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Editor's note: Joyce M. Short is the author of a just released book, "Carnal Abuse by Deceit." The book chronicles her life with a predator, the subsequent aftermath and her road to recovery. It also provides advice for victims and their supporters, and discusses the issues surrounding criminalization of rape-by-fraud.
By Joyce M. Short
"No Contact" Is the First Step, But Not the Last!
The concept of NO CONTACT enables us to distance ourselves from harm, and regain emotional balance. But it's not all we need to do. We need to come to grips with the real injury that we've endured in order to cope with our losses. Partially in an effort to cope with mine, I wrote my book, Carnal Abuse by Deceit How a Predator's Lies Became Rape.
Most of us think of rape as an act of physical assault. But the assault, itself, is not the only harm, and is not necessarily present in all forms of rape. We can be raped by lies, fraud and deceit. We can be raped by dates who overcome our consent with drugs or alcohol. We can be raped by not being the age of consent when sexual intercourse takes place. We can be coerced into sexual intercourse by concern over possible harm to another if we don't cooperate. What all these forms of rape have in common is that there is no direct force applied, but our sexual sanctity was breached without "knowing consent."
The stories I've read of most LoveFraud participants expose their experience with either emotional rape or rape by fraud. We were defrauded of our highest emotion, which is love, (emotional rape) and some of us were fooled by fraudulent identity information of the predator who entered our lives, (rape by fraud). As a result, many of us were locked into a relationship known as a Betrayal Bond, which made walking away very difficult. On-lookers who were not faced with the same neurologically induced connection to the predator may have been bewildered by our interest in remaining in the relationship. And because these predators were such believable "con artists," we may not have received support from people close to us who were fooled as well. My own mother was taken in by the man who defiled me.
I've written Carnal Abuse by Deceit — How a Predator's Lies Became Rape, (CAD) in order to accomplish a few things I feel are important. The first is to mainstream the concept of the crime itself, and enable society to understand that the behavior is, in fact, a crime. Another is to establish that there really are people who cannot be, and should not be, trusted in the world. They are morally disordered and no amount of love or caring will fix them. The third is to provide a path that I sincerely hope will bring relief to others who struggle to recover from the devastation that occurred in their lives, and free themselves from ongoing sorrow.


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|Holder for CleanField 2800ml
|CleanField reservoir 2800ml for autotransfusion with anticoagulation line
|Anticoagulation/aspiration line
|Collecting Bag for orthopaedic surgery
Autotransfusion reservoir
CLEANFIELD autotransfusion reservoir was designed to meet all the needs of the recovery of blood lost during a surgical operation. CLEANFIELD is a device that can be used both in those recovery procedures when blood losses are estimated in advance, and those when losses are difficult to estimate. With CLEANFIELD we have a safe, effective and economic recovery system which protects from suddenly blood losses. The system is economic because we have reduced the "essential disposable" (the reservoir in fact is similar to a bag); in this way CLEANFIELD can be used in every surgical operation, giving safety to the operators and the patient.
The Reservoir Holder is designed for unlimited us, and is made up of:
- upper part made of alluminium that incorporate the terminal for stand, the vacuometer with the vacuum regulator with an ON-OFF switch and the connection for the vacuum font, which has been designed for tubes of 1/4″ and 3/8" diameter.
- lower part used as a rigid container made of robust transparent polycarbonate.
The Reservoir is made up of a rigid cover and a soft PVC bag with capacity of 2000 or 2800 ml that contains the filtering system.
- On the cover we can find two groups of connectors:
- in the SUCTION group there are 4 connectors protected by red caps. The two 1/4″ connectors and the 3/8" connector are used for connections to aspiration lines, while the luer connector is useful for oxygenators and extra-corporeal circulation emptying lines.
- in the OUTLET group there are three connectors: one LLF, one for 3/8" tubes, protected by a blue cap, and one connected to 1/4″ silicone tube also protected by a blue cap.
- The filtration system is composed of two filtering screens of 120 and 45 μm, separated by a distancial screen in order to optimize the filtration system. The total filtration surface is 700 cm2
- The filtering screens are made with medical grade polyester, single thread. This technology allows manufacturing of high-selective screens, with no particle release risk and no sponge effect.
- Sterilizing and idrophobic membrane: The reservoir, on the upper part of the bag, has a sterilizing and idrophobic membrane in the point where negative pressure created inside the holder passes inside the reservoir. The use of a sterilizing and idrophobic membrane avoids contamination of intra-operative recovered blood and protects re-usable components (vacuum source and pneumatic equipment) from contamination and damages.
The aspiration line for intraoperative recovery (Anticoagulant line)
Allows recovery and anticoagulation of blood aspirated from the surgical field. It is made up of a PVC double tube that is used for :
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Originally released date: Dec. 21, 2013
The second part of our talk with Randy Tyson of the Legion of
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Edit: My thoughts in the description box of part 1 of this discussion holds to this part of the discussion. Maybe even more so if this is the part where I expressed some problematic ideas...
Dec 21, 2013
Original release date: Dec.21, 2013
This time around we had a real scientist on, Randy Tyson from Calgary skyped in with Mike, Rene and me to talk about everything from NOMA to climate change to Rush Limbaugh.
Edit:I'm not proud of some aspects of this episode. I certainly had some problematic ideas back then. Hopefully...


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Development Tip – Dispatching calls to the UI thread
In Silverlight and WPF, if you wanted to update the UI from a thread you had launched, it was important that the UI update be executed on the UI thread, lest you get an invalid-cross-thread-access error.
You could ensure this by initially getting a pointer to the dispatcher for the UI thread, and then asking it to run your code. Something like this:
_OriginalDispatcher = Application.Current.RootVisual.Dispatcher;
In Win8 development, you don't have to worry about this nearly as often, because the need to spin up new threads is greatly reduced by the availability of the await keyword. That having been said, if you do end up starting your own thread, here's how you get the dispatcher:
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Black and White PDF | Color PDF | More Jewels & Gemstones Paper Dolls
Thoughts on Today's Paper Doll
So, I am a little annoyed at WordPress at the moment, somehow it missed posting all the stuff I carefully had scheduled for last week. As a result, I am posting those things this week. Sigh.
My Patrons chose this theme of Space Princess dresses back in January. In case you are wondering how long it take me to finish things, well… I started this back in January. See, I am clearly not a very fast paper doll creator.
Inspiration for Today's Paper Doll
I love the work of Guo Pei. She's a Chinese fashion designer and there's something that just feel Space Princess to me in so much of her work. I could have drawn the whole Space Princess wardrobe from her designs. They are amazing.
Specific Source Images: This gown from Guo Pei Spring 2019 and this gown.
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On the Blog: More Jewels & Gemstones paper dolls & this paper doll, this paper doll and these paper doll clothes
Around the Internet: Guo Pei's collections are all amazing. She has a wonderful, almost fantastical style with a strong traditional Chinese influence. A nice article on her called Guo Pei: Couture Beyond
Last Thoughts
Be sure to come back next week on Tuesday for another Space Princess design, unless WordPress once again decides it hates me. I think I got the problem fixed. I think…
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Slow Cooker Black Bean Chili with Kahlua
This black bean chili is a little bit naughty, but mostly nice as we round the corner into the new year. Quite honestly, I'm not sure the world needs another chili recipe, but this one checks a number of boxes that are sometimes tricky to check.
Slow Cooker Black Bean Chili - The Details
It's vegan. But don't let that scare you off! It's flavor-forward. It's hearty, and feisty, and easy to tweak (more heat, less heat, etc). It's perfect for a slow cooker, and it has a wild card ingredient - Kahlua. But don't worry, the alcohol cooks off, and the liquor just leaves a nice bass note of sweet coffee-ness. Not too much sweet, just a kiss, and I think it gets balanced out by the cumin and cayenne in most chili powders, and the smokiness of the chipotle. Slow cooker black bean chili for the weeknight win. I've also include notes for a stovetop version, and Instant Pot (pressure cooker) version, so everyone can join along.
