[FairfieldLife] Re: Maharishi speaks on Karma (1962)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anatol_zinc anatol_z...@... wrote: excellent talk by Maharishi given in 1962, but here is my comment 2009: it is hard to follow Maharishi's advice( last few paragraphs ) during these extremely difficult times ; and it seems it was hard for Maharishi to follow his own advice; this was given in 1962, so for a few decades, he did really well focusing only on positivity, it seemed to me, but then he started to call President Bush a rakshasa( a demon ); so these are truly difficult times for everyone but the advice Maharishi gave is still excellent and wise to try ones best That to which one gives one's attention grows stronger in one's life, therefore, speaking ill of someone makes the influence of evil stronger in one's life, which retards evolution. Maharishi's advice about speaking well of others (found throughout the Vedic literature: http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=10806621169topic=7189 )is only an aid to the ignorant -- for an ignorant person, it's dangerous to spiritual growth to speak ill of others, because it necessitates bringing in that impurity from others and situating it in one's brain, in order to speak ill of others. But for MMY and other enlightened people, there is no danger of their minds becoming contaminated, since they are stationed in total awareness that cannot be contaminated or overcome by anything, so there is no need to avoid speaking ill of others because of a concern about impeding spiritual growth for themselves. What enlightened people say is just the voice of nature responding to the needs of the time -- the earth is terribly burdened now by wrongdoing, and MMY's harsh criticism is just the cry of nature to stop mucking things up. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@ wrote: From an audio (No 8) recorded in Hochgurgel in 1962 (Thanks to Jörg Schenk) Maharishi speaks about Karma Some selected points: Maharishi: Who is the doer (of the Karma)? The doer is the ego, the mind. Although the senses perform the action, but the senses are not the doer. The doer is the thinker within. So the thinker, as long as it is associated with the body, it is associated with the body. But the doer is that thinker, that subtle body, that Jiva. If he casts away this body, goes to the other body, he will be caught by that action in the other body. Body doesn't matter. What matters is the doer and what he has done As I was saying, the vibrations (of the Karma) return from the wall, from the sun, from millions of miles. There are galaxies in the world from where the light takes millions of years to reach the earth. When the vibrations reach so far and strike against that and then will be rebound and come back, millions of years have passed already. So the effect of the Karma done now is not received all at once. It keeps on being received from time to time, for (?) all eternity. The effect in the vicinity of the doer is maximum, but the effect is created throughout the universe, whatever little effect at far distances, but it is created and all this effect has to come back Every second that we are producing some Karma, we are storing the fruit of that Karma to be born for millions of years Thoughts are the seed of Karma, very powerful seed. The seed in its seed status is very potent. If you have thoughts of injuring a man, you have injured the whole creation, already injured in the subtle state Future after death depends on what a man has done throughout life. But the next goal, where he will be born, mainly depends on the desire at the time of death, the desire at the time of death Question: Is there a difference of a bad Karma done intentionally or unintentionally? Maharishi: Intentionally, because his attention was there, then the effect will be more intensive. But the effect will be on the same line Question: If I have a bad son and have to beat him, is this bad Karma? Maharishi: It is the Karma of the son that brings him beating and it is the Karma of the father that makes him sorry If I do some sin and in this room there is no one, I think nobody has seen it. But it has been exposed to the whole universe. Everyone in the universe knows it. And somehow that will be delivered to us back by all the agencies in the universe, knowing or unknowing. You can't stop the evolution. If you commit sin in the room, then you are creating sinful vibrations. And sinful vibrations means, wherever they go they damage the evolution of that thing. Someone speaks ill of the other and plans damaging him, very underknees plan, nothing on the surface, damaging the entire creation by his mischief. Because the agency of thought is just vibration. That is why scriptures forbid us speaking ill of others, or
[FairfieldLife] Ford v the chicken tax
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[FairfieldLife] Cowabunga: surf pics
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/21/showcase-54/ http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/21/showcase-54/
[FairfieldLife] MSAE's Eyre Coach of the Year
I am honored to receive this award on behalf of Maharishi School, said Mr. Eyre. Maharishi School tennis players follow a new athletic paradigm, Coach Eyre explained. Instead of 'no pain, no gain', our motto is `train without strain.' We invest in rest for tennis success. http://www.heartlandconnection.com/sports/story.aspx?id=352829 http://www.heartlandconnection.com/sports/story.aspx?id=352829
[FairfieldLife] Re: FW: Jeru - Please pass this on to anyone you think knows him!!!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer r...@... wrote: - Original Message - From: Debra mailto:deb...@... Poneman To: Debra mailto:deb...@... Poneman Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 6:22 PM Subject: Jeru - Please pass this on to anyone you think knows him!!! p.s. I just tried to send him some books on Amazon and they wouldn't accept the address I had sent you initially. I went on the federal prisons website and they had this address: Je-Ru Hall REG # 139-19-016 FPC YANKTON PO Box 700 Yankton, SD 57078 ...I tried it and it worked! Sorry for the confusion and thanks for all your replies. Maybe we should spread out our book sends over the next few weeks so prison people don't get up-tight that he's getting too many things!!! Dear Friends of Jeru (and if you're getting this and you're not a friend of Jeru, you might want to become one!!), According to Jivan, Jeru had been moved around a lot. Now it seems he is finally in one place. So I just thought that he probably would really appreciate it if we sent him letters and books or magazines. According to another friend who was in jail in Illinois, there's no reading material unless someone sends it to you. THIS IS IMPORTANT: He is not able to receive any other types of packages. Only letters. He can receive books or magazines only if they are ordered directly from a reputable source (like Amazon or Barnes and Noble) and sent directly from the company to him (don't do the New and Used from only. because then the mailing label will not say Amazon). Any books sent from an individual or from any source other than a main distributor will be rejected. Je-Ru Hall REG # 139-19-016 Federal Prison Camp P.M.B 700 Yankton, SD 57078 And if anyone is heading west, he is only a 5 or 6 hour drive from FF in Yankton, South Dakota. I am sure he would LOVE to hear from you. Love, Debra * I'm sorry for anybody who's locked up, but at least Hall will be released in April 2013 -- I really feel sorry for this dude: http://snipurl.com/s1b2j [www_bop_gov]
[FairfieldLife] Re: Bevan steps down as MUM Chairman
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5 dhamiltony...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wayback71 wayback71@ wrote: MUM Development Office notice: Bevan held the top position for 31 years as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of MUM. Now, Dr. J Abramson is taking his place. Trustee, President, Prime Minister, Chancellor. Prime witness. Now this is a development. One big fish and large weight removed. Will make an insightful read to see those minutes of the Raja meetings on this one. Hopefully the minutes will get posted soon. 31 years presiding over the long decline? Is some fantastic and moving news for the university community. Fabulous development for the TMmovement. Jai Adi Shankara, -D in FF * Bevan continues to be President of MUM (and Prime Minister of the Global Country), he just is not Chairman of the Board of Trustees anymore. If they were really unhappy with Bevan, he would not have his other posts either.
[FairfieldLife] Re: FW: Jeru - Please pass this on to anyone you think knows him!!!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ShempMcGurk shempmcg...@... wrote: Now, how about the addresses of Jeru's victims? Aren't they more deserving of your and my largess than the perp? * People can change -- one of the most famous saints in India is Valmiki, who used to be a bandit: http://www.iloveindia.com/spirituality/gurus/valmiki.html
[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Who is it, That seeks...War?...'
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert G. babajii...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, guyfawkes91 no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert babajii_99@ wrote: The Israelis, do not want war...the people in Israel, do not want war... Quite right the Israelis don't want war, they just want to steal other people's land without having them fight back. If only people wouldn't fight back when they have their property stolen from them then we wouldn't have war. So, it's all about real estate, that people are inspired to kill each other... It's it's a matter, of who is more organized, who has the better weapons, and who is more brutal and inspired to wipe out the 'enemy'... I believe that is how the Europeans conquered the people who lived quite fine, for thousands of years, before the 'European Invasion'... So, why don't you give your land back...It was all stolen from the Native Americans... Whose gonna be first to give the land back? Anyone? Robert. ~80% of the indigenous peoples of America were killed by disease that Europeans brought in with them, thus making it possible for Europeans to settle and displace the native peoples: On an estimate of approximately 50 million people in 1492 (including 25 million in the Aztec Empire and 12 million in the Inca Empire), the lowest estimates give a death toll due to disease of 80% by the end of the 16th century (8 million people in 1650). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_history_of_American_indigenous_p\ eoples http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_history_of_American_indigenous_\ peoples However, there is no mechanism like the diseases that killed in the Americas that will allow the Israelis to overcome the great population advantage that Arabs and Muslims enjoy (the current military dominance that Israel enjoys courtesy of American military aid will be gone in the foreseeable future because the A/M world has the means to achieve military parity or superiority). So, when the Arab and Muslim world gets as educated and organized as the Europeans and Americans who imposed Israel on the region at a time when the A/M world was weak, Israel will have to go. So, moral issues aside, practical people who are concerned about the welfare of the Jews in Israel should recognize the inevitability of the end of the Israeli regime and move somewhere else.
[FairfieldLife] Failing trajectory of the private health insurance system
http://trueslant.com/rickungar/2009/09/20/the-inevitability-of-an-americ\ an-single-payer-health-system/ http://trueslant.com/rickungar/2009/09/20/the-inevitability-of-an-ameri\ can-single-payer-health-system/ excerpt Amidst the ideological back and forth that is the health care reform debate of 2009, recent studies reveal a growing reality that each of us can easily understand, no matter what our ideological point of view. It will not be long until the private health insurance model will no longer work for anybody. It's got nothing to do with public options or single payer advocates just as it will have nothing to do with those prepared to defend America from socialism at all costs. The simple fact is that single-payer, government controlled health care is inevitable because the trajectory of the private health insurance system reveals that it is doomed to fail and sooner than we might realize.
