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John was born premature with severe clubbed feet, also called talipes equinovarus, but nothing could stop his hard-work and he successfully managed to be an active sportsperson and was part of a youth bowling leagueas well. Following his dream towards being a successful professional in the healthcare industry, he joined the joined Regent's University and successfully graduated in the Bachelor in Science Degree with flying marks.
He has been serving as the Director of Health First while being focused to help people achieve their education and life goals with the motivation and anything he could help them with.
Along with being a successful professional in the healthcare industry, John Alexander Webb has also been known for his great contribution towards the society and has always been involved in various social activities. He has been active in volunteering in his community in positions that include Habitatfor Humanity. John believed in overcoming the defeats as they will come always. No matter what industry or phase you are in the life, you are likely to come across challenges, but what makes you different to others is your ability to handle things positively.
Along with being a successful motivator, professional and consultant at many organizations, John Alexander Webb has been involved in various other activates and some of the include furniture making, going on adventure tours and exploring new locations, wood works, workout, yoga. When not involved in any of the mentioned ones, he's found enjoying his time with his two loving dogs outdoors.
John is also keen to increase the knowledge by attending various seminars to stay on the edge of healthcare administration and help others in the industry. No hurdle of life could stop him from being successful.
Currently, John Alexander Webb is living in Orlando. For any queries regarding the healthcare industry or simply to get guidance on any other topic, anyone can approach him as he believes in an 'open door' policy and is always available to those who need support from him.


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Outside looking in, from a caregivers perspective!
Dementia (and the fact shes 95 years old) are taking over a grandma I still love but don't really know anymore. She has lived with my aunt for 2 years, but was on her own still in her own house. Pretty Cool! Anyway, my mother her brother and his wife and the aunt she now lives with are all local and help out. Thank goodness! One sister lives 4 hours away and comes when she can. Here's the problem, taking care of someone weather it be terminal, age related, or whatever is by far the most emotional, physical, and non routine work ever! I have cared for cancer patients and spent nights (Sleepless) and understand to some extent what my aunt is going through. The difference is I went home whenever needed got refreshed then went back. My aunt, even with help, doesn't get that luxury. Often people tend to give opinions on how our care could be better(not from a professional) how were to stern, or my favorite, why are we laughing at her. Heres the deal, every person and situation is different and finding the groove that works for all caregivers involved can be hard but with support, compassion, and humor I find this to be the greatest job ever! My aunt is doing wonderful and yes, gets frustrated on the no sleep, asking same question over and over, or clean up every 2 second days but is a trooper. I might get a bit of her,leftover, (lets call it) outbursts but know its not personal. If people re not familiar with the down and dirty of how this type of care can be they tend to be very misled on what can or cant work and how and how not things should go. Humor is a tension breaker and a must for us. One of my cousins was very hurt and felt I was making fun of my grandmother, I tried to explain that when she comes up with an off the wall comment or makes a statement that was pulled out from who knows where and I continue on with her and by the end I had to make a comment that usually makes both us laugh, is not making fun of her. She did not choose for this to happen nor to have her mind taken over at times by a cruel disease. For those few short times when we get her back its awesome but more and more shes disappearing. Hard to see this happen! I understand from the outside looking in it looks easy and people must throw in their 2 cents, but for the most part i think most of us doing this type of care have a handle on things and if help is needed we surely will seek it! My admiration and thanks go to all of you who have decided home care is best for you and your loved one. I Thank my family, for all your love and support for grandma! I love you all so much!
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It would really be scary not to have help. My hubby sometimes shows signs of dementia(he had a concussion about a yr ago with brain bleed) so it's worry some about what I'm going to face as well. Friends and Church would be my only help because his grown children only wants to come around when "They" need something not when he needs something...but for our area, that seems to be the norm for grown children now.
Keep posting and hopefully we can be your sounding board with some suggestions that has helped us, Hugs and Prayers to all!
Having a companion sitter (tax deductible) for my husband has really helped. I work part-time. Now he looks forward to my coming home.
This site is also a nice virtual support group. Keep coming here. But if at all possible find a local group, too.


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City of Augusta
Police Department
Incident Date: 04/09/18 Release Date: 04/09/18
Incident Time: 9:44pm Release Time: 9:44pm
Incident Location: Cony High School, Augusta ME
Incident Synopsis:
The Augusta Police Department has received several calls over the past hour in regards to a threat that happened on April 5th in Clovis New Mexico. Because Clovis High School and Cony High School are both abbreviated (CHS), several students from Cony High/Middle School and their parents have interpreted this as possible threat to our school in Augusta. Our investigation has revealed this online threat is the same one that originated in Clovis New Mexico on April 5th and is not a new threat made to Cony High School in Augusta. Several Police Departments and School Districts around the country that share the abbreviations (CHS) have fielded similar calls of concern by community members only to learn it is the same threat from Clovis New Mexico on April 5th. I have shared the link to the Clovis Police Department press release below:
Releasing Officer: Deputy Chief Jared Mills
Augusta Police Department
33 Union Street Augusta, Maine 04330
(207) 626-2370


text: The Truth About American Legacy by Nancy Lewis Topics: Legacy Tobacco Documents Library, Tobacco, Tobacco smoking Pages: 2 (469 words) Published: December 19, 2012 The American Legacy Foundation is a rare example of a public charity being born with a silver spoon. Even before it began operating in 1999, the foundation was bequeathed more than $1 billion from the settlement of a massive lawsuit brought by the attorneys general of 46 states against the country's major tobacco companies. That money is part of billions of dollars that the tobacco companies paid, basically as reparations, for the damage their products wreaked on the public. The foundation was conceived as an antidote to that past. Tasked to target teen smoking, its mandated anti-tobacco campaigns were seen as the best way to prevent a heavy tobacco-related health toll in the future. For the first few years, it seemed a great success. The foundation rolled out hard-hitting and ubiquitous advertising, known as "the truth" campaign. Perhaps the most famous ad, broadcast repeatedly during the 2000 Olympics, had an urban guerilla bent, with workers emptying trucks of 1,200 body bags and dumping them outside the headquarters of Philip Morris in New York, representing the number of Americans who die each day because of tobacco use. On the heels of this and other anti-tobacco efforts, teen smoking dropped from 36 percent in 1997, a year before the tobacco case settlement, to below 22 percent in 2003. American Legacy was given much of the credit – and continues to cite the statistic – although the smoking rate overall had been going downhill since the first U.S. surgeon general's warning about smoking in the 1960s. There were heady predictions of a tobacco-free generation resulting from the foundation's efforts. Then the magic stopped working so well. Since 2003, teen smoking rates have hovered around 22 percent, even as adult smoking has continued to dwindle (to under 20 percent now). After the final really big tobacco payment of $307.9 million came that year (under the Master Settlement), "the truth" campaign continued on a much smaller scale. But despite spending less... Continue Reading Please join StudyMode to read the full document


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While fashion design major Caroline Hunter may have been born economically unlucky, in college, she's been lucky in love. Until her senior year at Southern University. She's gone from a serious long term boyfriend to a string of crappy dates.
