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People in North Collins and nearby communities knew him as Harold McGrath, the friendly and soft-spoken Korean War veteran who ran a busy collision shop.
But to auto racing fans, he was "Stroker McGurk" the hard-driving competitor who battled it out for decades on race tracks all over Western New York and Southern Ontario.
Mr. McGrath, widely considered one of the best race car drivers in local history, died Monday in his North Collins home after a short illness. He was 80.
During a racing career that spanned 23 years, he won hundreds of races and numerous championships, mostly on the race tracks at Holland, Perry and North Collins.
In 2001, the FOAR Score Club, made up of local auto racing enthusiasts, named Mr. McGrath – whom they knew as McGurk – one of the top 25 drivers to compete in Western New York over the past century. FOAR Score also named him to its Hall of Fame.
"He loved racing, but what he really loved the most was the friendships he made on the track," said his wife of 40 years, the former Magdaline "Frenchie" Garcia. "McGurk loved the parties. ... He called those people his racing family."
Born in Buffalo, Mr. McGrath was raised in North Collins, where he attended school and graduated from North Collins High School. Soon after graduation, he entered the Army and shipped overseas to fight in the Korean War.
After his military service, he briefly worked in a Buffalo factory before starting his own collision shop in North Collins. He ran the shop, which he called "McGurk's Collision," until retiring in 1999.
From the early 1950s until 1975, Mr. McGrath drove race cars in Western New York and Southern Ontario, sometimes competing in Pennsylvania and Ohio. He was especially well-known for the wheel-to-wheel battles he had at the Holland and Perry tracks with Art Clark and Dick Flaig, who were fierce competitors but also two of Mr. McGrath's closest friends.
Early in his racing career, Mr. McGrath adopted "Stroker McGurk" as his racing nickname, and most race fans had no idea that his real name was Harold McGrath. The colorful "McGurk" name was taken from the main character of a popular comic strip that appeared in Hot Rod magazine in the 1940s and 1950s.
Mr. McGrath often drove a distinctive yellow car with the number 18, which he nicknamed the "Bad Banana." Although a fierce competitor on the track, Mr. McGrath also had a reputation as a very approachable, easygoing jokester who enjoyed chatting with fans after the night's competition was over.
His wife said Mr. McGrath often credited Johnny Gullo, who built and sponsored race cars and ran a track in North Collins, as his racing mentor.
Mr. McGrath also enjoyed fishing, camping and spending time with his three grandchildren.
In addition to his wife, he is survived by a daughter, Shannon McGrath Locking.
A memorial gathering will take place at 11 a.m. May 18 in the North Collins Training Center on Spruce Street in North Collins.
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Dave Wannstedt was scheduled for an interview with the News on Friday. But at the last minute, the Bills defensive coordinator backed out. Through a PR man, Wannstedt said he would prefer to talk Monday. This presumes, of course, that he still has a job by then.
So this sorry season has come full circle. We're back where we were in the opener, with Wannstedt unable to provide any answers.
Evidently, it's OK for the players to stand and take the heat for the defense's failures. But the guy in charge of this defense feels no need to defend himself. The same goes for general manager Buddy Nix, who bailed on his radio show Friday.
And what would they say, anyway? How could Nix or Wannstedt – or head coach Chan Gailey – put a positive spin on the Buffalo defense, which has strung together the worst three-year run in the history of the franchise?
The Bills have allowed 426 points, which puts them 31st in the NFL. A year ago, they gave up 434 points, ranking 30th. In 2010, it was 425 points surrendered, good for 28th. I'm no Lombardi, but this is not my definition of progress.
In fact, Gailey's three years as head coach would rank as three of the four worst in franchise history in terms of points allowed. The team record for defensive futility is 454 points, established by the 1984 squad that finished 2-14 under Kay Stephenson.
Maybe that's why Wannstedt couldn't find time to talk. No doubt, he was busy concocting schemes for keeping Mark Sanchez and the Jets under 30 points today, sparing the Bills the indignity of breaking the team record for points allowed in a season.
It's sad to think it has come to this. A season that began with such promise, with fans' hopes soaring after the signings of Mario Williams and Mark Anderson, will conclude with a whimper, with the Bills hoping to avoid an historic defensive embarrassment in a half-empty stadium.
Back in the summer, you figured the finale might mean something for the first time in eight years. The Bills had a $100 million pass rusher in Mario Williams. Anderson gave them depth on the line.
Kyle Williams was healthy.
This new, improved defense would terrorize opposing quarterbacks, make the secondary better, create turnovers and give the offense prime field position. Ryan Fitzpatrick wouldn't have to win games with his arm. It would be enough for Fitz to be average, to manage the games.
The schedule looked soft. It was loaded with first- and second-year quarterbacks, with a crossover against the perennially weak NFC West. Miami was a joke. Sure, the Patriots were the class of the division. But in all likelihood, one of the wild cards would come out of the AFC East.
So three months ago, you assumed today's game might be for a playoff spot. Considering that it was a down year in the AFC, maybe both the Bills and Jets would qualify for the playoffs!
Instead, both teams are out of it, their programs in turmoil.
Gailey will likely lose his job. Wannstedt, who inherited the coordinator job when George Edwards took the fall a year ago, is almost surely gone.
Fitzpatrick has probably played his last game as a Bill.
Despite reaching the AFC title game in his first two seasons (2009-10), Jets coach Rex Ryan is under fire, compromised by the Tim Tebow fiasco. GM Mike Tannenbaum is expected to be pushed out, perhaps moved back to a job managing the salary cap. The standard is high in other NFL cities, after all. It's hard to imagine Nix surviving anywhere else.
Sanchez is expected to start his final game as the Jets' quarterback. Sanchez, the one-time franchise hope, had lost his starting job after a nightmare of a season, but will be momentarily restored to the No. 1 job because of an injury to Greg McElroy.
It's fitting that Sanchez would be the man today. He was the guy who started Wannstedt's defense on a quick downward spiral, playing one of the finest games of his four-year career in the Jets' 48-28 home victory over the Bills in the opener.
