[FairfieldLife] Re: Dictators that left power on advice of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi by telephone
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer r...@... wrote: From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fairfieldl...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of nablusoss1008 Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2008 5:46 PM To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Dictators that left power on advice of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi by telephone Thus saving millions of lives from what seemed to be an obvious civil war: Haile Selassie (1892-1975) Juan Domingo Per¨®n (October 8, 1895 ¨C July 1, 1974) Mohammad Rez¨¡ Sh¨¡h Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, October 26, 1919, Tehran ¨C July 27, 1980, Cairo) Ferdinand Emmanuel Edral¨ªn Marcos (September 11, 1917 ¨C September 28, 1989 Are you saying that you have inside knowledge that MMY spoke with these guys personally and convinced them to leave power? Please elaborate. I was in both Iran and the Philippines, and my take on both situation was that the Shah and Marcos only left when all other options were exhausted. It was hardly voluntary. Yes He did. When Marcos rejected Maharishis plans for the country He smiled and said; All have to carry their own cross. 2 weeks later Marcos was on a plane heading for Hawai. Same thing with the other fellows. Voluntary ? Of course not. Coherence created by Maharishi made them leave.
[FairfieldLife] Re: What is this process called, does anyone know?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcg...@... wrote: A while back, someone posted this link: http://www.spiritualregeneration.org/Flash/AccrossTheUniverseFionaAppleV er.swf I have a presentation for my business that I would like to set up on the internet like this. That is, a slide show accompanied by a vocal track, in sinc with the slides. Does anyone know what this process is called? Well I can help a little perhaps. As you can see, the file you link to is a .swf - which is an Adobe Flash file (was Macromedia). Browsers require the Adobe Flash plugin in order to be able to run such files. Fortunately that plugin is a free download and I believe around 90% or more of surfers have the plugin. However in order to create a .swf multimedia presentation you are going to need authoring software. True to form, Adobe's product is not cheap ($699). It's also likely to require considerable geek power to use it. http://www.adobe.com/products/flash/ But this outfit looks like it could be worth checking out: http://flashtogo.com/
Re: [FairfieldLife] Martin Luther King on Bongo Brazil
On Dec 29, 2008, at 12:17 AM, shempmcgurk wrote: When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews, You are talking anti- Semitism. from The Socialism of Fools: The Left, the Jews and Israel by Seymour Martin Lipset; in Encounter magazine, December 1969, p. 24. What nonsense. Pretty telling you have to go back more than 40 years to find a quote from someone on the left equating the two. Most Jews seem to feel the exact same way about Israel's policies that every other thinking individual in the world does: they're shocked and horrified. How many do you see willing to put their lives on the line and actually move there? How many have even been there? Sal
[FairfieldLife] Re: A list of UN Resolutions against Israel
Maybe at some time in the future the UN will simply rescind whatever resolution created Israel in the first place. At some point their only international support, which is basically the nuttier element of the US, will become too weak to keep up the political protection. We can but hope. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rf...@... wrote: This collection of resolutions criticizing Israel is unmatched by the record of any other nation as Israel stands in violation of more UN resolutions than ANY OTHER NATION ON EARTH. - September 3, 2003 [Go to link for U.S. Vetoes of UN Resolutions Critical of Israel 1972-2002] http://www.uscrusade.com/forum/config.pl/noframes/read/1372 A list of UN Resolutions against Israel 1955-1992: * Resolution 106: . . . 'condemns' Israel for Gaza raid. * Resolution 111: . . . 'condemns' Israel for raid on Syria that killed fifty-six people. * Resolution 127: . . . 'recommends' Israel suspends it's 'no-man's zone' in Jerusalem. * Resolution 162: . . . 'urges' Israel to comply with UN decisions. * Resolution 171: . . . determines flagrant violations' by Israel in its attack on Syria. Resolution 228: . . . 'censures' Israel for its attack on Samu in the West Bank, then under Jordanian control. * Resolution 237: . . . 'urges' Israel to allow return of new 1967 Palestinian refugees. Resolution 248: . . . 'condemns' Israel for its massive attack on Karameh in Jordan. * Resolution 250: . . . 'calls' on Israel to refrain from holding military parade in Jerusalem. * Resolution 251: . . . 'deeply deplores' Israeli military parade in Jerusalem in defiance of Resolution 250. * Resolution 252: . . . 'declares invalid' Israel's acts to unify Jerusalem as Jewish capital. * Resolution 256: . . . 'condemns' Israeli raids on Jordan as 'flagrant violation. * Resolution 259: . . . 'deplores' Israel's refusal to accept UN mission to probe occupation. * Resolution 262: . . . 'condemns' Israel for attack on Beirut airport. * Resolution 265: . . . 'condemns' Israel for air attacks for Salt in Jordan. * Resolution 267: . . . 'censures' Israel for administrative acts to change the status of Jerusalem. * Resolution 270: . . . 'condemns' Israel for air attacks on villages in southern Lebanon. * Resolution 271: . . . 'condemns' Israel's failure to obey UN resolutions on Jerusalem. * Resolution 279: . . . 'demands' withdrawal of Israeli forces from Lebanon. * Resolution 280: . . . 'condemns' Israeli's attacks against Lebanon. * Resolution 285: . . . 'demands' immediate Israeli withdrawal form Lebanon. * Resolution 298: . . . 'deplores' Israel's changing of the status of Jerusalem. * Resolution 313: . . . 'demands' that Israel stop attacks against Lebanon. * Resolution 316: . . . 'condemns' Israel for repeated attacks on Lebanon. * Resolution 317: . . . 'deplores' Israel's refusal to release Arabs abducted in Lebanon. * Resolution 332: . . . 'condemns' Israel's repeated attacks against Lebanon. * Resolution 337: . . . 'condemns' Israel for violating Lebanon's sovereignty. * Resolution 347: . . . 'condemns' Israeli attacks on Lebanon. * Resolution 425: . . . 'calls' on Israel to withdraw its forces from Lebanon. * Resolution 427: . . . 'calls' on Israel to complete its withdrawal from Lebanon. * Resolution 444: . . . 'deplores' Israel's lack of cooperation with UN peacekeeping forces. * Resolution 446: . . . 'determines' that Israeli settlements are a 'serious obstruction' to peace and calls on Israel to abide by the Fourth Geneva Convention. * Resolution 450: . . . 'calls' on Israel to stop attacking Lebanon. * Resolution 452: . . . 'calls' on Israel to cease building settlements in occupied territories. * Resolution 465: . . . 'deplores' Israel's settlements and asks all member states not to assist Israel's settlements program. * Resolution 467: . . . 'strongly deplores' Israel's military intervention in Lebanon. * Resolution 468: . . . 'calls' on Israel to rescind illegal expulsions of two Palestinian mayors and a judge and to facilitate their return. * Resolution 469: . . . 'strongly deplores' Israel's failure to observe the council's order not to deport Palestinians. * Resolution 471: . . . 'expresses deep concern' at Israel's failure to abide by the Fourth Geneva Convention. * Resolution 476: . . . 'reiterates' that Israel's claim to Jerusalem are 'null and void'. * Resolution 478: . . . 'censures (Israel) in the strongest terms' for its claim to Jerusalem in its 'Basic Law'. * Resolution 484: . . . 'declares it imperative' that Israel re- admit two deported Palestinian mayors. * Resolution 487: . . . 'strongly condemns' Israel for its attack on Iraq's nuclear facility. * Resolution 497: . . . 'decides' that Israel's annexation of Syria's Golan
[FairfieldLife] Re: Palestinian loss of land 1946 - 2005
if the arab world really cared about the Palestinians, there is an enourmous amount of land in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, in most of the Arab or Muslim countries, that they could give the Palestinians Really? So if someone stole your car you'd just get a friend to give you theirs and let the thief keep yours? The idea that Israel can live in peace if only the people it's stolen land from would give up their claim to what is rightfully theirs is absurd.
[FairfieldLife] Re: A scam, with no basis in science?
Richard M goes: Here is some very up to date planetary temperature data as seen by satellite: http://tinyurl.com/8uelmy [snip] do.reflex goes: And your reliance on the satellite data from only Lucia Liljegren is not by any means conclusive of what is claimed: The data is not from Lucia of course. It is just a convenient presentation of hers of the two satellite data sources (RSS UAH). Do you have any independent grounds for rejecting it (other than that it is an inconvenient truth)? Comparison of ground based (blue) and satellite based (red: UAH; green: RSS) records of temperature variations since 1979. Trends plotted since January 1982: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Satellite_Temperatures.png Well yes - but that's 1975 to 2005 isn't it! Even so - do you not notice the leveling off of global temp in this century? That is after all the point at issue! If you recall, I mentioned the flatlining of global temp this century, to which you wheeled out your stock answer that the IPCC refutes that. (I have to say - I think that you have adopted the wrong strategy here! Most folks who discuss the issue seem to be aware of the lack of significant warming in the most recent years. But in your case you choose to deny that that is a fact. Most AGW proponents (from both the reasoned and alarmist ends of the spectrum) are NOT taking that line. Rather they take the view that this data range is either statistically not sufficiently significant, or, that it is significant, but that something is masking an underlying warming trend (specifically the Pacific ocean currents). But you seem to think there is nothing to mask! I don't think you can claim consensus on that.) Again, going back to the issue of warming 2000-2008, IPCC 4 does not say much about that as this data is too recent. Or does it? What figure DOES IPCC 4 give as the amount of warming for 2000-2008? You didn't like the satellite data graph I posted because it had Lucia Liljegren's fingerprint on it. Then you post stuff about satellite data that seems to be implying you don't much care for ANY satellite data (or perhaps only if it's sufficiently corrected?). OK - put the satellite data aside. Here is GISS data from NASA (surface temperature measurements): http://tinyurl.com/yu3x78 To my tired old eyes that too seems to show a leveling off of warming in this century. How conclusive that is remains to be seen. But why ignore it? When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?
[FairfieldLife] MOUSS (was: Re: A scam, with no basis in science?)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, I am the eternal l.shad...@... wrote: On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 3:42 PM, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, I am the eternal L.Shaddai@ wrote: Characterize me as you wish. Fire can't burn me nor water quench me. And my powers of analysis and insight are first- class, as you can see from my recent post remarking on the deep and fervent veneration accorded Hillary Clinton by the participants of FFL, such that any negative comment about her inspires mass outrage. Judy, Judy, Judy. Such kind words! One of the many benefits of not being all that facile with the English Language, indeed not having had a native tongue at all, is that it seems that people are always saying nice things to and about me. I assume that's what you are doing now. Why else would someone as skilled and learned in the English Language take the time out to write about me? Why else indeed? It is a subject that has long been pondered in the annals of science. The latest theory is that the reason Judy responds as she does on this forum is because she suffers from MOUSS. MOUSS is a scientific acronym for Mean Old Ugly Schoolmarm Syndrome. Its scientific definition, expressed from the point of view of the sufferer, was actually quoted recently on FFL: I haven't fulfilled my quota of bashing people yet today, and I'm beginning to feel the withdrawal symptoms I get when I haven't been able to blast off enough of my bad feelings onto somebody else. So, to answer your question, I.Am, you have *not* been singled out because of your use of or supposed misuse of the English language. It's a more generic syndrome, having to do with MOUSS sufferer's with- drawal symptoms described above. For example, statistically, in the last 7 days (which spans two FFL posting weeks) this particular MOUSS sufferer has made a total of 41 posts. In 43% of these posts (18 of 41) she felt the need to slam someone and insult them. But the reason was NOT because of the victims' lack of familiarity with or lack of knowledge of the English language, as can be proved by the fact that 24% of her total number of posts (10 of 41) were spent slamming someone who makes his living writing the English language (moi). So it's not your use of English. Run these same stats on *any* other poster on this forum and you'll probably not find as high a percentage of slams and insults. It's the MOUSS, and the fact that you're handy, and few of the other people she habitually insults on this forum bother replying to her any more, if they bother reading her in the first place. So you're just the latest target du jour for Mean Old Ugly Schoolmarm Syndrome because she's hoping to get an argument going with you, and to get that withdrawal symptoms monkey off her back. It's not personal. It's just that you are WRONG, damnit, and it's the duty of Mean Old Ugly Schoolmarms to correct anything that is WRONG. [The preceding has been a Public Service Message from the Using Science To Figure Out FFL Foundation.]
