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In traveling around the country giving genealogy presentations, I have experienced a wide variety of equipement failures and lack of Internet connectivity. Since my primary computers are Apple OS X based, I always have to worry about connectivity issues. It seems like each time I run into a problem, I add one more level of equipment and possible backup.
For example, for my recent presentations at RootsTech 2013, I came prepared with my MacBook Pro laptop, a Toshiba Windows 8 laptop, a flashdrive with my entire presentation, connectors for RGB (DB15 to DVI) and HDMI, and a number of cables including a surge protector and various charging cables for iPhone, iPad and the laptops. This has become my standard equipment.
Not only do I have to be ready for the presentations, I need to make sure I can use and charge all my devices during the time I am away from my home office.
Originally, I liked to do all my presentations live online using an Internet connection. However, in Springfield, Illinois, although I had access to two different WiFi cards and the hotel WiFi, none of them worked and I lost connection with the Interent in the middle of a presentation. I have learned from that experience and from many others that I cannot rely on having an Internet connection outside of a few very limited venues. This is the case no matter how adamant the conference organizers are that they have a good Internet connection or that their equipment was just tested the night before.
For that reason, about a year or so ago, I began to make PowerPoint presentations for all of my classes except those at the Mesa FamilySearch Library, where the connections are fairly predictable. In some cases, I have planned to do the presentation from a live connection, but had the PowerPoint presentation as a backup.
Using a PowerPoint is both confining and liberating. My wife likes to point out that having a PowerPoint keeps me on track for the presentation and moves through the information in a more orderly fashion. At the same time, I chaff at the confinement and lack of spontaneity of a PowerPoint presentation. Now, I almost always have my entire presentation on a flashdrive for the eventuality that my computers do not work with the location's pre-setup machines and I have to use their computers.
I am certainly not new to PowerPoint presentations. I have used the program since it was introduced back in the dim past of computers. There are several options to using Microsoft's program, but I have found that there is always a slight chance of failure of compatibility if I branch off into another program especially if I am forced to use the facility's computer.
I was looking at a presentation that I did about a year ago and I realized that using the program and thinking about what the audience is going to see, has dramatically changed how I design my slides and what I say. The biggest problem is keeping the slides synchronized with my every changing presentations, since I never say exactly the same thing twice in row. Another challenge is the change in technology. I have had online websites change during the time I was creating the presentation and it is not unusual for their to be several changes over the lifetime of one presentation. I always have to go back and carefully review the slides to update any screenshots I am using.
I must say that I have seen some truly awful PowerPoint presentations (including a few of my own). The biggest problem is usually too many words on one slide. I work on that every time I review an old presentation and update it. I am ambivalent about using "cute" or funny illustrations. In most cases, I feel that they detract from the subject matter of the presentation, but can be used effectively if they don't overload the viewers. I also think it is poor practice to stand in a presentation and read the text from a long slide. The slides should reinforce the presentation, not become the script.
I am still very much in the mode of evolving my presentations and I hope to get better as time goes on.
Thursday, April 25, 2013
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We had the chance to reconnect with young developer Jordan Casey, who recently released a new gaming app – Greenboy Touch. In our Developer Spotlight back in July, Jordan mentioned that he was going to slow down, but that obviously wasn't the case! Read up on our latest interview with Jordan to find out more about his inspiration and the making of his latest Android and iOS game submitted to our Flash Rocks gallery.
What was your inspiration behind your new app, Greenboy Touch?
Greenboy Touch was based off a Flash game I developed about 2 years ago. I'm always trying new genres and I love different game concepts. While most of my games are just one specific style of gameplay, Greenboy Touch is made up of tons of different concepts. It is sort of a puzzle game.
We'd love to share more about the making of the app with our readers. What Creative Suite products did you use and did you have any favorite features?
I used Photoshop and Illustrator for graphics – they're great tools! To develop the game I used Adobe AIR for iOS and for Android. I programmed in ActionScript 3.0, Flash and AIR, which are amazing. With the click of a button, I could switch a Flash game to a desktop app for Mac or PC back to an Android app to an iOS App. The program is great because it's really visual and really powerful. ActionScript is an amazing language, and though so powerful, quite easy to pick up.
What was your experience like using Flash to create for Android and iOS? Are there any tips you would share with other developers?
The process was great. Like I said, with the click of a button I could go from iOS to Android. It's just great. It's the same as making a Flash game – the exact same, and with just a click, you get a native app! Just like that! It's magic!
You're juggling school and development. We want to know – what's your secret? How are you doing it all?
Well, it is tough juggling between school, development, and lots of speaking events. To make up for time I missed while I'm away speaking, I take a 2-hour study course after school to catch up or study for exams. That way, I have my homework done and I can develop for about an hour or so.
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We have just arrived at Tokyo DisneySEA! The #1, no question, no argument, best theme park in the world!
We are about to board the greatest attraction Disney has ever created! Journey to the Center of the Earth!
Here is a video of the awesomeness:
Lava Monster! 15 years old and still the single best animatronic Disney has ever made!
Happiness is holding two FPs for Tokyo DisneySEA before 9:30am!
Found this awesome Journey ride vehicle! Never seen these before!
Dear Tokyo Disney fans! Does anyone know if they still sell the gyoza that USED to be here somewhere else in the park? (Not the buns)
(Sadly we found out this menu changed in January of 2016.)
Dear Walt Disney World - Please remove the very dated Twilight Zone theme from Tower of Terror and replace with Shiriki! Thank you!
From this location at Tokyo DisneySEA I can see both Mt. Fuji and Mount Prometheus! I love Japan!
Yes, today is going to be a "popcorn day!"
These mochi ice cream aliens were almost too cute to eat... but they were delicious! :
Aquatopia... the most amazing pointless ride ever!!! LOVE IT!
We did a 360 video of Aquatopia. You'll probably need to open the link below in your phone in the YouTube app to see it in all it's glory!
Out with the bad and in with the Nemo!
Bernard and Bianca were out greeting guests! Wish we'd see The Rescuers more often at the US parks!
This little ride at Tokyo DisneySEA is better themed than 97% of the roller coasters in America!
Another absolutely beautiful themed queue!
In the mermaid lagoon area you can find these Tokyo DisneySEA exclusive capsule toys!
Here are the many faces of Donald from the capsule toy!
Yes... we are in a theme park!
Tokyo DisneySEA is celebrating 15 years and we are happy to say we have been here for 11 of them!
The ship that was added to the front of the park for the 15th anniversary is pretty awesome!
Each Disney character has their own special wish and crystal as part of the 15th anniversary.
At the Japanese Mexican place you can get a sombrero Donald made out of rice and tortillas! Amazing!!!
We found her!
If you ask for the English translation at the Sindbad ride, you get this awesome card telling the story!
Which of these Tokyo DisneySEA underwear would you like to have protecting your junk?
It's really a coin flip between Curry and Black Pepper for my favorite popcorn flavor!
In this two minute clip will show you why we love Sindbad at Tokyo DisneySEA! VOLUME UP!!!
Kristen from @OceanSprayInc shows Jack how to harvest cranberries! @WaltDisneyWorld #EpcotFoodFestival @WDWToday pic.twitter.com/UMnKfUdzS5— Theme Park Review (@ThemeParkReview) September 26, 2015
Our view from Tokyo Disney! Mt. Fuji at sunset! Beautiful!
The parks closed early on this night because it's New Years Eve or "Countdown Party" which we will be attending in the next update!


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Also the Umbra Angela were created by me and can be substituted by any kind of angel you deem appropriate.
"Afraid little dragon? Show me the power of your so called dark magic"
A Dark Angel ascendant is a knight, trained by the Shadow Angels to hunt down and destroy evil in all its forms. Balancing grim determination with courteous behavior, they literally stand vigilant against the shadow of evil.
For too long the Umbra angela were drawn into their research of the Plane of Shadow, unaware of and hidden from the cosmic turmoil around them. As Malchiah's death and the rise and fall of Tenebrous taught them, they must influence the Prime Material plane to survive and to have a sense of purpose, so important for Outsiders. For this purpose the Stewards of Time decided to teach some of their secrets to select mortals. This decision was made for another reason; mortals possessed a spark of hope, even at the direst situations, something the Umbra angela badly needed.
Drawing in their mastery of both combat and mystery and given truly angelic gifts, these knights strive to purge the darkness from deeply rooted evils and fear, all while disguised so that their patrons are never revealed to public. In addition they house weak angelic spirits, called Neophytes, who wish to learn about the Material Plane so they can better address their duties when they evolve in a greater form.
