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The Online Pharmacy Technician Certificate Program is designed for those who want to be a part of a rapidly growing industry and train for a career in an exciting medical field, whether in a hospital or retail pharmacy setting. As an aging population will require the services of a pharmacy technician in ever-greater numbers, the stability of this profession is guaranteed for decades to come. Equally important, there are no pre-requisites to enroll in this program.
The Online Pharmacy Technician Certificate Program enables students to quickly develop a broader range of pharmacy technician knowledge and skills than those who train solely on the job. The curriculum is designed to provide comprehensive coverage of all the concepts necessary to be a successful pharmacy technician. Moreover, upon successful completion of the Pharmacy Technician Certificate Program, students will be prepared for an entry-level position in a pharmacy and to sit for either the PTCB national certification exam to become a Certified Pharmacy Technician (PTCE) or for the NHA national certification Certified Pharmacy Technician (CPhT) designation. These credentials provide technicians with even more choice of where they wish to work, whether in a retail or institutional setting. The Professional Review Guidebook included with the course serves to assist students in preparing for the PTCB CPT Examination. Additionally, the course includes interactive mock examinations for real-world test taking practice.
Opportunities are growing in the dynamic field of the pharmacy technician. Whether entering the field for the first time or looking to develop current skills and knowledge further, this course is designed to help every student achieve a successful career as a pharmacy technician in both hospital and retail pharmacy settings. This comprehensive course includes topics such as fundamentals of the basic sciences, conditions of the human body and their treatments, steps to process a prescription, medication safety and management, and much more.
Basic and practical, the course provides an extensive framework of drug information in a concise format for allied health learners. Discover key drug information by classifications, such as their purpose, side effects, cautions, and interactions, or utilize the resource to refresh your knowledge of drugs. Use the accompanying CD-ROM and master pharmacology through quizzes, games, and case studies. Furthermore, the course introduces students to the fascinating subject of drugs, their sources and uses, taking care to organize the drugs according to the body systems. Each classification is described, along with characteristics of typical drugs, side effects, cautions, interactions, and patient education for each category.
Please note that The Pharmacy Technician Certificate Program includes 2 courses. See Curriculum for more details about these courses:
- Pharmacy Technician
- Introduction to Pharmacology
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- Learning occurs in a user-friendly environment and is accessible to students with little or no computer experience
- Online courses provide the knowledge and tools needed to stay ahead in today's rapidly changing professional marketplace
- Online education allows students to access their courses from anywhere there is an Internet connection, even while traveling for business or on vacation
- Flexibility: Students can attend class in the comfort and convenience of their own home, office, library, or internet café, and complete assignments at their convenience
- Cost-effective: expenses related to facilities and travel, as well as non-productive time, are reduced
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On the north bank of the River Clyde, Glasgow's city center begins in George Square. The square and its surrounding tourist attractions and hotels are easily accessed by trains coming into nearby Queen Street Station. The other main train station in Glasgow's central neighborhood is located due south of George Square off of Argyle Street. The Buchanan bus station is located just a few minutes walk north of Queen Street Station.
Other Centre attractions include Glasgow's cathedral, the Necropolis and the St. Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art.
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Address 320 Argyle Street (Glasgow Centre)
The three-star Alexander Thomson Hotel is located in central Glasgow close to the train station and within walking distance of many museums.
Address 318 Clyde Street (Glasgow Centre)
Situated within walking distance of Glasgow's main train station, the two-star Euro Hostel Glasgow offers budget accommodations in the center of town.
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Address 230 Renfrew Street (Glasgow Centre)
Located close to many of Glasgow's central sights and lots of shopping, the two-star Hampton Court Guest House has 18 simple rooms on offer.
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Address 220 West Regent Street (Glasgow Centre)
The Ibis Glasgow Centre is a standard two-star chain hotel with 141 rooms; it's centrally situated just a few blocks from Prince's Square.
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Address 264 To 276 Renfrew Street (Glasgow Centre)
Situated just a short walk from Glasgow's central train station, the Mclays Guest House offers bed-and-breakfast-style accommodation.
Address 377 Argyle Street (Glasgow Centre)
The three-star Argyll Street Premier Travel Inn, with 124 basic rooms, is located within walking distance of Glasgow's main train station and is close to shopping, restaurants and bars.
Address 59 Union Street (Glasgow Centre)
Located across from Glasgow's main train station, the Rennie Mackintosh Hotel has 41 three-star rooms.
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[UPDATE] Sony confirms PSN maintenance for Thursday
- Posted January 15th, 2013 at 11:49 EDT by Michael Harradence
Maintenance has also been confirmed for U.S. territories. From the NA PlayStation Blog:
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Sony has confirmed that it will be taking the EU PlayStation Network offline this Thursday for maintenance.
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Joe Buckles
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Who says one of those familiar bright fluorescent-colored Menards race cars can't find its way to victory lane at Indianapolis?
Paul Menard's well-executed and popular win Sunday at the Brickyard couldn't have come at a better time for the 400 or on the strength of a more deserving effort.
Menard's stunning win will never rank up there with those of Jeff Gordon, Dale Earnhardt or Tony Stewart but it will rate among the most popular with the fans.
Since his arrival on the national racing scene, the 30-year-old Menard has had to deal with a maligned rich-boy image, something that is hard to shake at any level of racing but even more so among a working-class NASCAR fan base.
While it was nice to see Menard revel in his 400 win, among long-time Speedway fans it was even more rewarding to see his father John in victory lane at Indianapolis.
After a countless number of years, man hours and dollars spent trying to win at the Speedway during the month of May, it is rather ironic that John Menard's first win came in August with a stock car.
Such are the unpredictable and storybook ways of big-league auto racing at Indianapolis.
The younger Menard's win might be labeled as an upset by some, but those who have followed his career in recent years know the Wisconsin driver has elevated his driving talents.
He is now a legitimate contender to win in the Sprint Cup series.
His move to the highly successful Richard Childress operation over the winter turned his fortunes from also ran to frontrunner status almost out the blocks starting back at Daytona.
The way Menard mastered those pressure-packed closing laps signals that he has indeed earned the right to be called Sprint Cup winner.
The popular win and nail-biting finish couldn't have come at better time for Speedway officials who worked feverishly to help breathe new life in the sagging fortunes of the 400.
The event still has a way to go to shake its follow-the-leader reputation, but days like last Sunday will keep the fans coming back. After all it is Indy.
• Looking ahead — Now that the Brickyard and surrounding events are in the record books it's time to look forward and speculate on what lies ahead for Brickyard weekend in 2012.
IMS officials have already announced plans for Super Weekend 2012 featuring the 400, Nationwide series and Grand-Am Road Racing next July.
Sounds great for the Speedway but where does this leave the folks over at Lucas Oil Raceway?
With their critical comments, several high-profile NASCAR car owners did little to diffuse the frustrations or offer any measure of consolation for the those disappointed with the changes.
Several openly welcomed the changes citing how they and their sponsors would benefit from the moves. Little if any of the concerns or wishes of LOR fans ever addressed.
It's painfully obvious that a weekend of USAC midgets, Silver Crown and ARCA stock car racing will not be close to filling the void left with the departure of the NASCAR Camping World Truck and Nationwide stock events.
