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The New Evangelization At Work?
Luke Hill November 15, 2012 - 6:50pm
Assumption Church is in Barnesville, Minnesota, a town about 30 minutes southeast on I-94 from Fargo, North Dakota. Fr. Gary LaMoine is the pastor at Assumption who (apparently) has decided that supporting same-sex marriage is grounds for being denied the sacrament of confirmation."If you want to be a Catholic, you have to be 100 percent Catholic.Thats the lesson one family here learned after their 17-year-old son was denied confirmation after the priest at the Assumption Church here found a pro same-sex marriage post on the teens Facebook.The decision by the Rev. Gary LaMoine to deny the religious rite of passage for Lennon Cihak in mid-October shocked his mother, who said her son has gone to church every week and volunteered around the community in preparation for his confirmation this year.You kind of know the Catholic beliefs, but I never thought they would deny somebody confirmation because you werent 100 percent. I guess thats what shocks me, Shana Cihak said."
Well, that's one way to redouble the Church's support for the traditional legal definition of marriage.Although there's apparently a fine theological distinction at play here that escapes me. "Lennon said fellow students in his confirmation class liked the photo on Facebook, but they were still allowed to be confirmed. " Perhaps some of our more theologically informed readers could explain what the exact limit is for a faithful Catholic's opposition to a referendum question that the state bishops' conference supports. Is "liking" on Facebook okay, but posting isn't? Or is posting allowed, but not photographs? (And what does the Catechism have to say about this? Where do Catholics go to find out the rules?)For me the most amazing and inexplicably hopeful thing about the whole incident so far is that "...through it all, Lennon said his faith hasnt faltered. 'I dont want the church to be put down. I dont want the Catholic religion to be put down...."
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"We removed laws that criminalized adultery; the law is now silent. That is not the case with gay marriage."The law is *not* silent in Minnesota; it simply the opposite of what you imply.
As we have removed laws that prohibited adulteryJack,We removed laws that criminalized adultery; the law is now silent. That is not the case with 'gay marriage'.
The word "wacky" comes to mind when reading about this priest. His actions raise so many questions. Luke, there are no rules. Merely discretionary pastors. There are plenty of Catholic parishes which will confirm this candidate. As far as dealing with the "rules" is concerned, here is an extraordinary Catholic who seems to be quite effective while receiving suspicion from both the Catholic right and left. http://ncronline.org/node/39371
The Sacrament of Confirmation is not a "religious rite of passage." Rather, we receive the graces of the Sacrament in order to be able to join and actively participate in the mission of the Church to spread the faith and be a witness for Christ, who is Love and Truth. (Acts 1:8) If one has a poor understanding of the Catholic faith, if he has a poor grasp of truth, including the truth of marriage, both civil and the Sacrament of Matrimony, if he is not willing to join in the mission of the Church, then he is not ready to receive the Sacrament of Confirmation. Further explanation and teaching for him are necessary.
This must be a getting ready for winter story.. Checking out Facebook pages of teens to check on their orthodoxy on SSM ??. If they did an orthodoxy check of San Francisco students' Facebooks, in SF, the home of the USCCB's Archbishop in charge of Catholic US anti- SSM, I guarantee that all Catholic High Schools and three Catholic universities in the Archdiocese would have to close doors by next semester. You may be able to bully people in the boondocks but everyone knows where, if you use bully boy tactics, you lose big time. I invite Bender to come on out and see if he can get an audience in SF Catholic schools. .
This priest fails to understand that all Catholics have the right to acess all the means of salvation. The Bishop needs to exercise some firm leadership with this priest and I would be shocked if he didn't correct this asap
Just think. If the RCC had some form of congregational governance in local parishes, this "pastor" would most likely be out on his a** very shortly after uttering this nonsense. But, of course, only the ontologically superior have the right to control everything in THEIR prish and the sheeple are just expected to roll over and go to sleep ... which way too many of them do. They want a smaller, purer and much QUIETER place; easier to snooze during mass and avoid reality while getting their tickets punched on a weekly basis.
now the family is not allowed to participate in Communion thereThey contacted the bishop, who apparently claimed not much could be done.
Why the snide reference to the New Evangelization? What does any of this have to do with the New Evangelization? And what's wrong with the New Evangelization?
"But now the family is not allowed to participate in Communion there, Doug said". This is just insanely out of line."Shana said she contacted Bishop Michael Hoeppner of the Catholic Diocese in Crookston to see what her options were to appeal, but Hoeppner said not much could be done"A bishop can't do anything about who gets confirmed in his diocese? What nonsense. If this report is true, it's outrageous.
What does any of this have to do with the New Evangelization? Actually, a great deal. As Pope Benedict has noted frequently (and as Pope John Paul II did when he first used the term outside Nowa Huta in 1979), the New Evangelization began with the Council, most especially Blessed Pope John's opening address, wherein he stated that "The greatest concern of the Ecumenical Council is this: that the sacred deposit of Christian doctrine be safeguarded and expounded more effectively. . . . What is needed at the present time is a new enthusiasm, a new joy and serenity of mind in the unreserved acceptance by all of the entire Christian faith, without forfeiting that accuracy and precision in its presentation which characterized the proceedings of the Council of Trent and the First Vatican Council. . . . What is needed is that this certain and immutable doctrine, to which the faithful owe obedience, be studied afresh and reformulated in contemporary terms."A major concern of Pope John XXIII, and hence of the New Evangelization, is a defense of Catholic teaching, of preserving the truths of the faith that have been handed down to us, and finding more effective ways to correct the many errors and misunderstandings that people might have about the truth of Church teaching, which would necessarily include the Church's teachings on marriage, not to mention the teaching on the purpose of Confirmation and a person's duty and obligation therein.Thus, if someone has a fundamental misunderstanding of the faith, and thus is unable to join in the mission of the Church, but instead has a desire to think and do his own thing separate from or in contravention of what the Church professes, then as a matter of truth and charity, the Church has an obligation to further teach him, to do a better job explaining things, before administering the Sacrament of Confirmation to him.This young man has a fundamental right to learn and know what the Church teaches and why she teaches it, rather than simply pass him along as if this is merely some social rite of passage. And if after learning that and understanding it, he does not want to safeguard and defend the faith that has been given us, as stated by Pope John, if he does not wish to profess to the world what the Church teaches and has always taught, but instead wants to oppose the Church, then in all good conscience, he should not be requesting the Church to provide him the Sacrament.
It's strange how a disagreement about whether a particular civil contract should be defined in a state constitution is considered a fundamental element of the faith.
In normal times I would dismiss this as a hoax. But we hear such weird things about the Catholic church these days that it's becoming hard to tell.