I know, black bean chili is pretty much the Birkenstock of slow cooker staples, but I wanted to take a fresh look at it, and lock down a good go-to version with pay-off. Also, to write a recipe that doesn't have thirty ingredients, but tastes like it does. ;)
Shout out to my friend Chris at Bi-Rite Market, who always listens to me thinking out loud about what I'm working on. I was running through all the typical black bean chili wildcard ideas - pumpkin, orange juice, espresso, etc...We landed on Kahlua (before flirting with a whisky version)....and it turned out NICE!
Here's a shot of the Breville Fast Slow Pro. It was the multi-cooker I originally purchased. Unfortunately, it was damaged during shipping, and I replaced it with the Instant Pot DUO Plus 6 Qt 9-in-1. Then, Breville kindly sent me a new one to work with. Long way of saying, I've been testing, and experimenting with both now, and have a bit of a strengths/weaknesses chart going. I'm not going to do a product review at this point, just know, the recipes work in both.
Slow Cooker Black Bean Chili with Kahlua
The only active, time-intensive part of this recipe is chopping the aromatics (onions, garlic, etc.). You can do this a day before, and store in an airtight container, refrigerated, until you're ready to cook. If you don't have Kahlua (or other coffee liqueur), it's fine to substitute beer, broth, or even coffee. Use a favorite chili powder - I call for a range here, use more if you think you can handle it, less if you like a milder chili.
- 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- 2 medium onions diced
- 4 cloves garlic minced
- 5 stalks of celery diced
- 2 medium carrots diced
- 2 chopped chipotle pepper in adobo sauce (~1/4 cup)
- 1 - 2 tablespoons chili powder
- 1 1/2 teaspoons fine grain sea salt or to taste
- 1 pound of black beans soaked 4-6 hours or overnight
- 1 28- ounce can of whole tomatoes in juice
- 3 1/2 cups water / broth
- 1/3 cup Kahlua or other coffee liqueur
Heat the oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Add the onion, sauté for 2-3 minutes. Stir in the garlic, celery, and carrots, and cook, stirring occasionally, until soft, about 7 minutes. Add the chipotle, chili powder, and salt. Stir until combined and cook for another minute or so. Transfer to a 6-quart (or larger) slow cooker.
Add the beans, tomatoes, breaking them up with your hands as you add them, their liquid, the water, and Kahlua. Stir to combine, cover, and cook on the LOW setting until the beans are tender, 5- 6 hours. Stir occasionally, if convenient. Adjust seasoning, ladle into bowls, and top with any of the suggested toppings you like.
Store leftover in the refrigerator for up to a few days, or freezer for a month or two.
Instant Pot Pressure Cooker method: If you don't have 5-6 hours for the slow cook, you can use the Instant Pot to pressure cook this chili. Use the SAUTE function, to start, and once you've made it to the point where you've added all the ingredients, press CANCEL. Close the pot, secure the lid, set the pressure release valve to SEALING. Press MANUAL for 15 minutes at high pressure (bump up to 25-30 if you think your beans might be old). When cooking is complete, carefully QUICK RELEASE. Gently shake or tap the pressure cooker, and THEN carefully open away from you.
Conventional stovetop method: Bring everything to a simmer (after all the ingredients have been added). Cover, and cook, over the lowest heat (while still maintaining a low simmer), until the beans are tender. If you need to add more broth or water at any point, do so, and re-season. I think you could likely cook this in a Dutch oven in a 300F for a long stretch as well.
For reference, this recipe was tested in this Instant Pot DUO Plus 6 Qt 9-in-1, as well as this Breville Fast Slow Pro (Breville sent me one after I received a damaged one purchased through Amazon). It's great, because I can experiment with both now, and at some point I'll try to write a review/comparison.


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The Alberta Fire Code requires that inventory control is done for underground and aboveground storage systems. Inspections carried out by the PTMAA show that many facilities are not performing inventory control in a way that is likely to find leaks or complies with provincial requirements. Hopefully, this fact sheet and accompanying forms and spreadsheets will help you perform this type of leak detection properly.
When is inventory control required?
If your tank system includes a metering system where the product is removed from storage tanks is measured, you must do inventory control. Inventory control is not carried out, for example, on used oil tanks or generator tanks. A reconciliation of inventory must be done each day the tank system operates. Aboveground double-walled tanks do not require inventory control if the interstitial space is monitored monthly and a log of findings is kept. The interstitial space is between the two walls of the tank. To opt for monthly monitoring instead of daily inventory calculations any connected underground piping must be double-walled and continuously monitored with sensors in the transition sump and under-dispenser sumps.
How does inventory control work?
Inventory control involves daily manual measurements of tank contents, recording fuel deliveries, metering of fuel pumped, and monthly math calculations that compare the stick inventory (which you have measured) to the book inventory (what your meters and delivery receipts indicate that you should have). If the difference between the two is too large, your tank may be leaking. For underground tanks, too large is greater than 1/2 of 1% of the amount that is pumped from a particular tank. For aboveground tanks too large is greater than 1% of the throughput from the tank.
For inventory control to be successful, three important elements must be present:
- Good stick measuring
- Good math
- Good record keeping
Do you have the right equipment?
Gauge Stick
The gauge stick used to measure the depth of liquid in a storage tank must be marked to the 1/2 cm (with zero at the bottom end). Check your stick to be sure that the end is not worn, broken, shortened, and that the stick is not warped. The stick should be made of a non-sparking material such as wood or fibreglass. Wooden sticks should be varnished to keep the fuel from soaking into the stick and causing false readings. It is important to make sure that the correct gauge chart from the manufacturer is used when converting tank volumes from centimeters to liters.
Pastes for Finding Water
Sudden changes in tank water level may indicate that water is entering the tank through a hole. For underground tanks you must check for water in the bottom of the tank each day by spearing a water-finding paste along the bottom ten centimeters or so of the gauge stick. The paste changes color when it comes in contact with water. Make sure your paste is compatible with ethanol gasoline. A column in the attached monthly inventory record is to be used for recording water checks.
Tank Chart for Converting Centimeters to Litres
You must have a centimeter to liter conversion chart for each tank. A tank chart is specific to a given tank model and capacity. If you do not have a conversion chart for your tank, contact the company that manufactured the tank or the contractor who installed it.
Drop Tube
Each tank must have a drop tube which extends to within one foot of the tank bottom. Stick measurements are made through the drop tube. The drop tube ensures that the stick is straight up and down when measuring and minimizes static buildup and the release of flammable vapors from splashing.
Calibrated Dispensing Meters
All meters must be calibrated according to federal standards. Industry Canada inspectors will periodically check dispensers to ensure that meters are calibrated properly. Tank contractors can also calibrate your meters.
The spreadsheets attached to this fact sheet can be copied and used to record data and perform the daily reconciliation. If you do not want to use a computer to manage your inventory records you can print the sheet at the end of this guide called "Daily Worksheet" and print one copy of the Monthly Inventory Record. Photocopy the Worksheet to use it for all the tanks for each day the tanks operate. You'll need one copy of the Monthly Inventory Record for each tank for each month of the year. If you want to use a computer to manage your inventory the Monthly Inventory Record is on the Excel spreadsheet called Tank 1, Tank 2, etc. Be sure to save the file but rename the file as soon as you start using it for the first month of records. The first month you start using the file, name it the month and year to keep a blank copy available. You must retain paper copies for an inspector to review.
If You Have Manifolded Tanks
Manifolded tanks must be considered a one-tank system because they share a common inventory of stored fuel and all the dispensers connected to the tanks are part of a single system. You will need to combine your measurements and calculations for all manifolded tanks into one system. So, if you have two 25,000 liter tanks connected by manifold, add their volumes together and look for gains and losses in comparison to all dispensers feeding from those two tanks.