In practice they achieve the impossible day after day. Protecting a hamlet from an undead horde, rallying its inhabitants as a fighting force and ending the struggle with a smile and hope for the future is one of the expected duties of an ascendant. Humility against said villagers and healing the wounds of conflict to the common man is another. Yet a third duty is being an energetic being with a variety of interests, for to let sadness and despair influence him, is like surrendering to it.
To qualify to become a dark angel ascendant, a character must fulfill all the following criteria.
Shadowcasting: Able to cast 2nd level mysteries
Skills: Diplomacy 3 ranks, Perception 3 ranks, Spellcraft 6 ranks
Other: Battle ardor (critical confirmation) or Zealous Surge
Alignment: Any Good
Hit Die: d10
Dark Angel Ascendant
|Base Attack Bonus
|Fort Save
|Ref Save
|Will Save
|Sin Eater (Envy), Neophyte guide, Angelic Devotion, Maneuvers
|Sin Eater (Gluttony), Armored Caster (Light)
|+1 level of existing mystery-using class
|Dark Vengeance 5, Redeemer of Body
|+1 level of existing mystery-using class
|Sin Eater (Greed), Redeemer of Mind
|+1 level of existing mystery-using class
|Sin Eater (Lust), Armored Caster (Medium)
|+1 level of existing mystery-using class
|Dark Vengeance 10
|Sin Eater (Pride), Redeemer of Soul
|+1 level of existing mystery-using class
|Sin Eater (Sloth), Armored Caster (Heavy)
|+1 level of existing mystery-using class
|Dark Vengeance 15
|+1 level of existing mystery-using class
|Sin Eater (Wrath)
|+1 level of existing mystery-using class
Class Skills:
The dark angel ascendant's class skills (and the key ability for each skill) are Acrobatics (Dex), Climb (Str), Diplomacy (Cha), Intimidate (Cha), Jump (Str), Knowledge (arcanna) (Int), Knowledge (the planes) (Int), Knowledge (history) (Int), Knowledge (local) (Int), Knowledge (religion) (Int), Martial Lore (Int), Perception (Wis), Ride (Str), Spellcraft (Int), Stealth (Dex), Swim (Str).
Skill Points at Each Level: 4 + Int modifier
Dark Angel Ascendants have the following game statistics.
Class Features:
All of the following are class features of the Dark Angel Ascendant prestige class.
Weapon Proficiencies:
A dark angel ascendant gains proficiency with all armors and shields (excluding tower shields) and with all melee simple and martial weapons.
Angelic Devotion:
The powers granted by this class are divine in nature and, much like a cleric, if you misuse them, they will be inaccessible until you atone for your misdeeds.
More specifically if you ever cease to oppose those who would misuse Shadow Magic, control other people against their will, or, more generally harass Good people with the help of the cover of darkness and night, or work intentionally to uncover the identity of your patrons or directly or indirectly oppose them, you lose all benefits granted by this prestige class and cannot gain new levels in it.
Depending on the severity of your actions an atonement spell and one month of acting towards the Umbra Angela cause may allow you to regain your class benefits back and resume taking levels normally.
At each level, except 1st and 6th, you gain new mysteries per day and an increase in caster level (and mysteries known, if applicable) as if you had also gained a level your mystery-using class. You do not, however, gain any other benefits a character of these classes would have gained.
If you had more than one mystery using class before becoming a dark angel ascendant, you must decide to which class to add each level for the purpose of determining mysteries per day, caster level, and mysteries known.
At each odd-numbered level, you gain a new maneuver known from the White Raven, Shadow Hand or Devoted Spirit disciplines.
You must meet a maneuver's prerequisite to learn it. You add your full dark angel ascendant levels to your initiator level to determine your total initiator level and your highest-level maneuvers known.
At 3rd level, 6th level, and 9th level, you gain an additional maneuver readied per day.
Stances Known:
At 5th level, you learn a new martial stance from the White Raven, Shadow Hand or Devoted Spirit disciplines. You must meet a stance's prerequisite to learn it.
Neophyte Guide (Su):
A dark angel ascendant is possessed by a neophyte umbra angelus. This guide and its host are practically one creature (The neophyte doesn't count as a possessing creature for all intents and purposes), and it cannot be targeted as a separate creature.
At 1st level it grants his host an untyped bonus to all Knowledge checks equal to the ascendant's class level and he lets him use them untrained. This bonus is only applicable versus evil creatures, locations and objects. This bonus extends to all Craft and Profession checks as well as one Perform skill of the character's choice.
He is also affected with a permanent disguise self and undetectable alignment effect on him.
At 2nd level the character's melee and melee touch attacks deal 1d8 bonus damage to evil targets per 2 class levels. This damage is half cold, half electricity, and it is not reduced by cold or electricity resistance. Immunities still apply however.
In addition his melee and melee touch attacks function as if they possessed the ghost touch weapon quality.
Sin Eater (Su):
A Dark Angel Ascendant learns to protect him from and eventually empower himself with the wickedness of his opponents.
Envy: Any damage or ability damage dealt by a spell or spell like ability with the [Evil] descriptor or by a supernatural ability originating by a creature with an evil aura (such as evil outsiders or anti paladins) is reduced by an amount equal to the ascendant's class level.
Gluttony: The Dark Angel Ascendant gains immunity to curses, taint and vile damage. The target of his Dark Vengeance ability gains these immunities until the end of his next turn.
He also enjoys a bonus to his saving throws versus spells and abilities originating from an evil creature equal to his charisma modifier.
Greed: The Dark Angel Ascendant's space always blocks line of sight and effect for any spell or ability originating from an evil creature.
He can also choose to be, once per round as an immediate action, the target of such abilities, instead of an ally positioned no more than 30 feet away.
Lust: The Dark Angel Ascendant is immune to fear, magical or otherwise, and to compulsion effects. The target of his Dark Vengeance ability gains these immunities until the end of his next turn.
In addition he gains Damage Reduction 5/evil and silver, as well as Spell Resistance 5 + character level against spells and spell like abilities originating from sources with an evil alignment.
Pride: A dark angel ascendant adds his intelligence modifier to his strength or dexterity modifier on his melee attack rolls.
Whenever a a non-evil ally falls in battle (typically by bringing him to 0 or lower hit points or rendering him unable to take any action), the character gains a cumulative +1 bonus to attack rolls, caster level, DC of mysteries, damage rolls and skill checks.
This bonus lasts until the end of the encounter and is doubled if the felled creature was of a good alignment. Summoned creatures do not benefit the character in this way, nor do creatures that rejuvenate after death (such as ghosts).
In addition he becomes immune to any possession effect and he cannot be raised as or become any form of undead, nor can his soul be imprisoned in any way. The target of his Dark Vengeance ability gains these immunities until the end of his next turn.
Sloth: Whenever a Dark Angel Ascendant uses an ability with the [Teleportation] descriptor and with an activation time equal to or greater than a standard action, he can make a full attack at a target within reach of his destination. This ability is usable at will but once per round.
Wrath: The Dark Angel Ascendant adds his intelligence modifier to his constitution modifier to calculate his total hit points, his Damage Reduction improves to 10/evil and silver and his Spell Resistance improves to 11 + character level against spells and spell like abilities originating from sources with an evil alignment.
His speed is increased by 10 feet and he gains concealment in any condition other than bright light. Only true seeing, blindsight or similar magic or sensory input pierces this concealment.
Armored Caster (Ex):
Normally, armor of any type interferes with a mystery caster's gestures for mysteries cast as arcane spells, which can cause them to fail. A dark angel ascendant's specialized training, however, allows him to avoid arcane spell failure as long as he sticks to light armor and light shields.
If he instead has the Still Mystery feat, he ignores any speed reduction caused by the armor, the armor's maximum dexterity bonus increases by 2 and any armor check penalty is lessened by 2 (minimum 0) to any armor he applies this ability.
At 5th level, a dark angel ascendant learns to use medium armor and heavy shields with no chance of arcane spell failure and at 8th level this benefit extends to heavy armor.
Dark Vengeance (Ex):
Whenever an ally within a 30 feet radius suffers hit point or ability damage, the dark angel ascendant may redirect up to 5 damage or 1 ability damage as a free action, once per attack, to him.
For every 5 damage or 1 ability damage he suffers from this ability in a round, he enjoys a stacking +1 bonus to his attack and damage rolls until the end of his next turn. The damage transferred cannot be reduced or prevented by any way.
