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Research note:  „Bücher der neuen Anthropologie und Biologie“, edited by Hans André

Picture 1 and 2: Leaflet found inside the book whose title page is shown in picture three, bought from an online used book shop. The book belongs to a series of books “Bücher der neuen Anthropologie und Biologie” (“Books of the new anthropology and biology”, edited by the biologist and philosopher Hans André from 1925 to 1934). It advertises the first 7 books from this series. The book whose title page is shown is the 8th in the series. By online library catalog research, I could find 3 more titles in this series:

Volume 9: Karl Beurlen u. Hans André: “Das Gesetz der Überwindbarkeit des Todes in der Biologie” (1933)

Volume 10: Armin Müller: “Ganzheitsbiologie und Ethik” (1933)

Volume 11: Hedwig Conrad-Martius: Die ‘Seele’ der Pflanze (1934)

A few notes on the authors (to be extended):

André, Hans, Dr.

Biologist, Botanist, Philosopher, 24.03.1891, Kaiserslautern – 26.07.1966, Bonn

Letters by Hans André in archives catalogued on Kalliope:

Record in the database of the  Deutsche Nationalbibliothek about him:

Literature by Hans André (including books edited by him and cooperations) (catalogue of Deutsche Nationalbibliothek):

Secondary literature:

[Andrés Philosophie des Lebens]
La philosophie de la vie de Hans André
Siewerth, Gustav. – Paris : Desclée de Brouwer, [2016]

He is also mentioned in: JOACHIM FISCHER. “Philosophische Anthropologie. Eine Denkrichtung des 20. Jahrhunderts“ ( (excerpts available on Google books).

According to Fischer, he seems to have been exchanging letters with Adolf Portmann. André seems to have been part of the circle around Scheeler in Cologne. He was influenced by Helmuth Plessner, who, according to Georg Toepfer’s “Historisches Wörterbuch der Biologie” (article “Vitalismus”) can also be viewed as belonging into the complex of vitalism. (Toepfer does not mention André.)

André seems to come out of an Aristotelian/Neo-Thomist Katholic direction.

Stölzle, Remigius, Prof. Dr.

* 23. November 1856 in Ob/Baden; † 23. Juli 1921 in Würzburg. Philosopher. professor in Würzburg.

Also seems to come out of an Aristotelian/Neo-Thomist Katholic direction.

Kranichfeld, Hermann

More research required. The second publication listed by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek might be from a different author. He seems to have been a biologist.

F. J. J. Buytendijk

1887-1974. Professor of  philosophy in Groningen (according to the leaflet). According to Fischer, Andé translatet volume 6 into German (so probably the other book (volume 5) was also translated by André).

Wasmann, Erich

Biologist, katholic theologist. 1859-1931 (or 1932).

Albert Wigand

Biographical data not certain, more research required. According to the leaflet he was a botanist. The entry in the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek seems to confuse him with an artist of the same name.

Armin Müller

1888 – 1967.

Belongs into the vicinity of the Spannkreis, around Othmar Spann.

von Brandenstein, Béla, Dr.

1901 – 1989. German-Hungarian philosopher. He was professor in Hungary. Fled Hungary in 1944 and became professor of philosophy in Saarbrücken, Germany.éla_von_Brandenstein

His ideas are vitalistic, but he does not share the Aristotelian/neo-Thomist approach of André. In the preface to the book (volume 8 of the series), André somewhat distances himself from von Brandenstein, whose views he did not share but found worth publishing in his series.

Karl Beurlen

Paleontologist. 1901 – 1985

Proponent of orthogenesis.

Conrad-Martius, Hedwig

1888 – 1966. Philosopher, professor in Munich.

The “Philosophisches Wörterbuch“ (Schischkoff, Georgi (ed.), 11. edition, Stuttgart, 1957) writes about her (rough translation by myself): “tries, starting from phenomenology, to build up an ontology of reality (“Realontologie”) of nature, using the Aristotelian-scholastic ontology, especially the concept pair “potency” and “act” or “matter” and “form”. For the problem of the special laws of the living (“Selbstgesetzlichkeit des Lebens”) she proposes a “species logos”, an entelechy of essence which individuates itself in the organic substance and operates as (immanent) entelechy of formation (“Bildungsentelechy”).”

Georg Wunderle

Kath. theologist, see

A few thoughts on the Aristotelian/neo-Thomist thinkers in this group (at least André, Stölzle, Wasmann, Conrad-Martius). Based on the scholastic tradition of thought, they develop ideas that are  essentially vitalistic. They are anti-mechanistic and anti-darwinistic. However, although coming out of a Christian, specifically Katholic point of view, their ideas seem to be vastly different from the American evangelical brand of Bible-literalistic creationism. This evangelical element is largely absent from Germany. Since in Germany, there was traditionally a coupling of both the Katholic and the Lutheranian churches to the state, other groups (from the evangelical spectrum) left Germany (mostly for the United States). So while the anti-darwinists in the USA are mainly of the creationist brand, this type of creationism did not and does not play any major role in Germany. The theology of the Lutheranians largely developed into more secular directions (Bultmann ect.). Katholic (and especially: Jesuite) theology, on the other hand, was able to tap into the tradition of Scholasticism with its relatively rich (compared to the evangelical movements) and varied body of philosophical thought that had incorporated both Aristotelian and, earlier, (neo-)Platonic thought. The description of Stölzles first book in the series says, for example: “In the last chapter, Stölzle develops […] the idea of ‘indirect, potential or secondary creation’, in accordance with the scholastic view of the eductio formarum e potentia materiae [the generation of forms from the potential of matter], according to which the principles of life of plants and animals are not created from nothing but are generated from the disposition (the ‘potencal’ of matter).” So the existence of a richer philosophical tradition of philosophy inside the Katholic church lead to the development of ideas that can be viewed as being part of the vitalistic spectrum, while American style creationism did not play a role.

Even outside this Katholic context, the absence of evangelical Christians meant that anti-mechanistic or anti-darwinistic thought (e.g. von Brandenstein) appears in the form of different brands of vitalism, not as creationism. This vitalistic direction in Biology that seems to have been dominant in Germany from the late 1800s up to the middle of the 20th century (at least up to the early 1930s) has been neglected in American or Anglo-Saxon works of history of science, where generally, only the darwinism vs. creationism debates are treated.

Are we living inside a computer simulation? – 3

Some people, including some philosophers (see for an example), have recently put forward the idea that we might inhabit a giant computer simulation. For example, one idea is that some civilizations might develop to a state where they start building such simulations in order to simulate possible histories of themselves.

This is the third and last part of a series on this topic. The previous parts can be found here and here.

The “perfect crime” problem

The perfect crime is one that is unrecognizable. The criminal must disguise himself in such a way that one cannot even see that a crime has happened. All the data must be consistent.

The super civilization simulating us must do something similar. The fact that we are living inside a simulation must be invisible to us. It is obviously impossible to set up a detailed simulation of the whole universe. The information content of the universe is higher than anything that can become accessible even to the most advanced civilization possible. So the simulation must have a spatial border, or its granularity must reduce at the outside. Moreover, it must start at a certain point in history (let’s say, 10.000 years ago, or last week Thursday). Here, the initial state of the simulation must be set in a consistent way. It would have to start with faked data, but this data must not contain any contradictions that we, the inhabitants of the simulation, would be able to spot.