In the immediate enthusiasm after the Second Vatican Council, the priests of a church in Chicago did a quick-and-dirty renewal while waiting for the contractor to move the altar and do the other heavy lifting. Among other things, they removed statues from their niches along the sides of the nave to focus more attention on the altar. After a week or two they restored the statues because parishioners were stumbling or wrenching their shoulders when they reached out to rub the saint's foot for good luck and their hand encountered nothing but air.Rubbing "the saint's foot" for good luck fits the definition of forbidden superstition in the Catechism (2110-2111). A moral theologian can rule on whether it is a separate offense to do it unconsciously or whether the original sin of starting the habit covers all the rubs, but I think even Bender would agree that it would have been counterproductive to pay for injuries while attempting to talk those parishioners out of their superstition. And no priest currently on earth could have convinced them there was anything out of line in the practice anyway.I bring up this deviation in our pre-Vatican II past (although watching the gyrations some of our older parishioners perform at the holy water font, I am not sure our past is even past) to note that social media are going to multiply the ways in which we can discover the weird faith practices and ideas of our brothers and sisters. It is unlikely that pastors will get very far using sites like Facebook as a surveillance satellite to spot deviation and enforce preservation of the truths of our faith.
Another reason not to be on Facebook!
May the good Father needs a little sabbatical or a retreat. He surely needs some rest to help calm and stabilize his mind (and soul).
Bender: thanks for your exposition. I admire your abilities as a teacher of the faith. Your comment deserves a much longer response than what I'm able to pull together right now. But for now, I'd ask you to consider this:You write, "This young man has a fundamental right to learn and know what the Church teaches and why she teaches it, rather than simply pass him along as if this is merely some social rite of passage"I agree wholeheartedly that Confirmation is not a mere social rite of passage. But neither is it a board exam which one must pass in order to receive his membership card. Confirmation is the opposite of a final exam: it is a sacrament of initiation. Initiation connotes beginning. What is more likely, more prudent and more merciful: that separating this young man, and his family(!) completely from the faith community is going to bring about a change of heart (if one is needed; that question is critical and needs to be explored at greater length than I have time for right now); or that the strength given by the grace of the sacrament, to sustain his and his family's life as part of a community of disciples, is going to support and guide him in his Christian life?I think there is no question that the latter is the better way here.This young man seems to be on fire for the Catholic faith. He seems to have been evangelized already. It's worse than a shame that any pastor would seek to douse that fire with an over-scrupulous application of sacramental criteria. If his faith is not yet perfect, then a pastor can help guide him toward perfection. That won't happen if the young man isn't part of the flock.
I think "Cupcake" has identified the problem, and folks like Bender who defend a black-and-white approach to these kinds of social issues are going to end up in a dying church. There is a difference between being for SSM through civil channels--which allows gay couples to protect their assets and property, gives them rights of visitation in sickness, and rights of survivorship in death--and full-blown sacramental church marriage, which is still defined as an indissoluable union between a man and a woman for the purpose of procreation and rearing children. Same-sex civil marriage, in my view, simply recognizes a social reality and, if homosexual activities are not in violation of any state law (like, say incest, polygamy, or bestiality), then extending legal rights to their union does not seem unreasonable. Why can't it be taught in confirmation that a Catholic who is called to marriage is expected to follow a much narrower path? Certainly those of us trying to live within the confines of a Catholic marriage requires considerably more sacrifice, compromise, and soul-searching than any secular notion of marriage does. They are not the same. It seems to me that the Church expends far more effort inserting itself into the secular legislative process than it does trying to strengthen the faith of those who are trying to follow its teachings. It would be interesting to know how many sacramental marriages are left foundering without recourse to healing because parish and diocesan resources are being wasted on opposition to gay marriage legislation?
Molly Roach: that's very funny - and true! :-)
To Anthony Andreass:If the priest indeed needs a retreat/sabbatical, then so do a number of the bishops, such as Dolan and Myers, and their chief spokesman Dr. William Donohue of the Catholic League. What this priest from Minnesota said and did is not outside the mainstream of how the leadership of this church thinks. The bishops and seminaries created men like LaMoine, and will continue to do so. God help the Roman church...
Its strange how a disagreement about whether a particular civil contract should be defined in a state constitution is considered a fundamental element of the faith.Its even more strange that a Catholic would dumb down a sacrament to the level of a particular civil contract...
Another thought - what if the kid were holding a sign that said he supported the death penalty? Would he be denied the sacrament?
@Jim Pauwels (11/15, 11:11 pm & 11/16, 9:20 am) Please excuse the poorly chosen headline. (Alas, it was the best I could come up with at the time.)As for evangelization in general and the New Evangelization in particular (note: I claim no expertise in either), I think your comment earlier this morning (in reply to Bender) is a lovely example of evangelization: clear about the faith and your understanding of it, also clear about the pastoral virtues of prudence, mercy and a careful consideration of what approach is most likely to enliven the fire of faith already alive in Lennon Cihak (and, presumably, his friends and classmates).I say this "half in fun, whole in earnest" (as the saying goes), but maybe in addition to your new role as advice columnist (long live the Magic Conch! http://www.commonwealmagazine.org/blog/?p=21856#comments), there's a role for you as teacher in the practice of evangelism in dioceses across the country.
I think the creepy thing is that this priest was checking out the Facebook pages of the kids in the confirmation class. Is that appropriate?
The priest wasn't "checking out the Facebook pages of the kids in the confirmation class." He "was shown" the boy's page.http://www.inforum.com/event/article/id/380562/group/News/
1) Strange priest and, imho, an even stranger bishop:"The mother did say that Bishop Michael Hoeppner of the Diocese of Crookston informed her that if Lennon stood before the church and denounced his support of same-sex marriage claims, he could be confirmed."(Does he have to wear sackcloth and ashes?)2) Why is Confirmation now delayed so long? In the early Church, it was administered with Baptism. After Trent, it was made available to children who had reached the age of reason. Now, 17? And why has the bishop, the ordinary minister of the sacrament, ceded his responsibility to the priest?3) The watchdog groups who inform on priests, teenagers, etc., are among the reasons many Catholics leave the Church, imho. The spies intimidate everyone.
I actually find myself agreeing with both Bender and Jim Pauwels. Lennon does have an opportunity to be a full member of the Church. And the Church also has an obligation to educate him in the faith. But if he has a fundamental misunderstanding of marriage, confirmation is one of the few moments where the Church has the opportunity to provide this education. And Lennon, as a member of the Church, has an obligation to be open to the teaching AND conform to it. Otherwise, professing Catholicism means basically nothing.And a fundamental misunderstanding of the sacrament of marriage is IMHO in a completely different realm than misunderstanding the teaching on the death penalty.