At 6th level he can transfer up to 10 damage or 2 ability damage per attack and at 9th level up to 15 damage or 3 ability damage.
He also confers specific immunities to the target of this ability until the end of his next turn. These immunities also end any effect that they would apply to on the target.
Redeemer of Body (Su):
Whenever a Dark Angel Ascendant successfully deals damage to a creature that is possessed by another creature (such as a possessing demon or under the effect of a magic jar spell), or a creature that is physically inhabited by another creature (such as a tsokar host riding a living creature), half of the damage dealt is redirected to the possessing or parasitic creature. This is an evocation effect and the damage type suffered by the possessing or parasitic creature becomes cold.
In addition if he wins on an opposed caster level check (substituting Hit Die if the effect has no caster level), the possessing or parasitic creature must leave the host, appear in an adjacent square and not be able to possess the host again for 24 hours. If he loses, he can't try again for the remainder of the encounter, however further damage on the creature continues to be redirected.
For this ability to work, the possessing creature targeted must have a separate Hit Point value from its host (creatures with undetermined Hit Point values like a [url="http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=188148"]Harrowed[/url]'s Monster within are unaffected).
Redeemer of Mind (Su):
This ability works like redeemer of body but also affects creatures under the effect of an enchantment [charm or compulsion] spell or an effect that replicates those spells or influences the target in a similar way. Winning an opposed caster level check results in the creature being freed from mental control, but the position of the controller remains unchanged.
Redeemer of Soul (Su):
This ability works like redeemer of body but also affects creatures created by or under the control by necromantic spells or effects, or command by the Rebuke Undead or similar ability. Winning an opposed caster level check results in the creature being freed from necromantic control, but the position of the controller remains unchanged.
Redeemer of Shadow
For those vain enough to think that more of them are better, you have the answer in a strike that affects all of their essences.
Prerequisites: Sin Eater (Wrath) class ability.
Benefit: You can also target the clones, astral projections and similar effects, which precisely duplicate a creature, of a creature with your redeemer of body ability and such duplicates have only 50% chance to affect you with any of their abilities. The oldest creature (usually the creature that is born via natural means) is considered the possessor for the purposes of this ability. However there is no subsequent opposed caster level check after damage is dealt.
In addition damage dealt by any Redeemer ability is considered holy rather than cold and you may choose to convert all damage done to the initial target of your attack into subdual damage .


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Linguistics, Pragmatics and Psychotherap
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This book discusses current theories in linguistics and sociolinguistics as they relate to therapeutic situations, including uses of metaphor, slogans, and proverbs. It shows how people's empathies or feeling of alienation are displayed by the language they choose to describe or discuss events. Dysfunctions as different as depression, drug and alcohol additions, agoraphobia, schizophrenia and bulimia are examined in terms of the language used by clients or patients. It is shown that the way people encode life events influences their self-evaluations, evaluations of others, and their general behaviour, so that therapy becomes a process of learning to retell one's life story. Every chapter contains either actual narratives from clients or therapist/client interviews with thorough linguistic and sociolinguistic analyses of these speech activities. The therapist is shown how to listen and what to listen for in the client's speech, as well as what kinds of questions to ask.


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RENTON, Wash. - Seattle Sounders FC fans are encouraged to plan ahead and arrive early for the Sounders FC versus Montreal Impact match on Saturday, March 2. The CenturyLink Field gates open at 6 p.m. and kickoff is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Other activities include the following:
Friday, March 1
2:30-4:30 p.m. - Track the flight of the 30' x 100' Sounders FC scarf.
The scarf will fly over Seattle and Bellevue pending amenable weather. Fans are encouraged to share sightings and images via Twitter using the following hash tags: #SoundersRave and #ScarvesUp.
Saturday, March 2
2:30-4:30 p.m. - Track the flight of the 30' x 100' Sounders FC scarf.
The scarf will fly over Seattle and Bellevue pending amenable weather. Fans are encouraged to share sightings and images via Twitter using the following hash tags: #SoundersRave and #ScarvesUp.
5:45 p.m. - Chipotle "Chips & Guac" give-a-way in Occidental Park
Chipotle will provide complimentary "Chips & Guac" to the first 500 fans that present their MatchPass or match tickets. Chipotle "Chips & Guac" are made fresh every day, with a squeeze of real lime and kosher salt. Guacamole is made from perfectly ripe avocados, and hand mashed, up to three times a day
5:50 p.m. - Crème Tangerine, a Seattle cover band, will perform in Occidental Park.
6 p.m. - CenturyLink Field ticket gates open.
The first 25,000 fans will receive a 2013 Sounders FC schedule magnet, courtesy of Xbox.
Soccer Celebration is the name for all pre-match fan related activities. These activities are located outside the northwest gate, within the North Plaza and continue throughout the CenturyLink Field Plaza. Activities include inflatable games, face painting, hair painting, music and more. Soccer Celebration activities conclude at kickoff.
PEMCO Insurance will provide themed Sounders FC foosball tables in Soccer Celebration. Winners will have the opportunity to go to Starfire Sports to play against Sounders FC players.
Washington's Lottery provides fans an opportunity to play "Man of the Match" for a chance to win a seat on the Lottery sideline couch. Each winner will receive complimentary food and non-alcoholic beverages during the match, and a Sounders FC jersey. Man of the Match booths are located near sections 106, 121 and 139.
The Pro Shop at CenturyLink Field is closed through mid-June for remodel and expansion in order to offer Sounders FC fans more product choices and a speedier checkout. During the expansion, temporary retail kiosks will be open in the following locations: outside entrance of the CenturyLink Field Event Center on Occidental Avenue, North Plaza, and the north and south ends of the CenturyLink Field Plaza.
6-7 p.m. - MatchPass holders are eligible to purchase a pre-match meal for $10, domestic beers for $5 and craft pints for $6 at CenturyLink Field concessions
6:30 p.m. - "March to the Match" departs from Occidental Park in Pioneer Square.
7:20 p.m. - Opening Ceremonies for 2013 MLS season begin on the Xbox Pitch.
7:30 p.m. - First kick; Sounders FC versus Montreal Impact
Sounders FC fans will continue to win prizes based on team performance, in addition to other partner promotions which include the following:
• Sounders FC fans will receive a free haircut at Great Clips each time the team scores three (3) or more goals. Fans can also register online to win a Great Clips VIP experience which includes tickets to a Sounders FC match and pre-match sideline tour.
• With A Sounders FC shutout (home or away), Sounders FC fans will win two (2) free tacos. Fans will be required to show their MatchPass, match day ticket or print the coupon online at SoundersFC.com in order to redeem at any participating Jack in the Box location, (no purchase necessary).
• If the Sounders win, all fans will receive 50% off one regular priced pizza. Fans can apply the discount to pizza ordered online at www.PapaJohns.com
• If the Sounders FC score in first or final five (5) minutes of the match, Museum Quality Framing will provide all fans attending the match a $20 gift certificate.
• SUBWAY® Restaurants of Western Washington will provide 8,000 "SUBWAY® Yellow Cards" to Sounders FC fans at every home match to encourage positive on-field behavior. Each Yellow Card includes an exclusive coupon.
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The Peerless Prognosticator is ON THE AIR!!! -- Caps vs. Lightning, April 3rd
Kinsella: "There comes a time when all the cosmic tumblers have clicked into place...and the universe opens itself up for a few seconds to show you what's possible."
To this, Mann responds incredulously...
"Oh my God…you're from the sixties!"
Well, that's what immediately came to mind when the final horn sounded last night in the Penguins 4-2 win over the Flyers. The cosmic tumblers have clicked into place, making it possible for the Caps to seize a top-eight spot with a win tonight against the Tampa Bay Lightning.
We're just not of a mind that it's "destiny" or "cosmic tumblers," or any of that sixties or new-age crap. The Caps still have to go out and win the damned game.
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Again…the Caps have the better record – by far – but not so much that the path isn't dangerous. Tampa Bay has had – again – the superior special teams play.
There is also the mysterious case of Vincent Lecavalier. Last summer, Lecavalier had an arthroscopic procedure on his wrist to clean up some "loose ends." Well, maybe – as an article in the St. Petersburg Times by Damian Cristodero suggests – there is more. Certainly his numbers suggest something wrong. Looking at Lecavalier's production by month…
…he had almost 28 percent of his points (through March) in November, after which he was 24-28-52, -23 through March 31st. Clearly, something is wrong for his production to have dropped off so markedly. But even with that, however, there is danger in this game. Lecavalier has had a fine career record against the Caps – 24-27-51, -4 in 51 games, and he's 4-7-11, -2 in seven games this year. He is still a dangerous commodity.