That game seems even more stunning in retrospect. It's not so much that the vaunted Bills' defense fell in its first game with Mario Williams (who whined about the replacement officials afterwards), but that Sanchez could look so good in a season that would quickly go to pieces.
The Jets scored 48 points in the opener. In their next 14 games, they averaged 16.0. Precisely one-third as many. They've scored 20 points only four other times. The offense turned into the joke of the league, Sanchez a dart board for derision in New York.
But for one day, the Buffalo defense made Sanchez look like Joe Namath. Given an entire offseason and a $100 million player, Wannstedt played soft. He had his corners playing off and allowed Sanchez to pick him apart. The guy froze, assuming his four-man pass rush would save the day.
The defense had its moments later in the season, mostly against inferior offenses. But it never got much better after that Jets game. Wannstedt, who built his reputation with a studded roster in Dallas two decades ago, had few answers. He coached like a man who felt it was 1992, not 2012.
Wannstedt was too reliant on his front four. The linebackers were bad, yes, but the situation begged for an inventive mind. Wannstedt wasn't up to it. He had few creative ways to rush the passer. His defensive players spent the year talking about "run fits," making it sound as if their coach couldn't get everyone on the same page.
Gailey, who had enough problems with his offense and game management, washed his hands of the defense. But it's his failure, too. He botched the defense from the start. It's also on Nix. He hired Gailey. He signed off on George Edwards, and then on Wannstedt.
Before he leaves, Wannstedt could provide one last service for the organization. Bring back the same defensive game plan he used in the opener.
Play soft and let Sanchez go out in a blaze of glory. With luck, the Jets will use Tebow, too. Then the Bills could remind us how well they defend the read option. Giving up 30 points should be a snap.
There's a lot at stake here. Losing today could be the difference between picking fourth and 10th in the draft. Come on, guys. After three years of messing up the defense, you have one last chance to get it right.
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But three couples were in jeopardy: injured Bill Nye and Tyne Stecklein, Christina Milian and Mark Ballas, and Brant Daugherty and Peta Murgatroyd.
But it was Nye and Stecklein who went home, following a fun, but low-scoring 16-point futuristic jazz number to Daft Punk's "Get Lucky."
"What breaks my heart is Tyne [has to go home]," Nye said after learning his fate. "She's fantastic."
Stecklein said what she'll miss most is his "sense of humor for sure. Maybe the science facts a little bit, but ..."
Although the elimination was a bummer for the dismissed pair, other couples had nights worth celebrating.
Corbin Bleu and Karina Smirnoff danced a quickstep that judge Bruno Tonioli said was "one for the record books" and Carrie Ann Inaba praised for "sharp and bright" footwork. They scored 26 points out of 30.
Elizabeth Berkley and Val Chmerkovskiy danced a 25-point foxtrot that Inaba said had a "boo boo in the middle," but still managed to get overall praise from the judges.
Daugherty and Murgatroyd danced a 27-point quickstep that had Inaba calling the Pretty Little Liars actor a "fantastic dancer."
Previous low scorer Bill Engvall stepped it up this week, getting 24 points for a paso doble with Emma Slater that Inaba said he "nailed," and "must have rehearsed the poop out of."
Milian and Ballas danced a 26-point Charleston that Inaba called "incredible."
Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi and Sasha Farber also showed lots of improvement, dancing a 25-point quickstep that led Inaba to say the reality starlet deserved "a star on the walk of fame."
Valerie Harper and Tristan MacManus, however, tied with Nye for the lowest score of the night.


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Platform: iPad/iPhoneCost: $2.99+ Clean design, citations given– No easy visualization of molecule specificity
Kinases play an important role in cell signaling, metabolism, and…well…basically everything. Whether for the purpose of manipulating kinase activity in the lab or for therapeutic purposes, it is useful to identify molecules that can bind to, and modulate the activity of, specific kinases. The iKinase Universal app gives users access to the Eidogen-Sertanty Kinase Knowledgebase, a database of small molecules that target kinases. The information in the app is organized alphabetically by the name of the kinase target. Upon selection of a kinase, users can browse the various molecules that target that specific enzyme. Brief information is given about the experiment in which that molecule was tested, and the title and complete reference to any corresponding publication is given. Clicking on the reference takes users directly to PubMed.
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Now this app isn't just a skeleton app—it's an essential skeleton app (and version two, at that). The skeleton is beautifully rendered and looks good at both low and high magnification. To begin, the help menu includes four video tutorials to get you started. Users can easily select individual bones (or, in multiple selection mode, many bones) to display their names, as well as visibility options and an audio pronunciation guide. The pencil tool allows app users to take notes directly onto the screen, after which point they can capture a screenshot of their scribbles and either save or email the image. Finally—just like any good anatomy study tool—the app includes a quiz feature. Users can define the areas of the skeleton on which to be tested, and they can also toggle Latin subtitles on or off.
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The Immunological Genome (ImmGen) Project provides gene expression data for various immune cell types in the mouse. These data are now available in iPad/iPhone format with the free ImmGen app. On the homescreen, users search for a gene of interest to display the expression data for that gene in seven immune cell types—B cells, γδ T cells, αβ T cells, activated T cells, NK cells, myeloid cells, and stromal cells—as well as immune precursor cells. The expression data are displayed in heat-map form for each cell type, with each box corresponding to a specific experiment. Users can select a specific cell type to bring up those data fullscreen, as a bar chart. While brief summaries of each experiment (i.e. cell sample and number of replicates) can be displayed, it is unfortunate that citations are not also provided so that users can get more detailed information about the experiments.
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Scott, if victorious in his bid for mayor, would have to resign his council seat. Council would then have to appoint a Third Ward resident to fill the remainder of his council term, that is set to expire in 2015.
Incumbent Councilman Charles Kinnision, First Ward, has filed to retain his seat and no challengers have yet filed against him. Kinnison was appointed to council in November 2011 to replace former Councilman Rob Beckwith, who resigned his seat.
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Incumbent council members Carman Metheny, Third Ward, Jim Bibey, Fifth Ward, and Joe Sabatino, Fifth Ward, have all filed to retain their seats.