[FairfieldLife] LBJ Medicare victory: Dont Let Dead Cats Stand on Your Porch
President Obama http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/o/barack_oba\ ma/index.html?inline=nyt-per faces perhaps the ultimate presidential test in the weeks ahead: maneuvering a big health care bill through a fractious Congress. For tips on how to manage it, there's no better advisor than Lyndon B. Johnson http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/j/lyndon_bai\ nes_johnson/index.html?inline=nyt-per , who won Medicare http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthto\ pics/medicare/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier over fierce opposition in 1965. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/20/weekinreview/20word.html http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/20/weekinreview/20word.html
[FairfieldLife] LBJ Medicare Victory: 'Don't let dead cats stand on your porch'
President Obama http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/o/barack_oba\ ma/index.html?inline=nyt-per faces perhaps the ultimate presidential test in the weeks ahead: maneuvering a big health care bill through a fractious Congress. For tips on how to manage it, there's no better advisor than Lyndon B. Johnson http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/j/lyndon_bai\ nes_johnson/index.html?inline=nyt-per , who won Medicare http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthto\ pics/medicare/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier over fierce opposition in 1965. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/20/weekinreview/20word.html http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/20/weekinreview/20word.html
[FairfieldLife] Re: Failing trajectory of the private health insurance system
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nelson nelsonriddle2...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante no_reply@ wrote: http://trueslant.com/rickungar/2009/09/20/the-inevitability-of-an-americ\ \ an-single-payer-health-system/ http://trueslant.com/rickungar/2009/09/20/the-inevitability-of-an-ameri\ \ can-single-payer-health-system/ excerpt Amidst the ideological back and forth that is the health care reform debate of 2009, recent studies reveal a growing reality that each of us can easily understand, no matter what our ideological point of view. It will not be long until the private health insurance model will no longer work for anybody. It's got nothing to do with public options or single payer advocates just as it will have nothing to do with those prepared to defend America from socialism at all costs. The simple fact is that single-payer, government controlled health care is inevitable because the trajectory of the private health insurance system reveals that it is doomed to fail and sooner than we might realize. Government run mail used to be three cents too. *** Plot [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/US_Postage_His\ tory.svg/450px-US_Postage_History.svg.png] /wiki/File:US_Postage_History.svg [/skins-1.5/common/images/magnify-clip.png] /wiki/File:US_Postage_History.svg Nominal and inflation adjusted first-class postage rates in the US Taking the above data and plotting it yields the graph shown to the right. The dark plot is the actual issued price of the stamp and the light plot is the price adjusted for inflation and is shown in 2008 US cents /wiki/US_cent . This plot shows that, despite the rise in the nominal cost of a first-class stamp, the adjusted cost of the stamp has stayed relatively stable. The large jumps in the early 1900s are because a change by a single penny was large compared to the cost of the stamp http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_United_States_Postal_Service_rat\ es http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_United_States_Postal_Service_ra\ tes
[FairfieldLife] Re: Sand artist Kseniya Simonova
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com , raunchydog raunchy...@... wrote: The Great Patriotic War, as it is called in Ukraine, resulted in one in four of the population being killed with eight to 11 million deaths out of a population of 42 million. http://snipurl.com/s0ie2 http://snipurl.com/s0ie2 ** Few people know of the 30s Ukrainian holocaust instigated by Stalin which killed ~7 million Ukrainians because they were reluctant to join collective farms. Stalin sent in troops to confiscate the entire harvest, then posted troops at the borders of Ukraine to keep people from leaving. http://www.faminegenocide.com/resources/unknown.html http://www.faminegenocide.com/resources/unknown.html
[FairfieldLife] Re: 'Who is it, That seeks...War?...'
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, guyfawkes91 no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert babajii_99@ wrote: The Israelis, do not want war...the people in Israel, do not want war... Quite right the Israelis don't want war, they just want to steal other people's land without having them fight back. If only people wouldn't fight back when they have their property stolen from them then we wouldn't have war. No one hates a Jew like a Zionist http://www.tabletmag.com/arts-and-culture/books/12575/disengagement/ http://www.tabletmag.com/arts-and-culture/books/12575/disengagement/ * I am absolutely in favor of a safe place for Jews to live, especially after the terrible losses during WWII (although the Gypsies were also victims of a Holocaust that nobody cares about because Gypsies are not prominent in world affairs like Jews). The problem with Zionism is that Israel will never ever be that safe place. If it were possible to reason with Zionist loonies, then a rational solution like the Jews moving elsewhere would be possible -- but of course, no rational solution is possible when you are dealing with religious fanatics who think that some guy from Brooklyn has the right to throw an Arab off his land because God gave us this land.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Peace Palace for sale for $45 million | The Real Deal | New York Real Estate
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wayback71 waybac...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@ wrote: http://therealdeal.com/newyork/articles/peace-palace-at-70-broad-street-buil t-by-american-bank-note-company-for-sale-for-45-million-by-global-country-of -world-peace The location is fantastic and the building is lovely. The TMO just finished major , major interior renovations about a year ago and the place sparkles - they cleaned the stone facade. In general the real estate market in Manhattan is weak - down 20%. BUt perhaps that location and price range is unaffected. I am guessing that they are selling because the TMO feels the mortgage payments are too high and the building is too big for their needs. I wonder if they will even have a space in New YOrk City after this sells. The TMO paid $5.5M in 2004(5?) and spent ~$2.2M on renovations, making the $45M price about six times too much, maybe worse given the weak real estate market. There is no mortgage -- they paid cash. The reason why they are selling is because it's an embarrassment for Hagelin to keep touting the group in Fairfield as being responsible for the market run-up which is no more. Hagelin had a vision of being able to sit in a grand bldg in the middle of the financial district and take credit for everything good happening in the markets correlated to the rising numbers of meditators in the domes -- now that he can't do that without being laughed at, the bldg has got to go, and they'll rent some small space for a TM center.
[FairfieldLife] District 9 not welcome in Nigeria
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090919/ap_en_mo/af_nigeria_district9 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090919/ap_en_mo/af_nigeria_district9
[FairfieldLife] Re: Peace Palace for sale for $45 million | The Real Deal | New York Real Estate News
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, It's just a ride bill.hicks.all.a.r...@... wrote: At least the Dallas Area Capital got built. Had wonderful courses in it. They had the good sense to have it struck by Jewish Lightening though probably didn't have insurance on it. ** I don't mind how the Jew torches buildings for insurance money, that's just their good business practice, but I have to draw the line when they kill Christian babies for their blood ceremonies.
[FairfieldLife] Re: District 9 not welcome in Nigeria
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozg...@... wrote: The thing the movie forgot was Nigeria leads the world in Internet scam artistry! :-D bob_brigante wrote: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090919/ap_en_mo/af_nigeria_district9 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090919/ap_en_mo/af_nigeria_district9 *** Bad public image is the least of Nigeria's problems: http://snipurl.com/rzpau [online_wsj_com]
[FairfieldLife] Re: The TM Rishikesh ashram, the original Peace Palace, was funded by...
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ShempMcGurk shempmcg...@... wrote: ...none other than Doris Duke, who gave the movement $100,000 towards its purchase back in the day. This according to Herrera-Cooke in Beyond Gurus. Duke, eccentric billionaire, was once acquited of killing a boyfriend whom she ran down with her car...she claimed her foot slipped on the accelerator or some such nonsense. * The run-over guy was probably not her boyfriend, since he was reputedly a gay interior decorator -- however, she did have something of a history of attacking guys who pissed her off. It was probably the vile influence of that inherited tobacco wealth, which depresses the consciousness and fortune of those who inherit it -- same thing with the Kennedys inheriting Joe's rumrunning loot. Few around her ever dared to tell her when she was wrong. In 1963, as her relationship with jazz pianist Joey Castro was disintegrating, she stabbed him in the arm. ``I suppose you're going to the police about this,'' she said to him. ``I said, `Don't be so corny,' '' he told a biographer. ``We never talked about it again.'' By 1966, Duke had doubled her inheritance by shrewd investing; the only women richer were Queen Elizabeth II and Queen Juliana of the Netherlands. She decided to restore the family's rundown Newport mansion, Rough Point, with the help of a gay friend, a handsome interior and set designer named Eduardo Tirella. They also worked together to set up the Newport Restoration Foundation to restore historic houses in Newport. Jacqueline Kennedy, of nearby Hammersmith Farm, was the first vice president. Tirella, however, was tiring of dancing attendance on the demanding Duke and felt his career as a set designer was being stymied. Duke didn't like the idea of his leaving her employ. On Oct. 7, 1966, Tirella and Duke were leaving Rough Point about 5 p.m. in her station wagon. Tirella drove to the huge iron gates, put the car into park, and got out to open the gates. Usually, Duke slid over to the driver's seat and drove the car through, while Tirella closed the gates. This time, the car surged forward and blasted through the gates, crushing him to death. Duke told a witness she had ``started to go forward and put her foot on the gas instead of the brake.'' It was a rental car she had only driven once, with a new style of automatic transmission. Was she drunk? Witnesses said she was dazed and incoherent. She was never tested for drugs or alcohol, and police later found nothing wrong with the car. Was it intentional? Police said they had no reason to think so, calling it a ``freak accident.'' Duke herself blamed the car. Tirella's family sued; four years later, Duke was found negligent and ordered to pay $75,000. http://www.projo.com/specials/century/month9/0961.htm
[FairfieldLife] Re: Anyone planning to ge the flu shot?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Alex Stanley j_alexander_stan...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ShempMcGurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: I don't think I will. Neither will I. Any time I start coming down with something, I dose up on Vit. C and colloidal silver, and it's usually gone very quickly, often overnight. *** You'd look cool in a different shade: http://www.silvermedicine.org/argyria.html
[FairfieldLife] BMW plugin electrodiesel: 0-60 in 4.8s
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-neil18-2009sep18,0,820738.column http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-neil18-2009sep18,0,820738.column
[FairfieldLife] Re: Jimmy Carter, Jews, and calling others racist
I can, of course, cite you instances of the Muslim world threatening Israel with anhiliation. Why just today, the President of Iran did just that. *** Ahmadinejad says Holocaust a lie, Israel has no future *Well, he's half-right...
[FairfieldLife] Re: Ramraj TV
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shukra69 shukr...@... wrote: http://www.ramrajtv.com I have yet to ever see this site function as advertised * For months, a screen popped up asking for a username and password, but it seems to be working fine now without this popup -- I just clicked on the video screen and some beautiful chanting with a very pacific Girishji -- very nice. Oops, spoke too soon, the feed quit after about two mins...restart after a couple more mins, must be having bandwidth problems.