Initial understanding and use of modern communications with pastoral wisdom appears to have been another topic, like the equally ubiquitous economy, which the bishops assembled this week were to have addressed. Mentioned were "social media, blogging and cellphone technology". Cdl. Wuerl withdrew the proposed document because of the need for further work toward a more comprehensive document by the committee chairmen for doctrine, evangelization and catechesis, and canonical affairs and church governance. Perhaps the next draft will resolve new technological-theological issues like those Luke notes. http://ncronline.org/news/faith-parish/bishops-agree-need-better-preachi...
" He was shown the boys page.'I can't imagine being in a parish/community that would have members 'showing crap' to the pastor and a pastor being willing to act on the 'showing'. The usual totalitarian experience is to have neighborhood reporters, "ears' to report on neighbors. The sick part of Catholic culture is prone to encourage this crap. Shame shame shame. This kind of activity was encouraged when the Minnesota Archbishop sent out 200,000 DVDs [at what cost] denouncing SSM.
To Bruce:If the boy were to say "I do not believe that God is a trinity", or "I do not believe that Jesus is God's Messiah" or "I reject Jesus' teaching on love of enemies" or "I refuse to believe that Jesus rose from the dead" then we would have reason to argue that he is not prepared to be confirmed. That he expressed an opinion on a matter of civil law,(and, by the way, the definition of marriage in the Catholic church is not in the league of dogma, but rather moral teaching,) is not a sufficient reason to bar him from a sacrament. In fact this priest's actions have caused scandal, and that is arguably a violation of canon law. Your assertions about the death penalty seem to suggest that it is self-evident that this subject is in a "different realm." It is not self evident, and I would refer you to John Paul II's clear and unambiguous teaching re capital punishment.
It is very different to say that the state should support civil marriage for gay people and for one to say that the Church should allow gay marriages itself. Where Church and state intersect is always tricky business and given how much heat (and how little light) there is when people talk about gay marriage, I think it is COLOSSAL mistake to deny a teen confirmation because he simply posted something in support of civil gay marriage. I wonder if this priest really wants to know how many of his clerical confreres support gay marriage? Maybe they should not have been ordained? Most of the priests I know support it, but then again, I hang around with an unruly crowd
Intimidation keeps everyone in line: the bishops, the priests, religious, the laity, etc. (See, e.g., Joan Chittister's article at NCR this morning.) Everyone is afraid. Those whose livelihoods depend on the Church have good reason to be afraid of what the stood pigeons will report. And those who believe their eternal fate depends on the good will of someone who is clinging to his job/palace because of fear are up a creek.
Regarding the comments about the priest seeing things on facebook: at least in our deanery, it is common for youth ministers (and sometimes priests) to get friended by the kids who are doing confirmation preparation. The kids usually have NO filter, and it often gets them in trouble when they willing write things on their facebook walls that would make any minister (or parent) shudder. See also the updated AP story from this morning, where the priest says the kid wasn't denied confirmation, but won't comment any more. http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Same-sex-marriage-supporter-isn-t-con...
Although nobody has mentioned the "E" word (excommunication), the poor lad is of age to be excommunicated. It is age 17. Hope that this isn't in 'cards' for him.
Just more of the idiotic legacy of JPII, who apparently succeeded in selecting only men like him in temperament for promotion to the episcopate, and knowing that his clones would likely ordain to the presbyterate only those guys who would "suck up" to their bishops.Fifteen and more years ago, our cathedral pastor informed our congregation of pew spies and of the more conservative guys being ordained.JPII cloning is alive and well in the Church of Rome.Fear rules.
Surveillance and sanction in the name of purity of the faith a la Fr. LaMoine with a 17-year old deserves some thought. A picture of Lennon's incriminating yard sign is now disseminated worldwide, online from North Dakota. The story comes to the East Coast from Minnesota via San Francisco. If one of the defining elements of scandal is publicization, some forethought is warranted before turning a molehill into a mountain these days. Facebook is one of a very large number of venues where Catholics can be found speaking out this afternoon about the Church in its many aspects, publicly, with worldwide accessibility and retrievability (e.g., see above). Some serious disagreements with the Church can be noted. Who have obligations in defense of the Faith to report and to punish appropriately these offenders? The question seems more suited to George Orwell, who already thought about it, than to Bishop Hoeppner and confreres, who obviously haven't.
" --- sacramental church marriage, which is still defined as an indissoluable union between a man and a woman for the **purpose of procreation and rearing children** ---"I wonder how many priests preach this to those couples who present themselves for marriage and are obviously beyond child-bearing age? Or those couples about whom the priest might have a suspicion that child-bearing doesn't fit into their "social and career game plans"? Or those couples, one or both of whom are embarking on second marriages and already have children to raise?
"Its even more strange that a Catholic would dumb down a sacrament to the level of a particular civil contract"And it's even stranger that Catholic would attempt to equate a civil contract that imparts civil benefits, rights and responsibilities for ALL citizens, irrespective of religious bias or prejudice, with what may be considered by many of those citizens as irrelevant nonsense that has no bearing on their lives.Or as has been said before: stop trying to turn a silk purse into a sow's ear." -- what if the kid were holding a sign that said he supported the death penalty? Would he be denied the sacrament?" What is the sign said that Obama is a socialist foreign-born Muslim? I suspect that, in that pastor's eyes, he would have been a hero, but that's only speculation.
That he expressed an opinion on a matter of civil law,(and, by the way, the definition of marriage in the Catholic church is not in the league of dogma, but rather moral teaching,) Brian,Your premise, civil law and not dogma, are fundamentally incorrect. The Church believes and teaches that marriage was given to humanity by God - one body (Gn 2:24) or one flesh (Mk 10:8, Mt 19:6) - and this is a dogma: Marriage is a true and proper Sacrament instituted by God. The other 6 sacraments are also dogma of the Church.Since marriage is instituted by God, it is impossible for the Church to change its terms: an indissoluble lifetime commitment. From the Church's perspective, that also makes it impossible for any government to change the terms as well, since conformity to God's will is fundamentally necessary for human flourishing. That makes any civil law tinkering with marriage terms unjust, since the government is attempting to exercise an authority which it does not and cannot possess. And according to Augustine an unjust law is no law at all." But, as we all know, God gave us complete freedom to act, even if it is contrary to our own best interests and his Will.Finally, JPII's clear teaching on capital punishment is not a dogma of the Church.
"Since marriage is instituted by God, it is impossible for the Church to change its terms: an indissoluble lifetime commitment."Moses is laughing at you.
