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Ensuring Water Quality
Kentucky American Water to Make Annual Temporary Change in Water Treatment Processes
Kentucky American Water advises customers that it will make a temporary change in its water treatment processes beginning Thursday, Oct. 11, and continuing through Sunday, Nov. 4, 2012. During that time the company will make its annual switch from using chloramines as a disinfectant to free chlorine. The company will resume using chloramines on Monday, Nov. 5. Kentucky American Water's water treatment plants in Fayette County as well as its newest plant in Owen County will be affected by this temporary change. The temporary use of free chlorine is part of an annual water quality program that assists the company in achieving excellent quality tap water for its customers throughout the year. During this time customers may notice a more pronounced smell of chlorine in the water, but the water continues to meet all state and federal drinking regulations. Dechlorination procedures conducted by customers with special situations (such as fish owners, etc.) do not change. Often this annual switch in disinfectant occurs during water distribution system flushing in the spring, but in 2012, the company conducted many targeted system flushing activities throughout the year, so a system-wide flushing will not be conducted at this time. Customers with any questions regarding their tap water may contact Kentucky American Water's 24-hour Customer Service Center at 1-800-678-6301.
Water Quality Fact Sheets
Kentucky American Water has created the following fact sheets to help describe certain water quality subjects. These one- and two-page sheets focus on a variety of water quality questions customers often have.
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Perhaps it's because we love what we do, or maybe it's because our expertise makes it easy for us to get the job done right. At American Water, we hold ourselves to the highest standards in delivering clean, high-quality drinking water to the people we serve. When it comes to complying with strict federal regulations, we've consistently scored among the highest of all water companies. Our team consists of the industry's leading researchers, scientists, and plant operators, all committed to our mission of delivering water of the highest quality to our customers. At American Water, we are proud of the way we treat this most precious of resources.
In this section of our site you can learn all about our research and testing methods and facilities, as well as read the current water quality report for your area.


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well well. This rain is getting the best of my mood. It is POURING RAIN again today. I seriously think the state of Mass is going to float away?
Sorry for my ranting. I just want summer to come!
Here are some Mini Notebooks that I've been making with my Bind-It-All (LOVE that machine). These can be used as notebooks, password books, or journals. They are pretty quick & easy to make. I am selling these in my upcoming Craft Fair for $4 each.
This book here was made using October Afternoon Designer Paper. I just love these monsters. They are so cute & wonderful for a little boy.
Here are some close ups of the inside of the books. Sorry for the bad photos – lighting was not very good.
For the insides, I just used Index Cards that I bought at Staples. If you wanted, you could use plain cardstock without lines. I've done that too.
I used a bunch of different supplies on these. If you have any specific questions on products used, just leave me a comment.
I hope everyone has a wonderful (DRY) 4th of July! 🙂

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The Pay Band is 53 ($39,068 to $54,891 annual / eligible for overtime at 1 1/2 times) Open until filled.Salary may be based upon experience and law enforcement certification status.
Applications may be obtained at the Laramie County Sheriff's Department (1910 Pioneer Avenue in Cheyenne), Laramie County Human Resources (3rd Floor of the Historic Courthouse, 310 West 19th Street, Cheyenne), or, online through Laramie County Government, or, the Laramie County Sheriff's Department.
This is a law enforcement position that will require the successful candidate to meet all of the hiring standards required by the Laramie County Sheriff's Department and the Wyoming Peace Officer's Standards and Training (POST) Commission as required by State law and other appointment standards and requirements. The successful candidate will be required to attend the Wyoming Law Enforcement Academy (WLEA) in Douglas, Wyoming, within one year of date of hire to attend an eight (8) week Detention Officer Basic Certification.
The Hiring process will include the candidate completing the POST General Knowledge Examination and the WLEA physical fitness assessment as part of the initial assessment for hiring.�Also included in the hiring process (each "step" must be successfully completed for consideration) will be a formal interview, background investigation, administrative review, medical/drug screen, psychological examination, polygraph, and final administrative review.
Summary: Maintains safety and security of the staff, juvenile inmates, visitors to the Juvenile Service Center; supervises and protects juvenile inmates according to policies, procedures and regulations. This job class is a special assignment in the Sheriff's Office.:(Essential function, as defined under the Americans with Disabilities Act, may include the following tasks, knowledge, skills and other characteristics. This list of tasks is ILLUSTRATIVE ONLY, and is not a comprehensive listing of all functions and tasks performed by positions in this class.)
Manages the safety and security of the staff, juvenile inmates, visitors and juvenile facilities; promotes acceptable attitude, and monitors behavior of juvenile inmates.
Supervises and protects juvenile inmates according to policies, procedures, post orders and regulations.
Provides interactive supervision for inmate activities and maintains discipline; may be required to physically restrain uncooperative or disruptive juvenile inmates and take steps to avert fights, assaults, and escapes.
Monitors juvenile inmates, activities and facility environment; observes and documents juvenile inmate behavior; helps to create a safe and functional environment; follows established safe practices; protects juvenile inmates from personal injury; follows safety protocols, and requests assistance as required.
Watches juveniles for rule violations and behavioral changes; de-escalates potentially violent situations; maintains appropriate use-of-force options as needed for self-defense or defense of another.
Performs constant inspections of all detention facility areas; conducts head counts and area searches, and assures all areas of the facility are safe, secure, sanitary and free of contraband.
Conducts searches for contraband; inventories and maintains accountability for keys, equipment, tools and supplies; accounts for inmates under direct vision and other required supervision statuses as directed by policy and procedures.
Provides care and transport for juvenile inmates; oversees administration of medications and health care; oversees inmate recreation, hygiene and meals; educational programs and services, and encourages participation in rehabilitation programs.
Moves juvenile inmates between the Juvenile Services Center and courts, and provides court security as assigned.
Maintains facility and equipment in clean and effective operating order.
Enforces local, state and applicable Federal laws while enforcing compliance with post orders and regulations.
Updates and maintains a variety of files, records, event logs, charts and other documents; maintains appropriate records and prepares reports as required.
Assists and interacts with County departments, support staff, outside organizations and businesses, and Federal, state and local law enforcement organizations in order to accomplish tasks.
Maintains the integrity, professionalism, values and goals of the Sheriff's Office by assuring that all rules and regulations are followed, and that accountability and public trust are preserved.
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The Pay Band is 53 ($39,068 to $54,891 annualy / eligible for overtime at 1 1/2 times
Deputy Sheriff in the Detention Division:
(1) Minimum of 21 years of age and able to meet the requirements of Wyoming Peace Officer's Standards and Training (POST) and the State of Wyoming for certification as a Peace Officer. Includes no felony convictions, no misdemeanor conviction for domestic violence, and a safe driving record as determined by County Risk Management policies.
(2) Minimum of 21 years of age and able to meet the requirements of Wyoming Peace Officer's Standards and Training (POST) and the State of Wyoming for certification as a Detention Deputy. Includes no felony convictions, no misdemeanor conviction for domestic violence, and a safe driving record as determined by County Risk Management policies.
(3) Able to read and speak clearly in the English language.
(4) Initial screening includes the Wyoming POST General Knowledge Test and the Wyoming Law Enforcement Academy physical fitness assessment. These may be waived for those individuals who are already Wyoming certified as Detention Officers or "challengeable" through POST by certification in another State.
(5) Opportunity to lateral transfer to the Patrol Division (through a competitive process) after two years of service.
(6) Highly competitive salary and benefits include a flexible health care package, State law enforcement retirement, life insurance, and annual performance based bonus opportunities.
(7) Successfully complete all phases of the Department hiring process to include a formal interview, background investigation, medical/drug screen, psychological evaluation, a polygraph and administrative reviews.
Deputy Sheriff in the Patrol Division:
(1) Must, at a minimum, be certified in Wyoming as a Peace Officer, or, eligible to "challenge" Certification (as determined by Wyoming Peace Officer's Standards and Training {POST}) in Wyoming thru certification in another state as a Peace Officer
(2) Salary may be determined by certification, experience, and documented training. State law enforcement retirement, annual performance based bonus opportunity, and a flexible health care package among other benefits. Patrol Deputies have take home cars once they complete the FTO Program (and providing they live within Laramie County).