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The 5 Weirdest Things You Learn When Driving Across America
Hey, remember how my first column mentioned that I lived in South Dakota, and then my next column said I was living in a shitty motel, and then nobody asked anything about how I was doing after that and I cried for three weeks straight?
Well, you'll all be glad/disinterested to know that I'm no longer living in that squalid motel room. In fact, less than a week after that article was published, I relocated to New York. But don't get too used to it, I don't live there anymore, either. Because I want nothing more than to live as if I'm part of a traveling caravan of Gypsies, I moved to San Francisco a few weeks ago. I drove there. From New York.
It was fun, though! Mostly! I actually enjoy driving. I enjoy it almost as much as Marion Gladstone and Ian Fortey enjoy using my name to get attention.
Anyway, what follows are a few of the more interesting tidbits I picked up while driving through this great land, wondering what Gladstone was thinking about the entire way and hoping Ian Fortey agrees with everything I write. I share them not only to give you, the reader, a glimpse at what kind of boring shit I get into when I'm not working, but also because writing about the trip means I can count the gas and hotel rooms that I shelled out for along the way as tax write-offs.
Here are five things I learned about America while driving cross-country ...
#5. Some Dreams Aren't Worth Pursuing
I decided ahead of time that my starting point for the cross-country jaunt would be a place I've always wanted to visit since I was a wee lad -- the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York. Sure, driving there was completely out of the way and actually delayed the start of the move by a day, but I'd always dreamed of visiting Cooperstown, so I figured I'd give it a shot.
I knew I was in trouble the minute I pulled up to the place. I was expecting a marvel of modern design. A building suitably impressive enough to pay to tribute to the years of rich history contained within. What I got instead was this ...
I guess I should have seen it coming. Of all the big hall-of-fame-type buildings, I know what pretty much all of them look like just by memory. But I guess all I've ever seen of the Baseball Hall of Fame is a podium. Coincidentally, I've never seen anything relating to the Hockey Hall of Fame. Just a point I'll throw out there for no particular reason.
But I figured that once I got inside, things would turn around. After all, I love baseball. There's no way this could be boring.
Why, just look at this breathtaking display!
But see, it was boring. It was painfully boring. Basically, it was a collection of various uniforms hanging behind glass. Although I did enjoy the jarring effect that turning a corner and seeing this has on one's mood:
Hey, Hall of Fame, who asked you to bring sadness to this party? For the record, I think that was somewhere near the Ty Cobb exhibit. And speaking of exhibits, this one was pretty inspiring:
I assume the Barry Bonds exhibit is still under construction?
Anyway, with one childhood dream now proven to be pointless, it was time to move on to a place where crushed dreams are the staple crop of the entire city.
#4. Cleveland Isn't So Bad
After the massive disappointment that was Cooperstown (which is about as easy to get to as a militia compound, by the way), the next stop was Cleveland. Few cities are as maligned in popular culture as Cleveland. Surely you remember this "tourism" video that made the rounds on the Internet a few years back, right?
It's hard to see something like that and have any kind of heightened expectations. So imagine my surprise when I arrived to find that Cleveland, in fact, is not completely horrible. Granted, I confined myself to that small area of the city where Progressive Field (home of the Indians), Quicken Loans Arena (home of the Cavaliers and a thick layer of bitterness residue that remains from LeBron James' acrimonious departure) and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame can all be walked to with minimal fear of being knifed in the kidney.
If I'm being totally honest, I've spent a lot of days within a four-block radius of places, and out of all those days, the two I spent in Cleveland were two of them. It wasn't the most raucous good time I've ever had, but I wasn't attacked by the unemployment monster in my sleep or anything. And whenever I needed to venture outside of my hotel room to find something, it was never a problem. Sure, that's mostly because I only needed to leave once to buy beer, but hey, I totally found some!
By the way, if you do find yourself in downtown Cleveland and in need of hotel room beer sometime after every store in the area closes (5 p.m.) and camera crews show up to shoot B-roll for whenever they need stock footage of something desolate, head to the BP gas station across the street from Progressive Field.
When you see the most depressing slogan in baseball, you're almost there.
I'm not sure if the hotel that's adjacent to this gas station uses the fact that they are trip-over-and-fall distance from the only thing that passes for a liquor store after dark in downtown Cleveland as a selling point, but they most certainly should.
#3. Driving With NY Plates Is a Great Way to Get Pulled Over
Just as a general rule, how fast do you drive as it relates to the speed limit? Everyone has their basic guideline. There's a gray area somewhere in the 4 to 8 mph over the limit range where most of us drive, secure that while what we're doing may be illegal, it's so rampant that we need not fear being penalized for it. Like jaywalking or driving through toll booths without paying when the car you're driving isn't yours. For me, it's 5 mph over the speed limit.
Unless the sign looks like this, in which case I ignore it entirely.
Some brave souls push it to 10. No matter where on that scale you fall, one thing we can all agree on is that people who always drive at the exact speed limit are either total lunatics or in the process of breaking the law and don't want to draw attention to themselves.
I've lived most of my highway life in the Midwest by the 5 mph rule and have never been questioned for it once. So imagine my surprise when I was pulled over for driving exactly 5 mph over the speed limit on the same highway I've been driving that speed on for so many years. It happened twice. In the same day. Once in South Dakota and once in Wyoming.
Don't get me wrong, I don't hold a grudge. In fact, I totally understand what happened. Sure, I've driven those highways at slightly over the speed limit before, but I've always done it as a resident with South Dakota license plates. This time, I wasn't comfortably speeding close to home, I was speeding on a major drug route with New York plates. I was basically a victim of bored cops playing major-drug-bust lottery. What's the harm in taking five minutes to see if maybe I'm transporting 750 pounds of weed in the side panels of my vehicle if you have nothing better to do? There's probably an instant promotion in store for a cop who makes the right guess in that instance.
Your tax dollars hard at work.
I'd totally do that shit, too.