Bruce:According to the standards established by God himself, as recorded in the Old Testament, a marriage could be between a man and a woman, or a man and several women, or a man and his first cousin, etc., etc. Your appeals to scripture leave much to be desired. For example, regarding marriage, you assert that scripture is clear and the church simply follows what God has ordained and instituted. However, Jesus himself forbade his disciples from taking oaths, yet Catholics love to make each other take oaths; Jesus forbade divorce, yet we do not exclude from the sacraments those who divorce. Jesus unambiguously preached non-violence, yet the Church has found a way to justify the use of violence. So why is it that while Jesus himself "instituted" these teachings, the church has unilaterally opted to to ignore them? But with marriage however, defined as a sacrament not until well into the second millennium, you make baroque appeals that rely on an extremely literal interpretation of scriptures that are, in a number of cases, ambiguous and contradictory.
Can we assume that Fr. LaMoine is investigating his remaining parishioners - at least those who were old enough to vote - to make sure none of them who voted wrong on the referendum enjoys any sacrament to which they may have been looking forward? Surely his constancy would demand at least that.
What if I rise up and preach against The Tim's new push for Fish on Fridays? Will I be banished to the outer reaches of hades?
Bruce,The part of marriage that the state of Minnesota is concerned about is not a sacrament. It is fundamentally only a special legal contract. The Church and the state have separate responses to life's major events. A birth certificate is not a baptismal certificate, a marriage license isn't a Catholic marriage, and a death certificate isn't a funeral. A vote on whether to incorporate a definition of marriage into the state constitution is not a vote to change the sacraments.
Brian: for your edification (you can thank me after reading this): http://www.yawningbread.org/apdx_2004/imp-141.htm
It is fundamentally only a special legal contractCupcake,That is what the state wants you to believe. It may not, in fact, actually be what it is. And our church teaches that it is actually not a special legal contract but something much more. In fact, the proponents of gay marriage also believe it is something much more or they would be satisfied with civil unions, but they are not. So your entire premise is incorrect.
Your appeals to scripture leave much to be desiredBrian,It is still dogma.
@Bruce (11/16, 5:20 pm) What's your understanding of Minnesota's civil recognition of marriage between two Lutherans, or two Jews, or of interfaith marriages, or or marriage between those of no faith? And how does that intersect with the Church's sacramental understanding of marriage?
Cupcake --Interesting analogies. (You ever think of going to law school?)
Confirmation is not only a reaffirmation not only of one's baptismal vows, but as I recall, requires the entire parish is to renew their vows and to promise to support young candidates in their faith. So what boils my blood about this situation is that some smug parishioner, instead of looking for ways to help these kids understand the faith and its teaching--and given that most young people believe gay marriage is OK, wouldn't this be an issue that the parish would take special pains to address in confirmation classes??--decides to nark out a kid for what he's got on his FB page.It strikes me that this is not an indictment of Assumption's entire confirmation program (and its failure to adequately transmit the teachings of the Church), but the charity of its parishioners, and the pastoral abilities of its priest. I think this poor kid and his family deserve our prayers. And the priest and whoever took it upon themselves to rat the kid out need them even more.
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..., yes my body is aging and every year I become a little slower than the year before, yet I do not feel old or hopeless in spirit because I have been compensated in my age with grace and life in areas of the spirit that were laying dorment in my younger years.
Revelation also speaks about John measuring the tabernacle, but not the outer court . . .measuring the outer court of another, to me is judging someone by their outward appearance . . .Did not the Pharisee's and rulers do that to Jesus becauseof what they could NOT "see" with their natural eyes?What kind of "proof" was they looking for?In a nutshell, I see us as spirit seed before manifesting in these bodies of flesh. Being in the spirit realm, we were "alive IN him". But when the time came for us to manifest on this earth, we had to die . . .which simply means to be separated . . .we are separated from our original domain as we are conceived in these bodies of flesh . . .and these bodies of flesh are bound to laws of the flesh, even though my spirit, which is really who I am . . .is not bound, neither is it affected by the pursuasions of the flesh realm. Now, my mind is a whole other matter . . .that's why submission and order are so difficult for us to acheive . . .truth is, it's not what you can achieve that ushers you into the realm of the Sabbath, but it's when you submit . . .you submit your mind to your spirit.So the power comes at the "born again" experience because it is this experience that brings spirit and soul back into proper alignment with God's original order. It is there that resurrection takes place. The resurrection is not about natural flesh that has died returning to life as much as it is the resurrection of our spirit returning to it's place of dominance over our souls. The language in Revelation says there is a beast who was, then wasn't and now is . . .this is our carnality within . . .when we were born into the flesh, it was, when Christ finished the redemptive work on the cross, it wasn't . .but when we live according to our flesh, we resurrect it so that it is again.Living in this body of flesh is the time of the GentilesI have wondred about that?!!!! . . .my flesh is exposed to and bound by natural laws . . .the older I get, the more my bones creak and moan, the grayer my hair becomes, the weaker I get . . .but that's all natural stuff. Flesh profiteth nothing . . . Now the Lord is that spirit and where the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty . . .The time will come when the day of the Gentiles will be over . . when this body gives it's last breath . . .and when this body of flesh is laid to rest, my spirit will then return to the origin in the Father from which it came. So why did I manifest in the flesh in the first place? To come into the maturity of reproduction. To give birth the spiritual things to a natural earth . . .to see things as though they are and speak it out so that it can then be. That's what acknowledging Christ does . . . it ties my spirit to his spirit and he then does the inner transforming in me that allows his will that is already complete in the spirit, to manifest also on the earth . . .it's part of his plan to manifest his nature in every dimension. It's already complete in the spirit, and now, it's coming to completion in the flesh.
I FOUND THIS! ..."This is not the church realm we have known, my friend, this is the incorruptible, immortal, unchangeable, omnipotent, eternal realm of God! And it is not a realm we enter after death, in some far-off heaven somewhere, but it is the realm prepared for God's mature sons right here upon earth, the realm of God's fullness, of perfection, of maturity, of wisdom, of power and dominion, where God is all that He is in His people the realm of manifest Is this the "discerning" of the TRUE body?Not the in part church realm. But the unseen heavenly realmincorruptible, immortal, unchangeable, omnipotent, Sonsof God in His Likeness, Jesus the Firstborn, afterwardthose that are His at His coming........eternal...........is it not? Maybe when it says "call forthe elders" ........these shall be the "elders" that come.The 24???I said that because of what is written about "not" discerningthe "body" being the cause of "sickness" "weakness" and"some even die." And when you couple this with what Nathan said about measuring the outer court of another, /[color]to me is judging someone by their outward appearance . . .I caught that because of those scriptures, Nathan.And because when Jesus was being "crucified" therewere people that wanted to "see" a proof that their"natural eyes" could see that He was who He said Hewas. But it was "perceived" "seen by the Spirit"by those who PERCEIVED.PERCEPTION does not require proof that a person can"see" with the natural eyes. It is a truth, an eternal truth, that is "given" to know. John said, "And yeknow all things." It is one Stone talking to Another Stonethe beautiful jewels God has made.