(3) Must successfully complete all phases of the Department hiring process to include a formal interview, background investigation, medical/drug screen, psychological evaluation, a polygraph, and administrative reviews.
(4) Opportunities to participate in combined Special Weapons Team or EOD, dog handler, investigations, or Combined Drug Task Force Teams as well as certified instructor in many specialties once probationary status is completed.
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With the National Football League (NFL) regular season now over, sports fans once again bore witness to the morbid annual ritual called "Black Monday," in which the head coaches of losing teams are mercilessly purged. Like clockwork, it happened again this year, except that the bloodbath began a day early: the Cleveland Browns were apparently so eager to dump Rob Chudzinski that they couldn't bring themselves to wait until the Sunday clock struck midnight. The other head coaching casualties so far this week have been Minnesota Vikings' Leslie Frazier, Detroit Lions' Jim Schwartz, Washington Redskins' Mike Shanahan, and Tampa Bay Buccaneers' Greg Schiano. The professional sports teams that follow in the hallowed tradition of wiping the slate clean in the wake of disappointing seasons are surely persuaded that doing so will boost their records next year. Are they right?
Probably not, although it is no wonder why they - and their fans - would think so. After all, the chances are high that most of these teams will do better next season, fueling the perception that the firing decisions were well-advised. In fact, this perception is almost certainly a cognitive illusion. Were the teams merely to wait a year and do nothing, they would discover that their records would usually improve anyway. In 2007, a Ghent University research team compared the records of Belgian soccer squads that fired their coaches after a losing spell with those of comparable losing squads than didn't, and found no differences. Both groups of teams improved shortly afterwards.
What's going on here? The teams are neglecting a pesky statistical phenomenon termed regression to the mean. Math phobic readers need not worry: regression to the mean is easy to understand with no specialized training. The phenomenon was recognized in the late 1800s by Charles Darwin's cousin Sir Francis Galton, who noticed that extremely tall fathers tended to have children who are slightly shorter than they are, and that extremely short fathers tended to have children who are slightly taller than they are. Regression to the mean tell us that extreme scores tend to become less extreme over time. Regression, as statisticians call it, is not a hypothesis: it is a mathematical necessity whenever a phenomenon is unstable over time. Needless to say, virtually all things in life, whether they are the performances of NFL teams, the trajectories of stocks, or the behaviors of romantic partners, bounce around in unpredictable ways. As the old saw reminds us, what goes up must come down, although because the converse is also true, virtually all losing teams will reverse their fortunes eventually.
Because few people are aware of the regression effect, they readily fall prey to the regression fallacy – imputing spurious causal significance to phenomena that are just due to regression to the mean. Here's why. They are committing the understandable error of assuming that because event A preceded event B, event A must have caused event B. Yet, the fact that all serial killers watched television as children doesn't mean that the small screen is a recipe for later lethal violence. Because of this error, people overlook the regression effect and instead search for any number of plausible causal narratives for unexpected changes over time. Most of these hypotheses are explanations in search of a phenomenon, because there is often nothing left to explain: the shifts are attributable to regression.
As New York University psychologist Justin Kruger and his colleagues have observed, a plethora of everyday phenomena stem from the regression fallacy. Like most jinxes, the Sports Illustrated jinx nicely illustrates this mental mirage. On November 18, 1957, the magazine featured the University of Oklahoma football team with the headline "Why Oklahoma is Unbeatable," in reference to the Sooners' 47 game Division 1 winning streak. They blew their next game. Most recently, on November 20, 2013, the seemingly unbeatable University of Alabama quarterback A.J. McCarron graced the Sports Illustrated cover, only to lose in a stunning upset to Auburn the following week. The jinx is so notorious that some athletes refuse to appear on the magazine's cover. What they are forgetting is that to make the cover of Sports Illustrated, one almost always needs to achieve a spectacular triumph; such success would seem to set one up for a mighty fall. True, but the fall is a matter of statistical probability; a player or team that keeps winning will eventually lose. Athletes' careers are indeed slightly more likely to nosedive after they appear on magazine covers, but not because they appear on magazine covers. Like all statistical phenomena, though, regression is merely a group tendency, so it doesn't apply to all individuals: Michael Jordan's 49 Sports Illustrated cover appearances certainly didn't seem to dent his career success.
The "movie remake phenomenon" is another delightful example. Most movies remakes or sequels are worse than the original. Think of the notoriously awful follow-ups of Psycho, Swept Away, and 2001: A Space Odyssey, among scores of others. Many a film analyst has sought to explain the reasons for this phenomenon: directorial hubris, fewer resources for the second film, audience fatigue. Yet again, the phenomenon may need no explanation. Only successful films tend to be remade, so the second film is likely to fall short of the original. We rarely recognize this fallacy because decisions to remake films are asymmetrical. If a masochistic Hollywood film producer bothered to remake the recently released "47 Ronin," arguably the worst film flop of 2013, he or she would probably discover that the mulligan would be more successful. When one loses over $100 million dollars on a movie, there's no place to go but up.
Nowhere is the regression fallacy more pervasive, and arguably more pernicious, than in physical and mental health treatment. Most people seek physical or psychological help when their difficulties have reached a breaking point. In other cases, such as obesity, they may decide that the jig is up when their repeated change efforts prove fruitless. In both cases, these are precisely the cases in which regression to the mean is maximized, because their problems have reached their most extreme levels. Not surprisingly, they are also the very instances in which people are most prone to being fooled by ineffective, and even harmful, interventions. Most historians of medicine tell us that prior to the 1890s, the substantial majority of "treatments" were at best worthless. Today, we look back at blood-letting, leeching, and purging with dismay. What we overlook is that these well-intentioned treatments "seemed" to work, because the maladies for which they were intended improved over time following – but in spite of, not because of – these interventions.
In an article to appear later this year in the journal Perspectives on Psychological Science, my co-authors (Lorie Ritschel, Steven Jay Lynn, Robert Latzman, and Robin Cautin) and I delineated 26 reasons why people can be misled into believing that ineffective or even harmful psychotherapies are effective. Perhaps best known is the placebo effect, or improvement due to the mere expectation of improvement. Yet of all 26 reasons, the regression fallacy may account for more erroneous inferences than all other 25 explanations put together. People seek psychological treatment when their problems are at their worst; as a consequence, they will often improve regardless of the intervention.
This point bears important implications for recent debates concerning the advantages and disadvantages of evidence-based practice, which places a premium on using controlled clinical research to inform treatment selection. Evidence-based practice has been vigorously resisted by some psychotherapy practitioners, in part on the grounds that it devalues clinical intuition and clinical experience when choosing interventions. Yet whatever its drawbacks, evidence-based practice has the essential virtue of minimizing the risk of the regression fallacy, because randomized control groups are roughly equated in their odds of regression to the mean.
We should remember the regression fallacy when making our New Year's resolutions. Millions of us will decide to finally quit smoking, lose weight, or stop nagging our spouses, and some of us will even end up doing so soon thereafter. But we should remind ourselves that, like that of many NFL teams, the success of our annual ritual may be more apparent than real.


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Limestone's Gartelman Braced for Foxborough
by Jac Coyne | LaxMagazine.com | Coyne Archive | Twitter
|He might have the funkiest knee brace in Foxborough this weekend, but Limestone will gladly endure the smell if Gartelman can lead the Saints to their third NCAA Division II national title.
As he unloaded shots on Steve Gartelman at practice before last Saturday's semifinal against Le Moyne, one of the Limestone assistant coaches made an inquiry about the senior goalie's knee brace. The coach said that he inadvertently touched the brace, which adorns Gartelman's left knee, a couple of days prior and there was a smell that he couldn't wash off his hands.
"That will stay with you for a couple of weeks," said Gartelman with a laugh as he stoned another shot.
As it turns out, the keeper's knee brace is kind of a talisman for the Saints.
