tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68930422187354651192024-02-21T12:18:07.042-06:00MiraclesA miracle is a sensibly perceptible interruption of the laws of nature, such that can only be explained by divine intervention, and is sometimes associated with a miracle-worker.True Believershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14346957938240826970noreply@blogger.comBlogger51125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6893042218735465119.post-67601131643213019292013-08-08T19:16:00.002-05:002013-08-08T19:16:48.059-05:00Miracle Priest in Missouri<a href="http://www.ksdk.com/news/article/391819/3/Priest-comes-out-of-nowhere-to-aid-accident-victim">http://www.ksdk.com/news/article/391819/3/Priest-comes-out-of-nowhere-to-aid-accident-victim</a><br />
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Emergency workers and community members in eastern Missouri are not sure what to make of a mystery priest who showed up at a critical accident scene Sunday morning and whose prayer seemed to change life-threatening events for the positive.</div>
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Even odder, the black-garbed priest does not appear in any of the nearly 70 photos of the scene of the accident in which a 19-year-old girl almost died. No one knows the priest and he vanished without a word, said Raymond Reed, fire chief of New London, Mo.</div>
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"I think it's a miracle," Reed said. "I would say whether it was an angel that was sent to us in the form of a priest or a priest that became our angel, I don't know. Either way, I'm good with it."</div>
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Carla Churchill Lentz, mother of the teen who was critically injured, said emergency workers have told her there is no way her daughter should have lived inside such a mangled car. Of the priest, she said, "I do believe he certainly could have been an angel dressed in priest's attire because the Bible tells us there are angels among us."</div>
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The scene unfolded Sunday morning. Katie Lentz, a sophomore at Tulane University, was driving from her parents' home in Quincy, Ill., to Jefferson City, Mo., where she has a summer internship and planned to attend church with friends. The Mercedes she was driving collided with another vehicle on a highway near Center, Mo. The accident crushed Lentz's vehicle into a ball of sheet metal that lay on the driver's side, Reed said.</div>
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Reed's team and emergency workers from several other jurisdictions tried for at least 45 minutes to remove the twisted metal from around Lentz. Various pieces of equipment broke and the team was running out of choices. A helicopter waited to carry Lentz to the nearest trauma center. Though Lentz appeared calm, talking about her church and her studies toward a dentistry degree, her vital signs were beginning to fail, Reed said.</div>
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"I was pulled off to the side by one of the members of the" helicopter evacuation team, Reed said. "He expressed to me that we were out of time. Her condition looked grim for her coming out of that vehicle alive. She was facing major problems."</div>
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At that point, Reed's team agreed to take the life-threatening chance of sitting the vehicle upright so that Lentz could be removed from it. This is dangerous because a sudden change in pressure to the body can be critical, he said.</div>
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That's when Lentz asked if someone would pray with her and a voice said, "I will."</div>
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The silver-haired priest in his 50s or 60s in black pants, black shirt and black collar with visible white insert stepped forward from nowhere. It struck Reed as odd because the street was blocked off 2 miles from the scene and no one from the nearby communities recognized him.</div>
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"We're all local people from four different towns," Reed said. "We've only got one Catholic church out of three towns and it wasn't their priest."</div>
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Reed and the other emergency workers were on their knees. The priest of about medium build, maybe 6-feet-tall, stood above them.</div>
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"This priest approached Katie and began to pray openly with her," Reed said. "He had a bottle of anointing oil with him and he used that."</div>
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Another firefighter who had been watching said it appeared as if the priest also sprinkled Reed and two other emergency workers nearby with oil.</div>
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Everything happened quickly after that. Twenty emergency workers pulled together and sat the car upright, Churchill Lentz said. Katie Lentz's vital signs improved and a rescue team from a neighboring community suddenly appeared with fresh equipment and tools. Lentz was removed and rushed to the hospital.</div>
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With Lentz gone, the rescue team prepared to clean up, Reed said.</div>
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"We all go back to thank this priest and he's gone," he said.</div>
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Initially, they assumed he had to get to his home church to lead Sunday services. But then they looked at their photos of the scene.</div>
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"I have 69 photographs that were taken from minutes after that accident happened - bystanders, the extrication, our final cleanup - and he's not in them," Reed said. "All we want to do is thank him."</div>
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Meantime, the Missouri State Highway Patrol reports a 26-year-old male was arrested Sunday on charges of DWI, failure to drive on the right half of the roadway and second-degree felony assault. He was treated and released from a local hospital, according to the report.</div>
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The Facebook page of Lentz's mother, Carla Church Lentz, indicates Lentz is on the mend despite suffering two broken femurs, a broken tibia and fibia, broken left wrist, nine broken ribs, a lacerated liver, ruptured spleen and bruised lung.</div>
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Churchill Lentz said her daughter has undergone two surgeries at Blessing Hospital in Quincy, Ill., and will undergo two more, but has been upgraded from critical to serious and is doing well.</div>
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"She sustained a lot of injuries, however, her face is beautiful, her teeth are perfect, she is sunshine, and everyone who's contacted us - those emergency personnel, the Missouri State Patrol, the deputies, the firemen - they are all saying the same thing, she never cried, she never screamed, she would just say, 'pray for me and pray out loud.' "</div>
True Believershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14346957938240826970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6893042218735465119.post-10079005304798377052012-04-07T17:22:00.000-05:002012-04-07T17:23:40.631-05:00Woman saved in drowning SUV<a href="http://www.godvine.com/Woman-Drowning-in-her-SUV-is-Miraculously-Saved-1342.html">http://www.godvine.com/Woman-Drowning-in-her-SUV-is-Miraculously-Saved-1342.html</a><div><br /></div><div>How did she get out?</div><div><br /></div><div>A miracle. </div>True Believershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14346957938240826970noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6893042218735465119.post-74900425345963125712012-04-07T11:06:00.000-05:002012-04-07T11:07:58.571-05:00All accounted for after Navy fighter jet crashes into apartments<p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 19px; padding-left: 186px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Residents who were missing after a Navy fighter jet crashed into apartment buildings in Virginia Beach were accounted for Saturday, but authorities have yet to give the "all clear" until they check under the wreckage, the fire department said.</p><p class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph2" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 19px; padding-left: 186px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Rescue workers had been searching for three people who were missing. No one had been reported missing, but rescue crews used a checklist of occupants in the buildings in an effort to account for all residents, said Virginia Beach Fire Department Battalion Chief Tim Riley.</p><p class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph3" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 19px; padding-left: 186px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">At least seven people, including the two pilots, were injured. Only one of the pilots still remained at the Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital on Saturday. He was listed in "good condition."</p><p class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph4" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 19px; padding-left: 186px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">More than two dozen people spent the night at the temporary shelter.</p><p class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph5" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 19px; padding-left: 186px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">The fighter jet experienced a "catastrophic mechanical malfunction" during takeoff Friday, raining jet fuel over the military community of Virginia Beach before its fiery crash that damaged five apartment buildings, according to residents and Navy officials.</p><p class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph6" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 19px; padding-left: 186px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">The jet carried a student pilot in the front seat and an experienced instructor behind him, and the leakage of jet fuel was "one of the indications that there was a mechanical malfunction," Navy Capt. Mark Weisgerber told reporters</p><p class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph7" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 24px; padding-bottom: 19px; padding-left: 186px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br /></p>True Believershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14346957938240826970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6893042218735465119.post-49542659460676565502012-03-03T14:00:00.001-06:002012-03-03T14:00:58.061-06:002 y/o survives tornado 3.2.2012<span style="color: rgb(41, 39, 39); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">In Salem, Indiana, about 60 miles west of Chelsea, a 2-year-old girl was found alive in a field after a twister cut through the area, authorities said.</span><br style="color: rgb(41, 39, 39); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br style="color: rgb(41, 39, 39); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(41, 39, 39); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">"When she was brought down here they didn't know who she was," said Brian Rublein, a spokesman for Kosair Children's Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky, where the girl was taken by helicopter.</span><br style="color: rgb(41, 39, 39); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br style="color: rgb(41, 39, 39); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(41, 39, 39); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">"At last report she was in critical condition," Rublein said.</span>True Believershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14346957938240826970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6893042218735465119.post-48221999077705758882011-12-26T10:08:00.000-06:002011-12-26T10:09:00.560-06:00The butterfly people of Joplin<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; font-family: tahoma, arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">In the chaotic first days after the tornado, when nothing seemed real, word of the butterfly people began to spread.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; font-family: tahoma, arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">The stories were shared in hospital waiting rooms and in lines for donated food. They were told by neighbors on streets so devastated there was nothing to do but stand and stare. A Red Cross counselor heard the stories as she handed out water and work gloves to residents in a hard-hit part of town. She got goose bumps. She told her pastor, who asked her to tell the congregation. She remembers how the crowd gasped.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; font-family: tahoma, arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">The stories about butterfly people coursed through Joplin, passing one by one and then by the many, tales describing what children reported seeing on that Sunday night in May as the tornado bore down. The children said the butterfly people protected them.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; font-family: tahoma, arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">These stories, tales of guardian angels, could be dismissed as a child's fanciful imagination. But the stories have taken hold here. And as the months have slipped by, the adrenaline fading along with some of the terror, the stories have assumed a new, maybe even more important role. To understand why, you have to understand what this town of 50,000 went through — and what it still faces.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; font-family: tahoma, arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">The tornado killed 161 people. It shredded entire neighborhoods. More than 900 homes were lost. Big box stores collapsed. The destruction was complete, the landscape rendered foreign.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; font-family: tahoma, arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">The tornado unleashed stories about death and unlikely survival: A teenager sucked from an SUV, a toddler plucked from his mother's arms, houses that exploded in 200-mph winds as families huddled in bathtubs and closets. For months, just about any place people gathered, the stories spilled out, including stories about the butterfly people.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; font-family: tahoma, arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">The stories eventually found their way to Marta Churchwell. She is the skeptical sort, tough, a raspy-voiced former newspaper reporter. The longtime Joplin resident is not religious by the standards of a town known as the buckle on the Bible Belt. She is not inclined to believe in angels. But she saw what the May 22 tornado did to her town. The experience, she said, 'seared me clear to the bone."</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; font-family: tahoma, arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">"Looking out over the landscape, how did anyone survive? I don't know. I can't give you an answer," Churchwell said. "But it's human nature to try to find an answer."</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; font-family: tahoma, arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">And that's where the stories of butterfly people take flight.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; font-family: tahoma, arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: center; "><strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">• • •</strong></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; font-family: tahoma, arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ">The stories changed with passing time and telling. But two versions dominated.</strong></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; font-family: tahoma, arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">In one, a mother and daughter fled their vehicle as the tornado neared. The girl is 3 years old. In some versions, she is 4. They have no time to reach a nearby house. The mother and daughter hit the ground. The mother covers her child. Sometimes they jumped into a culvert. Other times, into a front yard. The mother watches as the winds hurtle her car toward them. She braces for the impact. The tornado passes. They are not hurt. The mother is astonished. "Weren't they pretty?" the daughter asks. The mom is confused. "Didn't you see the butterfly people?" the daughter says. In some versions, the daughter describes seeing the butterfly people also ferrying men and women into the sky.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; font-family: tahoma, arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">The other story involves a father or grandfather and two young boys. They also are trapped outside during the tornado. In most tellings, the winds are so strong the soles of the father's shoes are ripped off. But no one is hurt. Again, it is the young boys, usually described as 3 or 4 years old, who saw butterfly people hovering above them, offering protection.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; font-family: tahoma, arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Shelley Wilson heard the story of the mother and daughter. She works as a high school counselor. After the tornado, she volunteered for a Red Cross disaster mental health team. She drove through neighborhoods distributing supplies, assessing how people were holding up. She doesn't remember who told her the butterfly people stories. She heard them several times. It was never firsthand — the stories never seemed to come from someone who experienced them.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; font-family: tahoma, arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">But that didn't lead Wilson to doubt.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; font-family: tahoma, arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">"It's the only way we can really, honestly understand how more people were not killed," she said. "When you walk through what was left, it just kind of took your breath away."</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; font-family: tahoma, arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Wilson told the story to her church. That's where Mary Parks heard it. Parks shared it with her women's golf group, including Ellen Desmond. Desmond told her brother, who lives in upstate Illinois. He recounted the tale on his community news blog.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; font-family: tahoma, arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Marsha Sherrod heard the story while volunteering at a tornado donation center. She shared it with her Sunday school class at Forest Park Baptist. One boy, a quiet 11 year old, raised his hand. The boy said he saw the butterfly people that night too, Sherrod recalled.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; font-family: tahoma, arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">She believes angels were there.