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Whether we're parents or not, we all identify on some level with the problematic influence other people can have on our lifestyle choices. Whether it's an inflexible partner, "concerned" friends and family members, or iron-willed children, they all prove that none of us lives in a vacuum. Taking on the Primal Blueprint [1], particularly the diet, in these cases isn't just revamping one's own eating. It involves a whole negotiation with the set patterns and expectations within one's entire household. (Deep, cleansing breath…) With the Primal Challenge [2] this month, many readers, particularly parents, are finding that aspect the hardest element of their commitment – particularly when it comes to the food. I've covered some seedling suggestions in the past [3], but I thought I'd offer a special, Challenge-focused triage post for the well-intentioned but struggling parents out there. I hope you'll join me in offering up your best tips, strategies, recipes, and serenity mantras.
First off, let me offer kudos to the parents taking up the Challenge this month. It's true that all of us here, parents or not, could offer a hundred excuses [4] for not doing it. Nonetheless, here we are. We're on the path. We're recommitting each day. We're all showing up, and that's 90% of it. For parents, the overall lifestyle negotiation takes on it's own set of obstacles though. Home life and everything it entails ends up largely influenced if not dictated by the needs (and sometimes whims) of the kiddos. It's easy to fall into what initially feels like a middle ground deal but gradually devolves into a wholly unreasonable and unhealthy arrangement – for everybody. We surrender our standards in the name of convenience or cost savings [5]. We postpone healthy changes because they don't mesh with family demands at the time. Let's stop the car for a moment.
Secure your diet before helping others. Don't get me wrong. I'm not advocating letting your children gorge in a pool of Cocoa Krispies while you prepare that Thai steak salad for dinner. Nonetheless, many a a mother and father have undoubtedly driven themselves to the edge of sanity trying to wholly transition little Sally and Joey just as they initiate their own Primal challenge. It's a perfectly honorable, understandable inclination, but it's often (not always) doomed to failure. Let me explain.
There's the good intention of wanting to improve your children's diet as you improve your own. I love this one. By all means, go for it. You couldn't give your kids a better gift (besides your love of course). Some folks can do it all in one sweep, and more power to them. If you have any doubts, however, work on yourself first. I know that "indulging" in healthier food while you leave your children behind in what suddenly seems a culinary wasteland can impose a tremendous amount of guilt. (Reader letters confirm as much.)
Let me say this. Improving your kids' diet is an infinitely worthy goal, but it's a different project. It's a separate intention. Give each goal its individual due, and you'll be more likely to be successful on both fronts. Remember the oxygen mask metaphor? If you secure your own source of oxygen, you're in better shape to help the person next to you. Likewise, if you're established in a healthy Primal Blueprint diet – meaning, you've created a genuine routine and you have a respectful repertoire of recipes – you will be in a better position to stay the course with your kids.
Anyone who's transitioned children to a different diet can tell you it's not the easiest thing in the world. They will likely resist. They will complain. The older ones will hold out waiting for you to change your mind and go back to the old ways. Will you? If you're a newbie just charting the course, the prospect is much more likely than if you've had the time and practice to make the Blueprint your own. You'll have developed a creativity and flexibility conducive to creating a workable version of the PB for your family – without compromising the basic premise or your personal commitment.
As you forge your own Primal path, set an important but more manageable goal for the kids. Cut out the gluten in their diet or those last processed foods you've been meaning to dump. Get rid of the sugar or work on increasing their veggie intake. Choose whatever feels reasonable, but opt for a change that isn't going to undermine your own efforts now. If that means doing the same old, same old for a couple of weeks, than so be it. Rome wasn't built in a day.
Then there's the practical aspects of juggling different menus. For one, parents new to the PB imagine the prospect of making multiple meals and decide the extra time, effort, and expense will be a deal breaker. It's gotta be everybody or nobody if this is gonna work, they think. I understand this perspective. I sympathize with it. As a parent, I remember what it's like to be on a budget, to have no time for yourself, to throw dinner together as quickly as humanly possible because you know a hunger meltdown is exactly nine minutes away and counting.
Nonetheless, the fact remains. When you allow your success to depend on the cooperation of others, you've surrendered control of – and full responsibility for – your intention. It's a hard truth when you're already stressed and sleepless. Let me offer a few suggestions along these lines. I know, too, there will be a whole host of fellow Grokkers who will offer the benefit of their own experience in these matters. That's one of the greatest parts about this community. Don't be afraid to lean on it.
- Eat separate meals at separate times. Yes, making different meals does take longer. There's no way around it. You can, however, get the kids fed on time and still work in a Primal dinner for yourself if you're not married to the idea that it has to be the exact way and time that it was before. Spare yourself the meltdowns and eye rolls about having to get to soccer practice and establish your own mealtime. Break it up. Eat half your dinner with the family and half later. Bring it to go on certain days if need be. Embrace the strategically scheduled IF [6] when necessary. Throw out your old schedule entirely and start from scratch. As disorienting as setting a new schedule sounds, it can be easier for some people than trying to force new priorities into the old one.
- Plan, plan, plan. With a little time, things will fall into place and become more automatic, but these transitions take some effort in the beginning. Be patient with the process, and see the possibilities. Create a list of your favorite Primal recipes [7] and snacks [8]. List a meal plan for your kids. Figure out what can be integrated into a week's cooking and shopping budget. Both you and the little ones might have to forgo or switch off getting one or more of your favorite foods. You might trade some expenses by leaning a little more on frozen veggies or shopping a road side farm stand this week. Nonetheless, if you plan it out, you can be sure that you've covered everyone's needs for the week.
- Coordinate meals to use the same basic ingredients. Instead of buying all separate ingredients for your food and theirs, make the respective meals as complementary as you can. A pound of ground beef, some chicken tenders, or some scrambled eggs can easily become the cornerstone for a tasty kid dinner and a fully Primal one for you. I have no doubt good readers will have tips here.
- Integrate family meals one at a time. Do a Primal dinner once a week – something everyone can agree upon. Add a Primal breakfast or snack the week after. Let go of expectations about the food itself and make it an event. Get the kids involved in planning or cooking. Make it a fancy meal with printed menus and fine china or eat it outside together on the ground with your hands. Make a family event out of it. Let it simply be a good time – one meal at a time.
- Always have a contingency plan. You expend massive amounts of time and brain energy packing the diaper back or day pack taking into account every kids' conceivable need. How about your needs? Take the time to make some Primal energy bars [9] each week, or bring along some protein shake mix when you're on a family outing. Life with kids is less than neat, less than predictable. Always come prepared, Primal style.
Thanks for reading today, everybody. Have kids? How have you meshed (or not) your Primal choices with the family picture? What are your fallback recipes for busy times or the Primal meals that no kid can refuse? I hope you'll add your suggestions and advice for all the Primal parents out there. Happy hump day!


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Simultaneous channel and symbol maximum likelihood estimation in Laplacian noise
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This paper treats channel estimation and signal detection in Laplacian noise. The received signal is assumed to be a transmitted signal which has been corrupted by an unknown channel, modeled as a FIR filter, the output being further disturbed by additive independent Laplacian noise. The transmitted signal is assumed to depend on an unknown parameter belonging to a known finite set. The simultaneous maximum likelihood (ML) estimator of the unknown parameter, as well as of the FIR filter coefficients, is derived. The ML estimate of the channel can be obtained by using a linear programming approach and the decision about the parameter is based on the output from a set of generalized matched filters. Simulation results are included in order to illustrate the performance of the proposed receivers
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The Gillard government has cleared the way for uranium exports to Russia, ending a three-year saga of indecision over whether nuclear material produced from Australian resources could fall into unsafe hands.
But the deal, which is being presented as a move to help Russia reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, will now focus debate on Australia's refusal to sell uranium to India.
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The deal, which is likely to antagonise the Greens, came ahead of today's formal Group of 20 summit at which the major economic powers will attempt to reach an agreement on how to ease the global economic imbalances that are causing currency tensions.