Now, assuming we are not living in a simulation, the information stored in our environment at any time cannot simply be derived from the laws of physics. It is the result of the history of the universe and our galaxy, the history of the solar system, the geological history of earth, the history of life on earth and the history of humans, as well as our individual biographies. It appears unlikely that this information can be set up by the simulating civilization, starting the simulation in such a way that all the correlations contained in it are present and that it does not contain any contradictions. In fact, the only way to calculate this starting state might be to start the simulation earlier, e.g. a million years ago, but that only shifts the problem. You might have to go back to the primordial earth. But running the simulation takes time and it is unlikely that you can become much faster than reality if your granularity is high enough to simulate the emergence of life and civilization and the rich world we are perceiving. The simulation might then have to run for millions or even billions of years. This appears implausible.

If, however, the super civilization has a way to calculate this starting state of the simulation without running the simulation (and I don’t think there is a way to do so, but let’s just assume there is one – they are a super-civilization, aren’t they?), then they don’t even need any simulation. They can calculate how the world looked last week Thursday and how it looks today or at any time they might find interesting. In that case, the simulation becomes dispensable.

Another approach would be the “Man in Black” method. You allow inconsistencies in the world to be there, but whenever somebody is spotting them, you tamper with their memory (or with history). But such a “simulation” in which you would have to introduce corrections all the time would have no value for research. What is happening is what you put in, so what is the point of simulating.

So since scientists are not observing inconsistencies in the past or at some distance from Earth, it appears highly implausible that we are inside a simulation. (Or have the men in black just been modifying our memories and records?)

(The picture is from:

Are we living inside a computer simulation? – 2

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Some people, including some philosophers (see for an example), have recently put forward the idea that we might inhabit a giant computer simulation. For example, one idea is that some civilizations might develop to a state where they start building such simulations in order to simulate possible histories of themselves.

This is part 2 of a series on this topic. Part 1 is here.

The resolution/resource problem

When scientists simulate a physical system, e.g. a star, the simulation has a limited temporal and spatial granularity. For example, you would divide the star into cubes of a certain size and describe each such voxel by a number of parameters, like pressure, temperature, chemical composition, magnetic field properties etc. You may also divide time into steps. Obviously, such a simulation can only be an approximation of reality. You may then squeeze a development that in reality takes millions of years into just a couple of days of computing time. However, there is no guarantee that the results are matching what is going on in reality. To increase the accuracy of the simulation, you may increase the resolution, making the units we are looking at smaller and the time frames shorter. Obviously, this will increase the amount of information to be stored and the amount of calculations to be done.

Now the problem is that storing information and performing calculations requires physical resources. There are limits to how much information can be squeezed into a certain amount of energy and space. The amount of information a system can store depends on two things: how much matter/energy is contained in the system and how large the system is. When you leave the energy content constant but increase the system’s radius and hence its volume, there are more possible configurations available (or, looking at it in terms of wave mechanics, longer additional wavelengths fit into the system), so it can store more information. If you add matter or energy, there are more possible objects (particles) inside whose properties or configurations can be employed to store information (or, in the wave mechanics view, you can add additional high frequencies, increasing the bandwidth again). So keeping the volume constant, you may squeeze in more information by adding energy, but there is a limit, because too much energy in too small a volume leads to gravitational collapse. Of course, the real limits will be reached long before this point, no matter what kind of advanced technology a super civilization might have.

You can put in more information by making the system larger and less dense, but this would reduce processing speed (because the speed of light is the limit for information exchange).

So whatever technology might be possible, you would need some physical resources to store all the information. Moreover, performing computations takes physical resources as well. You can miniaturize the computers to some extent, but there are limits here because of the granularity of matter.

Now, as we increase the spatial and temporal resolution of our simulation, we will reach a point where the amount of resources needed for the simulation exceeds the amount of resources required to build the actual object. For example, there is a simulation of a simple bacterium. This simulation, simulating the chemical processes inside the cell (in such a way that the simulated cell can actually divide), requires a big computer. The mass and energy consumption of this computer is by far larger than the mass and energy consumption of the simulated bacterium. And it should be noted here that the description of the bacterial cell is not physically complete in any way. The researchers had to enter by hand the reaction strengths of the different chemical reactions going on in the cell. The model cannot predict what happens when you introduce a certain mutation. This would require to model molecules on an atomic level to predict their properties. The amount of data and computation to do so would be even far greater.

For any physical system, there should be a degree of spatial and temporal resolution where the size (in terms of matter, energy and/or space) of the simulator becomes larger than the simulated system. There must be such a point because a simulator running an accurate, physically complete simulation of a system would have to contain more information than the simulated system. The physical system develops according to a set of laws (think of a system of equations). In a physical system, these laws do not contribute to the information content of the system. In a simulation, they have to be represented as information. Moreover, the mathematical knowledge for doing the calculations (the simulation software) must also be represented as information (even if it is hardwired into some hardware). Since information needs physical resources to be represented, a completely accurate simulation of a physical system would need more resources than the system itself. If the system contains a lot of redundancy, i.e. repetitive or ordered structures, the simulator might take advantage of information compression to reduce the storage requirements, but this would make the computations more difficult and time-consuming.

The computing machinery used to simulate stars in order to study different theories of how stars explode is much smaller than an actual star, but to create the detail of the world we are observing, a simulation would have to employ physical resources that are probably much larger than the actual systems simulated. So instead of setting up giant computing machinery, it would be much cheaper for a super civilization just to set up a real planet and let it develop. This would also remove the problem of hardware reliability you would otherwise be facing (and automatically give you a consistent starting state, more on that topic in the next part of this series). It is therefore highly unlikely that we are living in a simulation. The assumption that most instances of consciousness would be simulated ones, given in the article referenced above, is very likely wrong because the amount of resources needed to simulate a human being and its environment is very likely much higher than the amount of resources taken up by a real, physical human being (see a related (satirical) article about the “Frnx-Theorem” and the “Frnx-Limit” here:

(The picture, showing a frame of a simulation of the merger of two neutron stars, is from

Are we living inside a computer simulation? – Part 1

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Some people, including some philosophers (see for an example), have recently put forward the idea that we might inhabit a giant computer simulation. For example, one idea is that some civilizations might develop to a state where they start building such simulations in order to simulate possible histories of themselves. This is part 1 of a short series of (not so short) articles on this topic.

The problem of computational complexity and of computability

This new twist of metaphysics is based on the assumption that such a simulation is possible. If it is not possible for us, it might be possible for a “super-civilization”. This argument is used to sweep the question of feasibility under the carpet. The super-civilization is super, so they have all kinds of super-technology, and as a result, there is nothing they cannot do. But the problem here is: there may be limits to what technologies are possible.

In a branch of theoretical computer science called complexity theory, computer scientists have studied the question of how much resources are needed to calculate certain problems. It turns out that there are some tasks for which any possible algorithm quickly exceeds any bounds of resources as the instance of the problem is getting larger. Except for the most trivial cases, the resources required will soon exceed the resources available in the whole universe, i.e. such problems are computationally intractable, no matter what technology you have.