Speaking of this year, there is still the matter of the diminutive one – Martin St. Louis…3-5-8, +1, in seven games. And, Jeff Halpern is 10-8-18, +4 in 17 games since joining the Lightning. Tampa might be wounded, but they certainly aren't dead.
As much as, if not more so, than the game against the Hurricanes on Tuesday, the Caps have to stay out of the penalty box. If they do that, it is reasonable to "expect" a win.
Just don't get into the idea of "assuming" a win. Teams out of the playoff hunt still play for pride and an opportunity to play "spoiler," and that kind of motivation should never be taken lightly. If you assume…that Tampa will come in unmotivated, tired (after losing to Carolina last night, 6-2), hampered by playing another road game (they are 11-22-6 on the road)…that the Caps are somehow destined to win, that they need merely show up, that Ovechkin will score, that Huet will repel all the shots, that the grinders will grind, the checkers check, the defenders defend…well, that's the stuff of which disappointments are made.
It'll be another scarlet tsunami at Verizon Center tonight, no doubt, and the Caps have come too far to let things slip away now. A win would vault them into no worse than seventh place (ahead of Boston, by virtue of having more wins), and into sixth (ahead of Ottawa, by virtue of having taken the season series) if the Senators lose in regulation at Toronto this evening. Those are the stakes – mighty high indeed -- but the Caps have earned their shot at it. We expect them to take advantage…
Caps 5 – Lightning 2


text: This Chinese silk tapestry, a speciality of the Hunan Province, was given to Professor DG Kendall FRS by the mathematicians of the Railway Institute in Changsha. Professor Kendall donated it to the Institute and it was made into a coffee table by Jonathan Miles of Trumpington Gallery, so that visitors can use and enjoy it from close to. The title translates as "Eight Beautiful Horses", which signifies progress and success in one's aims.


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Wolfeboro is a town in Carroll county, New Hampshire. It was formed in 1759. Its parent county/ies is/are Strafford. For more information, contact the county at P.O. Box 1207, Wolfeboro 03894. On the attached map, Wolfeboro is shown as 17 in Carroll.
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Fifty-nine of Hope College's graduating seniors and recent graduates are being initiated into the Zeta of Michigan chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the nation's oldest scholastic honorary society.
Fifty-nine of Hope College's graduating seniors and recent graduates are being initiated into the Zeta of Michigan chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the nation's oldest scholastic honorary society.
For more than 200 years, election to Phi Beta Kappa has been a recognition of intellectual capacity well-employed, especially in acquiring an education in the liberal arts and sciences. The objectives encouraged by Phi Beta Kappa include intellectual honesty and tolerance, range of intellectual interests and understanding -- not merely knowledge.
Hope faculty who are members of Phi Beta Kappa elected the students in recognition of their high grade point average in liberal arts courses, their broad cultural interests, and their independent and creative scholarly activities outside the classroom.
A formal initiation ceremony and reception will take place on Sunday, April 17, at 2 p.m. in Winants Auditorium of Graves Hall. The honorees will also be recognized during the college's Honors Convocation on Thursday, April 28, at 7 p.m. in Dimnent Memorial Chapel.
Hope College is one of only 280 colleges and universities in the country and eight in Michigan to have a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. Hope's chapter was chartered in 1971.
Phi Beta Kappa Honorees
Ryan Alfuth, Eau Claire, Wisc.
Emily Bauss, Kalamazoo
Julia Becker, Glenview, Ill.
Bradley Boelkins, Ada
Kelsey Bos, Holland
Shannon Brenneman, Wadsworth, Ohio
Nicole Buccella, Belmont
Caitlyn Buscher, Glen Ellyn, Ill.
Michael Debowski, Venetia, Pa.
Jeanine De Jong, Plainfield, Ill.
Silvia Diffenderfer, Escondido, Ca.
John Donkersloot, Zeeland
Jacob Douma, Lansing, Ill.
Sara Dykstra, Rockford
Sarah Eklov, Farmington Hills
Cameron Flint, Ravenna
Heather Fuglseth, Holland
Andrew Gehl, Mason
Laura Grimm, Hudsonville
Megan Haserodt, North Olmsted, Ohio
Scott Hawken, Wyoming
Jonathan Herman, BentonHarbor
Benjamin Hertel, Fennville
Leah Hottel, Westlake, Ohio
Laura Imbrock, Grove City, Ohio
Lucas Johnson, Cadillac
Abbey Johnston, Holland
Stephanie Kahn, Northbrook, Ill.
Andrew Klinkman, Ann Arbor
Brittany Lawson, Maplewood, Minn.
Thao Le, Ben Tre Province, Vietnam
Jeana Longoria, HowardCity
Chelsea Lynch, Westwood, N.J.
Ian Magrath, Pentwater
Lauren B. Miller, San Diego, Ca.
Karly Murphy, Muskegon
Loan Nguyen, Grand Rapids
Anna Nieboer, Kalamazoo
Pieter Norden, Dublin, Ohio
Caleb Park, Traverse City
Stephen Pedersen, Vernon Hills, Ill.
Julia Peterson, Grand Rapids
Jacob Rollenhagen, Ada
Katelyn Rumsey, Zeeland
Kendra Short, Wapakoneta, Ohio
Rachel Sikkema, Midland
Danielle Silletti, Canton
Kevin Soubly, Plymouth
Sarah Stern, Virginia Beach, Va.
Susan Stevenson, Granger, Ind.
Sarah Stinson, Stilwell, Kan.
Mary Tennant, West Olive
Kylie Topliff, Williamston
Elizabeth Van Oss, Wheaton, Ill.
Lyndi Weener, Grand Rapids
Anne Willmert, Wabash, Ind.
Melissa Winegar, Portage
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Tackling the Ethics Question in Business
Are you an ethical businessperson or employee? Most people would answer with an emphatic yes, but in reality, too few people consciously consider the ethics of a business decision when they're weighing their options. Consider what you would do in the following scenario:
You're talking with a prospective member. You know he is close to signing up. And if he knows he's getting a membership designed specifically to meet his health and fitness needs, there is a great possiblity of having other business referred your way. Plus, if he says yes to your proposal, there's a commission check waiting for you in the wings.
Just as you're finishing your presentation, he suddenly asks, "This membership that you're presenting seems a little expensive. I've checked around with other health clubs, and they're not as expensive. Can't you do better on the price?"
BAM! Suddenly, your heart sinks, your palms start sweating, and your breath begins to quicken. You know there's no way possible to accommodate his request. Or is there?
What do you do? Do you tell him that you will match the fees of the other club? What will that do to your credibility and value? And what are you telling prospective customers - that you are a fee-based (not a value-based) business?
Conversely, if you don't reduce the cost, do you explain that what he will be getting from your club is worth the price difference? Do you explain the value-added benefits of signing up with your facility?
Will you focus on price, or will you focus on value? Which approach do you think will develop customer loyalty? Furthermore, where does honesty and integrity come into play?
The above story may be hypothetical, but your answers are still important. These days, people are being judged more and more on their ethics, and are being held accountable for the choices they make. Make a good choice and sleep better at night; make a bad choice and risk a negative reputation.
A good number of business-people and employees are naturally ethical and have high moral standards. They wouldn't dream of telling their customers anything less than the truth, even if this jeopardizes their commission check. They will be rewarded in the long run for their ethical nature.
Other people, however, need a little help. While they may have good intentions, they sometimes stumble into unethical behavior. Rather than willful misbehavior, their unethical acts are more a matter of thoughtlessness.
So how can you be confident you're treating your clients ethically? Let's return to our hypothetical story to discover the best ethical guidelines.
First, you must realize that simply making a sale won't help your business. Trust is the basic building block of any relationship. Since people don't buy from companies they don't trust (see the sidebar, Ethics Course), the acts of being truthful and making loyal customers outweigh a sale any day.
Although money is a strong motivator, the main objective of any business presentation should be to find your customers' needs and offer a solution. When customers see that you have a genuine desire to help them, they will be naturally drawn to you. Help your customers and the money will follow.
