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I write letters to my granddaughters all of the time in trying to steer them into a Godly direction of life. I have included one to a special granddaughter that I love very much, in the writing below that I have titled, "There is a lesson to be learned, in all of life". It will follow after my letter to her.
My Very Dear Granddaughter Heather, 10/29/2018
Still thinking of how I can be a help in your life as you are going through this change now, to hopefully begin a whole new and different approach to life. One that will allow for a successful conclusion at its end. This writing below is what I just finished writing and have sent it in to be on our website. I believe there is things I write about that will give you motivation and encouragement to be doing some of the things that will cause that to happen. I have an episode of you in it too. I believe you have what it takes to do it, in the new environment you are coming into. My concern and a caution would be, not to line yourself up with the same crowd that you are leaving behind.
When I knew it was time for myself to get my act together and change the direction I had been going in, that led me down the road that led only to heartache and failure. I had to give notice to everyone in the area that I was born and raised in, that my harmful to my wife and family, drinking and party days were over. I had to cultivate a whole new set of friends in my circle that matched more in what I wanted to become. My old longtime friends would still stop in and want me to have a beer with them, or to go out and raise a little hell, but I never did. So they one by one quit stopping in. It then became easier to stay on my new course of following the will and way of God.
Your brother Leith, my namesake, has been around our place quite a lot since he has come back to live in this area. We have had some really good long-winded conversations together. We have both enjoyed them a lot. He has mentioned more than once about how we have been blessed, and I have acknowledged it every time because I am well aware of that being true. I haven't told him, but I want you to know and to understand the cause of that happening. It is not by accident, I have been doing the best that I know how to do it, in following the word and way of God that I have been pointing out to you, for over a half century now. One big key can be found in Deuteronomy 28, the blessing and cursing chapter in the bible. Following the word and the way of God guarantees blessings. Turning away from following them and going against them brings on an automatic curse. I hope this will help you in what may very well become your last chance to achieve a happy, contented and peaceful heart and mind, that transcends all that this world has to offer.
With a word of caution here. Do not expect everything to immediately, in the blink of an eye, change overnight. It has taken you a quarter of a century to arrive here where you're at today. The sooner you begin changing directions in your life and life style that has caused you to be here, the quicker you will be able to see and feel as a totally different person, if you put God first in your life. Christ will come and live within you, and you will live and enjoy the benefits of living in Christ. It requires that we decrease ourselves and our all out importance, while at the same time, we need to increase the real and true importance of Christ in us.
I love you sweetheart,
Grandpa Cunningham
There is a lesson to be learned, in all of life
It is up to us individually to use that to our own advantage. A memory of long ago just popped into my mind, and it gave me pause, to linger on it longer than I should have. It opened up feelings of remorse and loneliness of a time and in a place far away from home and my new wife. I had been sent to Camp Rucker, Alabama to finish out my enlistment in the United States Army. I had been sent to Korea a year or so earlier to fight and die if necessary, for my country. I was a front line machine gunner against the brutal battle hardened North Korean Army and The Communist Chinese Army.
I didn't have to die for my country, but because of the extreme and brutal below zero weather conditions and the U.S. Army General Douglas MacArthur blunder of not ordering any warm winter clothing, and our food rations not catching up with us. Being on the front line sixty days straight and never getting inside out of the weather, it had drained about everything out of my body reserves that could be taken and remain alive. I was skin stretched over bone.
The military genius officers that they were, had taken away all of our sleeping bags and we didn't have as much as a horse blanket to lay on or to cover up with. At the end of a grueling, exhausting day of kill or be killed wading through knee deep ice and snow, either chasing the enemy or being chased by them. Being so hungry you could eat the A-hole right out of a skunk, but instead when it became night and you couldn't track down and kill the enemy, so, you just dropped down in the snow and ice bed where you already knew, that there would be no way to get any real sleep, only the never ending teeth chattering shivering that kept blood flowing and knowing for certain, we would have nothing to eat.
Until the squad leader in the morning kicked you in the ribs yelling, "Saddle Up". Not having anything at all to wrap up and take along with us, we were instantly on the move, it was by far the greatest, most difficult, mind numbing, and ghastly experience I have ever had to endure just putting one foot in front of another, attempting to spot your enemy before he spotted you. So, you could let him die for his country, instead of the other way around. I hope I never have to experience it again. I look forward to that future day when Christ returns to earth to establish the government of God on earth, known as the world ruling "Kingdom of God". To end all wars, for all time.
My feet had been frostbitten at the end, on March the 7th 1951 and on this certain day, the squad leader kicked me in the ribs with his normal, "Saddle Up". But, I couldn't get up, and stand on my feet, they had been frostbitten to the point that my toe nails were sliding back and forth on top of my toes. My assistant machine gunner at the time was a black man that had been in WW11 and as soon as He seen my feet he recognized them as being frostbitten, and told me I needed to see our company commander about going to the rear for aid. Thanks to him, my feet never got as bad as some other soldier's feet did.
I had gone to see the company commander, and we were always shorthanded and he didn't much like the idea of letting me go, but finally said. "OK, you go ahead and go, then get your f---ing ass right back up here". And then pointed out the direction I should go to find the aid station. I had to turn in all of my weapons, ammunition, machine gun and grenades and the like, down to just the clothes I was wearing. I couldn't go very fast because of the condition my feet were in and the knee-deep snow I had to wade through. A fairly long time had passed and I begin to wonder if I had become turned around. I had hunted most all of my life from about age 10 or 12 years old. I knew how easy it was to get turned around.
Up until now having been surrounded with other soldiers in my outfit, all loaded down with deadly weapons to defend ourselves with, I began to feel really alone and completely vulnerable. Like I was the only one left on earth, and maybe my time was up too. I couldn't move very fast and could have easily been tracked down and killed like a wounded animal. Or, worse yet, be captured and taken to an enemy prisoner of war camp. As these things played out in my mind, I became more and more concerned about what might be around the next corner or over the next ridge. I was beginning to get paranoid and became super vigilant to what was going on around me.
I suddenly begin hearing what sounded like a tank, and all kinds of yelling and screaming in an oriental language. The hair raised up on the back of my neck as I begin to imagine the worst, and especially so as the sounds were getting closer. I looked around for a possible escape route. I knew it would be futile to even try in my condition, I would just have to face the music. Within a short time, an M-24 American tank came into view, being covered with all of the wounded American soldiers it could hold. It was a giant relief and one of the most welcome sites I have ever seen.
The tank was pulling a Korean Army truck behind it filled to over-flowing with wounded Korean soldiers that had accounted for the yelling and screaming in an oriental language. There weren't any such things as roads in the area, the terrain was uneven, rough, and with knolls, trees and pot holes to try and maneuver around. The tank pulling the Korean truck had dumped the wounded Korean soldiers off their stretchers in the back of the truck and into the ditch. The wounded American and allied soldiers on the tank that were able, helped me up on the tank as we then proceeded on to the aid station. They had told me what had happened when they dumped the Korean soldiers out of the truck behind them. They were all in pretty bad shape from being jostled around and being reloaded again.
I ended up making it to the rear to a MASH outfit, where they ripped the rotten and embedded with grunge of every nature clothing off me, from going weeks without any change of clothing. I must have smelled like an outside toilet. I had some North Korean Army Tank attendants finger bones that I had taken out of T-33 Russian tank that we had put out of commission, as a souvenir that they found in my pockets and threw them away. They put me on a stretcher in a warm tent for the first time being inside and getting warmed up after 60 consecutive days on the battle field. With other more severely wounded and mangled men, where I lay thanking God for being out of hell on earth. As the wounded men lay in severe pain, crying out for some relief, that for some only death could bring.
I lay there after being cleaned up and having a change of clean clothing for two days. Before they sent me on to Osaka, Japan to an Army Hospital, to stabilize my body from lack of warmth and food. Where the agonizing and mournful cries of more severe frostbite cases trying to hold their blackened legs up to the knees and beyond off their mattress, to be able to somewhat get some relief from the excruciating pain it caused to let them rest on the sheets. Those images for some reason have been etched as in granite on my mind and in my heart.