What does computational complexity theory have to do with computer simulation metaphysics? The answer is that some physical processes may have a very high computational complexity. For example, it looks like the folding of proteins, a process happening in the cells of our bodies all the time in myriad instances, is such a problem. New protein molecules are produced as long chains of amino acids. A newly generated protein molecule will then quickly fold into its final configuration. This is, in most cases, a state of lowest energy. It has been argued that calculating this folded structure is practically impossible. Look at (Aviezri S. Fraenkel: Complexity of protein folding, Fraenkel, A.S. Bltn Mathcal Biology (1993) 55: 1199. doi:10.1007/BF02460704), where we read the following abstract:

“It is believed that the native folded three-dimensional conformation of a protein is its lowest free energy state, or one of its lowest. It is shown here that both a two-and three-dimensional mathematical model describing the folding process as a free energy minimization problems is NP-hard. This means that the problem belongs to a large set of computational problems, assumed to be very hard (“conditionally intractable”). Some of the possible ramifications of this results are speculated upon.”

(The term “NP-hard” is a technical term from complexity theory.) The folding of the protein in reality only takes the resources contained in the molecule (and the surrounding molecules and ions (water etc.)): a very small amount of matter and a very tiny amount of energy. Yet the mathematical analysis is showing that a system capable of calculating (simulating) this process in every detail would take computational resources that are larger than the amount of matter and energy in the observable universe. This means that there are processes in nature which happen according to laws that cannot practically be calculated by any kind of computer that can be practically built, by any civilization whatsoever. This implies that the computer simulation metaphysics must be doubted. Physics does not work by some underlying system simulating or emulating the physical processes in terms of a calculation. The physical process is not the process of something performing a calculation. The laws of a system might be describable in terms of a system of equations. The system then evolves in a way described by these equations but that does not require that the set of equations can be solved by any efficient algorithm.

Many scientists tacitly seem to assume that physical processes can be thought of as calculations. But what if this idea is wrong? If a system can behave according to a set of equations that is not practically computable (because of its computational complexity), i.e. if the physical process itself is not a process of computation, then there is no reason to assume that all physical laws have to be computable at all. Nature might contain systems that behave according to systems of equations for which no algorithms exist to solve them. This would not just mean that we do not know such algorithms yet but that they would simply not be possible. The physical system would act according to those laws but we could not calculate the process (except for special cases). In other words, the mathematical description of such a system would involve functions that are not Turing-computable. The physical theory describing such a system would be computationally incomplete.

There is no a-priori reason why physics should be restricted to the computable. And it looks like physicists and engineers are quite familiar with systems of this kind. There are systems where they don’t know how to solve the equations except for some special cases. Scientists and engineers use methods of approximation in such cases (“numerical methods”), i.e. methods that can give an approximate result. However, if the equations are not linear, small errors might be amplified and the results of approximate methods might be totally wrong (as is often the case, for example, in weather predictions).

So we should not think that when a physical process is happening, something is doing a calculation. Physical systems evolve according to the laws describing them, but they do not perform calculations. Such calculations would be constrained by the mathematical constraints of complexity theory and of computability theory, but such constraints do not seem to exist in nature.

If we were living inside a computer simulation, we should not be able to find processes in nature that have a high computational complexity. Furthermore, if we were living inside a computer simulation, we should not be able to find processes in nature that involve non-computable functions. These questions can be investigated empirically, by looking for processes with high computational complexity and processes involving non-computable functions. Before starting to speculate about the question if we live inside simulations, we should first investigate the computability of the world we inhabit. If we find processes that are not computable in principle or in practice (or, to use a terminology I have introduced elsewhere, if our world is a proteon), we would thereby prove that our world is not a simulated one. The restrictions are of mathematical nature and apply to any possible technology (and any possible physics in any possible universe).

(The picture, showing a frame of a weather simulation of Earth, is from

Research Note: The “Philosophisches Wörterbuch”

I am currently evaluating several editions of the “Philosophisches Wörterbuch” from Kröner Verlag. The current edition is, I think, the 23rd. The edition I am mainly using here is the 1957 14th edition edited by Georgi Schischkoff. It contains a lot of hints on the philosophical schools and currents I am interested in here.

Most of this material has been removed in later editions, so the current edition, while containing lots of stuff on current developments in philosophy, does not show the chapter of the history of philosophy I am currently researching. What is remaining (I think there is an article on Oswald Spengler still inside the current edition) appears as isolated fragments whose context is missing.

I am planning to write a series of short research notes based on articles in that dictionary. I am going to add material from other sources as well. In doing so, I am going to use this blog as a kind of public research notebook. At the moment, I don’t expect much interest in these articles but I prefer to make my results public, however preliminary they might be. As far as my time allows, the materials collected in these research notes might then form the basis for some extended articles or essays.

It is interesting to compare subsequent editions of the dictionary. The dictionary was established by Heinrich Schmidt. Schmidt was the director of the Ernst Haeckel-Archiv in Jena. He edited the dictionary from the first to the 9th edition. The earliest edition I currently have is the 8th, from 1931. This is the last edition Schmidt did alone. A lot of the material I am interested in here is not yet contained in it. The 9th edition (1934) was done with the help of one Dr. Friedrich Blaschke. In the preface, Schmidt seems to distance himself slightly from Blaschke, he writes that Blaschke was helpful “with the articles about the newest philosophy and the history of ideas […] A certain contrariness of our views forced me again and again to deepen and broaden the basis of the epistemic foundations and to a more pregnant version of the presentation.” It is possible that Blaschke was forced upon Schmidt by the Nazi authorities. Influences of Nazi ideology start to appear in the 9th edition. Schmidt died in 1935.

The 10th edition was prepared, in 1943, by Werner Schingnitz and Joachim Schondorff. A lot of material was removed, a lot was added and a lot was totally rewritten. This 10th edition is completely steeped in Nazi ideology.

I do not currently have the 11th to 13th edition, edited by Justus Streller. I am going to try to get these editions as well as earlier editions before the 8th.

The 14th edition I have seems to be based on the editions prepared by Streller, which in turn is based on the 9th edition. Most of the ideological material has been removed (although some things have slipped through, obviously unintentionally (for example, there is an article for “Degeneration” that just points to an article “Entartung” which, however, no longer exists in the 14th edition. In the 9th edition that article is still present, with racist content. It also exists in the 8th edition. It must be noted here that Schmidt was a follower of Haeckel who was not only a Darwinist but also a racist). There are some articles that are interesting for my current research that where not there yet in the 9th edition, so this edition is a particularly rich source. However, I do not know if this material was added by Schischkoff or by Streller.

It would be interesting to find out when this material (like, for example, articles about Breysig or Frobenius) was removed from the dictionary. There seems to have been a paradigm shift, perhaps at the end of the 1960s or in the early 1970s. I have not yet found out when these articles were removed from the dictionary. Using a current edition would give a rather impoverished or depleted view of the history of 20th century philosophy. One could also say: it is a cleaned view. But I think removing this material from such a dictionary is a mistake. While it might be irrelevant for current philosophy it should be there as part of the history of philosophy, especially since a lot of these thoughts – although they have been removed from the academic environments of philosophy, history, social sciences and cultural anthropology, are still out there in the public and are strongly resurfacing in recent times in right-wing movements.