[FairfieldLife] TMO lists its NY bldg: $45
They're finally trying to get rid of that white elephant: http://www.trulia.com/property/1086825034-70-Broad-St-New-York-NY-10004 http://www.trulia.com/property/1086825034-70-Broad-St-New-York-NY-10004\ more descriptive article, pics: http://curbed.com/archives/2009/09/17/on_the_market_make_the_craziest_fi\ di_mansion_ever.php http://curbed.com/archives/2009/09/17/on_the_market_make_the_craziest_f\ idi_mansion_ever.php [2009_9_70broad.jpg]
[FairfieldLife] Saints course at MUM
MUM Review: Seminar Offered on Experiences of Saints A unique six-session seminar, titled In Their Own Words: Experiences of the Saints of Christianity, Judaism and Islam, is currently being offered to the community. Taught by Evan Finkelstein, the seminar is highlighting the divine experiences of great saints from these three traditions in the light of Maharishi's teachings on higher states of consciousness. The sessions are being held on six consecutive Wednesday evenings, starting on September 9. All sessions begin at 8:00 p.m., in Dalby Hall of the Argiro Student Center. Those who missed the first session may still enroll in the seminar. The cost for six sessions is $60 with a 10% discount for Invincible America Course Participants; the fee for full-time students, faculty, and staff is $10. Quotes from Maharishi and many writings of Christian, Jewish and Muslim saints are being discussed and explored; there will also be a PowerPoint presentation and time for comments and questions. An example of the quotations is this by Abd Al-Karim Jili: It is the Holy Spirit which witnesses to man's innate perfection, the Spirit is man's real nature and within him is the secret shrine of the Divine
[FairfieldLife] Re: Jimmy Carter, Jews, and calling others racist
...When former President Jimmy Carter revealed that Israel has more than 150 nuclear weapons, ** Regardless of Carter's motives, revealing Israel's massive arsenal, nearly equal to China's ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_with_nuclear_weapons ) is exactly what Israel wants: an explicit and credible statement about the extreme retaliatory and deterrent power of Israel, which Israel could not state itself without creating problems in its relationships, especially with the United States with its laws against supporting nuclear proliferation (a stance which is pretty much out the door after India and Pakistan). However, this is really a fool's game. Just as the U.S., after WWII, thought it was on top of the world due to its nuclear monopoly until the Russians and other burst that bubble, Israel's ability to threaten the Arab/Muslim world is only going to last a few more years until oil-rich states finance a much larger arsenal and no amount of diplomatic or military pressure is going to stop that.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Stenger on matter
Whenever I get pronged by the concept three I try to see if the three gunas can be congruent with the threeness I've happened across. *** I don't see a reference to a maintenance operator in physics (the maintenance operation is referred to, however: http://snipurl.com/rwx1n [books_google_com] ), which would correspond with rajo-guna, but the creation operator (sattva) and annihilation operator (tamas) are well-established: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creation_and_annihilation_operators Shiva: personification of tamas Vishnu: personification of rajas Brahma: personification of sattva This trinity appears after the creation of Maya, and in the mirror of Maya, Krishna appears as Shiva, Vishnu, and Brahma for the sake of creation-play.
[FairfieldLife] Re: TM in Mongolia
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ShempMcGurk shempmcg...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, yifuxero yifuxero@ wrote: http://www.tinyurl.com/nbdrbq What I find fascinating is that they've introduced a variation on the meditation and the mantra is actually sung from the throat. Amazing video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M3YFK3sJ54 ** The people of Tuva are probably most famous for overtone or throat singing -- physicist Richard Feynman was a big fan of Tuvan singing ( http://www.fotuva.org/newsletters/wheel.html ), but Mongolia and Sardinia and other places also do it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overtone_singing
[FairfieldLife] $15B from soda tax?
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/17/business/17soda.html http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/17/business/17soda.html
[FairfieldLife] Splendid view of Uranus
For you astronomy fans, Uranus is readily visible with binoculars in the south sky to the lower left of Jupiter.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Doctors Strongly Support Public Option
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jpgillam jpgil...@... wrote: The New Hampshire Medical Society found that most of its members would prefer a public option, too. *** Doctors support the public option now because they have been promised a better deal than they are getting from HMOs: http://snipurl.com/rvuc8 [www_latimes_com] excerpt: The American Medical Assn., after 60 years of opposing any government overhaul of healthcare, is now lobbying and advertising to win public support for President Obama's sweeping plan -- a proposal that promises hundreds of billions of dollars for America's doctors. Of all the interest groups that have won favorable terms in closed-door negotiations this year, the association representing the nation's physicians may have taken home the biggest prizes, including an agreement to stop planned cuts in Medicare payments that are worth $228 billion to doctors over 10 years. In addition, the proposal that would require all individuals to obtain medical insurance includes premium subsidies to ensure that their doctor bills would be paid. The AMA, which many still regard as the country's premier lobbying force, is providing money and grass-roots backing for these and other reforms. Critics charge that, although doctors will be among those with the most to gain financially, the AMA -- unlike the pharmaceutical and insurance industries -- made relatively few concessions in return. The drug industry, for example, pledged $80 billion in cost reductions. Health insurers agreed to give up restrictions on preexisting conditions. To our knowledge, this deal is better than those negotiated so far by drug companies, hospitals or health insurers, said Dr. Henry Simmons, founder of the National Coalition on Health Care, which represents labor, business and medical provider interests. The question is why. Health industry analyst Robert Laszewski, a former insurance company executive who tracks health policy for industry clients in Washington, thinks that all of the major interests that once opposed reform, including insurance and drug companies, have received sweetheart deals in exchange for their support.
[FairfieldLife] TM ADHD
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-09/muom-men091409.php http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-09/muom-men091409.php excerpt Over 50% reduction in stress and anxiety, and improvements in ADHD symptoms One recent study, published in the December 2008 issue of the peer-reviewed Current Issues in Education http://cie.asu.edu/volume10/number2/index.html , followed a group of 10 middle school students with ADHD who were practicing the Transcendental Meditation technique twice a day in school. After three months, researchers found over 50% reduction in stress and anxiety, and improvements in ADHD symptoms. The effect was much greater than we expected, said Sarina J. Grosswald, Ed.D., a George Washington University-trained cognitive learning specialist and lead researcher on the study. The children also showed improvements in attention, working memory, organization, and behavior regulation. Grosswald said that after the in-school meditation routine began, teachers reported they were able to teach more, and students were able to learn more because they were less stressed and anxious. Prior research shows ADHD children have slower brain development and a reduced ability to cope with stress.
[FairfieldLife] Diversity is healthcare reform's worst enemy
Diversity is healthcare reform's worst enemy. White America has never liked social insurance for people of color From the beginning, attempts to create a universal welfare state in the U.S. have been thwarted by the fears of voters that they will be taxed to subsidize other Americans who are unlike them in race or ethnicity or culture. The original Social Security Act passed only after domestic workers and farmworkers -- the majority of black Americans, in the 1930s -- were left out of its coverage, at the insistence of white Southern politicians. excerpt http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/09/15/race/ http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/09/15/race/
[FairfieldLife] Reagan v Medicare
http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2009/09/07/090907taco_talk_lemann http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2009/09/07/090907taco_talk_lemann\ excerpt /search/query?keyword=Socialism One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine. It's very easy to disguise a medical program as a humanitarian project. Most people are a little reluctant to oppose anything that suggests medical care for people who possibly can't afford it. This was Ronald Reagan, in 1961, speaking in opposition to an early version of Medicare, the big federal health-insurance program for senior citizens. An important station on Reagan's road from actor to politiciancoming between the national barnstorming he did as a spokesman for General Electric and his sensational campaign speech for Barry Goldwater, in 1964was the eleven-minute recording from which this quotation comes. It was called Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine, and the American Medical Association distributed it to its members. Reagan believed that government health insurance for senior citizens was a Trojan horse: the real goal was universal health care and then full-on socialism. So it was important to resist sentimental appeals: Now, the advocates of this bill, when you try to oppose it, challenge you on an emotional basis. They say, `What would you do, throw these poor old people out to die with no medical attention?' That's ridiculous, and, of course, no one has advocated it. Four years later, Congress passed Medicare, the emblematic achievement of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society. Politics is moved less by new ideas than by the ability of politicians to bend the direction of history, even slightly. Government health care had been a leading item on the liberal agenda at least since Harry Truman first proposed it, in 1946. When Reagan made his recording, the time for federal health care had not yet come; what had changed by 1965 was the martyrdom of John F. Kennedy, which made Congress and the public far more amenable to liberal reforms, and the legislative skill of Lyndon Johnson. The first law putting substantial federal money into needy local schools passed at around the same time, and for the same reasons. So did the first tough civil-rights law since Reconstruction. But health care for all was, even in the heyday of the Great Society, a step too far.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Ride of a lifetime: Tesla Roadster
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozg...@... wrote: j_alexander_stanley wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: There's another question I have...and this applies to the Prius as well: is it correct to say that with electric motors, there is practically no sound when it is accelerating or going at a constant speed? Yep. The Tesla taking off slowly out of the parking lot sounds not at all unlike that Prius backing out of a parking space right in front of Revelations Bookstore in FF the other day. They're both basically silent (until, of course, the gas engine fires up in the Prius). As far as I could tell, the only things making significant noise in the Tesla are the fans and electrically driven air conditioning compressor up front that are also used to actively chill the battery pack's circulating liquid coolant. Blind folks are complaining about the electric cars because of their silence. Wouldn't be surprised if manufacturers add some kind of sound when the car is running. Audio file of a motor running maybe? :-D Tesla Roadster Electric Car Virtual Engine Noise - Lots of Fun! Now this one was good for a few chuckles. The National Federation of the Blind, among other groups, has lobbied hard for all electric cars and dual-mode hybrids to be equipped with noisemakers while in motion to aid the blind in traveling safely as pedestrians. BRABUS's solution for the Tesla's silent electric motor is to fit the car with what they are calling the space sound generator. The idea of driver-selectable engine noise programs, which are relative to throttle load, is just too fun. Want a big displacement V8 in your Tesla? How about the whine of a turbo rotary? BRABUS even offers otherworldly sounds called 'space' and 'warp' unlike anything coming from a fossil burner. The Tesla tuning package is available now, that is if you can get your hands on one of the rare $100,000 Tesla Roadster electric sports cars. If you don't make 8 figures, better get in line. The Very First Tuned Electric Car Comes From BRABUS: BRABUS Customization Program for the Tesla Roadster Official BRABUS Press Release The first tuned electric car comes from BRABUS: The first project of the future cooperation between Tesla Motors, Inc. and the new BRABUS business division Zero Emission http://www.rsportscars.com/tesla/2009-brabus-tesla-roadster/# celebrates its world debut at the 2008 Essen Motor Show. BRABUS (www.brabus.com) presents an exclusive customization program for the Tesla Roadster, the world's first electrically powered production sports car. The new BRABUS logo with added lightning bolt is the trademark of BRABUS Zero Emission vehicles http://www.rsportscars.com/tesla/2009-brabus-tesla-roadster/# . To give the sports car a more exciting sound the BRABUS electronics specialists have developed a `space sound generator.' The occupants on-board the Tesla Roadsters can choose from several simulated engine sounds including that of a typical V8 combustion engine, a racecar engine and two futuristic soundscapes named `Beam' and `Warp.' The volume of the sound is dependent on the momentary power output of the electric motor. ** Long article on the Tesla in August 24 edition of The New Yorker -- Tesla thinks it's going to sell a million units a year in a decade, hardly seems realistic (subscription required to read full article) abstract: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/08/24/090824fa_fact_friend http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/08/24/090824fa_fact_friend
[FairfieldLife] Pandits doing an evening Aarti performance by the river
http://www.vedicpandits.org/newsletter/2009_09_04.html#view http://www.vedicpandits.org/newsletter/2009_09_04.html#view
[FairfieldLife] Re: Show Some Respect, Boy
The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien People are still mad at that congressman who heckled the President. Today one of President Obamafs advisers called Joe Wilson gA pimple on the ass of progress.h Then the adviser stressed that removing a pimple from the ass of progress would be covered by Obamafs healthcare plan.