In a few weeks they sent me home to Percy Jones Army Hospital in Battle Cheek, Michigan, where I spent the most part of a year recovering and gaining back a little weight. From there I finally because of my feet, received duty in a warm climate, and was sent to Camp Rucker, Alabama. Where this story began. I very seldom left the post alone without one or more buddies, but on this certain afternoon I had gone into Ozark, a little town in the area. I had, had a beer or two and hadn't run into any of the guys from the post, and I began to think of home and my new wife that I loved with all of my heart and soul. I wanted in the worst kind of way to be home with her, but couldn't. Uncle Sam always had to come first at that time.
It had gotten dark early that day in Ozark, Alabama, and I had lost track of time, as I walked through the deserted streets of this little town. I remember vividly about a chilly wind that was blowing papers, debris and objects swirling around in the air. I don't ever remember of feeling so all alone, there wasn't as much as even a dog barking and I was flat broke, except, I had one penny left. As I walked along heading out of town and back to Camp, I noticed a penny scale setting by a store front.
I had gone over and discovered it was one of those scales that also told your fortune. First you had to put in the penny and it would answer the question that you could see on the scale. You put the penny in and a shield slid back and you could read the answer. I took my time until I came to the exact thing I wanted to know, right at that moment in time. The question I had asked was, "WHERE CAN I FIND HAPPINESS?" I put the penny in, anxiously awaiting an answer. The shield slid back and there it was. The answer was, UNDER H IN THE DICTIONARY. It didn't solve my problem but it did sort of make me chuckle to myself. I had then gone on back to camp, thinking that I had gotten my money's worth.
In due time I was discharged from military service to our country, during October 1952. My new wife Nancy and myself begin then on working and establishing ourselves as a family. Because of my war demons and the boggled mind and after effects of war and all its many atrocities, I very quickly developed a self- medicating problem with alcohol. Along with it came all of the expected and unexpected problems that go with it. After about 10 years of struggle, then losing everything we had worked for and earned three different times. I had been worked over, pounded down, punched and pummeled around on the potter's wheel of God, to make me realize a powerful truth. A quote from Albert Einstein who said, "Insanity is, doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting a change to take place".
God was beginning to get my attention, there is a definite way to do things that cause a person to be blessed by God. At the exact same time there are certain other things that we do that causes God to instead of blessing us. He sends curses upon and against us. There is no reason at all to be overly concerned about it though, because He spells them out to and for us in Deuteronomy 28. Giving us the chance to get out from under the curses.
The blessing and cursing chapter. It becomes a no brainer to some, they just ask themselves, which do I want my life to be regulated by? Do I want God to bless or curse me? If we want God to bless us, just read the first 15 verses of Deuteronomy, then expect by following them to begin being blessed almost beyond belief by God. If we are happy and content in going against the first 15 verses, then read the last 52 verses on the curses of God, and if we are doing them all or a part of them, then expect the curses to remain and to continue on. Time marches on and passes by quickly, until one day we end up at the toll booth..
We had raised our family and our kids were having families of their own now. A responsible person should never outgrow being a parent once they have begun to take on that roll in life. Life should have given us valued wisdom, knowledge and understanding that should in turn be counted as priceless to our offspring, and the off spring on down the line, for so long as we live. And that is, regardless of what our offspring along the way may be thinking about it. That is the way that God has meant it to be. Once we have given our asked for advice or advice that we have learned well over time is good advice. Then we have fulfilled our God given right and responsibility. They can all chose to accept or reject it as it suits themselves. There-by either being blessed for following the word and way of God, or being cursed from failing to, and going our own way.
I have given my children, grand children and great grand children a ton of what I believe is good God centered advice. For the most part they are very respectful and once in a while I notice they are applying the principles that I gave them. I plan on continuing doing this as long as I am physically and mentally able to do so, I believe it pleases God. Animals are born with a 6th sense that guide them through life in everything they do. A beaver for example will always build a dam, he will never decide for himself after noticing how much fun the crows are having flying around in the air or living in nests in trees, to change his course in life and start to build nests in trees. No more than a crow would start building dams.
Mankind on the other hand, comes into this world dumber than a box of rocks. He or she has to be taught everything they will eventually need to know to survive. Once a person has grown in physical and spiritual maturity to a point that they have the ability to accept or to reject what is being allowed in their mind as the truth of God. This is a significant and extremely important factor for you the reader to understand, and if possible, to follow. Once a person has arrived at a point where they are totally and spiritually aware and feel the pull of the Holy Spirit in their lives. My advice is do not try and squelch it, roll with the punches.
You may be given the opportunity to make the personal commitment to accept, believe and follow the word and way of God. And in all sincerity if you feel ready for a change in your life. To ask the Holy Spirit to come into your life and to teach you the truth of God. At that point you belong to God, Jesus Christ is in you and you are in Christ. He will never ever leave nor forsake you. The Holy Spirit has been called by some as the 6th sense of spirituality. It will eventually bring everything that you will ever need or would like to know, both in this physical body life, and the immortal, spirit life to follow.
This brings me to my final and third episode of feelings of being all alone. Our granddaughter Angela had been a favorite of mine and grandma when she was growing up. We had a lot of enjoyable fun activity with her along the way. Grandma called her, "Her little Baby Sniggle-Fritzen". She spent a lot of time at our place growing up and she at one time helped me build a deck along the back of our home. I really appreciated her help and I would tell her she could quit and go play with her two sisters that were at our place also, but she wouldn't do it. She would tell me, "I'll quit when you do". I now have a bronze plaque on that deck that reads, "Welcome to Grandpa and Angela's deck".
Time had gone by and Angela grew up to become a rebellious teenager on into an adult. A sign of the times in our liberal society that has all but totally relegated our creator God out of mind and out of heart. At nearly 21 years of age, Angela's teeth caused her to look really old, they had begin rotting because of drug use. She had done to many things to her body that she looked and acted much older than she was. She had gotten into some trouble and asked me to bail her out of jail for the authorities catching her with drugs of some sort on her. I reluctantly had gone over to jail and had a conversation with her. Under certain circumstances I would bail her out and let her live with us. All of which she readily agreed to.
She had been at our place about 10 days and I was taking her back and forth to Traverse City for pee tests for any drugs, but things went along well until one evening we were all watching TV together and, on the break, I had asked her about her drug problem. She told us she had been on drugs since and during high school. I reminded her of our agreement of getting her out of jail for the express purpose of helping her to overcome her drug addiction. I asked her the name of the person supplying the drugs, and she refused to tell me. To me, that only meant she was still intent on doing more business with the individual person or persons. I told her unless she did reveal that to me, I would be taking her back to jail as recommended by the officer that had release her to me.
She left and went to her room in a huff. I had no problem with that, I figured she needed some time to reflect upon what she had said, and to cool off for a while. In the mean time I had called a long-time law enforcement officer friend of mine and ran the whole scenario in front of him, and asked for his input on the situation that he might offer, different than mine. He was of the same mind as I was, so I continued watching TV with Nancy for a while, until it seemed that to much time had passed, and I needed to go look for her, to see what she might be up to. I couldn't find her and became concerned to what she was doing.
I thought she might possibly have decided to walk over to her mother's place several miles away. I got in my car and drove slowly over to our daughters' home, looking along the road for her on the way. She wasn't there, and her mother and I decided to drive back to our place to see if she had come back or to see her along the road. Our daughter took one way back and I took another, to see if we could spot her. I had gotten back first and turned the corner off the main road into our yard, and was in no way prepared to see the sight that met my eyes. Angela, was hanging by the neck, in the big white pine tree in our yard.
She had gone in the dark into our garage where she knew I kept a big long one inch in diameter hay rope, about a hundred-foot-long and dragged it up into the tree. I don't know how she managed to do it, it was heavy and awkward to handle. There was a lot of excess rope she had to contend with, and probably by that time had become tangled up. But she managed to tie the rope around her neck and the other end around a big limb. Evidently when she jumped, it took up a lot of slack because her knees were touching the ground when I found her. But, the knot had drawn tight. I immediately checked her pulse and she was dead and was turning cold. I didn't want her mother who was close behind, seeing her in that position, so I ran quickly into the house and got a knife that I always kept really sharp, because I knew the hay rope would be hard to cut through.