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Well here it is another school year approaching and the fall sports seasons have begun. Along with that comes the fund raisers!!! Everywhere I turn someone is selling something for the different sports. I don't mind supporting these teams however; I don't understand why there needs to be so many different fund raisers going on all at THE SAME TIME!! It is my understanding that if a child wants to participate in a sport they have to pay $15.00 (up from last year). IF this is the case, why the fund raisers?? Also, What do our INCREASING taxes go for? I just don't get it!! Last week I bought some "cookie dough" from a young lady that was "trying out" for volleyball. She was told they had to sell so many tubs and that her order AND money HAD to be in by Monday August 15th (the first day of practice). What if these girls don't make the team?? How can they make these girls sell a product for a team they don't even know if they are going to be a part of?!! :confused: Oh, I know what the "coach" will say, "they don't have to sell it." Yeah, right....they don't sell and it's simple..."an easy cut from the team." Perhaps next year the Volleyball coaches may want to consider starting their fund raiser once their teams have been established!! Last Spring the girls softball team sold Pizza Hut cards....if they didn't sell a certain amount they had to do laps!!!! Now, tell me this....is this a WIAA rule or is this a rule in the Tomahawk High School policy book????
I also don't recall this ever being mentioned in any of the "Required" sports meetings us parents HAVE to attend before the start of each sport!! Just what are these "teachers" teaching our children??


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"The relevant years in the diary were 1860-65. The handwriting was very hard to read, but what was the particularly intriguing thing to me was the fact that my uncle had some doubts about the wisdom of the war and seemed not to have a great deal of vitriol toward the North. As such, he became an interesting central character, the anchor, so to speak, of my play."
That play is Barter Theatre's production of the musical "Civil War Voices," which comes to town for seven performances beginning Friday at Memminger Auditorium.
Part of the Sesquicentennial observance here, the musical runs through April 12.
"As I read the diary my uncle left behind, I could feel the warm breath of his life and times on every page," says Harris, an attorney. "It fundamentally changed the way I felt about the conflict. I began to hear music, the passionate and heartfelt music of the Civil War."
Harris weaves the true stories of five individuals of the era, their experiences given emotional resonance by the musical arrangements of Mark Hayes, who enlivens classic period compositions.
The playwright's dramatization, paired with Hayes' arrangements, was one of the highlights of the Midtown International Theatre Festival, held last year in New York.
Enter the Barter Theatre, also known as the State Theatre of Virginia. Ten actors play multiple characters in the musical, accompanied by a violinist and a pianist. The cast includes Eugene Wolf, Wendy Piper, Tricia Matthews, Rick McVey, Dan Folino, Nathan Whitmer, Chavez Ravine and Arthur Marks.
"Harris shines a light on these people of the Civil War as told through their diaries and letters," says Richard Rose, producing artistic director of the Abingdon, Va.-based Barter.
People living in the North and the South harbored the same fears, uncertainties, sacrifices and triumphs, says Harris.
"I have tried to capture the real people, the real songs and, ultimately, the real heart of a country divided. ... And rather than take the story from a Northern or Southern point of view, I chose to tell it from a human perspective. This show never loses sight of the fact that these were real people.
"A key breakthrough for us was when Mark agreed to be my collaborator." Such songs as "Amazing Grace," "Dixie," "The Yellow Rose of Texas" and "Battle Hymn of the Republic" are familiar, but the arrangements by Hayes are new.
Harris believes the other characters in the musical are no less compelling than his forebear's, not least that of Elizabeth Keckley.
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HUGHESVILLE — On Thursday, the last of four town hall meetings hosted by state Rep. Garth Everett, R-Muncy, at the beginning of the new legislative session brought out the most constituent....
really, bringing cyber schools into this ....my granddaughter cyber schools because the schools here can't help the special needs kids they way they need helped and they have to meet state standard testing. wth!!
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Dear mahs81: If the reporter was still there, and failed to report on Everett's boorish behavior to a fellow Pennsylvanian, then shame on the reporter. But then again, how surprising is this for a newspaper that is in the pocket of the gas industry and its PAID representatives? Mr Everett was asked TWO questions about campaign donations. He insisted that he had not received any amount that could be influential from the gas companies. That's a LIE. He got money from Chesapeake and Anadarko, among others, and his claim that most of his contributions came from private donors belies the fact that these are donors connected to the gas industry directly or indirectly. These are facts. His constituents have a right to know who Mr. Everett really works for--because it's not them however he pretends it is by attacking fellow Pennsylvanians for asking questions he can't answer without betraying his real interests.
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Let's see, he (Everett) said Pennsylvania can both drill for natural gas and be a steward of the environment. "I think we can do both."
So, he says he hasn't seen any conclusive evidence of ground water contamination from gas drilling. In other words, there is no proof. However, his assumption that "Pennsylvania can both drill for natural gas and be a steward of the environment." is based on what he "thinks". No proof it can be done safely, but he expects us to get on board with the gas industry on his 'faith based' conclusion. Is Everett for real? Hi insults the intelligence of his constituents and every Pennsylvanian living on top the Marcellus.
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I didn't use Keystone and now you can probably figure out why.
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twinder, Keystone Water Testing Services charges $375 for Baseline and another $200 for Total Petroleum Hydrocarbons, Benzene, Toluene, Ethylbenzene, and Xylenes, I know this because I just paid for the whole package.
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Must be a greedy landlord that charges $575 for water testing! I had my well tested a few years ago by two different places, one was a local laboratory, the other was in another state. We tested for completely different reasons than fracking but, it wasn't anywhere near $575. And yes, we tested for everything.
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mahs81, are you saying that Wendy Lee was there to disrupt a meeting for the residents of the district? I'm surprised..... NOT.
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freedom123, I have been dealing with the oil and gas industries since 2005, I'm from Pavillion, Wyoming.
There are 2 words that the industries do not like to hear, 1. Baseline 2. Attorney.
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How much have I donated? Absolutely nothing.
your argument started out as contamination never happens.....then nature causes a little....then fracking helps it along.....then finally water buffalos and special vented well caps are needed after drilling.....
you sir should be a politician! Ps. who signs your paycheck?
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Great point bornhere. That is actually a very good idea, and a smart one at that.