[FairfieldLife] Maharishi University will receive funding from the National Institutes of Health
Millions of dollars to Iowa for research Associated Press 09/14/09 4:51 PM EDT WASHINGTON The University of Iowa and Maharishi University will receive funding from the National Institutes of Health to conduct biomedical research. Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin, who chairs the Appropriations subcommittee that funds National Institutes of Health research, announced the $2.69 million in funding for the universities on Monday. According to Harkin, the funds will keep Iowa on the cutting-edge of medical research The funds going to Iowa is part of the $10.4 billion secured for medical research across the United States in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Show Some Respect, Boy
The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien People are still mad at that congressman who heckled the President. Today one of President Obama's advisers called Joe Wilson A pimple on the ass of progress.Then the adviser stressed that removing a pimple from the ass of progress would be covered by Obama's healthcare plan.
[FairfieldLife] Dumb and dumberer: US too stoopid to have coherent health care
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/14/health/policy/14kidney.html
[FairfieldLife] IowaCare: hafasst health program for hicks
Few counties benefit from Iowa health care program Associated Press - September 13, 2009 12:04 PM ET IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - A program that offers a package of limited health benefits to low-income adults faces renewal in January, but some people are complaining the program leaves out much of the state. That's because people seeking care can only go to the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City, except those who live in Polk County, who can seek a waiver to seek treatment at a Des Moines hospital. The state's Medicaid director acknowledges the program, called IowaCare, isn't ideal, but says there's no room in the budget to open up the program to hospitals statewide. That means hospitals in places far from Iowa City still get stuck with the bill by uninsured adults who can't afford care.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Photoshopping Hubble pics
Why are the Images in Black and White? Thecameras on Hubble are equipped with a wide varietyof filters that allow astronomers to investigate celestial objects as they appear over a broad range of the electromagnetic spectrum from the ultraviolet to the infrared. ** Maybe someday they'll have the capacity to produce images that are not B/W, but not false colored either. There's a place for false color and B/W, but I can look up and see Betelguese's red even though it's ~640 light years away, and I would like to see accurate color photography too.
[FairfieldLife] Geothermal may set off quakes
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/11/science/earth/11quake.html
[FairfieldLife] Re: Letter to the Editor
Alcohol and tobacco are already taxed, but I doubt the revenue is applied in the way I'm suggesting. It should be. Here's the part no politician will touch, especially in Iowa: we should also be taxing high fructose corn syrup, a major cause of the obesity epidemic, red meat, and anything else scientifically proven to cause poor health. ** This assumes that there is some sort of concensus about HFCS as there is about tobacco, and that's just not anywhere remotely the case, so no wonder that legislators could not advocate any anti-HFCS stance: http://snipurl.com/rsabz [www_eatright_org] High fructose corn syrup is frequently mentioned in the media as a major culprit in the increased incidence of obesity among Americans. Many of the claims against high fructose corn syrup have suggested that this corn sweetener is metabolized differently than sucrose. The American Medical Association (AMA) recently concluded that high fructose corn syrup does not appear to contribute more to obesity than other caloric sweeteners. The AMA called for further independent research, and recommends that consumers limit the amount of all added caloric sweeteners to no more than 32 grams of sugar (8 teaspoons of sugar) daily based on a 2,000 calorie diet . Most scientific experts now agree that high fructose corn syrup and sucrose produce similar effects on human metabolic responses. Studies comparing high fructose corn syrup and sucrose have found no significant differences in fasting blood glucose, insulin, leptin and ghrelin. Satiety studies of the two sweeteners have found no differences in appetite, feelings of fullness or short-term energy intakes. Studies conducted with abnormally high levels of pure fructose (which are not found in the human diet) that are misinterpreted as being representative of high fructose corn syrup may have led to confusion about the relationship between high fructose corn syrup and obesity. However, high fructose corn syrup and sucrose both contain about 50 percent fructose and 50 percent glucose. When these two monosaccharides are consumed together in roughly these proportions, glucose appears to moderate or `balance' fructose. Bottom Line: High fructose corn syrup may be used as a sweetener in processed foods and beverages and is nutritionally equivalent to sucrose. Both sweeteners contain the same number of calories (4 per gram) and consist of about equal parts of fructose and glucose. Once absorbed into the blood stream, the two sweeteners are indistinguishable. No persuasive evidence supports the claim that high fructose corn syrup is a unique contributor to obesity, however, like all nutritive sweeteners, it does contribute calories. This is where moderation and portion size become important. The greater the consumption of foods and beverages containing large amounts of added sugars of any kind, the more calories are consumed, influencing weight gain. The source of the added sugar whether sucrose, high fructose corn syrup, honey or fruit juice concentrate should not be of concern; rather it is the amount of total calories that is important. Overall, carbohydrates and sugars in foods and beverages can be enjoyed in moderation as part of a balanced diet and active lifestyle. HFCS is a controversial topic and although not all nutrition professionals will readily accept the scientific evidence, this paper represents an evidenced-based, balanced perspective.
[FairfieldLife] Photoshopping Hubble pics
http://www.slate.com/id/2227828/
[FairfieldLife] Re: Weight Control Research (was How Bevan got so big?)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nelsonriddle2001 nelsonriddle2...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante no_reply@ wrote: http://snipurl.com/rq3et http://snipurl.com/rq3et [www_onlineprnews_com] It has been known for some time that stress, and fatigue are probable causes of obesity. It's also well know that the Transcendental Meditation Program is an effective solution for stress management. So according to researchers using the Transcendental Meditation Program to control weight was just the next logical step. Brain Chemistry and Weight Loss through Meditation Unlike diet or exercise which achieve weight loss by focusing on improving the physical body, the Transcendental Meditation Program addresses the problem of weight gain by correcting mental imbalances. When the brain is not functioning correctly it sends incorrect messages to the body resulting in abnormal food cravings, unneeded fat deposits, and an overly slow metabolism. There is not one type of mental imbalance that causes obesity. Several different independent studies each show how a particular imbalance in the brain is responsible for weight gain. One common imbalance is low serotonin levels, caused by stress, fatigue, and an imbalanced diet. Another common imbalance is incorrect functioning of the hypothalamus, which can be triggered by many factors including stress and diet. Did you note the role of MSG and HFCS in the equasion? * I don't know if MSG and HFCS are widely recognized as having some responsible for obesity (clearly, some researchers think so -- and televangelist Pat Robertson is ballistic on HFCS and diet soda ingredients), but they are almost certainly not factors in Bevan's diet -- his diet is ayurvedic, with ingredients and cooking that would be healthy if it wasn't for the fact that he just plain eats too much.
[FairfieldLife] On 9/11/2001 NYSE closed @ 9605...On September 11th 2009,
On September 11th 2001, Dow Jones closed @ 9605...On September 11th 2009, Dow Jones closed @ 9605 A harbinger of disaster?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Solar Healing
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@ wrote: http://solarhealing.com/ * This sungazing is really exceptionally foolish, and will damage your eyes: The practice of sungazing is highly controversial, as there is considerable evidence that looking directly at the sun for even brief periods of time may cause blindness or severe damage to the eye.[2] Solar retinopathy is a form of damage to the eye's retina due to solar radiation[3] that frequently results from sungazing during a solar eclipse.[4] Although vision loss due to this damage is generally reversible,[3] permanent damage and loss of vision have been reported[5]. Most eye care professionals advise patients to avoid looking directly at the sun,[6] during solar eclipses and otherwise, indicating that they are taking their vision into their own hands by doing so. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sungazing Sungazing is to be practised within 1 hour after sunrise and 1 hour before sunset only. Totally harmless and very, very healthy. *** You embrace a lot of silly stuff that I have never criticized because it's harmless, like that stuff about crop circles, which is pulled off exclusively by drunken hillbilly pranksters. But sungazing is a real threat, perpetrated by a truly evil and cynical individual who, incredibly, claims not to eaten anything but sunlight (and the odd cup of tea) since 1995. If you want to put your eyes in the hands of a monster, that's your problem, but I felt that it would be right to point out how brainless that choice is.
[FairfieldLife] Fairfield dairyman runs for Iowa ag secretary
http://www.ottumwacourier.com/local/local_story_253004111.html http://www.ottumwacourier.com/local/local_story_253004111.html
[FairfieldLife] Re: 'How Bevan Got so Big?'
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, babajii_99 babajii...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: On my 6 month course (Barry Wright was on it, too) in St. Moritz in 1977, Bevan was the liason between Seelisburg and our course; he'd come about once a month. At the time, he was totally normal weight. He was about 5'10 and about 170 lbs. Good looking fellow who was the most natural leader I have ever met before or since in my life. And inspiring. That's why all that happened afterwards is so surprising to me...all the stories of him being so evil and all that. (snip) I know I must have some personal issue with Bevan, of which, I'm not sure why... I just feel, he's had an overall restrictive feeling for the movement, for maybe it's just my reminiscing about another time and place... *** The leaders of a group appear to be the source of growth or restriction, but it is actually the average group consciousness that is directing their activity -- as MMY says, leaders are the footballs of group consciousness. We were glad to see that idiot Bush go, but the underlying average value of group consciousness is still incoherent, and not much good can happen.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Why AI is a dangerous dream
The common cold, which had not existed there before and to which people had no immunities, killed an estimated half of the indigenous population of North and South America. *** Nonsense. Smallpox was a big killer in the Americas, but not the common cold. Insidiously, smallpox made its way around the world leaving devastation in its wake. The Crusades, the expansion of the Arab world, and the colonization of the Americaswherever an infected individual came in contact with peoples previously unexposedcontributed to the spread of smallpox. Smallpox reached Europe in the 5th century and was a leading cause of death in the 16th and 17th centuries. It affected everyone, regardless of age, sex, or socioeconomic status. The commoners of Europe were hit particularly hard. An estimated 400,000 died from smallpox every year during the 18th century. One third of the survivors were scarred and many were blinded. In the 1500s, the Spanish and Portuguese transported the disease to the New World, which decimated the Aztec and Inca populations in Mexico and South America. Likewise in North America, European colonizers carried the smallpox virus that devastated the native populations there. Sadly, the first documented use of smallpox as a weapon can be attributed to the British, who gave blankets contaminated with smallpox to troublesome Native American Indians in Quebec in the late 18th century to intentionally expose them to the virus. http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/cpc-pubs/mceleney.htm
[FairfieldLife] Re: Solar Healing
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_re...@... wrote: http://solarhealing.com/ * This sungazing is really exceptionally foolish, and will damage your eyes: The practice of sungazing is highly controversial, as there is considerable evidence that looking directly at the sun for even brief periods of time may cause blindness or severe damage to the eye.[2] Solar retinopathy is a form of damage to the eye's retina due to solar radiation[3] that frequently results from sungazing during a solar eclipse.[4] Although vision loss due to this damage is generally reversible,[3] permanent damage and loss of vision have been reported[5]. Most eye care professionals advise patients to avoid looking directly at the sun,[6] during solar eclipses and otherwise, indicating that they are taking their vision into their own hands by doing so. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sungazing
[FairfieldLife] Beach Boys concert article
http://www.thehawkeye.com/story/beachboys-090809
[FairfieldLife] Weight Control Research (was How Bevan got so big?)
http://snipurl.com/rq3et http://snipurl.com/rq3et [www_onlineprnews_com] It has been known for some time that stress, and fatigue are probable causes of obesity. It's also well know that the Transcendental Meditation Program is an effective solution for stress management. So according to researchers using the Transcendental Meditation Program to control weight was just the next logical step. Brain Chemistry and Weight Loss through Meditation Unlike diet or exercise which achieve weight loss by focusing on improving the physical body, the Transcendental Meditation Program addresses the problem of weight gain by correcting mental imbalances. When the brain is not functioning correctly it sends incorrect messages to the body resulting in abnormal food cravings, unneeded fat deposits, and an overly slow metabolism. There is not one type of mental imbalance that causes obesity. Several different independent studies each show how a particular imbalance in the brain is responsible for weight gain. One common imbalance is low serotonin levels, caused by stress, fatigue, and an imbalanced diet. Another common imbalance is incorrect functioning of the hypothalamus, which can be triggered by many factors including stress and diet.
