My car, the Volvo C30S SSRI Low Line Sports Coupe, 2009 in Titanium Grey Metal, Ceramic Brakes, Leather inside.

The car was described by His Holiness, the Mahayana Taganatha Buddha, Xi Xinping, as a fine representation of understated Swedish power and elegance. His Holiness actually said "That's a Fucking Nice Car, Mr Wang! That looks like the Fuckin' Diamond Vehicle to me!"

It remains the only sports vehicle fitted with a Selective Serotonin Re-uptake Inhibitor in the manifold with a dash switch fly by wire arrangement. 2.4cc, 5 cylinder, super-charged, heavy body, low line, all leather inside with an 8 speaker Bose sound system, a Volvo 'waterfall' dash...Just beautiful.  And indeed it is. Corners like a Great White Shark on amphetamines. Headlights automatically dip with respect in built up areas. A sun-monitor device changes the air-con matrix depending upon the direction of light...the Dash gives me messages regarding emails and the fact that it is overdue for servicing. The glass tailgate is a subtle reminder of the Volvo Simon Templar used to drive as he moved around the world dropping innuendos with one raised eyebrow. the glass tailgate goes back to the Shooting Brake concept of a Hunting Carriage. I often drive around in it with one eyebrow raised, ready for any innuendo-provoking situation.

Leave the doors open for 30 minutes unattended, and it uses little motors to shut the doors, lock up, and send you an annoying email saying 'How could you, you fucking moron?"

I reversed it into a tree awhile back so I don't have pictures of the left rear side. The slight damage is being assimilated and healed by my copious tears and chanting of the Swedish Mahayana Mantra: Om Ah Hum Vajra Guru Volvo Padme Siddi Huuum.".

Glass Tailgate-Shooting Brake Configuration

The SSRI

 

Understanding Palliative Care Presentation Series Available

 Body-Mind Tapestry       

Welcome to

Understanding Palliative Care

John Fitzpatrick MASA

Presentations Available:

·       Grief at Work

·       Palliative Care as a Specialty

·       The Essence of Ethics

·       Pain & Symptom Control

·       Personal Reflections

·       End of Life Care

·       Dementia and Palliation: The Defining Reference Points of Care

·       Hospice: Body-Mind Tapestry

·       Euthanasia and Palliative Care: The Differences & the Doctrine of Double Effect.

 

Presentations are available regarding any of the above topics and can be organised to suit an individual, a small group, or a large group. Inquiries are welcome from individuals, patients, family, nurses, allied health, medical officers, general groups, nursing homes and hospitals. Each presentation takes 30 minutes followed by 15-30 minutes of discussion and low key general debriefing as required. All presentations can be adjusted to suit the need.

Cairns and Northern Areas of Queensland, and other areas by arrangement            

 

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Enquiries and Bookings: John Fitzpatrick

PO Box 737 Gordonvale Queensland 4865                             or

Phone: 0740360143 or 0458740994

Welcome!

 

John Fitzpatrick, Palliative Care Nursing Expert, Registered Nurse, Post Grad Palliative Care and Gerontology/Gerontics, Member of the Australian Society of Authors, has 30 years rich experience in Clinical Palliative Care in roles as Registered Nurse, Clinical Nurse Consultant; Senior Project Officer for, and writer of, North Queensland’s Strategic Plan for Palliative Care and “Northern Streams - Towards Palliative Care Clinical Best Practice”.

 

He has further certifications in Grief Support, Debriefing, and Addiction Counselling. John is an acknowledged communicator and published Author in three fields. Texts regarding Palliative Care include ‘Northern Streams’, ‘The Wake- Personal Reflections of Palliative Care’ & ‘Hospice Bridge- A Life in Palliative Care’.

 

Current research topic: ‘Entrainment & Palliative Care.’

 

The Presentations are clear, concise, enjoyable, up-to-date and designed to be highly useful and meaningful to Personal Care Workers, Enrolled and Registered Nurses, Nurse Managers and Allied Health Staff. The Presentations can be adjusted/modified to suit any audience, small or large. Cost of Presentations is usually Au$550 per topic, involving specifically designed Powerpoint, Notes and Informal Debriefing Component (with all topics) etc.

  

 

J.A.J. Fitzpatrick, (Wang, Yuhan) Focus Speaker: ‘Hospice: Body-Mind Tapestry’, South Asian Conference ‘Entrainment, Medical Hypnosis & Clinical Palliation’. Speaker for the Zhang Lin Hospice Foundation of Shen Yang & Hong Kong.

Photo: ‘The Nation’ Media Corp: Krung Thep Mahanakorn, Kingdom of Thailand. 2010. God save the Great King Rama IX.

 

 

Van Morrison - That's Entrainment (live)

Entrainment

Just lately I am fascinated by Entrainment:

Entrainment may refer to:

• Air entrainment, the intentional creation of tiny air bubbles in concrete
• Brainwave entrainment, the practice of entraining one's brainwaves to a desired frequency
• Entrainment (biomusicology), the synchronization of organisms to an external rhythm
• Entrainment (chronobiology), the alignment of a circadian system's period and phase to the period and phase of an external rhythm
• Entrainment (engineering), the entrapment of one substance by another substance
• Entrainment (hydrodynamics), the movement of one fluid by another
• Entrainment (meteorology), a phenomenon of the atmosphere
• Entrainment (physical geography), the process by which surface sediment is incorporated into a fluid flow
• Entrainment (physics), the process whereby two interacting oscillating systems assume the same period

Bangkok, near MBK shops, in about 2010 - a still remarkable photograph, and the second one is also capturing the moment.

I have put this up again because I do feel it is a photo that shows the seriousness of the downtown Bangkok trouble in 2010 in a remarkable way. It was taken either by Bangkok Post or The Nation newspaper photo-journalists...in the centre of a modern and massive city at a time of great discord.

 

It's very interesting to note that during this high tension and very violent period, with tanks in the streets, Psychological Ops bringing in large trucks fitted with sonic cannons to blow and bleed the eardrums of protestors by playing "Imagine" by John Lennon at massive sonic frequencies, that no one stopped business in Bangkok Chinatown. It was open, happy, the food was brilliant, fresh, the shops were all open and there was no strife at all. No one in their right mind, no matter the passion, no matter the hatred, no matter the ideology, no one stops the Chinese from opening their shops. To do so brings on a very awful and bloody situation with massive reprisals and no end to it. Destroy a temple, a mosque, a Church, take over Government House for 3 months, no problem, but don't fuck with Chinese shop owners, because you won't survive that wrath.

3rd pic of guzzi le mans with ducati red paint...yep...it's just right...until the Tenni shows up.

moto guzzi le mans etc...2nd photo...yes, this will do fine until a Tenni model comes along...ducati red is a unique red for a guzzi, and all the bolts are stainless etc...beautifully re-done.