Re: [FairfieldLife] An armed society is a polite society
On Dec 29, 2008, at 12:14 AM, I am the eternal wrote: Man shoots talker at movie, police say: http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/12/27/movie.shooting/index.html I want to know the instant this guy starts a defense fund. Bout time we're starting to fight back. Slashing the tires of vehicles which take up two parking spaces and stomping on cell phones used in publicly overheard conversations should be next. In S. Florida they used just pull the stems out of the tires. That's the compassionate way to go.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Martin Luther King on Bongo Brazil
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcg...@... wrote: When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews, You are talking anti- Semitism. from The Socialism of Fools: The Left, the Jews and Israel by Seymour Martin Lipset; in Encounter magazine, December 1969, p. 24. Magoo, as expected, continues to reveal that he's dumber than a box of rocks. Just because Bush/Cheney regime is abhorred and despised by countless Americans doesn't mean that they hate America. It means just the opposite; that they love America and recognize that the assholes who were trying to destroy her are indeed assholes.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Martin Luther King on Bongo Brazil
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunsh...@... wrote: On Dec 29, 2008, at 12:17 AM, shempmcgurk wrote: When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews, You are talking anti- Semitism. from The Socialism of Fools: The Left, the Jews and Israel by Seymour Martin Lipset; in Encounter magazine, December 1969, p. 24. What nonsense. Pretty telling you have to go back more than 40 years to find a quote from someone on the left equating the two. Most Jews seem to feel the exact same way about Israel's policies that every other thinking individual in the world does: they're shocked and horrified. How many do you see willing to put their lives on the line and actually move there? How many have even been there? Sal Even the Iranian Jews who were offered cash to move to and settle in Israel turned down the offer.
[FairfieldLife] Re: A scam, with no basis in science?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard M compost...@... wrote: Richard M goes: Here is some very up to date planetary temperature data as seen by satellite: http://tinyurl.com/8uelmy [snip] do.reflex goes: And your reliance on the satellite data from only Lucia Liljegren is not by any means conclusive of what is claimed: The data is not from Lucia of course. It is just a convenient presentation of hers of the two satellite data sources (RSS UAH). Do you have any independent grounds for rejecting it (other than that it is an inconvenient truth)? Comparison of ground based (blue) and satellite based (red: UAH; green: RSS) records of temperature variations since 1979. Trends plotted since January 1982: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Satellite_Temperatures.png Well yes - but that's 1975 to 2005 isn't it! Even so - do you not notice the leveling off of global temp in this century? That is after all the point at issue! If you recall, I mentioned the flatlining of global temp this century, to which you wheeled out your stock answer that the IPCC refutes that. The IPCC data shows that global temperature has increased during the last century and is increasing at a more rapid rate in the last few decades. To refute that is to be a thick-headed obtuse apologist for the deniers. (I have to say - I think that you have adopted the wrong strategy here! Most folks who discuss the issue seem to be aware of the lack of significant warming in the most recent years. But in your case you choose to deny that that is a fact. Most AGW proponents (from both the reasoned and alarmist ends of the spectrum) are NOT taking that line. Rather they take the view that this data range is either statistically not sufficiently significant, or, that it is significant, but that something is masking an underlying warming trend (specifically the Pacific ocean currents). But you seem to think there is nothing to mask! I don't think you can claim consensus on that.) Again, going back to the issue of warming 2000-2008, IPCC 4 does not say much about that as this data is too recent. Or does it? What figure DOES IPCC 4 give as the amount of warming for 2000-2008? You didn't like the satellite data graph I posted because it had Lucia Liljegren's fingerprint on it. Then you post stuff about satellite data that seems to be implying you don't much care for ANY satellite data (or perhaps only if it's sufficiently corrected?). Nope. The documented data I posted clearly shows warming in BOTH models. Look at the charts, Bozo. OK - put the satellite data aside. Here is GISS data from NASA (surface temperature measurements): http://tinyurl.com/yu3x78 Which, once again, is an isolated set of data contradicted by other multiple data. To my tired old eyes that too seems to show a leveling off of warming in this century. How conclusive that is remains to be seen. But why ignore it? You're cherry-picking your 'facts', fella, to support your predetermined conclusions. Who do you think you're fooling?
[FairfieldLife] Re: An armed society is a polite society
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, I am the eternal l.shad...@... wrote: Man shoots talker at movie, police say: http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/12/27/movie.shooting/index.html I want to know the instant this guy starts a defense fund. Bout time we're starting to fight back. Slashing the tires of vehicles which take up two parking spaces and stomping on cell phones used in publicly overheard conversations should be next. An armed society is a polite society. I hate people when they're not polite. - lyric from Psycho Killer, by David Byrne, Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth of Talking Heads
[FairfieldLife] Re: spirituality spot found in brain
But the periods of transcendental consciousness during TM are NOT correlated with such physiological effects... Oh, so there is transcendence there is transcendence and TM'ers would not wish to be included with experiences of Spiritual transcendence? transcendent experiences, seems to occur for people who minimize right parietal functioning. all individuals, regardless of cultural background or religion, experience the same neuropsychological functions during spiritual experiences, such as transcendence. Transcendence, feelings of universal unity and decreased sense of self, is a core tenet of all major religions. Meditation and prayer are the primary vehicles by which such spiritual transcendence is achieved. -- Core Of All Major World Religions -- Has Neuropsychological Connection Or directly from: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081217124156.htm Also http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/202563 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, min.pige min.p...@... wrote: Spirituality Spot Found in Brain By Robin Nixon Special to LiveScience LiveScience.com robin Nixon special To Livescience livescience.com â Wed Dec 24, 9:19 am ET What makes us feel spiritual? It could be the quieting of a small area in our brains, a new study suggests. The area in question - the right parietal lobe - is responsible for defining Me, said researcher Brick Johnstone of Missouri University. It generates self-criticism, he said, and guides us through physical and social terrains by constantly updating our self-knowledge: my hand, my cocktail, my witty conversation skills, my new love interest ... People with less active Me-Definers are more likely to lead spiritual lives, reports the study in the current issue of the journal Zygon. Most previous research on neuro-spirituality has been based on brain scans of actively practicing adherents (i.e. meditating monks, praying nuns) and has resulted in broad and inconclusive findings. (Is the brain area lighting up in response to verse or spiritual experience?) So Johnstone and colleague Bret Glass turned to the tried-and-true techniques of neuroscience's early days - studying brain-injured patients. The researchers tested brain regions implicated in the previous imaging studies with exams tailored to each area's expertise - similar to studying the prowess of an ear with a hearing test. They then looked for correlations between brain region performance and the subjects' self-reported spirituality. Among the more spiritual of the 26 subjects, the researchers pinpointed a less functional right parietal lobe, a physical state which may translate psychologically as decreased self-awareness and self-focus. The finding suggests that one core tenant of spiritual experience is selflessness, said Johnstone, adding that he hopes the study will help people think about spirituality in more specific ways. Spiritual outlooks have long been associated with better mental and physical health. These benefits, Johnstone speculated, may stem from being focused less on one's self and more on others - a natural consequence of turning down the volume on the Me-Definer. In addition to religious practices, other behaviors and experiences are known to hush the Definer of Me. Appreciation of art or nature can quiet it, Johnstone said, pointing out that people talk of losing themselves in a particularly beautiful song. Love, and even charity work, can also soften the boundaries of Me, he said. The greatest silencing of the Me-Definer likely happens in the deepest states of meditation or prayer, said Johnstone, when practitioners describe feeling seamless with the entire universe. That is, the highest point of spiritual experience occurs when Me completely loses its definition. If you look in the Torah, the Old Testament, the New Testament, in the Koran, a lot of Sufi writings, Buddhist writings, and Hindu writings, they all talk about selflessness, said Johnstone. We may be finding the neurological underpinnings of these writings, he said. oh
[FairfieldLife] Re: A scam, with no basis in science?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rf...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard M compost1uk@ wrote: Richard M goes: Here is some very up to date planetary temperature data as seen by satellite: http://tinyurl.com/8uelmy [snip] do.reflex goes: And your reliance on the satellite data from only Lucia Liljegren is not by any means conclusive of what is claimed: The data is not from Lucia of course. It is just a convenient presentation of hers of the two satellite data sources (RSS UAH). Do you have any independent grounds for rejecting it (other than that it is an inconvenient truth)? Comparison of ground based (blue) and satellite based (red: UAH; green: RSS) records of temperature variations since 1979. Trends plotted since January 1982: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Satellite_Temperatures.png Well yes - but that's 1975 to 2005 isn't it! Even so - do you not notice the leveling off of global temp in this century? That is after all the point at issue! If you recall, I mentioned the flatlining of global temp this century, to which you wheeled out your stock answer that the IPCC refutes that. The IPCC data shows that global temperature has increased during the last century and is increasing at a more rapid rate in the last few decades. To refute that is to be a thick-headed obtuse apologist for the deniers. (I have to say - I think that you have adopted the wrong strategy here! Most folks who discuss the issue seem to be aware of the lack of significant warming in the most recent years. But in your case you choose to deny that that is a fact. Most AGW proponents (from both the reasoned and alarmist ends of the spectrum) are NOT taking that line. Rather they take the view that this data range is either statistically not sufficiently significant, or, that it is significant, but that something is masking an underlying warming trend (specifically the Pacific ocean currents). But you seem to think there is nothing to mask! I don't think you can claim consensus on that.) Again, going back to the issue of warming 2000-2008, IPCC 4 does not say much about that as this data is too recent. Or does it? What figure DOES IPCC 4 give as the amount of warming for 2000-2008? You didn't like the satellite data graph I posted because it had Lucia Liljegren's fingerprint on it. Then you post stuff about satellite data that seems to be implying you don't much care for ANY satellite data (or perhaps only if it's sufficiently corrected?). Nope. The documented data I posted clearly shows warming in BOTH models. Look at the charts, Bozo. OK - put the satellite data aside. Here is GISS data from NASA (surface temperature measurements): http://tinyurl.com/yu3x78 Which, once again, is an isolated set of data contradicted by other multiple data. To my tired old eyes that too seems to show a leveling off of warming in this century. How conclusive that is remains to be seen. But why ignore it? You're cherry-picking your 'facts', fella, to support your predetermined conclusions. Who do you think you're fooling? Oh, the irony. I see it all now: I am a TOAD (Thick-headed Obtuse Apologist for the Deniers). Why didn't you say so earlier to spare all this tedious posting nonsense?
[FairfieldLife] Sita Sings The Blues (or, the wonder of Roger Ebert)
I love Roger Ebert, for the simple reason that after watching films for a living for all these years, he still loves them. He hasn't gotten jaded, and he's still able to be surprised. He rarely writes a scathing, putdown review, and when he does, it's not only deserved but Oscar Wildean in its accuracy, like this one: The Spirit is mannered to the point of madness. There is not a trace of human emotion in it. To call the characters cardboard is to insult a useful packing material. But when he loves a film, he really loves it, and goes out of his way to promote it. He seems to have done this recently with a film that many here might like. Here's the filmmaker's descrip- tion of it: An animated version of the epic Indian tale of Ramayana set to the 1920's jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw. Not yer everyday film subject matter. And, it would appear, not yer everyday film. Roger reacted by adding the film to his own upcoming film fest- ival, and by writing the following review: http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2008/12/having_wonderful_time_wish_you.html Here's the film's website, which contains a trailer: http://www.sitasingstheblues.com/ Most film reviewers who have been at it as long as Roger has would not have bothered to even open this DVD when it arrived in the mail. Roger bothered. That's what makes him the best.
[FairfieldLife] Global Instrumental Temperature Record
The instrumental temperature record shows the fluctuations of the temperature of the atmosphere and the oceans as measured by temperature sensors. Currently, the longest-running temperature record is the Central England temperature data series, that starts in 1659. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_temperature_record Central England temperature data series beginning in 1659 - Chart: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CET_Full_Temperature_Yearly.PNG The longest-running quasi-global record starts in 1850 - Chart: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Instrumental_Temperature_Record.png -- Global records databases Currently, the Hadley Centre maintains the HADCRUT3, a global surface temperature dataset,[2] See Hadley Centre Charts: http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/hadleycentre/obsdata/ --- NASA maintains GISTEMP, which provides a measure of the changing global surface temperature with monthly resolution for the period since 1880[3] See NASA Charts: Land-Ocean http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/Fig.A2.lrg.gif Global Temperature (meteorological stations) http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/Fig.A.lrg.gif\ Annual Mean Temperature Change for Three Latitude Bands http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/Fig.B.lrg.gif --- ...The NOAA maintains the Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN-Monthly) data base contains historical temperature, precipitation, and pressure data for thousands of land stations worldwide.[4] NOAA Charts: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/gcag/index.jsp --- SUMMARY: *All* of the above data shows global warming over the last century.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: spirituality spot found in brain
On Dec 29, 2008, at 8:29 AM, dhamiltony2k5 wrote: But the periods of transcendental consciousness during TM are NOT correlated with such physiological effects... Oh, so there is transcendence there is transcendence and TM'ers would not wish to be included with experiences of Spiritual transcendence? It's possible that most TMers are not in fact transcending in the full sense of that word and are merely experiencing thought-free states. The only reason they project the belief that they are transcending is because they've been taught/conditioned through the process of TM instruction to associate a transcendence belief with this merely thought-free state. Since transcending/transcendence/ transcendent are all English words, and thus divorced from the original Sanskrit definition/descriptions, you can make them mean whatever you want to and you can also assign whatever neurophysiological finding you want as well. Independent research done on experienced TMers back in the 80's using good science showed there was no shift as now known in actual transcendence (as traditionally described). Go figure, huh?