Marty, our daughter, Angela's mother, came in just as I got her cut down. That is when the image that will always be etched indelible in my mind, body, heart and soul, took place. As Marty ran to Angela's body on the ground. She, by that time was out of her head in sorrow, anguish and grief. She picked Angela's upper body up and cradled her in her arms, rocking back and forth sobbing her eyes out with a great flood of tears flowing down her sad and grimacing face. My wife Nancy being witness to it all, and always believing myself to be to much of a disciplinarian, ran back and forth across the yard where Angela's body was lying, yelling out at the top of her lungs, "You killed her, you killed her".
At that instant in time as life itself seemed to be sucking itself right out of my body and soul, it was as the world had come to an end. The police had come and attended to the legal aspects and in the process, asked me if she had left a suicide note. I told them I didn't know but they were welcome to look over her room to see for themselves. The officer in charge found a spiral bound note book where she had written her last notes in. They took it with them as evidence. It read in part. My grandpa is an ass hole, no one is going to make me do anything that I don't want to do". Again, as many times before, I felt like a total outsider, that life as I had known it could never be the same again. I felt all alone at that moment of time.
I just wanted to be alone and went in and laid down in my bed. The only one at the time who had the sympathy, compassion or empathy to help me in any way, was Angela's sister Shelly. Shelly came and laid in bed with me, holding onto me and hugging me, talking softly from time to time but mostly letting me know she was there and gave me comfort that I will never forget. Now it is fifteen or so years later and life moves on, a lot of water has gone under the bridge. The authorities had called me into their office a few weeks later, to go over things. I knew from being aware of how law enforcement works, that they just wanted a chance to play good cop, bad cop with me and somehow have me to incriminate myself by not being able to remember exactly what I had told them that night.
I never went into see them, I had to hire an attorney to deal with it for me, which cost us several thousand dollars. That along with all of Angela's funeral and burial expenses. You may be asking yourself, why am I writing about all of this now. Things that happened in my life a long time ago? I will tell you why. I believe that all that God either sends into our lives, or doesn't stop it from coming into our lives, becomes a teachable lesson to those with open minds to accept it and realize that God is in charge of all things, and all of the time. All of my life experiences reflect, and yours have too, what we have become in life. Have they driven us to do good and to achieve, or have they caused us to wither and die inside, blaming God for our failures? I am not alone in having these things happen in my life. All that God either causes to happen to us, or fails to stop what is happening to us is for our own good. He has meant everything for our good and in the grand finale of things to come, we will all benefit from it. Most cannot understand this truth, because Christ has kept it hidden from them.
But God has given me the ability and wherewithal to bring it in front of the eyes of others. To let us all, know that we are never really alone in having to suffer things, once we have come to accept, believe and follow the word and way of God, and then taking the next step as one of His disciples. God has called me to be an ambassador for Jesus Christ and the soon coming world ruling Kingdom of God to establish His government here on earth. Since Christ has already told us that He will never ever leave nor forsake us, it should give us the assurance that we indeed will never, ever be alone, as Christ lives in us and we live in Him.
I have watched people die, I have helped move and been around multiple thousands of dead soldiers stacked on top of each other, where the weight of their bodies caused blood and body fluids to ooze out on the ground around them and the stench of death in their deteriorating flesh bodies stank to high heaven, making a person glad it wasn't them. I had handled way too many dead bodies of my comrades killed in action during the Korean War, defending our right to live in peace and plenty, as well as others throughout life.
I held the hand of my closest brother Glade as he gurgled, coughed and choked out his final breath of air, after a botched operation to remove a brain tumor the size of an orange from his head, in a VA hospital in Durham, North Carolina. After which His spirit returned to God who had given it. Then a few years later on, I was with my granddaughter Heather as I gave her support as we stood together and she held her little brother Jimmy's hand as he lay on the gurney in the hospital emergency room that he had just died on, after being hit by a truck.
Heather told him everything she wanted him to know, death is difficult to deal with. God will bring it all to an end, where the only thing left is life. Immortal, spirit life. We will all have life like God and Christ have life. God in mankind is reproducing Himself. Genesis 1:26 God says, let US make man in OUR image, after OUR likeness. This physical life journey is as a snap of the fingers compared to eternity. It is a training ground for maggot like humanity in comparison to God, to learn to become like He is. Jesus Christ emptied Himself of all divinity to come here to earth to experience being like us, so that we could all be as He is.
I have been asked if I feel guilty about our granddaughter Angela committing suicide and blaming it on me, and the answer is an unequivocal no I do not. All of life and death is the responsibility of Jesus Christ alone. Jesus Christ is our Lord and Savior that willingly took upon Himself the responsibility to follow the purpose and plan that God the Father and Himself laid down before the world began. As we can see again in Genesis 1:26 To make all of mankind in His likeness and image. Something He promised us before the world began, as we can see in Titus1:2. Our individual lives were laid out in a distinct and exacting measure. We have been given just so many days and we will not live one minute more than the time that God has ordained it to be.
It was time that God alone determined that Angela's physical life should end, it had been recorded down before her birth, she herself had nothing at all to do with it. It was the hidden forces from behind the scenes that God has put into motion before the world began. To help us understand more fully of what I am telling you according to the word and way of God, I have just begun to practice something myself, to bring it home to me on a regular basis. Remember this true point well! It is all about God None of us, not a single one of us can do anything apart and except by and through God.
To help me come to grips with that, when I drive down the road or look at all of the amazing man-made things that comes into my line of vision. The cars, the trucks, the boats, the sky-scrapers, the concrete ribbons we call highways, rocket ships to go to other places in space. The massive building reaching high into the sky, along with super planes that carry several hundred people around the world nonstop. Our military might with smart bombs and the like and other things we don't even know about yet.
I will look over and tell Nancy, look at all that God has made for us. The human mind has been called the greatest agency in the universe, for a reason. Because we human beings are reflecting and using the mind of God. We are creators just like our Father God. We have inherited the family business. Without God we can do nothing. With God all things are possible. God tells us that the flesh profits nothing. If the prettiest, most gorgeous, drop dead beautiful woman who ever lived, dropped dead in the morning, by the end of the day she would stink to high heaven and maggots would be eating her flesh.
-God has this to say about it-
Job 14:5-7 (NLV) A man's days are numbered. You know the number of his months. He cannot live longer than the time You have set. 6 So now look away from him that he may rest, until he has lived the time set for him like a man paid to work. 7 "For there is hope for a tree, when it is cut down, that it will grow again, and that its branches will not stop growing.Psalm 139:16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.
In like manner, we are cut down, we die and our spirit returns to God who gave it to us. Our spirit to be absorbed back into God from whence it came, waiting on the resurrection's. Whether it be months, years, or multiple centuries, there will be no conscience thought of it in our minds that are as dead as a door nail. From our death to our resurrection will be as a snap of the fingers, no matter the length of time between the two. It will be as in the same instant of time, from our death to our resurrection.
How many days do I have left? How many days do you have left? I don't know. No one does, except God. He knows the exact number of years, days, hours and seconds that I will occupy my address on Planet Earth; the exact moment that my death will occur.
Now that may not seem like a cheery thought to you, and in fact, most people would find that sobering, at best, and frightening, at worst. Not me. I find great comfort and security in knowing that God has my life so ordered that I will neither die a day sooner nor live a day longer than what has already been recorded in his book. You see, life and death are far above my pay grade, so I will happily let Father God take care of that department, thank you very much.
So, if I truly and correctly understand this profound truth, then I am freed from the fear of death to fully live the life that God has planned for me. I can enjoy an intimate walk with the One who is intimately involved in each minor detail of my day.