I think this is the current edition:

Research Note: Kurt Breysig

According to (Schischkoff 1957), Kurt Breysig is a representative of culture morphology.

The article on Breysig in that dictionary reads (translation by me):

Breysig, Kurt: Historian, Sociologist and Philosopher of History [Geschichtsphilosoph]. *July 5th 1866 Posen, † June 16th, 1940 Rehbrücke bei Potsdamm. 1896 to 1934 Prof. in Berlin; created a theory of history that, starting with the established facts [vom Boden der erforschten Tatsachen] seeks to rise to ever-higher and more comprehensive overall observations, views the history of culture in the way of culture morphology as a history of the soul and the development of humanity as a development from natural processes [Naturgeschehen] to processes of spirit [Geistesgeschehen]. Main works: Die Geschichte der Seele [The history of the soul] 1931. Naturgeschichte und Menschheitsgeschichte [Natural history and history of humanity] 1933. Der Werdegang der Menschheit vom Naturgeschen zum Geistesgeschehen. 1934 [The development of humanity from natural processes to processes of spirit].

[secondary literature:] E. Hering. Das Werden als Geschichte, Kurt Breysig in seinem Werk. 1939.

The (German) Wikipedia article ( is in a mediocre condition, its content has to be taken with reservation, but it looks interesting.

 (Schischkoff 1957): Philosophisches Wörterbuch. 14th Edition, ed. by Georgi Schischkoff, est. by Heinrich Schmidt, Alfred Kröner Verlag, Stuttgart.

(The 8th edition of that dictionary (1931) did not yet contain an article on Breysig. It appears for the first time in the 9th edition (1934), again edited by Heinrich Schmidt, with the assistance of one Dr. Friedrich Blaschke. This first version of the article might have been written by Blaschke. In the preface, Schmidt seems to distance himself slightly from Blaschke, he writes that Blaschke was helpful “with the articles about the newest philosophy and the history of ideas […] A certain contrariness of our views forced me again and again to deepen and broaden the basis of the epistemic foundations and to a more pregnant version of the presentation.” In this ninth edition, the first signs of Nazi ideology are entering the dictionary, in the form of articles missing in the previous version (e.g. there is an article “völkisch”, missing from the 8th edition. Schischkoff or his predecessor as editor, Justus Streller, who edited the 11th to 13th editions, then obviously shortened the article on Breysig and added the hint on Kulturmorphologie.)

Research Note: Karl Friedrich Vollgraff

Karl (or Carl) Friedrich Vollgraff (1794 – 1863) seems to have had ideas that are similar to those of Kulturmorphologie. It remains to be seen if there is a connection or just a parallel.

Especially the following title seems to be interesting in this respect:

  • Erster Versuch einer Begründung der allgemeinen Ethnologie durch die Anthropologie und der Staats- und Rechtsphilosophie durch die Ethnologie oder Nationalität der Völker, 4 Bde. (1851-1855)

The current (German) Wikipedia article about him ( about him is in a very unsatisfactory condition (e.g. violating the Wikipedia principle of neutral point of view), but hints at interesting content here.


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090513_223TennisFansRThe main reason we went to New York was to watch a tennis match at the U.S. Open. Joe has always wanted to see a match, so we decided – why not?

We saw the Bryan brothers lose, and then Andy Murray lose.

This image is from the Andy Murray match. I took a panoramic with my cell phone.

Pretty good for a camera phone.


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A shot of my second shaft apadravya ,just behind the head. Once again, a good job by Pineapple at Shaman Modifications in Austin.

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    are they through the ureatha,(does it leak when you urinate?)

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    Been wanting a shaft apadravya for a long time after seeing your post and one of another with four, I finally got up the courage and now have one dead center. Awesome pic.

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Today a walk at the arboretum. Fall smells, colors, despite the lack of rain, which I hope comes soon. The witch hazel was blooming by Mary Isabelle, the beauty berry hanging on though its leaves have mostly fallen.IMG_3637

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A preying mantis egg case in morning sun. With little water in the ground, it was good to see the dew on the plants.

The pond was low.

Bittersweet. Persimmon tree in morning light, a group of cedar waxwings in its top, eating the fruit.IMG_3663

It was after seeing the waxwings I noticed a woodpecker return time and time again to a nearby pin oak tree. I followed his route with my eyes and saw that he was taking something from the pin oak to a tree in the woods where, presumably, he had a nest hole or cache of some sort. He put whatever he carried from the pin oak there and returned to get another load. Then I noticed many other woodpeckers and blue jays doing the same thing. At first I thought it must be acorns, but none of the other nearby pin oaks were getting this sort of attention. Dennis surmised an insect of some sort, perhaps that tree was infested with some yummy larvae or something- we’ve yet to research what it might have been but it was fun to watch.

The glade

A late season Indian Paintbrush

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Obama vs. Gingrich — Winning the Future

Winning The Future is the title of a 2005 book by former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich. In the book, he outlined his solutions for the problems plaguing our nation – excessive government spending, declining math/science education, terrorism, fading patriotism, and godlessness.

Now fast forward to 2011: "Winning the future" was used by President Obama in his State of the Union speech no less than 10 times. It is his new theme to showcase his platform of infrastructure, education, and innovation as he gears up for re-election.

Could opposing versions of “winning the future” also be a preview of the 2012 presidential race?

Let’s face it: Right now the Republican Party is split between the conservative/establishment wing and the even more conservative/tea party wing. This great schism was on display with dueling State of the Union responses between Paul Ryan (R-WI), the official establishment choice, and Michele Bachmann (R-MN), the tea party choice. The battle lines between these two factions will become even more entrenched as we move closer to 2012.

As I look over the twelve-pack of undeclared presidential hopefuls, there is one candidate who may “win the future” by being the GOP’s best “hope” for “change” in 2012.

His name is Newt Gingrich, and here are five reasons why he could win the nomination.

Gingrich would be acceptable to both wings of the Republican Party.

In order to win the 2012 nomination, the victorious candidate must unite an increasingly divided party. Newt has the potential to emerge as this candidate. He then could help avert an intra-party “uncivil” war that could erupt if a candidate perceived as too “moderate” were to win the nomination. Knowing this, Newt may actively position himself as the uniter candidate.

Gingrich can raise the millions needed to win the nomination.

Newt’s think tank, American Solutions, raised $24 million for the midterm elections, “to mobilize supporters around issues such as repealing health care reform and job creation.”

It has been reported that Gingrich was able to raise $21.5 million for Republicans, with much of that going to candidates and organizations in New Hampshire and Iowa.

Newt’s successful 2010 fundraising is proof that he has an extensive national network of supporters from which to draw when he announces his presidential intentions this spring.

Gingrich is an inspiring leader who knows the issues and offers solutions.

Former speaker of the House, commanding general of the Reagan Revolution, and credited with ending 40 years of Democratic Party rule in the House, Newt Gingrich is a man who knows how to build consensus and lead.