Last night the Australian uranium industry welcomed the deal with Russia, which
"Gillard has now opened up trade with one of the fastest growing nuclear power-generating nations in the world," Mr Hall said.
"The deals means there is a broader opportunity for Australian uranium production."
Russia has the third largest rate of new nuclear power stations behind China and India.
However, Mr Hall downplayed any immediate effect the deal was likely to have on the global uranium market.
"Even without that agreement, Russia was still buying on the market. Australia doesn't need to be selling to Russia to be impacted by their buying," he said.
Paladin's Mr Borshoff said: "Russia has always declared the amount of uranium it needs and this confirms that it can now diversify its supply base between Africa, Australia, Canada and Kazakhstan."
He called on the Gillard government to remove uranium export restrictions on India, which represents a huge market for Australian producers in coming years and plans to build nuclear power plants at growth rates second only to China.
"There is compelling reason why India has to be the next nation to come into the global uranium supply business," he said.
Australia is the last significant uranium exporting nation not to recognise India as a safe place to export uranium products.
The safeguards agreement allows for the supply of Australian uranium to Russia for use in its civil nuclear power industry, updating an existing nuclear agreement between the countries.
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The deal is likely to spark strong opposition from the Greens.
Russian companies have been showing interest in investing in Australian uranium prospects and they received apparent encouragement from Ms Gillard, who said the deal would take co-operation between Russia and Australia to a new level.
She also welcomed Russia's entry into the East Asian Summit next year and said Australia would be building up the bilateral relationship ahead of Russia's leadership of the APEC forum in 2012.
Australia originally reached an agreement with Russia in 1990 that allowed Australian uranium to be processed in Russia on behalf of third countries but did not allow it to be used for power generation within Russia. In a statement, Ms Gillard said the latest deal would "help Russia to meet its expanding energy needs as it seeks to reduce its greenhouse emissions by diversifying its energy sources and shifting away from a reliance on fossil fuels".
"It will increase export opportunities and create jobs for Australia's uranium suppliers and consolidates Australia's position as a reliable provider of energy resources," Ms Gillard said.
The government set the scene for the safeguards agreement earlier this year when it rejected a parliamentary report that urged delay in ratifying the Howard era treaty due to concerns about Russian security procedures.
The committee's main concern centred on the lack of international inspections of Russian nuclear facilities by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
But the 2008 report was also released at a time of growing international concern about Russia's war with neighbouring Georgia.
Nuclear material transferred to Russia under the agreement must be used solely for peaceful, non-military purposes and Australian uranium can only be used, processed or stored in facilities subject to Russia's safeguards agreement with the IAEA.
The terms are the same as those applying to other countries, including the US, China, Japan and the Republic of Korea but not India because it has not signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Ms Gillard used her other major event yesterday – a speech to the G20 Business Summit – to criticise Australia's banks for interest rate rises and defend the government investment in the national broadband network.
She continued her recent support for micro-economic reform declaring that infrastructure development was a key part of this reform process.
She said high quality infrastructure could contribute to lifting living standards and the Australian government had increased transparency around infrastructure spending by creating Infrastructure Australia.
But despite the conference focusing on new ways to bring private capital into infrastructure development, Ms Gillard cited the Australian NBN as a role model.
She said it showed there was not simply one way to do infrastructure development.
"My government made the decision to build the national broadband network partly because of the scale of the project and the need to fast-track its development so that all Australians can enjoy high-quality universal coverage and at a uniform national wholesale price."
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Lance Cpl. Steven G. Sutton, 24, of Leesburg, Ga., died May 26, 2012 while conducting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan. He was assigned to 1st Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N.C. He was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. He was awarded the Combat Action Ribbon, the Sea Service Deployment Ribbon, the Afghanistan Campaign Medal, the Global War on Terrorism Medal, the National Defense Service Medal, and the NATO Medal. The Marine was survived by his wife, Toni Senn Sutton, his daughter, Aubrey Smith, his father and his father's wife, Gene Sutton and Bonnie, his mother, Sue Etheridge, two brothers, Jack Sutton and Ches Balentine, his sister, Nicki Tyre, grandparents, Bobbi Ford and Nell Rugg, and extended family.
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The Travis Manion Foundation honored Lance Cpl. Steven Sutton, USMC by bringing two of its programs to his hometown. Leesburg hosted a 9/11 Heroes Run in honor of Sutton on Feb. 23, 2013. Inspired by their hometown hero, Lee County Middle and High School students participated in a Character Does Matter "If Not Me, Then Who…" Service Challenge to carry on his legacy and impact their community.
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Subject: [htdig] RE: [3.2.0b2] AND operator not working as it should?
From: Arthur Prokosch (firstname.lastname@example.com)
Date: Wed Aug 09 2000 - 09:31:16 PDT
Hi, all. I spent a while with other folks on htdig-dev trying to figure out
what was going on with the AND operator (and phrase matching).
If you haven't been following the thread, then briefly, let's say you have
one word, call it 'apple', that appears in at least one of the indexed
documents, and another word, call it 'banana', that doesn't appear anywhere
in any of your indexed documents. At least with the beta 2 and later
snapshots so far, searching for 'apple AND banana' would return the results
for 'apple' (when it should return 0). Additionally, if you searched for
the phrase '"banana apple"', you'd get the results for apple as well
(although a search for '"apple banana"' would correctly return 0 results).
Someone on htdig-dev found part of the code that was causing this problem,
and I put together a quick patch that seems to correct these problems and
not cause new ones (but no guarantees). If, like me, you're trying
desperately to make a near-production-quality application using phrase
searching with a beta version of htdig - or if you're just playing with the
latest beta - the following may be useful. The patch also seems to correct
an endless loop caused by a query string with an unterminated quote.
Also, this email address will soon disappear; if you have any questions
about this, please mail me at <email@example.com>. Thanks!
diff -up htsearch/parser.cc-3.2.0b2 htsearch/parser.cc --- htsearch/parser.cc-3.2.0b2 Tue Apr 11 18:53:21 2000 +++ htsearch/parser.cc Mon Aug 7 14:18:54 2000 @@ -171,6 +171,7 @@ Parser::phrase(int output) { List *wordList = new List; double weight = 1.0; + int skipRest = 0;
while (1) { @@ -183,11 +184,21 @@ Parser::phrase(int output) else if (lookahead == WORD) { weight *= current->weight; - if (output) - perform_phrase(*wordList); - + if (output && !skipRest) + { + perform_phrase(*wordList); + if (wordList->Count() == 0) + // just the start of the phrase has no results => skipRest + skipRest = 1; + } + lookahead = lexan(); } + else if (lookahead == DONE) + { + setError("'\"'"); + break; + }
} // end while delete wordList; @@ -352,8 +363,8 @@ Parser::score(List *wordList, double wei
if (!wordList || wordList->Count() == 0) { - // We can't score an empty list, so this should be ignored... - list->isIgnore = 1; + // We can't score an empty list, so stop here + // (setting isIgnore as well would cause errors with AND) return; }
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Thanks to some regulatory nudging from Utah, insurance companies are, once again, offering policies to cover children without their parents. That is a welcome relief to parents who cannot afford coverage for themselves but nonetheless want to be able to keep their children healthy.
And it's further evidence that good things can happen when states and the federal government are both working toward a common goal; in this case, the well-being of all Utah children.
Utah's largest insurers, faced with a provision of the federal Affordable Care Act that required them to cover all children, including those with pre-existing medical conditions, took the seemingly easy way out and, instead, dropped all children-only policies. They said they feared that parents would wait until their child was diagnosed with an expensive-to-treat illness or suffered a serious injury before signing them up.
Utah and eight other states then required insurers to reinstate children-only plans, and Utah made the decision easier on the insurance companies by limiting enrollment to two sign-up periods each year. That provision would lower the risk of parents deciding not to buy insurance for their healthy children but instead waiting for a costly emergency before signing up.