Soon after the announcement that NASCAR was moving the Nationwide race to the Speedway and that the trucks would not appear at LOR in 2012 track general manager Wes Collier conceded that the Nite Before the 500 would now be the oval's main event.
Good news for the midgets but not exactly a vote of confidence for the future of oval-track racing at the 5/8-mile paved oval.
On the plus side, comes the announcement that sports cars would be returning to IMS. That's welcome news down the road for area road racing buffs who must now travel considerable distance to view their favorite form of racing.
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Mr. and Mrs. Randall Young, of Weatherford, are pleased to announce the engagement of their son, Tyler Young, to Lori English, the daughter of Ms. Lydia Martinez and Mr. Jeff English.
Grandparents of the groom are Mrs. Jody Young, Willow Park, and the late Lon W. Young and Mrs. Betty Schwensen, Arlington, and the late John Schwensen.
Grandparents of the bride are Mrs. Sally English, Farmersville, and the late Bert English and Mrs. Anita Meraz, Roswell, New Mexico.
They are planning to marry Aug. 28, 2010, in McKinney, Texas.


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Winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. An old man lies dying. Confined to bed in his living room, he sees the walls around him begin to collapse, the windows come loose from their sashes, and the ceiling plaster fall off in great chunks, showering him with a lifetime of debris: newspaper clippings, old photographs, wool jackets, rusty tools, and the mangled brass works of antique clocks. Soon, the clouds from the sky above plummet down on top of him, followed by the stars, till the black night covers him like a shroud. He is hallucinating, in death throes from cancer and kidney failure.
A methodical repairer of clocks, he is now finally released from the usual constraints of time and memory to rejoin his father, an epileptic, itinerant peddler, whom he had lost 7 decades before. In his return to the wonder and pain of his impoverished childhood in the backwoods of Maine, he recovers a natural world that is at once indifferent to man and inseparable from him, menacing and awe inspiring.
Tinkers is about the legacy of consciousness and the porousness of identity from one generation the next. At once heartbreaking and life affirming, it is an elegiac meditation on love, loss, and the fierce beauty of nature.
hallucinate eight days before he died. From the
rented hospital bed, placed in the middle of his
own living room, he saw insects running in and out of
imaginary cracks in the ceiling plaster. The panes in the
windows, once snugly pointed and glazed, stood loose
in their sashes. The next stiff breeze would topple them
all and they would flop onto the heads of his family, who
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his grandchildren in from Kansas and Atlanta and
Seattle, his sister in from Florida, and he would be
marooned on his bed in a moat of shattered glass.
Pollen and sparrows, rain and the intrepid squirrels he
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would breach the house.
He had built the house himself - poured the foundation, raised the frame, joined the pipes, run the wires, ...
Tinkers is a skillfully written novel. It succeeds in demonstrating that our daily, microcosmic lives contain vastness and fantasy. This book offers its reader a meditation on the private geography of the mind and, through Harding's characters, a glimpse of our own efforts to piece together the broken and mismatched elements of human relationships and existence.
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Horology encompasses both the science of measuring time and the art of making time pieces. Thus, horologists include watchmakers, clockmakers, scholars, scientists and hobbyists. Humans have long been concerned with recording the passage of time - from Stonehenge to calendar stones to sundials and atomic clocks*, civilizations have sought the most precise way to record time. Today, we can pull up the official United States time with just a few keystrokes!
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Ka'Deem Carey named First Team All-Pac-12
Carey, who has tallied 1,757 rushing yards on the season, is averaging 6.4 yards per attempt. He's scored 20 touchdowns on the ground along with another one via the air.
Carey is the first Arizona running back since Clarence Farmer in 2001 to be named to the First Team, and he did so in a season where he broke Trung Candidate's single-season school rushing record of 1,602 yards.
He also broke the Pac-12 and UA single-game rushing records with a 366-yard performance against Colorado on November 10.
Carey topped the 100-yard mark in nine of 12 games, and scored at least one rushing touchdown in all but one contest.
While Carey was named to the First Team, Arizona quarterback Matt Scott and receiver Austin Hill each earned second-team honors.
Scott, a senior, passed for 3,238 yards and 24 touchdowns while also rushing for 485 yards and five touchdowns. He ranked second in the Pac-12 in total passing yards, and threw multiple touchdown passes in eight of the 10 games he played in.
Hill, a sophomore, ranks second in the Pac-12 and ninth nationally in total receiving yards with 1,189 on 73 receptions. He caught nine touchdown passes.
Arizona receiver Dan Buckner, linebacker Jake Fischer, center Kyle Quinn and safety Jared Tevis were named Pac-12 Honorable Mention.
- Report: Class of 2016 quarterback Shea Patterson decommits from Arizona
- Arizona coach Rodriguez on starting QB: 'The truth is I don't really know'
- Arizona Wildcats picked fourth in Pac-12 preseason media poll
- Arizona Wildcats' white helmets may have a slightly different (but familiar) look in 2014
- Arizona WR Austin Hill named to Maxwell Award watch list
- Bucky Brooks, NFL Network draft analyst - Friday May 2Bucky Brooks discusses what the Cardinals should do with the 20th overall pick.
- Bearing Down with Adam and Jarrett - Tuesday April 15Adam and Jarrett talk about UA's early departures.
- Bearing Down with Adam and Jarrett - Thursday April 3Adam and Jarrett recap a tough loss as well as the season itself.
- Bearing Down with Adam and Jarrett - Friday March 28Adam and Jarrett talk about Arizona's run to the Elite 8.
- Bickley Blast - Friday March 28Arizonans can all rally around this University of Arizona basketball team.


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The Rocketeer: The Complete Collection$29.99The Complete Rocketeer saga is collected into one handsome hardcover volume for the very first time, combining The Rocketeer and The Rocketeer: Cliff's New York Adventure into great book. Dave Stevens' classic adventure strip is set in the 1930s and is an homage to the classic pulp novels of the time. Cliff Secord is a stunt pilot who happens upon a top-secret experimental Jet pack and meets adventure head on! Long considered a classic, the Rocketeer has been out of print for years. Now, with the blessing and full cooperation of the Dave Stevens estate, the Rocketeer will be collected as one book and with ALL-NEW COLORING by Laura Martin (who was Dave Stevens choice to recolor the series) Learn More
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The Rocketeer: The Complete Deluxe Edition$75.00The Deluxe Edition will feature everything in the regular hardcover edition but will be printed in a larger format (8 x 12 inches) and will contain more than 100 additional pages of sketches, preliminaries, layouts, and much, much more. A cornucopia of Dave Stevens art, many of these treasures have never been published before and will be printed here from the original art to ensure the highest quality reproduction possible. Learn More
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Out of stockDave Stevens, famed creator of The Rocketeer, was an extraordinary artist. His talents with pencil and brush were legendary and fans anxiously awaited each new—although infrequent—cover or illustration he rendered. To quell his fans thirst for more Stevens art, Dave self-published four limited edition sketchbooks, chock full of beautiful preliminaries, sketches, roughs, and even completely finished pieces. All four sketchbooks are long out of print, and are highly sought-after collectibles, but IDW is now collecting all four, as well as numerous drawings never before seen, in one gorgeous hardcover. Brought to you by the same team responsible for the Eisner Award-winning The Rocketeer: The Complete Adventures Deluxe Edition. Learn More


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The End of Monetary Policy
by Charles Lemos, Mon Dec 15, 2008 at 09:45:51 PM EST
I apologize in advance since this post isn't as tight as I'd like it but I've been dwelling on three things this evening, the President-elect's news conference on Monday in Chicago, the expected fed funds rate cut on Tuesday and some comments by Paul Krugman in Germany's Der Spiegel. So with this introduction . . .