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eric88-what are you talking about, gas migrates upwards from the shale under the water table. The gas well's go well below that shale. And the frack water cannot migrate up, because it is heavier than gas. Remember gravity. You don't see water just magicaly coming up out of a river or stream. it doesn't rain up? Well i guess there evaporation, but wait theres no sun 2,500ft in the ground. Come on man, do your homework and start googleing real valid websites, not somebody lonely, still lives with parents in the basement, get all my information from Ben Afflack and Josh Fox....PS. There also making money from these lies......Think about it! It doesn't matter what side your supporting, everybody is still making a buck in the process. How much money have you donated to the responsible drilling alliance?
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Start Baseline Water Testing before any drilling occurs, that way you will know exactly what is in your water. The costs have come down to $575. So if your well is contaminated by the gas industry, you will have your proof of what was in your water before any drilling started.
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Yes Rick! The gas company's did cause the gas to migrate into the water. But it has always been there, just needed a little push. But it's not that bad. Just vents out of my water well cap. They paid for the temporary water buffalo, and for the venting system, and they also pay for water test's every 3 months. Nothing was ever found. Just my water fizzed until the cap was vented. Fizzing from the gas escapeing the water. It makes me sick that this dude in Dimock was throwing mud in a bootle of water, shaking it and telling the nation and movie stars that his water was dirty. Fame W*&^%!
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Freedom123----The water buffalos in Dimock and in Hughesville were provided to the residence, as a precaution from explosion.
But remember the water table only goes down at most 350 feet. These gas wells are being drilled close to 1,500 - 3,000 feet and have triple casing filled with cement, so there is a pretty good barrier between the well bore shaft and the aquefier's.
Conflicting talking points?
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I have a major in soil science, but I work in aviation now. Wierd huh? Ya go to school for one thing and end up working in something totally different. Thats life though.
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You believe what you want. If you poke a hole in the ground, dump who knows what into that hole. Something will happen, maybe not now but at sometime it will happen. I am sure the coal industry told the skeptics all was good but we are certainly paying for it now. Again it just seems odd problems occur when the gas well shows up. It does not take a lot of research to see this happening all over the world.
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eric88 I live in one of these said homes in Hughesville that have contaminated water. IT'S NOT CONTAMINATED!!!!!!!!! I just want people to know the facts. Not the histeria.
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The water buffalos in Dimock and in Hughesville were provided to the residence, as a precaution from explosion. Remember gas goes up. So as the gas was leaving the taps in the residence, it may migrate to the most highest point, which may produce an explosion if ignited from an ignition source. The buffolo's left as soon as the well caps were installed with a special vent fan. You don't have to beleave me. Drive up and around the backskirts of Hughesville yourself and look at the vented well caps in peoples back yard's. I know exactly were they are but for obvious reasons I can't disclose exact locations.
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Freedom, what gas company do you work for? Sounds like Chesapeake galleries talking points.
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The only thing to be upset about is the noise and the increase in truck traffic. That's it!!! All this environmental bull is fabricated to scare you. Thats why when a truck rolls over and spills some fluid. It's not a big deal. If a company is dumping this stuff for months or years out onto the ground. Then yes, it is a concern because it will alter the Chemical balance of the soil (PH, Phosphate, Acid) kinda like a farmer using insecticides & herbicide over a number of years. Even if a truck carrying brine would roll over into the river and spill it's entire load, It's like a teardrop in an olympic size swimming pool.
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It's ok to be scared. Water is a valuble resource. But remember the water table only goes down at most 350 feet. These gas wells are being drilled close to 1,500 - 3,000 feet and have triple casing filled with cement, so there is a pretty good barrier between the well bore shaft and the aquefier's.
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Those well's ARE NOT contaiminated in Hughesville, Just like the ones in Dimock, Pa. That's why the EPA cleared them. The water coming out of all these residences taps are crystal clear. There wells do have gas in them. Clear, Oderless, Natural Gas. it's ok to drink, cook and bath in, because the gas escapes the water as soon as it becomes depressurized from the water pipes. (Remember science class in school, gas/water don't mix)The very simple fix for this is to vent the water well from the well cap. Some of the water wells had natural gas in them even before the drilling started. In fact in some southern countys of Pa.,some homes have been able to light there water on fire, for several decades now. Even before hydro fracking was invented. Some of these wells are in Union county. (There hasn't been a single gas well drilled in Union County to date)
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Plus when a state representatives personal aid claims that the gasland argument is false-claiming that tap water is naturally flammable its obvious who is bought and paid for....
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I disagree mahs81 about the tax, for instance the airport getting money from the industry. Doesn't make sense to me. As far as your phone call, good for you. That never happened to me. But here is the thing, I actually like Everett. For the most part he is a fair guy but I feel his lack of knowledge about the industry will hurt him down the road. Just my opinion.
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Hate to agree with Rick but in Bradford county there were dozens and dozens of houses that had "water buffalos" in their yards. since then extensive water filtration systems replaced them that have to be maintained by the property owner. That's once the pollutant numbers get fixed by the offenders too satisfy DEP's requirements.
sorry for the facts....
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Hey I hate tootoo too, but the guy is one of the best hitters in the league....
Tootoo sucks ass and half the people in here aref****** morons who know nothing about hockey. He isn't good by any measurement and he is the type of player I NEVER want on my team. Then they gave him a contract that is too big in term and money. He was a healthy scratch for Nashville and worse than everyone on our team and many players of ours in the system. He isn't good defensively, not good offensively, doesn't fight for pucks, doesn't hit well, doesn't pass well, doesn't score, he doesn't play gritty, he is only dirty.
That doesn't win you games, check Avery who is the same type of player, except he had some skill. It is far more likely he does something stupid and someone retaliates on Pavel or someone. The guy was so worthless he never helped the Preds beat us... Last year he was a healthy scratch for them half the games. I look it at this way...
You could have tried for Doan with the money spent on Sam and Tootoo... you could have signed an enforcer for less... or you could have just let the youngsters play with contracts that are half as much as him. Miller, Emmerton, Mursak, Eaves, and Jokaim are all better than Tootoo.