So, let us all learn the lessons of life that God brings into our lives on a regular daily basis. Don't work overtime trying to dig out the negative aspect of everything that happens to you, or is a constant irritation. God has sent it into your life to see what your response will be, like some folks see a glass half full while others see it half empty. Two little kids at the waters edge, a big wave comes in and splashes them both really good. One little boy jumps up and down and is happier that a woodpecker in a lumber yard, because it tickled him so much. The other little boy through himself down on the ground in a fit of rage and begin pounding the ground. Because he didn't want to get wet. We need to learn to roll with the punches.
-Let everything God brings into our lives, serve its intended good purpose-
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This was an small group show in TCNJ's old art building, Holman Hall. Our senior thesis class were randomly placed into groups and had to create an exhibit either showing individual work together or creating a group piece. Seeing how three of us were photographers and I was the only non-photographer, we decided to explore the difference between photography and digital painting. So we placed one photo from each photographer next to my painting of their photo to see if anyone would be able to tell the difference with the enforced distance of the glass case. In some ways it was successful in fooling much of our class to assume they were both photographs, in other ways, it fails because they couldn't tell the difference. However, I am proud enough to create convincing copies of photographs through digital painting and learned a lot about it in the process.


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Anton says to me while holding my face between his hands and kissing me in between: "We did it! Babe, we did it!"
Christie: "Yes, we did!"
Anton: (slowly) We're a family now...
Christie: (confirming) We're a family...
Big sigh, big kiss and the next thing you see is us getting in the limo to head to the reception. (Which was the most fun I've had in YEARS!)
Fast forward six years: Whew did that fly by! But it has been the best of times and the hardest of times, as with any marriage. Wish they had given us a handbook for this stuff. Still, I cannot imagine my life with another and I adore AB beyond expression. I cannot wait until we are parents to Keira and get to experience seeing each other in that way.
Meanwhile, AB and I planned to go to a nice dinner tomorrow night to celebrate, and have had gifts sitting for each other on top of our piano for a couple weeks. (The suspense is killing me!) Meanwhile, I was puttering away on my computer and working when the doorbell rang and what to my wondering eyes should appear? Two dozen ivory roses with purple sprigs mixed in and a beautiful vase. Along with it was a balloon that said "I love you" and a card that read:
"I love you...Now let's do another 60 years!"
My gawd, he's dreamy!
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You need to set time limits for when you want to achieve the goals you worked out in the previous step.
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The current enrollment is about 1850 full-time undergraduates and 375 graduate students.
Our student body represents 45 states and 30 countries.
86% return for their sophomore year; 75% graduate in five years. Both numbers are well above the national average.
About 24% of our undergraduates represent students of underrepresented groups.
For the 2017 - 2018 academic year: $44,800 for tuition, and $13,650 for room and board. This includes housing and a regular meal plan. The following link has Information for Physician Assistant program costs. We do not have extra costs for parking, use of our sports center, technology, etc., but there are additional charges for labs and studio fees in certain science, music and art classes. Here is a link for a comprehensive list of costs and fees.
The college is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. Specific portions of Wagner's academic program have recognition and accreditation by national professional agencies such as the Association of Collegiate Business Schools and Programs, the National League for Nursing, the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education, the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education and the American Chemical Society.
Applying to Wagner
On average, our applicants have an 90 (or 3.5) GPA from a strong college preparatory curriculum and a 1200 SAT and/or 26 ACT. If a student believes that their SAT or ACT scores do not reflect their academic ability, they do not need to submit them as part of the application. For accreditation reasons, students applying to the Physician Assistant program are required to submit either SAT or ACT scores. International students must show English language proficiency by supplying official test scores. The minimum required iBT TOEFL is 81; the required minimum IELTS band score is 6.5.
Our Early Action deadline is December 1st and Regular Decision is February 15th. Physician Assistant applicants and Theatre Performance applicants must have a completed application submitted on or before December 1st. Music applicants interested in attending our Audition Day need to submit their completed application by December 1st.
Early Action students hear from us by January 15. Because Wagner is a selective college, we do not have rolling admission. Applicants who apply Regular Decision will be notified at the beginning of March.
Wagner has a merit-based system for scholarships, and these awards are based on all material submitted for admission; which includes official transcripts and test scores, class rank, letters of recommendation, personal essay, activities/extracurricular lists, and interview (recommended).
We use the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). The form is available after October 1st and we recommend sending the form in by January 15. The code for Wagner is 002899. For more detailed information about financial aid at Wagner, please visit the Office of Financial Aid. About 95 % of students receive institutional aid at Wagner. Families looking for an early estimate of their financial aid package should use the Net Price Calculator.
For the incoming fall 2017 freshmen class:
- 2,700 applicants
- 1,900 admitted
- 440 enrolled
All potential students interested in majoring in Theatre must send in a completed application by December 1. Students who are seeking a music scholarship are required to submit an application prior to December 1st in order to schedule an audition. You need not be a Music major to qualify for a music scholarship. You must first submit your completed admissions application to the Admissions Office for academic review prior to scheduling an audition date.
You will get Wagner credit for any AP tests where you score a 4 or 5. Students who present scores of 5 or better on the IB higher level examinations may be granted advanced standing and/or credit. Wagner does not evaluate college courses for transfer unless the class was taken at the college or university and led by a professor with other college students in attendance. Typically, courses taken before graduation from high school are not transferable, but are usually viewed as a more challenging course by the admissions committee. Please contact the Admissions Office directly should you have any questions.
An interview is recommended, but not required. We do suggest that if you come for a tour, you also request an interview. It allows an opportunity for your admissions counselor to ask any questions he or she may have about your application. The following link has more information about scheduling a campus visit.
The TOEFL is required for undergraduate international applicants. The minimum score is a 81 on the TOEFL iBT or a minimum score of 6.5 on the IELTS exam to be considered for admission. We do not offer ESL classes on campus.
Yes! Transfer students will receive a Preliminary Transfer Credit Evaluation if you are admitted to the College. Each course will be reviewed by the Registrar's Office to determine transfer credit eligibility. Typically, only courses in which a grade of C or higher was earned will be transferred. Up to 18 units may be awarded to a student who has earned an acceptable Associate's Degree from an accredited two-year college. Up to 27 units may be awarded to a student who has attended an accredited four-year institution. Junior class standing at Wagner College requires a minimum of 17 units.
Wagner does not evaluate college courses for transfer unless the class was taken at the college or university and led by a professor with other college students in attendance. Typically, courses taken before graduation from high school are not transferable, but are usually viewed as a more challenging course by the admissions committee.
A unit is how we measure credit hours at Wagner College. Most classes at Wagner will count for one unit. For example, a student who is registered for 4 units in a semester is taking 4 classes.
Learning at Wagner
Our current student teacher ratio is 14:1; our classes are taught by our professors exclusively, not graduate/teaching assistants. The average class size at Wagner is 17. A typical first-year class at Wagner has 20-25 students.
We allow admitted students to sit in on a class visit at a Wagner Experience Day during the spring semester. Wagner Experience Day information will be sent to all admitted students, but for more information please contact your admissions counselor.
While we do not have a formalized LD program, we do work with students on an individual basis from the point of application to ensure we have the counseling or services necessary in our Advisement Center.
We do have an honors program, which is not a separate honors college but a very individualized program. Top scholarship recipients are invited to join our honors program by invitation.
Living at Wagner
Housing is guaranteed as long as you apply to the College as a resident student and follow our deadlines for returning the housing contract and questionnaire as part of the New Student Form. You must also follow the policies of the Housing lottery each year. Over 80% of our undergraduates reside on campus, and most students live in our residence halls for the four years.
Approximately 15% of our undergraduates are involved in our fraternities and sororities.
Yes! Our Center for Academic and Career Engagement (centrally located for easy access in our Student Union) offers everything from running seminars to prepare you for an interview to resume preparation to counseling on which position is right for your goals.
We absolutely have internships! Wagner starts out with experiential learning in the first semester, and then progresses to internships, study abroad, etc. All seniors must complete an internship or practicum in their major area of study. For more information, please also see the Wagner Plan section of this site.