Even though our hypothetical prospect may not do business with you if you don't lower the price, he may give you some great word-of-mouth advertising by telling people how you put his fitness and health needs above all else. And just because he won't buy today doesn't mean he won't do business with you in the future. In fact, he may be so impressed with your ethical standards that he may seek you out when he is thinking about fitness again. What do you think that will do for your company's bottom line?
In the long run, being ethical beats out deceit every time. While you may lose the quick buck, you'll certainly gain the ethical insights that lead to more sales and better values. And the clearer you are about your values, the more effective you'll be in your chosen profession.
Ethics Course
An Indiana University study in Business Horizons magazine found that customers increasingly base their buying decisions on whether they believe a company is ethical. Cynicism promotes fickle buying habits.
Companies that prove themselves ethical will make lifelong customers out of even the most distrusting consumers. That is why the behavior of salespeople is so important. A salesperson is the connection between company and customer. Therefore, a company's ethics and integrity are ultimately based on the relationship between the salesperson and the customer.
How does one build and maintain an ethical relationship that will turn a consumer into a lifelong customer? Here are four "ethics questions" that will help.
1. Does my decision affect anyone else besides myself and the bottom line?
2. How do you become successful - making sales or making loyal customers?
3. Are ethics and service intertwined?
4. What is the PTP (Price to Pay) factor? (The PTP factor involves the consequences of your action; for example, if you give one person a discount, you may have to give everyone else the lower membership price.)
Remember, customers like to do business with people who can be trusted, make them feel good and will give them the very best advice, service and product.


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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (5 November 1850 - 30 October 1919 / Johnstown Center / Rock County / Wisconsin)
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Tom Bombadil , I read on a summer day deep in the forests alone in Mt. Shasta while camping there in 1970. Somehow Tolkien's works came alive in the forest there for me. All the many battles within the Tolkien Trilogy came to me as battles within myself trying to understand myself. And in succeeding, coming more to peace with myself as a man then.
However, here are some quotes from Herman Hesse's genius: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hermann_Hesse
Hermann HesseHermann Hesse (July 2, 1877 – August 9, 1962) was a German-Swiss poet, novelist, and painter. In 1946, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature. His best known works include Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, and The Glass Bead Game (also known as Magister Ludi) all of which explore an individual's search for spirituality.
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[edit] Peter Camenzind (1904)
- In the beginning was the myth. God, in his search for self-expression, invested the souls of Hindus, Greeks, and Germans with poetic shapes and continues to invest each child's soul with poetry every day.
- Variant translation: In the beginning was the myth. Just as the great god composed and struggled for expression in the souls of the Indians, the Greeks and Germanic peoples, so to it continues to compose daily in the soul of every child.
- Oh, love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
- That's the way it is when you love. It makes you suffer, and I have suffered much in the years since. But it matters little that you suffer, so long as you feel alive with a sense of the close bond that connects all living things, so long as love does not die!
[edit] Gertrude (1910)
- As translated by Hilda Rosner
- When I take a long look at my life, as though from outside, it does not appear particularly happy. Yet I am even less justified in calling it unhappy, despite all its mistakes. After all, it is foolish to keep probing for happiness or unhappiness, for it seems to me it would be hard to exchange the unhappiest days of my life for all the happy ones. If what matters in a person's existence is to accept the inevitable consciously, to taste the good and bad to the full and to make for oneself a more individual, unaccidental and inward destiny alongside one's external fate, then my life has been neither empty nor worthless. Even if, as it is decreed by the gods, fate has inexorably trod over my external existence as it does with everyone, my inner life has been of my own making . I deserve its sweetness and bitterness and accept full responsibility for it.
- I was given the freedom to discover my own inclination and talents, to fashion my inmost pleasures and sorrows myself and to regard the future not as an alien higher power but as the hope and product of my own strength.
- At about the age of six or seven, I realized that of all the invisible powers the one I was destined to be most strongly affected and dominated by was music. From that moment on I had a world of my own, a sanctuary and a heaven that no one could take away from me. Oh, music! A melody occurs to you; you sing it silently, inwardly only; you steep your being in it;it takes possession of all your strength and emotions, and during the time it lives in you, it effaces all that is fortuitous, evil, coarse and sad in you; it brings the world into harmony with you, it makes burdens light and gives wings to to depressed spirits.
- That is where my dearest and brightest dreams have ranged — to hear for the duration of a heartbeat the universe and the totality of life in its mysterious, innate harmony.
- Was that really love? I saw all these passionate people reel about and drift haphazardly as if driven by a storm, the man filled with desire today, satiated on the morrow, loving fiercely and discarding brutally, sure of no affection and happy in no love...
- Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they only have themselves to think of, so every wish and every notion assume importance; every pleasure is tasted to the full, but also every sorrow, and many who find that their wishes cannot be fulfilled, immediately put an end to their lives.
- That life is difficult, I have often bitterly realized. I now had further cause for serious reflection. Right up to the present I have never lost the feeling of contradiction that lies behind all knowledge. My life has been miserable and difficult, and yet to others, and sometimes to myself, it has seemed rich and wonderful. Man's life seems to me like a long, weary night that would be intolerable if there were not occasionally flashes of light, the sudden brightness of which is so comforting and wonderful, that the moments of their appearance cancel out and justify the years of darkness.
- If a man does not think too much, he rejoices at rising in the morning, and at eating and drinking. He finds satisfaction in them and does not want them to be otherwise. But if he ceases to take things for granted, he seeks eagerly and hopefully during the course of the day for moments of real life, the radiance of which makes him rejoice and obliterates the awareness of time and all thoughts on the meaning and purpose of everything. One can call these moments creative, because they seem to give a feeling of union with the creator, and while they last, one is sensible of everything being necessary, even what is seemingly fortuitous. It is what the mystics call union with God. Perhaps it is the excessive radiance of these moments that make everything else appear so dark. Perhaps it is the feeling of liberation, the enchanting lightness and the suspended bliss that make the rest of life seem so difficult, demanding and oppressive. I do not know. I have not travelled very far in thought and philosophy. However I do know that if there is a state of bliss and a paradise, it must be an uninterrupted sequence of such moments, and if this state of bliss can be attained through suffering and dwelling in pain, then no sorrow or pain can be so great that one should attempt to escape from it.
- The south winds roars at night,
Curlews hasten in their flight,
The air is damp and warm.
Desire to sleep has vanished now,
Spring has arrived in the night
In the wake of a storm.
- Be still, my heart, away with pain!
Though passion stirs again
In blood that now flows slowly
And leads to paths once known,
These paths you tread in vain
For youth has flown.
- Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children and often it is just the most deserving people who cannot help loving those that destroy them.
- I found some consolation or narcotic. Sometimes it was a woman, sometimes a good friend — yes, you too once helped me that way — at other times it was music or applause in the theater. But now these things no longer give me pleasure and that is why I drink. I could never sing without first having a couple of drinks, but now I can also not think, talk, live and feel tolerably well without first having a couple of drinks.
- It was no different with my own life, and with Gertrude's and that of many others. Fate was not kind, life was capricious and terrible, and there was no good or reason in nature. But there is good and reason in us, in human beings, with whom fortune plays, and we can be stronger than nature and fate, if only for a few hours. And we can draw close to one another in times of need, understand and love one another, and live to comfort each other. And sometimes, when the black depths are silent, we can do even more. We can then be gods for moments, stretch out a commanding hand and create things which were not there before and which, when they are created, continue to live without us. Out of sounds, words, and other frail and worthless things, we can construct playthings — songs and poems full of meaning, consolation and goodness, more beautiful and enduring than the grim sport of fortune and destiny. We can keep the spirit of God in our hearts and, at times, when we are full of Him, He can appear in our eyes and our words, and also talk to others who do no know or do not wish to know Him. We cannot evade life's course, but we can school ourselves to be superior to fortune and also to look unflinchingly upon the most painful things.
[edit] Demian (1919)
- Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth (1919), first published under the pseudonym "Emil Sinclair"
- I cannot tell my story without reaching a long way back.
- Prologue
- Novelists when they write novels tend to take an almost godlike attitude toward their subject, pretending to a total comprehension of the story, a man's life, which they can therefore recount as God Himself might, nothing standing between them and the naked truth, the entire story meaningful in every detail. I am as little able to do this as the novelist is, even though my story is more important to me than any novelist's is to him — for this is my story; it is the story of a man, not of an invented, or possible, or idealized, or otherwise absent figure, but of a unique being of flesh and blood. Yet, what a real living human being is made of seems to be less understood today than at any time before, and men — each one of whom represents a unique and valuable experiment on the part of nature — are therefore shot wholesale nowadays. If we were not something more than unique human beings, if each one of us could really be done away with once and for all by a single bullet, story telling would lose all purpose. But every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way and never again. That is why every man's story is important, eternal, sacred; that is why every man, as long as he lives and fulfills the will of nature, is wondrous, and worthy of every consideration. In each individual the spirit has become flesh, in each man the creation suffers, within each one a redeemer is nailed to the cross.