[FairfieldLife] Re: A scam, with no basis in science?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard M compost...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: [snip] You're cherry-picking your 'facts', fella, to support your predetermined conclusions. Who do you think you're fooling? Oh, the irony. I see it all now: I am a TOAD (Thick-headed Obtuse Apologist for the Deniers). Why didn't you say so earlier to spare all this tedious posting nonsense? Indeed you ARE in serious denial of the facts if you continue to deny the following: ~~ Global Instrumental Temperature Record ~~ The instrumental temperature record shows the fluctuations of the temperature of the atmosphere and the oceans as measured by temperature sensors. Currently, the longest-running temperature record is the Central England temperature data series, that starts in 1659. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_temperature_record Central England temperature data series beginning in 1659 - Chart: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CET_Full_Temperature_Yearly.PNG The longest-running quasi-global record starts in 1850 - Chart: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Instrumental_Temperature_Record.png -- Global records databases Currently, the Hadley Centre maintains the HADCRUT3, a global surface temperature dataset,[2] See Hadley Centre Charts: http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/hadleycentre/obsdata/ --- NASA maintains GISTEMP, which provides a measure of the changing global surface temperature with monthly resolution for the period since 1880[3] See NASA Charts: Land-Ocean http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/Fig.A2.lrg.gif Global Temperature (meteorological stations) http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/Fig.A.lrg.gif\ Annual Mean Temperature Change for Three Latitude Bands http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/Fig.B.lrg.gif --- ...The NOAA maintains the Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN-Monthly) data base contains historical temperature, precipitation, and pressure data for thousands of land stations worldwide.[4] NOAA Charts: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/gcag/index.jsp --- SUMMARY: *All* of the above data shows global warming over the last century.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Martin Luther King on Bongo Brazil
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunsh...@... wrote: On Dec 29, 2008, at 12:17 AM, shempmcgurk wrote: When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews, You are talking anti-Semitism. from The Socialism of Fools: The Left, the Jews and Israel by Seymour Martin Lipset; in Encounter magazine, December 1969, p. 24. What nonsense. Pretty telling you have to go back more than 40 years to find a quote from someone on the left equating the two. See this 2004 article by Robert Westrich for a detailed analysis of recent trends: http://www.jcpa.org/phas/phas-wistrich-f04.htm Anti-Zionism is too complex to equate with anti- Semitism across the board, but there are certain strands of it that are very distinctly anti-Semitic, and the more objective leftists recognize this. Most Jews seem to feel the exact same way about Israel's policies that every other thinking individual in the world does: they're shocked and horrified. Most Jews *on the left*. There are plenty of Jews on the right who strongly defend Israel. How many do you see willing to put their lives on the line and actually move there? How many have even been there? Among religious Jews--Conservative (religiously, not necessarily politically) and Orthodox--visiting or moving to Israel is understood to be a commandment from God.
[FairfieldLife] Re: spirituality spot found in brain
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, dhamiltony2k5 dhamiltony...@... wrote: But the periods of transcendental consciousness during TM are NOT correlated with such physiological effects... Oh, so there is transcendence there is transcendence and TM'ers would not wish to be included with experiences of Spiritual transcendence? /me sighs heavily. The episodes of transcendental consciousness during TM are NOT correlated with minimized right parietal functioning. transcendent experiences, seems to occur for people who minimize right parietal functioning. Therefore, the following is simply wrong: all individuals, regardless of cultural background or religion, experience the same neuropsychological functions during spiritual experiences, such as transcendence. Transcendence, feelings of universal unity and decreased sense of self, is a core tenet of all major religions. Meditation and prayer are the primary vehicles by which such spiritual transcendence is achieved. -- Core Of All Major World Religions -- Has Neuropsychological Connection Lawson
[FairfieldLife] Re: spirituality spot found in brain
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: On Dec 29, 2008, at 8:29 AM, dhamiltony2k5 wrote: But the periods of transcendental consciousness during TM are NOT correlated with such physiological effects... Oh, so there is transcendence there is transcendence and TM'ers would not wish to be included with experiences of Spiritual transcendence? It's possible that most TMers are not in fact transcending in the full sense of that word and are merely experiencing thought-free states. The only reason they project the belief that they are transcending is because they've been taught/conditioned through the process of TM instruction to associate a transcendence belief with this merely thought-free state. Since transcending/transcendence/ transcendent are all English words, and thus divorced from the original Sanskrit definition/descriptions, you can make them mean whatever you want to and you can also assign whatever neurophysiological finding you want as well. Independent research done on experienced TMers back in the 80's using good science showed there was no shift as now known in actual transcendence (as traditionally described). Go figure, huh? Regardless... the periods of transcendental consciousness during TM are NOT correlated with such such physiological effects.. Therefore the article is wrong. As to whether or not TMers reporting Transcendental Consciousness are having real spiritual experiences or not, that is a different question. Lawson
[FairfieldLife] Re: A scam, with no basis in science?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rf...@... wrote: [snip] SUMMARY: *All* of the above data shows global warming over the last century. But for heaven's sake - I was talking about THIS century! As they say these days what part of 2000 to 2008 don't you understand? As when I asked this: do you not notice the levelling off of global temp in this century? As when I linked to satellite charts for 2000-2008 and also the surface temperature NASA GISS record for that period. As when I asked you: going back to the issue of warming 2000-2008, IPCC 4 does not say much about that as this data is too recent. Or does it? What figure DOES IPCC 4 give as the amount of warming for 2000-2008? Most now take the view that as we close out 2008, it is almost certain to be the coldest year of all this century. For those more interested in the phenomenon than in shoring up their political certainties, this is an interesting potential anomaly for the AGW theory. That's all. It does not as yet refute AGW. (For a reasoned discussion of that please DO check out http://tinyurl.com/6jt9lb). You'll never accept this of course, especially from a TOAD - but I really do think you are blinded here by your fog of politically motivated certainty. I can accept that AGW could go either way - can you?
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: spirituality spot found in brain
On Dec 29, 2008, at 9:58 AM, sparaig wrote: Regardless... the periods of transcendental consciousness during TM are NOT correlated with such such physiological effects.. Actually early TM research DID make the claim of hemispheric shift and they continued to make this false claim until independent researchers discovered it was an incorrect and false claim. IIRC they used poor controls.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Palestinian loss of land 1946 - 2005
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: snip And the U.S. and Britain were right at the top of this list of countries who wanted to find a home for the Jews, as long as that home was elsewhere. Actually, Great Britain had stated in the 1917 Balfour Declaration that the territory that is now Israel should be given to Jews as a homeland. This wasn't an idea on Britain's part that originated as a function of the Holocaust. So they picked a place that had no international power and where the people were not white, and took land away from them and called it the new home of the Jews. It was a case of sending the Jews some- where else and putting them out of sight and out of mind that was the main motivator, not a human- itarian desire to give the Jews a homeland. The Palestinians were at the time the easiest country in the world to fuck over, and the one without any international voice or power to object to being fucked over, that's all. True as far as it goes, but the other side of it is that the territory that is now Israel is described by God in the Hebrew Scriptures as the Israelites' Promised Land: On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram and said, 'To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates - the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites and Jebusites' (Genesis 15:18-21). In other words, the U.S. and Britain didn't pick the territory simply because it was the easiest country in the world to fuck over, although that certainly made things more convenient. It had *always* been, as far as the Jews were concerned, their new home. Plus which, Zionism as a political movement for Jews to move to the Promised Land was begun by Jews and dates to the late 19th century, long before the Holocaust made it imperative for the Jews to have a place of safety that they controlled. The movement is called Zionism because Zion is the name established by King David in the Hebrew Scriptures for the Promised Land, and particularly for Jerusalem. And Yes, many of the original Zionists who founded Israel really did want it to be a place where Arab and Jew could live side by side. It's just that their children didn't feel that way, and started doing to their Arab neighbors exactly what had been done to them in other countries for centuries. It isn't as if they changed their minds on a whim or just because they were nasty people. The Arab countries didn't (and for the most part still don't) regard Israel as a legitimate neighbor and did everything they could to destroy it. Any black-and-white portrayal of the Israel-Palestinian situation that paints one side as evil and the other as innocent is going to be 50 percent, more or less, wrong. It's probably the most complicated and intractable situation in the world today.
[FairfieldLife] Highly trained medical leaches
I'm not a big fan of Rock 'n Roll but I do love to read some of the names that Rock bands come up with to call themselves. So much so that whenever I come across a catchy word or phrase it makes me think that it will make a great name for a rock band. Highly trained medical leaches is a quote from celebrity Demi Moore to describe how she gets rid of toxins in her body (from an article about how celebrities have no idea what they are talking about when it comes to science). I think it would make a great name for a rock band. My favorite is from the movie Hudsucker Proxy, an expression no doubt invented by the Coen Brothers to describe Norville's invention: Extruded Plastic Dingus
[FairfieldLife] Re: A scam, with no basis in science?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard M compost...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: [snip] SUMMARY: *All* of the above data shows global warming over the last century. But for heaven's sake - I was talking about THIS century! As they say these days what part of 2000 to 2008 don't you understand? You really ARE thick, aren't you? Established Temperature Data for this century up to 2005 and projected for the 21st century shows continuous temperature *increases*. No flat-lining of temperatures as you falsely claimed: Global surface temperature increased 0.74 ± 0.18 °C (1.33 ± 0.32 °F) during the 100 years ending in 2005.[1][2] Climate model projections indicate that global surface temperature will likely rise a further 1.1 to 6.4 °C (2.0 to 11.5 °F) during the twenty-first century.[3] The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concludes that most of the temperature increase since the mid-twentieth century is very likely due to the increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations.[3][2] Natural phenomena such as solar variation and volcanoes probably had a small warming effect from pre-industrial times to 1950 and a small cooling effect from 1950 onward.[4][5] These basic conclusions have been endorsed by at least 30 scientific societies and academies of science,[6] including all of the national academies of science of the major industrialized countries.[7][8][9] While individual scientists have voiced disagreement with these findings,[10] the overwhelming majority of scientists working on climate change agree with the IPCC's main conclusions.[11][12] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming As when I asked this: do you not notice the levelling off of global temp in this century? As when I linked to satellite charts for 2000-2008 and also the surface temperature NASA GISS record for that period. As when I asked you: going back to the issue of warming 2000-2008, IPCC 4 does not say much about that as this data is too recent. Or does it? What figure DOES IPCC 4 give as the amount of warming for 2000-2008? Most now take the view that as we close out 2008, it is almost certain to be the coldest year of all this century. For those more interested in the phenomenon than in shoring up their political certainties, this is an interesting potential anomaly for the AGW theory. That's all. It does not as yet refute AGW. (For a reasoned discussion of that please DO check out http://tinyurl.com/6jt9lb). You'll never accept this of course, especially from a TOAD - but I really do think you are blinded here by your fog of politically motivated certainty. I can accept that AGW could go either way - can you?
[FairfieldLife] He isn't even president yet but...
...Obama is discoving that being president might very well mean acting in ways he has criticized in the past...even like the dreaded George Bush. Take, for example, the issue of transparency something Obama promised would characterize his presidency. Well, in the article below, the author gives him an F by not disclosing, as he promised, all the meetings he would have during the transition: http://www.suntimes.com/news/sweet/1352924,CST-NWS-sweet29.article Frank Rich had an article in the New York Times a few days ago in which he wrote that ...for the first time a faint tinge of Bush crept into my Obama reveries this month. See: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/opinion/28rich.html?_r=1 When asked during the campaign whether Obama was ready to become president, Bill Clinton said that no one is ready to be president.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Palestinian loss of land 1946 - 2005
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, guyfawkes91 guyfawke...@... wrote: if the arab world really cared about the Palestinians, there is an enourmous amount of land in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, in most of the Arab or Muslim countries, that they could give the Palestinians Really? So if someone stole your car you'd just get a friend to give you theirs and let the thief keep yours? The idea that Israel can live in peace if only the people it's stolen land from would give up their claim to what is rightfully theirs is absurd. Israel never stole land from Palestinian Arabs, they fled after the '46 incursion by the Arab countries. Much of what they had they bought from Arab landlords, (it was like a swamp) before '46, after '46 their borders increased due to the war, some of which they have given back!
