When I was growing up, I would have given anything to have a book that was passed down from mother to child. That is one of the things that inspired me to write this book. I hope that this book becomes a family hand-me-down for my readers and that, for younger generations, reading it will be like reading with the ones we have loved who have passed on to glory. This is a book that I hope all ages will enjoyit is full of some things that are funny and some that are sad. However, most of all, I think that it does show value for life. I think that in all books there should be something that gives pleasure to the reader. I hope this will be the one that will do this for you. Some of my poems are for the very, very young, and there are others that even people my age would like. I am sure that, if you take the time to read this book, you will find that you will get a laugh or two. In addition, you even may shed a tear or two. I do hope that you will get pleasure from it. I tell others of my books so that maybe everyone can have a smile, for that is the greatest gift that we can give to another person.
This collection is on the Patrick Clan life, just poems and tales from her grandfather. This is the main philosophy of the Patrick Clan and their beliefs and the code by which they live. This also is how her Grandaa taught her differently about life and how to live it. It was hard to grow up without a mother and daddy, but her Grandaa did the best that he could being a poor sheepherder. He was not a very big man in stature, but was as big as a mountain in heart. He was one who lived by his wordCit was all that he really had that was important to him in the way that he lived. Teaching his granddaughter the way of things was the most important thing to him. He wanted her to grow up with honor and respect for everyone and everything that she was to come upon in her life. He did this by way of telling her tales, and by telling her things from his way of living and learning when he was a boy growing up. He was one that had a story or a poem for anything that they came upon, whether it was a bug or even a rock or a tree. He had a love of all the things that were around him in nature. For him, that was the way of the gods. To him there was a god and a goddess whom he had faith in. To the people in town that were not of the Clan, he was a very devout Catholic. For even though nowadays many people believe in the old way, he remembered the one where there were burnings of witches.
“Honor thy father and thy mother.” This is the fourth commandment from the ten God gave us through Moses in the Bible. This fourth follows the initial three signifying our duties to the Supreme Being. After God, our next obligation is to our parents. This shows the importance of parents. Notice the word is “honor.” It does not say “obey”; but “honor” certainly includes “obedience.” Furthermore, this commandment does not end when we each reach maturity. The commandment of honor signifies we must respect our parents all their lives. Our mother was Norah Attracta Cusack. Our father was Joseph Charles Meissner. By the usual social standards, they were very ordinary people on this planet. However, they possessed their own wonderful beauty and intelligence. They were most extraordinary parents who welcomed us to life, took care of our needs, ensured we received great educations, and devoted their lives unselfishly to us for decades. But they gave us much more than our mere bodies. They gave us faith, hope, and love during their long lives. They showed us how to live as God urges us to live. They continuously nourished us spiritually from our mother’s nightly “demands” to kneel in the living room praying the rosary to our Blessed Virgin to our father who drove us even in the blinding snow, freezing cold, and storms to church every week, ensuring we arrived on time. Here are words from my brother Robert for our parents: “As for our son, Scott, [who suffering from severe PTSD, ended his life], I agree he is somewhere around and still present in the universe. So are our mom and dad. I think after we die, we will learn how all this is done—you know Mom and Dad are the greatest proof of God, religion, and an afterlife. They were so good and worked tirelessly for our family. If you asked them about religion, the church, and faith, they might say it really doesn’t matter, except you treat your fellow human beings with dignity and acknowledge God as Father. The rest of the argument really doesn’t mean that much.” So to Mom and Dad, we celebrate your lives and say an enormous thank-you.
This book provides a comprehensive study of multi-stage and multi-time scale design of feedback controllers for linear dynamic systems. It examines different types of controllers as can be designed for different parts of the system (subsystems) using corresponding feedback gains obtained by performing calculations (design) only with subsystem (reduced-order) matrices.The advantages of the multi-stage/multi-time scale design are presented and conditions for implementation of these controllers are established. Complete derivations and corresponding design techniques are presented for two-stage/two-time-scale, three-stage/three-time scale, and four-stage/four-time-scale systems. The techniques developed have potential applications to a large number of real physical systems. The design techniques are demonstrated on examples of mathematical models of fuel cells, especially the proton exchange membrane fuel cell.
Elevate your business communication and secure your competitive advantage with "How to Hear YES More Often." Authored by Certified Persuasion Specialists, this book reveals the science and art of ethical persuasion, ensuring long-term success without compromising integrity. Discover the Secrets of Ethical Persuasion: Real-World Examples: Gain insights from real-world scenarios and experiences that demonstrate the effective application of persuasion principles. Scientific Approach: Learn the science behind how people make decisions and how to ethically influence them. Comprehensive Understanding: Move beyond basic influence theories and develop a profound understanding of the latest research and practical skills needed to apply persuasion confidently. What You'll Learn: The Principles of Persuasion: Understand and implement the seven principles of influence as defined by Dr. Robert Cialdini—Reciprocity, Liking, Unity, Social Proof, Authority, Consistency, and Scarcity. Ethical Application: Apply these principles ethically in various business situations to achieve transformative results. Practical Insights: Benefit from the authors' diverse experiences and actionable insights to enhance your persuasion skills. About the Authors: Meet Patrick van der Burght, Leopold Ajami, John Doorbar, James Rose, Martin John, Mark Brown, Pilar Bringas, and Isto Felin. Each author brings a unique perspective and expertise in ethical influence and persuasion, contributing to a rich and diverse exploration of the subject. Empower Your Business: Whether you're a startup entrepreneur or a seasoned professional, this book provides the tools and strategies to improve your communication, build stronger relationships, and achieve your business goals. Start your journey towards hearing "YES" more often and unlock your potential for success.