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; font-family: tahoma, arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">"If you had seen what I saw," she said, "you would understand."</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; font-family: tahoma, arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">She told the story to a friend in the church choir. Darlene "DJ" Bates is an artist. The story inspired her. She painted a watercolor showing an angel above a cowering mother and daughter in the tornado. She titled it "Butterfly People."</p><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><br /></span></span>True Believershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14346957938240826970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6893042218735465119.post-5652542069253998802011-12-26T09:10:00.000-06:002011-12-26T09:11:42.143-06:00Snowbound ASU Student Survives 10 Days<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 14px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; ">An Arizona State University student missing for 10 days survived on a Snickers candy bar, a bag of M&M's candies and melted snow for drinking water, authorities said Wednesday after the 23-year-old was found in a desolate area of east Arizona.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 14px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; ">Lauren Elizabeth Weinberg, a senior at ASU, was found in southeastern Coconino County just before noon, Coconino County sheriff's spokesman Gerry Blair said. Two U.S. Forest Service employees on snowmobiles found her Wednesday about 45 miles southeast of Winslow while they were checking gates on forest roads.</p><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br /><br /></span><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 14px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; ">"I am so thankful to be alive and warm," Weinberg said in a news release from Flagstaff Medical Center. "Thank you everyone for your thoughts and prayers, because they worked. There were times I was afraid but mostly I had faith I would be found."</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 14px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; ">Weinberg, who was released from Flagstaff Medical Center early Thursday, was last seen leaving her mother's home in south Phoenix on Dec. 11 and told authorities she became stuck in the snow a day later, Blair said.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 14px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; ">"She told us she left on a paved road out of Winslow that turns into a dirt road, which makes sense cause that would be that Forest Road 34," says Blair.</p><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br /><br /></span>True Believershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14346957938240826970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6893042218735465119.post-324746632724345752011-09-25T10:32:00.002-05:002011-09-25T10:36:06.972-05:00Miracle Pocket dialing to her dad<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><p class="storyIntro">An accidental pocket dial from a cell phone may have saved a 20-year-old Town of Lima woman from greater harm.</p><p>According to a criminal complaint, 21-year-old Floyd Rashid, of Sheboygan, is accused of pinning his girlfriend to the ground and threatening her life Monday night.</p><p>The complaint says while the attack was happening, Rashid's cell phone pocket-dialed his girlfriend's father, who heard his daughter screaming and heard Rashid ask her if she wanted to die.</p><p>The Sheboygan Press reports the father sped to the couple's house and found Rashid still pinning the woman. He then grabbed Rashid and threw him against a wall and Rashid ran away.</p><p>Rashid was charged Wednesday with felony counts of false imprisonment and strangulation and suffocation as well as misdemeanor disorderly conduct.</p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(41, 39, 39); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">"When I saw my dad I was shaking, and I hugged him. And I was like thank you," said Mauer-Pfister</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(41, 39, 39); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(41, 39, 39); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br /></span></div>True Believershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14346957938240826970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6893042218735465119.post-20504087473204469802011-03-27T07:08:00.001-05:002011-03-27T07:08:31.567-05:00From World War 2<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Arial; font-size: small; ">The story of Fr. Maximillian Kolbe, a Polish Catholic priest who with four monasty companions was imprisoned at Auschwitz. <br /><br />When a prisoner went missing (his body was later found stuffed into a latrine), the Nazi guards selected ten prisoners to death as a reprisal - they would be sent to a strarvation hut where they would slowly die. <br /><br />One of the men selected exclaimed in grief at the prospects for his family if he were to be killed, and Fr. Kolbe volunteered to receive the man's punishment in his place. <br /><br />He and four other prisoners took too long to die, and the guards needed the cell for other purposes, so a Polish trustee injected them with lethal doses of carbolic acid. The man Fr. Kolbe saved survived, and lived to the age of 95. Kolbe was beatified a Saint by Pope John Paul II.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.auschwitz.dk/kolbe.htm" target="_blank" style="line-height: 17px; font-weight: inherit; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer; ">http://www.auschwitz.dk/kolbe.htm</a></span>True Believershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14346957938240826970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6893042218735465119.post-43466975149141567162011-03-24T13:06:00.000-05:002011-03-24T13:07:00.072-05:00Miracle rescue 9 days after Japan earthquake<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; ">An 80 year-old grandmother and her 16 year-old grandson were found suffering from hypothermia but otherwise unharmed nine days after an earthquake and tsunami destroyed their home in the Miyagi prefecture city of Ishinomaki.<br /><br />More than 20,000 people are dead or missing in the devastation from a 9.0 earthquake and tsunami on March 11 but Sumi Abe and her grandson Jin Abe managed to survive the bitter cold in the wreckage of their home for over a week.<br /><br />The two, who were in the kitchen when the quake struck, survived on yogourt, Coca-Cola and water from the refrigerator, media are reporting.<br /><br />Miyagi prefecture was the hardest hit of the Japanese prefectures with a confirmed death toll of 4,882.</span>True Believershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14346957938240826970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6893042218735465119.post-54107483216450672352010-10-10T21:30:00.000-05:002010-10-10T21:32:29.947-05:00Belief, prayer the heart of a miracle<a href="http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/specials/mary-mackillop/belief-prayer-the-heart-of-a-miracle/story-fn6qd4pl-1225936844614">http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/specials/mary-mackillop/belief-prayer-the-heart-of-a-miracle/story-fn6qd4pl-1225936844614</a><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; ">Ms Barnett said the miracle of Mrs Evans' recovery from lung and brain cancer in 1993 was "mind boggling".</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; "><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 40px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">"All I had left was prayer," Mrs Evans told Australia in January when she went public with her story.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 40px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Ms Barnett said the Evans' family home in Windale was always flooded with friends there to support her.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 40px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">"I was just thinking about her then, I don't think anyone dying of cancer would have had so many people in their house every day," she said.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 40px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">The Evans family moved to Lightning Ridge and travelled around the state to maintain their anonymity while the Vatican considered Mrs Evans' case as a miracle.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 40px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Another Australian woman will also be watching the canonisation ceremony with more interest than most.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 40px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">She is the second woman who was near death when she suddenly recovered from terminal leukaemia, a recovery the Vatican also attributed to Mary MacKillop.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 40px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">It has been 49 years since the woman prayed for Mary MacKillop's intercession and returned to good health but she has never let her identity be known.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 40px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Hers was the first miracle that allowed MacKillop to be beatified in 1995 but the Vatican needed the second miracle which Mrs Evans received, to make her a saint.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 40px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">"Certainly [she is alive], she has subsequently had a family. She has always been very cautious of her privacy," said Father Brian Lucas, who is general-secretary of the Australian Bishop's Conference.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 40px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">"There is not much you can say. It was a woman who was terminally ill with leukaemia, very close to death and there was a very sudden cure."</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 40px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">A mother of six, the woman gave birth to a boy in the early 1960s soon after her recovery.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 40px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Mary MacKillop's Sisters of Saint Joseph have detailed the arduous process of proving the MacKillop miracles.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 40px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Two specialist doctors first examine the nominated person's case to determine if the recovery "can be explained by scientific means". In Mrs Evans case and that of the leukaemia sufferer, there was no medical intervention or treatment. The Vatican requires X-rays, tests and a patient's medical history.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 40px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">It is then determined if the "cure is outside the normal medical process" and "if there is evidence that surgery or medicine did not bring about the cure".</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 40px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">The cure must also be "complete and permanent".</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 40px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Miracles must then undergo a theological study to determine the role of prayer.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 40px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">The Pope will only receive the cases after they have been pored over by cardinals.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 40px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">There are a host of unofficial miracles the Sisters of Saint Joseph call "favours".</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 40px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">They include Sophie Delezio's remarkable recovery from two horrendous car accidents and Irish man David Keohane who woke from a coma after being bashed in Sydney</p></span></div>True Believershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14346957938240826970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6893042218735465119.post-53783910581209324432010-09-19T13:59:00.000-05:002010-09-19T14:00:38.121-05:00Two-year-old survives after heart stops beating for an hour<a href="http://www.ksdk.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=217105">http://www.ksdk.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=217105</a><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 12px; "><strong>NBC</strong> -- A remarkable story of survival about a toddler who came back to life, after his heart stopped for nearly an hour.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">It was supposed to be a fun Fourth of July<a class="iAs" classname="iAs" href="http://www.ksdk.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=217105#" target="_blank" itxtdid="24844366" style="float: none; left: auto; right: auto; top: auto; bottom: auto; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; background-color: transparent !important; line-height: normal; text-align: left; position: static !important; display: inline; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: underline !important; color: rgb(0, 100, 0) !important; font-weight: normal !important; font-size: 12px; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 100, 0) !important; border-bottom-width: 0.075em !important; ">vacation</a> for the Otteson family, way up in the Colorado mountains. But when their two-year-old son Gore wandered away, everything changed.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">"Absolute panic. I was crying so hard I couldn't even run anymore," said Amy Otteson, Gore's mother.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">Just a few hundred yards from the <a class="iAs" classname="iAs" href="http://www.ksdk.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=217105#" target="_blank" itxtdid="24844281" style="float: none; left: auto; right: auto; top: auto; bottom: auto; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; background-color: transparent !important; line-height: normal; text-align: left; position: static !important; display: inline; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: underline !important; color: rgb(0, 100, 0) !important; font-weight: normal !important; font-size: 12px; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 100, 0) !important; border-bottom-width: 0.075em !important; ">family</a> cabin was an irrigation ditch. They little Gore inside. He had been underwater almost half an hour.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">His grandfather, a retired orthopedic surgeon, frantically started CPR. Ten more minutes past and still nothing. Gore's grandfather said he was pale, like somebody that was already dead.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">After nearly an hour, doctors finally got Gore's heart going again, but that was it.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">That water was unrelenting. But there is one element that the <a class="iAs" classname="iAs" href="http://www.ksdk.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=217105#" target="_blank" itxtdid="6489044" style="float: none; left: auto; right: auto; top: auto; bottom: auto; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: dotted !important; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; background-color: transparent !important; line-height: normal; text-align: left; position: static !important; display: inline; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none !important; color: rgb(43, 101, 176) !important; font-weight: normal !important; font-size: 12px; border-bottom-color: rgb(43, 101, 176) !important; border-bottom-width: 0.2em !important; ">Colorado <nobr id="itxt_nobr_6_0" style="color: rgb(43, 101, 176); font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; ">Rockies<img src="http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/mag-glass_10x10.gif" name="itxt-icon-0" style="display: inline !important; height: 10px; width: 10px; position: relative; top: 1px; left: 1px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; " /></nobr></a> give to almost every drop of water that rolls out of them, that in this case was potentially life-saving: the water was cold. Gore's temperature had dropped to just 87 degrees. In a last ditch effort, doctors decided to keep him that way-stone cold-in hopes of protecting his brain.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">"They pumped ice cold fluids into him, they put him on a cooling blanket," Amy said.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">For two days, the family sat huddled by his chilly bedside, themselves frozen in fear. Then doctors slowly started to raise his body's<a class="iAs" classname="iAs" href="http://www.ksdk.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=217105#" target="_blank" itxtdid="22825036" style="float: none; left: auto; right: auto; top: auto; bottom: auto; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: dotted !important; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; background-color: transparent !important; line-height: normal; text-align: left; position: static !important; display: inline; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none !important; color: rgb(43, 101, 176) !important; font-weight: normal !important; font-size: 12px; border-bottom-color: rgb(43, 101, 176) !important; border-bottom-width: 0.2em !important; "><nobr id="itxt_nobr_8_0" style="color: rgb(43, 101, 176); font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; ">temperature<img src="http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/mag-glass_10x10.gif" name="itxt-icon-0" style="display: inline !important; height: 10px; width: 10px; position: relative; top: 1px; left: 1px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; " /></nobr></a>.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">"All I ever really ever hoped for was to be able to hold him again, and here, he's waking up," said Dave Otteson, Gore's father.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">He was rushed in for an MRI and the results shocked everyone.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">"It came back no abnormalities not one single thing in his brain MRI that was wrong," Amy said.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">Doctors aren't sure if the cold therapy is what saved him or not. No matter. For Gore it was the end of a big adventure; for his family, it was faith renewed.</p></span></div>True Believershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14346957938240826970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6893042218735465119.post-86298522961037256792010-08-29T18:38:00.001-05:002010-08-29T18:40:02.591-05:00Trenton house fire kills 7-year-old but spares 18-month-old<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(68, 78, 92); line-height: 20px; ">On the second floor of their Vine Street home, 7-year-old Aldrey Anderson was found dead after a raging fire gutted the house and forced Anderson’s mother to jump from a second-story window, leaving him behind.