Then she meets mathematics grad student Reed Pendergraft.
Reed is everything she's not looking for. Serious. Headed for a low paying university job. Boring. Caroline spent the first eighteen years of her life wondering where her next meal was coming from. She sure wasn't getting trapped in that life again with a man living on a professor's salary.
An encounter with Reed in a club proves she might have pegged him wrong. He brings out a lusty side she never knew she had. But just when she's about to give in to her hormones, Reed makes a fool out of her.
When she shows up for the first committee meeting for Southern University's Fall fashion show, a fundraiser for underprivileged kids, Caroline's horrified to discover the insufferable Reed is the committee chairman. While she refuses to tolerate his totalitarian rule of the committee, she's not sure she'll survive the month with her heart—and her pride—intact. Just when she thinks she has everything figured out, she finds that her entire life has been redesigned, thanks to Reed Pendergraft.
make it works and it really works for me. I can connect with the characters. I love them all they are perfect in their imperfection. And it is surely an emotional story. I feel sorry for Caroline but I'm happy that she knows what she want and fight for it. To be honest, I mostly like when she told her childhood story, it is a sad story but the way she told touching me. I love Reed for his persistent to never let Caroline go, even when he misunderstood her, though I have to admit I kind of want to scream at him and tell him that he was wrong. I also happy to meet Scarlett and Tucker again and read a glimpse of their happily ever after story. I even love Lexi, Reed's sister, and eager to read her own story. I'm pretty sure Off The Subject #3, Business as Usual will be her story and I kind of hope that Brandon is truly her love interest. Although Reed didn't trust him, I want to read more about their story.


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Truth be told, I am not a huge Frank DeFord fan.
That's partly because I am not a big sports fan. But it's also because his turns of phrase often make my stomach churn.
Still, today's commentary on NPR about concussions and football hit the issues squarely on the mark. He did not devolve into Frankisms or yearn for sports days gone by. Instead, he zeroed in on an issue that is too frequently swept under the rug. It is a case study in well-executed opinion.
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Hewlett-Packard Co.
Fact File:
Founders: Bill Hewlett and David Packard.
Distinction: Leader in technology, and the business world that
produced it.
Primary Products: Computers, printing and imaging products,
related services.
Annual sales: $42.370 billion.
Number of employees: 84,400.
Major competitors: Compaq, IBM, Xerox.
Chairman, President and CEO: Carleton S. "Carly" Fiorina.
Headquarters: Palo Alto, Calif.
Year founded: 1939.
Web site: www.hp.com.
As the 21st century approached, the Hewlett-Packard Company faced
a significant dilemma. Justifiably acknowledged as Silicon Valley's original
startup, it literally began in a garage and unequivocally grew into one of
the world's top computer companies. Ever since its audio oscillator was
picked up by Walt Disney Studios in 1939 for use in the original Fantasia,
HP had consistently produced state-of-the-art electronic gear that was the
envy of its industry. From that first product through calculators, computer,
printers and imaging peripherals, Hewlett-Packard was always one to
In addition, the company was always a great place to work. Its
founders pioneered the concept of Management By Walking Around, which
encouraged leaders to stay in close touch with their employees. It
eschewed time clocks and offered flexible work schedules. It was one of
the first large American firms to decentralize its operation and empower its
workers. It provided a superior salary-and-benefits package. It even
institutionalized these and other components of its vaunted corporate
culture through adoption of The HP Way, an official document that stresses
trust and openness. About the only criticism ever leveled at HP, in fact,
concerned the historical lack of women in the ranks of its upper
As the company prepared to usher in the new country, however, all
this was no longer adequate. Its once-experimental corporate structure
was providing an ill fit for the networked age. Quaint habits–like an odd
87-hour pay period that was implemented decades ago for a type of
worker HP no longer employs-were causing unnecessary headaches.
Innovations in software and other key areas often went unnoticed by the
public (as well as by many members of the all-important investment
community). Competitors were surging. Internet activity was lagging.
And so, in mid-1999, Hewlett-Packard broke the mold once more by
naming Carleton S. "Carly" Fiorina as its president and CEO. The first
women ever to lead one of the companies that comprise the Dow Jones
Industrial average–and the first outsider ever to lead HP–the 45-year-old
veteran of AT&T spinoff, Lucent, this company," she explained. Fiorina's
subsequent actions certainly stunned some tradition-bound observes.
Others–including many employees, customers, and investors–were more
positively impressed.