Another reduction to the Federal Reserve's funds rate, the interest banks charge each other on overnight loans, is all but certain to be announced tomorrow. The Fed's funds rate is already near historical lows at 1.0% but most economists expect the Federal Reserve to cut the rate in half to 0.5%. Some economists are even pushing for a more aggressive three-quarters of a point reduction. Their argument is that such a cut might cushion some of the economic fallout and prevent a tailspin. Well, I think that's already too late. I think I am sanguine when I say we'll be lucky to lose only 750,000 jobs next year.
My sense is that a fed rate cut is spit in the ocean. Not that I am against the rate cut, it should be cut, but rather that the cut in and of itself isn't likely to spur the American economy much less the global economy. The bitter truth is that we have reached the end of monetary policy as an instrument. To spur the economy, we really waiting on President Obama's fiscal stimulus. Only a Keynesian style investment program is likely to soften the edges of the economic downturn.


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The following is a partial list of student clubs available to graduate and undergraduate entrepreneurship students and other students interested in entrepreneurship. These clubs host events, speakers, competitions and gatherings that expose the Carnegie Mellon entrepreneurship community to local, national and international entrepreneurs, industry experts, venture capitalists and business leaders.
The SCS Entrepreneurship Club is a Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science (SCS) graduate student club that brings technology entrepreneurs and SCS graduate students together.
The Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Club is a student-run organization dedicated to building an environment at Carnegie Mellon University that creates and cultivates new business ventures.
The Biopharma Business Club promotes involvement and leadership in biotechnology, pharmaceutical and medical-device companies.
The Business and Technology Club is focused on exposing members to career opportunities available in technology.
The Energy Club is a student-run professional organization dedicated to developing and broadening the Tepper community's interest in the energy industry.
Enactus stands for Entrepreneurs in Action for the greater good. This organization focuses on empowering local and international communities by applying business knowledge and strategies.
The Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Association (UEA) is dedicated to promoting the entrepreneurial spirit at Carnegie Mellon through competitions, business development and networking with community entrepreneurs.
ScottyLabs is a student-run group on Carnegie Mellon's Pittsburgh campus. We strive to use our technical expertise to promote innovation in practical ways. For example, we are developing APIs for educational data at Carnegie Mellon, so that students can easily build applications using that data.


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The Cullman Times
Community came together
By Billy Coleman
County schools Superintendent
As I reflect on the last few days, it is hard to know where to start. Two weeks ago, we were hosting a business appreciation breakfast at St. John's church. Early that morning, we decided to start school two hours later. By 7:30 am we had called off the whole day. The devastation that followed, starting with the tornado that ripped through Hanceville and lasting until late that night, was unlike anything I have ever witnessed.
On Labor Day of 1996, West Point High School was destroyed by fire. It was arson. I really never thought I would experience anything like that again in my lifetime, but I was wrong. Obviously, there were some differences in the two events. For one thing, the fire was centralized in one location. We would work all day and most of the night for a week to start school back, but we could go home to electricity, plenty of food and hot showers. Roads were passable. In our recent tornado tragedy, the damage was so widespread…homes were lost…families were displaced…food was scarce…and our entire county was almost shut down. That first day, communication was very difficult and many of us probably didn't fully realize exactly the amount of devastation our county had endured until days later.
But there were also similarities in those two events. What I witnessed in 1996 and what I have witnessed in the last two weeks was a coming together of people that is almost impossible to describe…a spirit of unity that overcomes tragedy with perseverance and love. And that is what I pray will forever remain in my heart and mind when I tell my grandchildren what happened in Cullman County on April 27th, 2011. I will tell about countless people who made selfless sacrifices for others. I will tell of a lady from Columbus, Ohio, who traveled to the food distribution center where I was working with a carload of goods for our storm victims. She drove twelve hours to Cullman, Alabama, unloaded her donations and then started her return home. I will tell of a twelve children who got out of a van with a single lady. Thinking they were storm victims, I invited them in to eat only to find out these children had been working that morning, picking up debris and trying to make a difference. They quietly finished their lunch, loaded back into the van, and went back to work.
I will tell of standing on a stage at a Sunday night concert at the Cullman Fairgrounds only four days after the tornadoes hit, looking out and seeing the love of Christ on the faces of 15,000 people, many of whom had been working all day long to help their fellow man. These and other blessings are what I will remember… the many stories that impacted my life forever as a entire county and city, by working together and motivated by the love of God, took tragedy and changed it into a promise.
At the forefront of many of my memories are students in our two school systems, who along with everyone else, worked to help others. It is amazing what happens in people's lives when love for self in transformed into love for others. Shortly we will be sending the graduates of 2011 into a world greatly in need of the lessons we have all learned in the past two weeks. I cannot help but believe what our students have learned will stay with them forever. There will be more opportunities ahead to make a difference in the lives of others and when those opportunities come, I believe our young people will be ready and able to respond. My prayer is one for memory…I pray we will never forget what we have witnessed these last two weeks…that we will never take for granted the many blessings we have each day and that our minds and hearts will be focused on others as much in the days ahead as they have been these last several days.
I want to thank our legislatures for making it possible for our two school systems to request a waiver for not having to make up the eight days we have missed due to tornado damage. I especially want to thank you, the people of Cullman County, for all you have done to help those who have been victimized by these terrible storms. Maybe some of you who are reading this today are from outside our county and state, but you came here to make a difference. On behalf of all of us here in Cullman County, we thank you from the bottom of our hearts for you selfless service to our citizens. People from all over the United States have poured support and prayers into our county…it is truly overwhelming. Most of all, I thank God for His unconditional love and His commitment to always be there for us when the storms of life come.
Monday morning I had the pleasure of visiting ten of our twenty-nine schools. I greeted the students at Hanceville as they stepped off the bus. The expressions told me they were glad to be back at school. I also saw a look of joy…the kind of joy that comes when we make a difference in someone else's life. Most of these students had done just that…they had reached out to a neighbor, a friend, or sometimes to a stranger. And they, like all of us, had learned a great lesson of life. There will be difficult times, but we are not alone. We have each other and we have a loving God. And together, we are going to overcome the storms of life and make this world a better place. What a great opportunity!
On behalf of the Cullman County Schools System, thanks to each of you for the opportunity to all of us to work in such a wonderful place and with such great young people.


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It's been 11 years since nine miners were rescued from the Quecreek Mine, and a small observance will be held to mark the occasion.
The ceremony, which is open to the public, will begin at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Quecreek Mine Rescue Foundation, located at 140 Haupt Road in Somerset.
The Boy Scout troop from Sipesville will conduct a flag ceremony, followed by some local speakers.
"It's going to be greatly subdued from last year," said Bill Arnold, the foundation's executive director. "We put so much effort into the 10th anniversary that now we want to kick back and just enjoy another anniversary."