[FairfieldLife] Bacteria: strippeddown versions of humans?
Bacterial society is based on a chemical language called quorum sensing. To detect how many of its own species, or members of another bacterial species, are in the immediate vicinity, each bacterium secretes a certain molecule into the environment. The greater the number of molecules it can sense, the more fellow bacteria it knows are out there. This is often a trigger to act. Some bacteria will attack a person or any other host only after establishing that there is a quorum -- a large-enough army to overcome the host's immune defenses. The strategy helps explain the virulence of a number of human ailments, including cholera, pneumonia and food poisoning. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125236107718690619.html http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125236107718690619.html
[FairfieldLife] Re: 'How Bevan Got so Big?'
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, j_alexander_stanley j_alexander_stan...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert babajii_99@ wrote: âHow or Why... Bevan Got so Big?â Simple: too much food. And, of course, with my paleo diet bias and knowledge of what Roos eat, I put the blame on excessive consumption of sugars and starches. ** Early adopters of TM were predominately eccentric or misfits. Whether Bevan falls into that characterization or not, it's not surprising that the TM Prime Minister overeats as a stress reaction to all the unpleasant people in the movement. When TM becomes more popular, mainstream members of society will start to outnumber the fringers who have so far mainly peopled the movement (not that the average human being is anything to write home about in the Kaliyuga).
[FairfieldLife] Re: 'How Bevan Got so Big?'
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shukra69 shukr...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, j_alexander_stanley j_alexander_stanley@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert babajii_99@ wrote: âHow or Why... Bevan Got so Big?â Simple: too much food. And, of course, with my paleo diet bias and knowledge of what Roos eat, I put the blame on excessive consumption of sugars and starches. ** Early adopters of TM were predominately eccentric or misfits ie like the people here who enjoy beating up on fatty * I'm not beating up on fatty, if you were thinking that. In fact, although I rarely like what Bevan has to say, he does make realistic comments on the Maharishi Channel which calmly bring some of Hagelin's and others' loopier comments more down to earth. And Bevan is simply the best sort of manager that an organization full of goofs could tolerate. And being obese is a real problem with severe consequences for managerial functioning, not something that is merely unsightly -- older obese people have poorer brain functioning: Expanding waistlines may cause shrinking brains http://snipurl.com/romed [www_newscientist_com] BRAIN regions key to cognition are smaller in older people who are obese compared with their leaner peers, making their brains look up to 16 years older than their true age. As brain shrinkage is linked to dementia, this adds weight to the suspicion that piling on the pounds may up a person's risk of the brain condition
[FairfieldLife] Why AI is a dangerous dream
It is my contention that AI, and particularly robotics, exploits natural human zoomorphism. We want robots to appear like humans or animals, and this is assisted by cultural myths about AI and a willing suspension of disbelief. The old automata makers, going back as far as Hero of Alexandria, who made the first programmable robot in AD 60, saw their work as part of natural magic - the use of trick and illusion to make us believe their machines were alive. Modern robotics preserves this tradition with machines that can recognise emotion and manipulate silicone faces to show empathy. There are AI language programs that search databases to find conversationally appropriate sentences. If AI workers would accept the trickster role and be honest about it, we might progress a lot quicker. http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327231.100-why-ai-is-a-dangerous\ -dream.html http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327231.100-why-ai-is-a-dangerou\ s-dream.html
[FairfieldLife] Re: Long-time TM'er still alive
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, yifuxero yifux...@... wrote: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0956544/ I think ** Efrem almost certainly dumped TM when he became a fundie: Zimbalist was an early practitioner and proponent of Transcendental Meditation, as taught by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, prior to his conversion to Christianity. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efrem_Zimbalist,_Jr.
[FairfieldLife] USA nuke numbers down by 93% since 60s
Total American warheads reached more than 32,000 in the 1960s but dropped to 10,500 just before Start was signed in 1991. This year, the Federation of American Scientists reported that the United States had already reduced its deployed strategic nuclear warheads to 2,200, more than three years ahead of the Moscow Treaty schedule http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/09/world/09arms.html ** Some of the willingness to lower nuke counts may be attributable to the great improvements in targeting accuracy since the 60s. The NORAD Cheyenne Mountain facility, for instance, used to be considered nearly invulnerable, necessitating many nuke missiles to try to knock it out, but: By the time I was inside Cheyenne Mountain, we knew it was vulnerable to a new generation of high-yield, highly accurate Soviet intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080505/astore
[FairfieldLife] Crazy ants
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125208889680087103.html http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125208889680087103.html
[FairfieldLife] Suicide bombers pay for privilege
A second analysis with Palantir uncovered more details of the Syrian networks, including profiles of their top coordinators, which led analysts to conclude there wasn't one Syrian network, but many. Analysts identified key facilitators, how much they charged people who wanted to become suicide bombers, and where many of the fighters came from. Fighters from Saudi Arabia, for example, paid the most -- $1,088 -- for the opportunity to become suicide bombers. Such details helped local law enforcement break up some of the rings, said one U.S. official familiar with the work. It also revealed the extent to which al Qaeda was relying on mercenary smuggling networks, rather than true believers, to get suicide bombers into Iraq. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125200842406984303.html http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125200842406984303.html
[FairfieldLife] Immigration map
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/03/10/us/20090310-immigration-ex\ plorer.html http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/03/10/us/20090310-immigration-e\ xplorer.html
[FairfieldLife] Snark
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/aug/29/digital-media-celebrity-snar\ k http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/aug/29/digital-media-celebrity-sna\ rk
[FairfieldLife] USA increase weapons sales
The United States signed weapons agreements valued at $37.8 billion in 2008, or 68.4 percent of all business in the global arms bazaar, up significantly from American sales of $25.4 billion the year before. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/07/world/07weapons.html http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/07/world/07weapons.html
[FairfieldLife] Right Wing Lunacy Getting Worse?: Der Pat
http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/09/03/buchanan_msnbc/index.h\ tml http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/09/03/buchanan_msnbc/index.\ html MSNBC pulls Buchanan column sympathetic to Hitler Pat Buchanan has often posed something of a problem for MSNBC. He's a frequent contributor on the network, and he does, after all, have a long history of extremely controversial positions, like writing of AIDS in the early 1980's, The poor homosexuals -- They have declared war against nature, and nature is exacting an awful retribution. For the most part, though, MSNBC has looked the other way when it comes to Buchanan. A column he wrote in which he appears pretty sympathetic to Adolf Hitler, though, might have been the last straw -- at least for MSNBC.com. In the piece, which was reprinted on MSNBC.com and caused a fair amount of controversy, Buchanan wrote: [I]f Hitler was out to conquer the world ... Why did he let the British army go at Dunkirk? Why did he offer the British peace, twice, after Poland fell, and again after France fell? Because Hitler wanted to end the war in 1940, almost two years before the trains began to roll to the camps Indeed, why would he want war when, by 1939, he was surrounded by allied, friendly or neutral neighbors, save France. And he had written off Alsace, because reconquering Alsace meant war with France, and that meant war with Britain, whose empire he admired and whom he had always sought as an ally. As of March 1939, Hitler did not even have a border with Russia. How then could he invade Russia? Winston Churchill was right when he called it The Unnecessary War the war that may yet prove the mortal blow to our civilization.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Matt Taibbi Health Care Reform: Sick and Wrong
Actually the MAJORITY 77% of the people want a choice for a public option or single payer. But the numbers tell another story, as well. *** Earlier in the week, after pollsters for NBC dropped the word choice from their question on a public option, they found that only 43 percent of the public were in favor of creating a public health care plan administered by the federal government that would compete directly with private health insurance companies. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/20/new-poll-77-percent-suppo_n_264\ 375.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/20/new-poll-77-percent-suppo_n_26\ 4375.html
[FairfieldLife] Home greenscreening
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/03/technology/personaltech/03pogue.html http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/03/technology/personaltech/03pogue.html
[FairfieldLife] Re: A question for Nelson Riddle (and others, if they want)
I know that in California over 50% of the 15-day background checks to purchase a handgun are never done, because the infrastructure does not support it. For anyone who submits out of state addresses, they cannot possibly get information from the out-of-state police departments within 15 days, so they just don't bother. And *none* of the background checks would discover that this person was writing prolifically to the Internet urging people to kill the Clintons and Obama. That is not part of the *scope* of the background check, which looks only for previous felonies and misdemeanors. ** The FBI claims that background checks are instantaneous: http://www.fbi.gov/hq/cjisd/nics.htm
[FairfieldLife] How I got well in India for $50
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/09/03/india/index.html
[FairfieldLife] Re: How I got well in India for $50
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com , It's just a ride bill.hicks.all.a.r...@... wrote: On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 3:46 PM, bob_briganteno_re...@yahoogroups.com mailto:no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/09/03/india/index.html http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/09/03/india/index.html The wheel is moving but the hamster is dead. I'm not that old but when I got sick, my parents called the doctor. The doctor arrived, diagnosed and if he didn't have the required drug, phone the pharmacy, which delivered a few minutes later. Costs were about the same as the ones in the Salon article. * My neighbor with a brain tumor got a visit from Apria's giant van yesterday, but I doubt if a doc was aboard -- you can still get a actual doctor house call in England, but that's pretty much a gone John here. http://www.apria.com/about_apria/1,2746,512,00.html http://www.apria.com/about_apria/1,2746,512,00.html
[FairfieldLife] Snow Leoptard joke
http://snipurl.com/rkyys [voices_allthingsd_com]
[FairfieldLife] Re: How I got well in India for $50
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, It's just a ride bill.hicks.all.a.r...@... wrote: On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 4:14 PM, bob_briganteno_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: My neighbor with a brain tumor got a visit from Apria's giant van yesterday, but I doubt if a doc was aboard -- you can still get a actual doctor house call in England, but that's pretty much a gone John here. http://www.apria.com/about_apria/1,2746,512,00.html In my part of the US nurse practitioners are becoming very popular. And even those people are overkill. You really don't need a family physician (4 year residency required) or general practitioner to handle most problems. An EMT or medic would do. I've been treated quite adequately by nurse practitioners where I live, at Gatwick Airport when I took ill before a flight back to the US, and in Boulder. IRRC nurse practitioners are becoming very popular in places like Iowa, especially in the area of anesthesia. I needed day surgery a few years ago and was kind of shocked when I was introduced to my anesthetist, a nurse practitioner. But I've never received such care and concern as I have from her. Whenever my blood oxygen saturation dropped, she'd be at my side urging me to breathe and giving me some Vicodin. I had a deviated septum repaired. These make it difficult to breath and also hurt. Considering the care I get from my gp, I'd much rather walk into a fire station and ask to be seen by an EMT. *** There's another level of skill in some states, like here in CA, where they have physician assistant, with much more education than a nurse or nurse practitioner: http://www.pac.ca.gov/forms_pubs/what_is.shtml But it would clearly be better (and cheaper) if there were simply more people allowed to attend medical school, like in India -- but the doctors' union, the AMA, is not about to let too many doctors bring down their income. Actually, what is bringing down doctor income these days are HMOs, who have reduced physician wages through the HMOs' bargaining clout so that now dentists make more on average than physicians (though that is shaky now because in this recession many people are deferring elective dental procedures): Dentists' incomes have grown faster than that of the typical American and the incomes of medical doctors. Formerly poor relations to physicians, American dentists in general practice made an average salary of $185,000 in 2004, the most recent data available. That figure is similar to what non-specialist doctors make, but dentists work far fewer hours. Dental surgeons and orthodontists average more than $300,000 annually. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/11/business/11decay.html