"I was thinking about washing it one time, but that was the week after one of my best performances," Gartelman said. "Why try and wash it? I don't mind the smell too bad and the defense has gotten used to it, but you can smell it from a distance. I guess the attack doesn't like it too much, so it's working a little bit."
"He's not the cleanest player we have," deadpanned Limestone head coach J.B. Clarke. "Hygiene is not his forte."
The funk emanating from the brace may scare off a cutting attackman or two, but it's not a required piece of equipment for Gartelman's well-being. Although he tore his ACL for the first time just prior to transferring from St. John's to Limestone in 2009 and then again days before the beginning of the 2011 season, he has been cleared by the training staff to play without it.
In fact, the type of brace Gartelman wears provides more peace of mind than actual protection.
"Evidently, those braces only help you if you hyper-extended the knee to tear the ACL," said Clarke. "If it's a twist to tear the ACL, they don't do anything. You can't stop the knee from twisting. Steve's was a twist. It's a safety net."
"I feel great and my leg feels fine, but it's just so I don't have to go through anything like that again," said Gartelman, a Seaford, N.Y., native. "I've had two knee surgeries already and I don't want to do it again."
The fact that he was able to start every game last season with a torn ACL and post a 6.57 goals against average, a 56.9 save percentage and a 15-2 record, is proof that Gartelman knows his role within the overall Limestone system.
"He knows he doesn't have to put his team on his shoulders for us to win," Clarke said. "He knows he doesn't need to get 15 saves for us to win, he just needs to get eight or 10. He goes through it and he makes the saves he should."
It wasn't always easy, however.
"Last year playing injured, I felt like my steps were off a little bit," said Gartelman, who considers himself a very technical goalie. "But just tweaking my arc and tweaking my playing style, we still had a successful year. This year I just have more confidence going either way and making true reactions to the ball."
Although he has bested his numbers from last year – a 6.12 GAA along with a 60.1 save percentage – Gartelman said he felt he wasn't all the way back from the injury until April 7 when he made a career-high 17 saves in the Saints' 15-5 victory over Mars Hill. Coincidentally, that was just prior to the last time that he contemplated washing his knee brace.
Any possibility that Gartelman would give his brace a wash evaporated last Saturday when he made 11 saves against Le Moyne in the national semifinals, propelling the Saints to the championship game with Dowling on Sunday with a 10-8 victory.
All off his teammates stormed Gartelman when the final whistle blew, even with the repellent odor wafting up from his left knee. They were more than willing to suffer the stench because at that point it smelled good.
It smelled like victory.
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Amazing how 6 months changes things - before I was like "I am not going to keep trying to climb this mountain (HE-6), there must something else I can drive with what I have that will satisfy me!", and now I'm like "OK, the HE-6 are IT for me, I will do what I need to to drive them".
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It would be hard, or at least foolhardy, to make a movie about a rock & roll band in which the members didn't lock horns over some petty ego trip. In Almost Famous, Cameron Crowe's terrifically authentic and heartfelt portrait of a Midwestern rock band on the verge of stardom in 1973, the writer-director of Jerry Maguire and Say Anything … comes up with what may be the definitive scene of backstage squabbling. The argument is all about promotional T-shirts. They've just arrived in a box, and Russell (Billy Crudup), the mustached glamour-boy lead guitarist of Stillwater (they're like a fusion of Foghat and Lynyrd Skynyrd), is featured on the logo a bit too … prominently. Jeff (Jason Lee), the group's lead singer, is apoplectic, but he can't bring himself to confess what's really on his mind: that he's jealous that Russell is the sexy one. And so the argument erupts into a fury of ritual non-articulation, all of it staged by Crowe with a rich, funny, observant edge.
A little later, we see Stillwater, along with their roadies and groupies, riding on a tour bus as Elton John's "Tiny Dancer" plays on the tape player. To our amazement, everyone on the bus, even the rivalrous band members, begins to sing along. It's a casual epiphany of rock rapture, and it crystallizes the moment when the youth-culture "community" was falling apart yet everyone was trying — naively, touchingly — to hold it together.
Almost Famous is built around a lovely absurdity. Crowe, who based the film on his formative experiences as a teenage rock journalist for Rolling Stone magazine, shows us the drugged-out, laid-back, groupie-hopping adventures of Stillwater as taken in through the eyes of William Miller (Patrick Fugit), a 15-year-old overachiever from San Diego who has landed a freelance assignment from Rolling Stone to do an article on the band. The members of Stillwater have wives and girlfriends, but the tour is their playpen, their floating air castle. William, with his tousled mop top and schoolboy cherub's face, is like a worldly-wise Danny Partridge, and the central irony is almost too obvious: This rosy-cheeked kid, who looks barely old enough to have had his first orgasm, has been plugged into a slovenly den of sin — the perpetual, take-it-easy party/hangover of the early '70s.
The joke, however, soon ripens. William, who was skipped ahead two grades by his adoringly strict, college-prof mom (Frances McDormand), has a mind that's years ahead of his body. He's canny and ambitious, with feelers — an Apollonian straight arrow surveying a Dionysian landscape of childish, pleasure-seeking freaks. In spirit, he's the oldest adult on the bus.
The early '70s remain a hazy era in American pop memory, because they were defined by their indefinition — caught between the counterculture and official culture, between the moment when a guy with a guitar who guzzled Jack Daniel's and slept with a parade of adoring teenage chicklets was seen as part of a "movement" or simply as a strutting glam whore getting his rocks off. Almost Famous taps the era's contradictory glories: its druggy myopia and sleaze, but also its freedom.


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Walig Hut
Swiss Alps
Back to basics: sleep on a fur-covered bed in true Alpine cowherd style
Luxury hotels do not usually pride themselves on a lack of modern conveniences. But the absence of satellite television, a fabulous bathroom and a speedy wi-fi connection are some of the things that make a visit to the Walig Hut such a memorable experience.
Located at a height of some 1,700 metres, the hut genuinely is a barn built in the 1780s that has been split into two. One side is converted into basic accommodation and the other a resting place for the cows who wander the surrounding hills.
Inside, it is sparse and rustic – furs spread over wooden furniture, metal pots and pans and a rather primitive toilet at the back of the building.
Not that you will want to spend your time inside.
With only the hills and a few farmhouses dotted about for company, there is nothing to obscure the breathtaking, romantic views of the mountains and snow-capped peaks in the distance.
Escape: say goodbye to modern clutter with a night at the Walig Hut
Everything they say about the Alps, from the crisp air to the sense of absolute tranquillity, becomes true as you relax by the Walig Hut.
In the summer months, the hut can be hired for a night stay for two adults and up to two children or for a meal for as many as 80 people.
The accommodation may be basic, but this being an offshoot of the Gstaad Palace, (see main feature) food is catered and staff can be on site or dishes such as a fondue left ready with instructions.
There is also something particularly refreshing about eating cheese just minutes from the farm it was processed in.
You will need a car to get there, unless you fancy a few hours hike up the mountain, but it is on a private road so there is little chance of your stay being spoilt by traffic or passers-by.
If you like your holidays with every amenity under the sun, the Walig Hut probably is not the place for you.
But if you want a break that really is different and a once-in-a-lifetime experience with all the pleasures of camping but a tad more comfort, then look no further.
Rates: A night (two adults and two children) with a three-course dinner starts at £1,092<br>Tel: +41 33 748 50 00
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The hottest trend in holidays? Taking the whole family with you
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Tom Gambill
July 25, 2010
Subject; Quadrennial Defense Review – American National Guard moving on America?
July 15, 2010
RAND Corp. "Katrina Offers Lessons for Improving the National Guard Response to Catastrophic Domestic Emergencies" http://www.rand.org/…/summer2007/katrina.html
The U.S. Department of Defense announced Monday that Missouri will be one of 10 states to host National Guard Homeland Response Force units to help coordinate federal response to a terrorist attack.According to the DoD announcement, the move came about following the 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review — a congressionally mandated report put together every four years that highlights changes and challenges in national defense strategy. The 2010 report calls for improved coordination with civilian officials and providing resources for large-scale emergency response.