The dramatic rescue began July 24, 2002, after miners broke through a wall into an abandoned, water-filled mine, flooding the Quecreek Mine with more than 150 million gallons of water.
Nine miners were able to escape, but nine more were trapped. The trapped miners were rescued four days later, on the morning of July 28, through the combined efforts of state and federal mine rescue agencies and hundreds of workers and volunteers.
What makes this year special is that the days fall exactly the same on the calendar as they did in 2002, meaning the 24th was a Wednesday and the 28th a Sunday.
"We're more than happy to celebrate every anniversary of when all 18 men were rescued – nine who were able to get out themselves and the nine who needed extra help from above," Arnold said.
Plans are already in the works for the 15th anniversary celebration.
"We're in the preliminary stages, but we're on the trail to another milestone," Arnold said.
Last year, the Quecreek Mine Rescue Foundation and Windber Coal Heritage Center came to an agreement to consolidate equipment and artifacts from the mine rescue and display them at the foundation's visitor center.
The 4,800-square-foot visitors center houses memorabilia such as the yellow rescue capsule that brought the nine trapped men to the surface, a drill bit that was broken during attempts to reach them and the capsule used in the Disney movie "The Pennsylvania Miners' Story."
The visitors center is open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday. The Monument for Life Memorial Park is open daily from dawn to dusk.
More information is available by calling 445-5090 or visiting www.quecreekrescue.org.
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Honors: 2011 – Named to the Sun Belt Conference Writers All-Freshman team.
2012: Played in 10 games … Ended the year with 12 tackles, including a half TFL, and two hurries … Was in on 267 total snaps, including a season-best 40 against ULM … Did not play vs McNeese … Registered two tackles in win over Georgia Tech and also at Mississippi State … Had three stops and a hurry at USA … Did not play against Troy.
2011: Played and started nine games … Had 449 total snaps and earned seven winning grades from the coaches … Ended the year with 24 tackles, including 5.0 TFLs, two forced fumbles, two hurries, a fumble recovery, and a pass breakup … Played and started in his first collegiate game at Purdue and collected three tackles, 2 TFLs, and a pass breakup … Had three stops, a TFL, two forced fumbles, and a fumble recovery against GT … Registered a tackle and a quarterback hurry against Memphis … Added three stops vs WKU and also against FAU … Had three tackles and a hurry against UL … Also had three stops at Tennessee and on road against ULM … Missed the ASU, FIU and North Texas games with a foot injury.
2010: Took a redshirt year.
High School: Named a Class A Mr. Football Lineman Award finalist in 2009 ... Was all-state, all-region, all-district, and tabbed the district defensive player of the year ... During his senior year he collected 84 tackles, 12 sacks, 17 tackles for loss, and three pass breakups ... Also added a blocked kick, fumble recovery, and two caused fumbles ... As a junior, he registered 107 tackles, eight sacks, two interceptions, and nine tackles for loss ... Also had 20 receptions for 350 yards and three touchdowns on offense ... South Pittsburg High School went 43-5 during his four years and were state champs in 2007 and state runner up in 2009 ... Lettered in football and basketball ... Played for Coach Vic Grider.
Full Name: Franklin Jiajuan Fennell ... Parents: George and Elendora Fennell ... Born: 5/12/92 ... Major: Undecided.


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Given how often the Second Amendment has been cited since the Dec. 14 massacre in Newtown, Conn., one can't help but wish our founding fathers had elaborated a bit more on what they meant by: "A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."
This was especially true when National Rifle Association honcho Wayne LaPierre appeared at the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing last month on gun violence. When Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., mentioned some of his pro-gun constituents lamenting that he doesn't "get the Second Amendment" because "we need the firepower and the ability to protect ourselves from our government, from the police, if they knock on our doors," LaPierre agreed wholeheartedly.
"I think without any doubt, if you look at why our founding fathers put it there, they had lived under the tyranny of King George," LaPierre responded, "and they wanted to make sure that these free people in this new country would never be subjugated again and have to live under tyranny."
This wasn't the first time I'd heard it claimed that the Second Amendment is a sort of backdoor "armed insurrection clause." But saying something repeatedly only makes it seem true, so I've been curious about the historical basis for LaPierre's belief that our founding fathers believed individuals have the right to any weaponry deemed necessary for warding off their particular definition of "tyranny."
As any student of history knows, our biggest grievance with King George was "taxation without representation," i.e., the colonists lacked the representatives in parliament to which they were entitled by the English Bill of Rights of 1689. But while our founding fathers resorted to violence to win their independence, they were forced to such exigencies because, unlike LaPierre, they didn't live in a constitutional republic with separation of powers and a system of checks and balances.


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2006-07: Redshirted during cross country, indoor and outdoor track.
At St. Francis (PA): Three-year All-Northeast Conference selection in cross country after finishing in the top 10 during her first three seasons while helping the Red Flash to three conference titles ... Finished runner-up as a sophomore and junior, turning in a top time of 18:51.7 as a sophomore ... Named NEC Athlete of the Week in cross country on October 4, 2005, after she finished 18th out of 310 runners at the Brooks Paul Short 6k with a time of 21:08.4 ... Earned 10 All-NEC honors during her three years between outdoor and indoor track ... Finished ninth at the 2006 NCAA Regionals in the 1500m with a time of 4:27.81 ... Won the 3000m at the prestigious Penn Relays with a PR time of 9:38 ... Won the 1500m at the ECAC's with a lifetime best of 4:24 ... Posted second-place finishes in the one mile run and 3000m at the 2006 NEC Indoor Championship... Top three in the 800m, 1500m and 5000m at the 2005 outdoor championships ... Second in the 800m and 1500m at the 2005 NEC Outdoor meet, third in the 5000m ... Took third in the mile during the indoor meet ... Ranked in top five all-time at SFU in five events and ran on three school record-holding relay teams ... Earned SFU and NEC Academic Honor Roll status.
Prep: Placed fifth in both the 800m and 1500m at the 2003 OFSAA West Region meet ... Dominated the 2003 WCSSAA, winning the 800m in a time of 2:26.40 as well as the 1500m with a 5:00.70 ... Also took second in the 3000m, crossing the line in 11:13.10 ... Took 13th during the 2002 OFSAA Championships in the 800m with a time of 2:22.40.
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---- — My friend, Vivien Prindl, will be 102 years old this Halloween.
Her age, however, is her most remarkable feature.
Mrs. Prindl told me she thinks we both care about other people's development. "Life is special. I'm not," she said. "Many people do interesting things. In the world's family of people, diversity is crucial. I've seen children with various disabilities marvelously mainstreamed in England. All of the school children benefited. There is so much to learn about in this world."
Four mornings a week, she tutors a 10-year-old neighborhood boy. The two have been working together for the past four summers and now he's confidently working at his grade level. At noon, she eats her warm meal. During the day she reads, listens to the radio, plays Scrabble with visitors, crochets, and writes letters (rough drafts and final copies a reflective day later). She also works on the book she's been writing. She's now on chapter 10 of Five Generations of Musical Prindls.
Folks call or stop by to see if she needs anything. Neighbors are nearby.