Utah insurance companies responded by dropping all children-only policies, dubiously arguing that was their only option because the law states they have to treat all children in the Beehive State the same.
State regulators rightly refused to stand by while insurers played games with the welfare of Utah children.
They allowed children with pre-existing health problems to be covered through the state-sponsored high-risk insurance pool and sent certificates of insurability to insurers for healthy children so the companies would cover them.
The insurers are happy because they don't run the risk of insuring mostly sick children, and parents can breathe easier because their sick children and their well children have coverage.
A new federal study reports on the outcome of efforts among the states, including Utah, to make health insurance available to more people by recognizing how insurance companies are affected by government rules and working to mitigate the impact.
Utah deserves the high marks it received in the study. As more provisions of the ACA are implemented, such cooperation is essential.


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If you are looking for a quick summer read - I've got one for you!! Shannon Dittemore's Angel Eyes is wonderful! It is YA fiction and does not preach - but truly challenges you spiritually as you read! Some of the quotes in the book were such great wisdom that I had to copy them down - they share truths but not so overtly that it turns readers off. It is an intriguing story of Brielle and her finding her way back after a devastating life event as she was just setting out on her own. When she returns home to take some time to heal, she meets Jake - but Jake is ANYTHING but normal and she sees in him many things that just do not add up. When she finds out that Jake and his friend are sent to help her - the ride really begins. I thoroughly enjoyed this and can't wait for the sequel!
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Brielle went to the city to chase her dreams and found tragedy instead. She's come home to shabby little Stratus, Oregon, to live with her grief and her guilt . . . and the incredible, numbing cold she can't seem to shake.
Jake's the new guy at school. The boy next door with burning hands and an unbelievable gift that targets him for corruption.
Something more than fate has brought them together. An evil bigger than both of them lurks in the shadows nearby, hiding in plain sight. Two angels stand guard, unsure what's going to happen. And a beauty brighter than Jake or Brielle has ever seen is calling them to join the battle in a realm where all human choices start.
A realm that only angels and demons-and Brielle-can perceive.
*I was sent a copy for review purposes by the publisher.
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|Providing a safe and happy home for women & girls - Ananda Nilayam
The need to set up a safe home for women and girls arose, when the sangha members shared their problems of violence against women, and forced child marriages of girls aged 10-12 years.
After a series of discussions with the women it was agreed that we would collectively take care of women who faced violence in their homes. Young girls being forced to marry would also be provided an alternative and schooling. They would need a safe and secure home till they found alternatives to rebuild their lives.
The first person to come to us was Shakuntala (13 years old) who was being forced to marry against her wishes. She had run away from home and hidden in a Tamarind Tree the whole night! Since then the shelter has provided space to several hundred girls and women to rebuild their lives. Shakuntala is now completing high school and is an accomplished camerawomen.
This year 2001 we have supported 21 women to resolve problems within their families and are at present housing 40 girls and two women. At the centre, the girls go to school and in addition to literacy gain a variety of skills useful for their future lives.
The adult women facing domestic violence very often negotiate with their husbands (assisted by a Legal Aid Committee of rural women leaders) to live a more dignified life. Sometimes the traditional village Panchayat (male leaders) is encouraged to give gender just decisions. This is accomplished when women leaders participate in the Panchayat decision-making.
In some instances, the women leaders approach the local police station to find justice. The Women Legal Aid Committee strive in all cases to ensure justice is provided to women.
Some typical examples are:
In many cases when women have been abandoned by their husbands, income generation activities have been set up. Some women have learned sewing, others raise plant nurseries and some women are rearing goats to help them increase their incomes. A few women have also been supported to build their own house.
Anand Nilayam is a place where women come for support, guidance and hope for the future. Support for the shelter has come from far and wide. The International Women's Movement from Australia to Norway have contributed their time and effort to keep the shelter vibrant. While the Government of India provided support for a while this is now ended. Sushila Dharma U.K. and Germany have made generous contributions in the past.
The Shelter has received support from The Global Sister Hood Network, Australia, The NTL Union at the Work Research Institute, Oslo and many individual friends in India and Abroad. The Directors at DDS have also made personal contributions. Institutional support this year is received from
This year the women sangha leaders have agreed to provide grains from their grain banks to partially support the shelter.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Foreign powers hope threatening Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi with a war crimes trial at The Hague will help drive him from office, but some worry such talk might instead leave him thinking he has no way out.
The United Nations Security Council voted unanimously to refer Libya to the International Criminal Court following its crackdown on protesters. ICC chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said on Monday attacks on civilians could be a crime against humanity and warranted a full investigation.
But -- just as with previous ICC probes into Congolese warlords, Sudan's president and Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army -- there is the lingering worry that prosecutions will make compromise and finding a solution harder.
Part of the problem, experts say, is that there is simply no real way to know what impact the threat will have on Libya's always somewhat erratic leader.
"It's a difficult balancing act," said Alia Brahimi, a research fellow on North Africa at the London School of Economics. "There is a risk that taking an absolute moral and legalistic approach and talking about war crimes charges simply reinforces Gaddafi's idea that he has nowhere else to go and no option to step down. But on the flip side, it sends a strong message to those around him."
Homegrown amnesty, truth and reconciliation processes -- rather than international prosecutions -- have been key to the resolution of several political crises or conflicts once thought intractable, such as the conflict between South Africa's white apartheid rulers and the black majority.
Many also doubt Northern Ireland's decades of violence could have been brought hopefully to a close if Britain had still been looking to prosecute sometime IRA militants.
A week into Libya's uprising, the country is effectively divided between Gaddafi loyalist and opposition forces in what some fear could be the opening stages of a civil war. Foreign governments say hundreds if not thousands have been killed already, while aid agencies fear a humanitarian crisis.
Outside powers demand that Gaddafi stand down, threatening no-fly zones, sanctions and possibly further military action -- although critics say that can also back intransigent rulers into a corner.
But the foreign powers say the risk of war crimes charges should deter followers from attacking civilians and might help prompt his ouster.
"International prosecutions can sometimes carry risks, such as causing brutal dictators to entrench rather than step down and face justice," said Matthew Waxman, professor at Columbia Law School and fellow at the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations.
"However, (they) can also help isolate perpetrators... hastening their demise while also laying the foundation for longer term stability and serving broader interests in justice and deterrence."
It is possible any war crimes prosecution could still be halted in its tracks if foreign powers chose to do so.
Interviewed by Reuters in 2005 shortly before the ICC issued an arrest warrant for the head of Uganda's LRA leader Joseph Kony, prosecutor Moreno-Ocampo said he might in general agree to halting proceedings in a country if that would bring peace.
Some in Uganda and elsewhere had warned that issuing warrants against the LRA for child abduction and killing might make it impossible to reach an agreement with them.
Kony ultimately refused to sign a peace deal after talks hosted by South Sudan, some say because he feared ICC prosecution. He and his fighters fled into nearby Congo and are still at large, continuing to raid villages there and in Sudan.
But Human Rights Watch's head of the international justice programme, Richard Dicker, said it was now barely even legally possible to simply cancel proceedings.
"The world has changed with the passing of the Rome Statute," he said, referring to the 2002 treaty establishing the ICC. "There's just not the legal option to offer... to stop the legal process. The option of letting Gaddafi walk away without any legal consequences just isn't on the table any more."
In reality, international justice remains likely to be highly selective. Any one of the permanent five UN Security Council members of the U.S., Britain, France, Russia or China can effectively block a probe.
That means Chinese actions in Tibet and elsewhere, Russian clampdowns in Chechnya or alleged Western abuses in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay are all off the agenda.
Close friends of Security Council powers such as U.S. ally Israel or China's friends Myanmar or Sri Lanka also tend to enjoy more diplomatic cover.
"It's a far from perfect system... an uneven playing field," said Human Rights Watch's Dicker.
"But I believe... we are moving in the right direction. If you look at eastern Congo, you have warlords who have been given amnesty time and time again... in a short-term search for peace. They have returned to commit even more vicious atrocities. You have to have systems that will bring justice."