The National Guards Role in Homeland Defense http://www.ng.mil/features/HomelandDefense/cerfp/index.html
"The USMS [U.S. Marshalls Service] hybrid option … provides an important nondeployed mission for the force: augmenting state and local agencies, many of which currently suffer from severe personnel shortages.""Furthermore, the USMS has the broadest law enforcement mandate of any U.S. law enforcement agency…. [This model] provides significant domestic policing and homeland security benefits by providing thousands of additional police officers across the United States."
* Give state national guard units the federal mission to conduct homeland security activities, as is the case today for planning and funding counterdrug operations.
* Create ten regional national guard rapid-reaction homeland security task forces.
* Collocate these task forces with the regional planning offices of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
* Create opportunities for the regional national guard task forces to train regularly with local first responders, including law enforcement officials, and other local units that are focused on counterterrorism and weapons of mass destruction.
* Train state national guard units for rapid response not only within their states but also for emergencies in other states.
* Prepare governors to call up state national guard units quickly and involuntarily for active-duty, out-of-state emergencies.
* Establish plans to use the Air National Guard or commercial airlines to fly designated national guard units to out-of-state emergencies.
* Prepare state officials to designate backup national guard units that could fill in during disaster response operations for national guard units deployed overseas.
* Assign both national guard and active-duty army units to homeland security missions as part of the army's routine unit-readiness planning process.
* Prepare state and federal leaders to select quickly from a set of predefined command-and-control alternatives, giving the lead to federal or state task forces, depending on the characteristics of an emergency.
U.S. Army Combined Arms Center
July 15, 2010
Graphic showing Parallel Command and control: The generic parallel C2 structure depicted in figure 3 illustrates the organizational divide and the high degree of effective coordination that must occur at the operational and tactical levels for this option to be effective.
Car bomb signals new dimension to Mexican drug war
On June 18, 2010, Arizona Republican Senator Jon Kyl told the audience at a North Phoenix Tea Party town hall meeting that during a private, one-on-one meeting with President Obama in the Oval Office, the President told him, regarding securing the southern border with Mexico, "The problem is, . . . if we secure the border, then you all won't have any reason to support 'comprehensive immigration reform.'" [Audible gasps were heard throughout the audience.] Sen. Kyl continued, "In other words, they're holding it hostage. They don't want to secure the border unless and until it is combined with 'comprehensive immigration reform.'"
Sen. Kyl also said he reminded President Obama that the President and the Congress has an obligation, a duty, to secure the border.
Both what the president said and the answer that Obama gave the congressman, that the congressman is giving to the people is BOGUS!! They do not want to secure the border because they want the damn terrorist to come across and meet in their safe houses thoughout the US and start picking targets. This will be the FOURTH, 4th attempt of the US and European globalist to set up a military coup and dictatorship in the US since 1933. FACT. each attempt gained some success and they learned form their mistakes. The fourth planned operation started in 1974 and has been steadly moving forward to now.
COMMENT: Now to link everything up I'll pring one more time this letter so that those reading this can connect the dots:
I am including this following statement from an unnamed person that after "meeting" this person through another friend by telephone passed on the following report based on personal experience. This statement supports my past analysis and reports that an invasion was being setup, that the CIA was linking themselves with Latino crime gangs to start violence in order to justify martial law, that the US Government was promising the Mexicans their land back that was taken from Mexico back in the 1800's as a carrot to riot and lead the assault planned by the globalist using Mexican Militia, Chinese and Russians not only in Mexico but four "FRONTS" surrounding the USA. It brings to mind an quote by Edmund Burke,"All that is necessary for the Triumph of EVIL is that Good men do nothing,"
HE/SHE is quoted as follows:
"I was a missionary living in Honduras for 12 years. In my travels I became aware
of a base in the Mountains of strange Military people from other nations. They
were soldiers from the Al Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, Cuba, Iran, Venezuela and
Nicaragua as well as gang members of the MS 13's. They were training these men
to speak Spanish in a Nicaraguan dialect and given Nicaraguan and Mexican
papers. No one would know that they were from the Middle Eastern countries.
They were on "Monkey Point" between Nicaragua and Honduras and were supposedly
rebuilding the port as it was in bad need of repair. However, what they really
were doing was first of all helping the drugs go through the country to the USA
and they were mining Uranium and sending it back to Iran.
I called up to one of the Governors in the USA and told them what was happening.
They never responded to me after I wrote the report for them. This Governor was
on the foreign affairs committee.
A few weeks went by and I was working in the same area of our USA Military base
when all in one day they sent in many planes and C-130's and took our equipment
and our military out of there.
I told the people in my report that these men were part of the kidnapping gangs
in Honduras. They were funding the arms and their men with the kidnappings. Two
of my friends were kidnapped inside of two months and had to pay a lot of money
to be set free. One of my friends was taken in a police Helicopter so we knew
the national police and the President of Honduras at that time were involved in
this. Those helicopters only flew with permission of the President.
I started to have men following me and watching my house for a week or so and so
I got out before I was next.
These same men are now in Mexico and they are paying thousands of dollars to the
Mexicans to help them pass through tunnels and over ground into Arizona and
California so that at the right time they will attack us from within. Our
Government knows this and does nothing about it. Those borders are in problems
as our government wants it that way. I am sure there has been an agreement made
with this Government and the Mexican one to give back those states of Arizona,
California, New Mexico and part of Texas to the Mexicans. That is why the
Federal Government does nothing.
The other reason they do nothing is they want to get as many immigrants in here
as possible so they can legalize them and they can vote for the democrats again
and put Obama back in office. They know we won't do it.
After our military evacuates the southern states and declares martial law
because of a greater catastrophe to come, they then will disarm all who will go
against the Government here so they can make these land transfers go through
without a lot of opposition. One can only wonder what agreements have been made
with China to pay back our debts to them.
I am just a missionary who never had anything to do with politics before I left
the USA and found out what really was going on. Just thru prayer, fasting and a
little discernment I have become highly informed of many things. Imagine if all
Christians, who call themselves such on this earth, began to really be real with
God and fasted and prayed and used their discernment what would happen. Perhaps all the tricks that the enemy is using would be revealed to all and the enemy would be defeated in an instant.
We are all part of the body of Christ. When one part of the body is expected to
do it all and the other parts of the body do not do their part, the whole body
falls. Get it?
We are commanded in the word of God as people who are Christ like, to be our
brother's keeper. That does not mean we sit and do nothing. We must help all
that we can in these days to come. Open your homes and hearts to the people
everywhere who need to escape the snares being set by the enemy. Many have lost
their homes and need a place to go. Open your eyes and ears and hear the will of
God and open your hearts and do the will of God.
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Not to mention the unusual and increasing army national guard trainings in Puerto Rico (region2). Inactive AF, Navy and Army facilities have been on use recently in Puerto Rico. bio attack training, riot control, many shipments of military vehicles to the port of Ponce, and AF trainings in former Ramey base in Aguadilla.
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W&M alum seeks congressional nomination
Jan Donatelli ('82) sought the Democratic nomination to contest the election for the Congressional seat for the 5th District in Illinois, which was vacated by Rahm Emanuel when he took the position of White House Chief of Staff. She faced 11 other candidates in the primary, which was held March 3, for the special election April 7. Since graduating from the College, Donatelli has served in the U.S. Navy as pilot, flown commercial aircraft, and worked as a consultant. She desires to reduce corruption in Illinois politics, and was supported by similar demographic groups to those that propelled then-Senator Barack Obama to the Democratic Presidential nomination. Results of the primary were not available at press time.
Freshmen discover new virus in Crim Dell
A previously unknown strain of bacteriophage was discovered by freshmen conducting biological research as part of a seminar course. The students collected soil samples and tested them for the presence of bacteriophages, which are viruses that infect bacteria. The research, guided by Professors Margaret Saha, Mark Forsyth, and Kurt Williamson, was sponsored by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and aided by the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Technicians at Los Alamos identified one of ten phage samples as "novel," which means that preliminary tests indicate it is previously unidentified. The phage, named Crim D, is currently undergoing genome mapping by the students, whose seminar lasts through this semester.