When she turned 100, her local newspaper wrote a front page story about her, complete with a photo. There were parties, cards from the President of the United States, even fireworks. Her son and his wife came from their home in England to help her celebrate. She seems both amused and grateful for the recognition.
Prindl's husband Frank, a beloved music professor, died in 1974. She's never remarried. She retired in 1976 after a long career as an elementary school teacher. Since retiring, she's held many long volunteer positions as a teacher. For the past many years, she's lived and volunteered at the Kurn Hattin Home for Children in Vermont. She spends the rest of the year living and volunteering in New York.
According to Dr. Kaare Christensen, in a 2009 article in the Lancet, more than half of the babies born in the U.S. in 2007 will live to age 104. The U.S. currently has the greatest number of known centenarians of any nation, with 53,364, according to the 2010 U.S. Census.
Prindl and I talk about the numerous books written to inspire living a long, happy and healthy life. She said that in her early life, she missed two years of high school due to respiratory illnesses. She describes herself then as frail. "I guess I got illness over with early," she said.
I shared with her that one of the critical thinking classes at our local college, uses the book "Having Our Say: the Delany Sisters' First 100 Years" about Sadie and Bessie Delany. She explained that she's read the book and views the sisters' as role models.
"Having many interests has helped me remain active," she added. "I love to travel and I've been to all the continents, with the exception of Antarctica. In 2005, I traveled around the world in 105 days and volunteered in the ship's library. I've studied at five different elder hostels. I keep up on current events and having a bookkeeper's mind helps my memory. I find serenity by knowing and caring about what's going on in the world but not focusing on the major problems.
"Many people have difficulty meeting people and putting forth the effort. My career as a teacher makes socializing easier for me. I have many wonderful friends and relatives. If I want to do something, say volunteering, I take the initiative. I walk whenever I can, don't overeat and my health is pretty normal. My will to survive is strong."
Her older sister died last year at 102.
When I asked her what societal issue really concerns her, she said, "single parenting."
She has great compassion for single parents struggling to work, care for their children, run a home and meet their own needs. She adds that she's also glad the schools are addressing bullying.
"People can live without technology, but they can't live without kindness," she said. Everyone, including me, has a problem or challenge. That's why we all have to practice compassion."
Before I left, she asked me about traveling on an airline with a wheelchair. She asked if I bring my own wheelchair or if the airline provides me with a different wheelchair. We're curious about one another. I'm learning about growing older without disability from her and she's watching a much younger woman, live with a disability.
That's remarkable.
Susan Odgers, a resident of Traverse City for the past 26 years, has used a wheelchair for 37 years. She is a faculty member at Northwestern Michigan College and Grand Valley State University. She can be reached via the Record-Eagle.


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MILLEDGEVILLE — Baldwin High School students are focusing on learning music as they prepare to showcase their talents at All State Chorus next year.
As part of the audition process last month, students learned vocabulary and site read music, sang a foreign piece, passed a written exam, and rehearsed with a full choir to receive the most prestigious honor at the high school level.
This year's All State Chorus students include Ashley Phillips, Michael Watson, Sarah Massey, Jamil Halim, Tevauri Mar-Shall, J'barri Mar-Shall, Thomas Stewart IV and Clay Garland.
BHS Choir Director Kathy Carroll and her eight all stars will perform in Savannah in late February along with the best high school students across Georgia under the direction of some of the top conductors in the nation.
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An Ohio woman seeking a protective order against her ex-boyfriend is attacked by him during the hearing.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – A man who was pulled over for speeding and DUI attempted to hide from police in the hospital ceiling where he was taken for a blood test, according to police.
Police said Charles T. Lawrence, Jr. initially caught the attention of police for going 120 miles per hour in a 70 mile per hour zone on I-40 west near Stewarts Ferry Pike. By the time police caught up to him he had slowed down.
They also said Lawrence didn't stop right away, even after seeing and hearing their sirens. The officer who stopped him said he could smell the alcohol on his breath, and said the driver was a little jittery.
He told police he'd had a few margaritas and agreed to do a blood test, so they took him to the hospital.
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Retirement Age More Than Just a Number
Sate employees can retire with full, but insecure, benefits as early as 58. Folks in the private sector will be eligible for full Social Security at age 67, continuing to fund state employee's retirement until then. If you don't think this scenario is fair, you're not alone. Read more from Joshua Sharf in this Page 2 op-ed.
Congress Shouldn't Be Running Transportation
Our transportation system is vast and complicated, and there's no reason to think Congress can know where every dollar should be spent any more than it knows what clothes you should wear today or what you should have for dinner tonight. Randal O'Toole breaks down the inefficiencies in the feds running the whole transportation system in this Complete Colorado Page 2 op-ed.
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Transportation policy expert Randal O'Toole argues in this Complete Colorado Page 2 op-ed that you can be either anti-car OR pro-poor people. You cannot be both. Why? Because cars help lift the poor out of poverty. If the poor are a concern, they must be given every opportunity to help themselves improve their lives. Cars do just that.
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ALBANY — Former Northeastern Clinton graduate, Matt Farbotko, was named Skyline Conference Player of the Week for the second straight week.
Farbotko led Sage College to a 2-1 week with wins over St. Joseph and previously unbeaten SUNY Old Westbury.
He averaged 21 points-per-game during the week, while shooting 70.4 percent from the floor, 85.7 percent from 3-point range and 82.6 percent from the foul line.
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PLATTSBURGH — Saranac's Abby Cerne was part of the 3,200 relay team with Elysha O'Connell, Alexis Bruno and Lexi Blockson that captured first place in Saturday's state qualifying meet.
Abby was incorrectly identified as her sister, Brielle, in Sunday's edition of the Press-Republican.
AC North expanded schedule announced
PLATTSBURGH— The Ameri-Can Sports Center will have expanded ice sessions this week for Stick-N-Puck and Public Skating during the school break.
Stick-N-Puck will be held February 19-21 from 1:30p.m -3p.m and February 24 from 4:30p.m – 5:45 p.m. Public skating will be open February 20-21 from noon-1:30p.m and February 24, from 3:30p.m-4:30p.m.
AC North hosting spring youth hockey
PLATTSBURGH— 'The Original 6' youth spring hockey league at AC North will be accepting registrations through this week until Friday February 22. For more information and registration forms call 561-7672 or go to www.ameri-cannorthsportscenter.com.
Emmerling tabbed SUNYAC men's hockey honorees
CORTLAND — Mathieu Cadieux and Kevin Emmerling of the Plattsburgh State men's hockey team have been named SUNYAC Goalie and Rookie of the Week, respectively, for the week ending February 17. Both honorees are receiving weekly awards for the third time this season. Cadieux, Emmerling and the rest of the Cardinals will host a semifinal game on Saturday at 7p.m.
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By Benji Tunnell
Globe Columnist
JOPLIN, Mo. —
Quite an uproar was heard when it was announced that Tom Cruise would be playing Jack Reacher in the adaptation of Lee Child's "One Shot."
In the universe of Child's books (one with which I am unfamiliar), Jack Reacher is apparently 6-foot-5, has a 50-inch chest and is more than 210 pounds of chiseled muscle. Tom Cruise is well known for being a diminutive actor, perhaps more suited for the recent release of "The Hobbit" than for playing a hulking mass of muscle.