Others say that -- like the threat of economic sanctions or military action -- at the end of the day the prosecution threat may simply become another diplomatic bargaining chip.
"A war crimes indictment demonstrates the resolve of the international community," said Thomas Barnett, chief analyst of political risk consultancy Wikistrat. "To the extent that it pushes an embattled leader into a corner, it can likewise be retracted as part of the collective bargaining for an acceptable exit scenario for the leader, his family and top associates."


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Here's a fascinating documentary with Boy George explaining how the popular culture of the 1970's opened up for his own alternative gender expression.
Boy George was the leader of one of the most popular pop bands of the 1980s, known for the Karma Cameleon.
Note his admiration of David Bowie. "I don't know what he was," the gay Boy George says. We do!
HT Sacha
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In Harry Potter's first year at Hogwarts Professor...
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Chris (short for Christina) has major stage fright. She can't get the courage to even ask a question in class. Best friends Spring and Jacqueline are the only people that know her identity on Thereallife.com, Chris's website which is the only place she feels comfortable sharing her thoughts. Her short story about Cassie, a girl based on herself becomes an internet sensation and leaves everyone wondering exactly who the "Realist" is.
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TNL3542 said
was it hard to set up? im useing kayako live chat and getting feeds from twitter
Nah it was pretty easy. I can't give feedback of the web based helpdesk as I disabled these features to make it purely email based between my users, but they have simple but detailed tutorials on how to set everything up.
Rather overwhelming at first though.
I have about 8 different email addresses and contact forms on my different sites which now forward to a single ZenDesk email.
All my Facebook Fanpage messages and comments, tweets etc, forward through to the same email so I can turn off notifications etc and manage the support from my email, or login and see them each as tickets.
The emails are all html format and look really smart with yours and the user's gravatar showing.
It's only $20 per year too
Would be so awesome if I could hook my Envato up to it as well.
I definitely think the landing page would be a great idea, and could help convert confused visitors into paying customers. The landing page could describe the marketplaces separately, could feature a video sharing the various uses for the marketplace, and overall it would help buyers, sellers, and new comers get a feel before jumping into purchasing items.
Good ideas
PatrickAThompson said
(...) So, I guess my suggestion would be to make these motivational notes a staple on author's dashboards… So one doesn't have to refresh his browser 20 times to find out the info…. not that I do that ... but I do.
Eh, that's funny I was just thinking of this, even though I guess it's a bit silly. But if you look at it, it does make sense to show all the funfact informative snippets at the same time instead of having to reload the page to see the next one. Here's another funfact that could be added: "item with most sales this week: itemName".
I agree with the motivational aspect of the Fun Fact section and this is probably super easy to implement so +1 for a nice feature to have.
^ Fun fact thread: http://graphicriver.net/forums/thread/fun-facts/52915
graphicmind said
^ Fun fact thread: http://graphicriver.net/forums/thread/fun-facts/52915
Thanks for the link, cool to see a lot of +1s for the idea… but also a bit sad to see the thread is almost a year old… guess that means implementing it wouldn't be that easy.


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Taking a date to a sushi restaurant is a better idea than making sushi at home, where the knives aren't as sharp and the fish all have names. Leave your aquarium alone with this Groupon.
Choose from Three Options
- $10 for $20 worth of sushi and Japanese food for lunch
- $17 for $35 worth of sushi and Japanese food for dinner
- $30 for $62 worth of sushi and Japanese food for dinner for parties of four or more
Lunch menu items include six-piece salmon sashimi ($11.50) and chicken teriyaki over rice with miso soup ($8.95). The dinner menu offers up albacore-tuna tataki ($8.25), salmon teriyaki ($18.95), and beef teri don, a bowl filled with beefsteak teriyaki over rice ($14.50).
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Behind a sleek sushi bar, the chefs at Maru Maru wrap seaweed around fresh fish before slicing rolls into creative make sushi. Pieces of sashimi and nigiri bolster dishes such as Japanese teriyaki and vegetable tempura. Bright wall sconces illuminate rows of seating in the tile-floored restaurant, where groups of diners share their deepest regrets over platters of sushi.


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hmm weird, I just got this working by reading a post that I missed, now its not working again... lest I know it works
I am not sure if this driver can inject, I have
Network controller: RaLink RT2600 802.11 MIMO, I just bought this card today
so.. someone please give me some good news.. because when I try to run aireplay-ng to associate with my home connection
it fails with.Code:Sending Authentication Request
I also disabled mac filter for the time to see if it worked.Code:02:22:24 Sending Authentication Request (Open System) Attack was unsuccessful. Possible reasons: * Perhaps MAC address filtering is enabled. * Check that the BSSID (-a option) is correct. * Try to change the number of packets (-o option). * The driver/card doesn't support injection. * This attack sometimes fails against some APs. * The card is not on the same channel as the AP. * You're too far from the AP. Get closer, or lower the transmit rate.
*crosses fingers* else how is the AIR-PCM350? would that do? what else is left for me to do with this card?
hmm weird, I just got this working by reading a post that I missed, now its not working again... lest I know it works
When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean. -- Lin-Chi
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I slept once, it was a Tuesday.
Ya, I read that.. anyways.. that doesn't work for me because I don't have any other connections on my router.. I just have one laptop with a wireless adapter thanx.
In playing around further last night, I realized that as I suspected I might be...Im retarded :S Disregard all that last info, and replace it with this ACCURATE and simple info:Ok, Not sure if you resolved your problem fully. But I was stumped with a problem of my own for some time, and just found a (really simple) solution. As this post was one that with the appropriate name Ill post it here.
Im using a crappy generic pcmcia with Ralink b/g chipset and using rt61 drivers. The problem I was having was that all aireplay-ng -9 <interface> attempts I was running returned negative results. Now maybe Im jsut a total retard and this is obvious but, the solution is to use this:
aireplay-ng <interface> -a <bssid>
where a is the bssid of an AP.
For some reasons it will only accurately test injection when you insert the bssid into the cmd. Dunno if this will help anyone, but I do hope so
For the above described problem, the answer is stupid simple. Follow these steps in order shown (all couple of them :P)
insert PCMCIA/USB card (Disregard if card is onboard)
If that doesnt work, run modprobe rt61 after airmon-ng.Code:bt ~ # airmon-ng start wlan0 Interface Chipset Driver eth1 Broadcom bcm43xx wlan0 Ralink b/g rt61 (monitor mode enabled) bt ~ # aireplay-ng -9 wlan0 11:24:50 Trying broadcast probe requests... 11:24:52 No Answer... 11:24:52 Found 1 AP 11:24:52 Trying directed probe requests... 11:24:52 00:00:00:00:00:00 - channel: 11 - 'MCCS' 11:24:56 Ping (min/avg/max): 0.036ms/18.599ms/68.008ms Power: 0.00 11:24:56 14/30: 46% 11:24:56 Injection is working!
Yes, its that simple. Anyway, for those out there that are trying to overthink it as I was, good luck! :P
I have a similar problem.
First, i managed to make my card (D-link G510) work with injection, installing this driver rt61-cvs-dally.tar.gz. When i reboot my system injection doesn't work.
Any ideas? Thanks.
^no one???
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Madonna's adoption gets the green light
Despite protests from human rights groups, Madonna's adoption plans in Malawi are a "go." The Malawian government has announced its full support for the singer's adoption of four-year-old Mercy, according to Reuters:
Malawian Information Minister Patricia Kaliati said Madonna had helped in the country and was a worthy mother.
"Madonna has been good to us, she is supporting over 25,000 orphans in this country and she has proved that she can take care of David," Kaliati told Reuters.
"Very few rich and famous people can take time to fly all the way to Malawi to support our children we support her adoption process."
Adding "She also found our sacrifice of Gucci purses filled with goat's blood to be acceptable and has agreed not to breathe fire upon us from above. Although, she said that after adopting David and totally lit up our harvest anyway. But we're confident she means it this time. — Fingers crossed."