I know half of the people around think this is some sort of grand signing that indicates that we will be a tougher team.
Toughness isn't something measured in hits or fights. It is winning battles for the puck and taking hits and crosschecks going to the tough parts of the ice for loose pucks and goals. The Wings were lacking in this, and still are after wasting 4.9 million yesterday. If these were one year contracts I would ***** about them but I would live with them. These might screw us over in the long term as well.
Just hypothetically, if Weber was available next year and Suter signs here... do you think they could get Weber with 7 million wrapped up in Bertuzzi, Sammy, and Tootoo?!?!? No way in hell. Yet if they didn't sign them to awful contracts prematurely, there would be a chance to bring in Weber and have guys like Tatar, Jurco, and Jarnkrok play for 900k a piece instead.
The time is here for youth, yet three guys are signed that block the way. I never liked any of these guys, and certainly don't at this price.
I think tootoo hasn't been as cheap lately so maybe he turned a corner.


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It's a typical Tuesday at Utah State University in Logan, where I attend the Huntsman School of Business. It's typical, at least, for an MBA student studying during the era of social media. My study routine is a clear example of how social media is transforming the act of communication. After my first class, I spend the morning in the library reading from a digital textbook and working on homework projects on my laptop. I take a quick study break—I check my e-mail, but I know I'll find the real news on my social media feeds. First, I pull up my Twitter account on my smartphone—I check for UTah State University news by checking the #AggieLife hashtag. I see a tweet from a USU student that piques my interest: "#USU JCOM professor Matt LaPlante speaking NOW (1 p.m. at the TSC auditorium!) 'Out of Iraq,' event about effects of war #aggielife #utah."
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Bishop England beating Woodland this past Friday night at Jack Cantey Stadium wasn't an upset. But, the 35-7 final score was a little shocking.
The Battling Bishops gained the inside track to claiming the 2A Region 6 title in the process, as they are the only remaining undefeated region team with one game left in the regular season. It was a matchup of the No. 3 2A-ranked program in the state (Bishop England) against the No. 4. The result should also erase any doubt that the Bishops can't defend their two consecutive state championships come postseason time.
Bishop England moved to 6-0 in region action (7-2 overall), while Woodland dropped to 5-1 (8-1 overall). The Bishops led 21-0 after a touchdown run by fullback CJ Michel and two scoring scampers by tailback Nick Shiver.
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Education and personal development is more important than slaving 2 decades of your life away, limiting your human potential by allowing your skills, passions and incredible physical and mental energies to be used as a commodity for a multi-million dollar business.
As a fellow 23 year old recent college grad I have respond to this. To me it seems that going to college is exactly the same thing, a multi million dollar business using young people for profit. I love having 100k in debt for my OT degree.
Education and personal development can come outside college, it's not going anywhere for him. He can easily finish his last year/years during summer, but his one chance to play the sport that he's worked his entire life, doesn't have the same lee-way. He can only be in his prime physical condition for so long, while hopefully his mental aptitude has a much better chance to stay sharp through his years.
I do agree with your take on overhyping, it's exciting to get a free prospect, and he definitely checks out as a high caliber prospect, but he's not miles ahead of let's say Nick Jensen, another Wing's defensive college prospect. Jensen has a ton more offensive upside(about doubled Dekeyser's points), and is in my opinion just as smart of a hockey player and is a couple months younger. Yet we don't have the same hype about our own guy, kinda interesting to me. Expectations are probably a too high on this kid, it's just a really good situation to get a good young defenseman for free, and hopefully that's were the excitement lies.


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Fact Sheet
Viral Load Tests
February 19, 2013
What Is Viral Load?
The viral load test measures the amount of HIV virus in your blood. There are different techniques for doing this:
Different test methods often give different results for the same sample. Because the tests are different, you should stick with the same kind of test to measure your viral load over time.
Viral loads are usually reported as copies of HIV in one milliliter of blood. The tests count up to about 1 million copies, and are always being improved to be more sensitive. The first bDNA test measured down to 10,000 copies. Current tests detect as few as 20 copies. Ultra sensitive tests for research can detect less than 5 copies.
The best viral load test result is "undetectable." This does not mean that there is no virus in your blood; it just means that there is not enough for the test to find and count. With the first viral load tests, "undetectable" meant up to 9,999 copies! "Undetectable" depends on the sensitivity of the test used on your blood sample.
The first viral load tests all used frozen blood samples. Good results have been obtained using dried samples. This will reduce costs for freezers and shipping.
How Is the Test Used?
The test is helpful in several areas:
How Are Changes in Viral Load Measured?
Repeat tests of the same blood sample can give results that vary by a factor of 3. This means that a meaningful change would be a drop to less than 1/3 or an increase to more than 3 times the previous test result. For example, a change from 200,000 to 600,000 is within the normal variability of the test. A drop from 50,000 to 10,000 would be significant. The most important change is to reach an undetectable viral load.
Viral load changes are often described as "log" changes. This refers to scientific notation, which uses powers of 10. For example, a 2-log drop is a drop of 102 or 100 times. A drop from 60,000 to 600 would be a 2-log drop.
Viral Load "Blips"
Recently, researchers have noticed that the viral load of many patients sometimes went from undetectable to a low level (usually less than 500) and then returned to undetectable. These "blips" do not indicate virologic failure or that the virus is developing resistance.
What Do the Numbers Mean?
There are no "magic" numbers for viral loads. We don't know how long you'll stay healthy with any particular viral load. All we know so far is that lower is better and seems to mean a longer, healthier life.
U.S. treatment guidelines (see Fact Sheet 404) suggest that all HIV-positive people be offered treatment. For patients with viral load over 100,000, there is urgency for treatment.
Some people may think that if their viral load is undetectable, they can't pass the HIV virus to another person. This is not true. There is no "safe" level of viral load. Although the risk is less, you can pass HIV to another person even if your viral load is undetectable.
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Apostolic Succession - John Charmley - 20-07-2008
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
I wonder whether there would be interest here in joining in a discussion on the Apostolic Succession? I don't think we have discussed it directly, and yet it is one of the things I get asked about when talking about the BOC and the Coptic Church.