But through Cruise's diligent adherence to Scientology tenets, as well as large contributions to attain the proper levels that would allow him the clarity to play the character, the little Scientology gremlins cast their magic spell, shrinking the character of Jack Reacher to approximately 4-foot-9, thus enabling Cruise to become viable in the role, and once again foiling the evil alien leader Xenu in his attempts to destroy the diminutive.
I kid at the expense of Cruise's very grounded belief system. In fact, he was cast as Reacher not for his size or bulk, but for his quickly fading star power and his ability to still sell tickets overseas. And in watching "Jack Reacher," this careful consideration can be seen throughout the film.
"Reacher" follows Jack Reacher as he begins investigating a seemingly senseless mass killing in Pittsburgh, Penn. (the opening sequence, in which the killer targets a small child, would have been in poor taste a month ago. Now, it is an uncomfortable reminder of recent events). James Barr (Joseph Sikora), a former Army sniper, is arrested for the crime, and he asks for Reacher to be contacted.
Reacher knows Barr only from an Army investigation after Barr snapped and killed four other men. The crime was quickly forgotten when it was found out that the men had been participating in mass rapes, a black eye the Army wanted to avoid. Reacher is intent on making sure that Barr faces justice this time, but when he is enlisted by the defense attorney (Rosamund Pike) to investigate the crime, he finds that there is more to the story than initially thought, and he begins to unravel a greater conspiracy.
Those that were concerned with Cruise's casting were right, in a way. He is a weak link in the film, though not for initial reasons thought.
It is easy to tell that Reacher is supposed to come across as a quiet, extremely dangerous man. Cruise is unable to pull that off. His line delivery lacks intimidation, offering instead a cool smirkiness that makes him less likeable than smarmy. In addition, the movie tries to create sexual tension between Cruise and Pike, but the two have less chemistry than my daughter's kid's science set.
Given that I have no ties to the source material, his physical appearance didn't bother me. It was the lack of investment in the character itself that drew me out of the film. Cruise relies on his movie star bag of tricks, leaning on good looks and cool to flesh out the man. But nowhere in the mix does he add fear.
Writer/director Christopher McQuarrie does neither Cruise nor Child any favors with his script and direction. McQuarrie won an Oscar for his "The Usual Suspects" screenplay, but it seems he's forgotten all about originality, instead leaning on the Hollywood standards of bland patter, forced action scenes and inconsistent characterizations.
A movie like this should be driven as much by its action as by the story, and here it fails in both instances. At one point, Reacher encounters two bumbling thugs who, as they attempt to bash him with a bat and tire iron, engage in enough ludicrous "Three Stooges"-esque slapstick as to make Inspector Clouseau blush. It was an extraordinarily stupid scene that completely took the viewer out of the film.
In another scene, after a pretty impressive car chase scene, Reacher has half of the Pittsburgh Police Department on his tail. When he simply steps out of his car and blends in with the crowd at a bus stop, those around him, rather than being fearful or concerned that a dangerous criminal might have just joined them, instead help to hide him as the cops descend, guns drawn, on his empty vehicle.
Then, he simply gets on a bus and leaves the scene, even though the police know that there is a dangerous wanted man in the area and surely would have stopped the bus from leaving. It stretches belief beyond the breaking point.
Finally, when Reacher must go to face down the bad guys, not only does he go unarmed, but he calls a guy that he has met once before and has no ties to, and that guy shows up to a deadly shootout to help defend him. And when he finds a weapon and comes face to face with the real killer, he throws down his gun to face the man in unarmed combat.
Now, some might argue that he was showing some class in not shooting an unarmed man, but a scene later in the movie will quickly negate that thinking. There are many more examples of the movie obliterating credibility, a weakness that permeates the film.
What McQuarrie and Cruise were hoping for was a fast-paced, fun action movie sold on the charisma of its leading man. What they got instead was a film that suffers from weak structure and weak execution, one in which the talents of the director and star are not reflected onscreen. Fans of Child's books were right to be concerned with Cruise's casting, but if Cruise gets his way, the character will become a franchise and he'll be bringing Reacher back to the screen many more times.
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Today Donald Berwick informed his bosses that he plans to resign on December 2 as Medicare administrator. He's leaving about a month earlier than expected.
Dr. Berwick, a pediatrician by training, was a major get for the Administration. A Harvard professor, he founded the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, a think tank that trains hospitals on how to increase patient safety and improve operations. When the President picked him to run Medicare, it seemed like an obvious and perfect choice.
The problem was his worldview. His approach to health reform, like the President's, promotes centralizing health care delivery and using government programs to force change. (Not surprising, given that he was the President's nominee, right?)
But once Congressional adversaries got a hold of some of Berwick's old writings, in which he had said nice things about the National Health Service in England, he became the subject of an ideological confirmation battle. The President countered by giving him a recess appointment, which meant he would only be able to serve until the end of this year–unless he was re-confirmed through Congress. Once it became clear that the President wasn't willing to stick his neck out, Berwick left. You can't blame him.
One insider I spoke to said Berwick knew he would have to leave, but stuck around this long to start the Partnership for Patients, a $1 billion program that funds research in his old area of work.
But to me, even as someone who's been skeptical of the ObamaCare approach to reform, the Berwick resignation is part of a troubling pattern where engaged, interesting thinkers get booted out of positions of power.
Nomination fights have blocked left-leaning intellectuals like Lani Guinier and more recently Goodwin Liu. On the right, Robert Bork and Michelle Rhee were squelched based on having radically interesting ideas. If you're an intellectual spark plug, politicians rush to defuse you.
So what do you get instead? Look around DC at all the bland bureaucrats who are great strivers and over-achievers. The problem is that all their work has the same flavor: vanilla. I'd argue instead for appointing quality thinkers like Berwick and then letting them succeed or fail.
Right now misguided ideologues are criticizing the nomination of Henry Aaron, a well-respected economist, to the lowly Social Security Board. Had these same activists even heard that such a board existed before joining the latest anti-intellectual lynch mob?
Our current President spent years as a State Senator abstaining from controversial votes. He spent years before that teaching Constitutional Law at one of the country's best law schools but he never wrote a anything interesting. Unlike Berwick and others who have been Borked over the years, Obama must have known the game.
Like Berwick's ideas or not–his resignation is a pity.
UPDATE November 27
Berwick's replacement, Marilyn Tavenner, is profiled here by Sarah Kliff of the Washington Post. She's a nurse turned hospital administrator who worked at the for-profit system HCA, where she rose to become a star before leaving to run the state of Virginia's health department. Kliff calls her a pragmatist. (Unlike Berwick, who's more of an idealist, I suppose.)
Ironically, one of Berwick's early mentors was Paul Batalden. He was a powerful HCA executive who once played host to a young Donald Berwick. Batalden was hired by HCA founder Tommy Frist and led quality improvement initiatives across the system.
Berwick, who was then working for the Harvard Pilgrim health plan, spent time with Batalden–a pediatrician by training who previously ran the Park Nicollet medical practice in the Twin Cities–to learn about how HCA had improved important quality metrics like length-of-stay and orthopedic surgery infection rate and recovery times. Batalden left HCA after the Columbia merger, which degraded the culture of the company. Later Batalden joined Dartmouth where he still teaches health leadership.