Amen to all this Nathan except one thing; THERE ARE A PEOPLE WHO WILL NOT TASTE DEATH BY WAY OF THE GRAVE. Mortality is going to be swallowed up of immortality, providing the Master with a place to lay His head, ie. the "superior" resurrection Paul talked about that takes place while still in the body.The resurrection you just spoke of is represented as "rending the veil", ie. the first set of curtains between the outer and the inner, laying down our flesh. But there is another veil between the inner and Holy of Holies, that the Father is getting ready to rend, as only HE can, for no man can come to the FATHER, except HE call them. We've been called to Jesus and called to the Christ in the past 2 realms, but now is the call of the Father going out. Blessings....

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» Reply with quoteTalking with my mom on the phone tonight, who will be 80 tomorrow. She has been having incredible arthritic pain in her ankle, to the point of tears and being in a wheelchair. She told me she was watching a minister on TV (can't remember who), who began praying for people. She said she raised her hand in tears, and felt something akin to an electric shock hit her leg. She is vastly improved, up and walking, shoes on her feet, and giving God the glory! Amen!Ask and you will receive. It's the Father's pleasure to give good gifts to His children. Take heart and rejoice!


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Update from APHIS Regarding a Detection of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) in the United States
Through its continuing epidemiological investigation, APHIS--in collaboration with the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA)--has identified that one progeny born to the positive cow in the last 2 years was stillborn, and another has been located on a site in another state. That animal has been appraised, humanely euthanized, and sampled for BSE at the National Veterinary Services Laboratories in Ames, Iowa. Test results for that animal are negative for BSE. No birth cohort cattle have been located through the investigation.
A hold order has been placed on all cattle at a second dairy (dairy 2) that is associated with the dairy of the initial positive cow (also called the index dairy). Both dairies remain under quarantine. Inventories of both the index dairy and dairy 2 have been completed by CDFA. Records are still being matched and validated to determine if any at-risk cattle may be present.
In addition, a calf ranch where the initial positive cow was raised 10 years ago is being investigated.
The Food and Drug Administration and CDFA continue the investigation of feed records at the index dairy, rendering facility and calf ranch. To date, 10 feed firms have been identified as suppliers for the index dairy during the time period of interest. At the rendering facility, feed investigators confirmed that all domestic distribution of meat and bone meal meets federal labeling requirements.
USDA will continue to work closely with CDFA and FDA to provide additional information as it is available.
The United States has a longstanding system of three interlocking safeguards against BSE that protects public and animal health in the United States, the most important of which is the removal of specified risk materials - or the parts of an animal that would contain BSE should an animal have the disease - from all animals presented for slaughter in the United States. The second safeguard is a strong feed ban that protects cattle from the disease. The third safeguard - which led to this detection - is our ongoing BSE surveillance program that allows USDA to detect the disease if it exists at very low levels in the U.S. cattle population.
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Best book by King.
1. Liseys Story
2. Duma Key
3. Blaze
4. Mist
5. Dolores Claiborne
Worst book by king.
1. Tommyknockers
2. Dreamcatcher
3. Gunslinger
4. Running man
5. Roadwork
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Best book by King.
1. Liseys Story
2. Duma Key
3. Blaze
4. Mist
5. Dolores Claiborne
Worst book by king.
1. Tommyknockers
2. Dreamcatcher
3. Gunslinger
4. Running man
5. Roadwork
Okay this was my list. Now is your turn.
Hmmmm...to each their own, of course, but that is one strange list there, Girl, IMO, no offence.
To me, every book written Steve is the best book out there ( like you just proved to me with your first list ), the only thing is if I personally like some more than others.
Ooooo. Good question.
1. Gunslinger
2. Insomnia
3. Rose Madder
4. The Regulators
5. The Long Walk
(These - other than the first 3 - change daily depending on my mood.)
1. From a Buick 8
2. Roadwork
3. Dreamcatcher
4. Blaze
5. Black House
(This doesn't mean I don't love them, it just means they're my least favorite.)
1. Dark Tower
2. Lisey's Story
3. The Stand
5. Tie Duma Key/ Bag of Bones
1. Tom Gordon
2. From a Buick 8
That's all.
Long days and pleasant nights
1. Misery & Duma Key
2. The Long Walk
3. The Stand & It
4. The Dark Tower (All 7)
5. Pet Semetary & Lisey's Story & ...
1. From a Buick 8
2. Roadwork
3. Storm of the century (I liked the movie, but the scriptplay just didn't do it for me)
That's it.
Hmm, let's see
Best: (not in order)
1. It
2. Wizard and Glass, revised edition
3. Needful Things
4. Misery
5. Roadwork
Worst: (not in order)
1. Geralds Game
2. The Long Walk
3. Dolores Claiborne
4. Thinner
5. The Regulators
Most favorite:
1. Dark tower, all of it. (and I can do that, because its a series, baby!)
2. Rose Madder
3. The Talisman/Black House (oh yes, a possible trilogy, so I can do that, too!)
4. Lisey's Story
5. Bag of Bones/ IT tie
Less than favorite (but still not bad)
1. Tommyknockers (okay, that one was really bad to me, but I'm terrified of aliens...so...)
2. From a Buick 8
3. Cell (yeah, I liked it, but not as much as the others)
and that's it. 5 least favorite is asking too much of me, my head would explode.
1. DT series
2. Bag of Bones
3. Lisey's Story
4. The Stand
Worst (comparatively):
1. Roadwork
Can't think of any others, but I couldn't finish this one
1. Stand
2. Talisman
3. Lisey
4. Duma Key
5. It
1. Gunslinger
2. From A Buick 8
3. Pet Sematary
4. TommyKnockers
5. Carrie


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Poll: Are you going to pay Verizon's new $2 convenience tax?
If you listened to Girls Gone Gadgets last night, you heard Ashley, Kim, and me debate Verizon's new $2 convenience tax -- where and when it's actually applied and how much money they stand to make from it over the course of a year. (Plus, perhaps, some mature language and impassioned ranting.) But at the end of the day it doesn't matter what anybody thinks but Verizon customers. If you're one of them, is $24 a year insignificant to you? Is it annoying but something you'll just pay attention to avoid? Or is it the last straw that drives you to another carrier? (Who might just be smart enough to phrase or hide their fees better -- cough, Sprint, cough.)
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Poll: Are you going to pay Verizon's new $2 convenience tax?
PRINCIPLES won't keep my lights on!!
I am already paying a $3.50 fee JUST for paying my light bill.
I DON'T have ANY CHOICE.....if I don't pay it my lights go off!!!