[FairfieldLife] Re: A scam, with no basis in science?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rf...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard M compost1uk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: [snip] SUMMARY: *All* of the above data shows global warming over the last century. But for heaven's sake - I was talking about THIS century! As they say these days what part of 2000 to 2008 don't you understand? You really ARE thick, aren't you? No doubt. But at least I understand the difference between 2005 and 2008 and the difference between data and projections. We really would be through the looking glass if projections of a theory became evidence for the theory. Established Temperature Data for this century up to 2005 and projected for the 21st century shows continuous temperature *increases*. No flat-lining of temperatures as you falsely claimed: Global surface temperature increased 0.74 ± 0.18 °C (1.33 ± 0.32 °F) during the 100 years ending in 2005.[1][2] Climate model projections indicate that global surface temperature will likely rise a further 1.1 to 6.4 °C (2.0 to 11.5 °F) during the twenty-first century.[3] The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concludes that most of the temperature increase since the mid-twentieth century is very likely due to the increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations.[3][2] Natural phenomena such as solar variation and volcanoes probably had a small warming effect from pre-industrial times to 1950 and a small cooling effect from 1950 onward.[4][5] These basic conclusions have been endorsed by at least 30 scientific societies and academies of science,[6] including all of the national academies of science of the major industrialized countries.[7][8][9] While individual scientists have voiced disagreement with these findings,[10] the overwhelming majority of scientists working on climate change agree with the IPCC's main conclusions.[11][12] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming As when I asked this: do you not notice the levelling off of global temp in this century? As when I linked to satellite charts for 2000-2008 and also the surface temperature NASA GISS record for that period. As when I asked you: going back to the issue of warming 2000-2008, IPCC 4 does not say much about that as this data is too recent. Or does it? What figure DOES IPCC 4 give as the amount of warming for 2000-2008? Most now take the view that as we close out 2008, it is almost certain to be the coldest year of all this century. For those more interested in the phenomenon than in shoring up their political certainties, this is an interesting potential anomaly for the AGW theory. That's all. It does not as yet refute AGW. (For a reasoned discussion of that please DO check out http://tinyurl.com/6jt9lb). You'll never accept this of course, especially from a TOAD - but I really do think you are blinded here by your fog of politically motivated certainty. I can accept that AGW could go either way - can you?
[FairfieldLife] Re: A scam, with no basis in science?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard M compost...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard M compost1uk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: [snip] SUMMARY: *All* of the above data shows global warming over the last century. But for heaven's sake - I was talking about THIS century! As they say these days what part of 2000 to 2008 don't you understand? You really ARE thick, aren't you? No doubt. But at least I understand the difference between 2005 and 2008 It appears to me that you're grasping at straws to save face. Where's your verifiable objective established empirical evidence that shows, as you claimed, that global temperatures have flat-lined this century. Do you now define this century to mean only 2005 to 2008? If so show your supporting data. and the difference between data and projections. We really would be through the looking glass if projections of a theory became evidence for the theory. Established Temperature Data for this century up to 2005 and projected for the 21st century shows continuous temperature *increases*. No flat-lining of temperatures as you falsely claimed: Global surface temperature increased 0.74 ± 0.18 °C (1.33 ± 0.32 °F) during the 100 years ending in 2005.[1][2] Climate model projections indicate that global surface temperature will likely rise a further 1.1 to 6.4 °C (2.0 to 11.5 °F) during the twenty-first century.[3] The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concludes that most of the temperature increase since the mid-twentieth century is very likely due to the increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations.[3][2] Natural phenomena such as solar variation and volcanoes probably had a small warming effect from pre-industrial times to 1950 and a small cooling effect from 1950 onward.[4][5] These basic conclusions have been endorsed by at least 30 scientific societies and academies of science,[6] including all of the national academies of science of the major industrialized countries.[7][8][9] While individual scientists have voiced disagreement with these findings,[10] the overwhelming majority of scientists working on climate change agree with the IPCC's main conclusions.[11][12] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming As when I asked this: do you not notice the levelling off of global temp in this century? As when I linked to satellite charts for 2000-2008 and also the surface temperature NASA GISS record for that period. As when I asked you: going back to the issue of warming 2000-2008, IPCC 4 does not say much about that as this data is too recent. Or does it? What figure DOES IPCC 4 give as the amount of warming for 2000-2008? Most now take the view that as we close out 2008, it is almost certain to be the coldest year of all this century. For those more interested in the phenomenon than in shoring up their political certainties, this is an interesting potential anomaly for the AGW theory. That's all. It does not as yet refute AGW. (For a reasoned discussion of that please DO check out http://tinyurl.com/6jt9lb). You'll never accept this of course, especially from a TOAD - but I really do think you are blinded here by your fog of politically motivated certainty. I can accept that AGW could go either way - can you?
[FairfieldLife] Re: A scam, with no basis in science?
Richard M: Look at how much Bongo Brazil is invested in his belief in catastrophic man-made global warming. He is a fervent believer who is irritated and exasperated if anyone tries to take him out of his comfort zone. You'd think that he would be pleased and relieved that someone like yourself comes along and tries to convince him that it is all a scam. Because if it WERE a scam, that would mean that the suffering of millions of members of mankind predicted by the likes of Al Gore would not occur. A cancer patient told that his cancer is in remission would, at the very least, be cautiously optimistic and, at the very most, be ecstatic at the wonderful news. But not the members of the Catastrophic Man-Made Global Warming cult. They are UNHAPPY at any news that it could be a false theory. They are miserable that mankind will not suffer in misery. This, simply, is not rational...and, of course, provides another kind of proof that it is, indeed, all a scam. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rf...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard M compost1uk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard M compost1uk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: [snip] SUMMARY: *All* of the above data shows global warming over the last century. But for heaven's sake - I was talking about THIS century! As they say these days what part of 2000 to 2008 don't you understand? You really ARE thick, aren't you? No doubt. But at least I understand the difference between 2005 and 2008 It appears to me that you're grasping at straws to save face. Where's your verifiable objective established empirical evidence that shows, as you claimed, that global temperatures have flat-lined this century. Do you now define this century to mean only 2005 to 2008? If so show your supporting data. and the difference between data and projections. We really would be through the looking glass if projections of a theory became evidence for the theory. Established Temperature Data for this century up to 2005 and projected for the 21st century shows continuous temperature *increases*. No flat-lining of temperatures as you falsely claimed: Global surface temperature increased 0.74 ± 0.18 °C (1.33 ± 0.32 °F) during the 100 years ending in 2005.[1][2] Climate model projections indicate that global surface temperature will likely rise a further 1.1 to 6.4 °C (2.0 to 11.5 °F) during the twenty-first century.[3] The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concludes that most of the temperature increase since the mid-twentieth century is very likely due to the increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations.[3][2] Natural phenomena such as solar variation and volcanoes probably had a small warming effect from pre-industrial times to 1950 and a small cooling effect from 1950 onward.[4][5] These basic conclusions have been endorsed by at least 30 scientific societies and academies of science,[6] including all of the national academies of science of the major industrialized countries.[7] [8][9] While individual scientists have voiced disagreement with these findings,[10] the overwhelming majority of scientists working on climate change agree with the IPCC's main conclusions.[11][12] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming As when I asked this: do you not notice the levelling off of global temp in this century? As when I linked to satellite charts for 2000-2008 and also the surface temperature NASA GISS record for that period. As when I asked you: going back to the issue of warming 2000- 2008, IPCC 4 does not say much about that as this data is too recent. Or does it? What figure DOES IPCC 4 give as the amount of warming for 2000-2008? Most now take the view that as we close out 2008, it is almost certain to be the coldest year of all this century. For those more interested in the phenomenon than in shoring up their political certainties, this is an interesting potential anomaly for the AGW theory. That's all. It does not as yet refute AGW. (For a reasoned discussion of that please DO check out http://tinyurl.com/6jt9lb). You'll never accept this of course, especially from a TOAD - but I really do think you are blinded here by your fog of politically motivated certainty. I can accept that AGW could go either way - can you?
[FairfieldLife] MOUSS (was: Re: A scam, with no basis in science?)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: snip So, to answer your question, I.Am, you have *not* been singled out because of your use of or supposed misuse of the English language. Certainly not. That's *Barry's* odd notion, not one entertained by either I am the eternal or moi. Obviously Barry didn't bother to read what I was tweaking (not bashing) I am the eternal about, or he would have found it pretty humorous too. It's a more generic syndrome, having to do with MOUSS sufferer's with- drawal symptoms described above. For example, statistically, in the last 7 days (which spans two FFL posting weeks) this particular MOUSS sufferer has made a total of 41 posts. In 43% of these posts (18 of 41) she felt the need to slam someone and insult them. I get a huge kick out of Barry spending his time going over my posts with a fine-toothed comb, apparently entering them in some sort of database so he can come up with statistics to characterize them. I get an even bigger kick out of the fact that after all this effort, his statistics are WAAAY off. That's because, first of all, he assumes every post of mine in response to one of his, or that even mentions him, is a slam or insult. (That's *usually* the case but not always.) Second, he counts every time I *disagree* with somebody as a slam or an insult even when it's perfectly polite. But the reason was NOT because of the victims' lack of familiarity with or lack of knowledge of the English language, as can be proved by the fact that 24% of her total number of posts (10 of 41) were spent slamming someone who makes his living writing the English language (moi). This statistic is close to accurate. However, Barry's use of the English language often does lead one to wonder where he learned it; it doesn't seem to be the same English the rest of us speak. Also, almost all of that percentage of my posts to or about Barry were in response to *his* slamming or insulting me or someone else. So it's not your use of English. Never was. Again, it's only Barry's fantasy that I was criticizing I am the eternal's use of English. Had nothing to do with his use of English. Run these same stats on *any* other poster on this forum and you'll probably not find as high a percentage of slams and insults. No doubt. But try running stats on *Barry's* posts for the percentage of those with slams and insults. It's by far the highest of anybody here. It's the MOUSS, and the fact that you're handy, and few of the other people she habitually insults on this forum bother replying to her any more, if they bother reading her in the first place. They don't like it when I call them on their unfairness and inaccuracy. Ignoring stuff that might make them uncomfortable is one way of dealing with it. So you're just the latest target du jour for Mean Old Ugly Schoolmarm Syndrome because she's hoping to get an argument going with you, and to get that withdrawal symptoms monkey off her back. Actually I *quit* this one before it could develop into an argument. A very large proportion of Barry's mistakes are the result of his not reading the exchanges he criticizes. It's not personal. It's just that you are WRONG, damnit, and it's the duty of Mean Old Ugly Schoolmarms to correct anything that is WRONG. I loved that cartoon somebody posted a link to, of the guy sitting in front of his computer explaining to his wife that he couldn't come to bed because somebody is wrong on the Internet.
[FairfieldLife] 'Russian Guy says: US will break up in 2010'
By ANDREW OSBORNMOSCOW -- For a decade, Russian academic Igor Panarin has been predicting the U.S. will fall apart in 2010. For most of that time, he admits, few took his argument -- that an economic and moral collapse will trigger a civil war and the eventual breakup of the U.S. -- very seriously. Now he's found an eager audience: Russian state media. Igor PanarinIn recent weeks, he's been interviewed as much as twice a day about his predictions. It's a record, says Prof. Panarin. But I think the attention is going to grow even stronger. Prof. Panarin, 50 years old, is not a fringe figure. A former KGB analyst, he is dean of the Russian Foreign Ministry's academy for future diplomats. He is invited to Kremlin receptions, lectures students, publishes books, and appears in the media as an expert on U.S.-Russia relations. But it's his bleak forecast for the U.S. that is music to the ears of the Kremlin, which in recent years has blamed Washington for everything from instability in the Middle East to the global financial crisis. Mr. Panarin's views also fit neatly with the Kremlin's narrative that Russia is returning to its rightful place on the world stage after the weakness of the 1990s, when many feared that the country would go economically and politically bankrupt and break into separate territories. A polite and cheerful man with a buzz cut, Mr. Panarin insists he does not dislike Americans. But he warns that the outlook for them is dire. There's a 55-45% chance right now that disintegration will occur, he says. One could rejoice in that process, he adds, poker-faced. But if we're talking reasonably, it's not the best scenario -- for Russia. Though Russia would become more powerful on the global stage, he says, its economy would suffer because it currently depends heavily on the dollar and on trade with the U.S. Mr. Panarin posits, in brief, that mass immigration, economic decline, and moral degradation will trigger a civil war next fall and the collapse of the dollar. Around the end of June 2010, or early July, he says, the U.S. will break into six pieces -- with Alaska reverting to Russian control. In addition to increasing coverage in state media, which are tightly controlled by the Kremlin, Mr. Panarin's ideas are now being widely discussed among local experts. He presented his theory at a recent roundtable discussion at the Foreign Ministry. The country's top international relations school has hosted him as a keynote speaker. During an appearance on the state TV channel Rossiya, the station cut between his comments and TV footage of lines at soup kitchens and crowds of homeless people in the U.S. The professor has also been featured on the Kremlin's English-language propaganda channel, Russia Today. Mr. Panarin's apocalyptic vision reflects a very pronounced degree of anti-Americanism in Russia today, says Vladimir Pozner, a prominent TV journalist in Russia. It's much stronger than it was in the Soviet Union. Mr. Pozner and other Russian commentators and experts on the U.S. dismiss Mr. Panarin's predictions. Crazy ideas are not usually discussed by serious people, says Sergei Rogov, director of the government-run Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies, who thinks Mr. Panarin's theories don't hold water. Mr. Panarin's résumé includes many years in the Soviet KGB, an experience shared by other top Russian officials. His office, in downtown Moscow, shows his national pride, with pennants on the wall bearing the emblem of the FSB, the KGB's successor agency. It is also full of statuettes of eagles; a double-headed eagle was the symbol of czarist Russia. The professor says he began his career in the KGB in 1976. In post-Soviet Russia, he got a doctorate in political science, studied U.S. economics, and worked for FAPSI, then the Russian equivalent of the U.S. National Security Agency. He says he did strategy forecasts for then-President Boris Yeltsin, adding that the details are classified. In September 1998, he attended a conference in Linz, Austria, devoted to information warfare, the use of data to get an edge over a rival. It was there, in front of 400 fellow delegates, that he first presented his theory about the collapse of the U.S. in 2010. When I pushed the button on my computer and the map of the United States disintegrated, hundreds of people cried out in surprise, he remembers. He says most in the audience were skeptical. They didn't believe me. At the end of the presentation, he says many delegates asked him to autograph copies of the map showing a dismembered U.S. He based the forecast on classified data supplied to him by FAPSI analysts, he says. He predicts that economic, financial and demographic trends will provoke a political and social crisis in the U.S. When the going gets tough, he says, wealthier states will withhold funds from the federal government and effectively secede from the union. Social unrest up to and including a civil war will follow. The U.S. will then split along
[FairfieldLife] Re: Palestinian loss of land 1946 - 2005
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, BillyG. wg...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, guyfawkes91 guyfawkes91@ wrote: if the arab world really cared about the Palestinians, there is an enourmous amount of land in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, in most of the Arab or Muslim countries, that they could give the Palestinians Really? So if someone stole your car you'd just get a friend to give you theirs and let the thief keep yours? The idea that Israel can live in peace if only the people it's stolen land from would give up their claim to what is rightfully theirs is absurd. Israel never stole land from Palestinian Arabs, they fled after the '46 incursion by the Arab countries. Much of what they had they bought from Arab landlords, (it was like a swamp) before '46, after '46 their borders increased due to the war, some of which they have given back! ~Map: Distribution of population by subdistrict with percentages of Jews and Palestinians - 1947~ The source for this map is the 'Supplement to a Survey of Palestine'(Jerusalem Government Printer, June 1947). It was subsequently published as a United Nations map in August 1950. See map: http://annainthemiddleeast.com/photos/maps_media/1410/ ~~Clearly the Palestinians were an overwhelmingly larger majority compared to the number of Jews.