What Are the Steps to Performing Proper Inventory Control?
Step 1: Measure the Tank Contents
At the end of each operating day or at a set time each day, obtain the tank volume by sticking all tanks. Convert centimeters to liters using the tank chart and record both centimeters and liters in the rows labeled End Stick Centimeters and End Stick Liters on a new copy of the Daily Inventory Worksheet. Do not measure when fuel is being added to or removed from the tank. The stick should be read to the nearest 1/2 centimeter. To assist employees who measure tank inventory, copy and post the "Tips for Measuring Tanks" page found at the end of this fact sheet.
Step 2: Record the Amount Pumped
You have to know which dispensers are connected to each storage tank. The bottom of the worksheet has a place where you can record which tank numbers are connected to which pump numbers. This is useful for new personnel doing the reconciliation. At the end of each operating day, record the amount of fuel pumped from each tank. You will likely have to read the totalizor numbers from the dispenser itself but your cash register may give you liters pumped from each dispenser. Record the data in the Liters Pumped Today section of the Daily Inventory Worksheet. Read all the dispensers totalizers and record the readings in the appopriate column for each tank. Add the totalizer readings to determine Today's Sum of Totalizers for each tank. Subtract the Previous Day's Sum of Totalizers for each tank and record the results in the Liters Pumped Today section. Be sure to read the register or the totalizers at the same time as sticking the tanks and make sure no fuel was dispensed during this time.
Step 3: Record Fuel Deliveries
Fuel deliveries must be recorded when they are made. The tank must be gauged by stick, both before and after the delivery. Convert centimeters to liters using the tank chart and record both centimeters and liters in the Delivery Record section of the Daily Inventory Worksheet. Subtract the initial gauge from the end gauge to determine the Liters Delivered (Stick). Record the amount on the delivery receipt from the fuel supplier in the Gross Liters Delivered (Receipt). These numbers should roughly match.
Step 4: Calculate Daily Changes in Inventory
After the intial sticking day, you can start to calculate the daily changes to inventory on the Monthly Inventory Record. Using the numbers from the Daily Inventory Worksheet, first calculate the Book Inventory by adding the Start Stick Inventory (which is the previous day's End Stick Inventory) and the Liters Delivered for the day, if any, and then subtracting the Amount Pumped for the day. Next subtract the End Stick Inventory from the Book Inventory and record the difference in the Daily Over and Short (End Book) column. Record any water detected in centimeters.
Step 5: Calculate Monthly Changes in Inventory
At the end of each month, the overages and shortages must be calculated on the Monthly Inventory Record to determine if the shortages are too great. The following steps will explain how to determine if there could be a leak.
- Add all of the month's Liters Pumped numbers and write this total at the bottom of the column in the box labeled Total Liters Pumped. If using the spreadsheet on a computer, it will totalize for you.
- Add all the month's Daily Over or Short numbers: Pay careful attention to positive and negative numbers to get an accurate total. If doing this manually, enter an overage using (+) in front of the number. With a loss use (-) in front of the number. Enter the total at the bottom of the column in the box labeled Total Liters Over or Short. Computer users - this will also total for you.
- Fill out the Leak Check line as follows: Take the Total Liters Pumped and multiply by 0.05. Enter the result of this calculation at the end of the Leak Check line. This number is the maximum change in inventory allowed by the Fire Code. (1/2 or 1% of the liters pumped from a particular tank). This will be automatically calculated for computer users. Total the pluses and minuses from the Daily Over (+) and Short (-) column. Again, the computer will calculate this for you.
- At the bottom of the Monthly Inventory Record, check "Yes" or "No" depending whether your Net Liters Over or Short number is larger than the Maximum losses number.
- At the end of the month count the number of days you had consecutive losses.
- At the end of the month count the total numbers of days you had no losses.
If you indicated "yes" for any of:
- net losses greater than 1/2 of 1% (underground tanks),
- 3 consecutive losses greater than 200 litres/day, or
- greater than 50 mm of water in the tank.
you must call the Authority Having Jurisdiction. You must immediately investigate and resolve all suspected leaks.
What About Water in the Tank?
There is normally a small amount of water in any tank, which may slowly increase over time due to condensation. However, a sudden change in water level, either up or down, may indicate a leaking tank. If you have 5 centimeters or more of water there is a good chance it will get drawn to your dispenser. Arrange to have the water removed and check often for more of it coming into the tank - it could indicate a leak.
These records must be kept at the facility where the tanks are located and be available to an inspector in reasonable time. Records must be retained for at least two years.
If You Need Help
Call the PTMAA office at 1-866-222-8265 and we'll help you out
- pdf Tips for Measuring Tanks (52 KB)
- pdf Inventory Worksheets (55 KB) (Manual Version)
- spreadsheet Inventory Worksheets (56 KB) (Spreadsheet Version)


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August 07, 2018, 12:59:45 PM »
Dear devotees, Sri Robert Adams is one of those direct devotees of Bhagwan Sri Ramana who received nectarine Words of Grace from Him directly, imbibed them completely and attained Self-realization. I feel that those who are finding the Self-enquiry a little difficult to practice, should study now and then Sri Robert Adams' conversations which contain profound understanding of and insights into the practical aspects of Sri Bhagwan's Teaching of the Atma-vichara. I am certain that some of the doubts assailing some of us on the Path would be removed and they would thus certainly benefit.
Sri Robert Adams:
The idea is to stop thinking completely, not to function mentally at all. Yet some of you still believe if you stop functioning mentally, you will become a vegetable, you wouldn't be able to function. This is not true. What you were will not function, but what you become will function very well. You will always appear to function, yet there is no functioner. You are not what you seem to be.
No matter how many times I tell you this, you're still thinking, thinking, judging, judging, coming to conclusions, trying to work out your life. You have to let go, totally, absolutely, completely. You have to let go so completely, that you will feel no body, no mind, no pain, no thing. That is the only time you will make progress. Do not think about this. The thoughts cannot help you. There are no thoughts that can help you realize the Self. It is only a total completely letting go, giving up. What do you give up? You give up the ego, the mind, your opinions about things. That's all you give up. But yet a tree seems to appear, and turn into a beautiful tree as it grows. So will you appear, yet you will know you're not the appearance. You will know that you are totally free and you are omnipresence, all-pervading. The whole universe is taking place inside of yourself. And if you are no self, there's no universe. You are beyond the no self, where there is a no-no-self. You're beyond the no-no-self, where there are no words to describe it. Yet it's so beautiful, so blissful, so joyous, that if you have had a taste of it, you'd never return. You'd never want to go back to humanhood.
This is why there have been many who have been touched slightly by this realization. They have been touched by truth, and they can remember there's something there, even though they're back to their human self, so it appears. They never forget that touch. And these people are the ones who strive forward, to go all the way into realization.
What does it mean to go all the way? It means to look at your life as a picture show. All the experiences are images on the screen. It means not to regulate your life at all, in any way, but to observe it and watch it. To look at it intelligently. To see the emotions that come into your mind. To observe the fears, the arrogance, and not to do anything about them. But to look at them, look through them and become free of them. Only by looking through them can you become free of them. Think of an emotion that you have that bothers you. Perhaps you have a bad temper, a fearful disposition, whatever. First you have to see it. Then you dive deep, deep within it, and it will totally and completely disappear. It will never bother you again.
When you try to change things, they all appear to be fine for a while, then you will find yourself in the same position you were before. Different people, different places. You don't want to change anything. You want to be still and look. As you become still and look, what you're looking at will look back at you.