[FairfieldLife] vark.com answer system
The trouble w/yahoo answers is that many incompetent people, 12 yr old kids mainly it seems, will answer and rarely have anything useful to say -- vark.com is supposed to be more useful: http://vark.com/ from the NYT tech guy: Got a Burning Question? Ask the Net By DAVID POGUE There's plenty of nastiness on the Internet--mean stuff, dirty stuff, snarky stuff--but there's also an incredible amount of kindness and support to be found. Next time you're looking for something wildly entertaining and enlightening to do online, check out a site like answers.yahoo.com http://answers.yahoo.com/ or answerbag.com http://www.answerbag.com/ On these sites, you can pose a question--any question at all--and crowdsource the answer. You watch and wait as the vast masses chime in with their opinions on your questions. (Currently on the Yahoo Answers home page: What's the best brand of handball? Baby waking up often. Please help me? Is it true that if you have alopecia, you have to shave your head? And so on.) There are a few problems with the Yahoo/Answerbag method, though. First of all, they're so scattershot. You post your question, and you just hope that someone who knows the answer might stumble upon it. There's no attempt to get your question to precisely the *right* person. Second, it's public. Obviously, you can use a cryptic login name, but still--your question, which might be personal or embarrassing--is out there for all to see. It's just somehow a little creepy. Until recently, I'd been relying on Twitter for all my obscure-question-answering needs. Often I'd ask for help on some tweaky Photoshop filter setting or a detail of some 1950's Broadway show--and sure enough, someone or other would always know the answer. But often, I'd get 60 replies, meaning I'd wasted the time of 59 people--and this technique doesn't work at all if you don't have a lot of followers. Last week, I stumbled upon a new, better way to harness the Net for answers: Vark.com http://vark.com/ You send your question to Aardvark (the full name of the service) using a chat program like Google Talk/Gmail Chat, AIM, MSN or Yahoo Messenger (an iPhone app is coming soon), where you've added Aardvark as a buddy. You can also send a question by e-mail to aardv...@vark.com or on Twitter. At the moment, you have to have a Facebook account before you can get started; that's how Aardvark gets its initial idea of your social network. The service makes no attempt to blanket the Internet with your question. In fact, it forwards your question only to people who have specifically declared themselves to have expertise on your subject--and, furthermore, only people who are already in your online social circle. If there's nobody with expertise among that group, Aardvark extends its search to friends *of* your friends, and so on. Trust me, it works; I've never gotten a bad answer. How does it choose who gets your question? It factors in related topics in peoples' profiles, how you're connected to people, who you trust about related topics, your history of training Aardvark, people who share your favorites (for taste-related questions), people in the right location (for location-related questions), and other mysterious factors. I've used Aardvark several times apiece for professional and personal queries, and I've been astounded by its utility every time. The answers are on my screen between 60 seconds and five minutes after I've asked them: private, targeted, and generally accurate. When I was working on a column about U.S. cellphone ripoffs, I asked: In Europe, are both senders and receivers of text messages and phone calls billed for each message? Ding! Paul from Fleetwood, England responded: Depends what you mean: country to country or domestic? I responded: I was thinking domestic. His answer: Domestically, it is only the send who pays for both texts and calls. This is the case in all EU countries. I asked: My Honda Fit got a pea-sized windshield ding from a pebble. Since it's not in my line of vision, is this something I need to get fixed (because it might grow or something)? Ding! In two minutes, there was a reply from Andrew: They tend not to grow. But watch it closely, as what might happen (worst case) is that it will slowly 'spider' out. But usually not. You can follow up with a respondent, which I did. I asked him what made him qualified to answer my question. He told me: I've just always been a real car enthusiast since I was a kid, and I wrote articles for a Honda owners' club newsletter in college. Works for me! Two minutes after that, another reply came from Ethan in New York, NY: You don't need to get it 'fixed,' i.e., take it to an auto glass shop... But what you should do is head to AutoZone or Pep-boys. They have a product (I forget the exact name) that's a glass sealer. It will bond with the glass around the ding, and prevent it from spreading into a larger crack. Should be about $10-$15. And so on. Sometimes, the answer
[FairfieldLife] Re: Matt Taibbi Health Care Reform: Sick and Wrong
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, raunchydog raunchy...@... wrote: I got a copy Rolling Stone for Matt Taibbi's Sept, 3 article. Depressing. It's not on the web yet. Matt breaks down the five steps Congress took to be sure no bill would pass: Aiming low Gutting the public option Packing it with loopholes Providing no leadership Blowing the math In a series of video interviews for RollingStone.com, Taibbi explores one of our system's most severe flaws, explains how the government wedged itself into an awkwardly damning position, and looks at how the proposed bill would change the ordinary American's life. Perhaps the biggest flaw in the American health care system is that 31 percent of costs are associated with administration and paperwork. Here Taibbi examines the easiest way to eliminate the red tape: http://snipurl.com/rl5k7 http://www.rollingstone.com/nationalaffairs/index.php/2009/08/19/matt-taibbi-on-health-care-reform-sick-and-wrong/ * It's a democracy with a lot of people who dont give a fk about others, so the Congress goes along with the public will of the majority -- most people have health insurance, so the haves are simply telling the havenots, via Congress, to sod off. No surprise here.
[FairfieldLife] Robberies force halt of pizza deliveries in Iowa City
Iowa City is only about 50K population, so this is kind of surprising: IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - There is some disagreement among operators of 2 fast-food restaurants over the safety of delivering pizza to a section of Iowa City after two armed robberies of delivery drivers. A Pizza Pit delivery driver was robbed Aug. 29 in southeast Iowa City, the same area where a restaurant delivery woman was robbed late Monday. While no one was arrested in the first robbery, authorities say two men are in custody for the second crime. Dan Alexander, the manager of the Pizza Pit said Wednesday his restaurant will not deliver to southeast Iowa City. However, the manager of a Pizza Hut located near the neighborhood says he'll continue to deliver to the area. Bob Crandall says his drivers carry little cash and are trained to know their delivery area and be wary of suspicious activity. Information from: Iowa City Press-Citizen, http://www.press http://www.press/ -citizen.com/
[FairfieldLife] hybrid crops bred for size and color
http://www.motherjones.com/photoessays/2009/08/veggie-slideshow http://www.motherjones.com/photoessays/2009/08/veggie-slideshow Eating all your vegetables http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2009/09/retrovores-dilemma was a lot better for you in the '50s. Store-bought veggies weren't as pretty back then, but according to USDA http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2007/11/usdas-e-coli-loophole data, they were packed with a lot more nutrients than their modern counterparts. The likely reason for the nutritional drop is that hybrid crops are often bred for size and color, not nutrients http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2009/02/vitamins .
[FairfieldLife] Re: Robberies force halt of pizza deliveries in Iowa City
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, It's just a ride bill.hicks.all.a.r...@... wrote: On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 4:54 PM, bob_brigante no_re...@yahoogroups.comwrote: Iowa City is only about 50K population, so this is kind of surprising: IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - There is some disagreement among operators of 2 fast-food restaurants over the safety of delivering pizza to a section of Iowa City after two armed robberies of delivery drivers. A Pizza Pit delivery driver was robbed Aug. 29 in southeast Iowa City, the same area where a restaurant delivery woman was robbed late Monday. While no one was arrested in the first robbery, authorities say two men are in custody for the second crime. Dan Alexander, the manager of the Pizza Pit said Wednesday his restaurant will not deliver to southeast Iowa City. However, the manager of a Pizza Hut located near the neighborhood says he'll continue to deliver to the area. Bob Crandall says his drivers carry little cash and are trained to know their delivery area and be wary of suspicious activity. Information from: Iowa City Press-Citizen, http://www.press-citizen.com/ Have you been to Iowa city? I'm something of an urbanologist. I explore the best and worse parts of a town, on foot. Iowa City looks to have population strata no different than similar towns. I was living in Iowa City in 1991 when that Chinese guy killed a bunch U of I folks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Iowa_shooting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Iowa_shooting Iowa City has always had a substantial undercurrent of violence, including its sometimes triggerhappy cops, like this disgusting incident in 96: http://state29.blogspot.com/2006/09/jay-shaw-responds-to-insensitive-iow\ a.html http://state29.blogspot.com/2006/09/jay-shaw-responds-to-insensitive-io\ wa.html There are a number of neighborhoods around the country where pizza is not delivered because of the level of violence, and those neighborhoods are almost always African-American. I didn't know that IC had a 'hood, but I guess the Southeast is a black neighborhood: http://snipurl.com/rk45r http://snipurl.com/rk45r [www_press-citizen_com] Wait a minute. Wasn't Iowa City in the news a few months ago because thugs were beating up on and stealing money from college bar patrons outside the bars? All this within a block or two of Health and Wellness/Iowa City Capital of the Age of Enlightenment and purveyor of all things with Maharishi's particular stamp on them. The wheel is moving but the hamster is dead. Whatever way that people want to live, they get to live -- therefore, the violence and stupidity of the Kaliyuga, because that is what people want to do, and the infinite flexibility of Brahman means that people get what they want. The Kaliyuga is slated to last another 427,000 years, but it can be terminated early, just as the life of a man who is full of wrongdoing is full of disease and easily put to an end. However, the Kaliyuga is not ended because the majority of people want it to end -- it's not a democratic decision where it's put to a vote. The Kaliyuga ends because people who expand their awareness and live lives full of bliss , instead of violence and misery, feel the pressure of unhappiness from wrongdoers, and begin to silently appeal to Krishna to protect them. Krishna then comes to earth as the 10th incarnation of Vishnu in the Yugic cycle, Lord Kalki, and moves the unrighteous to another location so that they can continue to live hell, but just not hell on earth -- an eminently fair solution. The problem in ending the Kaliyuga early is that this transition cannot happen quickly, or the reaction from the ignorant and unhappy will douse the transition before the critical mass of righteous and happy people is reached which will invoke Krishna's appearance. So just practice patience and good humor, and the Sat Yuga will eventually roll around...even if it takes another 427K yrs. Bob http://purnakama.web.officelive.com/default.aspx http://purnakama.web.officelive.com/default.aspx
[FairfieldLife] Re: Robberies force halt of pizza deliveries in Iowa City
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, meowthirteen meowthirt...@... wrote: -- Nice response Bob Live bliss ! See bliss! Give bliss! Have a beautiful world! Enjoy your days! There is so much beauty in the world! ** The wise man enjoys what is pure if it comes to him unsought, borne down by the river of life. If there are impurities borne down by the river of life or by circumstances, the wise man is unconcerned about them, as in deep sleep. http://snipurl.com/rk54s [www_venkatesaya_com]
[FairfieldLife] Vishnu the Creator?