[FairfieldLife] Re: A scam, with no basis in science?
Factual reality isn't part of your greedy, selfish little world Magoo unless you can profit by it. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcg...@... wrote: Richard M: Look at how much Bongo Brazil is invested in his belief in catastrophic man-made global warming. He is a fervent believer who is irritated and exasperated if anyone tries to take him out of his comfort zone. You'd think that he would be pleased and relieved that someone like yourself comes along and tries to convince him that it is all a scam. Because if it WERE a scam, that would mean that the suffering of millions of members of mankind predicted by the likes of Al Gore would not occur. A cancer patient told that his cancer is in remission would, at the very least, be cautiously optimistic and, at the very most, be ecstatic at the wonderful news. But not the members of the Catastrophic Man-Made Global Warming cult. They are UNHAPPY at any news that it could be a false theory. They are miserable that mankind will not suffer in misery. This, simply, is not rational...and, of course, provides another kind of proof that it is, indeed, all a scam. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard M compost1uk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard M compost1uk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: [snip] SUMMARY: *All* of the above data shows global warming over the last century. But for heaven's sake - I was talking about THIS century! As they say these days what part of 2000 to 2008 don't you understand? You really ARE thick, aren't you? No doubt. But at least I understand the difference between 2005 and 2008 It appears to me that you're grasping at straws to save face. Where's your verifiable objective established empirical evidence that shows, as you claimed, that global temperatures have flat-lined this century. Do you now define this century to mean only 2005 to 2008? If so show your supporting data. and the difference between data and projections. We really would be through the looking glass if projections of a theory became evidence for the theory. Established Temperature Data for this century up to 2005 and projected for the 21st century shows continuous temperature *increases*. No flat-lining of temperatures as you falsely claimed: Global surface temperature increased 0.74 ± 0.18 °C (1.33 ± 0.32 °F) during the 100 years ending in 2005.[1][2] Climate model projections indicate that global surface temperature will likely rise a further 1.1 to 6.4 °C (2.0 to 11.5 °F) during the twenty-first century.[3] The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concludes that most of the temperature increase since the mid-twentieth century is very likely due to the increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations.[3][2] Natural phenomena such as solar variation and volcanoes probably had a small warming effect from pre-industrial times to 1950 and a small cooling effect from 1950 onward.[4][5] These basic conclusions have been endorsed by at least 30 scientific societies and academies of science,[6] including all of the national academies of science of the major industrialized countries.[7] [8][9] While individual scientists have voiced disagreement with these findings,[10] the overwhelming majority of scientists working on climate change agree with the IPCC's main conclusions.[11][12] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming As when I asked this: do you not notice the levelling off of global temp in this century? As when I linked to satellite charts for 2000-2008 and also the surface temperature NASA GISS record for that period. As when I asked you: going back to the issue of warming 2000- 2008, IPCC 4 does not say much about that as this data is too recent. Or does it? What figure DOES IPCC 4 give as the amount of warming for 2000-2008? Most now take the view that as we close out 2008, it is almost certain to be the coldest year of all this century. For those more interested in the phenomenon than in shoring up their political certainties, this is an interesting potential anomaly for the AGW theory. That's all. It does not as yet refute AGW. (For a reasoned discussion of that please DO check out http://tinyurl.com/6jt9lb). You'll never accept this of course, especially from a TOAD - but I really do think
[FairfieldLife] Re: Palestinian loss of land 1946 - 2005
Israel never stole land from Palestinian Arabs, they fled after the '46 incursion by the Arab countries. Interesting thought processes going on here. Land which had belonged to Palestinian arabs for centuries was unilaterally given away by fiat of the UN without asking the people who owned it. So the other Arab countries invaded to get the land back. The invasion was repulsed so Israel now has the right to the land? Mmmm. Maybe you'd feel a bit different about that if a local criminal gang democratically decided that your car should be taken away from you and given to one of their members. What you're effectively saying is that if your car is stolen and you fight to get it back but the criminals are stronger than you then they have the right to your car. The big problem here is the notion that the UN decision to create Israel is valid. It was clearly a big mistake, it wasn't supported by any country in the region or by the majority of the population living there at the time. The only UN resolution that Israel has ever recognized is the one that led to its own creation. If the UN decided that the land your house is built on belongs to the Indian tribe that previously owned it by virtue of their religious connection to the land, would you give it up?
[FairfieldLife] Re: WHY Does You Tube Not Want You to See This??
Who would put out this kind of information Uh...words are from my close friend, Acharya S and her book 'The Christ Conspiracy' Truth is emerging out of centuries old male dogma! Arhata http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeEX-M7rHAc http://www.freedomofspeech.netfirms.com/
[FairfieldLife] [was Re: spirituality spot found in brain] vaj the magnificent?
damn dude, you've figured it ALL out about TM-- how delusional we all have been -- all of the millions of TMers believing in false transcendence, most for decades, and little did we know it has all been an illusion! What is your recommendation, oh Buddhist Master Vaj? Save us! check it out though, why does someone like you vaj, who is practicing what they continuously tell others is the best, the highest, the most scientifically validated techniques, and the most authentic, with the wisest teachers (and even capitalizes the trip they are on, calling it the Way), find the time and the interest every single week to ceaselessly project their frustration and lack of progress on another technique (TM), and insist that this other technique is false and worthless? its like someone who goes around telling everyone how happy and satisfied and fulfilled they are, but constantly criticizes others (who are perhaps happier, more satisfied and more fulfilled than they are). imo, you need to talk with someone, and work out this obsession of yours against TM and the Maharishi, and perhaps cease these other potentially harmful techniques you are doing, until your personality becomes more balanced. this constant attempt of yours to paint a black and white world just isn't working. your fundamentalism and TB attitude towards Buddhism is more of a cage, a safe set of boundaries, than the answer to all your questions that you think it is. please get some perspective, and some help. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: It's possible that most TMers are not in fact transcending in the full sense of that word and are merely experiencing thought- free states. The only reason they project the belief... -snip-
[FairfieldLife] Re: What is this process called, does anyone know?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcg...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Stu buttsplicer@ wrote: Thanks for the response. Additional questions: 1) Are the programs that you mention above (iMovie, FCP, Premiere, Avid) free software? I believe iMovie comes with the Mac. I am guessing there are low cost PC versions. Basically you are looking for editing software that can do the Ken Burns effect. First you assemble a collection of pictures (usually JPEGs) with as high a resolution as possible. String them together. Add nifty zooms and pans, tasteful transitions, color correction and titles. Lay down a cleared music track. It took me about 4 hours to put this together the In Memoriam clip I posted here last year: http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/video/2008/inmemoriam_video200803 The split screen transitions take a lot of time. I had a composer friend write the music for it. 2) Once I was to make such a streaming flash video (with audio) is it something that I can put on a website? Flash is one way to go. The other is H264 which is becoming very popular. Most editing software will convert your video to these formats for the WEB. Basically streaming video is a much smaller file that works with the low bandwidth. Its easy to put these on a Website. Either it goes on your host service or you use a streaming service like Brightcove and insert their player on your site. s.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Palestinian loss of land 1946 - 2005
On Dec 29, 2008, at 4:40 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: The one thing that none of these Israel-loving Zionist wannabes seem to be mentioning in their forays back into history is the *real* reason that the Jews were given land in Palestine. It was so that Britain and the United States wouldn't have to accept massive numbers of Jewish refugees from Europe. They wanted to have somewhere else they could send them. Didn't anyone read Exodus, or see the movie? Remember the boat full of refugees in that film? It had shuttled from country to country to country, being rejected by all of them and not allowed to land at all of them, being told to go away because the countries *didn't want a boatload of Jews* landing there, and thus setting a precedent for other boatloads of Jews to land there and settle in their countries. And the U.S. and Britain were right at the top of this list of countries who wanted to find a home for the Jews, as long as that home was elsewhere. So they picked a place that had no international power and where the people were not white, and took land away from them and called it the new home of the Jews. It was a case of sending the Jews some- where else and putting them out of sight and out of mind that was the main motivator, not a human- itarian desire to give the Jews a homeland. The Palestinians were at the time the easiest country in the world to fuck over, and the one without any international voice or power to object to being fucked over, that's all. And Yes, many of the original Zionists who founded Israel really did want it to be a place where Arab and Jew could live side by side. It's just that their children didn't feel that way, and started doing to their Arab neighbors exactly what had been done to them in other countries for centuries. All great points, Barry. And in fact, there was at least one large boatload of Jews from Europe during WW2 that attempted to land in the US but weren't allowed to, so it returned to Europe where basically everyone on it died. Sal
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Martin Luther King on Bongo Brazil
On Dec 29, 2008, at 6:37 AM, do.rflex wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunsh...@... wrote: On Dec 29, 2008, at 12:17 AM, shempmcgurk wrote: When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews, You are talking anti- Semitism. from The Socialism of Fools: The Left, the Jews and Israel by Seymour Martin Lipset; in Encounter magazine, December 1969, p. 24. What nonsense. Pretty telling you have to go back more than 40 years to find a quote from someone on the left equating the two. Most Jews seem to feel the exact same way about Israel's policies that every other thinking individual in the world does: they're shocked and horrified. How many do you see willing to put their lives on the line and actually move there? How many have even been there? Sal Even the Iranian Jews who were offered cash to move to and settle in Israel turned down the offer. It would be funny if it weren't sad! Sal
Re: [FairfieldLife] Apple Quicktime Help
I'm searching the net trying to figure this out. Its a common problem. Seems like my user account, the only one there is on my computer, does not have permission to access certain files using Windows Installer. The problem is when I go into the registry through regedit to change the user names in the Quicktime file, it won't allow me to make an changes, at least I can't save the changes. --- On Sun, 12/28/08, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net wrote: From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Apple Quicktime Help To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Sunday, December 28, 2008, 12:55 PM Peter wrote: I'm trying to download itunes on my computer for the iphone I got from Santa. The installation is almost complete when this window pops-up: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Quicktime It says that it could not open this key. What to do? Thanks. It sounds like the installer tries to create the entry and can't which may mean that it doesn't have permissions to do so. What level are you installing this from? There are often questions before the install begins such as: install just for me or install for everyone. If you tried just for me try everyone or vice-versa. What version of Windows are you using? XP or Vista? To subscribe, send a message to: fairfieldlife-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo! Groups Links
[FairfieldLife] Re: Palestinian loss of land 1946 - 2005
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, guyfawkes91 guyfawke...@... wrote: Israel never stole land from Palestinian Arabs, they fled after the '46 incursion by the Arab countries. Interesting thought processes going on here. Land which had belonged to Palestinian arabs for centuries was unilaterally given away by fiat of the UN without asking the people who owned it. You don't know what you're talking about. They were not dispossessed of their land or property. So the other Arab countries invaded to get the land back. Absurd, where did you get this nonsense? They fled..hello? the right of return is one of the big sticking points in the peace process! snip
[FairfieldLife] Re: A scam, with no basis in science?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rf...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard M compost1uk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard M compost1uk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: [snip] SUMMARY: *All* of the above data shows global warming over the last century. But for heaven's sake - I was talking about THIS century! As they say these days what part of 2000 to 2008 don't you understand? You really ARE thick, aren't you? No doubt. But at least I understand the difference between 2005 and 2008 It appears to me that you're grasping at straws to save face. Where's your verifiable objective established empirical evidence that shows, as you claimed, that global temperatures have flat-lined this century. Do you now define this century to mean only 2005 to 2008? If so show your supporting data. No - this century means 2000 to 2008. What else could it mean? I have posted charts for this period for both satellite and surface temperature readings: http://tinyurl.com/8uelmy http://tinyurl.com/yu3x78 And even your own chart shows this - except as it's 1975 to 2005 it's not so clear: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Satellite_Temperatures.png Here is a take on this based on 2007 (but remember 2008 is colder still): http://tinyurl.com/3mchzy I wonder - did you ever take the trouble to read this that I linked to? http://tinyurl.com/6jt9lb and the difference between data and projections. We really would be through the looking glass if projections of a theory became evidence for the theory. Established Temperature Data for this century up to 2005 and projected for the 21st century shows continuous temperature *increases*. No flat-lining of temperatures as you falsely claimed: Global surface temperature increased 0.74 ± 0.18 °C (1.33 ± 0.32 °F) during the 100 years ending in 2005.[1][2] Climate model projections indicate that global surface temperature will likely rise a further 1.1 to 6.4 °C (2.0 to 11.5 °F) during the twenty-first century.[3] The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concludes that most of the temperature increase since the mid-twentieth century is very likely due to the increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations.[3][2] Natural phenomena such as solar variation and volcanoes probably had a small warming effect from pre-industrial times to 1950 and a small cooling effect from 1950 onward.[4][5] These basic conclusions have been endorsed by at least 30 scientific societies and academies of science,[6] including all of the national academies of science of the major industrialized countries.[7][8][9] While individual scientists have voiced disagreement with these findings,[10] the overwhelming majority of scientists working on climate change agree with the IPCC's main conclusions.[11][12] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming As when I asked this: do you not notice the levelling off of global temp in this century? As when I linked to satellite charts for 2000-2008 and also the surface temperature NASA GISS record for that period. As when I asked you: going back to the issue of warming 2000-2008, IPCC 4 does not say much about that as this data is too recent. Or does it? What figure DOES IPCC 4 give as the amount of warming for 2000-2008? Most now take the view that as we close out 2008, it is almost certain to be the coldest year of all this century. For those more interested in the phenomenon than in shoring up their political certainties, this is an interesting potential anomaly for the AGW theory. That's all. It does not as yet refute AGW. (For a reasoned discussion of that please DO check out http://tinyurl.com/6jt9lb). You'll never accept this of course, especially from a TOAD - but I really do think you are blinded here by your fog of politically motivated certainty. I can accept that AGW could go either way - can you?