As you look at the world without interpretation, as you look at the world without attachment, what the world is will be revealed to you. The world will be revealed to you as no thing, as an image on the screen of consciousness. You will become radiantly happy for no reason whatsoever. You will find the peace that you never dreamed existed. You have to want this. You have to love this. You have to want this more than anything else in this world. When I say want it more than anything else in this world, I don't mean in a "I don't have it sense and I want it." I mean to feel, and believe, and know, that you are that. And you want that to be uncovered for you, by going deeper all the time, by letting go of all the things that seem to be happening in life, continuing to dive deeply within the Self. You dive deeply within the Self to the extent that you give up the stuff that you've been carrying around for years.
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August 08, 2018, 01:10:33 PM »
Sri V. Ganesan:
Without giving up hope, this school teacher (Sadhu Sri Natanananda) went to Bhagavan again and pleaded, "Bhagavan, I want to experience your gracious wisdom. Kindly fulfill my prayer!" Bhagavan looked at him for a full fifteen minutes. When a question was put to Bhagavan, he would not usually answer immediately. Instead, he would prepare the questioner with silence and only then give the answer, so that it remained with the questioner as direct experience. He was more interested in the questioner than in the question. He gazed at Natanananda and said,
"Is it the body in front of me which desires to obtain grace or is it the awareness within it? If it is the awareness, is it not looking upon itself as the body and making this request? If so, let the awareness first of all recognize its nature. It will then automatically recognize God and grace. The truth of this can be realized even now and here." Wave after wave of pure ecstasy pulsed through Natanananda and he stayed in Bhagavan's presence for hours. He was blessed by Bhagavan's glance of grace.
Natanananda once told me that even Bhagavan's glance did not completely fulfill him and that there were some residual tendencies despite his leading a strictly austere life. Once, when he was in Bhagavan's presence, Kavyakantha Ganapati Muni and other scholarly devotees were sitting with Bhagavan and speaking in Sanskrit about Hindu scriptures. Utterly dejected that he could not follow a single word about the lofty subjects that were being discussed, he sat silently with tears streaming down his cheeks. When he opened his eyes, everyone had left and only Bhagavan was there.
Bhagavan looked at him compassionately and asked, "Why are you so dejected? If you were really unfit to realize the Self in this life, you could not have come to this place at all." (This applies to all of us.) Bhagavan continued, "The power that drew you here will make you realize the Self. If not today, then at some other time it is bound to fulfill its commitment. There is no reason why you should be dejected." This dissolved all imperfections in Sadhu Natanananda and drove out all his ignorance. With this, he too became a Self realized sage.
Source: Sri Ramana Periya Puranam
Dear devotees, I am also of the firm conviction, without an iota of doubt, that this applies to us all. Sri Arunachala Ramana drew us to Himself and internalized our minds. Did He not? And for this reason alone there is no need to feel dejected, for the supreme assurance is there that the Power that drew us and made devotees and seekers out of us is bound by our love to fulfill His commitments, and make us realize the Self, if not today, then at some other time. Meanwhile our duty is to pursue Enquiry whole-heartedly and just be.
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August 09, 2018, 12:26:35 PM »
Feel your reality in the stillness, in the quietness, when there is no mind, no thought, no word.
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Re: Self-enquiry as taught by Sri Bhagwan is enough
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August 10, 2018, 12:30:00 PM »
Dear Devotees,
I say with certainty that for one who has practiced Self-enquiry with love for the Divine (Self) and unwavering focus sooner than later understands progressively with more and more clarity that we ourselves have projected onto ourselves a false world of our own imagination, based on our own memories, ideas, concepts, fears and aspirations. Birth after birth these have become so deeply embedded that we now find ourselves imprisoned in the prison of our own making.
Self-enquiry breaks this pernicious spell by demolishing all our ideas, habits, concepts, desires and fears, revealing them to be unreal. Such is the greatness of the practice of abiding in the 'I', which alone is the real form of the Enquiry as taught by Sri Bhagwan
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August 11, 2018, 12:32:08 PM »
Sri Sadhu Om:
When we attend to other things the awareness 'I Am' is mixed up with awareness of a body and other such adjuncts, so instead of shining just as 'I Am' it shines as 'I am this body', but when we try to attend only to our basic self-awareness , 'I Am', the adjuncts recede into the background and self-awareness begins to shine more clearly and prominently. The more keenly we attend to 'I Am', the more awareness of all other things fades away, until eventually we remain shining as 'I Am' alone.
Whenever we attend to anything other than 'I' we seem to be a body, but when we try to attend only to 'I' we begin to recognize that 'I' is actually something quite distinct from whatever body I seem to be.
Dear devotees, the above quote is a wonderful recapitulation, in short, of the Enquiry as taught by Sri Bhagwan. Yes, practice is to attend only to the Pure Awareness 'I Am', which, sure, is not pure in the beginning of the practice, and is mixed up with the awareness of the body and other adjuncts. But one need not lose heart, and by the contrivance of the Enquiry "To whom? To me? Who Am I?", one must gradually progress to the shining of Awareness without body-consciousness and other adjuncts, until eventually one remains shining as 'I Am' alone, that is, until the recognition that 'I' is actually something quite distinct from anything whatever to which it attaches with dawns or happens, as Sri Sadhu Om beautifully said.
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August 12, 2018, 12:41:57 PM »
Quote from the previous post:
"When we attend to other things the awareness 'I Am' is mixed up with awareness of a body and other such adjuncts, so instead of shining just as 'I Am' it shines as 'I am this body', but when we try to attend only to our basic self-awareness , 'I Am', the adjuncts recede into the background and self-awareness begins to shine more clearly and prominently. The more keenly we attend to 'I Am', the more awareness of all other things fades away, until eventually we remain shining as 'I Am' alone.
Whenever we attend to anything other than 'I' we seem to be a body, but when we try to attend only to 'I' we begin to recognize that 'I' is actually something quite distinct from whatever body I seem to be."
Dear Devotees,
We are the Awareness, here and now. Never we are other than Awareness. Sri Bhagwan has even said that Awareness is another name for us. Therefore, indeed, since we are already Awareness, and nothing but the Awareness, the Awareness is neither to be cultivated, nor to be attained, nor to be acquired. Who will attain what when all is Awareness which is at once Existence as well? we must be the Awareness through which all the seeing is happening.
Since we already are the Awareness, Sri Bhagwan has taught that all we have to do is to give up being aware of other things, that is of not-Self. That is indeed all we have to do, for if we give up being aware of them what will remain? Pure Awareness alone remains, and that is the Self.
How not to be aware of other things? By practicing the most intimate and immediate path of trying to attend only to our own basic Self-awareness 'I Am'. If we try to do it, other things or the adjuncts disappear, revealed to be false, Self-awareness begins to shine, first hazily, then as one is prompted to attend to basic Self-awareness more and more keenly, the awareness of other things fades away more and more until eventually we alone remain shining forth in all Splendor and Glory as 'I Am'. We need not do anything else.
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August 13, 2018, 02:50:17 PM »
One day I (V. Ganesan) asked him (Ramaswami Pillai), "You were always away from Bhagavan's presence; you were always working in the garden. How did you like it?" He replied, "Why Ganesan, from a distance I could see Bhagavan's form and I was always chanting his name. Bhagavan was always in my heart. Bhagavan was perfection itself and because of his perfection, when we looked at him or chanted his name, the perfection came to us. As he was always in a state of bliss, we too were in a state of bliss." In support of his statement, he quoted from tradition saying, "Ganesan, understand that in our scriptures this is called guru turiya. Turiya is the samadhi state - the fourth state transcending the three states of waking, dreaming and sleeping. When you are working very hard and looking at the master or chanting his name, he transports you to this state, which is not to your credit; it is because of his grace on you; hence it is called guru turiya
The samadhi state that we get established in is because of his blessings."
Source: Sri Ramana Periya Puranam
Dear devotees, many of us must be experientially knowing how real Guru Turiya is! Many can discern it, beyond doubt whatever, by Invoking His Name, remembering His Gaze, or looking into His Eyes. Many are blessed with a glimpse into the state of bliss as well as perfection on account of the continued operation of what is called the Guru Turiya.