Black history trivia contest held
In commemoration of Black History Month, the Black Faculty and Staff Forum held the 10th Annual Black History Trivia Contest at the Sadler Center on February 19. The event, billed as "an excellent opportunity for diversity," served to teach attendees about accomplished African-American scientists, inventors, and civil rights workers. There were forty people in attendance to watch the gold team defeat the green team in an educational setting with a relaxed atmosphere. Both teams consisted of College administrators, and the green team included one graduate student.
President Reveley announces Mascot Committee
In a message to students and the community, College President Taylor Reveley announced the creation of a Mascot Committee. The Committee is comprised of faculty, alumni, administrators, and two student representatives. The Student Assembly has also created its own Mascot Committee, it is uncertain the level of cooperation the two will achieve. The official school committee is accepting suggestions for a new mascot here.


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Three men were arrested Wednesday after a robbery at a Wailuku convenience store, according to Maui County police.
Investigators say two men, ages 24 and 25, entered the Minit Stop store at the corner of Main Street and Central Avenue at around 6:50 a.m. They were wearing hooded sweaters and masks.
One of the men had what appeared to be a semi-automatic pistol. The other man was carrying a pipe, according to police.
The men demanded money from the cashiers and threatened customers in the store, according to the police report. They ran from the store after they heard police sirens.
The men ran toward Waiale Drive on Nani Street. A third man, 23, who was a lookout and getaway driver fled in a gray Nissan pickup.
Officers were able to catch the two suspected robbers in front of the Nani Street Apartments. The weapons used in the robbery were also recovered.
The man who fled in the Nissan truck was stopped by officers on Honoapiilani Highway near the Carl's Jr. The truck was seen speeding and cutting in and out of traffic while heading toward Lahaina.
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In 1943, when Ben Webster first heard Charlie Parker play the tenor, he is reported to have said, "That horn ain't s'posed to sound that fast." Most likely, that sentiment would have been shared by Harry Carney and Ernie Caceres five years later, when they, the leading baritone saxmen of the '30s and '40s, first heard Serge Chaloff running up and down their horn with an agility usually associated with fleet-fingered tenormen. But ever since Serge proved that the baritone need not be the clumsy, cumbersome horn that critics insisted it was, the way was open for even more imaginative uses of the instrument's potential, as we have seen in the work of Sahib Shihab, Pepper Adams, and, more recently, Nick Brignola.
In addition to his all-embracing mastery of the larger horn, Nick is also a consummate performer on clarinet, soprano, alto, and tenor, but on this, his ninth CD for Reservoir, he plays only baritone and soprano (the two variously tempoed takes of "Seven Come Eleven," the Charlie Christian-Benny Goodman swing standard). Working with vibist Dave Pike, guitarist Chuck D'Aloia, bassist John Patitucci, and drummer Billy Hart, Nick also sails through Sonny Rollins' "Pent-Up House," three challenging originals-"Green St. Groove," "In the Zone," and "Tea for Three," D'Aloia's "Fast Food," and the still vital standards, "How Deep Is The Ocean?," "Darn That Dream," and "I Wished on the Moon." Just as Chaloff ultimately learned to slow down long enough to play ballads without double- and triple-timing them, Brignola has taken the best of Carney's warmth and breadth of sound and combined it with the heated dexterity of bop in full flight.


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I grew up in Southern California, which is surely the most benign boating environment in the United States. Thanks to the region's perfect weather, desert-like topography and a generally placid Pacific, the boating there usually ranges from serene to soporific.
Safely operating a boat in difficult conditions is a matter of your mind-set, your skills and your boat
Chris Fertig and his two-man crew were nearly halfway through a 780-mile passage from New York to Bermuda when confused 8- to 10-foot seas forced them to call off their attempt to break the Bermuda Challenge powerboat record.
Small-boat expert Chris Fertig highlights four important areas to be aware of when running offshore or in rough water.
Editor's note: This is the second in a two-part series about sailboat sea trials.
The sea trial is your chance to determine how a prospective boat performs. Last month I discussed the conditions the boat should be taken out in, putting her through her paces, how she sails, how she handles under power alone, and more. But the sea trial is also an opportunity to "live the boat."
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Several small depressions along the Hells Hollow Trail are sinkholes. Like the caves and flume, they are formed by the dissolution of limestone by acidic water. These features are very common in areas underlain by limestone.
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Let's start brighter for Bridgeport, injury-wise: John Persson returned to full contact this morning. He was the fourth guy on the Wiles-Langkow-Bruton line, keeping the other four as they were Sunday. Joey Diamond, too, got back on the ice; he took the first half of practice in a no-contact jersey. Both of them will be evaluated day-to-day, Scott Pellerin said, though obviously in different stages of their upper-body recoveries.
Mike Halmo practiced, too, which wasn't unexpected; he appeared in a red no-contact jersey, though. Pellerin said just some upper-body soreness.
And Johan Sundstrom remains out ill; Pellerin said he doesn't expect him for a while.
Mike Cornell on his two-game suspension: "It is what it is. It could've went either way," Cornell said. "I've just got to accept it and move forward." Scott Pellerin didn't want to go much further. "We saw the same video the league saw," Pellerin said. "The way the league decides is it makes a decision and tells us. We don't have an opportunity to defend the player. I've learned in the past it's a waste of time to argue. We accept the decision of the league."
Elsewhere, tough break (literally, unfortunately) for Trevor Smith, with a broken bone in his hand blocking a shot. (No surgery at least, Nick Kypreos reports.)
Memory's not what it used to be, but I could swear the charging rule was in place when both Adam Oates and George McPhee played. Maybe not, though, if they figured this Tom Wilson/Brayden Schenn hit last night was clean. Think the only people I've seen take more strides to hit a guy did it in a movie.
And high school season starts tonight (albeit without Hall/Southington senior forward Jim Nardi, who's awaiting tomorrow night's (hopefully) Class LL football final against Fairfield Prep). Several local games, including an interesting Division II matchup between Branford, one of the favorites, and Fairfield, the defending champion. 6:30 at Wonderland.


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The state Office of Higher education just released the following:
HARTFORD – Former Butler Business and Sawyer School students can now get their student transcripts from the State of Connecticut's Office of Higher Education. To obtain copies, students must complete and mail a one-page form to the Office of Higher Education. Only mailed copies can be accepted as original signatures are required.
Students may complete the form online, and then print and sign a copy before sending it to the Transcript Release Officer, Office of Higher Education, 61 Woodland Street, Hartford, CT 06105-2326.
The Office of Higher Education has notified all former Butler Business and Sawyer School students who have registered on its website (www.ctohe.org) that transcripts are now available. In addition, the Office has posted the information on its website, along with the following important updates:
· The Office of Higher Education is the legal custodian of all student records. The license and accreditation of the former Butler Business and Sawyers Schools have been revoked. As a result, no entity or person is able to re-open these schools. Both former Butler/Sawyer students and employees should beware of anyone making claims to the contrary.
· The Office of Higher Education has provided copies of Butler/Sawyer School curricula with schools which have volunteered to help former Butler/Sawyer School students continue their studies. Schools must compare the Butler/Sawyer School curricula with their own, make adjustments where needed and obtain appropriate approvals from federal and accrediting authorities before enrolling students. We are asking all schools to complete curricula comparisons by 1/18/2013 so that we may then hold information/transfer sessions for Butler/Sawyer School students in Hartford, Bridgeport and Hamden. Students should monitor their email and www.ctohe.org for updates.
· Former Butler/Sawyer students should very carefully weigh the following options and financial implications as they consider continuing their studies:
1. Teach out – Students may elect to complete their studies and externships through possible "teach out" arrangements created by schools which have volunteered to help former Butler/Sawyer School students. In this option, students will continue to be responsible for paying any federal loans they have obtained previously while attending Butler/Sawyer Schools.
2. Transfer – Students may elect to transfer their previous earned coursework to another school pending the school's review of their transcript. Under this option, students would have to re-apply for financial aid through the new school in which they are enrolling. Transfer students may have to obtain additional loans or aid to complete their studies.