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I have three kids.
After each pregnancy, I lost my "baby fat" by going on the Weight Watchers program.
It worked pretty well for me, until I would get close to my ideal weight.
Then, it didn't.
I always had to finish the last couple pounds "on my own" in order to get back to my normal weight.
There were some things I really liked about Weight Watchers. For instance, I liked the flexibility it provides for special events and dining out.
I also really LIKED having to get weighed each week. It keeps me honest and accountable. (It's just too easy, if I'm dieting without a program, to slip up for a day or two.) If I know I'm going to get weighed, I tend to be more diligent about following a program.
There were some things I really did NOT like about Weight Watchers when I tried it years ago.
I felt the program (or at least the leaders I encountered) pushed a lot of foods I didn't consider healthy.
Processed foods.
Artificial sweeteners.
Even "way back then," I didn't like having stuff like that in my diet.
I talked to Dr. Painless recently about the weight I gained while on prednisone for a prolonged period of time. (Weight I haven't been able to lose, even though I have a pretty healthy diet.) Dr. Painless deals with a LOT of patients who are battling pain, physical limitations, and the negative impact of pain medications on their weight. He told me the only pain patients he has seen successfully lose and keep weight off long term have been his patients who have gone on Weight Watchers.
I decided to give it a try again – all these years later. (My "baby" is now 17!!)
Yesterday, I went to my first meeting.
I was happy to hear a lot has changed at Weight Watchers.
For instance, you can eat all the fruit and veggies you want, with a couple starchy vegetables being the only exception.
They also now have apps (!) and etools (!) and little magic calculators!!
More importantly, the program is flexible in a much healthier way.
I can easily leave out gluten, or artificial sweeteners, or pretty much anything I have a personal aversion to.
In other words, I can keep my 95% already healthy eating habits.
What I will be working on is the other 5% …
Alcohol, the food splurges when we eat out, or go on vacation, and the occasional chocolate craving.
(Damn! I should have enjoyed that chocolate Santa before I joined!)
Oh, and portion sizes too!
Weight Watchers is all about small portion sizes … something we know very little about in the United States.
Will it work for me?
Well, who knows.
I hope so.
I plan to exclude most grains from the program because I happen to have a metabolism that doesn't do well with them. (I can starve myself, but still gain weight if I'm consuming grains.)
I will keep my green smoothies, and I'm very happy about that.
I considered waiting until after upcoming Surgery #9 to begin a weight loss program.
But, the truth is, I just want to start getting the "old me" back.
I know the anesthesia and drugs from Surgery #9 will most likely cause my weight to go up for awhile.
I also will have to be fairly inactive while I recuperate.
Still, I felt it was better to start now instead of postponing it for a few more weeks.
I walked out of the meeting with all sorts of stuff to read, and recipes to try.
I'm sure I'll probably make a few mistakes as I get used to doing things the WW way,
But I hope I'll still make some progress.
I will keep you updated.
If I find a great recipe, I'll share it.
If I fail with a giant chocolate Santa, or a bottle of red wine, I'll share that too.
And hey, if I lose weight, I'll dance a happy dance as I share that info too!
OK, now it's your turn …
Are you trying to lose a few holiday pounds?
And if so, how are you going about it?


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We are introducing the new external flash METZ MB 26 AF-1 Digital. It is a compact companion who famously proves especially on the road. It offers simple flash control via the easy-buttons and LED signaling. Able to work immediately in the trio of different modes - TTL, and LED SLAVE. Very quickly, you will love the integrated LED video light and a solid metal base, making it possible to quickly connect locking system for your camera.
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Guide number of 26 at ISO 100/21 ° and max. 85 mm focal (tele conversion lens)
Guide number of 20 at ISO 100/21 ° and 35 mm focal / 50mm
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TTL flash control for Pentax P-TTL flash mode
Color temperature: 5500 K
The possibility of rotation by 90 ° upwards
Integrated LED video light (level 2 setting) - 30lux / 1 m
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Number of flashes depending on the type Aku:
The alkaline battery (1.5 V): 100
With rechargeable NiMH battery (1.2 V) to 110
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Pinkoo Gripe Water liquid is a herbal nutritional liquid for infants that relief from gastrointestinal discomfort, reflux and teething. It also give relief from other discomfort caused to stomach during digestion process. Pinkoo Gripe Water liquid is a product that contains dill oil and Sarjikakshara.
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This is used to help parents by treating cases of gripe in one's child and pains caused by gas. It does this by targeting air bubbles stuck in the stomach, thus improving the flow in the stomach. This is suitable for use in a child's teething period.
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Provides relief from gripe
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Thugs Destroy $2,500 Worth of Girl Scout Cookies
This is not the way the cookie is supposed to crumble.
This is not the way the cookie is supposed to crumble.
With all the peer pressure surrounding young girls today, it can be difficult to foster self-esteem in a society that often demands perfection -- "perfect" hair, "perfect" skin, and so on and so forth. In order to combat this harmful pressure, the Cadette Girl Scout Troop #22052 put together an incredibly cute and creative video that use Bigfoot to preach the beauty of being who you are and not following the crowd. The video itself was also researched, written, directed, and produced by the bright young women of the Troop.
State lawmakers in Indiana were recently presented with a resolution to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Girl Scouts organization and honor the positive influence the group has had on American women. Representative Bob Morris, a Republican from Fort Wayne, was the only representative to refuse to sign, citing a belief that the Girl Scouts is a "radicalized organization."


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The Meaning of Non-Existence and its Implications on the Self's Bondage
By Satyanarayana Dasa
In Indian Logic (Nyāya), non-existence is called abhāva. There are various divisions and subdivisions of non-existence.
Mutual Non-Existence (anyo'nya-abhāva)
"Mutual non-existence" means non-existence due to being different. For instance, a table is different from a chair. In a table, a chair does not exist. This is true for all three phases of time: A chair never existed within a table, nor does it currently exist within a table, nor will it ever in the future exist within a table. The chair and the table mutually demonstrate the non-existence of the other, because they are eternally different from each other.
Co-relational Non-Existence (saṁsarga-abhāva)
Another, more significant, type of non-existence is inherent within the object itself – not merely demonstrated by the object not existing within another object. There are three types of such "co-relational non-existence," differentiated by the time at which the non-existence occurs.
Prior Non-Existence (prāg-abhāva)
Before an object came into existence, it was non-existent. That is "prior non-existence." It implies that a non-existent object could be created, produced or generated in future.
Indian Logic accepts eight general and three specific causes of any creation. The eight general causes are:
1. God
2. God's knowledge
3. God's will
4. God's effort
5. Fate
6. Prāg-abhāva
7. Space
8. Time
Prāg-abhāva is particularly significant, because if an object is not initially non-existent, there is no question of "creating" it. If there is no non-existence, it means that the object already exists.
To give an example: Before a cake comes into existence, its non-existence was prevailing without any beginning. This non-existence is called prāg-abhāva. However, when the cake is produced, its non-existence terminates.
Subsequent Non-Existence (pradhvaṁs-abhāva)
Continuing with the example of a cake, when it is entirely eaten the cake once again exists no more. This is "subsequent non-existence." It implies that the object previously existed.
"Subsequent non-existence" has no end. Never again will that specific cake come back into existence. It will always remain non-existent. "Prior non-existence has an end, but no beginning; and "Subsequent non-existence" has a beginning but no end.
Eternal Non-Existence (atyanta-abhāva)
"Eternal non-existence" refers to things that never existed in the past and will never exist in the future, like the horns of a rabbit.
Implications for the "Fall of the Soul"
Śrī Jīva Gosvāmī says the living entity suffers because of an ignorance that has no beginning (prag-abhāva). Ignorance is merely the non-existence of knowledge, in this case of the Supreme Lord. In other words, the living entity suffers because of "prior non-existence" of divine knowledge.