Apostolic Succession would seem to be for the Orthodox a critical part of how we can be sure whose Gospel it is we preach, and by whose authority we do so - that of the Apostles as the appointed representatives of Christ Himself.
The role of the Apostles was to pass on the right teachings of the Lord. As we can see even from the Pauline epistles (which most would agree are the earliest Christian writings), there was a need to assert the right teaching because some were already making their own interpretation of it. So we see in Galatians 1:6-12, St. Paul invoking a solemn curse on anyone who departs from the Gospel he is preaching. His preaching, as he makes clear in 1 Thess. 2:13 is 'the word of God'. This is not open to the interpretation of any Christian who just happens to think he knows better. In 2 Thess. 3:14 he tells that Church that rejection of his teaching will bring excommunication. In 1 Cor. 7:17 he makes no distinction between the authority of his teaching and the Lord: 'This is my rule in all the Churches.'
Acts shows us the Apostles building up a Church and exercising discipline within it (see Acts 5:1-11). Both the fellowship and the authorised teaching of the Church is their fellowship and teaching, which is the teaching of the Lord Himself. (Acts 2:42). The are the Lord's representatives for building up the Church (2 Cor. 10:8) and for judging it (2 Cor. 13:1,2). An apostle can, in the name of Christ, deliver an impenitent Church member over to Satan (1 Cor. 5:3-5).
There are those, most recently Bauckham in his The Testimony of the Beloved Disciple, who would see St. John's Gospel as being different in style from that of the Synoptics because by the time he wrote, others were trying to claim things about the Lord he, as the surviving Apostle, knew were not so; hence his insistence upon his status as eye witness, and on the divinity of the Lord, which those we loosely call gnostics were denying.
The Apostles were the custodians, guardians and evangelists of the 'Faith once delivered'. But as they passed away, how was this one Church to maintain its authority and integrity in the face of those who were already teaching another gospel? The answer is that the early Church looked to the Apostles as their authority for the gospel they preached.
Clement calls them 'the greatest and most righteous pillars of the Church', and in 1 Clement 42 tells us that the Apostles 'appointed their first fruits, when they had tested them by the Spirit, to be overseers and deacons of the future believers.' Clement was writing possibly before John's Gospel was written, and shows quite clearly how the Apostles tried to maintain the Truth they had received. He tells the Corinthians to 'take up the epistle of the blessed Paul the Apostle.'
The importance of the Apostles is underlined if we look at Polycarp's one surviving letter, where he quotes from 1 Peter eight times, Ephesians three times, 1 Corinthians four times, 2 Corinthians twice, Galatians four times, 1 Timothy thrice, 2 Timothy twice, Romans twice, 1 John once, Philippians twice, and 2 Thessalonians twice. So when he writes: 'I am persuaded that you are well schooled in the sacred writings', we can see what he meant by his own writing.
There was one Church, one tradition, one gospel and one way of passing it on; through the authority of the Apostles in two ways: by their authoritative writings, and by the teachings of their 'first fruits' who had been 'tested' by them.
Of course, we can see that it has not preserved the external unity of the Church, but it seems to me that the Canon and Apostolic Succession are key ways in which we know whose Gospel it is we receive, and by whose authority those who teach us do so.
Abba Seraphim's own recent writings have been most instructive in showing the line of Apostolic Succession in the old Orthodox Church in the British Isles, and as we know, the Pope himself recognised the validity of the BOC's orders.
Speaking for myself, this all seems crucial. Having spent time in the USA where many a 'Pastor Bob' told me he was inspired directly by the Spirit, before proceeding to pronounce some notion unheard of in the early Church, it seems an important guard against inadvertently receiving 'another gospel'.
How do others see this?
In Christ,
- admin - 21-07-2008
Dear John
I am glad to hear that you are feeling more mobile, and you have been in my prayers. Indeed you and Rachael, Joyce and Tom, continue to be.
I have been in France for quite a while now, settling into a family holiday, although those two words seem opposites in my household! So I hope others ill forgive me if I have been out of touch as I am only intermittently online and not collecting all of my email accounts.
This is an interesting topic, and one which Abba Seraphim and I were thinking about in terms of the extent to which the episcopate continues the Apostolic ministry.
The apostolic succession seems to be described in the work of several early writers, as being the guarantor of the Orthodoxy of the Church and seems to me to be understood as both a tactile succession of consecration and authorisation, as well as the doctrinal succession. Either one without the other is defective, the former without the latter is useless.
Ireneaus says...
Quote:We are in a position to reckon up those who were by the apostles instituted bishops in the Churches, and [to demonstrate] the succession of these men to our own times; those who neither taught nor knew of anything like what these [heretics] rave about. For if the apostles had known hidden mysteries, which they were in the habit of imparting to ?the perfect? apart and privily from the rest, they would have delivered them especially to those to whom they were also committing the Churches themselves. For they were desirous that these men should be very perfect and blameless in all things, whom also they were leaving behind as their successors, delivering up their own place of government to these men; which men, if they discharged their functions honestly, would be a great boon [to the Church], but if they should fall away, the direst calamity.
This is just an excerpt from Refutation of the Heretics, Book III, Chapter III, which well rewards a study.
It is noteworthy that in the example of Polycarp, which Irenaeus gives, there are the double aspects of 'being appointed' and 'always taught..the things which he had learned from the Apostles'.
Therefore the Apostolic Succession, as Irenaeus states, does not exist outside of the Catholic and Apostolic Church because either the one who claims to be in the Apostolic Succession is not 'appointed' by those who are themselves truly in the succession, or else those making such a claim do not hold to the Apostolic faith in its fulness.
A Methodist bishop, however devout and committed to their ministry, and I mean this in an entirely respectful sense, is not in the Apostolic Succession because no bishop in the Apostolic Succession has ordained them and they do not hold to the fulness of the Apostolic Faith.
I would have to say the same, respectfully, about many independent bishops, and those of the Anglican communion. Although what is not being denied is their ministry, rather that it does not take place within the Apostolic Succession.