</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(68, 78, 92); line-height: 20px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 17px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.55em; ">But in the basement, Aldrey’s cousin, 18-month-old Augustine Pope, was discovered more than two hours after the fire began, alive and unhurt. The youngster was treading water to keep himself afloat in the flooded basement when a fire chief happened to look in the window.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 17px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.55em; ">“And I just saw these two eyes staring back at me,” Battalion Chief John Gribbin said.<br />Gribbin ordered an immediate rescue, and within moments the boy was brought out to cheers from bystanders on the street.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 17px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.55em; ">“It was a pretty sad night when we realized we lost the boy on the second floor,” Gribbin said. “I know everybody took that really hard.”</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 17px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.55em; ">“This is a good thing,” he said of the 18-month-old’s rescue. “I still didn’t believe that it happened.”</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 17px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.55em; ">“In essence, it’s a miracle on Vine Street because more lives weren’t lost,” Mayor Tony Mack said.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 17px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.55em; ">Aldrey’s mother, Evie Anderson, suffered a compound fracture to her leg when she jumped from the window. Two young children who escaped the home with another adult were treated at the hospital for smoke inhalation.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 17px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.55em; ">The cause of the fire remains under investigation by police and the county prosecutor’s office. Gribbin, the city’s fire marshal, is also investigating.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 17px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.55em; ">“At this point, we don’t have anything that looks suspicious,” he said of the fire.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 17px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.55em; ">Evie and Aldrey Anderson were asleep on the second floor of the house while young Augustine and his mother, Monkanjay Sengblah, along with family friend Mamie Deah and her 5-year-old daughter, Ferdisha, and Sengblah’s 7-year-old goddaughter, Bithia Jeanpierre, were in the finished basement.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 17px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.55em; ">Around midnight, Sengblah left the house to drive her boyfriend to work. While she was away, a fire broke out on the first floor, police said.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 17px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.55em; ">The blaze spread upstairs, and the house was soon engulfed in flames.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 17px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.55em; ">“So when I opened the door from my house, I saw flames rushing from the kitchen,” said a woman whose house has a rear entrance just feet from Anderson’s back door.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 17px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.55em; ">“But the fire was blasting out,” she said.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 17px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.55em; ">Neighbors raced into the house and woke everyone in the basement while Anderson escaped through the second-floor window.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 17px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.55em; ">At 12:18 a.m., firefighters were alerted. Engine 1 arrived four minutes later to find the first and second floors fully involved in flames, fire officials said.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 17px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.55em; ">Sengblah returned and pulled up to the house, saw it on fire, and desperately alerted firefighters about the children remaining inside the house.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 17px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.55em; ">“I kept saying, go upstairs, my nephew is upstairs,” she said. “Go downstairs, my son is downstairs.”</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 17px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.55em; ">Firefighters tried to gain entry, but the flames were too intense.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 17px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.55em; ">“It was a really hot, fast-moving fire,” acting Fire Director Leonard Carmichael Jr. said.<br />Crews struck a second alarm at 12:31 a.m. and a third alarm at 1:16. The fire was not brought under control until 2:52 a.m., Carmichael said.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 17px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.55em; ">Neighbors all along the narrow one-way street heard the commotion and went outside their homes to see what was happening.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 17px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.55em; ">“I woke up and saw a lot of smoke and heard a lot of screaming and saw a lot of cops,” said a neighbor, who asked that her name not be used.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 17px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.55em; ">“It was out of control,” she said.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 17px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.55em; ">Flames spread next door, gutting the second half of the duplex and threatening to jump across a narrow alley to more homes. Firefighters had the blaze mostly contained when Gribbin, who had been called in from home two days after returning from a long medical leave, walked to the side of the house.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 17px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.55em; ">“For some reason, I went over and I wanted to look in that basement window,” Gribbin said.<br />Pipes had burst during the fire, and the water, combined with hours of flow from hoses, had left about 3½ feet of water flooding the basement, Gribbin said. It was there that he saw little Augustine, struggling to stay afloat with his head nearly submerged.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 17px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.55em; ">“I started talking to him,” Gribbin said.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 17px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.55em; ">The boy waved. Gribbin called to firefighter John Barone.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 17px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.55em; ">“John come over here. I got a kid here,” Gribbin remembered saying. “Get inside man, he’s drowning! You got to get him out, you gotta get him out!”</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 17px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.55em; ">Augustine’s head slipped below the waterline twice as Barone rushed into the home. He got into the basement and grabbed Augustine.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 17px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.55em; ">“The little boy put his arms around John and hugged him,” Gribbin said.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 17px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.55em; ">Despite Augustine’s salvation, there is still grief for Aldrey.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 17px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.55em; ">“Evie was just crying when she saw me,” said Anderson’s neighbor. “Because every morning she opened the door for him to come to my house.”</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 17px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.55em; ">Both the neighbor and her mother said Aldrey was a mature, intelligent, special boy.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 17px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.55em; ">“He’s so grown up,” the mother said. “He had that ambition that he would be someone someday.”</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 17px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.55em; ">“He was like a grownup,” the neighbor said. “He was so sweet.”</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 17px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.55em; ">The neighbors knew Aldrey so well because of the close nature of the city’s Liberian community.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 17px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.55em; ">“They come over. We eat with them. They eat from us. We are family, together,” the neighbor said.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 17px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.55em; ">Anderson and Sengblah’s father came from Liberia and raised them in the Vine Street house. Last night, dozens of members of the Liberian community gathered at Father Rocco Park in Trenton’s North Ward for an emergency meeting of the Liberian Community Association of Central New Jersey & the Metropolitan Areas.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 17px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.55em; ">“Actually, there’s no Liberian vernacular that calls someone a cousin,” said Andrew Gursay, a member of the group. “It’s, ‘my mother’s sister’s child.’”</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 17px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.55em; ">Instead of that cumbersome term, even distant relatives refer to each other as immediate family members.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 17px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.55em; ">“So it’s my mother, my brother, my sister, my child,” he said.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 17px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.55em; ">The Liberians filled the bleachers at the soccer field, as group president Tarlow Miller spoke about paying for a funeral for Aldrey and a new home for his mother. A goal of $5,000 was set.<br />As others were speaking, Sengblah arrived, quietly filing into the bleacher row with Augustine in her arms. She sat among friends and her sister Saycon, her voice raw after a grueling night and day. One of the friends broke in to introduce Sengblah and Augustine.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 17px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.55em; ">“This is the miracle baby!” she said. Attendees gasped and applauded. Another woman stood up.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 17px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.55em; ">“I don’t have much to say, but I want to start with $50,” she said, offering a donation.</p></span></span></div>True Believershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14346957938240826970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6893042218735465119.post-61356960291928182982010-08-22T14:56:00.000-05:002010-08-22T14:57:51.652-05:00Thirty-three miners<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 18px; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; ">Thirty-three miners who have been trapped underground in a Chilean gold and copper mine for the past 17 days are all alive</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 18px; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans; font-weight: normal; line-height: 15px; font-size: 13px; "><p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Thirty-three miners trapped underground for more than two weeks after a cave-in said they are all alive in a message tied to a drill, Chilean authorities said on Sunday.<span id="midArticle_byline"></span></p><span id="midArticle_0"></span><p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">President Sebastian Pinera said the piece of paper was tied to a drill that rescuers used to bore through to the area where the miners are located. But he said it will take months to get the trapped miners out.</p><span id="midArticle_1"></span><p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">"The 33 of us in the shelter are well," read the message held up by Pinera on television.</p><span id="midArticle_2"></span><p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">"It will take months (to get them out). It will take time, but it doesn't matter how long it takes, but to have a happy ending," the president said.</p><span id="midArticle_3"></span><p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Relatives hugged and kissed as news of the message reverberated outside the entrance to the mine, where they have been camped out since the mine caved in on August 5.</p><span id="midArticle_4"></span><p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Rescuers plan to send narrow plastic tubes down the narrow borehole with food, hydration gels and communications equipment. Deep in the mine, there are deposits of water and ventilation shafts that could help the miners survive.</p><span id="midArticle_5"></span><p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Relatives of those trapped said rescue workers had found a message painted on a small drill used to perforate around 700 meters down into the mine confirming they were alive in the small gold and copper mine near the northern city of Copiapo.</p><span id="midArticle_6"></span><p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Rescue workers said a small-bore drill had reached nearly 700 meters underground and had perforated a tunnel near to where the miners are believed to have sought refuge.</p><span id="midArticle_7"></span><p style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Mining Minister Laurence Golborne said rescue workers would lower a camera and microphones in a bid to locate and contact the miners</p></span></span></div>True Believershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14346957938240826970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6893042218735465119.post-54866256553830098582010-08-22T13:03:00.000-05:002010-08-22T13:04:19.955-05:00Colombian Plane Crash: 'Miracle' Accident?<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/WN/colombian-plane-crashes-131-board-claims-life/story?id=11410601">http://abcnews.go.com/WN/colombian-plane-crashes-131-board-claims-life/story?id=11410601</a><div><br /></div><div><p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; ">The crash landing of a <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/video/american-airlines-remakes-boeing-737s-11359810" target="external">Boeing 737</a> in the Caribbean is being called a "miracle" by the region's governor. The <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=11410556" target="external">jetliner broke into three parts</a> on the runway, but remarkably all but one person survived the crash of an aircraft known for its improved design and relatively clean safety record.</p><p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; ">The Boeing 737-700, carrying 127 passengers, crashed while landing at Colombia's San Andres island during a thunderstorm, killing one person on board. Local police say the lone fatality was a 73-year-old woman who reportedly died of a heart attack moments after the crash.</p><p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; ">The Colombian Air Force was investigating reports Aires flight 8250 from Bogota to San Andres was struck by lightning before crashing at the San Andres airport. Of the 121 passengers and 6 crew members on board, 66 were injured and 34 were hospitalized. The Colombian Civil Aviation Authority reports 5 Americans were among the passengers. The National Transportation Safety Board says it will send investigators to Colombia to assist with the investigation.</p><p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; ">"It was a miracle and we have to give thanks to God," that only one person died, said Gov. Pedro Gallardo.</p><p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; ">Officials said 119 people were treated or checked at local clinics and five of them were seriously injured.</p><p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; ">"It was going down pretty fast when it hit the ground," said William Voss of the Flight Safety Foundation in an interview with <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/" target="external">ABC News</a>. "it's very hard to break an aircraft into pieces like that."</p><p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; ">Survivors of the crash in <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/story?id=7439117&page=1" target="external">Colombia</a> said everything seemed normal as the pilot announced they were landing. But suddenly, the aircraft hit short of the runway and slid on its belly as the fuselage broke apart. One Colombian official credited the pilot with keeping the plane from crashing into the airport terminal.</p><p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; ">The state government said in an e-mail that passengers aboard the plane that left Bogota about midnight included eight U.S. citizens and four Brazilians. Later, airline representative Erika Zarate said only five U.S. citizens were aboard, as well as two Germans, two Costa Ricans and two French citizens. They were not identified.</p><p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; ">Passenger Ricardo Ramirez, a vacationing civil engineer, told Caracol Radio that all had seemed normal, even though the plane was flying through a storm, with flashes of lightning, as it neared the airport.</p><p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; ">"The plane was going perfectly, we practically going to land, everything was under control," he said. The accident "appeared out of nowhere."</p><p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; ">The plane slid forward on its belly as the fuselage fractured and bits of landing gear and at least one engine were ripped off.</p><p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; ">"When we fell, we wound up on the pavement still in the seats, said Ramirez, who struggled to free himself and his wife from their safety belts.</p><p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; ">"We tried to get out of the plane because the plane was starting to shoot flames," he said. "In a few minutes, a police patrol arrived and helped us."</p><p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; ">Caracol Radio quoted Transport Minister German Cardona as saying the accident was caused by weather and not by technical failure. The plane, he said, had undergone standard maintenance checks eight days ago.