[FairfieldLife] Re: What is this process called, does anyone know?
As a Christmas present to yourself, Shemp, why don't you consider using a piece of software you probably already own and doing the presentation you want to create in Microsoft PowerPoint (PPT)? Then you could convert it to Flash (SWF) using one of the many free or inexpensive conversion utilities to be found on the Web. Here's my Google search on PPT to SWF: http://www.google.es/search?hl=enq=PPT+to+SWFbtnG=Google+Search Everything you saw in the presentation you liked can be done in PowerPoint. You can add transitions, fades, captions, callouts, music, voiceovers, and even video. The Microsoft documentation for PowerPoint (and it pains me to say this) is not half bad. It's probably better than the documentation for any of the alternative soft- ware packages mentioned so far. I don't use a lot of these more interesting functions of PowerPoint myself, so unfortunately I can't offer a lot of advice on the how to's. But I work with people who create *amazing* PowerPoint slide shows like the one you liked every day, so I know it can be done. Also, the English pub that I hang out in here in Sitges does Quiz Night presentations using PowerPoint that use all of the features I mentioned above, so I know that they can be done, and from within PowerPoint. Just a suggestion. Also, if you're not a PowerPoint geek yourself, you could probably find one who would build the presentation for you for a great deal less money than if you asked them to do it in Flash. Cheaper skill set, and all that. Good luck. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Stu buttspli...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Stu buttsplicer@ wrote: Thanks for the response. Additional questions: 1) Are the programs that you mention above (iMovie, FCP, Premiere, Avid) free software? I believe iMovie comes with the Mac. I am guessing there are low cost PC versions. Basically you are looking for editing software that can do the Ken Burns effect. First you assemble a collection of pictures (usually JPEGs) with as high a resolution as possible. String them together. Add nifty zooms and pans, tasteful transitions, color correction and titles. Lay down a cleared music track. It took me about 4 hours to put this together the In Memoriam clip I posted here last year: http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/video/2008/inmemoriam_video200803 The split screen transitions take a lot of time. I had a composer friend write the music for it. 2) Once I was to make such a streaming flash video (with audio) is it something that I can put on a website? Flash is one way to go. The other is H264 which is becoming very popular. Most editing software will convert your video to these formats for the WEB. Basically streaming video is a much smaller file that works with the low bandwidth. Its easy to put these on a Website. Either it goes on your host service or you use a streaming service like Brightcove and insert their player on your site. s.
[FairfieldLife] Re: What is this process called, does anyone know?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Stu buttspli...@... wrote: It took me about 4 hours to put this together the In Memoriam clip I posted here last year: http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/video/2008/inmemoriam_video200803 Thanks for reposting this, Stu. It was even better on a repeat viewing. Speaking of these death montages, have you seen the one for this year created by the TCM channel? I think they play it between features. My brother just sent me a link to it, making the point that it's often better than the Oscar In Memoriam death montage. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmheOWja1RE
[FairfieldLife] Re: A scam, with no basis in science?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradh...@... wrote: On Dec 28, 2008, at 2:21 PM, I am the eternal wrote: I concur with this assessment. However I'll also throw in a few observations. As I said before, we are going out of an ice age. If there is global warming it might just have something to do with that. OK, there are things melting. Well what did you want? Only the Garden of Eden area to be temperate? Yes, I believe there was a great flood and a temperate Garden of Eden where the people were able to switch from hunter/gatherer to farmers. In the Middle East. And this dovetails with the end of the Ice Age. I agree that there is a lot more crap in the atmosphere then there has been in a while. We even see that when we release air trapped in lead tombs in Baltimore. But the atmosphere has been full of lots of crap before. And man didn't do it. Consider this: If global warming is false then that translates into it's ok to continue to have rich industrialists exploit the earth (oil slicks, strip mining, pollution, greenhouse gases, pass a tipping point, etc.) and investment will be able to move away from more green industries and our reliance on unstable, medieval-consciousness countries will continue. The status quo will be able to continue to influence governmental policy and how we continue to (as a species) interact with our environment. If global warming is a real phenomenon, then we are (ethically, morally and survival-wise) forced to go green, for our own survival, after all we have entered extinction-6. BUT even if we are wrong on global warming, isn't the moral imperative to go green anyways? Should we continue the 'largest transfer of wealth inhuman history' to the Saudis, et al? I think a proper shift would be to carbon-based coal, which the U.S. had oodles of. For example, shifting en masse to the eco-friendly plug-in hybrid car would mean that about 90% or more of the energy used by those cars would come from electricity...which, in turn, would come from coal- fired plants. Yes, it would be carbon-based but, as I understand it, a much, much more efficient use (and therefore less pollution) of carbon than oil-based gasoline. Plus, the money would stay in the US instead of going to the Saudi's et al. Therefore, until GW is absolutely proven false, it is morally reprehensible to advocate on the side of the Petro and Mining Industrial complex and climate change denial. Actually, many of us on the other side of the issue feel that the policies advocated by and justified by the belief in catastrophic man- made global warming is morally reprehensible. One need look no further than the Al Gore-enabled food for fuel programs which is, literally, killing human beings in the third world. Further reliance upon and insistance upon green beliefs will continue to kill the poor and make their lives more miserable than they would be if carbon-based fuels would be exploited. As for preventing something that has not yet been proven false, sure it is better to be safe than sorry but the costs of doing that have to be weighed, don't you agree? And killing the world's poor is not a cost that I am willing to pay. It is morally and ethically supported to move away from methods (even potentially) which disturb the balance of Gaia's natural homeostasis. I truly believe that Gaia is on the side of the carbon-based industries. The concept of Gaia holds that the Earth is a living organism. As such, it contains and exercises natural processes for responding to, say, increases in CO2 in its atmosphere. Like a wound on our flech, a scab appears and is part of the healing process. Gaia and Mother Earth loves and celebrates our exploitation of carbon from her belly. She will take care of any ramifications that result from this in her own way. And it's not some pie-in-the-sky belief, Vaj. Science is and will continue to observe and discover the ways in which the Earth responds to increases in CO2 and how the Earth, through Gaia, will adjust itself. We just aren't aware of how this organism works because we haven't studied it yet. So my question is, if you admit that we do not know whether or not GW is true (and please keep in mind the earth is entering an extinction phase) or whether it is false and WE MIGHT NOT KNOW TILL ITS POTENTIALLY TOO LATE; given that possibility, which side would you prefer to err on? On the side that doesn't kill the poor in order to succeed. All life may depend on your decision. Yes...are you willing to hold this standard up when you consider the courses of action? Because I don't think many are when it comes to policies like food for fuel. Where do you stand, Vaj, on food for fuel?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Palestinian loss of land 1946 - 2005
On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram and said, 'To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates - the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites and Jebusites' (Genesis 15:18-21). Come on we're all intelligent people here. You can't possibly believe that God acting as a real estate broker in land grab 3000 years ago confers legitimacy today. The fact is the if we go back thousands of years pretty much everyone has been invaded, counter invaded, walked over and been walked over. For different reasons they've all tried to justify their actions. Writing something in a book and calling it the word of God is just one of those ways. If the local criminal gang gets a message from God that your car should be given to them you're not going to say Ok if God says so please take it are you? In modern times we've tried to make it clear that invading countries because you like the look of their land and moving your own people into it is not acceptable. Israel happens to be the last outpost of the colonialist mind set set up in a very contentious part of the world. When Britain made the Balfour Declaration they though it was OK to disregard Johny Foreigner because at the time they were a powerful country and didn't have to worry about brown people. Even so the terms of the declaration made it clear that the indigenous population wasn't to be ethnically cleansed. Some hope! If we're going to base modern politics around wars that have been going on since the Bronze Age, we're .. hold on a minute I'm just getting a message through from God, he often talks to me. Yes, what 3000 square miles you say, where? For me and any followers I can rustle up. Oooo that sounds nice, Ok I'll take it, it's a deal. Anyone here want to join a new religion? We've just been promised 3000 square miles of prime real estate. You get all the booty you can carry and a signed statement from God absolving you from the sin of killing anyone who complains. Where did you say you lived again?
[FairfieldLife] Why did the Arabs flee Israel by Mona Charin
The Jews fled Arab nations because of persecution. Why did the Arabs flee the new Jewish state? (Note, many remained and became citizens of Israel.) Not only did the Jews *not* force the Arabs out of their homes, they made many vain efforts to persuade them to stay put. The 6,000 Arabs of Tiberias, in a typical example, were forced to leave by their own leaders, over strenuous objections from Jewish leaders. Full article: http://www.creators.com/opinion/mona-charen/did-israel-drive-out-the-arabs-60-years-ago.html
[FairfieldLife] Re: Apple Quicktime Help
sounds like your OS is older than XP. i recently installed iTunes on XP-home edition in order to use the included CD burner and had no issues. you can upgrade for $150 or so. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter drpetersutp...@... wrote: I'm searching the net trying to figure this out. Its a common problem. Seems like my user account, the only one there is on my computer, does not have permission to access certain files using Windows Installer. The problem is when I go into the registry through regedit to change the user names in the Quicktime file, it won't allow me to make an changes, at least I can't save the changes. --- On Sun, 12/28/08, Bhairitu noozg...@... wrote: From: Bhairitu noozg...@... Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Apple Quicktime Help To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Sunday, December 28, 2008, 12:55 PM Peter wrote: I'm trying to download itunes on my computer for the iphone I got from Santa. The installation is almost complete when this window pops-up: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstal l\Quicktime It says that it could not open this key. What to do? Thanks. It sounds like the installer tries to create the entry and can't which may mean that it doesn't have permissions to do so. What level are you installing this from? There are often questions before the install begins such as: install just for me or install for everyone. If you tried just for me try everyone or vice-versa. What version of Windows are you using? XP or Vista? To subscribe, send a message to: fairfieldlife-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo! Groups Links
[FairfieldLife] Re: What is this process called, does anyone know?