At least with Verizon, the fee is waived if I pay e-check, which I already do. ALL of you better get used to the fact that companies are going to start passing these costs on to us. Because remember, that the REAL BAD GUYS here are the BANKS that are passing on the fees caused by the financial mess that they caused IN THE FIRST PLACE!!!
Um... Ok?
They are charging you a fee for using a specific payment time, they're charging you a fee for using a specific payment channel. I could understand charging for phone payments if they are through a service rep but charging a fee for making online payments that never need to looked at by anyone to be processed?
Just another way for a wireless carrier to screw more money out of their customers. I fully expect AT&T and the rest to follow suit.
I love TiPb but I have to ask what the point of these polls are. We do all realize that they have no scientific significance at all, right?
According to the poll, currently 30% of Verizon users are going to leave Verizon over these fees. That's poppycock & nonsense. It's cute to have a poll but Verizon is not going to lose 30% of their iPhone customers and, if they don't, I ask what the point of the poll was in the first place. Entertainment value? I think we all get that people don't like fees that carriers charge us. Duly noted.
And it's not just Verizon's iPhone customers... it's also their Android customers. Seems TiPB & Android Central are both using the same poll, the result numbers are identical on both sites.
I only know this because I view both sites several times daily. Yes, I have an iPhone 4S and I have an AT&T HTC Vivid & a Verizon Motorola Xoom tablet.
I plan on paying my bill (usually around $80) in pennies in store. I figure there's no way they could possibly figure that's convenient.
People do realize that if you normally pay online/phone with a debit card, doing the payment by electronic check (ACH) is the same thing and it comes out of the same account. I always pay my vzw bills by check acct (not autopay) and i have never had any problems. its not the end of the world.
I like the pennies idea. Better yet, pay it in a mix of pennies and nickles so that it has to be sorted and counted. ;)
Irritating? Yes. Enough to force me away from Verizon? nope. I have been with them for 10 years, and the phone service is the best. I travel out west to remote areas, and have had signal where my friends on other carriers did not. When I call customer service, I get assistance immediately, and they have stepped up their game in the stores as well. I can pay right over my phone, instantly, and it only takes me a minute to do it.I'll pay $2 for that convenience, the call quality, the service, and if I don't like it, I'll just set up auto pay.I'm grandfathered in with unlimited data, so I am not about to jump ship and lose that if I decide to come back.
everyone saying its just $2 get over it aren't seeing the big picture, yeah its only 2 but what if every bill you pay starts doing this? do you still say its only 40 a month for conveince, come on. I already give V 150$ a month for 4 phones so another 2 bucks for something they aren't even involved in for me to input numbers myself is a bit hard to swallow.
yeah i can afford 2 bucks, do i want to? no. that 24$ a year would be a lot better spent on a book, a graphic novel. almost 2 months of a online game.
i do find it funny that its $2, the exact number of everyones mysterious charge's in the past year. I guess 2 is the magic number to verizon
I used a credit card to gain the reward points. It would be worth the $24 per year for the nearly 2500 miles it adds. But since I pass a VZW store on my way home from work, I'll just stop in on my way home. I love the idea of paying with pennies though. I think I will absolutely drop about 17500 pennies into a jar and waltz into a VZW store to pay my January bill.
Verizon is noted for going after the money in goofy fees. Let's go back to the flip phone era, say 2009. It was easy to open the phone, and accidentally push the up arrow, and start the web. You hit end right away to stop it. For that barely 0.02 kilobites, Verizon charged you $1.99. 87 million customers did that little accident a month. Verizon made $300 million a month off that. Now we all have smart phones, and data plans. Well I guess Verizon needs another $1.99 fee. "convenience". Sounds more like a scam. Verizon always warns us of different scams to get our money. Guess they should add their name to that list.
I'll be paying via my bank's website as I always have, and the fee is waived. doesn't affect me at all.
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You forgot the option: "I'm going to support the U.S. Postal Service by re-enabling paper billing and mailing them a check monthly."
Even though verizon has changed their minds and have backed out of that fee, I would have LOVED to see you try using that line. Considering there was 3-4 other ways to pay in which you could avoid paying that fee and it would have been your choice to choose to pay in the one manner that incurs the fee, I'd love to see how far that argument got you. Why don't you actually try reading the contract you signed without even looking at because you were too excited to get your hands on your new shiny 4S? Then you'll see what you actually agreed to, before you get "all empowered". Do you REALLY think the Verizon legal army wouldn't have checked to make sure that the new fee wouldn't be an escape clause for millions of customers, but David the Ordinary Guy Tech Website Comment Poster would be smart enough to find the legal loophole all the Verizon lawyers missed? You're dreaming.


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Soccer All Conference Teams Announced
Hulbert, Russell and Sarcione Recognized
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PITTSBURGH, PA — The 2010 Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference All-Conference soccer teams were released and two men's players and one women's player was recognized for their contributions by the opposing AMCC coaches. Eric Russell (Hickory, NC/Iroquois) and Ed Sarcione (Eden, NY/Eden) were both named to the men's 2nd team and Alyssa Hulbert (Tonawanda, NY/Kenmore East) was chosen as a 1st team member.
Russell, the junior co-captain, was a vocal leader for the squad this fall as their late season push to make the play-offs fell short. His 16 points (5 goals, 6 assists) was second best on the squad but it was his dependability and leadership that impressed the league coaches. The midfielder had a break out game against Mount Aloysius College when he accumulated 5 points (2 goals / 1 assist) in the team's 4-0 victory.
The sophomore transfer, Sarcione, was a great addition to the front line on offense this fall. He led the team in scoring with 9 goals (19 points) and was a constant threat to the opposing team's defense. Sarcione finished the season ranked 5th in shots and tied for first in goals (6) scored in conference games. The Hawk's forward made the Franciscan University game a memorable one when he scored a header with less than one second left in regulation to send the game into overtime. It was Hilbert's only OT tie this season. Sarcione was named as AMCC Offensive Player of the Week On October 4th.
The men's soccer team finished 8th with a 3-5-1 AMCC record and were 3-14-1 overall.
Hulbert was the main target for opponents all season long since being identified as the Pre-Season Player of the Year in late August. She still was able to take control of a few games this season where she scored two or more goals on three separate occasions. The junior co-captain led the team with 25 points (12 goals / 1 assist) and shots / shots on goal (96 / 47). She was 2 for 2 on penalty kicks and scored several times off restart kicks soaring balls past the keeper. This is Hulbert's third season being placed on an AMCC All-Conference team. Previously she was a 2nd team member in 2009, and an 3rd team selection her freshman year (2008).
The women's soccer team finished 10th with a 1-8 AMCC record and were 4-13 overall.