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August 14, 2018, 12:19:24 PM »
Dear devotees, I recently read following post which contains Sri Robert Adams' precepts and utterances on Sri Bhagwan's Teaching of the Enquiry. Sri Robert Adams is a Self-realized, direct disciple of Sri Bhagwan and his profound words fascinate and inspire me greatly, and therefore, I wished to post the same here. If you have any question regarding its contents, you may raise, I shall certainly respond.
Sri Robert Adams:
"What Ramana taught was not new. Ramana simply taught the Upanishads. "Who am I" has been around since time immemorial.
If a teacher always tells you they have something new to teach you, be careful, because there's nothing new under the sun.
Ramana simply revised the "Who am I" philosophy and made it simple for people in the 20th Century.
But what did he teach? He simply taught that you are not the body-mind principle. He simply taught that if you have a problem, do not feel sorry for yourself, do not go to psychiatrists, do not condemn yourself, simply ask yourself, "To whom does this problem come?" And of course the answer will be, "The problem comes to me." Hold onto the me. Follow the me to the source, the substratum of all existence.
How do you do that? How do you hold onto me? How do you hold onto I?
By simply asking yourself, "Who am I? What am I?" the same thing, "What am I?" Asking yourself again and again, "Who am I?"
Forget about time. Forget about space. Forget everything. Keep yourself from thinking. When the thoughts come, ask yourself, "To whom comes the thoughts?" Again, "They come to me." Hold onto the me. "I think these thoughts. Well then, who am I? Who thinks these thoughts? Who am I?"
An easier way to do this I have found is to simply say to yourself, "I - I, I - I," and you will notice as you do this that the I, I goes deeper, deeper, deeper within you into your heart center, right to the source.
For westerners I have found that saying "I--I" seems to be more helpful than "Who am I?" Again, do not look at time. Do not ask yourself, "When is something going to happen?"
A devotee went to Ramana and said, "I've been with you for 25 years, doing Who am I, and nothing has happened yet, so Ramana said, "Try it another 25 and see what happens."
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August 15, 2018, 12:44:40 PM »
Bhagavan would accept a new pencil or pen, only when the old one was completely exhausted or totally damaged. He would then take a piece of paper and scribble a few times with the new one to see whether it was working properly. TPR (T.P. Ramachandra Iyer) told me, "Most of us, on similar occasions, sign our own names, write Om or some god's name. So, I was very inquisitive, to know what he scribbled. On a few such occasions, Bhagavan, the ocean of compassion, permitted me to see what he wrote. I will reveal that secret to you now. Even those who were close to him did not know about it. Either he wrote, Arunachalavaasi, meaning, one residing in Arunachala, or panilenuvaadu, meaning, one without any work."
Arunachalavaasi means one residing in Arunachala. Bhagavan, who did not identify with anything in the world, including his own body and mind, chose to identify himself with Arunachala through an open declaration, "I am an Arunachalavaasi!" And how true the declaration is! Our glorious master stepped into Arunachala on September 1, 1896, and for fifty four years, till he dropped the body in April 14, 1950, he did not stir out of this holiest of holy places!
Just as the verbal teaching that he expounded are the highest expressions of para vidhya and apara vidhya, instructions to the mind, his gapless staying in Arunachala and identifying himself as Aruchalavaasi, are his direct instructions for us to put into practice, physically. Likewise, his true, direct teaching for every seeker, spiritually is, 'Dive within', 'Be still' and 'Be as you are'.
Therefore, it is only apt that serious spiritual seekers take up a three tier approach to his unique teaching to realize the Self. (i) Physical: Stay in Arunachala and thus become an Arunachalavaasi (ii) Mental: Understand and practice Self-enquiry, 'Who Am I?' (iii) Spiritual: Be absorbed in Silence.
Source: Sri V. Ganesan's Drops from the Ocean
Dear devotees, it is not possible for every one of us to become an Arunachalavasi, However, Sri Bhagwan has Himself taught that Sri Arunachala is the Self and is within. When once a devotee asked of Sri Bhagwan what He was looking at, He said that He was looking at the 'Atma'. It follows that diving within with the love for the Self and staying with the 'I' is to become Arunachalavasi though there is no doubt that the physical proximity to the Holiest of the Holy Hills, Sri Arunachala is immensely beneficial in one's spiritual journey particularly if one is following ardently Sri Bhagwan's Teaching. Therefore, loving Sri Bhagwan or Sri Aruanchala or the Self (all three are synonyms), understanding and practicing Self-enquiry and being absorbed in the Silence of the Self are, for us, the most blessed and graced Path to follow.
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August 16, 2018, 12:29:03 PM »
Sri Robert Adams:
You believe you are a body. And as long as you believe you are a body, you separate yourself from the land of the jnanis. You believe you belong to the earth, and if you're earthbound, you have to partake of all the problems, sufferings, happiness, joys, that come from the earth. You have to choose whom you shall follow, if you should follow the divine urge that tells you that you are absolute consciousness, or the call of mammon, which is the world. You have to make that choice.
The choice you make determines what happens to you from here on. It's very simple. You either realize that you are not of this world, that you are absolute reality, your divine nature is pure awareness, and you rest in that, or you worry, and you fear, and you try to make things happen, and you're always scheming, and planning, and looking at the future with dismay, worrying about the past. The choice is really yours.
And even when some of you say, "I am absolute reality," you're still referring to the body, for you are saying, "I am," and you don't know I am as consciousness. You're saying, "I am absolute reality," meaning that your body, your ego, is absolute reality, and this is a great mistake. You have to understand when you say, "I am absolute reality," I am and absolute reality are both synonymous. You're declaring the highest truth. You can say it this way, you may say, "I am is absolute reality," for if you're having problems, if you think something is wrong, and you say "I am absolute reality," you're really saying my problems, and my negative thinking, is absolute reality. That's what you mean by I am.
Dear devotees, the grave mistake we are committing is this that we are foisting the Reality on the unreal, or the Pure Consciousness 'I Am' on the insentient 'so and so'. We must understand that in 'I am the Self or Brahman', 'I Am' and Self or Brahman are synonyms.
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August 17, 2018, 12:57:23 PM »
The Error of World Perception:
Q: Why do we see such permanency and constancy in the waking state?
Sri Bhagwan: It is seen on account of wrong ideas. When someone says that he took a bath in the same river twice, he is wrong because when he bathed for the second, time, the river was not the same as it was when he bathed for the first time. Somebody may say that he is seeing the same fruit every day, but really, a lot of changes are taking place in the fruit. On seeing the brightness of a flame, a man says that he sees the same flame, but the flame is changing every second. As the oil gets less and less, the flame keeps on changing. The waking state is also like this. The stationary appearance is an error of perception.
Q: Whose is the error?
Sri Bhagwan: Pramata [the knower].
Q: From where did the knower come?
Sri Bhagwan: On account of the error of perception. In fact, the knower and his false knowledge appear simultaneously, and when the knowledge of the Self is obtained, they disappear simultaneously.
Q: From where did the knower and his ignorance come?
Sri Bhagwan: Who is asking this question?
Sri Bhagwan: Find out that 'I' and all your doubts will be solved. Just as in a dream, a false knower, knowledge and known rise up, in the waking state the same process operates. In both states, on knowing this 'I' you know everything, and nothing remains to be known. If, in the waking state, there is enquiry into the 'I', everything can be understood and nothing else will remain to be known. In deep sleep knower, knowledge and known are absent. At the time of experiencing the true 'I' they will also not exist.
Whatever you see happening in the waking state happens only to the knower, and since the knower is unreal, nothing in fact ever happens.
Q: After waking from sleep, why does the world of the previous day appear the same?