</p></div>True Believershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14346957938240826970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6893042218735465119.post-89305969463588314122010-08-22T12:58:00.000-05:002010-08-22T13:00:03.344-05:00For those who cheat death, life is the light at end of tunnel<a href="http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2010-08-16/features/ct-talk-brotman-cheatdeath-0816-20100816_1_preservers-death-life">http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2010-08-16/features/ct-talk-brotman-cheatdeath-0816-20100816_1_preservers-death-life</a><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(41, 39, 39); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; "><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: inherit; color: rgb(41, 39, 39); font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; ">There is an invisible club out there, a web of people who have undergone the same transformative experience.</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: inherit; color: rgb(41, 39, 39); font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; ">We escaped death.</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: inherit; color: rgb(41, 39, 39); font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; ">Some of us survived a crash or accident; others, criminal violence. Me, I was in a freak hiking mishap. But one way or another, we nearly died — but didn't.</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: inherit; color: rgb(41, 39, 39); font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; "></span></p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: inherit; color: rgb(41, 39, 39); font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; ">On Aug. 6, two young women who survived a Lake Michigan sailboat tragedy joined our numbers. They were rescued after spending nearly five hours in the cold water. One of the two young men with them drowned; the other is still missing.</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: inherit; color: rgb(41, 39, 39); font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; ">As the young women go on with the lives they so nearly lost, they will make their own paths through shock, grief and the task of making sense, and possibly meaning, out of what happened.</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: inherit; color: rgb(41, 39, 39); font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; ">They will join those who already have.</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: inherit; color: rgb(41, 39, 39); font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; ">Laura Maychruk, of River Forest, was stabbed in the back 10 times by a man who attacked her on a street in Washington, D.C. Maychruk, then 27 and working as a researcher for the Tribune, was so close to death when she got to the hospital that emergency room doctors rushed into the parking lot and cut open her chest while she was conscious to insert tubes in her collapsed lungs.</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: inherit; color: rgb(41, 39, 39); font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; ">But she survived. And then she upended everything.</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: inherit; color: rgb(41, 39, 39); font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; ">She returned to Chicago, quit her Tribune job here, opened the Buzz Café in Oak Park and turned it into a center of the village's community life. She rethought her intention not to have children; she and her husband now have four.</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: inherit; color: rgb(41, 39, 39); font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; ">"It changed so many things in my life," said Maychruk, now 40. "The decisions I made from then moving forward were totally based on different things.</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: inherit; color: rgb(41, 39, 39); font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; ">"It is so valuable that you can really grip how wonderful your life is and how important every minute is. I'm so thankful."</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: inherit; color: rgb(41, 39, 39); font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; ">So is Bill Lipsit, of Niagara Falls, Ontario. In 2001, he and his father and a friend survived after their scuba dive boat sank off the Gulf Coast of Florida. They spent 46 terrifying hours floating with a few life preservers and bumpers in shark-infested, stormy waters before they were spotted by a search plane.</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: inherit; color: rgb(41, 39, 39); font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; ">Between praying and tilting his head back to drink rainwater, Lipsit re-evaluated his life. Up to then, it had been a somewhat wild one; he had spent his time after work drinking with buddies instead of with his family.</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-family: inherit; color: rgb(41, 39, 39); font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; ">But there in the water, "literally all I could think of was my wife and my kids," said Lipsit, 46, manager of a trucking company. "It's amazing how quick it can open your eyes when you're staring at death. You look at your life and realize how stupid you were."</p></span><p></p></div>True Believershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14346957938240826970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6893042218735465119.post-82247828124719012932010-08-16T09:05:00.003-05:002010-09-18T15:49:51.540-05:00People send in their Miracles......If you think you got a miracle, then send it. We are adults and do not need to make judgement. I will post after editing. <div><br /></div><div>Story 1 - the jacket</div><div>This happened today. Is it a miracle? There is no survivor or near death. You can decide.<br />Our unit at work won a unit award in the the winter. We ended up picking a rain jacket with the embroidered with our organization's logo in March. We got one shipment and the XL and XLL sizes were on backorder. There were a total of seven jackets order, sizes M, M, L, XL, XL, XLL, XLL.<br />James was the person ordering them and he and I were checking sizes to the original order. We had gotten three mediums vs. two. We thought someone would get the wrong size so we going to call the company about it. We got the shipping invoice and it showed the seven sizes with two mediums that were shipped.<br />We recounted again. Then James picked up there were eight jackets vs. seven. We had the right sizes with an extra medium.<br />Nancy came showing us her XL. She had lost 51 lbs since March. It was verry baggy. We explained that we only had this spare Medium. She tried it on. It was loose and looked great! She went from an XL to Medium for the first time since she was a teenager. The glow and smile were something to see. A custom miracle jacket in the order.</div><div><br /></div><div>Story 2 </div><div><h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsother"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">11:49am</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=563672330" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0068CF">Jack</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpotherecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">sorry</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">105 emails</span><span class="ecxemotetext"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">:P</span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black"><img border="0" width="1" height="1" src="file:///C:/Users/NUKEOF~1/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtml1/01/clip_image001.gif" alt=":P" class="ecxemote_img" shapes="_x0000_i1025" /></span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsself"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">11:49am</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">Leigh<o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpselfecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">sorry about what?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsother"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">11:49am</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=563672330" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0068CF">Jack</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpotherecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">i missed you<o:p></o:p></span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsself"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">11:49am</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">Leigh<o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpselfecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">I miss you. I could use a hug<o:p></o:p></span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsother"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">11:50am</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=563672330" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0068CF">Jack</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpotherecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">I bet. Me too. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">Can I make a confession?</span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsself"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">11:50am</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">Leigh<o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpselfecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">what a hell of a month. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">make a confession? sure</span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsother"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">11:50am</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=563672330" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0068CF">Jack</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpotherecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">yes it has been. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">well I confess that i believe in signs. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">sorta like the miracle blogs. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">so don't think i am crazy. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">maybe i am</span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsself"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">11:51am</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">Leigh<o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpselfecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">no, you not crazy.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsother"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">11:52am</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=563672330" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0068CF">Jack</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpotherecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">what was the sign that we were solid to be exclusive? </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">it came to me today. I </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">knew. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">maybe we talked. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">but i forgot. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">cause it is a miracle. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">take a guess.</span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsself"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">11:54am</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">Leigh<o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpselfecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">I am thinking it was because we never knew it could be that good.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsother"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">11:55am</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=563672330" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0068CF">Jack</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpotherecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">what was the miracle? </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">so clear. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">in hindsight</span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsself"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">11:55am</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">Leigh<o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpselfecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">timing was one<o:p></o:p></span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsother"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">11:55am</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=563672330" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0068CF">Jack</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpotherecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">timing in?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsself"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">11:55am</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">Leigh<o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpselfecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">our lives<o:p></o:p></span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsother"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">11:56am</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=563672330" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0068CF">Jack</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpotherecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">the statistical miracle w</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">as?</span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsself"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">11:56am</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">Leigh<o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpselfecxpicpadding0" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">yes, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">what was the chances</span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsother"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">11:57am</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=563672330" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0068CF">Jack</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpotherecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">what event separate others from you?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsself"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">11:57am</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">Leigh<o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpselfecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">besides 8 & 5...I work<o:p></o:p></span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsother"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">11:58am</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=563672330" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0068CF">Jack</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpotherecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">see. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">even you. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">like me. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">like millions. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">not see the miracles. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">like the miracle blog. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">let me back up. </span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsself"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">11:58am</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">Leigh<o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpselfecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">k<o:p></o:p></span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsother"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">11:59am</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=563672330" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0068CF">Jack</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpotherecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">i was supposed to go w L tonight to the concert. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">what event would change that? </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">or could? </span></p><p class="ecxpotherecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; "></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">Evie has wedding. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">she out thu-fri. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">fest tix bought in July. Thu was</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; "> big presentation. Fri</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; "> i cant take off cause she at wedding. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">so i cant go. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">on friday</span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsself"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">12:02pm</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">Leigh<o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpselfecxpicpadding0" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">right<o:p></o:p></span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsother"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">12:02pm</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=563672330" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0068CF">Jack</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpotherecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">to see the bands that i wanted to really see. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">i accepted it</span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsself"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">12:02pm</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">Leigh<o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpselfecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">yes<o:p></o:p></span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsother"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">12:02pm</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=563672330" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0068CF">Jack</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpotherecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">what happened mon? <o:p></o:p></span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsself"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">12:02pm</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">Leigh<o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpselfecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">death </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">of M</span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsother"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">12:03pm</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=563672330" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0068CF">Jack</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpotherecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">old Jewish saying. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">man plans, god laughs. </span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsself"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">12:03pm</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">Leigh<o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpselfecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">oh yes<o:p></o:p></span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsother"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">12:03pm</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=563672330" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0068CF">Jack</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpotherecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">i rem it. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">on mon. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">all these plans go away. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">i find Friday, i</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; "> not needed. watch dog. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">and i get to go. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">see the bands. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">millions say just a coincidence. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">but the miracle blog shows diff. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">i didn't or ever want to see her die. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">but it happens</span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsself"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">12:05pm</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">Leigh<o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpselfecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">yes<o:p></o:p></span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsother"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">12:05pm</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=563672330" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0068CF">Jack</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpotherecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">then jury. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">judge said trial in crim sex assault minor only be 1-2 days so not excuse me at beginning of jury trial for wed conflict. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">long questions by defense. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">to my shock they accept moi. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">then prosecutor in 10 min into questions. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">"could you weigh equally the testimony of a police officer vs a defendant". </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">i said I prolly have a leaning to the police because I worked with them for years vs an unknown defendant. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">the judge stops the prosecutor. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">first time ever seen that. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">say i have worked a long time in my comp. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">said i have set beliefs.</span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsself"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">12:08pm</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">Leigh<o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpselfecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">yes<o:p></o:p></span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsother"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">12:08pm</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=563672330" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0068CF">Jack</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpotherecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">and thanks me and dismisses me. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">certain not a miracle. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">you see. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">sept is like this connecting dots. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">then back to the concert </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">w L. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">it starts at 9pm</span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsself"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">12:09pm</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">Leigh<o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpselfecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">ok<o:p></o:p></span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsother"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">12:09pm</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=563672330" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0068CF">Jack</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpotherecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">she wants to go eat before. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">no prob. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">i get her tix. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">since not sold out </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">and cheap. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">then this. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">let me find the link. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">no email. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">nada. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">L finds it.</span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsself"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">12:12pm</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">Leigh<o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpselfecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">hang on...<o:p></o:p></span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsother"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">12:12pm</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=563672330" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0068CF">Jack</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpotherecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">i like have heart attack<o:p></o:p></span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsself"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">12:12pm</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">Leigh<o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpselfecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">let me open it first<o:p></o:p></span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsself"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">12:13pm</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">Leigh<o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpselfecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">oh wow...ok...so L. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">sends this...</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">k</span></p> <p class="ecxpselfecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; line-height: 28px; ">Charlatans U.K. Drummer Hospitalized After Collapse</span></p><p class="ecxpselfecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; line-height: 28px; "></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">Charlatans U.K. drummer Jon Brookes is hospitalized after collapsing on stage at a show Wednesday (Sept. 15) night in Philadelphia. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">Brookes keeled over part way through the band's set at Jackny Brenda's and briefly stopped breathing, reports<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.nme.com/news/the-charlatans/53013" target="_blank"><i><span style="color:#0068CF">NME</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:#0068CF"> </span></span></a>. A doctor in the audience resuscitated him, and paramedics responded, taking the drummer to a hospital. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">The band hasn't revealed what caused Brookes' collapse, but indicated that doctors expect him to make a full recovery.</span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana; color:black;font-weight:normal"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1266008657" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0068CF">Jack</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpotherecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">so amazing. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">third time this month. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">another sign. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">or miracle. </span></p><p class="ecxpotherecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; "></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; "><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsself"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">12:14pm</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">Leigh</span></span></p> <p class="ecxpselfecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">go on...<o:p></o:p></span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsother"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">12:15pm</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1266008657" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0068CF">Jack</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpotherecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">so i respond. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">omg. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">that it. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">we talk. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">then our miracle come to me. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">which was. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">Las Vegas. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">so clear</span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsself"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">12:16pm</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">Leigh<o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpselfecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">OMG<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="ecxpselfecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">YES<o:p></o:p></span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsother"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">12:16pm</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1266008657" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0068CF">Jack</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpotherecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">i am still stunned. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">all this morn. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">it is like Moses at the burning bush</span></p> <h5 style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 12.75pt; "><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsself"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana; color: black; font-weight: normal; ">12:17pm</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana; color: black; font-weight: normal; ">Leigh<o:p></o:p></span></h5><h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsself"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px; ">wow. </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px; font-size: 16px; ">now clear</span></h5><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px; font-size: 16px; "><br /></span></div> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsother"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">12:19pm</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1266008657" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0068CF">Jack</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpotherecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">and i could add grain work done just before all hell breaks out in sector. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">or the crane research which went viral 2 days after email friends. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">so i needed to get this to you. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">and there you are chat. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">cause texting would been hard. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">and email not efficient. </span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsself"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">12:20pm</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">Leigh<o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpselfecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">yes. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">you are right</span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsother"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">12:21pm</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1266008657" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0068CF">Jack</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpotherecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">so man plans, god laughs. o</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">r helps.</span></p> <h5 style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 12.75pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana; color: black; font-weight: normal; ">Leigh</span></h5><p class="ecxpotherecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">yep...</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">it really is. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">it is a miracle. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">how you put this all together is amazing in itself.</span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsother"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">12:22pm</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1266008657" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0068CF">Jack</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpotherecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">then the M death. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">conversation w father D. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">i said i never meet a person for 20+ years that embodied all the things the Bible said Christ was like. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">he agreed. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">her death gave J and C freedom. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">to announce single. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">and she got a nice guy. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">although 3 ex navy, prior enlisted among C and you</span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsself"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">12:24pm</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">Leigh<o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpselfecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">ha<o:p></o:p></span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsother"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">12:26pm</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1266008657" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0068CF">Jack</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpotherecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">just another coincident. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">never a miracle. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">yet statistically 1 in million</span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsself"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">12:26pm</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">Leigh<o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpselfecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">yes. h</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">ow long did this take you to figure out?</span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsother"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">12:29pm</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1266008657" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0068CF">Jack</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpotherecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">all this month. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">it is like how many miracles do you need to see. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">or are you like the rest. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">man plans, god laughs. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">and i just wonder what others are shown</span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsself"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">12:30pm</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">Leigh<o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpselfecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">and don't pay attention to<o:p></o:p></span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsother"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">12:31pm</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1266008657" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0068CF">Jack</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpotherecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">cause society always ridicules these as coincidences. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">miracle blog </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">shows differently. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">so nothing better evidence to see several in one month. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">right in front</span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsself"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">12:34pm</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">Leigh<o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpselfecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">wow...</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">I am still thinking about all this</span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsother"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">12:35pm</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1266008657" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0068CF">Jack</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpotherecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">big wow.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">can you send the chat?</span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsself"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">12:35pm</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">Leigh<o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpselfecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">yes. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">I am saving it</span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsother"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">12:35pm</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1266008657" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0068CF">Jack</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpotherecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">I want to see if they post it in the miracle blog</span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsself"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">12:35pm</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">Leigh<o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpselfecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">no problem<o:p></o:p></span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsother"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">12:35pm</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1266008657" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0068CF">Jack</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpotherecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">it not have to make sense to others. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">just us</span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsself"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">12:35pm</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">Leigh<o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpselfecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">true. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">i was holding my breath for a while there</span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsother"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">12:36pm</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1266008657" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0068CF">Jack</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpotherecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">i know. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">freedom</span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsself"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">12:36pm</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">Leigh<o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpselfecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">when you had a confession to make...I thought omg...not this... not now!<o:p></o:p></span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsother"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">12:36pm</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1266008657" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0068CF">Jack</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpotherecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">i am exclusive w Leigh. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">because I love you. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">and I see the signs. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">and we are so compatible. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">so any person will know this right up front. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">then we can talk.</span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsself"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">12:38pm</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">Leigh<o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpselfecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">yes...that makes sense... and yes...we have so much happen in tandem...so many things similar...it was a 1 in a billion chance we meet in the time of our lives that we did<o:p></o:p></span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsother"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">12:39pm</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1266008657" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0068CF">Jack</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpotherecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">yes it is. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">it be easy to see an event here or there and we pass like two ships in the night. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">never see or know we exist. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">one last thing. </span></p><p class="ecxpotherecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; "></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">Janny is my counterpart. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">she confessed a secret. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">cause people telling her crazy. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">last Wednesday. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">no one believe her. </span></p><p class="ecxpotherecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">1</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; "><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsself"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">2:42pm</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">Leigh</span></span></p> <p class="ecxpselfecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">hmmm<o:p></o:p></span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsother"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">12:42pm</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1266008657" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0068CF">Jack</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpotherecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">she saw something on Israel. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">she not Jewish. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">really fascinated her. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">hubby said ok. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">was dreaming of going maybe. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">then church group announce a special trip for 8 days the next day to Israel. </span></p><p class="ecxpotherecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; "></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; "><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsself"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">12:43pm</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">Leigh</span></span></p> <p class="ecxpselfecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">wow<o:p></o:p></span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsother"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">12:43pm</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1266008657" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0068CF">Jack</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpotherecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">then Monday she picked up mag w page turned to article on Israel. </span></p><p class="ecxpotherecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; "><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsself"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">12:43pm</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">Leigh</span></span></p> <p class="ecxpselfecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">that is a sign<o:p></o:p></span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsother"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">12:44pm</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1266008657" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0068CF">Jack</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpotherecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">she books the ticket. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">gets kinda made fun of. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">like why ya going. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">walking in street. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">paper falls in front </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">of her. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">she picks it up. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">about Israel. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">all in one week. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">so i said i believe in signs. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">and you have to do it</span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsself"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">12:45pm</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">Leigh<o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpselfecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">many make fun of going there? that sad. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">many people would have ignored the signs and not even pick up paper, etc. </span></p><p class="ecxpselfecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; "></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; "><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsother"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">12:46pm</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1266008657" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0068CF">Jack</span></a></span></span></p> <p class="ecxpotherecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">like told her they kill Americans. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">not safe</span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsself"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">12:46pm</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">Leigh<o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpselfecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">well, depends on where you go I guess<o:p></o:p></span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsother"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">12:46pm</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1266008657" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0068CF">Jack</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpotherecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">despite her saying this tour guide did 28 trip for churches<o:p></o:p></span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsself"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">12:46pm</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">Leigh<o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpselfecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">in group safer<o:p></o:p></span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsother"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">12:47pm</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1266008657" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0068CF">Jack</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpotherecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">ya<o:p></o:p></span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsself0"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">12:47pm</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">Leigh<o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpselfecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">that alone<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="ecxpselfecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">good sign<o:p></o:p></span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsother"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">12:47pm</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1266008657" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0068CF">Jack</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpotherecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">yet 35,000 die in cars here. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">risk is present everyday. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">ya got to have faith</span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsself"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">12:47pm</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">Leigh<o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpselfecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">yes<o:p></o:p></span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsother"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">12:48pm</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1266008657" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0068CF">Jack</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpotherecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">so hard sleeping last night. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">connecting dots. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">then no concert. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">was the final dot. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">among many dots, coincidences, or miracles. </span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsself"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">12:49pm</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">Leigh<o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpselfecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">maybe not last dot...we never know<o:p></o:p></span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsother"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">12:49pm</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1266008657" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0068CF">Jack</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpotherecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">true. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">more dots in a month. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">people look for signs for ever. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">many never see it. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">not sure why. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">there is a certain madness about seeing what others aren't. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">sorta like Copernicus who said the earth was not the center of the universe. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">they killed for heresy. </span></p><p class="ecxpotherecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; "></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; "><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsself"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">12:51pm</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">Leigh</span></span></p> <p class="ecxpselfecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">many people not believe<o:p></o:p></span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsother"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">12:51pm</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1266008657" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0068CF">Jack</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpotherecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">maybe the ghost-buster said it best. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">I used not believe in ghosts. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">but these last few weeks, I seen stuff that would turn your hair white. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">and that what i say</span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsself"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">12:53pm</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">Leigh<o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpselfecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">we saw evidence of ghost no one else believe so we don't tell...</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">no one would believe all these dots. </span></p><p class="ecxpselfecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; "></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; line-height: 17px; "><span style="color:#0068CF"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1266008657" target="_blank">Jack</a></span></span></p> <p class="ecxpotherecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">i know. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">so we ask to present case on the miracle blog. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">get people to see events. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">and maybe. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">maybe it sinks in. </span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsself"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">12:55pm</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">Leigh<o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpselfecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">people need to look and not just "see". </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">they need to listen and not just "hear"</span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana; color:black;font-weight:normal"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1266008657" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0068CF">Jack</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpotherecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">i agree, reading the blog made me believe. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">and now the dots are popping up all over. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">i cant explain the wicked. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">but i can see the good. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">maybe that is all people need.</span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsself"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">12:58pm</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">Leigh<o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpselfecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">"true believer" book<o:p></o:p></span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsother"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">12:59pm</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1266008657" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0068CF">Jack</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpotherecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">omg. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">another</span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsself"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">12:59pm</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">Leigh<o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpselfecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">yes<o:p></o:p></span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsother"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">12:59pm</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1266008657" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0068CF">Jack</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpotherecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">true believers. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">so easy an concept. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">another dot. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">among several. i ask mod to change title. send email. </span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsself0"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">1:03pm</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">Leigh<o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpselfecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">it is the planets aligning<o:p></o:p></span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsother"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">1:03pm</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1266008657" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0068CF">Jack</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpotherecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">hehe ya. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">so any chance you can email this?</span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsself"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">1:04pm</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">Leigh<o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpselfecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">wow...what a chat!<o:p></o:p></span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsother"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">1:04pm</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1266008657" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0068CF">Jack</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpotherecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">because talking i would have forgotten much of it. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">like usual. </span></p> <p class="ecxpotherecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">i love you<o:p></o:p></span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsself"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">1:05pm</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">Leigh<o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpselfecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">I love you too...very much<o:p></o:p></span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsother"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">1:05pm</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1266008657" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0068CF">Jack</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpotherecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">smooch, bye!<o:p></o:p></span></p> <h5 style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.75pt;margin-left: 0in;line-height:12.75pt"><span class="ecxtimestampecxtsself"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">1:05pm</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black;font-weight:normal">Leigh<o:p></o:p></span></h5> <p class="ecxpselfecxpicpadding" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in; margin-bottom:16.2pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:15.0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:black">xxxo later<o:p></o:p></span></p></div>True Believershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14346957938240826970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6893042218735465119.post-58956381369721373872010-08-15T13:41:00.000-05:002010-08-15T13:42:41.429-05:00Dog trapped in hot car takes matters into its own paws<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">Max, an 11-year-old Chocolate Lab, belongs to Donna Gardner of Macungie, PA.</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">n a steamy summer day when Donna accidentally left him in the <a class="iAs" classname="iAs" href="http://www.ksdk.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=211042#" target="_blank" itxtdid="23960211" style="float: none; left: auto; right: auto; top: auto; bottom: auto; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; background-color: transparent !important; line-height: normal; text-align: left; position: static !important; display: inline; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: underline !important; color: rgb(0, 100, 0) !important; font-weight: normal !important; font-size: 12px; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 100, 0) !important; border-bottom-width: 0.075em !important; ">car</a>, Max needed to send out an S.O.S.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">He didn't bark.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">He honked the car's horn.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">"He did it twice...two times," Donna said.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">That's because the first time Donna looked out, she didn't notice anything, so Max laid on the horn again.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">"I'm thinking 'Who is blowing the horn out there,'" Donna said. "I went out on the porch this time and there is Max sitting in the <a class="iAs" classname="iAs" href="http://www.ksdk.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=211042#" target="_blank" itxtdid="6603589" style="float: none; left: auto; right: auto; top: auto; bottom: auto; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: dotted !important; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; background-color: transparent !important; line-height: normal; text-align: left; position: static !important; display: inline; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none !important; color: rgb(43, 101, 176) !important; font-weight: normal !important; font-size: 12px; border-bottom-color: rgb(43, 101, 176) !important; border-bottom-width: 0.2em !important; ">front <nobr id="itxt_nobr_10_0" style="color: rgb(43, 101, 176); font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; ">seat<img src="http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/mag-glass_10x10.gif" name="itxt-icon-0" style="display: inline !important; height: 10px; width: 10px; position: relative; top: 1px; left: 1px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; " /></nobr></a> of my car. Well, obviously it was him that blew the horn."</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">Max's life-saving stunt has made him a celebrity of sorts, but Donna says at the time it was pretty scary.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">Max had been in the car for about an hour and it was 90-degrees outside.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">"I was hysterical. I could not call the vet, my daughter had to call the vet because I couldn't talk," Donna said. "I was crying. I just couldn't believe I did that to him."</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">After getting Max water and cooling him off with wet towels, Donna rushed him to her vet, Dr. Nancy Soares, whose office had gotten the emergency call and was ready for anything.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">"His cooling mechanism, which the only one dogs have really is panting, was pretty severe," Dr. Soares of Macungie Animal Hospital said.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">Dr. Soares says Donna did all the right things and Max did not need much medical care. Still, she says Max is a lucky dog.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">Dr. Soares says even with the windows rolled down on a 72-degree day, the car temperature can hit 100 to 120-degrees in just 10 minutes.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">"The mortality rate in dogs that suffer heat exhaustion is about 50-percent. It's a pretty high number," Dr. Soares said. "Lucky for Max, he saved his own life."</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">Donna says she doesn't know where Max learned to honk the horn.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 12px; ">She says she is not a honker, but obviously she is very glad he figured it out.</p></span></div>True Believershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14346957938240826970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6893042218735465119.post-16526713300598954122010-07-25T18:31:00.000-05:002010-07-25T18:36:44.308-05:00Black parents give birth to white babyhttp://www.postzambia.com/post-read_article.php?articleId=11908<br />THE stunned black dad of a newborn, white, baby girl declared last week - "I'm sure she's my kid ... I just don't know why she's blonde."<br />British Nmachi Ihegboro has amazed genetics experts who say the little girl is not an albino.<br /><br />Dad Ben, 44, a customer services adviser, admitted: "We both just sat there after the birth staring at her."<br /><br />Mum Angela, 35, of Woolwich, South London, beamed as she said: "She's beautiful - a miracle baby."<br /><br />Ben explained how he was so shocked when Nmachi was born, he even joked: "Is she mine?"<br />He added: "Actually, the first thing I did was look at her and say, 'What the flip?'"<br />But as the baby's older brother and sister - both black - crowded round the "little miracle" at their home in South London, Ben declared: "Of course she's mine."<br /><br />Blue-eyed blonde Nmachi, whose name means "Beauty of God" in the Nigerian couple's homeland, has baffled genetics experts because neither Ben nor wife Angela have any mixed-race family history.<br />Pale genes skipping generations before cropping up again could have explained the baby's appearance.<br /><br />Ben also stressed: "My wife is true to me. Even if she hadn't been, the baby still wouldn't look like that.<br />"We both just sat there after the birth staring at her for ages - not saying anything."<br />Doctors at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup - where Angela, from nearby Woolwich, gave birth - have told the parents Nmachi is definitely no albino.<br /><br />Ben, who came to Britain with his wife five years ago and works for South Eastern Trains, said: "She doesn't look like an albino child anyway - not like the ones I've seen back in Nigeria or in books. She just looks like a healthy white baby."<br />He went on: "My mum is a black Nigerian although she has a bit fairer skin than mine.<br />"But we don't know of any white ancestry. We wondered if it was a genetic twist.<br />"But even then, what is with the long curly blonde hair?"<br /><br />Professor Bryan Sykes, head of Human Genetics at Oxford University and Britain's leading expert, yesterday called the birth "extraordinary".<br />He said: "In mixed race humans, the lighter variant of skin tone may come out in a child - and this can sometimes be startlingly different to the skin of the parents.<br />"This might be the case where there is a lot of genetic mixing, as in Afro-Caribbean populations. But in Nigeria there is little mixing."True Believershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14346957938240826970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6893042218735465119.post-32818568492450856532010-07-18T14:56:00.000-05:002010-07-18T14:57:06.620-05:00Rome to rule whether St. Louis woman's cure was a miraclehttp://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/article_791b3e0d-352c-5ac1-aa61-6233a606c579.html<br />Rachel Lozano didn't die of cancer as the doctors predicted, and she says it's a miracle. <p>Not a miracle like a last-minute goal or winning the lottery. The real deal: the work of God through the intercession of a saint.</p> <p>Other Roman Catholics in St. Louis believe, too, and on Friday, the St. Louis Archdiocese officially wrapped up its investigation into the claimed miracle with a prayer service to mark the occasion. Boxes of testimony generated by the investigative tribunal — about 3,000 pages — will be sent to Rome, where the Vatican's Congregation for the Causes of Saints will examine the evidence.</p> <p>Lozano said she doesn't really have to wait. She already knows the answer to how her cancer was cured, and "medicine can't explain it.</p> <p>"There's just a peacefulness inside me," she said, "whether the church declares it a miracle or not."</p> <p>She attributes her remarkable recovery to the French priest Blessed William Joseph Chaminade, who lived from 1761 to 1850. If her case is indeed deemed a miracle, the pope could one day canonize Chaminade as a saint.</p> <p>"I just feel elated to be part of the process," Lozano said Friday before the prayer service.</p> <p>One miracle has already been attributed to Chaminade's intercession, the curing of a Argentine woman's lung cancer in 1991. The Vatican deemed that a miracle in 1998. Based on that miracle, Pope John Paul II in 2000 beatified Chaminade, a step toward canonization.</p> <p>Lozano attended Chaminade's beatification in Rome, and that was the foundation of her miraculous recovery, she and others say.</p> <p>"She was not feeling well at all," said the Rev. James Tobin, the pastor at Lozano's church, Our Lady of the Pillar, who went with her to Rome. "She began entrusting her health to the intercession of Blessed Chaminade."</p> <p>Lozano had survived several bouts with cancer, and even underwent a stem cell transplant, but in 2002, doctors found a tumor growing near her heart, lungs and spine.</p> <p>The news from doctors was all bad: Surgery would kill her. So would the cancer, in weeks or months, depending on which organ the cancer struck first. No one had survived a recurrence of this cancer after a stem cell transplant.</p> <p>But she lived weeks, months, a year. Scans showed her tumor, which she named Spanky, wasn't growing as expected.</p> <p>Eventually a surgeon removed the tumor and found it was dead.</p> <p>"It was pretty astounding," her oncologist told the Post-Dispatch last year.</p> <p>The Marianists order of Catholic brothers and priests found Lozano's case compelling and presented her story to the archdiocese as a miracle attributable to Chaminade, the order's founder. An archdiocese tribunal investigated, interviewing Lozano, her family, her doctors, and Tobin, among others.</p> <p>The tribunal doesn't make a judgment, just gathers evidence. But Monsignor John Shamleffer, judicial vicar who served on the tribunal, said God picked up where doctors couldn't succeed.</p> <p>"I believe in God's ability to do things we can't do," he said. "I have no reason to believe this is not a miracle."</p> <p>The tribunal's evidence is now headed to the Vatican. No one knows when a ruling might come from Rome.</p> <p>"We don't know the end of this process," Brother Michael McAward, secretary general of the Society of Mary, said Friday night. "It may end in the canonization of Father Chaminade. But what we do know is Rachel has been blessed by God with a cure."</p>True Believershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14346957938240826970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6893042218735465119.post-14012511699894801932010-07-05T14:49:00.000-05:002010-07-05T14:52:43.687-05:00Alsip police officer describes robbery, 'guardian angel' neighbor<p>By Steve Schmadeke, Tribune reporter</p> <p>2:01 PM CDT, July 2, 2010</p> <div style="float: right; text-align: center; padding-bottom: 3px; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-transform: lowercase; color: rgb(136, 136, 136); letter-spacing: 1px; font-size: 10px;"> <table class="cubeAd"> <tbody><tr><td class="adLabel">Advertisement</td></tr> <tr> <td align="center" valign="middle"> <div class="miscAd cube"><script language="JavaScript" 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<p>Taking cover from the gunfire against a low brick wall, Alsip police Officer Mark Miller watched dazed as brick particles sent flying by the bullets hit his face in what seemed like slow motion.</p><p>Less than a minute had passed since Miller chased an armed robbery suspect outside of an Alsip Aldi store on June 26, 2007, and into a residential neighborhood near the library. Children were out riding their bikes and, down the street, playing in a Little League baseball game.</p><p>He had been saved already by an Alsip woman who, on her backyard deck handing out Popsicles, shouted a warning — "He's got a gun, he's going to shoot you" — before suspect James Sevier could ambush Miller near a garage.</p><p>Now the magazine in his Glock service weapon was empty. As Miller reloaded, Sevier snuck up behind him, pointed a revolver at his head and said, "You're dead, Copper."</p><p>Then he pulled the trigger.</p><p>"I looked down the barrel of his gun from 4 feet away," Miller said. "It's only by the grace of God that he missed."</p><p>It was the type of crime that attracts little publicity — no one was killed, only $2,440 was stolen and the flying bullets damaged property not people. But Miller agreed to share his story, hoping to bring attention to the dangerous work suburban police sometimes do and what he saw as a case of the criminal justice system working as it should.</p><p>It<b> </b>was nearly 80 degrees outside when Sevier, then 42, walked into the Aldi store, 12050 S. Pulaski Road, wearing a black hooded sweatshirt around 7 p.m. The Bowen High School dropout asked two employees where the manager was, records show.</p><p>When they didn't answer, he pulled out a gun and said, "Do you guys think this is a (expletive) joke?"</p><p>This wasn't Sevier's first armed robbery. The Chicago man was sentenced to 20 years in 1984 for a series of armed robberies. During his time in prison, he was certified in "stress and anger management," but the training didn't appear to help much.</p><p>The father of four was on parole on federal drug charges when he walked into the south suburban store with a .38-caliber revolver, records show. He came from a religious family but had taken a different path. On his left arm are tattoos of both praying hands and barbed wire, records show.</p><p>As Sevier approached with a gun, the manager hit a silent alarm and ran. Sevier caught him outside the store and forced him back inside at gunpoint, taking cash from a safe, drawers and even the manager's pockets before fleeing through a back door near the loading dock.</p><p>That's where Miller, then 41, saw him. He had just returned to work after eating dinner with his wife and two children, then 3 and 1, when the armed robbery call came in.</p><p>"He looks at me; I yell, 'Police!' and like a jackrabbit, away he goes," Miller said. Sevier didn't run to his getaway car.</p><p>"This guy came loaded for bear," Miller said, noting that residents told police Sevier walked through the neighborhood earlier that day. "He went to that backyard intentionally, waiting for me, to ambush me."</p><p>Yvonne Shepard, 46, was supposed to meet her family that night for her father's birthday dinner at her favorite restaurant, but at the last minute she decided not to go. Instead, she was on her deck serving Popsicles to her young daughter and several neighborhood kids when she saw a man with a gun.</p><p>"I've been saying since the day it happened — this was all God's plan. We were all placed there at just the right time," said Shepard, a worker at the Nabisco plant in Chicago. </p><p>Shepard's cousin, a Chicago police detective, had been shot in the stomach while trying to arrest a murder suspect years ago, she said. And she didn't want the children to see someone killed.