Thirty-three players and one coach are recognized for their contributions to their team's success by the conference coaches at the completion of each season. The AMCC names a Newcomer of the Year, a Player of the Year and a Coach of the Year as well as 11 players (3 forwards, 4 midfielders, 3 defenders and 1 goalie) to the All-Conference 1st, 2nd, and 3rd teams.
Leonel Lacayo (Franciscan) was named as Newcomer of the Year; Alexander Rouse (Medaille) and Toby Abdul-Razaq (Pitt-Bradford) were Co-Players of the Year and Patrick Taylor (Penn State Altoona) was honored as the men's soccer Coach of the Year. To see a complete list of winners, click <here>
Merredith Waters (Penn State Altoona) and Sam Vasy (Penn State Behrend) were named as Co-Newcomers of the Year; Danielle Braun (D'Youville) and Lindsay Raspanti (Penn State Altoona) were Co-Players of the Year and Lewis Potter (D'Youville) was honored as the women's soccer Coach of the Year. To see a complete list of winners, click <here>
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A Columbia-based attorney has been appointed receiver of all the frozen assets of Compass Academy, Jonathan "Jay" Brooks, Tracy Brooks and related companies.
Sherri Lydon, a former federal and state prosecutor, who now specializes in white-collar criminal defense, was selected by Circuit Court Judge Clarence Newman. At the top of the new receiver's list is to see if the school can get up and running on target.
"Conducting an investigation into the feasibility of completing the construction of Compass Academy and beginning classes for the 2013-2014 school year is to be a high priority of the Receiver," Newman writes.
Jay Brooks, his wife Tracy, and Jay Brooks' companies, J. Brooks Financial and Brooks Real Estate Holdings, are under accusations of illegally selling unregistered securities to fund the establishment of a new school, Compass Academy.
They also are accused by the Securities Division of the Attorney General's Office of using those funds to buy groceries, their house, vacations and jewelry rather than investing them.
After having the assets frozen, Compass Academy asked that a receiver be put in place to marshal and tally all resources.
"We want the school to have the opportunity to open as planned," said Stan Jackson, attorney for Compass Academy.
Newman selected Lydon from two candidates presented by the Attorney General's office that all parties agreed were experts and experienced.
Lydon has prosecuted complex drug cases, as well as cases involving bank, mail, insurance and wire fraud. She also has handled tax matters and public corruption, according to her resume presented in court.
She was one of the lead prosecutors in Operation Lost Trust, an FBI investigation which shook the state more than 20 years ago and resulted in numerous convictions of lawmakers and lobbyists for public corruption.
In 2003, then S.C. Attorney General Henry McMaster asked Lydon to be the Chief of the State Grand Jury. In that position, she led the successful prosecution of South Carolina's largest securities fraud case involving Carolina Investors and Homegold.
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Within 30 days, Lydon must present "a full and detailed inventory, under oath, of all property, assets and effects of every kind."
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Frustrated Dems lament damage from website bugsBy JOSH LEDERMAN
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif. gestures as she speaks to reporters during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday.WASHINGTON Frustrated Democrats lamented Wednesday that persistent problems with new health care exchanges have inflicted damage on the publics perception of the already unpopular Obamacare with some lawmakers insisting President Barack Obama should ensure those responsible lose their jobs.
Emerging from a closed-door briefing with health officials from the Obama administration, House Democrats appeared to have at least as many questions as answers about how and when the beleaguered website will be fixed. Although they resolved not to let setbacks with one aspect of the health law outshine the parts that are working, they griped that the shoddy website had given Republicans an opening to do just that.
I think the president needs to man up, find out who was responsible and fire them, Rep. Richard Nolan, D-Minn., said after the briefing. He said Obama should tell Democrats when the problems will be fixed so they can prepare to move on. You dont get many second chances to get a good first impression.
Nolan wasnt the only one.
Somebody should be held accountable, said Rep. Xavier Becerra, D-Calif. Absolutely.
The briefing with House Democrats came as the Obama administration was appealing to its allies in Congress, on Wall Street and across the country to stick with the health care law despite embarrassing problems that continue to crop up. On Wednesday, lawmakers heard from Gary Cohen and Julie Bataille, two high-level officials with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, a federal agency with major responsibility for the website where millions of Americans are expected to purchase insurance.
Democrats say they requested the briefing. A spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said House Republicans were arranging to hold a similar briefing with health officials in the coming days.
Echoing Democratic leaders and even Obama himself, Democrats said it was unacceptable that the websites debut had been so flawed. But Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., said it was critical Democrats not lose sight of the bigger picture and laws other benefits.
Its regrettable. It cant be accepted. Gotta move on, DeLauro said.
Obama has turned to longtime adviser Jeffrey Zients, a veteran management consultant, to provide advice to help fix the system. And Obama has said hes instituted a tech surge, bringing in leading technology talent to repair the painfully slow and often unresponsive website. But the administration has repeatedly declined to say how long that will take, raising questions about whether the full extent of the problems has been fully determined.
They were reluctant to give a date I dont blame them on the fixes, said Rep. Janice Schakowsky, D-Ill. But they said the problems would be fixed in time for people to get enrolled by Jan. 1, the day that coverage through the exchanges begins.
The websites troubled debut was overshadowed by the partial government shutdown that started the same day the website went live. Last week, Obama and Democrats walked away from a no-holds-barred fight with Republicans over debt and spending with a remarkable degree of unity, made all the more prominent by the deep GOP divisions the standoff revealed.
The debt-and-spending crisis averted for now, the spotlight has shifted to Obamas health care law and the web-based exchanges, beset by malfunctions, where Americans are supposed to be able to shop for insurance. The intensified focus has increased the pressure on Democrats to distance themselves from Obamas handling of the websites rollout as both parties demand to know what went wrong and why.
As the administration races to fix the website, its deploying the president and top officials to urge his supporters not to give up.
By now you have probably heard that the website has not worked as smoothly as it was supposed to, Obama said Tuesday in a video message recorded for Organizing for America, a nonprofit group whose mission is to support Obamas agenda. But weve got people working overtime in a tech surge to boost capacity and address the problems. And we are going to get it fixed.
The group has been organizing a multitude of events and social media campaigns around the health care laws implementation. OFA said those efforts will continue, but the group is not adjusting its strategy in response to the websites issues.
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3. Fundraise. Cleaning up 30+ miles of coast isn't cheap. Register on our FirstGiving site to raise much-needed funds for Heal the Bay.
4. Be there! Better start setting those alarm clocks. We need you at 9 a.m. on Saturday, September 20!
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GOODY, Ky. – The Lawrence County Bulldogs will invade CAM Stadium Friday night to take on the Belfry Pirates (9-2) in Class Triple-A second round playoff action in Kentucky.
The Pirates defeated the Bulldogs 41-6 during the regular season.