Try Not to Think of a Pink Elephant is a collection of real-life stories about living with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Contributors are Martin Ingle on OCD and sexual intimacy; Dani Leever on contamination-based OCD; Patrick Marlborough on living with OCD in NYC; Katharine Pollock on over-achievement and control of food and body; and Sienna Rose Scully on the untimely death of her mother, an event that actualised her most persistent OCD obsession.At times humorous, at times heartbreaking, this engaging anthology on mental health and invisible illnesses will keep you on the edge of your seat, compelling you to read on as five talented authors tell their stories about living with OCD.
Patrick J. Buchanan, bestselling author and senior advisor to Richard Nixon, tells the definitive story of Nixon's resurrection from the political graveyard and his rise to the presidency. After suffering stinging defeats in the 1960 presidential election against John F. Kennedy, and in the 1962 California gubernatorial election, Nixon's career was declared dead by Washington press and politicians alike. Yet on January 20, 1969, just six years after he had said his political life was over, Nixon would stand taking the oath of office as 37th President of the United States. How did Richard Nixon resurrect a ruined career and reunite a shattered and fractured Republican Party to capture the White House? In The Greatest Comeback, Patrick J. Buchanan--who, beginning in January 1966, served as one of two staff members to Nixon, and would become a senior advisor in the White House after 1968--gives a firsthand account of those crucial years in which Nixon reversed his political fortunes during a decade marked by civil rights protests, social revolution, The Vietnam War, the assassinations of JFK, RFK, and Martin Luther King, urban riots, campus anarchy, and the rise of the New Left. Using over 1,000 of his own personal memos to Nixon, with Nixon’s scribbled replies back, Buchanan gives readers an insider’s view as Nixon gathers the warring factions of the Republican party--from the conservative base of Barry Goldwater to the liberal wing of Nelson Rockefeller and George Romney, to the New Right legions of an ascendant Ronald Reagan--into the victorious coalition that won him the White House. How Richard Nixon united the party behind him may offer insights into how the Republican Party today can bring together its warring factions. The Greatest Comeback is an intimate portrayal of the 37th President and a fascinating fly on-the-wall account of one of the most remarkable American political stories of the 20th century.
Rose’s House In 1930, a young boy from a small coal-mining town in Western Pennsylvania spotted a small airplane flying over his town and made a promise to himself that he would someday be that pilot. James McDonald, that young boy, made true to his promise. His piloting skills took him to faraway places. Along his travels, he met the love of his life, Rose. God, Please Forgive Bonnie Bonnie, a hired assassin, was known in the underworld as the best of the best. She was hired by one of the wealthiest men in the world to assassinate the president. Follow along as she cons a young Marine stationed at Camp David to do the job.
Our Lady in the Rose is my late wife, Bettys, little miracle happening as I pushed her in the garden of her Larkfield Care Home shortly before she went to the Lord. It was a lovely sunny August day as I quietly said the rosary, asking for peace and healing for both of us. Little did I know that our Lady would answer by asking me to place one of the beautiful white roses on Bettys hair and take a photo.
Chamoiseau is a writer who has the sophistication of the modern novelist, and it is from that position (as an heir of Joyce and Kafka) that he holds out his hand to the oral prehistory of literature." --Milan Kundera Of black Martinican provenance, Patrick Chamoiseau gives us Texaco (winner of the Prix Goncourt, France's most prestigious literary prize), an international literary achievement, tracing one hundred and fifty years of post-slavery Caribbean history: a novel that is as much about self-affirmation engendered by memory as it is about a quest for the adequacy of its own form. In a narrative composed of short sequences, each recounting episodes or developments of moment, and interspersed with extracts from fictive notebooks and from statements by an urban planner, Marie-Sophie Laborieux, the saucy, aging daughter of a slave affranchised by his master, tells the story of the tormented foundation of her people's identity. The shantytown established by Marie-Sophie is menaced from without by hostile landowners and from within by the volatility of its own provisional state. Hers is a brilliant polyphonic rendering of individual stories informed by rhythmic orality and subversive humor that shape a collective experience. A joyous affirmation of literature that brings to mind Boccaccio, La Fontaine, Lewis Carroll, Montaigne, Rabelais, and Joyce, Texaco is a work of rare power and ambition, a masterpiece.
John Valdez has been in prison for nineteen years for murder and armed robbery, crimes he didn't commit. He has recently discovered that there is a witness, a Catholic Sister, who can prove he did not murder and rob a wealthy Coral Gables woman in 1989. Valdez doesn't have the money to hire a private investigator to track down his witness, so he turns for help to Danny Murphy, a savvy convict jailhouse lawyer at Everglades State Prison. To find the witness, Murphy recruits his brother from the Miami State Attorney's office, and an ex-con in the Mafia who owes him a favor. The trail to the Catholic Sister becomes a whirlpool of intrigue, murder, kidnapping and religious conflict in the steamy streets of MIami and Key West. In the Interest of Justice is not only a crime drama, but a story about how the lives of the main characters are changed. It's about how injustices shake our faith in God and redemption. It's about self-sacrifice for the right causes that gives life meaning. Finally, it's about going above the law when it is in the interest of justice.
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