When I asked James Farwell, a longtime Gingrich friend and advisor, to comment about Gingrich’s leadership, he said, “Newt has the rare ability to build coalitions. It’s a talent that has gone largely unsung, but it was on full display when he was speaker, and is vitally important for any president. If he runs, he would dominate the agenda of debate. That is a powerful advantage and provides him with a decisive edge. He has a kinetic quality to connect with crowds, rooted in his ability to present tightly reasoned arguments with good humor and huge intellect. That is a gift and Newt’s got it.”

On the campaign trail, that gift could keep on giving and help Gingrich clinch the nomination.


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Yesterday, I found the most amazing mall RIGHT by where we are moving in Columbus. This place is seriously dangerous. They have all my favorites including Kate Spade where they had just put out their new Spring collection that included a delightful new fragrance!

Here are my favorites from this playful collection!

1. This whole look needs to get in my closet.

2. These shoes are amazing!

3. Loving the bold stripes on this bag. Plus you can’t go wrong with hot pink.

4. These cluster earrings scream Spring!

5. Pop art scarf because a girl can never have too many scarves!

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Bahar means spring in Turkish

For Bahar

Last week, she had been in Paris for writing a piece on Dior. Yesterday, she spent the afternoon with young German-Turkish singer Bahar Kizil in a crowded café in Berlin-Kreuzberg. Today, she is on her way to the former Benjamin-Franklin-barracks, to visit a Bürgerfest with refugees stranded in Mannheim. Her journalistic career is comparable with a star, slowly getting attached to Earth’s orbits – and maybe she’s already used to the consequences of this development. Yesterday, her unpatience – while listening to the former’s girl-band member girlie talk – caused her to finish one coffee after another; now she is left by the taxi-driver a few metres away from the barracks-entry, with no one waiting for her to say her (formerly) important name. Inside – respectively behind the railings – it’s the same. She has to ask her way, nobody asks her. Finally, she stands on the small green area.

A few people, maybe 20 have already gathered there. Germans sitting on benches, eating cake, drinking coffee. It’d look like a traditional German Volksfest exactly how it takes every Sunday somewhere in the Republik – if there weren’t men and women standing aside, their clothes showing less or more small traces of fading; some faces unable to wear smiles.

She could read these traces – if she’d concentrate and if her mind hadn’t dealt with high-fashion and fake smiles for the last 20 years. So she is left with asking some superficial questions to superficial adminstrative people and leaving after 20 minutes (I will somehow write a story to please the editor), when a small woman suddenly steps in her way.

This other woman just starts speaking. No fear, no shame – just the desire to tell her story.

A few metres away, a younger man observes the two women. How they differ in clothing, in attitude, maybe not so much in age (make-up can help you a lot here). The man already knows the immigrant’s story – Bahar, her name, is from Macedonia, with family roots in Turkey. Now she is in Mannheim with her husband and four of five children. The oldest daughter still lives in Macedonia; Bahar hardly has the chance to talk to her. Not that she wouldn’t have the time to do so, there are more urgent things to do. Like to go the Flüchtlingsbehörde and tell your story, over and over again. Why you left, why to Germany.

The journalist would easily have the chance to make a story out of Bahar’s story. And to learn about life. About her life. To give it a new turn, a spring in early autumn. But after a couple of minutes, she just leaves. With one paper of notes.

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Home and Travel

Looking back from Venezia.

The sun was shining so bright today when we headed out to catch the train from Sacile to Venice, that it felt like spring, like the cold, early days of spring.

I’ve been lucky and blessed enought to see this magical city against various backdrops. May it be the cold temperatures and chilly winds blowing through the maze of canals in the winter, the burning hot summer sun making people look for shade in the shady little cul de sacs or the salty sea air playing in your hair while you walk along the the edge of Parco delle Rimembranze, enjoying the warmth of spring and observing the little lizards run along the stone edge on one side of the road and tranquil waves washing the edge of the patway on the other side, this city is always magnificent, always new.

I’ve had the most amazing year of my life here, 2016 was everything and more than I could have ever hoped for. Walking around in Venice today made me a bit sad though, a bit reminiscent because I know that this time next year we will be thousands of miles away from this beautiful city, this gorgeous country.

I can only hope that the new year will be as beautiful and full of love as this one. I’m waving to my friends and family in Estonia, I left with a heavy heart again and soon I’ll have to wave goodbye to Italy too but we will always have our memories, always. Until we meet again, arrivederci.

And to my little family here, you who make up my home and take up my heart – I love you, thank you for this amazing year! Together we stand strong, together we will sail the seven seas…


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Effective Warranty Management for Improved Customer Satisfaction and Profitability in 2015

Each year, Strategies For Growth℠ (SFG℠), the independent Westtown, Pennsylvania-based research analyst and consulting firm, conducts a series of Benchmark Surveys among its global outreach community of services professionals. There were a total of 228 responses for the firm’s 2014 Warranty Chain Management Benchmark Survey, conducted over a six-month period in 2014.

According to SFGSM president and principal consulting analyst, Bill Pollock, “The survey results reveal that roughly three-quarters (76%) of respondents believe effective warranty chain management to be at least ‘very important’ to the overall financial performance of the business, with just over a quarter (28%) believing it to be ‘extremely important’. The results further reveal that this sense of importance is increasing substantially, year-over-year, as nearly one-third (32%) believe effective warranty chain management to be ‘more important than one year ago’, compared to only 1% believing it to be ‘less important’ – a ratio of more than 32:1 citing ‘more important’ over ‘less important’.”

However, while the importance of warranty management is sufficiently validated by the respondents to the firm’s survey, a majority of warranty management solution users are not as duly impressed with the vendors that provide these services. For example, Pollock claims that “only 39% of respondents are presently ‘satisfied’ with the services and solutions provided by their primary warranty management solution vendors – including a stunningly low 12%, or only one-out-of-eight, who are ‘extremely satisfied’.”

In fact, Pollock goes on to say, “the majority of users (51%) rate their perceptions of the performance of their primary vendor as ‘neither satisfied nor dissatisfied’ – or what we would normally describe as a ‘complacent’ user base. While less than 1% of users claim to be ‘not at all satisfied’, there are still a total of 10% that fall into the ‘dissatisfied’ category.”

Vibhor Mishra, Director Marketing at Tavant Technologies, a leading global provider of warranty chain management solutions, agrees that many providers need to focus on meeting their customers’ needs, requirements or expectations, and says “That is why we base much of our company’s success on the fact that we share a firm belief that software providers need to deliver value while meeting quality standards. As a result, we are continually leveraging our global experience to provide best-of-breed solutions to our customers in all of our offerings.”

This is also one of the main reasons why, according to Mishra, Tavant holds its premier marquee annual event, “engage”, now in its sixth year, as “a collaborative gathering of employees, customers, industry luminaries, and the leadership team, to discuss and exchange ideas about the latest in business and technology”. He also believes that “It serves as a venue where everything can be discussed openly, and our customers have direct access to the executives of the company to share their thoughts and suggestions.”

On the surface, while it may appear somewhat encouraging that 70% of respondents are currently running their warranty management operations using at least some “partially automated” processes, this finding is, unfortunately, not actually that encouraging. In fact, only about one-in-five (21%) claim to have “fully automated” the warranty management processes currently in place at their respective businesses.