Sri Bhagwan:
he world seen on the previous day was not real. It was the knowledge of an unreal knower. In the same way, the world of the next day is also is the knowledge of an unreal knower. For the ajnani the world is experienced at these times [yesterday and today]. But for the jnani the world is not there at any time, past, present or future. What appears separate from us is called by us 'the world'. It appears separate from us due to ego-consciousness [ahankara]. When ahankara goes there is nothing separate; there is no world. Time also arises from pramata, the knower. Because pramata is not real, time is also not real. Professor Einstein has also stated this in his theory of relativity.
Source: The Power of the Presence, Part-1
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August 23, 2018, 02:20:57 PM »
Sri V. Ganesan:
Recently, in August, 2005, at Nagore, the only Sufi center in India, where I am told Sufi masters still live, my friend and I were blessed to be in the presence of a Sufi master. In his presence, we were transported as it were, into a different world of ananda. I expressed to him our great joy to be in the proximity of a true Sufi master. In all seriousness, he said,
"God is an enormous, gushing, sacred river. Seekers need to bathe in it. We saints are like bathing ghats with well built steps to help them reach the river and safely bathe in it". 'Plunging within into one's Heart', is synonymous to taking bath in the river. The guru's instructions are the ghats. Ananda or bliss is God, the river.
Source: Drops from the Ocean
Dear devotees, this simile of the bathing ghats is a beautiful one. Isn't it? Indeed, the Atma-vichara is one of the most wonderful Ghats to bath in the River called Atma (the Self) who is none other than God or Brahman Himself, and who is always available, never non-available, for immersion. Therefore, let us keep plunging deep into the Heart and savor the Bliss or Ananda of our own Natural State (I Am), in silence, as often as we can until we are established in this State of Ananda, in Jnana-Nishtha for ever.
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August 23, 2018, 07:48:02 PM »
Dear eranilkumarsinha sir
Very nice postings regarding Turiya state.
Om Namo Bagavathe Sri Ramanaya
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August 24, 2018, 12:35:20 PM »
Dear Sri Bala ji,
Thank You.
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August 24, 2018, 01:04:17 PM »
The problems are in the thoughts.
Your body is in your thoughts.
Your experiences are in your thoughts.
Where else would they be?
And ultimately the thoughts do not exist.
There are no thoughts.
There is no mind.
So you're playing games with yourself.
This is God's divine leela, the play of consciousness.
Sri Robert Adams
Dear Devotees,
And we are not the thoughts. For whom are all these thoughts? Certainly not for the Self. Who Am I?
So, if we continue to play thinking it is all real, we continue to weep and suffer, and it will never end. If we ask , 'Who Am I?' and turn within seeking our Source, we realize our true Identity and thus transcend God's Divine Leela or Paly for good. Moreover, we must also always remember that Sri Ramana Bhagwan has enjoined that this is the only freedom we have, that is, to turn within and realize the Atma-swarupa or the Self. It is our birthright. Is it not? Therefore, not to react what is happening in and around us (for they are mere thoughts), to ask 'Who Am I?', go deeper and deeper within, and realize the Swarupa, alone are the wisdom, for what is ordained to happen will happen anyway.
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Peter here. As writers we all draw on life, and our own experiences, whether consciously or sub-consciously. My new book, which comes out in February, is a case in point. There is a LOT of me in that book, most of it drawn from my childhood - which led me recently on a search for a very important player in my early life on whom I had based a central character in the story.
Rather than relate the results of that search here, I am going to link to the very first posting on my new personal blog, which I kicked off this week with that rather sad tale.
I would be interested to hear anyone's thoughts on it.


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When Mark was two, I took a leave from my teaching job to stay home and co-ordinate his speech, physical and occupational therapies. We had hours and hours to practice and he needed that! The following year, when I returned to work, he went to a "regular" daycare instead of the county special education preschool. I had learned that the most precious commodity to help Mark learn was any crowd of non-disabled peers. They spoke well, behaved well, and dragged him all over the playground to learn social rules. And they matched him punch for punch literally. We helped with ideas, but the kids were the best with common sense and "learn it or you can't play with us" attitude. Yes, they changed game rules often to help him stay in a game, but most of the time, they kept the standards' bar as high for him as each other. We tried to never overprotect him from those real world lessons. His teachers and other parents often thought we were heartless, but we trusted his peers to do the right things. So he learned and learned and learned.
Consequently, against our school districts initial refusal for a full time educational aide for Mark in kindergarten, we sent him proudly and trusted him to do "regular" kindergarten class alone. He had been in "regular" pre-schools with most of his peers anyway. The year went well, with kinks along the way. Mark would not tolerate crowding or loud, chaotic noise, such as when the bell rang for recess. In a crowd, he would straighten his arms out and swing them. Unfortunately, some of his classmates would get clubbed in the head at times. This did not go over well with the other parents! So, we simply informed the children why Mark did that and asked them for solutions. They suggested that at lining up time, everyone would stay a few steps back from Mark. For our contribution, we took a field trip to Open House Day at Beale Air Force base for a noise desensitization experience. We had no idea it would prove embarrassing and slightly cruel! Mark sat on Steve's shoulders and when the jets screamed overhead, Mark screamed onto Steve's head for half a day. Everyone stared at us. But we stayed until Mark realized sound could not maim him. It worked. Steve, however disagreed.
However, Alleluia, even after a few more kinks, apparently because of a few kinks in his program, the district agreed to hire the instructional aide full time for the first grade to assist with activities in general and modify the lessons when necessary; which was always.
Mark loved school, and learned most of life's lessons from his peers in "regular" public school. A friend of mine with a daughter with Down syndrome had said, " If our kids go to school with friends who don't talk, or know social rules, how will they learn to have a conversation or do the right things?" She had a point, so we stayed with "regular education." But behavior was an issue. A few times throughout the school year, our school psychologist would visit with Mark's class while he went on an errand with the teacher, and the kids could tell her their "Mark stories." This was an excellent way for the students to cathart; ask questions about Mark and Down syndrome, etc. Once, they all drew pictures of their positive and negative experiences with Mark. The teacher laminated each page and bound it together for us. Mark loved looking in that book. He got the idea that the other kids had opinions about him, what they liked and didn't like. He truly cared what they thought and that year he began to improve his own impulse controls. Sort of.
As Mark moved through the school system, an educational aide assisted him and the classroom teacher. Mark was more like his peers than different, but in speech and language, rate of cognitive development, learning styles, and some maturity issues, he was different. We needed a TEACHER and the wonderful classroom teacher could not "do" Mark alone. So Steve and I went to an IEP war and got Mark a one-to-one aide. This person was not to mother Mark, She was to teach him what he needed to know, and I would be on the interview team. It was a no mercy program for Mark. No pity allowed. And I had learned by second grade to be a "bitch mother." These mothers know school law and are not afraid of school administrators. We bring cookies and cold sodas to IEPs and we never sign the IEP until we get what we know our kids need. We shamelessly blurt out "I don't care how much it will cost, find the money!" Because Mark grabbed that raisin at six months old, I knew his spunk and determination would be worth the energy and every cent the school district put into educating him. Even though I behaved very badly as a bitch mother at times; I even screamed profanities at a principal once and got thrown out of his office, (remember that Stan?) we all learned a lot about how to fully include special needs kids into their programs. And we learned and we learned and we learned.


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After months of flirtation, actress Ashley Judd announced on Wednesday that that she will not pursue a Senate bid against Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. She made the announcement in a series of tweets late Wednesday afternoon:
"After serious and thorough contemplation, I realize that my responsibilities & energy at this time need to be focused on my family. Regretfully, I am currently unable to consider a campaign for the Senate. I have spoken to so many Kentuckians over these last few months who expressed their desire for a fighter for the people & new leader. While that won't be me at this time, I will continue to work as hard as I can to ensure the needs of Kentucky families are met by returning this Senate seat to whom it rightfully belongs: the people & their needs, dreams, and great potential. Thanks for even considering me as that person & know how much I love our Commonwealth. Thank you!"A source familiar with Judd's decision-making process said the news that Kentucky Secretary of State Allison Lundergan Grimes has also been considering a Senate run "gave her the space to really make a decision and decide what was best for her."