All students are permitted to have a car on campus; it must be registered with the Public Safety Office. However, parking is limited, and we would encourage you not to bring your own car if you are living on campus. Wagner provides a campus shuttle that takes students to the Staten Island Ferry, which transports people to and from Manhattan. Staten Island has an extensive public transportation system; one bus line stops at the main entrance to the college. Taxi and car services are also available.
Wagner competes at the NCAA Division I level for all athletic teams. To learn more about our teams, view team schedules, and find coaches' contact information, visit wagnerathletics.com.
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Associate Professor of Psychological Science &
Program Coordinator MSIOP Program
Industrial-Organizational Psychology
Austin Peay State University
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I received my PhD in Experimental Psychology with a concentration in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from The University of Memphis. As an Assistant Professor of Psyc Science and core faculty member of the I-O Master's program at APSU, I enjoy teaching undergraduate and Master's students "on ground" and online. In addition to teaching, I have served on various campus, community, and local business projects through my work with APSU and the Center for Research on Women at The University of Memphis. I have worked on various applied projects related to highway safety, healthcare, and the U.S. Navy. My research interests include work-life interaction, stress, corporate social responsibility, quality of (work) life, teaching in the psychological discipline, and graduate program administration. I also strive to promote the dissemination of timely empirical research to empower individuals to make informed decisions about their health, safety, well-being, and work life.
I currently teach:
- Introduction to Psychology (PSY 1010)
- Psychology Applied to Work (PSY 4500, an intro to Industrial-Organizational Psychology)
- Personnel Psychology (PSY 5580)
- Personnel Assessment & Selection (PSY 5520)
- Performance Management (PSY 5510)
- Occupational Health Psychology (PSY 6030)
I'm also available to mentor undergraduate and graduate independent research and internships on a case by case basis.
Most recently, my research lab focused on work-life interaction in academia. More specifically, we created an online survey instrument to investigate university faculty and staff experiences and attitudes regarding parental leave. Every student in the lab worked on literature review, item development, and creating the online survey, including branching and logic, in Qualtrics. The Work-Life Interaction Lab presented their work on the "PLEA" survey (Parental Leave Experiences and Attitudes) in multiple poster presentations at the annual River Cities Industrial-Organizational Psychology Conference (RCIO) in Chattanooga, TN. The PLEA was later adopted by another university, in consultation with the WLI Lab, to assess their own parental leave climate. Additional research interests emerging in the lab include investigating various antecedents and outcomes (e.g., training, coping, conflict, stress, burnout) associated with the interaction between our work and non-work domains from the unique perspective of higher education students and faculty of all levels.
My lab is comprised of smart, driven, conscientious students who are eager and committed to making the most of their research experience. Interested in joining us? Undergrad and grad students are welcome to join the research team, but positions are limited! If you are interested, please email me directly to learn more. Accepting new students Fall 2019.
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Shinya Nakano to race for Aprilia in 2009
Shinya Nakano now completes Aprilia's team for the 2009 World Superbike Championship after signing a contract for 2009 with the possibility to carry over to 2010. The event took place yesterday after the racer visited the Racing Department of Noale. Apparently, that wasn't a tough decision to take as the idea of racing side by side with Max Biaggi thrills Nakano.
Press release after the break
Press release:
Shinya Nakano, born in Chiba on October 10th 1977, is a pilot of great experience that boasts ten seasons in the World Championship: like two in 250 cc - category in which he was vice champion of the world in 2000 - one in 500 cc and well seven in MotoGP. With the GP of Valencia, raced last Sunday, Nakano has closed the season 2008 with 126 points, occupying the ninth position in the final classification of the Moto GP, with Honda, Team Gresini Racing.
After the signature Shinya Nakano declared: "I am happy indeed, for me it is a joy to belong to the great family of Aprilia. Here I have found a big tradition and extraordinary competence in the races that Aprilia faces with high professionalism, the 33 world titles won up to today are the confirmation of it. The Superbike is a new challenge that fills me with new challenges, I want to risk all of my experience to grow for the new project of Aprilia RSV4. It will be a honor to be able to race beside Max Biaggi, he is a hero of mine and he was an inspiration to me in the first phases of my career, I am sure that together we will succeed in developing the best motorbike and to already get good results in the season 2009".
"With the arrival of Nakano - Leo Francesco Mercanti who is responsible of the development for the products and racing activities of the Piaggio Group has commented - we have settled another box for a important and ambitious project like that of the development of the superbike RSV4 and of his twin destined to the races. We provide a team of pilots of high-level we set high ambitious goals to reach. I believe that Nakano can find with Aprilia the correct encouragement to reach for the top. We have trust regarding his talent in this competition, and his experience in the development of a motorbikes he wants to show all the technological advantages and the sophistication that's the attitude for the project RSV4".
With the engagement of Nakano - said Giampiero Sacchi, Sport Director of the Piaggio Group - we complete the team for the World Superbike 2009. Aprilia faces difficult competition having as adversaries the greatest world constructors, it is a hard but fascinating challenge that needs interpreters of before greatness: Biaggi and Nakano are a couple of pilots at the same time fast, competitive and of great experience. This is the top for an innovative, technological project, being ambitious in sport like Aprilia RSV4"
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• 2 Chinese sausage (can get it from Asian market)
• 2 cakes medium firm tofu
• 1 spring onion, cut into 1 inch sections
• 1 red chili, thinly sliced
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon soy sauce
• 0.8 cup water
• 3 cup cooking oil
• 1 teaspoon cornstarch dissolved in 1 tablespoon water
• Pinch of MSG
1. Put in the Chinese sausage into a steamer, steam for 12 minutes. Cut them diagonally into thin slices
2. Cut the tofu into 12 square pieces.
3. Heat up wok and cooking oil over medium heat. Fried tofu for 3 minutes until golden brown. Drain with paper towels and set aside
4. Heat wok and 1 teaspoon cooking oil. Stir fry spring onion and red chili for about 2 minutes. Add in salt, soy sauce, water and fried tofu. Stir and simmer for 5 minutes over medium heat
5. Add in Chinese sausages and cornstarch mixture. Stir well until sauce is thickened
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Chevrolet Silverado Defects
The Chevrolet Silverado is a popular pickup truck model across the United States. However, the Chevy Silverado also has seen its fair share of recall issues over the years. In fact, in 2014 alone, numerous aspects of the vehicle were reported as malfunctioning or defective to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Some of these issues could even lead to rollover accidents, among the most dangerous accidents possible for drivers. But the attorneys of Willis Law Firm know that some victims of rollover accidents in a Chevy Silverado pickup rollovers and defects may be entitled to receive financial compensation for their subsequent costs in a personal injury lawsuit.
Recall Issues with Chevy Silverado
A vehicle might be recalled for any number of reasons. However, those issues that might make a rollover accident more likely are among the most serious. According to the NHTSA, the Chevy Silverado has experienced malfunctions involving the following parts:
- Electrical system failure's and fires
- Instability leading to loss of control
- Roof Failure in a Rollover Accidents
- Airbag Deployment Problems
- Seat Belt Buckle Failure / Seat Belt Retractor Defects
- Remote Starts Deaths
All of these components of the Chevy Silverado have had complaints made about them by consumers, according to NHTSA statistics. Keep in mind that a vehicle with defective parts is at a higher risk of accidents, including rollover accidents.
Contact a Rollover Accident Attorney Today
If you or someone you know has been injured in a rollover accident involving a Chevrolet Silverado, then you could be entitled to financial compensation. The attorneys of Willis Law Firm can help answer any questions that you have as well as evaluate the state of your legal claim. Contact our offices today by calling 1-800-883-9858
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e-Receipts Available at LOC
More and more retailers and service providers are offering customers the option to have their transaction receipts emailed to them. LOC now offers members the option to have their transaction receipts emailed to them.
There are several advantages to this option:
- Reduces paper
- Reduces clutter
- Provides better security
- Searchable in email based on the retailer/service provider, date, description, etc.
- You can also set up a folder in your email system and store receipts there for future reference
What email address is the receipt sent to?