</p><p>She saw Sevier with his gun in the air about to ambush Miller, who was holding his gun at his side, at her neighbor's garage. So she screamed the warning.</p><p>Both men froze, and Sevier turned to look at Shepard for an instant — just long enough for Miller to run for cover. "(I was thinking) what the hell are you looking at me for?" Shepard said.</p><p>"Fortunately I had a guardian angel in Yvonne Shepard," Miller said. "She could've just simply grabbed her kids and ran.</p><p>"Had she not said something, I would've taken it to the back of my head. It's because of her that I was able to go home that night and see my kids again."</p><p>Shepard doesn't feel like a hero. "It was just my big mouth," she said. </p><p>Sevier stuck his gun around the garage wall and fired, with Miller returning fire. Alsip Officers James Portincaso and James Tyszko ran toward the gunfire as Shepard led the children to cover in her basement.</p><p>Portincaso ordered Sevier to the ground. The robbery suspect started to go down — then yelled, "(Expletive) you, cop!" and opened fire, striking the ground next to Portincaso. Sevier then opened fire at Miller, who was already out of bullets.</p><p>Miller kept his eyes on the spot where he thought Sevier was hiding as he reloaded. He was wrong — and says Sevier likely would have killed him if he hadn't first shouted, "You're dead, Copper," giving Miller an instant to duck through an open gate along the brick wall.</p><p>"I run into the backyard, I turn around," Miller said. "I'm thinking this is the OK Corral. It's going to be who hits who first. I've got no cover now."</p><p>Instead, Sevier decided to run east toward the getaway car — a white 1997 Chrysler Cirrus sedan parked at 119th Street and Pulaski. After a short pursuit, the car crashed into a Merrionette Park squad car in a Jewel parking lot.</p><p>Investigators found nearly 30 rounds had been fired during the incident. All five rounds in Sevier's Taurus revolver were spent, but investigators were not sure how many times he actually fired.</p><p>There was one bullet in Shepard's pool and two in her home, including one that was stuck near a chair where she had been sitting seconds before the shooting started. </p><p>Around 1 a.m. that night, Shepard's husband told her there was an officer at the door. It was Miller.</p><p>"We just hugged," Shepard said. "He said, 'Thank you so much; my name is Mark.' We talked and then we cried. He was a new dad. It was really an emotional moment."</p><p>At one point during the nearly three years it took to bring the case to trial, defense attorneys made an offer: Sevier would plead guilty to the armed robbery in exchange for the attempted murder charges being dropped, Miller said. Prosecutors took the offer to the three officers who had been under fire.</p><p>"I said, 'No way,'" Miller said. "I know how the system works; if he gets 25 (years) … he'll be out in six. This guy is going to kill somebody — he's not going to stop."</p><p>But Miller questioned the wisdom of his decision in March. After a three-day trial, jurors deliberated for less than two hours before reaching a verdict.</p><p>He and other Alsip police officers nervously returned to Judge Joseph Hynes' courtroom in Markham to hear the outcome.</p><p>When Miller heard jurors reached a<b> </b>not guilty verdict for the attempted murder of Portincaso, he felt "instantly sick … like I got kicked in the you-know-where."</p><p>The feeling lifted after jurors returned guilty verdicts for armed robbery and the attempted murder of Miller. He said Sevier turned to his attorney and shrugged.</p><p>"It was a joke to him; that's all it was," Miller said.</p><p>Judge Hynes had seen enough. The Bible college correspondence classes Sevier had been taking since his arrest didn't outweigh his years of criminal activity.</p><p>Last month, Hynes handed down a 110-year sentence.</p><p>"I feel that society is a lot safer now without him out on the street," Miller said.</p><p>http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/southsouthwest/ct-met-0702-alsip-cop-survival-20100702,0,2716620,print.story<br /></p>True Believershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14346957938240826970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6893042218735465119.post-20778097232854080352010-06-27T15:00:00.000-05:002010-06-27T15:01:53.043-05:00Toddler who survives 3-story fall 'might be the luckiest kid in the world'18-month-old Jeremiah Holt managed to survive a 25-foot fall from a window in his family's South Austin neighborhood home.<br /><br />Joanne Stanley has only one explanation for how 18-month-old Jeremiah Holt managed to survive a fall from a third-floor window in his family's South Austin neighborhood home.<br /><br />"It's like God had an angel over him," Stanley, a neighbor of Jeremiah's family, said outside the boy's apartment building in the 5400 block of West Augusta Boulevard.<br /><br />Sometime Wednesday morning, as other family members slept, Jeremiah tumbled from the window onto a patch of rain-muddied grass, bordered by a concrete walk and just a few inches from a gray concrete brick.<br /><br />"This kid might be the luckiest kid in the world," said Marcel Bright, a spokesman for Stroger Hospital, where Jeremiah was taken after his fall. Early tests indicated the boy didn't break any bones or suffer any other of the injuries that might be expected from a fall of more than 25 feet.<br /><br />"He's moving around like an 18-month-old kid," Bright said.<br /><br />The boy was being kept for observation overnight, but could be released as early as Thursday, Bright said.<br /><br />Outside Jeremiah's building, his pacifier still lay in the mud along with several mangled slats from the blinds that broke off and came down with him.<br /><br />Neighbors who gathered at the scene couldn't help but think about what might have happened had the boy not hit the muddy patch of grass.<br /><br />"He's blessed," said Gaberiel Valentine.<br /><br />Valentine found Jeremiah face down outside the apartment building about 11 a.m. Wednesday. The boy was conscious, but moaning and sprawled at an awkward angle, she said.<br /><br />At the same time inside Jeremiah's apartment, his family was panicking after discovering the child was missing.<br /><br />Having slept in late on his day off, the boy's stepgrandfather woke the entire household when he found that the child was not beside him, said Preeterraneika Lewis, the boy's aunt.True Believershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14346957938240826970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6893042218735465119.post-16783048415210295772010-06-26T15:29:00.000-05:002010-06-26T15:31:56.376-05:00Lucky Clover Found On UK Impaled Crash Survivor<p>Medics found a four-leaf clover stuck to the back of a young driver who survived a crash in Northumberland which left him speared through the chest by a fence post, it has been revealed.</p> <p>Raymond Curry, 20, was on his way to work when his Vauxhall Corsa overturned and rolled through a fence into a field near his home in Cramlington on June 13.</p> <p>He was flown to hospital still impaled by the piece of wood, which by chance had missed all his vital organs. Two other posts had pierced his wrecked hatchback, but missed him by inches.</p> <p>An air freshener inside the car somehow ended up inside his wounds, and was later removed. It was at hospital that the lucky clover leaf was found on his back.</p> <p>Mr Curry was recovering at home after having surgery to remove the stake, and earlier told the Evening Chronicle newspaper after the crash that he felt incredible pain and believed he was going to die. "I know how lucky I am to be alive," he told the newspaper. "I'd never even seen a four-leaf clover until this happened, so it was good timing, I suppose."</p> <p>Paramedic Jane Peacock, from the Great North Air Ambulance, was one of the team who treated Mr Curry, who was driving to work at Argos in Alnwick, Northumberland. She said: "By God, he is a very lucky lad. It gave me a good chuckle when I heard afterwards about the four-leaf clover.</p> <p>"On the scene he was stable but you do not know what is happening internally. I am delighted he has done so well. He was such a nice young lad. I'm chuffed to bits he was fine and there was nothing massively serious underlying once he was operated on."</p> <p>She said some of the post was cut away by a fire crew so he could fit in the helicopter. "The fence post had impaled him. He was absolutely remarkable as he was fully conscious. My heart went out to his <span style="text-decoration: underline;">parents </span> it must have been quite scary to see him like that."</p> <p>The paramedic said he even remembered to thank her when he was dropped off at hospital in Newcastle. "I don't think I would have been that polite," she said.</p>True Believershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14346957938240826970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6893042218735465119.post-48982314699641938792010-06-20T18:00:00.003-05:002010-06-20T18:10:38.512-05:00Teen Rescued in flood waters<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcK272IcI1cOoivj_Ji7mpecYld4Kg9YEjPWzjrzXkst3XLA3d5b-71nzjsIiQVJtGmPa6wE0PI21KxZ8LeWnQIAvXlBAbH_SzDaPm_5V_jcX0ZPa3u3BvzGPXuXz3oKUvF43iz7enCo0J/s1600/teen+saved+in+river.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 222px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcK272IcI1cOoivj_Ji7mpecYld4Kg9YEjPWzjrzXkst3XLA3d5b-71nzjsIiQVJtGmPa6wE0PI21KxZ8LeWnQIAvXlBAbH_SzDaPm_5V_jcX0ZPa3u3BvzGPXuXz3oKUvF43iz7enCo0J/s400/teen+saved+in+river.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5484997171285472946" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIbLxWLRY5XCSL8SjEaewdLPMQccSt3CxnAaF8hFHVzZLTcliIJUmIvrMJj-NGu_rU5KRcm_JWXGaxAT6U1tI8JIGFzfCbJwumHY_FX95M8PkRnVCNbYW9CFN_kDL7BLkI85aVckuZsTlw/s1600/teen+saved+in+river.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 222px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIbLxWLRY5XCSL8SjEaewdLPMQccSt3CxnAaF8hFHVzZLTcliIJUmIvrMJj-NGu_rU5KRcm_JWXGaxAT6U1tI8JIGFzfCbJwumHY_FX95M8PkRnVCNbYW9CFN_kDL7BLkI85aVckuZsTlw/s400/teen+saved+in+river.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5484996975131769618" border="0" /></a><br />The torrential downpour shattered an 80 year old OK city record. It was more than double the normal amount the city receives in the entire month of June.<br /><br /><p>Dawson told CNN's "American Morning" that she helped the woman get to a line of trees and then set off -- swimming -- to find help.</p> <p>Then Dawson got into trouble herself, surrounded by the rapidly rising, dangerously fast-moving water. The woman she had helped was rescued, but Dawson disappeared amid the muddy water and thick trees, and rescuers launched a frantic search for her.</p>Dawson told reporters, "I started shaking really bad while I was swimming and I thought I was to pass out and I thought I was going to die."<br /><br />The first group of rescuers to reach her tipped over their boat and were stranded alongside Dawson.<br /><br />Minutes later, a second boat came along, taking Dawson and the other three men to safety.<br /><br />When her first rescue boat sunk, Dawson said she remembers thinking, "'Wow, this is just my luck.' I kind of -- first I kind of thought I sunk it, but I didn't. It was the current."<br /><br />Dawson said there are parts of the event that she can't recall now.<br /><br />"I remember a lot of it, but there are parts that I don't even remember happening," she said. "Like I didn't remember going underneath the water. And I did."<br /><br />As for next time, Dawson said she's not likely to jump in again.True Believershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14346957938240826970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6893042218735465119.post-39845035221586962422010-06-13T19:47:00.001-05:002010-06-13T19:49:22.413-05:002 years old, 3 bulletshttp://www.courier-journal.com/article/20100613/NEWS01/106130002/1008/NEWS01/Erica+Hughes+|+A+Louisville+miracle+meets+her+rescuers<br /><br />Just 27 days ago, police detectives Rich Wilson and Thomas Barth carried a bleeding 2-year-old Erica Hughes from the Wilson Avenue home where her mother lay dead.<span class="aa"></span><p><span class="pp"></span>Erica had been shot three times, with one bullet entering her head and leaving through her cheek. Another entered her shoulder, and the third her leg.<span class="aa"></span></p><span class="pp"></span>She was so badly wounded that two other police officers quickly put Erica in the back seat of their cruiser, tended by two firefighter EMTs, and sped down Broadway to the hospital while other officers blocked traffic.<br /><br /><div id="adcontainer___gelement_adbanner_0"><div class="" id="__gelement_2"><script src="http://gannett.gcion.com/addyn/3.0/5111.1/895942/0/0/ADTECH;alias=ky-louisville.courier-journal.com/news/article.htm_ArticleFlex_1;cookie=info;loc=100;target=_blank;grp=41691;misc=1276476415866;noperf=1;key=CW49+CW3+CW422+CW16+CW17+CW258;kvcw=49:3:422:16:17:258;kvtitle=Erica-Hughes--A-Louisville-miracle-meets-her-rescuers" id="__gelement_3"></script> <iframe src="http://web.adblade.com/imps.php?app=2605&ad_width=300&ad_height=600&title_font=1&title_color=000000&description_font=1&description_color=000000&id=67&output=html" hspace="0" vspace="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" style="overflow: hidden; width: 300px; height: 600px; border: 0px none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" height="600" width="300"></iframe></div> </div><banner id="__gelement_adbanner_0" position="ArticleFlex_1"></banner> <p><span class="pp"></span>Just 27 days ago, police detectives Rich Wilson and Thomas Barth carried a bleeding 2-year-old Erica Hughes from the Wilson Avenue home where her mother lay dead.<span class="aa"></span></p><p><span class="pp"></span>Erica had been shot three times, with one bullet entering her head and leaving through her cheek. Another entered her shoulder, and the third her leg.<span class="aa"></span></p><p><span class="pp"></span>She was so badly wounded that two other police officers quickly put Erica in the back seat of their cruiser, tended by two firefighter EMTs, and sped down Broadway to the hospital while other officers blocked traffic.<span class="aa"></span></p><div class="article-related-box"><h5>Related</h5><ul><li><span class="docicon"></span><a href="http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20100613/NEWS01/106130004/Erica-Hughes-Louisville-woman-killed-tot-hurt-in-shooting">Erica Hughes | Louisville woman killed, tot hurt in shooting</a></li><li><span class="docicon"></span><a href="http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20100613/NEWS01/106130001/Erica-Hughes-Louisville-officers-recall-ride-that-may-have-saved-toddler-s-life">Erica Hughes | Louisville officers recall ride that may have saved toddler's life</a></li></ul></div><p><span class="pp"></span>Yesterday, the much-healed toddler showed the two detectives her lollipop ring — and wouldn't share it. She was released from Frazier Rehab Institute early yesterday, and the detectives and firefighters who helped save her life met her before she went before TV cameras yesterday evening.</p><p>The rescuers marveled at Erica's recovery, which has left her dancing to the tunes she sings and reaching for toys and candy. "I want to go bye-bye," she said.</p><p>"It's a miracle," said Sgt. Chad Greathouse with Louisville Fire & Rescue. "I'm thrilled to see her like this." He and firefighter Benjamin Vardeman were the EMTs who held Erica in the back seat of the speeding police car.</p><p>It's a memory the firefighters, both fathers, say will stay with them forever.</p><p>"With outcomes like this, that's what it's all about," said Wilson, one of the detectives.</p><p>"Twenty-seven days ago, there's just no way. Only by God," said Officer Steven Kelsey, who along with his partner, Officer Larry Riley, drove Erica to the hospital.</p><p>Erica's mother, Earon Harper, 42, was killed in the May 18 shooting at 1784 Wilson Ave. Louisville Metro Police continue to look for suspects, and no arrests have been made.</p><p>Since the shooting, Erica has had surgery and treatment at Kosair Children's Hospital, then went to Frazier.</p><p>Her grandparents, Harold and Judith Harper, who have been awarded temporary custody of her, couldn't thank the officers enough for what they had done. The Harpers credit the quick thinking of those rescue workers with saving Erica's life.</p><p>The road to recovery isn't over.</p><p>Erica has lost sight in her right eye completely. She now wears small, wire-rimmed glasses and will make regular visits to the hospital for more speech and physical therapy.</p><p>Still, her grandparents say, she's shown amazing progress.</p><p>They said she spent her first day home running around, dancing and playing.</p><p>The Harpers also will care for Erica's infant sister, Ebreona.</p><p>The girls' father, Nathanial Hughes, had asked for custody and plans to remain a part of his daughter's recovery.</p><p>Earon Harper had two other children, 13-year-old Eric Anthony and 17-year-old Ebony Harper. The Harpers are seeking custody of Ebony. Eric will stay with his father.</p><p>Judith and Harold Harper say their home got much more active with Erica's return. But they wouldn't have it any other way.</p><p>"We're just thrilled to death to get her home," Harold Harper said.</p>True Believershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14346957938240826970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6893042218735465119.post-41733217040772566572010-06-06T16:38:00.001-05:002010-06-06T16:38:47.343-05:00Driver was wearing his seatbelt at time of crash<div class="ecxfontStyle4"> <div class="ecxstory ecxlast"> <p>HAMBURG, N.Y. (WIVB) - News 4 is learning more about a 17 year old's brush with death this weekend when his SUV dove over a cliff in Hamburg.</p> <p>Officials told News 4 that Michael Davison was wearing a seat belt at the time of the crash. Police say the teen was not texting, or on his phone. They also say drugs and alcohol were not a factor.</p> <p>Officials say, 17-year-old Michael Davison swerved to avoid hitting an animal before he plummeted off a steep cliff into a creek. It happened early Sunday morning, on Lakeview Road in Hamburg. Emergency responders say the boy was sitting on the roof of his white Land Rover SUV when they arrived.</p> <p>The rescue took several hours. Many tools were used to lift the boy up safely. Officials and residents living nearby are shocked he walked away with only minor injuries.</p> <p>"It's about a 90 foot drop, a pretty treacherous cliff, has a lot of trees on it a lot of brush," said David O'Brien, Village of Hamburg Fire Chief. "No bad injuries actually, the car hit straight down and what happened is the airbags actually saved him and ejected him out of the car."</p> <p>"It's amazing that someone lived through that and that's what I hear that the kids fine and that's amazing, its a miracle," said a resident.</p> <p>Police told News 4 this was the first time an accident like this happened. Some neighbors say the road can be very dangerous.</p> </div></div>True Believershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14346957938240826970noreply@blogger.com0