3. Restart – Students who have a significant amount of federal loans, and who do not choose a "teach out" or transfer option, may have their federal loans forgiven due to the sudden closure of these schools. Students who enrolled recently at Butler and Sawyer Schools, and are responsible for repaying large amounts of federal loans, may want to give this option serious consideration.
More information on these options, financial aid and other developments will be available via student emails and at www.ctohe.org as soon as available. Plans for student information/transfer sessions in Bridgeport, Hartford, and Hamden are underway and will be scheduled as soon as schools and the Office of Higher Education have more complete and accurate information to share with students.


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Welcome from the Conference Co-chairs
A warm welcome to the 3rd Conference of the Association for the Social Sciences and Humanities in HIV (ASSHH), which will take place between 6-9 July 2015 in Stellenbosch, South Africa. The Association's previous conferences took place in Durban in 2011 and Paris in 2013.
As Conference Co-chairs, we have worked hard to develop an exciting programme for the meeting, which will bring together critically informed and theoretically engaged scholars and practitioners from a wide range of social science and humanities disciplines. Our goal as in previous meetings is to ask the kinds of critical questions it is sometimes difficult to pose in other settings, and to contribute to new and creative ways of thinking about the HIV epidemic.
We chose Stellenbosch for this 3rd meeting because it is close to Cape Town international airport and other transport routes, and offers some of the best facilities available. It has a forward-looking university and a range of different kinds of accommodation, and is located in some of the most beautiful countryside in the Western Cape.
We have planned the Conference around a number of themes, although roundtable sessions and workshops will provide opportunities for many other issues to be engaged with and discussed:
- (Re)-writing the history of AIDS: whose facts, whose visions, whose stories?
- An 'epidemic of signification – cultural and media representations 30 years on, in the era of PrEP and 'universal' access
- Sexual orientation and gender identity – a new or enduring battleground?
- The politics of 'practice': research and practitioner perspectives on intervention and programme development
- Power, politics and resistance: the demise of agency in the face of constraint
- Positive nostalgia(s) and the international HIV response
- Renewing social sciences and humanities research
Of special interest to researchers, advocates, policy makers, programme managers, community workers and practitioners,
this 3rd ASSHH Conference aims to provide opportunities for wide-ranging discussion and spirited debate.
Come and join us. Please submit an abstract or put forward a proposal for a roundtable or a workshop.
We look forward to seeing you.
Peter Aggleton (UNSW Australia)
Pierre Brouard (University of Pretoria, South Africa)
Mary Crewe (University of Pretoria, South Africa)
Gary Dowsett (La Trobe University, Australia)
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VE3YYL, Larry Becks of McKerrow, Ontario, passed away 31 July, 2013 at the age of 67 years.
I just spoke to his grandson, Storm VA3YYS and he informed me there will be a BBQ/get together at Larry's property in Spanish; the address is Lot 12 Concession 6 Foster Township on Wednesday, 7 August 2013, from 12 Noon to 4 P.M.
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From all of the Manitoulin Amateur Radio Club, our thoughts and prayers go out to Larry's family; he was a great guy and a real asset to Amateur Radio; he will be sorely missed.
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Key Rand findings
Among the highlights of a RAND survey of members of the Air Force's intercontinental ballistic missile force:
Launch officers and more junior members of the missile security forces are suffering "burnout," based on their confidential responses to questions about how they view their jobs. Burnout is defined as a combination of mental and physical exhaustion, cynicism and feelings of ineffectiveness.
Among the reasons voiced for feeling stressed: too little autonomy, pressure from frequent inspections, the remoteness of the bases on which service members work and unpredictable schedules. Missile officers also harbor doubts about the degree to which the Air Force is committed to the nuclear mission.
Air Force figures show that in 2011 and 2012, the rate of spousal abuse and courts-martial within the missile force were higher than in the Air Force overall. The trend line, however, is improving this year. And Gen. Mark Welsh, the Air Force chief of staff, told the AP he is confident that problems like this will be fixed.
Previous incidents
In addition to RAND's finding of burnout among nuclear missile launch officers and higher rates of courts-martial and other disciplinary actions in the ICBM force, The Associated Press has documented other signs of trouble:
In April, 19 missile crew members in the 91st Missile Wing at Minot, N.D., were deemed temporarily unfit for duty and given weeks of remedial training. The wing's deputy commander of operations complained of "rot" in the force. Later, the officer in charge of the 91st's missile crew training and proficiency was relieved of duty.
In August, the 341st Missile Wing at Malmstrom, Mont., failed a safety and security inspection. Nine days later the officer in charge of security forces there was relieved of duty. In October the unit passed a do-over test.
On Oct. 11, the Air Force fired Maj. Gen. Michael Carey, commander of the 20th Air Force, which is responsible for the entire Minuteman 3 missile force, amid an investigation of an alcohol-related complaint. This happened two days after a Navy admiral who was second-in-command at U.S. Strategic Command, the military's main nuclear war-fighting command, was relieved of duty amid a gambling-related investigation.
The AP reported that twice this year the Air Force has punished officers involved in separate incidents of opening the blast door of their launch control center while one of the two launch officers was asleep, in violation of Air Force rules.
In November, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh disclosed that as a result of the Carey firing, the Air Force would take a closer look at the background of candidates for general officer-level nuclear command jobs.
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Buddhist Publication Society
Kandy • Sri Lanka
First published: 1986
BPS Online Edition © (2014) Digital Transcription Source: BPS and Access to Insight Transcription Project
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Every evening we chant, "Pamadamulako lobho… doso … moho." Lobha, dosa, moha, the three roots of evil: greed, hate and delusion. We are born with these roots, We wouldn't be born at all if we didn't have them. But there are also the three opposite roots: non-greed, non-hate, and non-delusion. It is these roots of good which we must cultivate.
Non-greed is generosity, generosity shown in giving one's things away, giving one's money away, giving one's understanding away, giving ones love away. That is generosity. And the more one gives away, the richer one is. But unless one can give freely, one is caught by greed, by lobha.
The opposite of dosa is the root of non-hate, loving kindness, metta. The more we can generate metta in our hearts, the less we will suffer. But we have to work consciously at abiding in loving kindness. There is no hoping, wishing or praying that brings metta. There is no creator to grant metta to us. There is no grace which will bestow metta on us. It is we who must create metta.
There must be deliberate action, a deliberate action of the heart which opens towards love. Loving kindness must not be directed only towards what is lovable. To love that which is lovable is possible for anyone. It's easy. To love that which is lovable is not even interesting. That is what all the romances, the movies, the novels are about. To love that which is lovable is not the spiritual path, but a worldly endeavour. The reason for loving kindness is because the heart has the ability to give; its purpose is for purification.
But trying to understand loving kindness with the mind can never succeed. It's got to be felt with one's heart. The heart has to be involved "wholeheartedly," for unless loving kindness is felt in the heart, the root of hate, dosa, will remain.
There is no intellectual understanding that will make metta possible because the mind is caught up in delusion, moha. The mind can take a stand on either side of any debate. It can say "pro" or "con" on anything. The heart cannot. The heart opens up and feels love, or it shrinks and feels hate. The mind can judge very easily, "This is lovable." Or the negative mind can say, "Oh no, it's not. It's detestable!" The mind can do that. But the heart cannot. Rely on the heart and not on the judgments of the mind. Work on the purification of one's heart. See within. Become fully aware when there is greed. Become aware when there is hate. Then substitute the roots of good, generosity, and loving kindness, for the evil roots. The more often we look within, the more often we substitute the good for the evil, the sooner the ego-delusion will diminish.
Moha is the delusion of a self. Its opposite, non-delusion, is the knowledge that the idea of self is the cause of suffering, that our mind and body are coreless. It is because of the delusion of self that the other two roots, greed and hate, beset us. Without delusion, there would be no greed or hate, it is the self-delusion, saying "This is me, this is the way I sec things, this is the way I want it, this is the wav I'm separating myself," that is the cause of hatred, separation, isolation, resistance, and rejection.