Few people nowadays know what man is. Many sense this ignorance and die the more easily because of it, the same way that I will die more easily once I have completed this story.
- Prologue
- I do not consider myself less ignorant than most people. I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me. My story is not a pleasant one; it is neither sweet nor harmonious, as invented stories are; it has the taste of nonsense and chaos, of madness and dreams — like the lives of all men who stop deceiving themselves.
Each man's life represents the road toward himself, and attempt at such a road, the intimation of a path. No man has ever been entirely and completely himself. Yet each one strives to become that — one in an awkward, the other in a more intelligent way, each as best he can.
- Prologue
- We all have a common origin, the Mothers, we all come out of the same abyss; but each of us, a trial throw of the dice from the depths, strives toward his own goal. We can understand one another, but each of us can only interpret himself.
- Prologue
- Variant translation: We all share the same origin, our mothers; all of us come in at the same door. But each of us — experiments of the depths — strives toward his own destiny. We can understand one another, but each of us is able to interpret himself to himself alone.
- People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. It was a scandal that a breed of fearless and sinister people ran around freely, so they attached a nickname and a myth to these people to get even with them, to make up for the many times they had felt afraid.
- I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.
- Then came those years in which I was forced to recognize the existence of a drive within me that had to make itself small and hide from the world of light. The slowly awakening sense of my own sexuality overcame me, as it does every person, like an enemy and terrorist, as something forbidden, tempting, and sinful. What my curiosity sought, what dreams, lust and fear created — the great secret of puberty — did not fit at all into my sheltered childhood. I behaved like everyone else. I led the double life of a child who is no longer a child. My conscious self lived within the familiar and sanctioned world; it denied the new world that dawned within me. Side by side with this I lived in a world of dreams, drives and desires of a chthonic nature, across which my conscious self desperately built its fragile bridges, for the childhood world within me was falling apart. Like most parents, mine were no help with the new problems of puberty, to which no reference was ever made. All they did was take endless trouble in supporting my hopeless attempts to deny reality and to continue dwelling in a childhood world that was becoming more and more unreal. I have no idea whether parents can be of help, and I do not blame mine. It was my own affair to come to terms with myself and to find my own way, and like most well-brought-up children, I managed it badly.
- Only the ideas that we actually live are of any value. You knew all along that your sanctioned world was only half the world and you tried to suppress the second half the same way the priests and teachers do. You won't succeed. No one succeeds in this once he has begun to think.
- Certainly you shouldn't go kill somebody or rape a girl, no! But you haven't reached the point where you can understand the actual meaning of "permitted" and "forbidden." You've only sensed part of the truth. You will feel the other part, too, you can depend on it. For instance, for about a year you have had to struggle with a drive that is stronger than any other and which is considered "forbidden." The Greeks and many other peoples, on the other hand, elevated this drive, made it divine and celebrated it in great feasts. What is forbidden, in other words, is not something eternal; it can change. Anyone can sleep with a woman as soon as he's been to a pastor with her and has married her, yet other races do it differently, even nowadays. Each of us has to find out for himself what is permitted and what is forbidden — forbidden for him. It's possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard. And vice versa. Actually it's only a question of convenience. Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them; things are forbidden to them that every honorable man will do any day in the year and other things are allowed to them that are generally despised. Each person must stand on his own feet.
- Now everything changed. My childhood world was breaking apart around me. My parents eyed me with a certain embarrassment. My sisters had become strangers to me. A disenchantment falsified and blunted my usual feelings and joys: the garden lacked fragrance, the woods held no attraction for me, the world stood around me like a clearance sale of last year's secondhand goods, insipid, all its charm gone. Books were so much paper, music a grating noise. That is the way leaves fall around a tree in autumn, a tree unaware of the rain running down its sides, of the sun or the frost, and of life gradually retreating inward. The tree does not die. It waits.
- One of the aphorisms occurred to me now and I wrote it under the picture: "Fate and temperament are two words for one and the same concept." That was clear to me now.
- The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God's name is Abraxas.
- Variant translation: The bird is struggling out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever wants to be born must first destroy a world. The bird is flying to God. The name of the God is called Abraxas.
- As translated by W. J. Strachan
- Variant translation: The bird is struggling out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever wants to be born must first destroy a world. The bird is flying to God. The name of the God is called Abraxas.
- We ought not to consider the opinions of those sects as naïve as they appear from the rationalist point of view. Science as we know it today was unknown to antiquity. Instead there existed a preoccupation with philosophical and mystical truths which was highly developed. What grew out of this preoccupation was to some extent merely pedestrian magic and frivolity; perhaps it frequently led to deceptions and crimes, but this magic, too, had noble antecedents in a profound philosophy. As, for instance, the teachings concerning Abraxas which I cited a moment ago. This name occurs in connection with Greek magical formulas and is frequently considered to be the name of some magician's helper such as certain uncivilized tribes believe in even at present. But it appears that Abraxas has much deeper significance. We may conceive of the name as that of the godhead whose symbolic task is the uniting of godly and devilish elements.
- Abraxas was the god who was both god and devil.
- I had grown a thin mustache, I was a full-grown man, and yet I was completely helpless and without a goal in life.
- I wanted only to try to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?
- Our god's name is Abraxas and he is God and Satan and he contains both the luminous and the dark world. Abraxas does not take exception to any of your thoughts, any of your dreams. Never forget that. But he will leave you once you've become blameless and normal. Then he will leave you and look for a different vessel in which to brew his thoughts.
- If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
- I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.
- We aren't pigs as you seem to think, but human beings. We create gods and struggle with them, and they bless us.
- You, too, have mysteries of your own. I know that you must have dreams that you don't tell me. I don't want to know them. But I can tell you: live those dreams, play with them, build altars to them. It is not yet the ideal but it points in the right direction. Whether you and I and a few others will renew the world someday remains to be seen. But within ourselves we must renew it each day, otherwise we just aren't serious. Don't forget that!
- Each man had only one genuine vocation — to find the way to himself.
- The world, as it is now, wants to die, wants to perish — and it will.
- You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy. But there is no dream that lasts forever, each dream is followed by another, and one should not cling to any particular one.
- Love does not entreat; or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract.
[edit] Siddhartha (1922)
- When you throw a rock into the water, it will speed on the fastest course to the bottom of the water. This is how it is when Siddhartha has a goal, a resolution. Siddhartha does nothing, he waits, he thinks, he fasts, but he passes through the things of the world like a rock through water, without doing anything, without stirring; he is drawn, he lets himself fall. His goal attracts him, because he doesn't let anything enter his soul which might oppose the goal. This is what Siddhartha has learned among the Samanas. This is what fools call magic and of which they think it would be effected by means of the daemons. Nothing is effected by daemons, there are no daemons. Everyone can perform magic, everyone can reach his goals, if he is able to think, if he is able to wait, if he is able to fast.
- As translated by Ejvind Haas
- They knew a tremendous number of things — But was it worthwhile knowing all these things if they did not know the one important thing, the only important thing?
- There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge — that is everywhere, that is Atman, that is in me and you and in every creature, and I am beginning to believe that this knowledge has no worse enemy than the man of knowledge, than learning.
- Atman is a term used for Hindu and Buddhist concepts of the soul. Variant translation: I am beginning to believe that this knowledge has no worse enemy than the desire to know learning.
- You are like me; you are different from other people. You are Kamala and no one else, and within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself, just as I can. Few people have that capacity and yet everyone could have it.
- Siddhartha to Kamala
- A true seeker could not accept any teachings, not if he sincerely wished to find something. But he who had found, could give his approval to every path, every goal; nothing separated him from all of the other thousands who lived in eternity, who breathed the Divine.
- Although he had reached a high stage of self-discipline and bore his last wound well, he now felt as if these ordinary people were his brothers. Their vanities, desires, and trivialities no longer seemed absurd to him; they had become understandable, lovable, and even worthy of respect.