A half-century before garage-based technology startups on the West
Coast became a cliché, a pair of 26-year-old electrical engineers was
working on electronic products in their own one-car shed in northern
California. Bill Hewlett and David Packard has just $538 (along with a
string of disappointments) to their names when they came up with the
technically advanced HP 200A resistance capacity audio oscillator. The HP
200A was an instrument used to test sound equipment, and The Walt
Disney Company snagged them both a patent as well as a contract. The
studio's ensuing order for eight HP 200As, and their part in the
development of its groundbreaking film Fantasia, started the Hewlett-
Packard Company on a regular path of innovative electronics excellence.
Right from the beginning, though, Hewlett and Packard also
recognized the importance of their relationship with employees. They
focused their creative energies there as well. The two built facilities with
an open floor plan–including executive office without doors–and
established an official "Open Door Policy" to help establish mutual trust at
all levels. They additionally implemented their now-famous "Management
by Walking Around" philosophy to actively engage supervision and workers
in even more deliberate and meaningful ways.
During the 1950s, significance breakthroughs continued on both the
product and personnel fronts. Successful releases, such as the HP 524A
high-speed frequency counter, a device used by radio stations to comply
with certain federal regulation, rolled out of their increasingly busy plant.
Profits were reinvested in new research and development, freeing the
partners from venture capitalists and resultant debt. The practice also
allowed them to acquire a plotter company that would eventually form the
basis for their printer business. And it gave them the footing to go public.
At the same time, HP's progressive philosophies helped it attract top
young scientists and engineers. In 1957, the company formalized its
unique objectives and management style in "The HP Way." The following
year, it split into separate divisions with individual profit-and-loss
accountability, and moved them out of headquarters in Palo Alto. Each
became a self-sustaining unit responsible for developing, manufacturing,
and marketing its own products–and would be awarded future R&D
funding in direct proportion to performance. In 1959, HP took these ideas
global and opened a manufacturing facility in Germany and a European
headquarters in Switzerland. It also made stock-opinion plans a part of its
employee benefits package, and become the first company to institute a
cash profit-sharing program.
The 1960s was a decade of flex time and calculators. The former
first appeared in HP's German plant in 1967, and time clocks completely
disappeared throughout the company within half-dozen years. The latter
hit the market in 1968 in the form of the HP 9100, proudly proclaimed by
the company to this day as the world's first programmable scientific
desktop calculator. (Four years later, HP would introduce its first handheld
version the HP 35. Slide rules suddenly became superfluous, and the
technology revolution went portable.)
The company also entered the world of business computing in 1972
with the HP 3000 minicomputer. By this time, it had 16,000 employees
and sales of more than $365 million. Only top college's graduates were
recruited for the expanding workforce. They were retained by the
challenging professional atmosphere, and the progressive people programs
that now included a strict promote-from-within policy and an unofficial ban
of layoffs.
Desktop mainframe computers were unveiled with the now-familiar
Hewlett-Packard logo in the early 1980s, and the company entered the
printing business in 1984. Its reasonably priced inkjet and laser printers
took the market by storm and quickly became ubiquitous. Concurrently,
the company formed four "sector" organizations to manage its proliferating
groups while establishing the first high-tech joint venture in China. When it
celebrated its 50th anniversary in 1989, the garage where Hewlett and
Packard developed that first audio oscillator was designated a California
State Historical Landmark.
By the mid-1990s, HP's diversified units had introduced
breakthrough products–ranging from a palm-sized PC weighting 11 ounces
to a device that processed ultrasound waves for noninvasive real-time
cardiac analysis. It teamed up with Intel to develop common 64-bit
microprocessor architecture and moved vigorously into the growing homeoffice
market. It also formalized policies on telecommuting which
encouraged employees to work at home or remote offices around the
globe. Half of all sales were now coming from outside the United States–
10 percent of the world's high-tech retail space featured its products. And
by the end of the decade, the original garage startup had grown into a
major multinational with 104 divisions, 19,000 products, and more than
$47 billion in sales.
Yet growth, which once regularly hit 20 percent a year, was virtually
nonexistent, HP stock was flagging, despite a bull market that had been
particularly kind to tech companies. No new business lines were emerging,
but strong competitors certainly were. And the Internet appeared an
afterthought while key executive routinely fielded offers from outside. In
response, the company long known for its unorthodox ways responded
with some very radical changes.
The transformation actually began under former CEO Lew Platt, who
took the helm as HP's fourth leader in 1992. Platt, considered a capable
manager but not an innovator, realized things needed to change and
began the corporate makeover just a few years later. Much like IBM, he
decided to reinvent HP as an Internet solutions company providing
hardware, software, and support for corporate customers. He also decided
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that the company's decentralized nature was stifling its attempts to move
on "Internet time," and he realigned it into two cohesive operation: Agilent
Technologies, a new $8 billion company selling test-and-measurement
equipment and medical electronics, and a $40 billion company selling
computers, printers, software and services that bore the long-standing
Hewlett-Packard name. Platt further announced that he would be stepping
down early at the end of 1999, and that the new HP would be led by a new
Carly Fiorina, who managed the original branding campaign that
helped Lucent gain respect in the industry and get noticed by Wall Street,
was one of 100 candidates for the slot. When chosen after an array of
tests (which reportedly included a three-hour interview and a 900-
questionpsychological survey), Florina immediately leapt into the fray with
her characteristic high-energy zeal. Within days, she was meeting with
supporters as well as detractors inside the company and out. She quickly
tallied $1 billion in savings by consolidating diverse operations, and
considered layoffs that observes estimated could ultimately pare the
payroll by 25 percent. She reoriented the company's disparate advertising
and marketing approaches, lent her own voice to commercial in a radical
departure from HP's long-time publicity shy ways, altered product designs,
and announced entirely new lines, such as digital cameras, a printer that
allows bookstores to rapidly produce entire books on demand, and
software that provides intriguing possibilities of electronic commerce. She
also dropped the venerable "Hewlett-Packard" logo ff many of them in
favor of an ore trendy "HP".