Great suggestions, thanks. I am embarrassed to say that although I do own PP and use it quite frequently, the version I use is over 10 years old! Of course, that won't stop me from converting it to a later version (thanks to the good people at Kinko's) and then going from there and following your suggestions. I'm cheap and want to do what I want to do free, of course, and Barry's and the others' suggestions very well may enable me to do it! --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: As a Christmas present to yourself, Shemp, why don't you consider using a piece of software you probably already own and doing the presentation you want to create in Microsoft PowerPoint (PPT)? Then you could convert it to Flash (SWF) using one of the many free or inexpensive conversion utilities to be found on the Web. Here's my Google search on PPT to SWF: http://www.google.es/search?hl=enq=PPT+to+SWFbtnG=Google+Search Everything you saw in the presentation you liked can be done in PowerPoint. You can add transitions, fades, captions, callouts, music, voiceovers, and even video. The Microsoft documentation for PowerPoint (and it pains me to say this) is not half bad. It's probably better than the documentation for any of the alternative soft- ware packages mentioned so far. I don't use a lot of these more interesting functions of PowerPoint myself, so unfortunately I can't offer a lot of advice on the how to's. But I work with people who create *amazing* PowerPoint slide shows like the one you liked every day, so I know it can be done. Also, the English pub that I hang out in here in Sitges does Quiz Night presentations using PowerPoint that use all of the features I mentioned above, so I know that they can be done, and from within PowerPoint. Just a suggestion. Also, if you're not a PowerPoint geek yourself, you could probably find one who would build the presentation for you for a great deal less money than if you asked them to do it in Flash. Cheaper skill set, and all that. Good luck. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Stu buttsplicer@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Stu buttsplicer@ wrote: Thanks for the response. Additional questions: 1) Are the programs that you mention above (iMovie, FCP, Premiere, Avid) free software? I believe iMovie comes with the Mac. I am guessing there are low cost PC versions. Basically you are looking for editing software that can do the Ken Burns effect. First you assemble a collection of pictures (usually JPEGs) with as high a resolution as possible. String them together. Add nifty zooms and pans, tasteful transitions, color correction and titles. Lay down a cleared music track. It took me about 4 hours to put this together the In Memoriam clip I posted here last year: http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/video/2008/inmemoriam_video 200803 The split screen transitions take a lot of time. I had a composer friend write the music for it. 2) Once I was to make such a streaming flash video (with audio) is it something that I can put on a website? Flash is one way to go. The other is H264 which is becoming very popular. Most editing software will convert your video to these formats for the WEB. Basically streaming video is a much smaller file that works with the low bandwidth. Its easy to put these on a Website. Either it goes on your host service or you use a streaming service like Brightcove and insert their player on your site. s.
[FairfieldLife] Obama's mother, Hillary Clinton shared a belief
From July 1993 to the end of 1994, Barack Obama's mother was hard at work in New York City convening experts, compiling surveys and drafting papers for a major United Nations conference in Beijing, where she hoped to show how much good can be done by lending small sums to poor women. As Ann Dunham-Soetoro's colleagues brainstormed, they agreed that one advocate would electrify their panel: then-first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton. Dunham-Soetoro never made it to Beijing. By the time of the 1995 conference, she was in Hawaii, suffering the painful last stages of cancer that would soon claim her life. But Clinton did speak at the panel co-sponsored by the International Coalition on Women and Credit that Dunham-Soetoro had brought together at the U.N.'s initiative. Two years later, Clinton helped launch a campaign to extend microfinance to 100 million families, a goal the coalition pushed at Beijing - and attained two years ago. read more http://tinyurl.com/6sp8n6
[FairfieldLife] Re: Palestinian loss of land 1946 - 2005
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunsh...@... wrote: snip And in fact, there was at least one large boatload of Jews from Europe during WW2 that attempted to land in the US but weren't allowed to, so it returned to Europe where basically everyone on it died. The ship was the St. Louis of the Hamburg-America Line. The story was dramatized in 1976 in the film Voyage of the Damned. Actually, of the 900-some passengers, only about 250 died in the Holocaust after they returned to Europe. The whole voyage turned out to have been a propaganda exercise by the Nazis designed to prove that no country wanted the Jews, so the Nazis shouldn't be criticized for finding their own solution to the Jewish problem. Not only the U.S. but Canada and Cuba as well refused permission for the ship to land. When the ship returned to Europe, the passengers were allowed to get off in Great Britain, France, the Netherlands, and Belgium. The three latter countries, of course, were ultimately invaded and occupied by the Nazis, so the passengers who ended up there weren't safe for long.
[FairfieldLife] My New Year's Resolution and Seeing Prediction For 2009
Mean Old Ugly Schoolmarm Syndrome (MOUSS) statistics, courtesy of the Yahoo Search Engine: In 2008, 29.1% of Judy's posts mentioned Barry OR TurquoiseB. In 2007, 36.5% of Judy's posts mentioned Barry OR TurquoiseB. In 2006, 30.9% of Judy's posts mentioned Barry OR TurquoiseB. In 2005, 26.3% of Judy's posts mentioned Barry OR TurquoiseB. By comparison, the percentage of my posts that mentioned Judy OR authfriend in each of those years was 11-16% lower than hers per year. That's still too many, and I freely admit it. But I'm actually trying my best to ignore her, her serious case of MOUSS, and her obvious obsession with me, while she continues her attacks on me at pretty much the same rate as before. The more I ignore her, the more obsessed she seems to become. But my resolution is to keep trying, and hopefully in 2009 the percentage of my posts that mention her will be 0%. Hopefully. Wish me luck, all of you who have urged this. My prediction for 2009, however, is that the percentage of Judy's posts in which she mentions me will be even HIGHER than it was this year or in any previous year. I'm seeing a 38% Barry Obsession Factor for her in calendar year 2009. Assuming we're all still here come 2010, I'll follow up on this prediction and post the results on the accuracy of my seeing. I'm not worried. I think this one's a gimme.
[FairfieldLife] Re: A scam, with no basis in science?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard M compost...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard M compost1uk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard M compost1uk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: [snip] SUMMARY: *All* of the above data shows global warming over the last century. But for heaven's sake - I was talking about THIS century! As they say these days what part of 2000 to 2008 don't you understand? You really ARE thick, aren't you? No doubt. But at least I understand the difference between 2005 and 2008 It appears to me that you're grasping at straws to save face. Where's your verifiable objective established empirical evidence that shows, as you claimed, that global temperatures have flat-lined this century. Do you now define this century to mean only 2005 to 2008? If so show your supporting data. No - this century means 2000 to 2008. What else could it mean? I have posted charts for this period for both satellite and surface temperature readings: http://tinyurl.com/8uelmy Yes. That's the Liljegren chart I addressed. It clearly fails to agree with the multiple sources of data shown on the charts I posted from NASA, NOAA, HADCRUT3 from the Hadley Centre, and the Central England temperature data series. http://tinyurl.com/yu3x78 And that's another outlier source that fits into the category documented at Wikipedia: ---These basic conclusions have been endorsed by at least 30 scientific societies and academies of science,[6] including all of the national academies of science of the major industrialized countries.[7][8][9] While individual scientists have voiced disagreement with these findings,[10] the overwhelming majority of scientists working on climate change agree with the IPCC's main conclusions.[11][12] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming And even your own chart shows this - except as it's 1975 to 2005 it's not so clear: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Satellite_Temperatures.png You must be blind. The upward center straight line in the chart clearly shows temperatures *increasing*. Here is a take on this based on 2007 (but remember 2008 is colder still): http://tinyurl.com/3mchzy That chart shows sharp but expected fluctuations of temperature but also clearly indicates a warming trend. I wonder - did you ever take the trouble to read this that I linked to? http://tinyurl.com/6jt9lb I briefly reviewed it. It appears that the author is having an argument with himself and surely does not effectively refute the establish evidences accepted by the majority of scientists [see below]: ---So, do these falling temperatures mean that global warming has stopped or is false? Absolutely not, said Dr Peter Stott, the manager of understanding and attributing climate change at the Met Office's Hadley Centre. We also hear from a team of climate scientists at Kiel University who predicted that natural variation would mask the 0.3C warming predicted by the Intergovernment Panel on Climate Change over the next decade. They said that global temperatures would remain constant until 2015 but would then begin to accelerate. This also falls into this category: ---While individual scientists have voiced disagreement with these findings,[10] the overwhelming majority of scientists working on climate change agree with the IPCC's main conclusions.[11][12] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming [snip to end]
[FairfieldLife] Re: Palestinian loss of land 1946 - 2005
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo richardhughes...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote: snip And the U.S. and Britain were right at the top of this list of countries who wanted to find a home for the Jews, as long as that home was elsewhere. Actually, Great Britain had stated in the 1917 Balfour Declaration that the territory that is now Israel should be given to Jews as a homeland. This wasn't an idea on Britain's part that originated as a function of the Holocaust. Yes, but only as long as it didn't inconvenience the inhabitants. Yup. So they picked a place that had no international power and where the people were not white, and took land away from them and called it the new home of the Jews. It was a case of sending the Jews some- where else and putting them out of sight and out of mind that was the main motivator, not a human- itarian desire to give the Jews a homeland. The Palestinians were at the time the easiest country in the world to fuck over, and the one without any international voice or power to object to being fucked over, that's all. True as far as it goes, but the other side of it is that the territory that is now Israel is described by God in the Hebrew Scriptures as the Israelites' Promised Land: On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram and said, 'To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates - the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites and Jebusites' (Genesis 15:18-21). Good old God for doing that! How does that stand up in court these days? It doesn't need to, anytime the UN wants to punish Israel for it's crimes it gets vetoed by America. Hmm, you seem to have snipped my point, which was: The U.S. and Britain didn't pick the territory simply because it was 'the easiest country in the world to fuck over,' although that certainly made things more convenient. It had *always* been, as far as the Jews were concerned, their 'new' home. And as I went on to note, Zionism began as a political movement (it had always been a religious movement) as far back as the late 19th century. Any black-and-white portrayal of the Israel-Palestinian situation that paints one side as evil and the other as innocent is going to be 50 percent, more or less, wrong. Nonsense, the Palestinians never had a choice about the setting up of Israel. What would you do if someone wanted to set up home in your state and that involved you being forced out of your homes and your village which had stood for thousands of years bulldozed and re-named? I'd be pretty angry. Likewise, I'd be pretty angry if I were not allowed to take possession of the land I believed my people had been promised by God, especially after the Holocaust had wiped millions of them out and the safety of those who were left was, at best, uncertain. I don't like what either side is doing, but both sides have very serious and *extremely* complicated grievances.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Palestinian loss of land 1946 - 2005
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, guyfawkes91 guyfawke...@... wrote: On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram and said, 'To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates - the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites and Jebusites' (Genesis 15:18-21). Come on we're all intelligent people here. You can't possibly believe that God acting as a real estate broker in land grab 3000 years ago confers legitimacy today. I'm explaining why many religious Jews think they have a right to the land, to correct Barry's misperception that the only reason it ever occurred to anybody to allow the Jews to take it over was because the Palestinians were powerless to resist. Whether you or I or anyone here believes the promise related in the Bible confers legitimacy is irrelevant to the point I was making, you see.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apple Quicktime Help
No, XP home, with all Windows upgrades. --- On Mon, 12/29/08, enlightened_dawn11 no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: From: enlightened_dawn11 no_re...@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apple Quicktime Help To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Monday, December 29, 2008, 11:43 AM sounds like your OS is older than XP. i recently installed iTunes on XP-home edition in order to use the included CD burner and had no issues. you can upgrade for $150 or so. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter drpetersutp...@... wrote: I'm searching the net trying to figure this out. Its a common problem. Seems like my user account, the only one there is on my computer, does not have permission to access certain files using Windows Installer. The problem is when I go into the registry through regedit to change the user names in the Quicktime file, it won't allow me to make an changes, at least I can't save the changes. --- On Sun, 12/28/08, Bhairitu noozg...@... wrote: From: Bhairitu noozg...@... Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Apple Quicktime Help To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Sunday, December 28, 2008, 12:55 PM Peter wrote: I'm trying to download itunes on my computer for the iphone I got from Santa. The installation is almost complete when this window pops-up: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstal l\Quicktime It says that it could not open this key. What to do? Thanks. It sounds like the installer tries to create the entry and can't which may mean that it doesn't have permissions to do so. What level are you installing this from? There are often questions before the install begins such as: install just for me or install for everyone. If you tried just for me try everyone or vice-versa. What version of Windows are you using? XP or Vista? To subscribe, send a message to: fairfieldlife-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo! Groups Links To subscribe, send a message to: fairfieldlife-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo! Groups Links
[FairfieldLife] Re: Apple Quicktime Help