The source said Judd has known she was not running for "the past few days" but only decided to make her decision public on Wednesday.
As late as last Friday, Judd was still hinting at a run, referring to her potential run against McConnell and foreshadowing what she presumed would be a barrage of attack ads from his campaign. She told a conference audience in Cincinnati that she used to be averse to hearing criticism, which she said was ironic because she was "about to get $40 million worth of it."
In the same speech, she also joked that her mother, country star Naomi Judd, couldn't wait to turn her garage into campaign headquarters.
Rep. John Yarmuth, D-Ky., who was one of Judd's most vocal boosters, issued a statement on Wednesday through his spokesman.
"Congressman Yarmuth has said all along he would be surprised if Ashley Judd did not make this race and he's certainly surprised and while he's disappointed because he believed Ashley Judd would be a strong candidate against Sen. McConnell he's confident that a strong candidate will emerge to take on Sen. McConnell who is the least popular senator in the country," Yarmuth spokesman Stephen George said in a statement to ABC News.
George added that Judd and Yarmuth spoke earlier this week where she did "express some reservations about the race," but he added they had been speaking throughout the process and that was not unusual."
Judd's interest in the race spurred widespread national attention, including from former President Bill Clinton who spoke to both Judd and Grimes about the seat, encouraging them both to take a hard look at the race.
ABC News reported last week that Clinton encouraged Judd to enter the race and promised he would help her, according to several Kentucky political sources. That conversation happened sometime between the November election and President Barack Obama's second inauguration.
Earlier this month Clinton also met with Grimes after he spoke at an event for former Kentucky Sen. Wendell Ford in Owensboro, Ky., according to multiple political sources in the state. Clinton encouraged Grimes to consider taking on McConnell, adding as he did with Judd that he would support her.
Even with the Hollywood actress's star power, a campaign against McConnell, a political institution in Kentucky, would have been an uphill battle. Shortly after Judd's announcement, the National Republican Senatorial Committee in Washington circulated a list of ten Kentucky Democrats who have all passed on a chance to take on McConnell, including the state's Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear.
"The hollow DSCC spin that Kentucky will be competitive still hasn't made its way to the Bluegrass State," NRSC spokesman Brad Dayspring said in a statement. Citing the list of ten Democratic names, Dayspring added, "Perhaps number eleven might be a lucky charm?"


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By Alaina Chatterly
The words that come out of your teen's mouth are far more powerful than the words that go into their ears. For one thing, words coming out of their mouth are also heard by their ears. So anything you can get them to realize and say aloud will stick with them twice as long (or more) than something you have simply told them is important.
What do I mean by this vague statement? Well, we have so much to say to these teens. Time is limited with them, and we have wisdom and advice and dos/don'ts that we try to cram in to them in any alert moment. As a therapist working with teens, I am surprised at how much they have to say and lots of things they have to say are exactly the sorts of things their parents are saying. These teens can list their greatest weaknesses, when the oppositional "I told you so" dynamic is removed. These teens can list exactly what their parents want from them, exactly what their mom would be picking on if she were sitting in session with us right then, and they can usually even state why their parents think certain things are important for them. Point being – they get it. Our lecturing has reached their brains, at least as they can regurgitate information back to us.
Due to new brain development, these teens are coming in to a world of abstract thought and personal insight. They are ready to explore their world and their place in it through deep and meaningful conversations. Yet we keep talking at them. With the best of intentions, we are intent on teaching them, which often looks like lecturing them, and it often shuts up the dam of their greatness ready to pour forth.
When I find myself dominating the conversation in therapy, I'll consciously stop and say, "I'm talking an awful lot. What do you think about this?" It's a way to re-engage them and check in to see what they are getting from the conversation/lecture. It points out they are important to me, and often they surprise me with deep thoughts of their own. Sometimes they even pick up the conversation thread and teach me the very thing I was intent on teaching them. These insights of theirs are powerful and lasting, straight from their own mouth into their own ears.
How can you start this sort of exploration with your teen? First, get them talking. They should be doing their fair share – 50 percent in conversations you have together. You try to talk less, and really listen to them. Even if you don't agree, listen to what's important and try to understand. They will hopefully return the favor. Second, ask exploratory, open-ended questions that usually start with the words "how" or "why." "How did you feel when your teacher pulled rank like that?" "Why is this important to you?" "How do you see that turning out for you?" "Why do you think you reacted like that?" "Why is Janie such a good match for you?" "Tell me the sorts of feelings you had when he said that." Your teen might start to really shine with this attention, will grow in his/her own insights and build a better relationship as they discuss with you instead of feel lectured at.
Most of us are naturally oppositional; nobody likes being told what to do. This is not a trait unique to teens. If you build a relationship with more conversations and less lectures, more open questions and more listening, and if you share your perspectives and values without forcing them upon your teen, you might be surprised at what they pick up and how things important to you will become important to them. There's something powerful about discovering values through meaningful conversation and exploration where you haven't been "told" what to think or believe. So get your teen talking, nurture their exploration and enjoy the ride together.


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Mastering Microsoft Access Class
All April classes will be two half-day sessions delivered as live, on-line video conferences.
What You Will Learn
This course is designed to teach business people to create Access databases for applications such as mailing lists, invoicing systems and inventory logs. Class exercises teach you to —
- Determine how to organize your data into fields and records,
- Create a table, define new fields and change the attributes of existing fields,
- Decide what data type a field should be, for example Text, Number, Date and Time or AutoNumber,
- Choose which field to make the Primary Key,
- Enter and edit data, and navigate between records,
- Use filters to find and sort records,
- Create a form, add fields and labels to it, and format the form and data displayed through it,
- Create and format a report, and have the report sort and group records,
- Make calculations on a form or report,
- Import external data, and
- Create a Query and make it the record source for a form or report.
6 hours, $260 (available for Windows only)
Purchase with Advanced Access class for discounted package price of $430.
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- Live trainer in room — not on-line or remote learning,
- Exercise-based, hands-on classroom instruction,
- Emphasis on questions and student participation,
- Small size (limited to 8), personal attention.
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A working knowledge of mouse and menu-based computer applications, and the Windows operating system.
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Resolute Forest Products' long-term competitiveness is tied to the ability to recruit, develop and retain top-quality employees with the right skills. We are committed to implementing new human resource practices to retain employees and renew our workforce. We are building a strong corporate culture that attracts results-driven and action-oriented employees and allows natural leaders to grow.
We work diligently with employees and union leadership on the mutually beneficial renewal of collective agreements. Twelve of 19 agreements covering 780 employees at Canadian operations were renewed in 2018, and we hired 1,330 new permanent and temporary employees, raising our employer profile through targeted recruitment practices.
In 2018, we completed the redesign of our "Jobs Where You Grow" employer brand in order to better reflect our recruitment efforts in Quebec, Ontario and the United States. We have also forged ties with partners in several of our Quebec operating regions to achieve our hiring goals. These initiatives, combined with innovative immigration policies and programs, are providing solutions to our staffing challenges.
We believe that our employees are an important factor in our success and that our organization is bettered through investing in the recruitment of new talent and developing the competencies of our people. Over the next few years, many of our long-term workers will be taking a well-deserved retirement, and we will need to attract skilled candidates who are motivated and eager to learn. To rise to this challenge, we have built a workplace where our employees can learn, grow and contribute.
In addition to participating in career days, open house events at schools and other community activities, we ramped up our efforts to recruit skilled employees in a more targeted way.
We also sought to involve our current employees in our recruitment efforts by developing a referral program. The Employee Referral Program is designed to attract quality candidates, increase our overall speed of recruitment, and improve our hiring success rates.