For a company so immersed in tradition that it keeps official
corporate artifacts tended by a full-time archivist, this whirlwind of
activity–all accomplished or announced within months of Fiorina's hiring–
was quite jarring, to say the least. But it's nothing less than the promise
voiced in one of her first national TV spots: "The original startup will act
like one again. Watch."


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Advanced Server Virtualization: VMware and Microsoft Platforms in the Virtual Data Center /by David Marshall, Wade A. Reynolds, and Dave McCrory. Executives of IT organizations are compelled to quickly implement server virtualization solutions because of significant cost savings. However, most IT professionals tasked with deployingvirtualization solutions have little or no experience with the technology.
This creates a high demand for information on virtualization and how to properlyimplement it in a datacenter. Advanced Server Virtualization: VMware® and Microsoft® Platforms in the Virtual Data Center focuses on the core knowledge needed to evaluate,implement, and maintain an environment that is using server virtualization.
This book emphasizes the design, implementation and management of servervirtualization from both a technical and a consultative point of view. It provides practical guides and examples, demonstrating how to properly size and evaluate virtualizationtechnologies. This volume is not based upon theory, but instead on real world experience in the implementation and management of large scale projects and environments. Currently, there are few experts in this relatively new field, making this book a valuable resource
The book is divided into major sections making it both a step-by-step guide for learning and implementing server virtualization as well as a quick reference. The chapter organization focuses first on introducing concepts and background, and then providesreal-world scenarios.
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What is a person's word REALLY worth? Not weighing it by the moral stock of the sayer, but looking at the value that we place on people's words in general. Have we, as a society fallen so far away from values that not even a person's word matters?
Are our hearts so vain or preoccupied that our culture of dog-eat-dog world has become the mantra for daily life? Hearts lie. The burn of passion feels the same as the burn of hate. The encompassing feeling of happiness is the same feeling of completely overwhelm that one feels when depressed. So saying "I'll know if I can trust someone when I see/talk/catch a vibe from them," is dangerous and plainly not accurate. The more hurts that happen to us, the LESS likely we are to trust people. So on average, is a person's worth really the same as a hill of beans? After all, that's why there are so many contracts… because we say, "I don't trust that you won't screw me over." So to protect against what we are inevitably believing will come true, we sign an agreement… which sometimes sets off a chain of events.
I was recently asked how I feel about a prenup. At one time, I was whole-heartedly against them.After all, a cheater will eventually cheat; one prone to anger will eventually get angry. A prenup just helps the break up become only marginally less messy. So does a pre-nup, or agreements between friends mean that you don't trust your friend? If you walk into love full of love, is a prenup hope that the other person is too? And juuusst in the unlikely event that they're not, you're protected to at least be laterally demoted back to your former self, not incurring physical harm, just holding all the emotional ones?
Let's use two friends… Ted and John agree to build a house. John handles the construction, Ted the electrical stuff. Is a firm handshake, solid conversation and coming to the table, with each person invested to do their best not enough, anymore? And when did the value of someone's word, begin to die?


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A Cold and Terrible Beauty
December 11, 2007
My latest piece. I created this for a winter themed contest over at Deviant Art, hosted by Mizzd-stock. The model is referenced from one of her images (required in the contest).
Prints of this are available through my deviantart store, including canvas prints, puzzles, postcards, and magnets.
It figures that while I was working on this we had our first ice storm of the year, right? The dead trees look really pretty all coated with silver, but everything else just looks wet, and cold, and slick and miserable.
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A teacher, who has dedicated the past seven years to nurturing budding entrepreneurs, has been officially recognised for her efforts.
Joanna Richardson, head of Business Studies at Egglescliffe Comprehensive School has beaten off stiff competition from teachers across the North-east to scoop the top award for her unfaltering commitment to Young Enterprise.
Young Enterprise North East organises programmes in schools where students set up and run businesses.
Joanna provides a link between her school and the local business community, members of which, regularly act as mentors and advisers for students undertaking the programmes.
Catherine Marchant, chief executive for Young Enterprise North-east, said: "Joanna's proactive approach and determination is highly commendable and she wholly deserves to have won the 'Link Teacher of the Year' award."
Meanwhile Phil Brown has been named Young Enterprise North East Adviser of the Year.
The 49-year-old is an IT technician at Staindrop Comprehensive, County Durham.
Supported by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, the award was presented to Mr Brown by ICAEW regional manager Keith Proudfoot.
The Northern Society of Chartered Accountants' prize for the best financially managed company in the Young Enterprise regional awards went to students at Carmel Technology College in Darlington.


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General Motors and Coskata today announced that a pilot plant for cellulosic ethanol will be built in Madison, Pennsylvania. The plant will located adjacent to the Westinghouse Plasma Center in Madison. The plasma torches that Coskata will be using for their gasification process are based on technology that was developed by GM and Westinghouse in the early eighties. At that time the companies developed a plasma furnace used to melt raw materials for cast iron production at GM foundries. The firs
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Chicago 2008 AutoblogGreen Q&A: Coskata's Wes Bolsen on the ICM partnership
To get a little more information out of Coskata about this morning's announcement of a partnership with ICM to build the first commercial cellulosic ethanol plant using Coskata's proprietary process (past details on Coskata are here), we tracked down Wes Bolsen, chief marketing officer, business development at the company. Bolsen was an executive at ICM in his previous life, so he is very familiar with what ICM is all about (for now, this is building a lot of corn ethanol plants in the U.S.) and
More on Coskata: partners with ICM for cellulosic ethanol plants
While not as big a deal as Coskata's announcement at the Detroit Auto Show, the company is not letting the Chicago Auto Show go by without letting some more cellulosic ethanol news slip out. The company announced today that it had formed a strategic alliance with ICM for the design and construction of cellulosic ethanol plants. ICM is a background player in the ethanol field, and its patented proprietary process technology is responsible for about half of the ethanol made at plants in the U.S.