For more on this intellectual history of the quality movement, read Michael Millenson's terrific book Demanding Medical Excellence. One takeaway: The world of health quality research and hospital administration is a small one.
UPDATE November 28
Berwick's final note to his staff, reprinted here by Kaiser Health News, is fairly unrevealing, though he said the decision to step down is "bittersweet."
As a senior physician commenting on Dr. Berwick, another senior physicianI can only say that, though he is a decent fellow, clearly intelligent and motivated by ideals, he had two flaws that make it a blessing that he has resigned:
First of all, his motivations for patient safety are flawed due to the driving force of his personal tragedy. Every ethical physician, and that includes the great majority of us, wants maximum safety. We do not need being harangued by ever more complex protocols generated by faceless distant persons with no skin in the game, for us to seek this. Unfortunately, Dr. Berwick's being enamored of centralized, complex, computer driven, over controlling systems for achieving safety, has cost billions, has ground efficiency to a halt, has skyrocketed cost. The solution became so complex that it literally caused the problems it was designed to cure.
Secondly, medicine is, has been, and will be, imprecise. People are not identical, nor are they equally driven to the same goals. By leaving the patient out of these equations, Dr. Berwick has left the greatest variable untouched and made the problem of insuring safety impossible for those of us left holding the bag.
Sorry, Don. You are a decent human being. But healthcare is better for your not being in the driver's seat. None of this is meant to infer that the GOP driven nonsense of perpetuating Big Insurance, Big Pharma and Big Institution as the final arbiters of healthcare, is a good thing. It is not. The problem remains that centralization, whether government or business oriented, is bad for an industry that is intensely personal, and just as intensely variable and as fuzzy as each individual patient. It cannot be otherwise. Don't pay for what the patient really needs and pay for what enriches Big Business? You will get wealthy big business and not get what patients really need from their doctors. But the big boys can really make a bundle if they can keep bamboozling the populace and keep the doctors off balance and defensive about "prior authorization", "not medically necessary", "HIPAA violations", "patient safety protocols" and the like.
It is complex. These situations always are. And Dr. Berwick's solution is not one. Happy retirement.
Completely misreads the situation. The USA is not yet ready, politically or socially, for single-payer health insurance. Appointing an administrator who believes in it was stupid!


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Margaret Drabble was born June 5, 1939 in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England.
She attended the Mount School, York, a Quaker boarding-school, and was awarded a major scholarship to Newnham College, Cambridge, where she read English and received double honors. After graduating from Cambridge University, she joined the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford.
In 1960 she married her first husband, actor Clive Swift, who is best known for his role in the 1990 BBC television comedy Keeping Up Appearances. They had three children in the 1960's and divorced in 1975.
She subsequently married the biographer Michael Holroyd in the early 1980's. They live in London and also have a house in Somerset.
Her novel The Millstone won the John Llewelyn Rhys Prize, and she was the recipient of a Society of Author's Travelling Fellowship in the mid-1960's. She also received the James Tait Black and the E.M. Forster awards and was awarded the CBE in 1980. Her books are often described as ones people should read to get a clear view of what it's like to live in England. This is true not only because of her non-fiction books For Queen and Country and A Writer's Britain but also because of her fiction novels. The English personalities of her characters are tangible in her novels which, through the decades, have also reflected the dramatic political, economic and social changes that have taken place in Great Britain.
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Transfiguring it Out.
And while Jesus was praying, the appearance of his face changed, and his clothes became dazzling white. (Luke 9:29)
Jesus answered, "You faithless and perverse generation, how much longer must I be with you and bear with you? (Luke 9:41)
Back then, the Transfiguration of Jesus knocked the disciples' sandals off.
Today, it's a tedious special effect. Shine a spotlight, open the camera lens, and everything becomes dazzling white.
But how did Jesus do it without a gaffer and grip? What did it mean? And why was he in such an inclement mood afterwards?
These are the FAQ's of the Transfiguration. The answers depend on your faith tradition.
According to Luke, the event took place eight days after Jesus revealed himself to his disciples as the "Messiah of God" and charged them to say nothing about it. Together with Peter, James, and John, Jesus climbed a mountain to pray.
No one is sure which mountain, although the Franciscans built the Church of the Transfiguration atop Mount Tabor in Israel, and their guess is as good as anyone's.
If it was Mount Tabor, a wheezy climb of 1,886 feet was required to get to the summit and the disciples may well have been drenched in sweat and a little light-headed as Jesus began to pray. When the ambient light intensity was magnified around Jesus, Peter may have felt he was passing out.
Luke tells the story:
Suddenly they saw two men, Moses and Elijah, talking to him.
They appeared in glory and were speaking of his departure, which he was about to accomplish at Jerusalem.
Now Peter and his companions were weighed down with sleep; but since they had stayed awake, they saw his glory and the two men who stood with him.
Just as they were leaving him, Peter said to Jesus, "Master, it is good for us to be here; let us make three dwellings, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah" -- not knowing what he said.
While he was saying this, a cloud came and overshadowed them; and they were terrified as they entered the cloud.
Then from the cloud came a voice that said, "This is my Son, my Chosen; listen to him!"
When the voice had spoken, Jesus was found alone. And they kept silent and in those days told no one any of the things they had seen. (Luke 9:30-36)
Suddenly awake and perplexed by what he sees, Peter is reduced to gibberish. He convinces himself, at least temporarily, that it would be a good thing to build three grottos around Jesus and the apparitions of Moses and Elijah.
But soon the light fades and Peter returns to his senses, gaping slack-jawed and tongue-tied as the voice of God orders everyone to stand and listen.
The disciples were so stunned, Luke reports, they remained uncharacteristically silent.
What exactly had they seen? And what did it mean?
Most church traditions place enormous significance on the Transfiguration of Jesus. According to many theologians, the event marks a rare occurrence in which a portal to Heaven is opened and Jesus is transformed into a luminous bridge between earth and Heaven. The disciples know it's Heaven because God is there, and when God speaks, the luminosity is so painfully penetrating that a cloud is required to shade the intensity.
The idea of Jesus being a bridge between heaven and earth works fine for Baptists. Jesus is, after all, the gatekeeper who makes it possible for us to pass through to eternal life.
The intriguing notion of a divine bridge between two distant and otherwise unapproachable dimensions also makes some of us faith-based Star-Trek fans wonder: have we encountered an unexpected connection between theology and astrophysics?
Heaven, like star systems millions of light years away, is unattainable without a special means of getting there.
Jesus is the holy wormhole that makes the voyage possible. Hallelujah!
A wormhole, as Star-Trekkers know, is a hypothetical and unobservable phenomenon related to Einstein's theory of relativity. While no one has ever seen a wormhole, Star-Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, Madeleine L'Engle, and other science fiction doyens posit they exist as a means to traverse vast distances and beggar time itself.
Wormholes are conceived as celestial corridors that enable one (if one is so inclined) to travel vast distances in an instance, as if the fabric of space was folded together like a blanket to unite distant point A with unreachable point B. Star-Trek Deep Space Nine fans will recall that the space station is positioned near the Bajoran wormhole that provides passage to the distant Gamma Quadrant, making it possible for starships to travel to places beyond their reach.