Brahma is traditionally called The Creator, the personification of rajas guna, but MAPI seems to be saying that Sattva (personified by Vishnu, traditionally termed The Maintainer) is responsible for creation: http://www.mapi.com/ayurveda_health_care/newsletters/ayurveda_saatvic_mi\ nd.html http://www.mapi.com/ayurveda_health_care/newsletters/ayurveda_saatvic_m\ ind.html Sattva is the most superior of all gunas. Sattva in the Universe is responsible for Creation. Inside our own self, it gives us the ability to visualize well, think right, do good and act in accordance with the laws of nature. Rajas stands for action. In cosmic terms, Rajas is responsible for Maintenance and Nurturing of what has been created. In human beings, the Rajasic guna or quality means giving a concrete shape to dreams, being motivated and taking action. Excess of Rajas, however, leads to an unsettled and perpetually restless mind. Tamas supplies us with the ability to finish or complete what was generated by Sattva and Rajas. In the context of the Universe, Tamas stands for Destruction. While some may see Tamas as a negative guna, ayurvedic philosophy says Tamas has its own role in the scheme of things. It weans us from the old and the lifeless, urging us to move on and invest in that which is still alive.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Vishnu the Creator?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante no_reply@ wrote: Brahma is traditionally called The Creator, the personification of rajas guna, but MAPI seems to be saying that Sattva (personified by Vishnu, traditionally termed The Maintainer) is responsible for creation: http://www.mapi.com/ayurveda_health_care/newsletters/ayurveda_saatvic_mind.html Sattva is the most superior of all gunas. Sattva in the Universe is responsible for Creation. Inside our own self, it gives us the ability to visualize well, think right, do good and act in accordance with the laws of nature. Responsible for in this context seems to mean maintains or upholds, not creates. ** I don't see that, since MAPI goes on to say Rajas stands for action. In cosmic terms, Rajas is responsible for Maintenance and Nurturing of what has been created. -- which appears to swap the usual roles/guna-character of Vishnu and Brahma.
[FairfieldLife] Paris: Le Pipi patrol video
http://snipurl.com/rj1ag [online_wsj_com]
[FairfieldLife] Re: Who was to blame for the Black Death?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante no_reply@ wrote: The NYT article includes a detail from the Friese Chronicles showing the 1349 massacre of Erfurt Jews in Germany, who were blamed for the Black Death http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/01/health/01plague.html Excellent article, Bob, one that links (in my mind, at least) what I was saying last week about the rush to bring an untested flu vaccine to market and shoot everybody up with it, and the gun nuts who store up guns to be prepared for when the guvmint comes to take their guns -- and their liberty -- away from them. Both phenomena, IMO, are linked by two things -- the first is FEAR, and the second is the rush to Do Something to reinforce the delusion that one is in control, that one can *fight* one's FEAR if one just has enough guns or enough vaccines. Vaccines are great, when they have been thoroughly tested. Given the level of FEAR and panic in the air over H1N1, there is *simply no possibility* that the tests on that vaccine are going to be thorough enough. The NYT thinks it won't matter much anyway: Our own take is this: A swine flu epidemic this fall and winter is likely to infect more people than a normal flu, but the virus will not be abnormally lethal. If it spreads rapidly after schools open, we will have to face it without vaccine, which will not arrive in substantial quantities until the swine flu epidemic has peaked. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/01/opinion/01tue1.html
[FairfieldLife] Re: Vishnu the Creator?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante no_reply@ wrote: Brahma is traditionally called The Creator, the personification of rajas guna, but MAPI seems to be saying that Sattva (personified by Vishnu, traditionally termed The Maintainer) is responsible for creation: http://www.mapi.com/ayurveda_health_care/newsletters/ayurveda_saatvic_mind.html Sattva is the most superior of all gunas. Sattva in the Universe is responsible for Creation. Inside our own self, it gives us the ability to visualize well, think right, do good and act in accordance with the laws of nature. Responsible for in this context seems to mean maintains or upholds, not creates. ** I don't see that, since MAPI goes on to say Rajas stands for action. In cosmic terms, Rajas is responsible for Maintenance and Nurturing of what has been created. -- which appears to swap the usual roles/guna-character of Vishnu and Brahma. I think it's just poorly written. Action doesn't really suggest maintenance. But note they use the same term as for Sattva, responsible for. *** In his Gita commentary, Maharishi says that Tamas destroys the created state; sattva creates a new state while the first is being destroyed. So Brahma the Creator IS the personification of sattva, while Vishnu the Maintainer is the personification of rajas, and Shiva personifies tamas. This fits in with MMY's description of Shiva as silence and Vishnu as dynamism (although I had always thought that Vishnu personified sattva and a google search will reveal that many think this to be the case): Shiva, the administering intelligence of infinite silence in the universe co-exists with Vishnu, the administering intelligence of infinite dynamism... http://www.mou.org/courses/descriptions/index.html MMY's comments on the Gita Ch 4 V 13: Krishna: The fourfold order was created by Me according to the division of gunas and actions. Though I am its author, know Me to be the non-doer, immutable Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 4, verse 13 The entire creation is the interplay of the three gunas. When the primal equilibrium of sattva, rajas and tamas is disturbed, they begin to interact and creation begins. All three must be present in every aspect of creation because, with creation, the process of evolution begins and this needs two forces opposed to each other and one that is complementary to both. Sattva and tamas are opposed to each other, while rajas is the force complementary to both. Tamas destroys the created state; sattva creates a new state while the first is being destroyed. In this way, through the simultaneous process of creation and destruction, the process of evolution is carried on. The force of rajas plays a necessary but neutral part in creation and destruction; it maintains a bond between the forces of sattva and tamas. Thus all three gunas are necessary for any state of manifested life. fourfold order': mathematically, the three gunas may combine with each other in six possible ways. The first Guna is the primary element, and the other is the secondary element. 1.Sattva - Rajas 2.Sattva - Tamas 3.Rajas - Sattva 4.Rajas - Tamas 5.Tamas - Sattva 6.Tamas - Rajas Combinations of 2 and 5 are not possible because of the contrast in the nature of sattva and tamas. Thus the three gunas have only four possible combinations. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, The Bhagavad Gita: Chapters 1-6
[FairfieldLife] We are all Madoffs
Beyond the illegality of Madoff's scam, why didn't he consider his responsibility to his clients, to their future, and even to his own? Didn't he know that there would be a day of reckoning, that he couldn't keep up the crazy, fancy footwork indefinitely, that sooner or later his whole deceitful house of cards would come crashing down? As pleasurable as it is to cast stones at genuine villains, let's pause and redeploy the above housing metaphor, as in people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. Or try a biblical admonition, as in Matthew 7:3: And why beholds thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considered not the beam that is in thine own eye? Because the horrifying reality is that in our fundamental relationship to the natural worldwhich is, after all, the fundamental relationship for everyonewe are all Madoffs. http://snipurl.com/riaaw http://snipurl.com/riaaw [chronicle_com]
[FairfieldLife] Whose fault was the Black Death?
[http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/08/31/science/01plague-190.jpg\ ] a detail from the Friese Chronicles showing the 1349 massacre of Erfurt Jews in Germany, who were blamed for the Black Death http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/01/health/01plague.html http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/01/health/01plague.html
[FairfieldLife] Who was to blame for the Black Death?
The NYT article includes a detail from the Friese Chronicles showing the 1349 massacre of Erfurt Jews in Germany, who were blamed for the Black Death http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/01/health/01plague.html
[FairfieldLife] FEMA ignores Iowa hicks
So far, Iowa has been promised $3.1 billion in federal assistance for housing, infrastructure and business recovery, but only $689 million has been distributed, and local officials estimate its damage need at something more like $8 billion to $10 billion. The state suffered $1.6 billion in infrastructure damage alone. In Cedar Rapids, city officials estimate that they need close to $6 billion. The slow pace of the money flow for long-term recovery has held up crucial decisions about what is going to be rebuilt in the city of 120,000 people. Whole communities are waiting to hear about buyouts and demolitions, new levees http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/science/topics/dams_and_dikes/index.\ html?inline=nyt-classifier and flood plains. Many are in limbo, and the frustration level is rising. Some residents are still living in FEMA mobile homes http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/m/mobile_h\ omes_and_trailers/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier . Even City Hall remains displaced http://www.gazetteonline.com/local-news/government/2009/08/18/rebuild-c\ edar-rapids-city-hall-or-build-new-one-long-term-costs-about-equal . http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/28/us/28cedar.html http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/28/us/28cedar.html http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/08/28/us/0828CEDAR_3.html http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/08/28/us/0828CEDAR_3.html
[FairfieldLife] Iowa protects its pigs
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/08/22/us/0822FAIR_7.html http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/08/22/us/0822FAIR_7.html
[FairfieldLife] This El Nino may favor Atlantic storms
[El Nino tends to cause jet streams to move south over the US, bringing cool air from Canada, and tends to reduce the number of Atlantic hurricanes.] The typical El Nino was characterized by a reduction in the number of Atlantic hurricanes, but some forecasters think that this year's atypical (because of a different Pacific location) El Nino will actually increase Atlantic storm/hurricane activity: Researchers reported their findings in a recent issue of the journal Science. El Niño is a periodic warming of the Pacific Ocean that usually leads to a quieter storm season. This new mode of El Niño, however, appears to cause more Atlantic tropical storms and hurricanes. This new type is resulting in a greater number of hurricanes with greater frequency and more potential to make landfall, says study co-author Peter Webster of Georgia Tech's School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. The heart of the traditional El Niño warming occurs in the Eastern Pacific, very close to the South American coast; the recently discovered El Niño occurs thousands of miles to the west in the central Pacific Ocean, near the International Date Line. http://tinyurl.com/lup6al
[FairfieldLife] Global warming Yogic Flying
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[FairfieldLife] No flu vaccine for you!