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Friday, July 29
Comedy: Punchlines and Pasta with Terry Michaels
Also featuring the comedy of Tony Martins, Chris Garcia, Julian Aguilar and Antwan Johnson. Cafe Via, 6640 N. Blackstone Ave., Fresno, 559-470-3306, www.brownpapertickets.com, $10. 7:30 p.m.
Music: Mezcal
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Our plan for the Aran Islands involves one day and one night on Inis Oírr, the smallest island, and a day trip to the big island (Inis Mór) on our second day. We depart from the pier near Doolin, where storm winds are rocking the ferries and heaving water onto the concrete walkways. The whole palette of water and sky has darkened.
The ferry ride is as turbulent as you would expect. However, sitting by the window, I'm fascinated by the harshness of the sea. I've been on very few boats in my life (having grown up landlocked in the desert) and have only experienced calm waters so far. As I look out at the surface of the water, I watch its activity, the way it swells and dips beneath the body of the boat, the way it crashes and slaps at the distant cliffs. I try to breathe in tandem with the movement of the boat to control my motion sickness.
I watch the storm converging on the Cliffs of Moher "with the force of a hurricane". Paul Muldoon's graveside villanelle, "Milkweed and Monarch", is circling through my mind like a refrain. I love the form of the villanelle; the cycling of ideas, of words, can be meditative and eerie, and contemporary poets do a wonderful job of modifying the nature of that repetition. With "Milkweed and Monarch", I've always loved the implied disorientation of memory, the weird association of events. The first half of the poem offers a somewhat comedic image, as the son kneeling at the grave dreams of his lover instead of his parents, and all of the facts of the story are jumbled in his memory. However, by the end, the poem acquires the darkness of a storm, and language itself is the last thing confused.
Milkweed and Monarch
Paul Muldoon
As he knelt by the grave of his mother and father
the taste of dill, or tarragon-
he could barely tell one from the other-
filled his mouth. It seemed as if he might smother.
Why should he be stricken
with grief, not for his mother and father,
but a woman slinking from the fur of a sea-otter
In Portland, Maine, or, yes, Portland, Oregon-
he could barely tell one from the other-
and why should he now savour
the tang of her, her little pickled gherkin,
as he knelt by the grave of his mother and father?
He looked about. He remembered her palaver
on how both earth and sky would darken-
'You could barely tell one from the other'-
while the Monarch butterflies passed over
in their milkweed-hunger: 'A wing-beat, some reckon,
may trigger off the mother and father
of all storms, striking your Irish Cliffs of Moher
with the force of a hurricane.'
Then: 'Milkweed and Monarch 'invented' each other.'
He looked about. Cow's-parsley in a samovar.
He'd mistaken his mother's name, 'Regan, ' for Anger';
as he knelt by the grave of his mother and father
he could barely tell one from the other.
Inis Oírr
The storm has deadened to vacant light and a spatter of rain. I sit on an outcropping of black rock along the coast, held out above the sea, writing and sketching for the first hour of our time on the small island.
We take bikes around Inis Oírr. Even though many tourists have done the same, most leave in groups well before we do, so we have relative privacy as we bike the looped trails of the island. The roads snake their way up and down the hills, along thousands of overgrown stone walls separating land plots, most of them filled only with grass or ruined foundations. Between the uniqueness of the landscape, the pervading quiet, and the small scale of the island, I feel at peace here.
E and I discuss the way in which tourism must shape local life on these islands. Local cars share the streets with rented cars, pony and traps, biking tourists, and pedestrians. Some of the roads on the biking trail wind between houses. How must it feel for the people who have lived here a long time? To experience the shift from a completely removed island life to a culture of strangers?
The Plassey Wreck
This Finnish cargo vessel was shipwrecked in the 1960s. The intact body of the ship, full of disused and ruined machinery, colors the rocks at its base with rust. Jagged holes have formed in the metal, and you can look through them to the dimness of the interior, through to more windows on the other side.
Church of Saint Caomhán
Caomhán, a disciple of Saint Edna of Aran, was reputedly the brother of Saint Kevin of Glendalough and remains the patron saint of Inis Oírr. An altar remains intact in this tiny, roofless stone church. Tablets lean against the wall, their inscriptions long eroded. A ssmall replica of the church stands on a podium off the road, marking the structure for passerbys.
Tobar Eanna
The well of Saint Edna, one of hundreds of holy wells in Ireland. We drop coins into the water as the rain comes down gently. According to myth, the sight of an eel passing through the well is a sign of good luck! We're not so lucky today, but the well is a tranquil and timeless resting spot.
We end the day looking for black and white fossils along the coast. Few people are out on the roads at this time in the evening. Dying light breaks through the clouds, a low light that brightens the dampness of the road, and hundreds of cairns are built up among the coastal rocks. When night falls, we return to the hostel and I spend the evening writing about a very different landscape, far away from any shoreline, because sometimes one extreme can inspire another.
Inis Mór
If we thought tourism was rampant on Inis Oírr, nothing could have prepared us for the big island, the most popular tourist destination of the three. As soon as we leave the boat (after a much calmer ferry ride), we are greeted by a slew of pony-and-trap drivers, tour bus drivers, and bike hire salesmen, all offering tours. The majority of visitors coming off the boats make a beeline for the tour options, since you really need some form of transport to see all of the main sites on Inis Mór. E and I, however, are overwhelmed, and can't decide what to do. We opt for a coffee shop, where we sit and have coffee and pastries while all the tour groups depart, off to see forts and churches that we'll have to miss.