This ignorance cannot be "subsequent non-existence of divine knowledge." Because if it were so, then divine knowledge would have existed before the ignorance. However, it is a dictum that one who has knowledge of the Supreme Lord can never be put into ignorance. So Jīva Gosvāmī describes the soul's ignorance as "beginningless" – the soul never possessed the divine knowledge to begin with. And this is why the jīva is called nitya-baddha, "ever-conditioned."
When we apply this to the question of when, how or if the living entity fell from the spiritual world, we can conclude that he never fell, because his conditioned state has no beginning. This is the meaning of nitya-baddha. This also implies that it is possible to bring ignorance to an end. "Prior non-existence of knowledge" can be ended when one attains divine knowledge.
When divine knowledge comes into existence, it will never end. It puts ignorance into "subsequent non-existence" which is an endless condition. Therefore a person with divine knowledge is called nitya-siddha, "ever-liberated." Such persons never fall down. This is the meaning of Lord Kṛṣṇa's statement, yad gatvā na nivartante tad dhāma paramaṁ mama: "reaching which one never returns – this is my supreme abode" (BG 15.6).
This abode, the Lord's planet (dhāma), is not physical. When we say, "after going there," we think "going" means moving from one physical location to another, but this is not the case here. "Going" here refers to consciousness: When one's consciousness "goes" transcendental, it cannot be lost, na nivartante.
Therefore, once a person becomes liberated, he cannot be bound again, and if someone is conditioned, there is no question that he or she was liberated prior to that.
That is the meaning of Jīva Gosvāmī's statement in Priti Sandharbha (Anuccheda 1), saṁsargābhāva yuktatvena: A person's pre-non-existence of knowledge implies that there is a possibility of acquiring knowledge. Although the ignorance has no beginning, it has an end.
Anything which has no prior non-existence, is called "eternal." Things which were never created cannot be destroyed, they are outside the influence of chronology. Kṛṣṇa, for example, has no prior non-existence, therefore the terms "creation", "existence" or "destruction" do not apply to Kṛṣṇa. To say Kṛṣṇa has existence implies in terms of Logic that prior to existence He did not exist, the non-existence was destroyed and then He came into existence. Obviously, this is not applicable to eternal objects.
However, this is not the case when it comes to ignorance, because ignorance itself is not a substance, it is merely the non-existence of another substance: knowledge. Thus, although it is beginningless, it has an end. Owing to our material conditioning, we think that everything has a beginning, and sometimes ācāryas may explain philosophy in terms implying that ignorance has a beginning, to circumvent the material conditioning that often prevents us from understanding the concept of "beginningless."
Eternal beings like Kṛṣṇa and everything directly related to Him (e.g., His associates, His planets and His pastimes) have no beginning. Māyā and material nature are also related to Kṛṣṇa, and thus also have no beginning. We are also related to Kṛṣṇa, therefore we ourselves have no beginning and we seem to accept it without much thought. However, when it comes to our conditioned state, we somehow seem to object that our ignorance is beginningless.
Even though we may feel troubled by the thought that our ignorance has no beginning, we can rejoice to know that it can come to an end.
When one's consciousness "goes" transcendental, it cannot be lost, na nivartante. You explained this very clearly. Also the very last sentence, "Even though we may feel troubled by the thought that our ignorance has no beginning, we can rejoice to know that it can come to an end", brings ample of hope to the seeker of the truth that it is all not that bad. Everything may sound sound so pessimistic, but that that very desire for real knowledge can bring an end to the endless suffering and of course the Jiva can eternally serve Krishna. Wonderful!
Thank you for the article.
I have two questions.
1.How to understand BG verse, "nasato vidyate bhavo" with the prag abhava nature of knowledge/ignorance in the jiva?
Per this BG verse, the logic used is – that which never existed, can never come into existence.That which has real existence can never go into non-existence.
Hence if knowledge never existed in jiva, it can never come into existence on a jiva.
Similarly if ignorance existed in jiva, it can never come into non-being in a jiva.
2. You mentioned "Prāg-abhāva is particularly significant, because if an object is not initially non-existent, there is no question of "creating" it. If there is no non-existence, it means that the object already exists."
However per Vaishnavas, is the world not eternal? We say creation is merely a manifestation of the world in subtle state to a gross state. There was never a time the world did not exist. Is it not? This being so, what is the prag abhava of the creation we are talking about?
Thank you for the time.
Answer to question no 1. The Gita verse says that which is non-existent cannot come into existence. It does not say that an existing object cannot move to a place where it does not already exist. Knowledge is given by the grace of guru or Krishna to the jiva. It is not created.
Of course there are other ways to translate this verse but i am answering accepting your translation.
Question no 2. The unmanifest state is the prag-abhava. Obviously if the world is eternal then there is no creation and dissolution. But all Vaisnavas accept that the world is created and annihilated. Prakriti is eternal but undergoes modifications, e.g. the body takes birth and dies. We do not say that the body is eternal.
Thank you for the quick response.
Reponse 1 : You mentioned " It does not say that an existing object cannot move to a place where it does not already exist. Knowledge is given by the grace of guru or Krishna to the jiva. It is not created."
In this context, we are dealing with knowledge(its prag abhava in baddha Jiva). How can knowledge be limited to space or How can there be coming and going for knowledge? There can be coming and going for heat or fragrance based on proximity to similar objects.However knowledge(in my understanding) is not of similar kind. If you imply this coming and going imply manifestation of knowledge, then this implies knowledge is already inherent in the living entity and that knowledge is manifest at some time and not manifest at other times by that entity.
My understanding of 11.11.3 and 4 is that proximity to prakrti covers the knowledge of jiva. Covering and uncovering is the property of prakriti/maya.
Jiva's contact with prakriti is without beginning.
Please help me understand.
Response 2 :
I thought the concept of existence is on the ABSOLUTE level. I thought both manifest and unmanifest states point to the EXISTENCE of a single entity.
Thank you for your time.
Answer to Vraja. Yes prag abhava and pradhvamsa abhava can apply to the same object, before creation and after destruction respectively.
Reply to Scooty Ram: You have a wrong understanding about what knowledge is, and hence the doubt. Prag abhava means there is no knowledge. It is not that knowledge is covered by ignorance. The statements of Gita such as ajnanena avritam jnanam tena muhyanti jantavah do not really mean that there is knowledge in the atma and it got covered by ignorance. There is no knowledge in atma. Ignorance cannot cover knowledge just as darkness cannot cover light. It will be helpful if you read an earlier article by me, "what is jnana."
In brief, there is material knowledge which we get through our senses. This is vritti jnana. This is outside the atma. It is in the mind. It is referred in SB 11.22.11 as guna of prakriti. There is atyanta abhava of this jnana in atma. This jnana cannot be in atma because it is material. The other jnana is the internal potency of bhagavan and it comes by the grace of guru or God. It is stated in SB 11.22.10. Here the word jnanada or giver of knowledge is used. This is given. There is praga abava of this jnana in atma.
I hope this clears your doubt.
Thank you for the time.
I have understood this : There is no knowledge in atma.There is atyanta abhava of material knowledge in atma.There is praga abava of spiritual knowledge in atma.
It is clear now. I mistook jnana as svarupa jnana, the Iness . I have noted that you are talking about vritti jnana.
You mentioned Jnana/internal potency is given. Does this imply Attainment of something new/external is defined as Moksha/Purushartha in Gaudiya school? Is not mere removal of Ignorance, moksha?
Reply to Scooty: This jnana which is given is bhakti-jnana, or devotion.
dadami buddhiyogam tam yena mamupayanti te (Gita 10.10). This is the internal potency. Moksha is a side-effect of it. Moksha is not the purusartha pursued by Gaudiya Vaishnavas. Prema is the purusartha and this prema comes by the grace of guru and Krsna. In the Gita verse cited above the word buddhiyoga is used for prema.(an example of parokshavada because prema is guhya, a secret, the only secret). This is the new thing given which does not exist in atma.