By aggregating the various categories of partial-to-full automation, the current market base reflects one where, although 70% of respondents claim to be using at least some “partially automated” warranty management processes, there are a nearly equal amount (69%) where some manual processes are still being relied on.

However, regardless of the current state of automation – or lack thereof – within the broadly defined warranty claims management segment, Pollock says “One thing is extremely clear: businesses plan to increase their annual warranty budgets over the next 12 months (i.e., through mid-2015) and beyond. For some, about 14%, or roughly one-in-seven, the increase will be modest, at less than 5%; however, another 16%, or about one-in-six, plan to increase their respective budgets by between 5% and 9%. Still another 10% plan to increase their budgets by more than 10% – typically in the plus or minus 20% range.”

Mishra echoes that “This growth is also manifested at Tavant where the company is on track to double its revenue in only two years (i.e., from 2014 – 2016). In fact, Tavant is presently achieving a year-on-year growth of 40 percent, which is significantly above the industry average.”

All told, by the close of 2015, twice as many organizations plan to increase their annual warranty budgets, compared to those planning to decrease. This two-to-one ratio suggests a strong – and growing – global warranty chain management segment, and is further supported by the finding that the percent of work orders currently being serviced under warranty is also expected to increase over the next 12 months by an even greater ratio – i.e., 24% expected to increase, compared to only 11% expected to decrease.

So, how are the leading organizations planning to leverage their increased warranty management spending into improved customer satisfaction and increased profitability? To attain these goals, the top strategic actions currently cited by at least one-quarter (25%) of survey respondents include:

  • 52% Develop/improve the KPIs used to measure advanced warranty chain analytics
  • 39% Streamline the parts return process to improve overall efficiency
  • 35% Improve warranty management-related planning and forecasting activities
  • 32% Restructure for improved warranty management oversight and accountability
  • 31% Foster a closer working collaboration between product design and service
  • 29% Institute/enforce process workflow improvements for supplier cost recovery

However, there are many other strategic actions that the leading warranty management organizations are also currently taking, including purchasing and/or upgrading an automated warranty chain management solution (20%), restructuring/updating existing warranty pricing schedules (19%), providing additional training to extended warranty sales personnel (17%) and outsourcing some, or all, of their warranty management activities to third parties (16%).

Based on the results of SFG’s 2014 Warranty Chain Management Benchmark Survey, the key takeaways that best describe the global state of warranty management in 2015 – and beyond – are:

  • Warranty management organizations are being driven, first, by Customer-focused factors; second, by Cost-focused factors; and third, by Revenue-focused factors
  • Through 2015, annual warranty management budgets are expected to increase, with more than twice as many organizations planning more increases than decreases
  • In 2015, warranty services managers will be focusing primarily on developing and/or improving their KPIs and warranty analytic programs, streamlining their parts return processes and improving warranty management-related planning and forecasting activities
  • Nearly three-quarters (73%) of organizations are currently integrating warranty management with all other services functions, and almost as many (64%) already have an end-to-end workflow process in place to handle claims and returns
  • The top uses of data/information collected from warranty events are basically to improve processes (i.e., field service, depot repair, parts returns, etc.) and effect changes (i.e., product design, manufacturing, etc.

For an expanded version of this content, including a Q & A session with SFG‘s, Bill Pollock and Executives from Tavant Technologies, look for our feature article in the January 29, 2015 issue of Warranty Week magazine.

For more information, to download a complimentary copy of the companion White Paper to this article, or to register for the companion Webcast of the same name, hosted by Tavant Technologies, please go to http://info.tavant.com/Warranty_Webinar.html.

Also, be sure to stop by the Tavant exhibit for more information at the 2015 Warranty Chain Management Conference, March 10 – 12 in Miami, Florida.

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I figure since it has been a few days since a post and a few months since a “random” post … that would be my plan.  As you may recall these random posts are just that, random.  Random thoughts that pop into my head as I type.  Some posts are better than others, some are more random, some even humorous.  I can’t guarantee what you’ll get here … it could be short and boring, or long and fun … or somewhere in between.

So here we go.

  • Today is Cinco De Mayo.  No idea if that is spelled right but I know it is today because my smart husband told me.  He is only so smart though cause he couldn’t exactly tell me what is celebrated today, it was a toss-up between two options.  I however am not even smart enough to remember what the two options he told me two hours ago were.
  • I am having some serious difficulty with remembering things and oh my, the things that come out of my mouth that are mixed up.  I blame the babies … it only seems fair since I am pretty certain it has to be their fault.
  • Those said babies are good.  Wanna see em?

  • I wish that she looked this happy right now.  She has been lacking in substantial nap time the past couple days and is over-tired, yelling at me.  I just said “stop crying” and oh my goodness did the yells get louder.  I honestly feel bad for over-tired little one’s.  She is laying down now, quiet … with hiccups so maybe they will lull her to sleep.
  • Apparently she was more than dirty while that picture was taken.  good grief.  But she is so cute that the more than one obvious stain on her shirt is ok.  Right?

  • Mathias is even older now, but that was my most current picture in the computer.  He is such a sweet little guy.  Don’t you just wanna pick him up and kiss him?
  • They sure are adorable, those little ones.  I even forgive them for stealing all my brain cells.
  • We got a van last weekend.  It is older, a little rusty, with lots of miles and I love it!  I have wanted a van for years.  In fact I almost purchased one before I met Farmer Neal.
  • I have friends that refuse to drive a mini van.  I figure, embrace the mini-van phase of your life … it only lasts so long.  Eventually those cute little ones won’t want to be in the same vehicle with you.
  • Mathias is now crying.  Excuse me.
  • I love pacifiers.
  • Oh now Evelyn is crying again.
  • Too bad she doesn’t have a pacifier.
  • Oh she stopped.  She is good like that … off and on … off and on.  Never a dull moment around these parts.
  • I am tired.  Exhausted really.
  • My house is mostly clean.
  • I love a mostly clean house.
  • Someday soon I am going to tackle that part of the house that is not clean which is the craft room.  Yikes.  I have been in their everyday this week to see if it is something I want to tackle.  That day has yet to happen.  But oh how I wish it would.
  • This was the first day all week that I didn’t do laundry.
  • My washer is still in the basement.  Such a bummer.  It was going to make its way up to the laundry room before the bedrest and c-section and well, taking care of a 1-year-old and a pregnant wife took priority.
  • I had a birthday last week.  I turned 37.
  • Do you know that I remember when people in their 30’s were old?
  • At least I am not 40 though … like my favorite Farmer Neal, cause that would be old.
  • Farmer Neal has been working a temp job the last couple weeks and has been busy with a big “build a new ramp” project at church.  He is gone from dusk to dawn most days.
  • I miss Farmer Neal.
  • Farmer Neal will start a new permanent job on Monday and that dumb old ramp will hopefully be complete.
  • That’s right, I called it a dumb old ramp.  I don’t really love that ramp.
  • Did I mention that I was tired?
  • There are just so many more things to share but since I haven’t heard a cry for at least 5 minutes I think it is safe to say those little blessed souls have gone to sleep.
  • I love sleeping babies.
  • I love awake babies too, and even crying and crabby ones but right now, I love sleeping babies.
  • That’s all for random.
  • Have a great day everyone.
  • Thanks for stopping by!  :)

  1. You know how I love your random posts! You just sound like a new mom (again) and the brain does return to normal once you’re getting more than 2 hours sleep in a row. Well, maybe… baby is 35 and I think I still may be slow. :)
    It could possibly be MY fault!