We know that we won't have time to see much of Inis Mór by foot, but we start walking anyway. We take photos of ruined, broken down buildings that seem to spring up right after we leave the tourist shop areas. Once we reach the neighborhoods, a line of inscribed stone crosses are erected for deceased family members in front of their homes.
When we walk by the beach, we see odd formations strewn between shallow water and seaweed, and they look like clocháns, ancient beehive huts. E puts up with me as I wade out to see them and run my hands over the corbeled stone.
Upon arriving at the huts, we find no entrances or exits, making us doubt that these are actually huts. I can't find any reference to them online, but they are interesting landscape features all the same, and the multi-toned stone is striking against the blue of the water. Lying beside one of the domes is a piece of kelp that looks like a spine.
In the end, I see none of the surely breathtaking archaeological sites Inis Mór has to offer. But I see striations of water on the beach, domes of nebulous purpose, and homes and ruins amid the rocky, walled landscape of the coast. If today is a failure, it's a welcome failure, in a landscape that remains impressive no matter what you see or fail to see.


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The following quotes by various physicists of the twentieth century are a sample of remarkable statements indicating how physics came to view reality in non-Newtonian, materialist terms. Each physicist is listed according to dates of birth.
Many of these quotes are part of the dialogues in the Elysium's Passage narratives.
Max Planck 1858-1947
Nobel Prize in Physics (1918)
Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are part of nature and therefore part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.
As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear headed science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about atoms this much: There is no matter as such. All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter. I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness.
We cannot get behind consciousness. A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
Science…means unresting endeavor and continually progressing development toward an aim which the poetic intuition may apprehend, but the intellect can never fully grasp. Truth never triumphs – its opponents just die out. Science advances one funeral at a time.
Both religion and science require a belief in God. For believers, God is in the beginning, and for physicists He is at the end of all considerations… To the former He is the foundation, to the latter, the crown of the edifice of every generalized world view.
Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it. There can never be any real opposition between religion and science, for the one is the complement of the other.
When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
Sir James Jeans 1877-1946
Knighted in England (1924)
The universe cannot admit of material representation, and the reason, I think, is that it has become a mere mental concept.
The universe begins to look more like a great thought than a great machine. Mind no longer appears as an accident intruder into the realm of matter, we are beginning to suspect that we ought rather to hail it as the creator and governor of the realm of matter.
If the universe is a universe of thought, then its creation must have been an act of thought. So little do we understand time that perhaps we ought to compare the whole of time to the act of creation, that materialisation of the thought.
Mathematics enters the world from above instead of from below. God is a mathematician and the universe begins to look more like a great thought than a great machine. For substantiality is a purely mental concept measuring the direct effects of objects on our sense of touch.
A mathematical formula can never tell us what a thing is, but only how it behaves. It can only specify a thing through its properties.
Modern scientific theory compels us to think of the creator working outside of time and space – which are part of his creation – just as the artist is outside of his canvas.
The old dualism of mind and matter, which is mainly responsible for the supposed hostility, seems likely to disappear — through substantial matter resolving itself into a creation and manifestation of mind.
Albert Einstein 1879-1955
Nobel Prize in Physics (1921)
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger; who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind. Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself I want to know God's thoughts, the rest are details.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. It is clear that knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be —– for science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgements of all kinds remain necessary.
The scientific method can teach us nothing else beyond how facts are related to, and conditioned by each other. I maintain that the cosmic religious feeling is the strongest and noblest motive for scientific research.
Sir Arthur Eddington 1882–1944
Knighted in England (1930)
Science has nothing to say as to the intrinsic nature of the atom. The physical atom is, like everything else in physics, a schedule of pointer readings.
Space, time and matter - and at the bottom we reach symbols. Its substance has melted into shadow.
It is difficult for the matter of fact physicist to accept the view that the substratum for everything is of mental character. But no one can deny that mind is the first and most direct thing in our experience and all else is remote inference.
Something unknown is doing we don't know what.
We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown.
Our ultimate analysis of space leads us not to a 'here' and a 'there', but to an extension such as that which relates 'here' and 'there'. To put the conclusion rather crudely-space is not a lot of points close together, it is a lot of distances interlocked.
Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
There is no space without aether, and no aether which does not occupy space.
Science is one thing, wisdom is another.
Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.
Niels Bohr 1885 – 1962
Nobel Prize in Physics (1922)
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.
If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.
Erwin Schrodinger 1887–1961
Nobel Prize in Physics (1933)
Mind is, by its very nature, a singulare tantum, I should say: the overall number of minds in just one. I venture to call it indestructible since it has a peculiar timetable, namely time is always now. There really is no before and after for mind.
The show that is going on obviously acquires a meaning only with regard to the mind that contemplates it. But what science tells us about this relationship is patently absurd: as if mind had only been produced by the very display that it is now watching and would pass away when the sun finally cools down —
Werner Heisenberg 1901 – 1976
Nobel Prize in Physics (1932)
Physics can only make statements about strictly limited relations that are only valid within the framework of those limitations.
I assert the nature of all reality is spiritual, not material or a dualism of matter and spirit.
The hypothesis that its nature can be, to any degree, material does not enter into my reckoning, because we understand now that matter, the putting together of the adjective material and the noun nature does not make any sense.
Is the nature of reality material or spiritual or a combination of both? I will first ask another question. Is the ocean composed of water or waves, or of both? Interpreting the term material (physical) — corresponds to the waves, not to the water of the ocean of reality. The solid substance of things is another illusion. It too is a fancy projected by the mind into the eternal world.
We have chased the solid substance from the continuous liquid of the atom, from the atom to the electron, and there we have lost it. Actualities have been lost in the exigencies of the chase.
Insofar as supernaturalism is associated with the denial of strict causality, I can only answer that that is what the modern scientific development of the quantum theory brings us to.
In comparing the certainty of things spiritual and things temporal, let us not forget this: mind is the first and most direct thing in our experience, all else is remote inference.