Whatever the science may be, and I hereby stipulate that long-buried New York State Regents records will reveal I understood less than 30 percent of Mr. Palmer's physics lectures in high school, I find the whole idea wonderfully mysterious and miraculous.
The Transfiguration that revealed Jesus as the bridge between earth and Heaven was a pivotal event in human history, easily more significant than the supposed discovery of wormholes and intergalactic communication.
And the special effects of the Transfiguration were far beyond that which could be duplicated on three-dimensional, high density IMAX screens. As the disciples watched dumbstruck, Jesus began to metamorphose before their eyes and the portal to heaven was opened.
As Jesus stood in the heavenly portico, Moses and Elijah came to his side. For the metaphorical minded, the appearance of the Law Giver and Premier Prophet neatly symbolizes the fact that God's Son has been elevated over the Law and the Prophets.
But the casual manifestation of two dead guys denotes another theological reality. Contrary to traditional Jewish concepts of Sheol, where the souls of the dead retreat to a semi-conscious existence, Heaven is revealed to be the place where the dead not only continue to live but cavort intelligently and bask in God's reflected glory.
The presence of Moses and Elijah may be problematical to Christian traditions that believe the souls of the dead sleep, as in a providentially induced coma, until they are raised on the last day, when Jesus comes again. If you believe that, you might have to conclude that because the souls of Moses and Elijah were comatose, their images must be hallucinations in the minds of the apostles.
But to other Christian traditions, it seems illogical that this one aspect of the Transfiguration would be hallucinogenic while all other aspects would be real.
And there is something about the appearance of Moses and Elijah that seems very real.
Suddenly they saw two men, Moses and Elijah, talking to him. They appeared in glory and were speaking of his departure, which he was about to accomplish at Jerusalem. (Luke 9:31)
According to Luke, the Law Giver and the Prophet talk to Jesus about a topic known to heaven but incomprehensible to his disciples: Jesus' death and resurrection. It seems hardly likely that the disciples were hallucinating Moses and Elijah or their conversation about what was to come.
And if Moses and Elijah ambled out of Heaven to chat with Jesus, it is convincing forensic evidence that Heaven is occupied by the living souls of humans who have been liberated from their earthly bodies.
The implication is clear: Jesus is the Lord of the living, not the dead.
Of course, Jesus had been trying without success to get that message across to his occasionally obtuse disciples. The Transfiguration offered a glimpse into Heaven rarely seen on this side of the grave: and it was full of the living.
And just to be sure the disciples didn't miss the message, God put in a cameo appearance behind a cloud:
"Then from the cloud came a voice that said, "This is my Son, my Chosen; listen to him!" (Luke 9:35)
For Peter, James, and John, the Transfiguration was a stunningly disorienting experience. Luke, a physician, understood that their human brains are poorly equipped to take it all in. That's why a dazed Peter slipped over the edge of reality to suggest dwellings be constructed for the dazzling troika.
For Peter, James, and John, this is the rapturous "Mountaintop Experience" we humans often seek to compensate for the doldrums of life.
But mountaintop experiences are rare in life. And Peter, James, and John descended from the ecstatic warmth of the mountain to a cold shower of realty in the valley below.
On the next day, when they had come down from the mountain, a great crowd met him. Just then a man from the crowd shouted, "Teacher, I beg you to look at my son; he is my only child. Suddenly a spirit seizes him, and all at once he shrieks. It convulses him until he foams at the mouth; it mauls him and will scarcely leave him. I begged your disciples to cast it out, but they could not." Jesus answered, "You faithless and perverse generation, how much longer must I be with you and bear with you? Bring your son here." While he was coming, the demon dashed him to the ground in convulsions. But Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, healed the boy, and gave him back to his father. And all were astounded at the greatness of God. Luke 9:37-43a.
This is the basis for the Christian platitude that one must not seek to spend a lifetime on the blissful mountaintop; real life is lived in an often-stark reality of pain and misery and failure.
Luke's anecdote tells it like it is. Sometimes we, like the disciples, don't have enough faith to do what God has called us to do. Sometimes, in fact, we are so faithless we can sense Jesus' annoyed rebuke: "How much longer must I bear with you?"
That's what daily life in the dreary valley can be like, and often is.
And that's why a mountaintop experience, however rare, is so much to be desired. Such experiences renew our faith and keep us going.
That's why the Transfiguration of Jesus on the mount is one of the most important events in the gospels.
The message of the Transfiguration sets a firm foundation for faith and strengthens our sometimes-beleaguered souls:
Jesus is our bridge to an otherwise unattainable Heaven.
Heaven is the eternal home for the living souls of the faithful.
The passage from earth to heaven is occasionally turbulent and our human failures may leave us wretched and despondent while we wait for the gateway to open.
But the day of our own transfiguration will surely come, as Jesus promised.
And we will all be astounded by the greatness of God.


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The 14-year-old and 10-year-old daughters of a Fishtown man are recovering after they were injured in two separate hit-and-runs that happened in just a three day span.
Jim Givens told FOX 29's Dave Kinchen he was crushed by the incidents.
"What can I think? I'm just crushed it's my daughter, you know what I mean?" Givens said.
Givens says Kylee, his 14-year-old, remains hospitalized with a ruptured spleen and two broken ribs after she was struck by a vehicle that kept on going in the city's Tacony section Saturday night.
According to police, Kylee was struck in the area of Cheltenham Avenue and Torresdale. Police say the vehicle stopped a block from the crash, but then took off before officers could get there. Investigators describe the car as a white four-door vehicle that was driven by a Hispanic man.
"She's laying in the hospital bed - she's got tubes coming out of her neck, out of her arm, out of her nose," he said.
Givens is also keeping a close eye on his other daughter, 10-year-old Sarah, who was hurt in a separate hit-and-run just days earlier.
Sarah manages to walk with the help of crutches after her leg was broken. She now has to get around in a full leg cast. Police say Sarah was crossing Memphis Street when a white GMC SUV with white rims hit her.
"It was hard because it was me that got hit and then a couple days later, my sister got hit by a car," Sarah told FOX 29.
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GASTONIA, N.C. -- A retaining wall in Gastonia is sagging after a large swath of the ground beneath it gave way.
Two stores -- a AAA Car Care Center and a Sprint store -- were ordered closed by Gastonia officials out of concern the situation could worsen.
The stores are located in a shopping plaza in the 2500 block of East Franklin Boulevard.
Tribek Properties owns the property and has hired engineers, who were out Thursday, to inspect the wall and the ground below it.
The ground around the wall had started giving way after the past week or so of heavy rain.
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The California Supreme Court will hear arguments next week in an age discrimination suit filed by a former Google manager who was fired in 2004.
The ex-Googler, now 60, says younger Googlers called him an "old fuddy-duddy," among other things. Google says the worker was fired for performance issues, not his age.
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GLENEDEN BEACH, Ore. -- Two kids were accused of entering a vacation home in Gleneden Beach and setting it on fire, police said.
Deputies responded just before 5 p.m. Sunday to the report of a fire in the 6700 block of Glen Avenue, according to Lt. Dave Clarey of the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office.
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A 12-year-old boy from the Gleneden Beach area was arrested Wednesday in connection with the fire. He was lodged in the Lincoln County Juvenile Detention Facility on several charges, including arson and burglary.
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