The default is the email address we have on file for you. If you do not have an email on file or would prefer the receipt to go a different email address, you are able to add/update the email for the transaction receipt. It's important to note that this does not change your email address of record. If you wish to update your email address, you can ask a representative to do that for you, or our can update it in online banking.
Are account numbers included on the receipt?
Like paper receipts, the account number is masked and only the last three digits of the account number appear.
Does the same information appear on an e-receipt that would appear on a paper receipt?
With the exception of the your signature, the same information appears
How quickly does the receipt get emailed/delivered to the member?
e-Receipts arrive almost instantly after they are sent. However, this will depend on your email service provider.
If I would like a paper copy of a receipt later, is LOC able to provide this?
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Fresh off the back of their latest calamitous chapter comes this shiny new Tank Girl tale from series creator Alan Martin and artist extraordinaire, Brett Parson! Expect a healthy dose of delirium and plenty of ball-crunching action in this high-octane cross-country skirmish that asks the question: is this world really big enough for two Tank Girls? Strap yourself in, folks; It's gonna be one helluva ride!
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Variant Cover Artist(s): Brett Parson
Writer(s): Alan C. Martin
Penciller(s): Brett Parson
Inker(s): Brett Parson
Colorist(s): Brett Parson
Letterer(s): Brett Parson
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Background & Objective
Coors Light, a popular light beer sold across North America, is one of the many brands under Molson Coors, a multinational brewing company with over $1.34 billion in sales. Having worked with Molson Coors Canada in the past (see previous case studies: here and here), the objective of the Coors Light sweepstakes was clear to 3 tier logic – drive sales and increase purchase frequency.
Key Deliverables
- Drive sales
- Increase purchase frequency
3 tier logic used PLATFORM³ to create a microsite for the Coors Light sweepstakes, which hosts various PLATFORM³ modules including Contests & Promotions, Purchase Receipt Validation, Loyalty, Rewards, & Gamification, and Data Capture & Analytics.
Under the promotion, consumers purchase a Coors Light product at participating Boston Pizza restaurants in Ontario to be entered into a sweepstakes for a chance to win a reward.
3 tier logic's interactive microsites make it easy for consumers to register before or after making a qualifying purchase; after making a purchase, the consumer is required to take a picture of the purchase receipt and upload it on the microsite. If consumers register before making a qualifying purchase, they can easily visit the microsite again, after purchasing the qualifying products, and sign in with the details they provided when they registered.
Upon receipt validation, the consumers are entered into the sweepstakes for a chance to win tickets to see a Toronto Raptors game. Consumers are allowed to enter into the sweepstakes multiple times with every new purchase, increasing their chances of winning, and increasing sales and purchase frequency for Coors Light.
3 tier logic leveraged PLATFORM³'s Purchase Receipt Validation module to provide our client with a way to engage consumers on their mobile device, and the Data Capture & Analytics module provided our clients with a wealth of valuable data by allowing them to gain shopper knowledge from receipt uploads.
Program run date
February 12, 2018, to March 24, 2018.


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O'Reilly Ribs Trump During Medicare Debate
Reported by Ellen - June 11, 2011 -
I have to admit I got quite a kick out of Bill O'Reilly's ribbing of Donald Trump during an animated debate on Medicare last night (6/10/11). You could call it the clash of the titan egos. I think O'Reilly got in the sharper digs. Do you agree?
My two favorite parts:
O'Reilly shot down Trump's boast about how well he was doing as a potential presidential candidate, including a claim that he was "leading in every poll." O'Reilly countered, "You weren't leading in every poll. You don't have the political organization and you're on the golf course seven days a week. Do I have to say any more? I mean, you make Dwight Eisenhower look like a piker."
Later, O'Reilly said about a videotaped message from Trump, "You say on your little YouTube video, is that what it was YouTube?"
"It was just a quick one," Trump said, "because I've had thousands of people calling up for my opinion."
O'Reilly shot back, "Alright, so do I. But I don't have a YouTube thing."


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Aura strong conjuration; CL varies; Slot none; Price 3,300 gp; Weight —
Spartoi seeds appear as teeth stained by ash. The teeth themselves typically take the form of tiny dragon teeth, though some appear to come from a serpent, wolf, or human.
When a tooth is cast upon the earth as a standard action, a spartolos under the user's command erupts on the following round. The spartolos lasts for 1 hour or until destroyed. A spartolos's equipment vanishes if its owner is destroyed or after an hour.
These seeds are typically found in simple pouches of leather or velvet containing 2d4 teeth. Up to six seeds can be sown by a single standard action.
Feats Craft Wondrous Item; Spells create undead; Cost 1,650 gp
Pathfinder Adventure Path volume #28: The Infernal Syndrome. © 2009, Paizo Publishing, LLC; Authors: Clinton Boomer and James Jacobs.


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This is your comprehensive guide to memory care in Milan, GA. Memory care facilities provide housing and care for older adults with Alzheimer's disease and other kinds of dementia. Memory care enables seniors with memory impairment to stay as active and engaged as they possibly can, while living in a dignified, comfortable and secure environment. Our local Senior Living Advisors have local expertise in dementia care in Milan, GA and surrounding areas. After an initial assessment, your advisor will recommend a list of memory care providers that most closely match your loved one's specific needs for care and living preferences, as well as your family's budget.
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Memory Care Costs in Nearby Cities* The costs above represent the AVERAGE monthly cost of memory care for a one person bedroom in that city.
Facts about Milan
Milan is a city in Dodge and Telfair counties in the U.S. state of Georgia. The population was 700 at the 2010 census, down from 1,012 at the 2000 census.


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Authorities at the Rozabal shrine in Jammu and Kashmir's Khanyar district have banned foreigners from visiting the shrine after a sudden flurry of interest in the medieval tomb.
The surge is being linked to rumours that Jesus Christ survived the Crucifixion and traveled later to Jammu and Kashmir, and his remains were still there in the Rozabal shrine.
However, Mohammed Amin Ringshawl, the manager in charge of the shrine, said that local people resented the sudden rush at a place where they pray.
"It is the work of people associated with the tourist trade. They are misleading visitors and making them believe that Jesus was buried here," Timesonline quoted Ringshawl as saying.
"Locals ask why Westerners visit this shrine and not other shrines in Kashmir. To avoid any trouble, we decided to shut the shrine for Westerners, who were offending locals' sentiments," he added.
The idea that Jesus visited Jammu and Kashmir and died there first arose in the mid-19th century, when European scholars sought to explain similarities between Christianity and Buddhism, the report said.
The story gained popularity with the publication of a book called 'Christ in Kashmir' by Aziz Abdul Kashmiri in 1968, the report added.
"Kashmiri history books tell us that Yus Asaf came from abroad. He came from Israel. He came to spread his teachings. He lived and died here. Yus Asaf was Issa. He was Jesus," the report quoted Kashmiri as telling BBC.


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The Department of Nursing at Misericordia University recently cloaked 63 nursing students who began the professional portion of the nursing program at the fourth annual Arnold P. Gold Foundation and American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) White Coat Ceremony for Nursing in Lemmond Theater in Walsh Hall.
Students in the traditional and part-time evening academic programs began the professional portion of the program in the fall semester. An international nonprofit, the Gold Foundation established the ceremony in 1993 as a way to welcome new students into the profession of medicine and to underscore the importance of humanistic and patient-centered health care.
At the Misericordia University White Coat Ceremony, family and friends, as well as faculty and administration watched as 50 traditional students and 13 part-time evening nursing students took an oath that acknowledges their essential role as caregivers, with an emphasis on the Religious Sisters of Mercy's charisms of Mercy, Service, Justice and Hospitality. Students also received white coats and lapel pins that feature the Gold Foundation's logo, a stethoscope in the shape of a heart surrounded by the words, "humanism in medicine," to remind them that compassion and empathy must be the hallmark of their clinical practice.
John W. Mullen, R.N., A.D.N., P.H.R.N., C.F.R.N., a registered nurse in a cardiac intensive care unit, delivered the keynote address. Mullen began his career in health care as an orderly, while he continued his education in nursing. Through the years, he has worked in various roles in the nursing profession, including 15 years as a as a flight nurse with the Geisinger Medical Center's Life Flight program. He is currently a registered nurse in a cardiac intensive care unit.