The more deluded one is, the more greed and hate one generates. And how deluded one is depends on how much one identifies with what and who one thinks one is, and what one wants to get out of life for oneself. The more self-identification there is, the more delusion; the more greed, the more hate; the more hate, the more unhappiness.
Even the views we hold are stained with ego-discolouration. They cannot be absolutely true. But they are true from the standpoint of the ego. The ego says and the ego thinks and therefore the ego wants. This is the root of moha.
It is not possible to work on eliminating ego-delusion alone. It is done through awareness of the three roots: greed, hate and delusion. For this is the path of purification. This is the path of self-inquiry. This is the path of self-discipline. And there is nothing else on this path as important as mindfulness—watching the mind. This is a simple formula, but just sitting and waiting for enlightenment is not going to bring enlightenment. Nothing happens by itself. What matters is action. Take the action of following the Noble Eightfold Path. With awareness, with no fixed views, but only the knowledge of something to be done: the elimination of lobha, dosa, moha. Without that deliberation to remove the three roots of evil, meditation is a total waste of time.
So, we watch the mind. A mental state arises. Don't believe it! Check it out. Which part of the ego-delusion is talking—greed or hate? Or both? And then—watch. The thought arises and it ceases. If the thought doesn't cease, there is clinging, hanging on for "dear life," keeping the thought. There are even people who are enormously attached to their own dissatisfaction, to their own dukkha. This is one of the greatest absurdities: being attached to one's own suffering.
Remembering to be aware is another problem because our minds get caught up in our own thinking processes. Drop the thinking processes. They aren't worth having. Look instead at the greed and the hate and the delusion, the things worth seeing.
Our ego-delusion has at its roots the identification of ourselves with the five aggregates, the khandhas: the body, feelings, perceptions, mental formations, and consciousness. Yet we know that our problems, our suffering, our unhappiness, stem from that identification. And we know we must abandon this wrong view. For we are not the aggregates.
But there is no way of getting at the root of delusion as long as one strongly identifies with one's thoughts, and with who one thinks one is. The identification takes away the possibility of stepping back and watching, of stepping back and watching mindfully. Mindfulness is what we learn through meditation, and mindfully we learn to watch every moment of our daily life. Mindfulness means being fully aware, "the miracle of being awake," which is not the opposite of being sleepy, but the opposite of being foggy. Not thinking foggily and woozily, but being fully aware— fully awake to what is going on within oneself.
Self-identification with one's state of being is the great trap. So we must first become aware of the props we use to maintain who we think we are. It begins with: "I'm a woman" or "I'm a man." There's strong identification. There's strong support for the ego, for that "I am" is the ego itself talking. Next we identify with our abilities and our knowledge. "This is what I can do" and "This is what I know." Two further strong supports for the ego.
Ask yourself: "Who do I think I am? Why do I think I am like that? What makes me think like this? Is it because I'm identifying with the body? … the feelings? … the perceptions? … the thoughts? … the consciousness?" If you identify with any or all of these, what misery! What a miserable situation owning all those aggregates. Drop the identification and you get nearer the truth. This is just a body, prone to dukkha. These are just feelings. These are just perceptions. These are just mental formations. This is just consciousness.
So greed, hatred and delusion, lobha, dosa and moha, are everybody's lot. The work on the spiritual path is eliminating these roots. For unless something is done about them, they'll be with us— life after life after life.
The three roots of evil, with delusion as the base, make the world go round, "Love makes the world go round," it is said. But if love really did make the world go round, this would be a very different world! No, it is greed that makes the world go round; it is hate that makes the world go round; it is delusion that makes the world go round. Because of these, relationships don't work, friendships deteriorate, people have personal difficulties with one another. That is why love is lacking. That is why people steal, kill, wage wars.
But the only world we need be concerned with is the world we have inside of ourselves. And doesn't that world look different for each one of us? And different each time we look? And one does have to look to see for oneself what one is really like. Do you know that the whole of the universe lies within this mind and body? Each one of us has an entire universe within him. Let's get to know the universe by getting to know ourselves. And we get to know ourselves through meditation.
Meditation is about purification. Meditation is about finding the Dhamma within oneself. The Buddha said: "Whoever sees me, sees the Dhamma. Whoever sees the Dhamma, sees me." And the Dhamma can be seen with an inner vision—but only if one does the work. One can't get an inner vision by merely thinking about wanting one. There's work to be done. Nothing can replace the work each of us must do. But with the joy of the path there is energy. And when the joy of the path arises, there is confidence. Have that confidence in your experiences.
The Buddha said that we are like children playing in a house on fire and are too foolish to jump out. We don't realise that the fire of our passions, of our wanting, of our rejections, of our views and opinions, of our self-centred assertions is the fire that is burning us, and we are too foolish to let go. Like little children we want to keep on playing. That's childish, not childlike. And if we keep on playing we're going to get burned by our passions over and over again.
Each day has a limited number of hours, each week a limited number of days. Knowing that time grows shorter each day, a state of mind called urgency, samvega, arises. See that urgency. Jump out of the house which is on fire. This work is the seeking of enlightenment. Get on with it.
The question arises: What is the difference between having a self-image and knowing oneself? This is an important question, and one well-worth discussing, because it does seem at first that they are one and the same. But they are not.
First of all, a self-image is a burden to carry. Yet, unfortunately, everyone does carry around a self-image, and some people carry around a heavier burden than others. And carrying around a self-image is not only a burden, but a danger. For a self-image is fragile. At any time it is likely to be broken, smashed, shattered. And when one's self-image is broken—or even just jarred a bit—then there is pain, grief, and lamentation, dukkha, suffering , When one's self-image is shattered, for that precise moment it is seen to be untrue, unstable. Dukkha arises because self-identification has been momentarily lost.
Yet one carries around with oneself that self-image because that identity is supposed to bring security. This security, of course, is imaginary, it has no basis in fact: In fact, it creates insecurity because a self-image is imaginary, and I has to be protected all the time: So one runs around with an illusory self-image as if one were carrying a porcelain figure made out of the finest porcelain on one's head and trying to protect it from being smashed!
It's not a very viable situation, is it? Yet everybody does it. This self-image, in most cases, is built upon the best one hopes to offer. In some cases, though, it is built upon the worst one has to offer. Those who develop a negative self-image are the people who have created a poor image of themselves, those who think they can never do anything right. Now people in the other lot have created images of themselves as worthy persons, preferably kind, sweet, good-natured balanced, always understanding, in perfect command of every situation, never upset, never angry.
But having any kind of self-image cannot possibly bring security. On the contrary, it invariably brings worry and fear. Just below the surface lie the underlying tendencies, which indicate clearly that one may not be quite the way one thinks one is. But if one doesn't look too closely, maybe one can sustain the image. Or if nobody pokes enough. Of course there's no guarantee for that— everyone gets poked and pushed. But people who don't practise meditation and don't train themselves will shift blame to the one that's poking and pushing. By blaming an outside agency, they are able to keep their self-image intact or they tell themselves: That's only momentary anger and fury, which is excusable.
A person who has gained some insight may feel bereaved. He has lost something he thought he owned. Maybe he thought he owned kindness—or maybe he thought he owned equanimity. Or love towards all beings. Or any of the lofty qualities that everybody praises. All of a sudden what he thought he had disappears and cannot be restored. Because he has already trained himself a little, such a person does not blame another, but he can become extremely unhappy. Some people react by crying, some by sulking: Some become so upset about the loss of their self-created image of themselves that they cannot handle it and run away.
The only useful response is understanding: to know that this self-created idea about oneself has absolutely no genuine basis in real fact. With the seven underlying tendencies, the anusaya— sensuality, irritation, doubt, wrong view, conceit, clinging to existence, and ignorance—constantly rearing their ugly heads, how could there be a person who is always perfectly kind, always perfectly loving, always sweet, always pliable, always giving? Where is such a person? Where can it be found?