Your second question indicates that you have not understood the meaning of prag-abhava yet. Ignoranace is praga-abhava of bhakti-jnana. Ignorance is not some positive entity. It is an abhava padartha, not a satta padartha.
reply to scooty: Atman is like eye; jnAna is like sunlight; ajNAna is like darkness; light comes from sun; sun has to rise for the eyes to see; what is svarUpa in the eyes is its ability to see light; not being the light; that ability is inherent in the Atman; but for the eyes to actually see, the sun light has to reach it;
Irrespective of how you define ultimate happiness or purusartha, such happiness is always considered internal. Is this not applicable to bhakti?
All efforts are made to acquire happiness and remove sorrow. For some happiness lies in another's welfare. Still happiness is felt by this person for which he endeavors in the form of helping others for others sake. I may sacrifice my job to take care of poverty in a society. This implies I suffer losing comforts of my job but in reality my real comfort is in seeing others happy and I strive for this happiness. Such happiness is within me and I am made to experience it by God's will. There are gradations of happiness from absence to presence. Please explain where I am wrong.
To be more clear in what I am trying to understand..
Parama purusartha is attaining ananda and removing sorrow. Definition of what constitutes this ananda may differ. However sukha prapti is the purushartha or prayojanam.
Question is , does this ananda lie inherent to a jiva or external? Is it within svarupa of jiva or is it Aganthukam.
I understand that the jiva has never experienced this ananda before. There this ananda is prag abhava.Jnana=ananda
How much ever the eyes try to see in the darkness, they cannot see; appearance of the light automatically removes the darkness; the eyes need not and cannot remove the darkness on its own;
To add to Anan's comment: There is no way to remove darkness except by getting light. If u try to throw out darkness from a dark room by using a bucket u can try your whole life unsuccessfully. You can not cut darknes into pieces by a sword. You can not destroy it in any other way except by getting light. This is because darkness is absence of light.
To scooty's first comment: So what is the difference between social welfare and bhakti? One is action in sattva guna and other in visuddha sattva or internal potency of the Lord. Both give happiness by doing something for others but are not the same.
Scooty's second comment: Bhakti is both jnana+ananda. It is not in the atma. There is prag-abhava of bhakti in atma, which implies that atma is capable of having it. Atma is the intermediate potency of God, tatastha sakti, and bhakti is the internal potency, antaranga sakti. Two seperate types of saktis. Baddha jivas do not have antaranga sakti in them. It is given by guru/Krishna. This is the sense of SB 3.7.39, 11.22.10 Mam eva ye prapadyante mayam etam taranti te (Gita 7.14). Maya can only overpower the jiva, not the antarnga sakti. Once jiva has acquired antaranga sakti, it cannot be overpowered by Maya. Thus liberation is the concomittant effect of bhakti.
Reply to Sri Anan or Sri SND :You had mentioned Atman is like eye with the ability to see.
I have carefully noted that you have only shown an analogy to demonstrate how ananda is external to atma. I did not mistake it as material senses that perceives spiritual objects.I understand this is only analogy.I understand ananda or light we refer is spiritual.
Following references seems to contradict your analogy:
1. Na tad basayate suryo.The param dhama or prayojana or ananda is not perceived through an organ or medium.
2. That which the eyes can not see and that through which the eyes sees is the atman. Atman is verily the bliss and ability to experience the bliss. This applies to jivatman and paramatman.
3. Matras sparshas tu kaunteya. The experience arising out of senses/medium constitutes the knowledge of material world. The spiritual knowledge is self immanent , it does not require a medium. Atma is jnana svarupa and jnana gunaka. Jnana without ananda is similar to seeing sugar and not tasting it. This does not constitute real jnana or satkshatkara.
Or is the jivatma anandamaya or not. I noted that in Brahma sutra this question is raised and settled saying the anandamaya referred in taitareya is brahman. This is per context of what this upanishad is talking about. It continues to say the head is verily bliss etc.
In short, how can I experience something external to self ? Is not such an experience called material experience? Happiness is within and it is made to experience by grace of God.
If this discussion is getting lengthy, let us stop here . Thank you for taking the time to explain and hinting the answer in this forum.
I agree we were never in spiritual world and we never experienced the ananda. I also agree once we are let to experience, it can never be stopped.
Sorry Scooty, it will need few pages to answer your questions which is beyond the scope of this article.
For scooty: Please see AnandamayAdhikaraNam in the brahma-sUtras; it is very clear from the siddhAnta of all AcAryas that jIva is not Ananda-maya and it is clear from the sUtra tat-hetu-vyapadezAcca that jIva is given the Ananda by brahman; the hetu for jIva's Ananda is brahman;
No Problem Ji. Thank you for the article. Atleast I have grapsed the information that jiva does not have ananda in its svarupa.
If I may ask another question directly related to the article..
It is said Sri Vyasa was not happy after writing all scriptures. Seeing Sri Vyasa without peace of mind, Sri Narada appeared and told him to write Srimad Bhagavatam.
Per this article (and other articles on ananda), jiva is anandAtmaka.
1.ananda is simply dukha pratiyoga (mere absence of distress)
2.Jnana is simply jada pratiyoga (opposite of non-sentience)
Only through bhakti, a jivatma get the real knowledge and real sukha/ananda.
Also once one gets bhakti, distress and its cause-ignorance , both are put into pradvamsa abhava.This implies there can be no distress to a person who has got bhakti since the cause being ignorance is uprooted for ever.
Per Sri Vishvanatha's commentary to BG 2.65 , sri vyasa's unhappy state is due to absence of bhakti. If this is so, does this imply every text prior to srimad bhagavatam is lacking bhakti ?
Infact at one point sri narada says Sri Vyasa also very well knows the cause of distress. If so, how to understand the intermittent unhappy state of Vyasa.
This is related to the article in the sense, bhakti which never existed in jiva will never diminish once it enters a jiva. If so, Sri Vyasa should have never been unhappy. Ignorance being the cause of distress.
Thanks in advance.
Reply to malati: I have read this question 4 times and my dull brain is unable to grasp the logic behind it.
Prag-abhava means something which does not exist but will come into existence in future. Ignorance=pragabhava of knowledge – it implies that knowledge will appear in future.
reply to scooty:
In BG 2.65 SVCT says that happiness comes from Bhakti only and then he gives the example of Vyasa. Vyasa was not happy after dividing the Vedas and writing Puranas and Mahabharata etc. Narada said that Vyasa is not happy because the latter has not glorified the Lord sufficiently or purely.
First of all, it is not that Vyasa was completely miserable. It is only to show that only pure devotion gives complete happiness. Social welfare may give some happiness but not complete happiness.
Secondly, it does not mean that there is no bhakti in the sastras written before Bhagavata Purana. It means that bhakti is not as clearly and purely explained as in Bhagavata.
Thirdly, it depends whether you consider Vyasa an avatara or a mortal being. If he is an avatara then it is just lila to teach us and does not mean that he was unhappy or has no bhakti.
If u consider him as a mortal being then your conclusion is right but that does not match with the facts. If Vyasa had no bhakti how could he sit in trance of devotion and write Bhagavata – bhaktiyogen manasi samyak pranihite'male, apasyat purusam purnam ….?
I do not consider sri vyasa mortal. However Per 2.65 , it is shown He had no bhakti.It is also shown through Sri Narada , He got bhakti.
If there is bhakti , there can be no kapatam.Nothing can eclipse bhakti to promote kapatam in any slightest form. If there are sastras written by vyasa that promotes something other than bhakti, it implies there is kapatam. If Sri vyasa was always in bhakti, how to understand the cheating religion taught by Sri Vyasa in His other works?
If bhakti is the topmost shakti and it is equated to Sri bhagavan, How to understand different teachings of sri vyasa ranging from teachings within gunas (tamasa purana) to misra bhakti and finally nirupadika bhakti?