For more information on how Resolute measures and reports on employee hires and turnover, visit the Key Performance Indicators page.
While recruitment is important, we are equally committed to ensuring that our current employees are consistently motivated and engaged. Our human resource teams work hard to promote individual professional development goals, support sharing of knowledge and resources across the company, and create opportunities for growth and learning wherever possible.
For companies like Resolute that are traded on the New York and Toronto Stock Exchanges (NYSE and TSX), ethics and integrity codes are considered best practices and included in governance-based ranking systems. A robust enforcement system and clear policies are considered indicative of better corporate governance overall.
In addition, internal factors drive Resolute to maintain rigorous policies related to ethics and business conduct, including a Code of Business Conduct, an Ethics Reporting Policy and an independent ethics reporting hotline/helpline. The board of directors reviews these and other internal policies on an annual basis, following an initial review conducted by the managers responsible for each, which keeps the policies relevant and in line with market trends, legal requirements and investor preferences. Resolute's board of directors' Human Resources and Compensation/Nominating and Governance Committee is ultimately responsible for maintaining ethics and integrity codes and determining (in accordance with management's recommendations) when and how such policies should be updated. Market best practices, regulatory compliance, internal audits, report transparency and year-to-year performance are considered during the policy review and update process.
The Code of Business Conduct also provides an important framework that ties in many other policies and implementation mechanisms related to various laws (anti-corruption, anti-bribery, harassment-free workplace) and ensures compliance in environmental reporting, legal compliance and ethics reporting.
Resolute's employees, officers and directors are required to report financial or accounting irregularities, as well as other suspected wrongdoings, to raise any other ethics or compliance concerns or questions they may have, and to proactively seek guidance on actions with potential ethical implications. Resolute uses a team of internal experts to look into each reported potential violation. All employees are trained on the requirements of the company's Code of Business Conduct and the Ethics Reporting Policy.
Internal audits are conducted regularly to enforce compliance with the procedures adopted in accordance with the Code of Business Conduct, and material findings are reported to management and the board of directors.
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The difference is also apparent in the number of likes and post reach.
We would very much appreciate a concerted effort on the part of all those willing to report this account to Facebook as a scam and a fake. If Facebook receives enough reports, they will remove the account. Thank You.


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What's New In Bathroom Remodeling
Contrary to popular belief, not only do we follow the trend in terms of our clothing choices, furniture choices, and such, but our bathroom styles as well. People do not only look for functionality whenever they shop for anything they could put in their house or build in their house, they also want something aesthetically pleasing that will amaze them every time. Nowadays, trends could change a week later, and everyone would be gushing over another style, while in the past they used to just stay for a whole year or so. With the trends changing at a faster pace than it used to in the past, most homeowners find it really breath catching whenever they think about remodeling their old bathrooms to make them look stylish again. So what exactly is the new thing to follow to in this day and age? What is in on the different trends and what is no longer desirable for many?
Homeowners would usually be more concerned about the comfort that their home brings and the designs are usually supposed to suit what they personally like for themselves. It has always been a common decision to remodel one's home to make it look trendy and more modernized than find another new one or build a new one for themselves. People back in the day would usually have their homes remodeled only for value increasing purposes and not necessarily for them to have a home that can fit to the trend. In this time and age, people don't remodel their homes in the hopes to increase its value when the time comes to sell them, but they do remodel their homes because they want a different vibe that could make them be amazed once again. Remodeling in this time and age has been done in order for homes to look less ancient, and make them look trendy and modern, and they are also done in order for the home to have a greater value than that of the original cost.
Market trends you may want to follow along
Modern bathrooms tend to be bigger and more spacious as compared to those bathrooms that people loved to have back in the late twentieth century. Our bathrooms of today are now basically made to look even better and more comfortable, which is why to name a trend that many people have been wanting to have is this holding sink that makes it look as though there has been this tiny piece of furniture placed inside the bathroom. There has also been a ton of radius cabinets being put up in many modern bathrooms nowadays, because people think they look really nice. All of these things basically make the entire bathroom look really modern, without having to let go of the functionality aspect, which is of course very important when it comes to remodeling any type of room.
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"First, allow me to introduce myself with some background info. I am a veteran, a nurse, a woman, and decide VA disability claims."
I share many of the frustrations of veterans when I see claims that have not been properly or expeditiously decided. It is my mission to correct these where possible. I have called errors on prior decisions and awarded benefits back to the original claim date. I'm sure that I also have made errors and hope others have caught and corrected these. Please keep in mind that this is my personal perspective. I have no authority to speak for my Regional Office or any other.
That said, I would like to:
1) share some insight on how veterans can help themselves to get their claims through the system as quickly as possible.
2) share some of my frustrations with many system clogging claims that I get and must address.
First, here's some general info on claims processing steps in my office:
For claims, the veteran's C-file is retrieved from the files and is sent to the development section. Development then sends a letter acknowledging receipt of the claim and lists the claims. This letter should also include release of information form(s) 4142 so that private medical records (not VAMC) that the veteran says are relevant to the claim can be obtained. When the veteran returns the signed forms, the VA contacts the care provider by mail requesting the records. Sometimes we receive no response and must request the records again. This also delays the decision process. Please be aware that many VA Regional Offices, including mine, receive thousands of pieces of mail every day. Each of these must be stamped with the date received. This takes time.
When all records are received, or it is determined that records are not obtainable, the claim goes to the Rating Board.
Hints I hope are helpful:
– Be clear about what it is you are claiming. VA policy says that we must respond with a letter acknowledging and listing your claimed conditions or conditions for which you are claiming an increase. If we need to ask for clarification, it just slows the process. Example of unclear claim: "nerve condition" This could mean nerve damage or a mental condition. Please be specific.
– Put your claimed conditions where they can be found, at the beginning. The development people are buried in paper. A rambling explanation with claims hidden in lengthy text can get missed. I can't count the number of times that I've had to send a claim back to the development section for another letter to the veteran acknowledging the missed claim. Another delay.
– I understand that some veterans cannot afford to pay for copies of their private medical records. However, if at all possible, include copies of relevant medical records with your claim. It really does speed the process. We have to give the doctor or hospital 60 days to respond to our request before sending a second request. They have 30 days after that. If they don't respond, we do no more because it is ultimately the responsibility of the veteran to provide relevant private records.
– Relevant is the key. I go through every piece of paper sent in support of the claim. If for instance, you are claiming knee problems, your psychiatry records, gynecologists records, billing/insurance statements, etc are not needed and just slow my ability to decide the claim. More is not better, relevant is.
-Help us to help you. Do get copies of your service medical records and service personnel records when you are discharged or from the National Personnel Records Center (NPRC). If VA has them request copies. It's free folks. It just takes a bit of effort on your part. Yes, VA and other agencies do lose/misfile records. It stinks, but this is the reality of any monstrously huge agency such as VA and NPRC. Without these records, my hands are tied. I may personally believe you, but I must have in-service medical evidence for most claims.
– Don't send in additional claims before you get a decision on the initial or increase claim. Depending on the issues, this can cause the processing of your claim to be sent back to the beginning.
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I spend most of my free time voraciously learning new things. I often work on personal projects sometimes to teach myself and sometimes to solve a particular problem. I also spend time collaborating with peers at hackerspaces and on each other's projects. I play the ukulele, am a lifelong vegetarian, ride my bicycle for my primary transportation, and have a pet chipmunk named Artie.
At 19 I started my first job managing a business and began my WW2 & mid-century inspired fashion business in my spare time. After working with web technologies and fashion design simultaneously for several years, web development quickly took place as my passion. I have been a web designer for about seven years and have loved keeping up with the new technologies of web development. I plan to expand on these skills, including building my own web apps, as well as micro-controller embedded programming and to otherwise become a more diverse programmer. I truly love what I do and it shows in my work.


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