    Mathias is growing fast and Evelyn is a doll even with a few spills here and there.

    Happy Mother’s Day soon!

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Fear Not, Unemployed Post Grads, America Has A Record Breaking 5.8 Million Job Openings

Fear Not, Unemployed Post Grads, America Has A Record Breaking 5.8 Million Job Openings

Do you want the good news first, or the bad news, fellow members of the unemployed Post Grad network?

I’ll hit you with the good news: America is currently breaking records for the number of open jobs available. In April, there were 5.78 million job openings. That’s a lot of cash sitting on the table for us to grab.

Here is the bad news: It’s probably not a job in your industry! Shit!

From CNN Money:

The openings are across a range of industries. Manufacturing, trade and transportation each had posted north of 46,000 jobs.

Such a high overall number open positions is both good and bad news. On one hand, it means employers are hiring more. At the worst part of the recession in 2009 there were only 2.3 million job openings.

But on the other hand, it is also a symptom of a growing problem in the U.S. economy, where employers can’t find skilled workers for the jobs that they need. That disparity is called the job skills gap, and it’s a major challenge in right now.

Americans are also feeling hella confident about voluntarily quitting their jobs — which is a good sign for the economy, apparently:

Overall, Americans are generally feeling more confident about quitting their jobs. One key measure of workers’ optimism in the job market is the quits rate — how many people are quitting their jobs voluntarily.

“The increase in the quits rate is a sign that workers are feeling more confident about the job market and are likely receiving more jobs offers,” Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen noted in a speech on Monday..

There you have it, folks. The job market is back on track. People are quitting left and right. Job postings are weighing down community center bulletin boards. Indeed, Monster and JobScore are seeing record posting submissions. It’s apparently a good time to be out there looking.

When I was a kid, I always thought it would be cool as hell to be a truck driver. Now, as an out-of-work college graduate with a liberal arts degree, maybe it’s time to seriously reconsider the dream of flying down the interstate in an 18-wheeler. Sleeping and watching movies in the truck cab. Going to new places every day, even if that place is just a new truck stop. It doesn’t sound all that bad. I already survive off fast food anyway. My body doesn’t know how to digest vegetables.

I bet this isn’t reassuring if you, like me, still can’t lock down a decent fucking job, but at least we know they are out there. Lurking in the shadows. Keep fighting the good fight. It’s only a matter of time before someone hires us.

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Prepared for what?

I don’t miss feeling like everything I do is preparation.

In my form of Christianity, there was almost nothing in ‘this’ life that wasn’t some form of preparation, at least for the afterlife.

As a young girl, I took care of my little brothers.  That is what I got for being the oldest, but I saw it as some divine plan.  Later I worked for a Children and Youth program.  Instead of 3 kids plus assorted neighbours and imaginary friends, I was in charge of groups of four to twenty kids with various needs.

That of course, was mere preparation for whatever I would do when I left university.

I took a hiatus and went to India.  There I was in charge of teaching different classrooms.  I had to watch all of the ~120 kids  by myself whenever I took my class out for phys-ed.

(The school didn’t have real windows or even walls so when the other teachers saw me outside they sent out their classes to join me.  Then when we had a school inspector all of the teachers actually showed up and we had too many teachers.  One of the male teachers who had never lead a gym class was designated ‘gym teacher’.)

Every evening, I lead an hour of singing, stories, and praying.  Usually I had a partner, but sometimes it was just me.  It was on one of these occasions when I began to panic.

If watching over 100 kids was just preparation for ‘greater’ things, what was coming next!

I was really not capable of managing such large numbers of small children for  long periods of time, how on earth could I do more?  The children and teens in the youth program all had a dis-Ability of some sort.  Was that God’s way of preparing me to raise my own child with dis-Abilities?

I’m sure most Christians don’t view everything in that way, but I had been encouraged to by well-meaning “think about what God has in store for you next” or “I wonder how God will use this in your life” comments as well as my own desperation to find eternal significance in the events I happened upon.

I did not admit to myself that I was responsible for what I chose to do.  I waited for opportunities to come or leave and then gave God the credit.  Since I hadn’t chosen what I did, that meant God chose it.  If God did, then there was some cosmic reason.  And I was left wondering what God would want me to do next.

What a relief to separate my experiences from the view that they were merely practice for what was next.

I no longer fear that God is going to force (aka bless) me with the responsibility of taking care of hundreds of children with various needs and abilities.

I can enjoy what I do for its own sake.

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  1. It certainly takes the pressure off, doesn’t it! I’m sure a lot of what you have gone through helps you in some sense today, but it sure is nice to appreciate the moment just for the sake of itself. 🙂

  2. Well, I’ll say one thing, Prairie. Anyone who can even begin to work with 120 kids by herself can do just about anything. 🙂 I felt tired just reading the post.

    Bless you.

    Personally I tend to follow my natural gifts, and inclinations, and trust God is in it. If not, I trust He’ll show my otherwise. Do what brings you joy.

    I am impressed more and more to be intentionally mindful, and attempt to live in the present moment..It seems wise to me not to become bogged down by the past, or overly worried about a future we can’t see.

    Although, I am able to realize looking back on my life ways that I benefited from past experiences that I didn’t see at all at the time. It is my conviction that the Lord does work everything ultimately into a pattern for good in our lives.

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Saturday Proverb

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Ask the Spirit to guide you as you read God’s word for today. Remember to read the entire passage

Proverbs 28:6

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“Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity
than a rich man who is crooked in his ways.”

Proverb 28:6

  • It is always better to tell the truth than lie and be rich. Apply it to your own life…
  • Sometimes it seems easier to gain the whole world with just one lie…but Jesus says, ” For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? ” Matthew 6:26

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Open your mind to growth in Christ. Check it against God’s word & move forward in the power of Christ. Forgiven!  I will be praying for you!

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P5 and P6 http://content.met.police.uk/Site/diversityandequality http://www.manchesterfire.gov.uk/about_us/equality_and_diversity.aspx P6 Do the Public services serve everybody? Can you think of examples of when they do? Within the public services different organisations have a range of policies to ensure the work force is protected In groups I want you to try and think of as many different policies that may be in place to protect the work force -Equal opportunities act
-Grievance procedures
-Bullying and harassment at work policies
-Anti- discriminatory policies
-Recording and monitoring of equal opportunities data and complaints
-Complaints procedures for service users Diversity Issues With the community becoming more and more diverse it is important that the service also change with the community To help the work force there are unions in place to ensure workers have support
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Bad Dreams

August 30, 2008

Last night I had a dream that I was back in school.  I was with my friends and we had several big projects due.  One of the projects was a big presentation that was only worth 25 points and we were commiserating that we thought it should be worth way more than just 25 points for all the work we were going to have to put into it.  -Of course, this is something that often happened in school.  I’d be busting my ass on an assignment that didn’t feel like the point value was equal to the work required. – I realized at this point, while I was still asleep, that I was dreaming and that I didn’t have to actually do anymore assignments in real life.  Unfortunately, I was still stuck in a dream with an assignment to work on.  I managed to wake myself up.