Lawrence County (5-6) defeated Morgan County 22-14 in the first round last week in what many considered an upset. The Bulldogs went into that game with a 4-6 record.
Belfry had an easy time in its first game last Friday against Knott County Central. They led 41-0 after only one quarter.
So how does head coach Philip Haywood keep his squad from looking past weaker opponents?
"You just have to take them one game at a time," Haywood said. "I told the kids that last Friday night. We got by one and now we have to go on to number two. It's easy to look ahead – but you have to stay focused. You have to play the game that is in front of you first and not be concerned about what lies ahead."
"Even though we've beaten this team once, it was like 21-6 at halftime," Haywood recalled. "The game was closer than the final score indicated. They moved the ball some on us and we didn't play a perfect game by any means."
"We feel like they have some pretty good skill players," the Pirate mentor said. "We're going to have to play. They will come in a lot more excited this time. They had a couple of guys out last time we played them."
"They have a fullback that didn't play and now he's back. And one of their top halfbacks was also out," Haywood said of Lawrence County. He said both of those starters will be back this Friday night.
"They looked a lot better against Morgan County and we're going to have to play our best," Haywood added.
Haywood said that his team "practiced real well last week" and it showed, especially on offense. Belfry was clicking on all cylinders. Junior tailback Justin Johnson returned from an injury and scored the first three times he touched the football. Senior Josh Robinson, junior Trinity Carr and sophomore Keaton Taylor give Belfry a nice mix of backs. Junior quarterback Sani Warren has directed the offense and is completing enough passes to balance out the potent rushing attack the Pirates' are known for.
"We're improving, but we haven't put it all together yet," Haywood said. "We still have to do some of the little things right. Hopefully the light will click on and we'll start doing some of those things, especially on the offensive side of the ball."
Defensively Haywood said his squad played well at times, but still has to take away some of the big plays, keep the ball in front of them and tackle well.
Belfry started putting in their reserves in the second quarter and played the JV squad the entire second half.
Lawrence County is led by their dual-threat quarterback A. J. Cyrus who has rushed for 1,001 yards and thrown for over 500 yards. Ricky Goble has rushed for 905 yards while Blake Prince has run for 707 yards this season. Bryce Skaggs has picked up 273 yards on the ground for the Dogs.
Prince has caught six TD passes for 274 yards.
Kickoff is at 7:30 p.m. on Haywood Field.


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Gearheart is the recipient of the "Clubwoman of the Year" award, given by the Prestonsburg Woman's Club. Accordingly, she received a certificate signed by club president Sabra Jacobs and Mayor Jerry Fannin. She also received a lapel pin to signify her tireless dedication to the community.
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I love a good joke. I also love me an Internet meme.
I've also been a waiter (Old Spaghetti Factory in case you're wondering), was stiffed plenty, and heck, I even like to mock me some hypocrisy and villainize the occasional corporation now and then.
So when I saw the news sprouting up everywhere on the Internet about an Applebee's server getting stiffed by a pastor, let alone a pastor who pulled the God card, and the server was later fired for mocking said pastor, I just knew this was a tailor-made cocktail of instant win for me.
But then I started to look more closely at what the server did. I also watched as all sorts of other publications ran to the server's defense.
She only makes minimum wage! they said. The pastor was pulling the God card! Applebee's never enforces this policy and now they are!
All true. Every statement. And in most cases I'd be ok with what the server did, as she surfaced an obvious case of hypocrisy.
But here's why I think Applebee's is still in the right after all this: The server, Chelsea Welch, did violate the pastor's privacy by putting a copy of her signature on the Internet.
Think about that. A signature is a very personal thing. It's what you put on checks, it's what you put on permission slips to excuse your children or grandchildren from school. It's what you put on your social security and passport.
It's a part of your identity.
And Chelsea Welch put someone else's on the Internet without their permission.
Would you want a part of your identity put on the Internet every time you did something dumb? I don't think so.
Listen, I get it. The pastor was wrong and she did a really dumb thing in pulling the God card while stiffing a server. She may actually, in fact, be a bad person.
But that doesn't mean this relatively trivial act of dumbness means should result in having her right to privacy violated.
And as for Applebee's and their policy, they may be inconsistent. They don't enforce this policy often. To all of which I say, so?
It doesn't matter if they are spotty in enforcing it if it's the right policy. If they enforce it 1 time in 100, then we should be talking about how they should enforce 100 times out of 100, not rush do the defense of the person who violated a valid policy.
And some will maybe say the policy doesn't cover receipts. It talks about pictures of customers, not receipts!
Splitting hairs. When I read a policy that says you can't post pictures of customers, that would include something like their signature. It's personal, it's part of their identity.
If this doesn't convince you, imagine we were discussing a government employee, and imagine if this government employee posted a signed document from a civilian using Twitter and pointed out this person was a bad person for something they did. Imagine if that something was a relatively minor infraction due to a error in judgement.
Which side would people come down on? The civilian or the government employee and the agency they worked for?
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Barcelona is one of the worst teams in la liga. They only got one point from two games. Does Guardiola knows what is he doing? Is there a change that Barca will achieve anything this season?
I believe Barcelona did the wrong thing when they gave the job to Pep Guardiola. He will have massive pressure on him, following their bad start to the season, it will be very interesting to see what he can do.
I believe Barcelona can win both La Liga and Champions League this season, if they can get the team to work together and function well.
They will also need Theirry HEnry to start doing some good things on the pitch. He has been terible following his move from Arsenal. What do you think about Henry? Should they sell him?
Henry is not doing well in Barcelona - that's a fact. He had enough time to settle there so I don't know if he will get any better. I'm afraid he won't. He may score a few goals more, but he won't get to the same level as in Arsenal.
maybee he will end up at AC Milan soon as well? Like all the 'old' stars these days hehe
Milan is performing even worse I wonder why Ancellotti is still there
True, true. Ancellotti and AC Milan have underperformed a lot in recent years. But I do not believe it is just Ancellotti, they have not managed to bring in just good players. Players like Ronaldinho and Scheva, come from clubs where they have underperformed, and they could fail at AC Milan as well.
AC Milan haven't realy spent a lot of money on new players in recent years either.
Milan squad is to old and based on players that have already achieved a lot. The are not motivated properly. There is no coach that would make a team out of it. They need to rebuilt their squad really seriously.
I totaly agree with you on that mike. AC Milan must do drastic things, in order to get their team and their club back on track.
The question is where will get the money from? As for now they can earn only on Kaka and Pato. Other players are too old to get a good money. I don't believe that anyone will pay big money for Ronaldinho, Shevchenko or Gattuso especially that they will require a big contracts.
And one other big factor is Silvio Berlusconi. He does not seem to be interested in spending more money on his team. They need Champions League this season to get some money!