- These people were worthy of love and admiration in their blind loyalty, in their blind strength and tenacity. With the exception of one small thing, one tiny little thing, they lacked nothing that the sage and thinker had, and that was the consciousness of the unity of all life.
- Within Siddhartha there slowly grew and ripened the knowledge of what wisdom really was and the goal of his long seeking. It was nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling, and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
- When Siddhartha listened attentively to this river, to the song of a thousand voices; when he did not listen to the sorrow or laughter, when he did not bind his soul to any one particular voice and absorb it in his Self, but heard them all, the whole, the unity; then the great song of a thousand voices consisted of one word: Om — perfection.
- From that hour Siddhartha ceased to fight against his destiny. There shone in his face the serenity of knowledge, of one who is no longer confronted with conflict of desires, who has found salvation, who is in harmony with the stream of events, with the stream of life, full of sympathy and compassion, surrendering himself to the stream, belonging to the unity of all things.
- Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
- Everything that is thought and expressed in words is one-sided, only half the truth; it all lacks totality, completeness, unity. When the Illustrious Buddha taught about the world, he had to divide it into Samsara and Nirvana, illusion and truth, into suffering and salvation. One cannot do otherwise, there is no other method for those who teach. But the world itself, being in and around us, is never one-sided. Never is a man or a deed wholly Samsara or wholly Nirvana; never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner. This only seems so because we suffer the illusion that time is something real.
- Listen my friend! I am a sinner and you are a sinner, but someday the sinner will be Brahma again, will someday attain Nirvana, will someday become a Buddha. Now this "someday" is illusion; it is only a comparison. The sinner is not on his way to a Buddha-like state; he is not evolving, although our thinking cannot conceive things otherwise. No, the potential Buddha already exists in the sinner; his future is already there. The potential hidden Buddha must be recognized in him, in you, in everybody. The world, Govinda, is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment; every sin already carries grace within it, all small children are potential old men, all sucklings have death within them, all dying people — eternal life. It is not possible for one person to see how far another is on the way; the Buddha exits in robber and the dice player; the robber exists in the Brahmin. During deep meditation it is possible to dispel time, to see simultaneously all the past, present, and future, and then everything is good, everything is perfect, everything is Brahman.
- I had to strive for property and experience nausea and the depths of despair in order to learn not to resist them, in order to learn to love the world, and no longer compare it with some kind of desired imaginary world, some imaginary vision of perfection, but to leave it as it is, to love it and be glad to belong to it. These, Govinda, are some of the thoughts in my mind.
- Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also pleases me and seems right that what is of value and wisdom to one man seems nonsense to another.
- Sometimes quoted in grammatically corrected form as "They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed..." but the apparent editing error here is retained in the published versions of this translation.
- Here is a doctrine at which you will laugh. It seems to me, Govinda, that Love is the most important thing in the world. It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love the world, not to despise it, not for us to hate each other, but to be able to regard the world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration and respect.
[edit] Steppenwolf (1927)
- Wait a moment, here I have it. This: 'Most men will not swim before they are able to.' Is not that witty? Naturally, they won't swim! They are born for the solid earth, not for the water. And naturally they won't think. They are made for life, not for thought. Yes, and he who thinks, what's more, he who makes thought his business, he may go far in it, but he has bartered the solid earth for the water all the same, and one day he will drown.
- Haller's sickness of soul, as I now know, is not the eccentricity of a single individual, but the sickness of the times themselves, the neurosis of that generation to which Haller belongs, a sickness, it seems, that by no means attacks the weak and worthless only but rather those who are strongest in spirit and richest in gifts.
- Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.
- I sped through heaven and saw god at work. I suffered holy pains. I dropped all my defences and was afraid of nothing in the world. I accepted all things and to all things I gave up my heart.
- I cannot understand nor share these joys, though they are within my reach, for which thousands of others strive. On the other hand, what happens to me in my rare hours of joy, what for me is bliss and life and ecstasy and exaltation, the world in general seeks at most in imagination; in life it finds it absurd. And in fact, if the world is right, if this music of the cafés, these mass enjoyments and these Americanised men who are pleased with so little are right, then I am wrong, I am crazy. I am in truth the Steppenwolf that I often call myself; that beast astray who finds neither home nor joy nor nourishment in a world that is strange and incomprehensible to him.
I tried to open the door, but the heavy old latch would not stir. The display too was over. It had suddenly ceased, sadly convinced of its uselessness. I took a few steps back, landing deep into the mud, but no more letters came. The display was over. For a long time I stood waiting in the mud, but in vain.
Then, when I had given up and gone back to the alley, a few colored letters were dropped here and there, reflected on the asphalt in front of me. I read:
- A mere nothing suffices — and the lightning strikes.
- As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
- Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.
- The sacred sense of beyond, of timelessness, of a world which had an eternal value and the substance of which was divine had been given back to me today by this friend of mine who taught me dancing.
- One day I would be a better hand at the game. One day I would learn how to laugh. Pablo was waiting for me, and Mozart too.
[edit] Narcissus and Goldmund (1930)
- It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other's opposite and complement.
- We fear death, we shudder at life's instability, we grieve to see the flowers wilt again and again, and the leaves fall, and in our hearts we know that we, too, are transitory and will soon disappear. When artists create pictures and thinkers search for laws and formulate thoughts, it is in order to salvage something from the great dance of death, to make something that lasts longer than we do.
- All existence seemed to be based on duality, on contrast. Either one was a man or one was a woman, either a wanderer or sedentary burgher, either a thinking person or a feeling person-no one could breathe in at the same time as he breathed out, be a man as well as a woman, experience freedom as well as order, combine instinct and mind. One always had to pay for one with the loss of the other, and one thing was always just as important and desirable as the other.
- How mysterious this life was, how deep and muddy its waters ran, yet how clear and noble what emerged from them.
- One thing, however, did become clear to him [Goldmund] – why so many perfect works of art did not please him at all, why they were almost hateful and boring to him, in spite of a certain undeniable beauty. Workshops, churches, and palaces were full of these fatal works of art; he had even helped with a few himself. They were deeply disappointing because they aroused the desire for the highest and did not fulfill it. They lacked the most essential thing – mystery. That was what dreams and truly great works of art had in common: mystery.
- If I know what love is, it is because of you.
- Without a mother, one cannot love. Without a mother, one cannot die.
[edit] Journey to the East (1932)
- Die Morgenlandfahrt (1932)
- It was my destiny to join in a great experience. Having had the good fortune to belong to the League, I was permitted to be a participant in unique journey. What wonder it had at the time! How radiant and comet-like it seemed, and how quickly it has been forgotten and allowed to fall into disrepute. For this reason, I have decided to attempt a short description of this fabulous journey, a journey the like of which had not been attempted since the days of Hugo and mad Roland.
- He thought for a moment, brought back from his reflections. "It was only possible for me to do it," he said, "because it was necessary. I either had to write the book or be reduced to despair; it was the only means of saving me from nothingness, chaos and suicide. The book was written under this pressure and brought me the expected cure, simply because it was written, irrespective of whether it was good or bad. That was the only thing that counted. And while writing it, there was no need for me to think at all of any other reader but myself, or at the most, here and there another close war comrade, and I certainly never thought then about the survivors, but always about those who fell in the war. While writing it, I was as if delirious or crazy, surrounded by three or four people with mutilated bodies — that is how the book was produced."
[edit] The Glass Bead Game (1943)
- For although in a certain sense and for light-minded persons non-existent things can be more easily and irresponsibly represented in words than existing things, for the serious and conscientious historian it is just the reverse. Nothing is harder, yet nothing is more necessary, than to speak of certain things whose existence is neither demonstrable nor probable. The very fact that serious and conscientious men treat them as existing things brings them a step closer to existence and to the possibility of being born.
- Motto of the work written by Hesse, and attributed to an "Albertus Secundus"
- There were entertaining, impassioned, or witty lectures on Goethe, say, in which he would be depicted descending from a post chaise wearing a blue frock-coat to seduce some Strassburg or Wetzlar girl; or on Arabic culture; in all of them a number of fashionable phrases were shaken up like dice in a cup and everyone was delighted if he dimly recognized one or two catchwords.
- The "music of decline" had sounded, as in that wonderful Chinese fable; like a thrumming bass on the organ its reverberations faded slowly out over decades; its throbbing could be heard in the corruption of the schools, periodicals, and universities, in melancholia and insanity among those artists and critics who could still be taken seriously; it raged as untrammeled and amateurish overproduction in all the arts.