Misericordia University features the oldest nursing program in the area and graduates more students in the health sciences than any other college or university in Northeastern Pennsylvania. The University offers three undergraduate nursing programs: traditional, full-time nursing students; part-time evening program for adult students; and the RN to BSN Expressway Program. The undergraduate nursing programs are designed to meet the special educational and scheduling needs of adult and traditional students. They all lead to the Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) degree.
The MSN nursing program meets the special needs of current BSN registered nurses who desire an advanced practice specialization as a family nurse practitioner. Misericordia also offers a post-master's certificate as a family nurse practitioner for nurses who already have an advanced clinical master's degree and who wish to change or expand their practice focus to primary care. Nurse practitioners are registered nurses with advanced education in health assessment, diagnosis and management of acute and chronic health conditions with expertise in health promotion and disease prevention. Graduate programming leads to the MSN and provides course work in a convenient part-time, one-day-a-week format.
The University also offers an online Doctor of Nursing Practice degree program in two formats to accommodate the needs of busy health care professionals and in response to a growing national need.
For more information about the nursing program at Misericordia University, please call (570) 674-6400 or visit www.misericordia.edu/nursing.
The Department of Nursing at Misericordia University held its Gold-AACN White Coat Ceremony for Nursing by cloaking nursing students who began the professional portion of the nursing program in the fall semester. Participating in the program, first row from left, are Chelsie Ray, Olyphant, Pa.; Isabela Camayd, Clarks Green, Pa.; Jenna Marie Chilcote, Millville, Pa.; Brianna Hischak, Mountaintop, Pa.; Gabriella DaCosta, Landing, N.J.; Michaela Daley, Doylestown, Pa.; Noah Dean, Mountaintop, Pa.; Samantha Kropa, Olyphant, Pa.; Kasen Heim, Courtdale, Pa.; Victoria Siess, Throop, Pa.; Teresa Worth, Trucksville, Pa., and Crystal Lee, South Abington Twp., Pa.; second row, Wanda Parks, Le Raysville, Pa.; Erin Dalia, Scranton, Pa.; Keith Primm, Massapequa Park, N.Y.; Alexis Smith, Hopewell Junction, N.Y.; Haley Towers, Hopewell Junction, N.Y.; Kathryn Jeffries, West Nanticoke, Pa.; Bailey Rapach, Hazleton, Pa.; Selena Maybury, West Pittston, Pa.; Stephanie Kolodzieski, Dunmore, Pa.; Jennifer Evans, Harveys Lake, Pa.; Kaitlyn Meehan, Harveys Lake, Pa., and Madison Slacktish, Dallas, Pa.; third row, Karli Martin, Honesdale, Pa.; Lauren Odell, Honesdale, Pa.; Alyssa Salerno, Old Forge, Pa.; Sarah Czop, Bensalem, Pa.; Madisyn Granoski, Wapwallopen, Pa.; Meaghan Whelan, Hopewell Junction, N.Y.; Natalie Deutsch, Paramus, N.J.; Julia Randazzo, Dallas, Pa.; Erin McCawley, Horseheads, N.Y.; Nadiyah Rivera, Scranton, Pa., and Karen Traub, New Hartford, Conn.; fourth row, Donald Joseph Weiland III, Clarks Summit, Pa.; Whitney Lukas, Courtdale, Pa.; Emily Lunny, Doylestown, Pa.; Maddison Sanders, Downingtown, Pa.; Lindsay McKim, Newton, N.J.; Courtney Shafer, Meshoppen, Pa.; Robert Burke, Middletown, N.J.; Tyler Hohenshelt, Harrisburg, Pa.; John Giangrieco, Montrose, Pa.; Phillip Henry, Mohnton, Pa.; Jessica Lauer, Jim Thorpe, Pa.; Lydia Wartonick, Rockville, Md., and Patrick Luzzi, Bethpage, N.Y.


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It was a Sunday evening in May 2001, and Henrik Stenson was sitting in the press tent at The Belfry. He had just won the Benson & Hedges International Open, the first significant victory of his career.
At the end of a muggy day, a thunderstorm had broken above the West Midlands course, and rain was hammering down on the roof.
Stenson's delivery was flat and unemotional as he went through the details of his round. Then, suddenly, there was a bright flash and a deafening crack of noise. We would figure out later that the tent had been hit by lightning, but at that moment most of us were simply diving for cover.
We were shaken from our traumatised states a few seconds later by a calm voice. "At the 13th I hit a nine-iron to 16 feet ..."
Remarkable. Stenson's unflappable bearing was as notable as anything else he had done that day, but it also reinforced a stereotype that had taken shape over the previous few years. As far as most of the golf commentariat were concerned, he was an ABS. Another Boring Scandinavian.
Shame on us. Thirteen years on, Stenson's tone is still deadpan, but the dry humour that goes with it is much closer to the surface. The liveliness that is missing from his voice is there in his eyes, a quick and mischievous wit.
On Wednesday, when somebody mentioned to him that Tiger Woods, his playing partner for the first two rounds of the Open, had a dedicated TV channel this week, there was just the slightest flicker of mock indignation. "Where did mine go?" he replied.
But well he might ask. For while Woods has done little of much note in this injury-blighted year, and nothing of any note on the majors front since 2008, Stenson has been on a rather more impressive trajectory. He has finished in the top five at three of the last four majors. Ranked second in the world at the moment, a victory this week would almost certainly move him to No 1.
In which light, surely Woods should be more concerned about being paired with Stenson than vice versa.
"I think he will have had a lot of sleepless nights," Stenson suggested drolly. "When did the draw come out? He looked tired, didn't he?"
In fairness, Woods could be flat on his back in a sanatorium and still have one significant advantage over Stenson. Or, to be more exact, 14 significant advantages, measuring the number of major titles he has won.
That old line about form being temporary and class being permanent is nowhere more appropriate than in golf. Stenson might have the riches of Croesus (and more regular Tour titles than the Greek king ever managed) but a major shortage is no minor matter to him.
"I grew up watching this championship," Stenson said. "It was one boyhood dream to play in the Ryder Cup and the other to win the Open. Just because I've had some great success doesn't mean that dream has gone away.
"It's the last thing on my CV, to make it more or less complete. So I will try my hardest to make it happen. You've got to have that drive if you want to make those things happen."
Of course, Stenson is not alone in being a Swedish golfer without a major, for no Swede has won any of the sport's four most coveted titles. Yet while Stenson is now the clear favourite to be the first to do so, he does not feel he is carrying the hopes of a nation on his back.
Stenson said: "If one of my Swedish colleagues can do it before me, all credit and well done to him. But I'm just trying to get one for myself. I don't think it's added pressure, but I suppose it would be nice to get that off everyone's back."
It is not much more than two years since Stenson was ranked 230th in the world. A few months before that, having failed to qualify for the US PGA Championship, he took part in the annual club championship at Sweden's Barseback Club – and finished second. Were he so minded, he could still boast of winning the WGC Accenture Matchplay in 2007 and the Players Championship in 2009, but to all intents and purposes his mojo had gone.
Did the experience strengthen him? Does he fear waking up and finding his game has gone again? He would not be the first player to go through it.
"I think you learn something every time," Stenson admitted. "More than anything, I've come back from a pretty low pulse a few times now. I know I can do it a third time if it needs to be. But that said, I'm not striving to put myself in that position again.
"But this game is an interesting one, and you can never say for certain. It has ups and downs. I've probably had some bigger downs and some bigger ups than a lot of players, but nothing is ever a straight line. If it is, I don't think we're in the right place. It might be a coffin around us then."


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The University of Rio Grande and Rio Grande Community College Veterans Association will host the inaugural Golf Tournament to Honor Veterans Monday, June 4 at 8:30 a.m. at Cliffside Golf Course in Gallipolis.
The format for the tournament will be 4-man scramble teams with a shotgun start at 8:30 a.m. The cost to participate will be $50 per person and prizes will be awarded after the tournament. Lunch will be provided to the participants.