John Wheeler 1911 – 2008
Einstein Prize in Physics
No phenomenon is a physical phenomenon until it is an observed phenomenon. The universe does not exist 'out there,' independent of us. We are inescapably involved in bringing about that which appears to be happening. We are not only observers. We are participators. In some strange sense, this is a participatory universe.
There is nothing in the world except empty curved space. Matter, charge, electromagnetism, and other fields are only manifestations of the curvature of space. In order to more fully understand this reality, we must take into account other dimensions of a broader reality.
David Bohm 1917 – 1992
Fellow of the Royal Society (1990)
The world cannot be analyzed into separate and independently existing parts — moreover each part somehow involves all the others: contains them or enfolds them. This fact suggests that the sphere of ordinary material life and the sphere of mystical experiences have a certain shared order and that this will allow a fruitful relationship between them.
The true state of affairs in the material world is wholeness. If we are fragmented, we must blame it on ourselves. This implicate order implies a reality immensely beyond what we call matter.
Matter itself is merely a ripple in this background. Thought is creating divisions out of itself and then saying that they are there naturally.
If I am right in saying that thought is the ultimate origin or source, it follows that if we don't do anything about thought, we won't get anywhere.
Swedenborg was a highly regarded scientist in Europe in the eighteenth century and was closely associated with Sweden's royalty as a friend and administrator (Royal Assessor of Mines).
In 1741, at the age of 53, much of his life changed when he became exposed to the spirit dimension. First beginning with dreams, a few years later he reported his soul's heavenly visitations that continued for the remaining twenty eight years of his earthly life. This he described as his spiritual awakening. From then on he recorded his celestial visits that included speaking with hundreds of spiritual entities, not all in the higher realms.
He wrote several books of theological concern, with over eighteen works published in Latin. Most of his works are deeply profound, and for some, perhaps difficult to read. His most popular and arguably easiest to comprehend is Heaven and Hell (1758); a popular introductory summary of his experiences and conclusions.
Given the nature of his experiences and how remote his spiritual discourses were from conventional life, some considered his works insane. But this was largely mitigated by his impeccable reputation as a scholar and scientist with the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He was also part in the Swedish House of Nobility (the Swedish Riddarhuset) and Parliament (Riksdag).
On a personal level he was characterized as being a very pious and warm-hearted man, speaking easily and naturally. Many literary luminaries became devoted readers of his works including, Jorge Luis Borges, Daniel Burnham, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Y.B Yeats, John Flaxman, George Inness, Henry James Sr., William Blake, Carl Jung, Immanuel Kant, Honore de Balzac, Arthur Conan Doyle, Helen Keller, Czeslaw Milosz, August Strindberg and D.T. Suzuki.
There are several books written on him and his works, many of which can be accessed online.The following quotes are a small representation of some of my favourites.
This I can declare: things that are in heaven are more real than things that are in the world.
Heaven is not located on high, but where the good of love is, and this resides within a person, wherever he or she might be.
We are all spirits inwardly. This is what's alive in the body, not the body on its own.
Such as the love is, such is the wisdom, consequently such is the man In a word, to grow old in heaven is to grow young.
Happiness is in service, from service, and according to service.
Love in its essence is spiritual fire. Man knows that there is love, but he does not know what love is.
A man after death is not a natural but a spiritual man; nevertheless he still appears in all respects like himself.
The inner self is as distinct from the outer self as heaven is from earth. We do need to realize, though, that it is the quality of our love that determines the quality of this life.
Love comes into being through useful service to others.
We are, because God is.
Man, before he is being regenerated, does not even know that any internal man exists, much less is he acquainted with its nature and quality.
In the spiritual body moreover, man appears such as he is with respect to love and faith, for everyone in the spiritual world is the effigy of his own love, not only as to the face and the body, but also as to the speech and the actions.
People who have intended and loved what is evil in the world intend and love what is evil in the other life, and then they no longer allow themselves to be led away from it. This is why people who are absorbed in evil are connected to hell and actually are there in spirit; and after death they crave above all to be where their evil is.
Man, when he is re-born, passes through the ages as he who is born; and the preceding state is always as an egg in respect to the subsequent one, thus he is continually conceived and born: and this not only when he lives in the world, but also when he comes into another life to eternity: and still when he cannot be further perfected, then to be as an egg to those things which remain to be manifested, which are indefinite.
For heaven is within us, and people who have heaven within them come into heaven. The heaven within us is our acknowledgment of the Divine and our being led by the Divine.
Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own. The nature of heaven is to provide a place there for all who lead good lives, no matter what their religion may be.
The activity of love and faith is what makes heaven. A life of faith without love is like sunlight without warmth—the type of light that occurs in winter, when nothing grows and everything droops and dies.
Faith rising out of love, on the contrary, is like light from the sun in spring, when everything grows and flourishes. For every man's soul is in a spiritual body after it has cast off the material coverings which it carried about in the world.
When the topic of religion comes up, materialists start to debate about it with one another and with other groups. The ensuing proposition and debate rarely results in an affirmation of the faith that God exists.
Materialists associate more and more with the evil, because only from God can one do something good with a love for what is good. Every man is received in heaven who receives heaven in himself while in the world, and he is excluded who does not.
Goodness and love mould the form into their own image, and cause the joy and beauty of love to shine forth from every part of the face.
Heaven is such that all who have lived well, of whatever religion, have a place there.
What a man thinks in his spirit in the world, that he does after his departure from the world when he becomes a spirit.
The more one is absorbed in so-called philosophy, the greater one's delusion and blindness.
He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil. Such as the love is, such is the wisdom, consequently such is the man.
Gurdjieff lived his early years in the Transcaucasia region which had rich ethnic mix comprised of Georgians, Armenians, Kurds, Greeks, Turks and Russians.