http://www.lvrj.com/news/55332592.html http://www.lvrj.com/news/55332592.html The evidence shows, he said, that as a group seniors need the vaccine less than younger age groups. It appears that older people have a pre-existing immunity to the H1N1 virus, he said. Americans up to 24 years of age, CDC statistics reveal, are about 20 times more likely to contract the virus than people older than 65. People ranging in age from 25 to 49 are five times more likely to be burdened by the virus than seniors. And men and women in the 50 to 64 age bracket have a three times greater chance of catching the virus than those older than 65. We're not saying they (seniors) shouldn't be vaccinated, Fiore said. But despite our best efforts and a huge effort by the federal government, we won't have enough of the vaccine in the early going, and we had to make some tough decisions about who gets it first. CDC researchers have suggested that the immunity older adults appear to enjoy was built up either because they either were infected with or vaccinated against an older seasonal flu strain that closely resembled H1N1.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Denied, to Invincible America
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com , dhamiltony2k5 dhamiltony...@... wrote: Folks saying good-bye. The last few days I learned that five long-time friends are leaving Fairfield now. From different circles. Long-time meditators. From different parts of the meditating community. *** Jefferson County unemployment rate is 7.9%, higher than Iowa's 6.5%: http://www.iowaworkforce.org/lmi/laborforce/etables/area51.txt http://www.iowaworkforce.org/lmi/laborforce/etables/area51.txt http://www.iowaworkforce.org/news/XcNewsPlus.asp?articleid=81cmd=view http://www.iowaworkforce.org/news/XcNewsPlus.asp?articleid=81cmd=view It might be that some people simply can't make it in FF anymore -- either they lost their job, or their business is not going well because of the lack of paying customers. Unemployment rate is nearly 15% where I am in SoCal, so FF's 8% looks pretty good -- although in a town of 9500 people, work is sparse anyway, regardless of the unemployment rate.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Should you be forced to get the Swine Flu Vaccination?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer r...@... wrote: I don't even know if I'd be eligible for a flu shot. There's a shortage, and I don't think I'm in a high risk category. 59 yrs. old. Not pregnant. ** Probably only the most at-risk people should get the flu vaccine, based on recent experiences with flu vaccination: http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-he-tamiflu24-2009aug24,0,46646\ 54.story http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-he-tamiflu24-2009aug24,0,4664\ 654.story Indiscriminate use of antiviral medications to prevent and treat influenza could ease the way for drug-resistant strains of the novel H1N1 virus, or swine flu, to emerge, public health officials warn -- making the fight against a pandemic that much harder. Already, a handful of cases of Tamiflu-resistant H1N1 have been reported this summer, and there is no shortage of examples of misuse of the antiviral medications, experts say. People often fail to complete a full course of the drug, according to a recent British report -- a scenario also likely to be occurring in the U.S. and one that encourages resistance. Stockpiling is rife, and some U.S. summer camps have given Tamiflu prophylactically to healthy kids and staff, and have even told campers to bring the drug to camp. Experts anticipate more problems in the fall as children return to school and normal flu season draws nearer. Influenza viruses mutate frequently and any viral resistance could be acquired easily, said Dr. Anne Schuchat, director of the National Center on Immunization and Respiratory Disease at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. It won't surprise us if we see resistance emerge as a bigger problem in the fall or in the years ahead. Prescribed in pill form, Tamiflu (oseltamivir) works by preventing the flu virus from leaving infected cells and spreading to new ones. Because a vaccine against pandemic H1N1 influenza will not be widely available for several months, Tamiflu and to a lesser extent Relenza (zanamivir), an antiviral that acts similarly, are key medical tools for fighting the pandemic in the meantime. On Friday, however, the World Health Organization advised doctors that even those who are sickened with swine flu do not need to be given Tamiflu or Relenza if they are only mildly or moderately sick and are not in a high-risk group (such as children under 5, pregnant women and those with an underlying health condition). Both drugs can help prevent illness in people exposed to the virus and reduce illness severity in people already sickened with it. On Aug. 14, after U.S. national soccer team forward Landon Donovan was diagnosed with H1N1 flu, players, coaches and support staff of the U.S. and Galaxy teams were advised to take Tamiflu as a preventive measure. Tamiflu was chosen a few years ago for stockpiling by the federal government to deal with future pandemics. Health authorities in the United States and elsewhere are keeping a sharp eye on prescriptions of the drug as they prepare for a surge of H1N1 cases in the fall. The U.S. government has issued detailed guidelines http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/recommendations.htm on prescribing antivirals. But health professionals may not follow the recommendations or may give in to patients who pester them for prescriptions that are ill-advised, said Dr. Robert Schechter, acting chief of the immunization branch of the California Department of Public Health. These medicines can be very helpful to those who could get very sick, Schechter said. But excessive use will accelerate the development of resistance and lead to the lack of a medication for everybody. Anxiety over indiscriminate use is growing, and taking the medications cavalierly is not without consequence. British health authorities reported Aug. 2 that cases of side effects from Tamiflu had doubled in the prior week, coinciding with the July 24 launch of a program in England to provide antivirals to anyone with H1N1 influenza who requests it over the phone or online. In the first three days of the program, 150,000 packets of Tamiflu were dispensed and 293 cases of side effects were reported. Tamiflu can cause vomiting, diarrhea and mild neuropsychiatric effects. Some U.S. health authorities have also expressed concern over misuse of the medications. Last month, the CDC urged directors of summer camps to stop handing out Tamiflu to healthy campers. Americans are known to hoard antivirals: A 2006 study showed that heightened anxiety over a possible avian flu pandemic caused Tamiflu prescriptions to soar 300% in 2004 and 2005. Just as with antibiotics, of central importance to antivirals' success is taking them properly, including completing the recommended course. However, a study published in late July found poor adherence among children in London who took Tamiflu for prevention of pandemic H1N1 in the spring. Less than half of the grade-school-age children and only 76% of the 13- and
[FairfieldLife] Re: Should you be forced to get the Swine Flu Vaccination?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, It's just a ride bill.hicks.all.a.r...@... wrote: On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 5:23 PM, bob_briganteno_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: Indiscriminate use of antiviral medications to prevent and treat influenza could ease the way for drug-resistant strains of the novel H1N1 virus, or swine flu, to emerge, public health officials warn -- making the fight against a pandemic that much harder. Already, a handful of cases of Tamiflu-resistant H1N1 have been reported this summer, and there is no shortage of examples of misuse of the antiviral medications, experts say. Remember Cipro, the wonder drug of 2001 everybody stocked, available in the US via shady mail order? Recently had a UTI. The doctor said Cipro was out of the question. To many bugs are now resistant to it. *** http://www.sciencecodex.com/unlocking_the_secret_of_the_bladders_bouncer\ s http://www.sciencecodex.com/unlocking_the_secret_of_the_bladders_bounce\ rs
[FairfieldLife] Re: Should you be forced to get the Swine Flu Vaccination?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante no_reply@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@ wrote: I don't even know if I'd be eligible for a flu shot. There's a shortage, and I don't think I'm in a high risk category. 59 yrs. old. Not pregnant. ** Probably only the most at-risk people should get the flu vaccine, based on recent experiences with flu vaccination: Oy, Bob, this story is NOT about the flu vaccine. It's about Tamiflu and Relenza, antiviral medications you take in pill or nasal spray form to *treat* the flu. Nothing to do with the vaccine AT ALL. PLEASE don't confuse the issue!!! My speed reading, again. Aside from the question about the efficacy of antivirals, vaccines are no cure-all when it comes to flu: Waste of Time? Yes and no... the flu vaccine will be more effective some years than others. The CDC predicted that the vaccine developed for the winter of 2003/2004 wasn't going to be effective against most cases of the flu because the strains covered by the vaccine weren't the same as the strains that were common. Highly targeted vaccines work, but only against their targets! There's no point in accepting the risks of a vaccine for a disease you can't get. When the flu vaccine is on-target, it's more effective. Even then, the vaccine isn't perfect because it uses inactivated virus. Is that bad? No. A live vaccine is more effective, but much more risky. Bottom line: The flu vaccine varies in effectiveness from year-to-year. Even in a best-case scenario, it won't always protect against the flu. The CDC study didn't say that the vaccine didn't work; it says the vaccine didn't protect people from getting sick. Even with imperfect effectiveness, the vaccine is indicated for certain people. In my opinion, however, the vaccine isn't for everyone and certainly shouldn't be required for otherwise healthy people. http://chemistry.about.com/cs/howthingswork/a/aa011604a.htm
[FairfieldLife] Re: Who is Tom Barlow ------------- was////Willytex is on Medicare
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcg...@... wrote: My exercise of choice is hiking. However, for the 4 months a year when the temperatures in the Phoenix area are 100 degrees plus, hiking is not possible except in early morning. *** http://snipurl.com/qrben [www_sears_com] treadmill $314 I use an exercise bike $200 with a wide bench type seat so as not to cramp the package.
[FairfieldLife] M-school in NH won't open
http://sentinelsource.com/articles/2009/08/21/news/local/free/id_368708.\ txt http://sentinelsource.com/articles/2009/08/21/news/local/free/id_368708\ .txt excerpt School officials hope the technique, when combined with a regular course of instruction, will allow the Maharishi Academy to join Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter and St. Paul's School in Concord among New Hampshire's elite college preparatory schools. The cost for the 2008-09 school year would have been $38,250, including $25,000 for tuition, $9,750 for room and board, and $3,000 for expenses such as books, uniforms and athletic equipment. Rather than start with just a handful of students, our board thought it would be better to start on a good, strong footing, Colby said. We still have them (the students) on file. We're in communication with them. Most of them are eager to apply again next year. School officials initially set an ambitious estimate of 200 students for the first school year. The academy would then grow toward a total student body of 400. That number has been pared down several times, first to between 50 and 75, then to 30 or 40, and now to a minimum of 15 to 20. We could've started with a handful, Colby said. Our fixed costs would've been greater than our income. It's not a good way to start a school because of the financial risks involved. There's also kind of a critical number with kids. If there's too small a group, they feel social pressure in a sense. But 15 or 20 is feasible We're able to break even at a lower level than we thought we could, he said. Only one of the 15-20 applicants was a child of parents who practice transcendental meditation, Colby said. The rest came from referral organizations supporting primarily inner-city kids in subpar schools, he said.
[FairfieldLife] Brazilian tourist postcard
http://www.aids.gov.br/muitoprazer/index.php?q=diganao http://www.aids.gov.br/muitoprazer/index.php?q=diganao
[FairfieldLife] Re: TM News
15 buildings in Vedic City are being moved from the original pandit site where some remaining Mother Divine and at opposite end 18 Purusha live â to the present pandit site to ease the housing crunch. Since the pandits left the MUM campus they hav e been in sardineville. Their numbers are now over over 900 with an additional 200 scheduled to arrive later this year. ** The good thing about manufactured housing is it's easy to move around -- glad they are finally able to use the housing originally earmarked for pundits for its intended purpose.