Anyone interested in more information or registering for the tournament can contact Director of Alumni Relations Delyssa Edwards at (740) 245-7431.


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Journal of Applied Mathematics
Volume 2014, Article ID 148902, 6 pages
A Concentration Phenomenon for p-Laplacian Equation
Department of Mathematics, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou 350117, China
Received 27 April 2014; Accepted 8 July 2014; Published 20 July 2014
Academic Editor: Chao Yan
Copyright © 2014 Yansheng Zhong. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
It is proved that if the bounded function of coefficient in the following equation is positive in a region contained in Ω and negative outside the region, the sets shrink to a point as , and then the sequence generated by the nontrivial solution of the same equation, corresponding to , will concentrate at with respect to and certain -norms. In addition, if the sets shrink to finite points, the corresponding ground states only concentrate at one of these points. These conclusions extend the results proved in the work of Ackermann and Szulkin (2013) for case .


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At least two homes have been destroyed as a bushfire burns on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula, but the threat of the fire has eased.
The Country Fire Authority has issued a downgraded watch and act warning for people in Crib Point.
An earlier emergency warning, which included the nearby Stony Point and the HMAS Cerberus naval base, has since been cancelled.
Firefighters have stopped the spread of the bushfire in Crib Point, but it still classified as being not yet under control.
In addition to the two lost homes, two sheds and a garage have also been destroyed.
Residents are advised staying indoors is still the safest option, in case conditions change quickly.
"It's still going but we have managed to control the spread of the fire," a State Control Centre spokesman said.
A woman who was unaccounted for has been has been found safely sheltering in a creek in Crib Point.
Smoke from the blaze has drifted across Melbourne's eastern suburbs, creating a thick blanket of haze.
About 130 firefighters, backed by 26 trucks, three water-bombing helicopters and two fixed-wing fire-spotting planes, have battled the fire.
The origin of the fire is not yet known.
HMAS Cerberus is the Royal Australian Navy's primary training facility.
Road Closures:
• Stoney Point Rd and Woolleys Rd
• Lorimer Strand Bay St
• Bay St and Governors Rd
• Colin Parade and Point Rd
• Stoney Point Rd and Disney St
• Glossop St and Disney St
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Adams replaces Matt Tee who left to work as a consultant in April 2003. Deputy director of comms Rebecca Gray had been standing in as acting director since.
Adams will managing the 20-strong comms team, which includes a six-strong press office, publications staff, events and internal comms and public affairs. Adams reports to CEO Anna Walker.
Under Adams are two deputies: Gray, who heads marketing and publications, and Graham Capper, who is leading external comms and strategy.
Adams said: 'Our first major project will be writing the State of Healthcare report for parliament which will come out in June or July, and later in the year we will be working out the second stage of the complaints process. [The challenge is] we have a very broad range of work that we have to do and, being a new organisation, it is new work.'
The HDA is not currently looking for a replacement for Adams.
The position is being filled by Dr Tonya Gillis on an interim basis, who reports to director of communications Geoff French.
The Health Commission opened last week and replaced the Commission for Health Improvement, but with responsibilities for inspecting the private and voluntary sector as well as the NHS.
The Health Commission rebranded from its original title The Commission for Health Audit and Inspection (Chai), which was thought to be too similar to its predecessor the Commission for Health Improvement (Chi).
A spokeswoman said: 'The Health Commission is easier for people to remember.'


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With the cold weather and predictions for snow the best place to be this weekend may be inside. At least that's what they think about the end of January in Italy. In Northern Italy the last 3 days of January are called giorni della merla "Blackbird Days". They are the coldest days of the year and according to an Italian legend the reason is due to the actions of a female blackbird, la merla.
La merla attempting to outwit the frigid god of January collected food throughout December to avoid the cold weather of January. On January 28th, the last day of the month (at that time the month of January had 28 days), she ventured out to confront the god of January saying "I'm so smart and clever. Here it is the end of the month and I didn't have to go outside and freeze my tail feathers off to collect food. I fooled you!" The god of January was not amused by the impertinence of la merla. He called out to the god of February and asked to borrow 3 days which he added to the end of the month.The pitiful la merla took refuge from the bitter cold in a chimney for the extra 3 days of January. When she flew out of the chimney into February her once beautiful white feathers were black from the soot and smoke, which they remain to this day.
The legends and lore of the Blackbird Days can be shared with a book written by children's author Tomie di Paola. The Days of the Blackbird uses many Italian words and phrases and has whimsical illustrations of Northern Italy for a great bedtime read with the kids (ages 5 and up).


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The two piece band Middle Class Rut recently released the album "No Name No Color," which is a collection of songs off of previous EPs. They're a band on the rise, known for the abnormal amount of noise that comes from a two piece band. Currently they're out on the road with Filter. I got a chance to chat with Zack Lopez about the album and the tour with Filter.
Q - How would you describe your band's sound?
A - How would I describe it? I probably wouldn't. I'd just rather have someone listen to it and have them make up their own ideas. I don't think there is a description that is going to sum up or give someone some insight into what we sound like.
Q - Your new album is a collection of songs off your past EPs. Did you rerecord the songs or did you compile them all onto a feature length album?
A - There are a couple different recorded versions of them. They were remixed and remastered, but a song like "Baby Being Born," is still the same one we released on our original EP. That wasn't a rerecorded version that made it on the record.
Q - What is your band's writing process like?
A - We have separate rooms in the studio. Sean goes into his room; I go into a play area. He has an acoustic, I have an acoustic and we just give ourselves and hour to brain storm. Then we meet in the kitchen and go over what we have. If it's something worth moving on, then we move out to the main room and plug in kind of half electric. If it makes it through that we go full electric, so it's kind of like a three step thing before we can get the actual song.
Q - How is the tour with Filter going so far?
A - It's going good, we're only a few days into it so we've only done two shows. We did a couple shows on our own before we met up with Filter and those were exciting for us. We're just kind of getting into the swing of things out here, it's still pretty new.
Q - What can fans expect from your live show?
A - It depends, we have two different sets that we've been doing on the tour, so it depends on the night. We switch out instruments, I'll try drums and Sean will do guitar and sing and the other night we'll just do it the other way around.
Q - You've played with some pretty big bands like Alice in Chains and Them Crooked Vultures, how have you been influenced by the bands you've toured and played with, if at all?
A - I think we were more influenced by them earlier on. I don't think we played a show with any of those bands and came off of it going, 'now we're going to do something that's been influenced by them.' It was a cool experience to play with bands we grew up listening to.
Q - Who are some of your influences, who is the one person or band that made you pick up your instrument?
A - There was no trigger moment. Both of us started playing our instruments at the same time. More than it was one band, we were just looking for something other than what we were doing at the time and playing an instrument just seemed like the cool thing to do. So that's kind of why we started playing.
Q - Are there any bands that you're really into right now?
A - Nothing that's come out recently has really taken us by storm.
Q - Thanks for taking the time.
Check out Middle Class Rut at www.myspace.com/middleclassrut.
Bob Zerull is the Managing Editor of Zoiks! Online. He writes pop culture commentary, does interviews with bands, and reviews music and stand-up concerts. He also administers Zoiks! Online's Facebook page. Follow Bob on twitter at bzerull. Email Bob at email@example.com.


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Dear Editor:
The team from HopeWest-Meeker would like to give a heartfelt thank you to the attendees who came to the Halloween Ball this past Saturday night.
The community's outpouring of support to launch the end-of-life and palliative care program in Meeker has been incredible.
The HopeWest-Meeker Advisory Board would like to thank the entire team that hosted the event. Thank you to the decorating committee, the catering team, the Meeker High School Class of 2017 for being the servers and everyone who donated auction items.
Additionally, we would like to recognize and thank the sponsors for their generosity. It is because of everybody's involvement and support that the program will be up and running this December.
Many thank yous.
Toby Smith
Chairman, Advisory Board
Letter to the Editor: Thanks for Halloween Ball success
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