At the age of fifteen he set out to wander the world, gleaning whatever ancient wisdom he could in scattered Sufi ashrams, Christian churches, Buddhist temples and assorted mystery schools across central Asia, Egypt, Rome, Iran, Russia and going as far as Tibet.
He later established himself back home in Russia where he taught his esoterica under his own auspices, often in Moscow and St Petersburg. In the first half of the twentieth century, Gurdjieff and Ouspensky, his student, brought many ancient esoteric traditions to the Western world such as the Enneagram. He also wrote certain classical scores for piano designed to awaken human consciousness and introducted Sufi whirling dervishes by bringing several to New York to perform.
They escaped the Bolshevik revolution by traveling on foot down through Georgia to Istanbul in 1920. Each established their own institute, Gurdjieff in Paris and Ouspensky in London, as they taught and disseminated their ideas on the nature of consciousness and other arcane philosophies. For example, teachings in the Forth Way school of thought include concepts such as being present, self-remembering and non-identification, to name just a few.
Unfortunately, concepts dealing with higher consciousness are not well understood or recognized in most universities in the West, since so few know anything about esoteric philosophy. (One notable exception is eminent Philosopher Jacob Needleman from San Francisco State University). Anything written by Gurdjieff, Ouspensky or other students such as Orage, Nicoll, Nott and Bennett are recommended, although certain books can be challenging at times. The Gurdjieff Foundation has several affiliate organizations throughout the world. (For more information, refer to the Gurdjieff Foundation web site.
Without self-knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.
Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.
It is very difficult also to sacrifice one's suffering. A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.
Awakening is possible only for those who seek it and want it, for those who are ready to struggle with themselves and work on themselves for a very long time and very persistently in order to attain it.
Two things in life are infinite; the stupidity of man and the mercy of God.
I will tell you one thing that will make you rich for life. There are two struggles: an Inner-world struggle and an Outer-world struggle...you must make an intentional contact between these two worlds; then you can crystallize data for the Third World, the World of the Soul.
In order to awaken, first of all one must realize that one is in a state of sleep. And in order to realize that one is indeed in a state of sleep, one must recognize and fully understand the nature of the forces which operate to keep one in the state of sleep, or hypnosis. It is absurd to think that this can be done by seeking information from the very source which induces the hypnosis.
One thing alone is certain, that man's slavery grows and increases. Man is becoming a willing slave. He no longer needs chains. He begins to grow fond of his slavery, to be proud of it. And this is the most terrible thing that can happen to a man.
If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest.
Remember you come here having already understood the necessity of struggling with yourself — only with yourself. Therefore thank everyone who gives you the opportunity.
Better to die than live in sleep.
What is possible for individual man is impossible for the masses.
What is nearest to us is man; and you are the nearest of all men to yourself. Begin with the study of yourself; remember the saying 'Know thyself.'
The only type of sexual relations possible are those with someone who is as advanced and capable as oneself.
You are in prison. If you wish to get out of prison, the first thing you must do is realize that you are in prison. If you think you are free, you can't escape.
Life is real only then, when "I am".
Modern civilization is based on violence and slavery and fine words.
The one great art is that of making a complete human being of oneself.
The crowd neither wants nor seeks knowledge, and the leaders of the crowd, in their own interests, try to strengthen its fear and dislike of everything new and unknown. The slavery in which mankind lives is based upon this fear.
Never will he understand the sufferings of another, who has not experienced them himself, though he have divine Reason Man such as we know him, is a machine.
Only help him who is not an idler.
Don't judge a man by the tales of others.
By teaching others you will learn yourself.
In speaking of evolution it is necessary to understand from the outset that no mechanical evolution is possible. The evolution of man is the evolution of his consciousness.
Man such as we know him, the "man-machine," the man who cannot "do," and with whom and through whom everything "happens," cannot have a permanent and single I.
He changes as quickly as his thoughts, feelings and moods, and he makes a profound mistake in considering himself always one and the same person; in reality he is always a different person, not the one he was a moment ago.
In literature, science, art, philosophy, religion, in individual and above all in social and political life, we can observe how the line of the development of forces deviates from its original direction and goes, after a certain time, in a diametrically opposite direction, still preserving its former name.
A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake. A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.
The sole means now for the saving of the beings of the planet Earth would be to implant again into their presences a new organ … of such properties that every one of these unfortunates during the process of existence should constantly sense and be cognizant of the inevitability of his own death as well as the death of everyone upon whom his eyes or attention rests. Only such a sensation and such a cognizance can now destroy the egoism completely crystallized in them.
It is very difficult to explain what takes place in me when I see or hear anything majestic which allows no doubt that it proceeds from the actualization of Our Maker Creator. Each time, my tears flow of themselves. I weep, that is to say, it weeps in me, not from grief, no, but as if from tenderness.
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While there have been baseball players that have stuck around into their mid 40's they are the exception rather than the rule. The reason isn't because they don't know the game or desire to still play, it is simply because they cannot keep up with the younger players. All aberrations aside, it is a young mans game, always has been, and always will be.
It is easy for people that don't play the game on the professional level to say baseball players aren't athletes, and certainly there are some out of shape loads of flesh in the game, but baseball players are athletes and those out of shape loads don't generally hang around for long. Baseball by nature is a game that forces the body to do unnatural things. Throwing a baseball overhand is not natural to the body which is why we see so many players develop arm problems and we aren't just talking about pitchers. Catchers take more abuse to the body than anyone on the field which is why so few can remain productive at the position full time much past their thirty sixth birthday.
People can argue all they want about Bonds and Clemens getting it done and even getting better as they aged but we all have a pretty good idea how that happened. If that is what it takes just to stay competitive it's an indication as strong as they get players are not predisposed to being able to compete at that level with success. Like it or not I'll take my chances with an eighteen year old kid over a forty three year old, even a forty three year old legend in the game of baseball any day.