had a very pleasant journey so far and all varieties in the temperature-- [?] 12 degrees at Baltimore to 74 at Charleston-- yesterday it was [?]to walk in the sunny side of the street-- But I suppose I shall better devote my time if I tell thee something about Charleston-- We arrived here 1st day afternoon & not in the best possible humor for being pleased with everything we saw-- I had been very seasick the night before & retired to my berth about 8 o'clock in the evening as by lying down you are more likely to escape seasickness-- here I lay till 9 o'clock the next morning when I found myself so tired as to be unable to lay any longer so I got up & was seasick again & [?] so till we got into smoother water-- When we arrived in Charleston I felt very weak on account of my sickness but slept it off during the night and since then I have felt quite well
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Mentor Graphics Unveils New Calibre Litho-Friendly Design Product, Bringing Process Variability Data into the Design Flow
MUNICH, Germany, March 6, 2006 - Mentor Graphics Corporation (Nasdaq: MENT) today announced availability of the Calibre{reg} LFD™ (Litho-Friendly Design) product, signaling a major rethinking of the IC design creation flow, and expanding the design for manufacturing (DFM) solutions from Mentor. Calibre LFD is the first, production proven, electronic design automation (EDA) tool to address the urgent issue of how to manage process variability in the early stages of design creation. The announcement was made at the Design, Automation and Test Conference in Europe being held here this week.
Calibre LFD enables designers to make trade-off decisions on how to create a design that is more robust and less sensitive to the lithographic process window. This is important at the 90 nanometer technology node, and crucial at the 65 nanometer node, where process variations can greatly influence silicon results.
"The ability to deliver high yielding designs is critical in nanometer technology," said Luigi Capodieci, principal member of technical staff at Advanced Micro Devices. "By adding Calibre LFD to our existing flow, we can make layout modification trade-offs at the earliest stages of design creation, and dramatically improve layout robustness across the process window."
An LFD kit is provided to the designer by foundries and fabs, much in the same manner as a design rule checking (DRC) kit. The kit includes energy, dose and mask bias considerations, RET recipes, process models, and the parameterizable rules to be checked, all presented in a common results database. The designer can run simulations to see how a layout will print under a particular lithographic process window. The goal is to drive the design to an "LFD clean" as well as a "DRC clean" sign-off.
Calibre LFD also calculates a Design Variability Index, or DVI™, as a way to measure how resilient the design is to process variations; a lower DVI value represents a more resilient design. The DVI is used to compare different layout implementations and help designers select the one with the least sensitivity to variation.
Calibre LFD is built on the production-proven Calibre design-to-silicon platform, and can be easily launched within popular layout environments through Calibre Interactive™. Calibre LFD plugs into a design flow much like an iterative design step, using the same layout editor used for the initial design. Designers can use a layout viewer/editor and a results viewing environment, such as Calibre RVE™ or Calibre DESIGNrev™, to view the check results and variability databases.
Capturing process variability to improve layout robustness is a major new step in DFM. With Calibre LFD, a foundation is being established for managing the impact of yield inhibitors with each new process node.
"In the past, it has been the responsibility of the foundry to ensure printability," said Joe Sawicki, vice president and general manager for the design-to-silicon division at Mentor Graphics. "Now for the first time, with Calibre LFD, designers can have a big impact on how well designs yield through the variances of the process window."
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Tuesday, December 10, 2013
NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. - Dr. Andrew Ade, Westminster College associate professor of English, has written a new one-act play that is being staged this month at the 2013 Theatre Festival in Black & White by the Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company (PPTC). The play, which opened Dec. 5, will be shown until Dec. 17 at the PPTC space at 937 Liberty Ave. in Pittsburgh's Cultural District.
Ade's play, True Meaning, follows the story of opposite-sex adult twin siblings, who need to manage the twin sister's emotional crisis when the brother marries a woman who has nothing in common with the rest of the family. It takes place on Christmas Eve in the home where the twins grew up, and in the course of the play the three characters demonstrate three distinctly different ideas of "the true meaning of Christmas." The play is being directed by actress Rita Gregory.
"I love this festival because it is truly an all-Pittsburgh-theater-community enterprise," Ade said. "Black dramatists are given white directors, and white dramatists work with black directors. The shows themselves often have mixed casts, and the results are truly city-wide, multicultural collaborations."
To order tickets for one of the play's showings visit www.pghplaywrights.com/bwfest and click on Program A.
Ade's first play, A Question of Taste, premiered at the PPTC's 2007 festival, where it won four awards, including Best Play. It later won the 2009 Arts & Letters Prize in Drama and was published in the spring 2010 issue of Arts & Letters: Journal of Contemporary Culture. It premiered in New York this past July in the Midtown International Theater Festival. Ade's one-act play, Language Barrier, also earned Best Play honors in the PPTC's 2010 festival. He is that festival's only two-time winner.
For the 2011 Pittsburgh New Works Festival, his play Off-Color Remarks was one of 12 scripts chosen for production from a field of more than 100 national submissions, and was ultimately one of three finalists for the festival's Outstanding Playwright Award. Ade also recently received the "Spotlight Award" for his latest play, Reports of a Home Invasion, produced at the Old Opera House during the 2013 New Voice Play Festival in Charles Town, W. Va. It was selected, along with only three other works, from 85 plays submitted across the country.
Ade, who has been with Westminster since 2003, earned an undergraduate degree from Northwestern University and master's degree and Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Contact Ade at 724-946-7349 or email for additional information.
About Westminster College...
Founded in 1852 and related to the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), Westminster College ranks first in the nation as "Best College for Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math," according to Forbes.com. Westminster is a top-tier liberal arts college and a national leader in graduation rate performance, according to U.S. News Best Colleges guide. Westminster is also honored as one of "The Best 378 Colleges" by The Princeton Review, and is named to the President's Honor Roll for excellence in service learning.
Nearly 1,600 undergraduate and graduate students benefit from individualized attention from dedicated faculty while choosing from 41 majors and nearly 100 organizations on the New Wilmington, Pa., campus. Visit www.westminster.edu/advantage to view "Advantage: Westminster" A Strategic Plan 2010-2020.


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Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) should continuously evaluate their marketing as they aim to secure the greatest possible return on investment.
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quote:For everyone who laughs, explain how next year's team, from top to bottom, won't be at least as talented as the 2006 team if everyone returns? We had a ton of 5* recruits on that team.
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quote:I guess your right, hope he doesn't go. He just seems to lack the athleticism and skill to jump to the NBA right now. He never really plays "above the rim."
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