If Sri vyasa already had bhakti, why He dimished bhakti to show other purusharthas as ultimate? Bhakti shakti can never show such marga with kapata.Does this imply will of the lord can cover bhakti for a specific lila? Does this imply will of the lord can bring back unhappiness (caused by ignorance) to a jiva who has already got bhakti?
Scooty you have a brain and penchant for purva-paksha, I must acknowledge.
You accept that Vyasa is not a mortal being. Later on you consider him as a jiva albeit with bhakti. No, that is not true. According to Jiva Gosvami, Badarayana Vyasa is Narayana, please refer to Tattva Sandarbha (anuccheda 15,16). He cites Puranas in his support.
I wrote in previous reply that it is his Lila. No eclipse of bhakti.
What u call kapatam (cheating), Bhagavatam (1.4.25) calls it Kripa (grace) on ignorant people. If Vyasa is not a mortal being, why should he engage in kapatam (cheating)? Why should he take big effort to write all these books?
Our minds are very limited and we have a limited vision. If I am a Gaudiya or Sri Vaisnava, I want the whole world to be Gaudiya or Sri Vaisnava. But Bhagavan is more liberal. He gives support to all, even to demons. Ye yatha mam prapadyante; mam vartmanuvartante; samo'ham sarvabutesu. He understands that everyone is not eligible to the highest purusartha of pure bhakti. If He does not write any other sastra to support these people they will become atheists. So he propagates different types of sastra to entice these people and slowly bring them to path of bhakti (Bhagavata 5.5.12). That is Vyasa's compassion.
I thank you for giving answers that remove doubts. It is a big paropakara.
I read your response. All you had mentioned (kripa, encouraging ignorant people with lower dharma, effort in writing books,eligibility for pure bhakti) seemed to be the cause of sri vyasa's dissatisfaction. It appears sri vyasa was unsatisfied in all his prior attempts to emancipate the jivas. Infact 1.4.26 mentions Sri vyasa did not achieve what He wanted to acheive. It mentions that his attempts in 1.4.25 is futile.Infact SB begins condemning the kaitava dharma or scriptures that promote lower dharma. How to take such a thing as mercy? If it is indeed the right thing to do(for unqualified people), what does SB condemn?
I have noted that it is sri vyasa's kripa he wrote MBH and it is the same kripa He continued to write SB.I do not see Him as mortal. I am unable to understand the cause of His unhappy state.
Thank you once again.
Since you are seeing forest for trees i would ask you a question.
Purva-mimamsa is strongly refuted in Vedanta-sutra. Does it mean that Purva-mimamsa is completely useless? Should it be not followed at all? Should it be completely kicked out of Vedic culture? Does it serve any purpose, especially for Vedanta?
sri vaishnavas consider purva and uttara mimamsa as eka sastra on contrast to advaitis who call them separate sastra. In many places purva mimamsa is used to explain brahma sutras. Infact seshatvam is explained in jaimini sutra. Purva mimamsa is considered aradhana sastra while uttara mimamsa gives information about aradhya.Purva mimamsa talks about sadhya dharma while uttara mimamsa talks about siddha dharma.
I agree in certain places sri vyasa disagrees with purva mimamsa.This goes per context and application of a rule and not to the whole text/author. It is not possible to expect, jaimini being a direct student of Sri vyasa ,to have not grasped his teachings well.
If SB is not exclusive and unique, how to understand the efforts put in Tattva sandarbha to establish its greatness? Is that not seeing forest for trees? If MBH already has teachings of SB, why should sri vyasa be unhappy?Why should he go into samadhi? Is SB merely a text compiled by sri vyasa exclusive to topmost purusartha? Is it some alankara style to say sri vyasa was unhappy while there was nothing He actually missed in his previous texts? Sri Vishwanath says His unhappiness is due to lack of bhakti.If it is His mercy, how can there be absence of bhakti?Is this merely an attempt to praise bhakti(arthavada)?
I completely agree your statement that vedas cater to people within and above trigunas. It is equal to 1000 mothers. However everything around the efforts to establish SB's supremacy seems to show forest for trees, if we do not accept Sri VCT statement in BG 2.65.
Please help me reconcile how bhakti is the cause of real uninterrupted , eternal happiness and how sri vyasa was unhappy.
Hare Krishna. I am sorry to interject here. Scooty Ji, I agree with Prabhu Ji that you got a little too into details and lost the simpler, bigger picture. Sri Vyasa wrote everything that he wrote, and still wasn't satisfied with his effort. Narada Ji came to remind and inspire him regarding the most important task. Then he conceived the Bhagavatam, and gave it to his son to bring to its actual form.
The brahma bhuta is prasannatma, na socati na kansati. But it is from that foundation that "mad-Bhakti labhate". In Bhakti there is personal activity and will, so there is a profound "socati" and "kanksati" as vyabhicari for the sthayi that is the basis of prema rasa. Sri Vyasa's experience of dispair is something like a type of vyabhicari-bhava experienced in the course of his seva to Sri Vishnu, of whom he is an empowered expansion.
I understand it in this way and have none of the perplexities you are expressing, so I hoped it would be of service to you to share my conceptualization, and hoped it would be of service to Babaji to submit it.
Sri Radhe
Thanks Sri Ananda ji for your response.
I was also thinking in line of discussion between sri caitanya and sri Ramananda raya. In this discussion sri caitanya expresses dissatisfaction and requests sri ramananda to give better and different answer. When we see from this light, we can say all scriptures culminate in Srimad bhagavatam.
However sri Visvanaths commentary seems to give a totally different view. Also Tattva sandarbha 12.1 indicates SB contains information from the unavailable portion of vedas.This can be linked to sri vyasa's unhappy state. I wonder if this portion of veda was already lost and Sri vyasa compiled SB which is from this lost portion.
Instead of speculating, I would choose to accept what purvacharyas have said. In the attempt to do so, I ran into this confusion.
Correction. The above comment is addressed to sri vraja kishor.
Scootyji, you are missing Sri Visvanatha's point. You are reading too much into his statement. That is why i wrote that you are seeing forest for trees (which offended you). You accept that Vyasa is not a mortal being. He is Narayana.I wrote that it is His Lila to teach us that act devoid of pure bhakti does not give complete satisfaction. Sri Visvanatha is just pointing this out in BG 2.65. He is not saying that Vyasa did not have bhakti before he wrote Bhagavata. That is your extra understanding and this is the cause of confusion. If you want to have such conclusions then Lord Rama also had no bhakti because he was crying in seperation from Sita. He was completely morose. We need to study the intention of the author, otherwise we can be misled. Vyasa or Jiva Gosvami have not said that all other Puranas are useless. That is your extra reading.
I took no offence ji.
I went through 1.4.32 commentary by sri vishvanath where he says its Sri Krishna's will to put sri vyasa into such a state to make Him write Srimad Bhagavatam.atra bhagavad-avatAratvAd asambhAvinAv apy asarvaj~natA cittAprasAdAdau vyAsasya svayaM bhagavatA shrI-kR^iShNenaiva sva-sadR^ishasya sarva-shAstra-shiromaNeH shrI-bhAgavatasya prArdurbhAvArtham eva balAd upapAditAv ity avasIyate .
This has certainly removed my doubt about sri vyasa's unhappy state. His unhappy state is also included in bhakti.


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A different kind of battle is brewing in the ratings. The Voice's numbers are up , posing a challenge to long-dominant Idol, which is down. Not counting the high-rated post-Super Bowl broadcast, The Voice averages 16.8 million viewers a week, while Idol's two weekly episodes average 19.9 million and 18.7 million. The Voice is even closer in advertiser-coveted young adults.
"Look at what Idol has been going through since it came back, and X Factor, which did very well but not up to the hype. The Voice seems to be the hotter show at the moment," says David Scardino, entertainment specialist at ad agency RPA.
Aguilera says the coaches found their groove. "We've all absorbed like sponges what happened last year. (We) all kind of get the game and what it means to us as coaches. There's the friendly competitiveness we have, and sometimes, the funny, not-so-friendly competitiveness that occurs."
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