Our own Abba Seraphim, even in the years I was blessed to know him before the union with the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate, was always entirely Orthodox in his faith.
Best wishes
- Fr Gregory - 23-07-2008
?Apostolic Succession?, while an important concept, is also a dangerous one! In the sense of some quasi-magical tactile lineage from the Apostles to some modern day priest or bishop it is, in Orthodox terms, essentially meaningless and, indeed, heretical.
Even in the West, what is often referred to as the Augustinian view ? overly simplified to be that a valid bishop can ordain valid priests and bishops inside or outside the church - has largely been meaningless. That Rome concedes that Fr X or Bishop Y may have ?valid orders? has few actual consequences.
The Eastern view, commonly referred to as the Cyprian, simply makes much more sense: ordination of priests and bishops can only occur within the Church. I might well claim to have been ordained by someone who was ordained who was ordained by someone who was ordained?and so on back to a ?valid? bishop. But what does this actually mean? Can I believe or do what I like and still be ?valid?? Orthodoxy understands the Apostolic Succession and the concept of validity within the context of the Church, not as something in the abstract or as some sort of legal technicality.
The Orthodox Church does not (with a few strange exceptions a long time ago in relation to Anglicans) ever consider whether someone is or is not ?valid? of whether some church possesses ?valid orders? in theory. The question is only: if a person converts to Orthodoxy, how should he be received? I can?t obtain a ?Certificate of Validity? from any of the ancient Patriarchates! Of course, I can?t obtain one from Rome either, but Rome has tended to express views on some Churches in terms of sacramental validity (as it did with regard to the Anglicans). If I was not Orthodox but claimed to have been ordained, and converted to Orthodoxy, the question would be: how should I be received?
The Apostolic Succession exists within the Church, not as some sort of universal free-floating ?qualification?. Orthodoxy does not deny that ?valid? ordinations might occur outside the Orthodox Church but these would be so exceptional and rare as to not establish general precedents.
My priesthood is certainly from the Lord and within the Catholic and Orthodox Church ? but it is also from my Bishop and within a specific Orthodox Church. I cannot, in Orthodox terms, be a freelance priest, answerable to and in communion with no Orthodox bishop.
As a general principle I regard any church which declares itself to have ?Valid Orders? or to have ?genuine? (or in one case ?indisputable?) Apostolic Succession with the gravest of suspicion. Likewise, churches that describe themselves as ?canonical? ? but that?s a different issue. The only question I can ever ask is a question asked in the early Church: who is your bishop? And then: with whom is your bishop in communion?
In recent years there has been some discontent with this restrictive model of Apostolic Succession. Why can?t anyone and everyone be ordained if they feel called to be? Why can?t priests be ordained as freelance independent operatives who, once ordained, express their ministries wherever and however they see fit? Why can?t priests minister without any restrictions of doctrine or practice? To which one might add, why can?t new forms of the Apostolic Succession emerge?
A movement, loosely called the Free Priest Movement, has emerged in the Roman Catholic Church in the USA. Organizations such as The Society of Priests for a Free Ministry (which became the Fellowship of Christian Ministries in 1973, and the Federation of Christian Ministries in 1981), CORPUS (The Corps of Reserve Priests United for Service), The International Society of the Apostles, Saints Peter and Thomas, and The North Atlantic Federation for a Renewed Catholic Priesthood have given practical application to the idea of priests living and working outside the institutional church. The movement might be seen essentially as promoting the restoration to some form of ministry of priests who have left the church (or been removed from their ministry) because they have married, as well as advocating for married priests or priests who want the right to marry, women priests and gay and [censored] priests.
There are also some organizations such as The Society for Independent Christian Ministry (SICM) founded to provide an association between independent priests (mainly those ordained by independent bishops ? commonly known as episcopi vagantes ? but also Roman Catholic priests who have married and Anglican priests who have left the Church of England).
There are organizations that have claimed a ?restored? Apostolic Succession, including the now defunct Catholic Apostolic Church (often mis-called the ?Irvingites?), the Holy Order of MANS (much of which eventually converted to an irregular form of Orthodoxy) and the Independent Church of Australia.
I spoke at symposium on the concept of the ?free priest? in Melbourne late last year and was interested to hear from men and women who claim some form of priesthood (albeit not one that would be accepted by Orthodoxy). They all emphasized the importance of a form of ?Apostolic Succession?, but either worked entirely outside any church or in churches whose orders would not be accepted by the Orthodox Church.
I have no doubt that the Holy Spirit can and does work in many and diverse people. I know that there are holy and learned protestant pastors, and evil and ignorant (although ?valid?!) Orthodox bishops. Apostolic Succession gives no guarantee, alas, of quality. It confers nothing, other than sacramental grace, that did not exist before. As an old friend of mine, an Eastern Rite Archimandrite, is fond of saying: when you ordain a one legged man you get a one-legged priest.
But the Apostolic Succession in the communion of the Orthodox Church provides, as it were, a protective discipline, not always effective with fallen human beings, against ?trafficking in holy things?. It provides a bond which links together those, clergy and laity, who are united in the communion of the Church, regardless of time and space.
Fr Gregory
- John Charmley - 24-07-2008
Dear Fr. Gregory,
Many thanks for your helpful and informative discussion of this topic; the last paragraph beautifully expressed a profound truth.
As we know, heretics such as Arius and Nestorius were both ordained in line of Apostolic Succession in the Church, and that was no guard against their mistaken views.
Apostolicity was one of the ways in which the early Fathers recognised what was and was not Holy Scripture; but as we can see from their writings, other ways were also found necessary. The test of orthodoxy; was what was in the writings against what the Church had received from the beginning? There was also a test of catholicity - had it been received everywhere, by everyone from the beginning?
None of these things prevented debates of some fierceness, nor yet ruptures in communion between those who would describe their Church as having Apostolic Succession; but such failings are to be expected of us, and perhaps emphasise our need for Him.
The Ignatian model which the BOC follows has done excellent service for as long as we have any record of how the visible Church.
In Christ,