Last Night

August 29, 2008

I usually sleep on my side, hugging a pillow.  When I woke up this morning that pillow was eight feet away down by the foot of my bed.

I wish I knew what happened last night.

An interesting article in the NY Times:

Newcomers Adjust, Eventually, to New York

Back to School

August 27, 2008

Today was the first day of the new school year.  I mean, that is, if you’re still into that kind of thing.  Which I’m not.  But I realized that it was the first day of the new year this morning as I pulled up to a bagel place near Westminster.  A year ago on this day I met three of my best nursing school friends at that same bagel shop prior to the beginning of our last year of nursing school.  It was an interesting coincidence that I ended up there again a year later.  This time alone.

I had a nice breakfast.  I sat in the sun on the patio and read the paper while I ate.  I talked briefly to one of those “best nursing school friends” and she commented that she felt sad that we weren’t going back.  I had to admit that I didn’t really feel sad.  Maybe that’s because the reality of real life hasn’t really set in.  Or maybe I’m just not sad about it.

The job search is not progressing according to my timetable, so that’s a bit annoying.  But nothing has really been going according to my timetable since school concluded in April.  So I’m doing my best to roll with it.  I’ve seen one of my closest friends stress a great deal over self-imposed timetables that she puts on her life.  Timetables that compare where she is to where others are and where she thinks she ought to be.  I constantly encourage her to stop confining and stressing herself in that way and the other day she pointed out the obvious…I do the same thing to myself.  So I’m trying to take my own advice.  I’m enjoying this time for the unique opportunities that it is affording me.  Or at least I keep reminding myself to enjoy this time for the unique opportunities that it is affording me.  Here’s to hoping that writing it out in front of myself will help it stick to my brain.

Vice President

August 23, 2008

I know the big news at the moment is who Obama has chosen as his VP.  But I just read a headline that said McCain is likely to tap Mitt Romney as his VP;  If that happens I will FREAK out.  The last thing we need is a Mormon running this country.  And if you try to tell me that the Vice President doesn’t run the country, then I have two words for you:  Dick Cheney.

Threads of Life

August 20, 2008

(I’ve been reading a book called The Art of Aging, by Sherwin Nuland, and a section of that book spurred this post.)

Have you ever thought about who is affected by your life.  The fact that there are people out there who gain something simply from your existence on the planet.  This is to say nothing of the people in your day to day inner circle, those whom you see and speak to on even a somewhat frequent basis.

I’ve heard life referred to as a path that you travel.  Your path crosses with any number of other people, but imagine that as we each travel our life paths we trail behind us a fine thread.  With each human connection that we make our thread becomes wrapped with the other person’s.  Sometimes our thread wraps intricately and for a duration with another’s, but sometimes two threads only cross one another at one small, delicate point.  Regardless of how interwoven you become your life is always connected to the people you encounter along your way.  And because of that the impact of your life is felt far beyond your comprehension.

Back in January, on my old blog, I wrote about a friend who had died suddenly.  He was in his early thirties.  What I didn’t say at the time is that I had very briefly dated that man.  It was nothing serious and we didn’t really stay in touch, but I saw him around every once in awhile.  So when I heard that he had died I was taken off guard by the strong emotions of sadness and grief that I felt.  I didn’t know where the feelings were coming from and I remember staring at the picture that accompanied his obituary for what seemed like a long time.  It didn’t make sense to me.

Now, you could probably delve into all kinds of deep explanations for why I felt what I did.  But I think the explanation that makes the simplest sense is that his life had crossed and interwoven with mine.  His death rippled back along the thread he’d trailed throughout his life and when it struck the point at which it crossed with my own life, I felt it.  It took me back to that point along my life path.

The sadness and grief I felt were minute compared to what his parents and loved ones must have felt.  But it was sadness and grief nonetheless.  And if my friend is out there somewhere then I hope he knows that I cried when I heard that his life had ended.  His life was short, but it is connected to many other lives that are still carrying on.  And so, in a way, he goes on too.

While your life may be in your control, it is not your own.  It is wrapped up with the lives of many others.  Your life today ripples back and connects to people, places, and times that you may have long since ceased to think about.  It gives new meaning to the statement, “You’re not alone,” and it testifies to the thought that no man is an island.

Stress and Worry

August 18, 2008

Before I got into nursing school I stressed and worried about whether or not I would get into the school I wanted, or, for that matter, any school at all. I got into the school I wanted.

When I was in nursing school I stressed and worried about failing out of nursing school, regardless of how unlikely that possibility was.  I didn’t fail out of nursing school.

After I graduated I stressed and worried about whether or not I would pass my boards on the first try.  I passed my boards (with flying colors) on the first try.

Now, I stress and worry about whether or not I will be able to find a good job in NYC.  This is not something that has caused me any stress and worry up until this point.  But it appears now I have all this extra ability to stress and worry that isn’t being occupied by any other life challenge, so I guess it’s got to go somewhere.  And do you want to know the best part about the fact that I’m stressing and worrying about whether or not I’ll be able to get a job….I haven’t even sent out my resume yet.  What’s that saying about putting the carriage before the horse?

I suppose that after I find a job I’ll then stress about finding a place to live.  I wonder what I’ll stress and worry about once I find a place to live.

The Things That Unite Us

August 14, 2008

There are certain experiences that unite us all as human beings, common ground that we have all found ourselves on at one time or another.

Popping bubble wrap is one of those things.

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Lene Marlin – My Love

August 14, 2008

I love discovering new music and artists, here is one that I first came across several years ago.  This song in particular has a haunting quality to it.  (I also love recommendations.)

I need a job.  I need an income.  I need a place to live in NYC.  But I also need to keep my priorities in order.

It’s been an interesting balancing act, sometimes more of a struggle, not to get wrapped up in the less important aspects of my life right now.  Finding a job and a place to live is important, but not as important as the people in my life.  I need to exist somewhere in between securing my future in society and maintaining my presence with those who will make any future worthwhile.

I have a very good friend who recently became so wrapped up in the completion of his education, the search for a new job and a new home, and the process of relocating across the country that he couldn’t be bothered to show up at a BBQ/Goodbye Party thrown for him by one of our friends.  I felt like I was tossed aside in the wake of his relocation as did, I think, some of our other friends.  I tried to explain to him before he left that his life was not back East where he’d secured a job.  Surely someday soon his life will be there, but at that moment his life existed here in Salt Lake.  And he was leaving it for good.  But I don’t think I communicated what I was thinking very effectively.

I’ve been mindful to make an extra effort to see certain people before I totally relocate to New York.  I’ve been scheduling dinners, lunches, and coffee with friends at every possible opportunity.  It would probably be much easier to pull away from all of that though.  To withdraw in an attempt to make the inevitable separation somehow less painful.  But I think it will be of greater benefit to me in the long run if I am able to find balance in the reality that I am leaving without leaving before I’ve actually gone; To remain emotionally present while physically preparing to separate.


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