- When an orchestra of the Journeyers first publicly performed a suite from the time before Handel completely without crescendi and diminuendi, with the naïveté and chasteness of another age and world, some among the audience are said to have been totally uncomprehending, but others listened with fresh attention and had the impression that they were hearing music for the first time in their lives. In the League's concert hall between Bremgarten and Morbio, one member built a Bach organ as perfectly as Johann Sebastian Bach would have had it built had he had the means and opportunity.
- The young people who now proposed to devote themselves to intellectual studies no longer took the term to mean attending a university and taking a nibble of this or that from the dainties offered by celebrated and loquacious professors who without authority offered them the crumbs of what had once been higher education. Now they had to study just as stringently and methodically as the engineers and technicians of the past, if not more so. They had a steep path to climb, had to purify and strengthen their minds by dint of mathematics and scholastic exercises in Aristotelian philosophy. Moreover, they had to learn to renounce all those benefits which previous generations of scholars had considered worth striving for: rapid and easy money-making, celebrity and public honors, the homage of the newspapers, marriages with daughters of bankers and industrialists, a pampered and luxurious style of life.
- Let us say that the freedom exists, but it is limited to the one unique act of choosing the profession. Afterward all freedom is over. When he begins his studies at the university, the doctor, lawyer, or engineer is forced into an extremely rigid curriculum which ends with a series of examinations. If he passes them, he receives his license and can thereafter pursue his profession in seeming freedom. But in doing so he becomes the slave of base powers; he is dependent on success, on money, on his ambition, his hunger for fame, on whether or not people like him. He must submit to elections, must earn money, must take part in the ruthless competition of castes, families, political parties, newspapers. In return he has the freedom to become successful and well-to-do, and to be hated by the unsuccessful, or vice versa.
- To be capable of everything and do justice to everything, one certainly does not need less spiritual force and èlan and warmth, but more. What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world. Where passion dominates, that does not signify the presence of greater desire and ambition, but rather the misdirection of these qualities toward an isolated and false goal, with a consequent tension and sultriness in the atmosphere. Those who direct the maximum force of their desires toward the center, toward true being, toward perfection, seem quieter than the passionate souls because the flame of their fervor cannot always be seen.
- "If only there were a dogma to believe in. Everything is contradictory, everything tangential; there are no certainties anywhere. Everything can be interpreted one way and then again interpreted in the opposite sense. The whole of history can be explained as development and progress and can also be seen as nothing but decadence and meaninglessness. Isn't there any truth? Is there no real and valid doctrine?"
The Master had never heard him speak so fervently. He walked on in silence for a little, then said, "There is truth, my boy. But the doctrine you desire, absolute, perfect dogma that alone provides wisdom, does not exist. Nor should you long for a perfect doctrine, my friend. Rather, you should long for the perfection of yourself. The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught. Be prepared for conflicts, Joseph Knecht — I can see they have already begun."
- Joseph Knecht had often noticed that many schoolmates his own age, but even more the younger boys, liked him, sought his friendship, and moreover tended to let him dominate them. They asked him for advice, put themselves under his influence. Ever since, this experience had been repeated frequently. It had its pleasant and flattering side; it satisfied ambition and strengthened self-confidence. But it also had another, a dark and terrifying side. For there was something bad and unpalatable about the attitude one took toward these schoolmates so eager for advice, guidance, and an example, about the impulse to despise them for their lack of self-reliance and dignity, and about the occasional secret temptation to make them (at least in thought) into obedient slaves.
- It was lovely, and tempting, to exert power over men and to shine before others, but power also had its perditions and perils. History, after all, consisted of an unbroken succession of rulers, leaders, bosses, and commanders who with extremely rare exceptions had all begun well and ended badly. All of them, at least so they said, had striven for power for the sake of the good; afterward they had become obsessed and numbed by power and loved it for its own sake.
- How alien our country has become from her noblest Province and how unfaithful to that Province's spirit; how far body and soul, ideal and reality have moved apart in our country; how little they know about each other, or want to know.
- It is a pity that you students aren't fully aware of the luxury and abundance in which you live. But I was exactly the same when I was still a student. We study and work, don't waste much time, and think we may rightly call ourselves industrious — but we are scarcely conscious of all we could do, all that we might make of our freedom. Then we suddenly receive a call from the hierarchy, we are needed, are given a teaching assignment, a mission, a post, and from then on move up to a higher one, and unexpectedly find ourselves caught in a network of duties that tightens the more we try to move inside it. All the tasks are in themselves small, but each one has to be carried out at its proper hour, and the day has far more tasks than hours. That is well; one would not want it to be different. But if we ever think, between classroom, archives, secretariat, consulting room, meetings, and official journeys — if we ever think of the freedom we possessed and have lost, the freedom for self-chosen tasks, for unlimited, far-flung studies, we may well feel the greatest yearning for those days, and imagine that if we ever had such freedom again we would fully enjoy its pleasures and potentialities.
- I had tasted the bait and knew that there was nothing more attractive and more subtle on earth than the Game. I had also observed fairly early that this enchanting Game demanded more than naive amateur players, that it took total possession of the man who had succumbed to its magic. And an instinct within me rebelled against my throwing all my energies and interests into this magic forever. Some naive feeling for simplicity, for wholeness and soundness, warned me against the spirit of the Waldzell Vicus Lusorum. I sensed in it a spirit of specialism and virtuosity, certainly highly cultivated, certainly richly elaborated, but nevertheless isolated from humanity and the whole of life — a spirit that had soared too high into haughty solitariness. For years I doubted and probed, until the decision had matured within me and in spite of everything I decided in favor of the Game. I did so because I had within me that urge to seek the supreme fulfillment and serve only the greatest master.
- Ordinarily, when he thought back upon those days, let alone upon his student years and the Bamboo Grove, it had always been as if he were gazing from a cool, dull room out into broad, brightly sunlit landscapes, into the irrevocable past, the paradise of memory. Such recollections had always been, even when they were free of sadness, a vision of things remote and different, separated from the prosaic present by a mysterious festiveness.
- It was as if by becoming a musician and Music Master he had chosen music as one of the ways toward man's highest goal, inner freedom, purity, perfection, and as though ever since making that choice he has done nothing but let himself be more and more permeated, transformed, purified by music — his entire self from his nimble, clever pianist's hands and his vast, well-stocked musician's memory to all the parts and organs of body and soul, to his pulses and breathing, to his sleep and dreaming — so that he was now only a symbol, or rather a manifestation, a personification of music.
- We were picking apart a problem in linguistic history and, as it were, examining close up the peak period of glory in the history of a language; in minutes we had traced the path which had taken it several centuries. And I was powerfully gripped by the vision of transitoriness: the way before our eyes such a complex, ancient, venerable organism, slowly built up over many generations, reaches its highest point, which already contains the germ of decay, and the whole intelligently articulated structure begins to droop, to degenerate, to totter toward its doom. And at the same time the thought abruptly shot through me, with a joyful, startled amazement, that despite the decay and death of that language it had not been lost, that its youth, maturity, and downfall were preserved in our memory, in our knowledge of it and its history, and would survive and could at any time be reconstructed in the symbols and formulas of scholarship as well as in the recondite formulations of the Glass Bead Game. I suddenly realized that in the language, or at any rate in the spirit of the Glass Bead Game, everything actually was all-meaningful, that every symbol and combination of symbols led not hither and yon, not to single examples, experiments, and proofs, but into the center, the mystery and innermost heart of the world, into primal knowledge. Every transition from major to minor in a sonata, every transformation of a myth or a religious cult, every classical or artistic formulation was, I realized in that flashing moment, if seen with a meditative mind, nothing but a direct route into the interior of the cosmic mystery, where in the alternation between inhaling and exhaling, between heaven and earth, between Yin and Yang, holiness is forever being created.
[edit] Quotes about Hermann Hesse
- Few writers have chronicled with such dispassionate lucidity and fearless honesty the progress of the soul through the states of life.
My conversion from being religious "only on Sunday" to being spiritual with integrity 24 hours a day partly came from reading Herman Hesse, Carl Jung and Tolkien. All three writers and many people I met in the late 1960s and 1970s contributed to "a 24 hour integrity and spirituality" which I found missing from most people then as now. So, for me, the goal is always to be spiritual with Integrity 24 hours a day always. Try it if you wish. It is a truly amazing experience to like yourself and to have peace 24 hours a day with yourself and everyone else because of the discipline of maintaining integrity.