Obviously it stands to reason that one has made up nothing but a self-protection—a shield—so that one doesn't have to see the qualities which really exist and which are based on the three roots of evil and the three roots of good: greed, hate and delusion, and greedlessness, hatelessness and undeludedness. All six are there. And if one doesn't see the three negative ones, how is one ever going to get rid of them? As long as one imagines one is free of the roots of evil, there is no way of getting rid of them.
A self-image is a created figure—a persona— which is supposed to be the same all the time. One carries around that image of an ideal person wherever one goes. Whatever image is desirable. And that image is intended to be a permanent vision of oneself. "That's the way I am. That's my true self. Let no one dare change it."
That way of thinking certainly prevents self-knowledge. For nothing is permanent-least of all one's own reactions, one's own feelings, one's own thoughts, one's own emotions. Nothing of the kind exists which is permanent. If one has this image of an ideal person being carried around—this porcelain figure of oneself that one has made up—then that view prevents knowledge of the change in oneself, that prevents a true understanding of oneself. For every time the defilements rear up, the mind says: "Oh, no! That couldn't be me. I'm the other kind. I'm the good kind."
It often takes a trauma for one to wake up from this dream, a trauma with enough impact to make one fully aware that what one has thought about oneself is a total myth. Only then will one start investigating oneself. Before that everything one does has a veil around it. It's foggy and unclear. And whatever one does cannot have any truth within it. Because all that one does must comply with one's image, and whatever cannot comply is not accepted. One actually tries to fit reality to the self-image instead of seeing oneself according to reality.
Knowing oneself means knowing whatever happens. Whether one approves of it or disapproves of it doesn't matter. It's happening, isn't it? And anyone who is not an Arahant has to deal constantly with the defilements of the mind in all their subtlety and variety. Deny them—either totally or partially—and we deny the truth. And if we deny the truth within us, we cannot find the truth anywhere. The truth is within us. We don't have to be resigned to the fact that we have defilements in our minds. But we do have to recognise them when they arise. We have to know them with direct knowledge. Direct knowledge does not mean that we know lists of names and categories; it means that we recognise and identify the defilements when they arise within us. Only then can one acquire self-knowledge.
A self-image is hard and brittle. Because it is hard, it does not easily change; because it is brittle, it is easily broken. And after it's broken, we pick up the pieces and put it back together again saying: "I've got to have that self-image! I need to believe I'm a good person!" What's the good in believing in that? Believing in something which cannot possibly be true. What one needs to do is practise and make the image conform to reality.
Some people need a self-image more than others because they feel more insecure. When one feels insecure, one needs to grab hold of something and if there's nothing external to grab hold of, then one grabs hold of the self-image. One can create a self-image based on anything. Being a woman, a nun, a nun in-training, a lay person—being tall or short, fat or thin, beautiful—anything. And every self-image is something self-created. It denotes a collection of physical characteristics and personal traits, but surely it does not denote an "I." If one has an idea that "I" am a certain person, obviously that idea cannot be true because that certain person is always changing.
It is our need for inner security that makes it imperative for us to find something which seems secure, solid, unchanging. So we make up a self-image and try to maintain that it is secure, solid, unchanging. But there is nothing in the universe which is solid and unchanging. Not only do we make up this self-image of ours, but we create a certain kind of a self. One that we find pleasing, one that we can approve of.
If we repeatedly insist that our self-image is real, we are distorting reality, trying to make it fit our self-image instead of abandoning the self-image in order to see reality. It's a difficult habit to overcome, and the less insight we have, the harder it is to overcome. Usually one needs a real push to be woken up. Sometimes that push can come from "losing one's cool," from being the exact opposite of one's self—image. Then one suddenly sees that there is something wrong with the self-image, and one actually starts to recognise what one has created—a false picture of oneself—and then one really sees the suffering to which it gives rise.
The introspection which is necessary on the path in order to know with mindfulness one's feelings, thoughts, and the content of the mind can only start when one knows each facet of one's mental make-up—how each facet changes, how it operates, how it arises and ceases, how one reacts to these aspects of the mind. This self-knowledge is extremely valuable and cannot be dispensed with. But a self-image will block the way. Self-image and self-knowledge are diametrically opposed to each other. One is imaginary, the other real.
With self-knowledge comes the ability to work with one's own difficulties, and from that arises wisdom, which is the third aspect of the threefold path: moral conduct or sila, concentration or samadhi, and wisdom or pañña. The only knowledge really worth gaining is self-knowledge. Each one of us is no different from the rest of humanity. What is happening inside of oneself is happening inside of everybody. But most people are totally unaware of what is going on inside. If wisdom is to arise, it has to come through self-knowledge.
The wisdom that the Buddha gained and passed on to us is based on the direct knowledge of the Four Noble Truths. Direct knowledge is the inner-seeing, the inner-vision.
The impermanence of all states of being has to be reflected upon, contemplated, and directly experienced. If we only know about impermanence, unsatisfactoriness and non-self— annica, dukkha, and anatta— without experiencing them, we know something interesting and true, but the mere knowing doesn't help us to progress on the path. We do not gain insight just by knowing. And so we look within. And what better way is there to experience these truths than to see them in oneself, to see how one's own mental states are constantly changing? One then knows when one responds with love and kindness, and one knows when one reacts with negativity. And one clearly knows that it is utter foolishness to create a self-image from such responses and reactions, constantly changing, very often not even predictable.
The sooner we can drop our self-image and become aware of the here and now, the moment to moment, the sooner we're starting to practise, We are not practising if we cling to a cherished idea about ourselves and then try to impress that idea on others. A self-image is a mask. Sometimes we can actually feel it as bodily armour, and sometimes it shows through as body language. There is a way of feeling this armour: by becoming attentive, completely attentive to oneself.
Since there is nothing else really worth attending to, let us attend to our own body and mind. "The whole of the universe, O monks, lies in this body and mind." If that is where it lies, we might as well fix our attention right there.
And that person we've been trying to portray, the person we'd like to be, is the terrible burden, the bearer of dukkha, which must be seen for what it really is—an imagined self-image. Then it must be dispensed with, the quicker the better. A real impact comes when we can see ourselves as we really are, and see that we are not the same from one thought-moment to the next.
Think back over only today—just one day. Were you the same person all day long? Happy, smiling, loving and kind? All day, from morning to night? Always the same? Having the same kind of thoughts? The same kind of feelings? Were there feelings and thoughts of resistance, of worry, of hope, of planning? Or were they strictly in the moment and constantly the same? Just look at one day—today. Or one hour, or ten minutes, or five minutes. If there is total attention, you can be aware of the constant changes within yourself even within seconds.
Get in touch with your self-created image and let go of it. The whole of the practise is letting go, for this is where security lies. That image was supposed to bring you security, which is why it was created in the first place: to give you something solid and unchanging to hang on to. But if you really examine it, you will find that security is gained by letting go, by having absolutely nothing. If there's nothing, there's no threat, no fear of losing anything. There is just each moment.
Let go of all self-images, of all ideations, of all hopes and plans. Then you can dwell in this particular moment—and no one can take that away from you. It can't disappear, or be broken, or get lost. It just is. Security lies in the simple fact that in essence one has nothing and one is nothing.
Sister (Ayya) Khema was born in Germany, educated in Scotland and China, and later became a United States citizen. She was ordained as a Buddhist nun in Sri Lanka in 1979, and in 1984 established Parappuduwa Nuns Island as a training centre for Buddhist nuns and other women leading a contemplative life. She spends part of each year teaching meditation courses in different parts of the world, and the rest of the time in residence at Nuns Island.
In the south of Sri Lanka, on Ratgama Lake near Dodanduwa, is the serene and idyllic Parappuduwa Nuns Island, a Buddhist nunnery which has been established by Sister Khema for women of all nationalities.
Some of the women here are ordained nuns, having made a full commitment to the homeless life; some are anagarikas taking the eight precepts for a minimum of one year; some are women who have come for a three-month period in which to do intensive study of the Dhamma and guided meditation before they return to their home countries.
As an integral part of their training, daily lectures and discussions are held on the various aspects of the Dhamma. The essays presented here have been edited from Dhamma talks given on Parappuduwa Nuns Island by Sister Khema.