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter drpetersutp...@... wrote: No, XP home, with all Windows upgrades. It's probably the fault of WinXP Service Pack 3, Pete. Microsoft did all sorts of nasty stuff under the covers of that release, and it has caused innumerable problems for users all over the world. They changed the default security permissions, and made them far more strict. This is to cover security holes in their own operating system, so it's even more annoy- ing. For example, before when I downloaded files from another computer, I could open them like any other file. After SP3 I started getting a security prompt that forced me to enable them first. And not just the first time I opened the file, every time after that. It took me a long time to figure out where this new behavior was coming from and get rid of it. As I've mentioned before, they also made it impossible to open *their own* DOC files created in Word 2.0. I had to spend time Googling and finally downloading a patch from Microsoft before I could do so. What's funny is that it's a patch to their own new feature, and they don't tell you on their own support site that it's available in response to queries on the error message. The cause of your problem is most certainly permissions, as several have posted. How to get around them is currently beyond me. But I'd be willing to bet that most of the reasons that you *have* to get around them are the result of new features in Service Pack 3. Bastids. --- On Mon, 12/29/08, enlightened_dawn11 no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: From: enlightened_dawn11 no_re...@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apple Quicktime Help To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Monday, December 29, 2008, 11:43 AM sounds like your OS is older than XP. i recently installed iTunes on XP-home edition in order to use the included CD burner and had no issues. you can upgrade for $150 or so. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter drpetersutphen@ wrote: I'm searching the net trying to figure this out. Its a common problem. Seems like my user account, the only one there is on my computer, does not have permission to access certain files using Windows Installer. The problem is when I go into the registry through regedit to change the user names in the Quicktime file, it won't allow me to make an changes, at least I can't save the changes. --- On Sun, 12/28/08, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: From: Bhairitu noozguru@ Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Apple Quicktime Help To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Sunday, December 28, 2008, 12:55 PM Peter wrote: I'm trying to download itunes on my computer for the iphone I got from Santa. The installation is almost complete when this window pops-up: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstal l\Quicktime It says that it could not open this key. What to do? Thanks. It sounds like the installer tries to create the entry and can't which may mean that it doesn't have permissions to do so. What level are you installing this from? There are often questions before the install begins such as: install just for me or install for everyone. If you tried just for me try everyone or vice-versa. What version of Windows are you using? XP or Vista? To subscribe, send a message to: fairfieldlife-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo! Groups Links To subscribe, send a message to: fairfieldlife-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo! Groups Links
Re: [FairfieldLife] Apple Quicktime Help
Again, what version of Windows? Try logging in as Administrator. Peter wrote: I'm searching the net trying to figure this out. Its a common problem. Seems like my user account, the only one there is on my computer, does not have permission to access certain files using Windows Installer. The problem is when I go into the registry through regedit to change the user names in the Quicktime file, it won't allow me to make an changes, at least I can't save the changes. --- On Sun, 12/28/08, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net wrote: From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Apple Quicktime Help To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Sunday, December 28, 2008, 12:55 PM Peter wrote: I'm trying to download itunes on my computer for the iphone I got from Santa. The installation is almost complete when this window pops-up: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Quicktime It says that it could not open this key. What to do? Thanks. It sounds like the installer tries to create the entry and can't which may mean that it doesn't have permissions to do so. What level are you installing this from? There are often questions before the install begins such as: install just for me or install for everyone. If you tried just for me try everyone or vice-versa. What version of Windows are you using? XP or Vista? To subscribe, send a message to: fairfieldlife-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo! Groups Links
[FairfieldLife] Re: A scam, with no basis in science?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rf...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard M compost1uk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard M compost1uk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard M compost1uk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: [snip] SUMMARY: *All* of the above data shows global warming over the last century. But for heaven's sake - I was talking about THIS century! As they say these days what part of 2000 to 2008 don't you understand? You really ARE thick, aren't you? No doubt. But at least I understand the difference between 2005 and 2008 It appears to me that you're grasping at straws to save face. Where's your verifiable objective established empirical evidence that shows, as you claimed, that global temperatures have flat-lined this century. Do you now define this century to mean only 2005 to 2008? If so show your supporting data. No - this century means 2000 to 2008. What else could it mean? I have posted charts for this period for both satellite and surface temperature readings: http://tinyurl.com/8uelmy Yes. That's the Liljegren chart I addressed. It clearly fails to agree with the multiple sources of data shown on the charts I posted from NASA, NOAA, HADCRUT3 from the Hadley Centre, and the Central England temperature data series. http://tinyurl.com/yu3x78 And that's another outlier source that fits into the category documented at Wikipedia: ---These basic conclusions have been endorsed by at least 30 scientific societies and academies of science,[6] including all of the national academies of science of the major industrialized countries.[7][8][9] While individual scientists have voiced disagreement with these findings,[10] the overwhelming majority of scientists working on climate change agree with the IPCC's main conclusions.[11][12] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming And even your own chart shows this - except as it's 1975 to 2005 it's not so clear: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Satellite_Temperatures.png You must be blind. The upward center straight line in the chart clearly shows temperatures *increasing*. Here is a take on this based on 2007 (but remember 2008 is colder still): http://tinyurl.com/3mchzy That chart shows sharp but expected fluctuations of temperature but also clearly indicates a warming trend. I wonder - did you ever take the trouble to read this that I linked to? http://tinyurl.com/6jt9lb I briefly reviewed it. It appears that the author is having an argument with himself and surely does not effectively refute the establish evidences accepted by the majority of scientists [see below]: ---So, do these falling temperatures mean that global warming has stopped or is false? Absolutely not, said Dr Peter Stott, the manager of understanding and attributing climate change at the Met Office's Hadley Centre. We also hear from a team of climate scientists at Kiel University who predicted that natural variation would mask the 0.3C warming predicted by the Intergovernment Panel on Climate Change over the next decade. They said that global temperatures would remain constant until 2015 but would then begin to accelerate. This also falls into this category: ---While individual scientists have voiced disagreement with these findings,[10] the overwhelming majority of scientists working on climate change agree with the IPCC's main conclusions.[11][12] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming OK - final post. Let's see how the temperature goes. But I can't resist this (though I'm sure you will want to cap it). You say: http://tinyurl.com/yu3x78 And that's another outlier source that fits into the category documented at Wikipedia: Do you know what you have just consigned to the dustbin of outlier source? It is none other than the data set of Jim Hansen of NASA (GISS) - the High Priest of warming alarmism and devil incarnate to skeptics. I don't think he would be best pleased with his accolyte. Your soul may go to hell for your impertinence (a very warm one if Hansen is to be believed). And then you say: ---So, do these falling temperatures mean that global warming has stopped or is false? Absolutely not, said Dr Peter Stott, the manager of understanding and attributing climate change at the Met Office's Hadley Centre. But do.reflex - WHAT falling temperatures?! You have just spent I-don't-know-how-many-posts arguing that there ain't no such animal as recent falling global temperatures! Oh, I grow weary...
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apple Quicktime Help
Are you signed in as an Administrator? If not, as per my previous post, that may be the problem. Barring that, it's probably a registry issue--but given that you've been unable to edit your permissions for the registry means you probably are not signed in as an Admin. Is it possible to CREATE and Admin account and then sign in? On Dec 29, 2008, at 12:30 PM, Peter wrote: No, XP home, with all Windows upgrades.
[FairfieldLife] Re: My New Year's Resolution and Seeing Prediction For 2009
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: Mean Old Ugly Schoolmarm Syndrome (MOUSS) statistics, courtesy of the Yahoo Search Engine: In 2008, 29.1% of Judy's posts mentioned Barry OR TurquoiseB. In 2007, 36.5% of Judy's posts mentioned Barry OR TurquoiseB. In 2006, 30.9% of Judy's posts mentioned Barry OR TurquoiseB. In 2005, 26.3% of Judy's posts mentioned Barry OR TurquoiseB. Note that Yahoo Search makes no distinction between *new* posts that mention Barry or TurqoiseB (the latter would be only in the attribution lines, not the text) and those that quote earlier posts that mention Barry or TurqoiseB, which may or may not have been posted by me. So those are virtually useless statistics. Sorry, Barry, but if you want anything definitive, you're going to need to look at *every single one of those posts* to determine which are new mentions by me and which are quoted mentions. By comparison, the percentage of my posts that mentioned Judy OR authfriend in each of those years was 11-16% lower than hers per year. Which is because a large proportion of Barry's posts that are aimed at me *don't mention my name* and are not in direct response to posts of mine. In contrast, I virtually always mention Barry's name when I'm talking about him, instead of hiding behind phrases like one person on this forum or we all know who does this and so on. I'm not preoccupied with the statistics of our respective posts, so I'm not going to spend any time studying this, but I'd be willing to bet that Barry has made *more* posts aimed at me than I have made posts aimed at him.
[FairfieldLife] Re: A scam, with no basis in science?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard M compost...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rflex@ wrote: [snip] OK - final post. Let's see how the temperature goes. But I can't resist this (though I'm sure you will want to cap it). You say: http://tinyurl.com/yu3x78 And that's another outlier source that fits into the category documented at Wikipedia: Do you know what you have just consigned to the dustbin of outlier source? It is none other than the data set of Jim Hansen of NASA (GISS) - the High Priest of warming alarmism and devil incarnate to skeptics. I don't think he would be best pleased with his accolyte. Your soul may go to hell for your impertinence (a very warm one if Hansen is to be believed). Simple. That particular data set is an outlier that contradicts the other overwhelming data showing a continuous warming trend, from NASA and the other multiple data sets from the contributing sources I posted as seen in their many different charts. And then you say: ---So, do these falling temperatures mean that global warming has stopped or is false? Absolutely not, said Dr Peter Stott, the manager of understanding and attributing climate change at the Met Office's Hadley Centre. But do.reflex - WHAT falling temperatures?! You have just spent I-don't-know-how-many-posts arguing that there ain't no such animal as recent falling global temperatures! Oh, I grow weary... Nope. You're wrong again. Fluctuating temperatures and abnormal weather events are an expected occurrence as the data overall clearly indicates a continuous warming trend.
[FairfieldLife] Re: My New Year's Resolution and Seeing Prediction For 2009
what you fail to account for is you frequently mention judy indirectly, so your stats just show you to be the sneakier of the TWO mean old ugly school marms on here. for anyone who cares, and no one does, you doubtless equal or exceed your combined indirect and direct mentions of judy, compared to her direct mentions of you. nice try; no cigar, troll boy. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: Mean Old Ugly Schoolmarm Syndrome (MOUSS) statistics, courtesy of the Yahoo Search Engine: -snip-
[FairfieldLife] Re: Apple Quicktime Help
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter drpetersutphen@ wrote: No, XP home, with all Windows upgrades. It's probably the fault of WinXP Service Pack 3, Pete. snip The cause of your problem is most certainly permissions, as several have posted. How to get around them is currently beyond me. But I'd be willing to bet that most of the reasons that you *have* to get around them are the result of new features in Service Pack 3. Bastids. Actually, most likely not. If you Google (or do a Yahoo search) on this string-- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ Uninstall\Quicktime --as I said in an earlier post, there are zillions of hits relating to problems installing QuickTime, going at least as far back as 2005, many of them having to do with permissions. (If the error message gave Peter an error number, he could try Googling that as well; it might turn up more specific solutions.)
[FairfieldLife] Re: Apple Quicktime Help
B. could be on to something wrt his post about Service Pack 3. my pc is only on Service Pack 2. perhaps you can roll back the Service Pack 3 upgrade? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter drpetersutp...@... wrote: No, XP home, with all Windows upgrades. --- On Mon, 12/29/08, enlightened_dawn11 no_re...@yahoogroups.com wrote: From: enlightened_dawn11 no_re...@yahoogroups.com Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apple Quicktime Help To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Monday, December 29, 2008, 11:43 AM sounds like your OS is older than XP. i recently installed iTunes on XP-home edition in order to use the included CD burner and had no issues. you can upgrade for $150 or so. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter drpetersutphen@ wrote: I'm searching the net trying to figure this out. Its a common problem. Seems like my user account, the only one there is on my computer, does not have permission to access certain files using Windows Installer. The problem is when I go into the registry through regedit to change the user names in the Quicktime file, it won't allow me to make an changes, at least I can't save the changes. --- On Sun, 12/28/08, Bhairitu noozguru@ wrote: From: Bhairitu noozguru@ Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Apple Quicktime Help To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Sunday, December 28, 2008, 12:55 PM Peter wrote: I'm trying to download itunes on my computer for the iphone I got from Santa. The installation is almost complete when this window pops-up: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstal l\Quicktime It says that it could not open this key. What to do? Thanks. It sounds like the installer tries to create the entry and can't which may mean that it doesn't have permissions to do so. What level are you installing this from? There are often questions before the install begins such as: install just for me or install for everyone. If you tried just for me try everyone or vice-versa. What version of Windows are you using? XP or Vista? To subscribe, send a message to: fairfieldlife-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo! Groups Links To subscribe, send a message to: fairfieldlife-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo! Groups Links
[FairfieldLife] Fwd: Van Movers New Year's Eve FREE!
Forwarded from a friend: Subject: Van Movers New Year's Eve FREE! Dear Dancing Friends and New Year's Eve partiers, I just received this email note from Will Gunn about New Year's Eve. Van and the Movers played there a few years ago and it was excellent. Great dance floor and wonderful acoustics and plenty of tables. Bar in back and as he points out - no smoke and it's FREE! Please pass the word since promotion didn't really happen on this event. See ya on the dance floor, Maryann Hey Everybody, In lieu of an ad/article that was supposed to be in the current Weekly Reader pertaining to Van the Movers playing at the Walton Club on New Year's Eve, I just wanted to take the opportunity to invite you out that night! It's NOW No Smoking out there, a Seafood Buffet is planned for that evening, and we'll be revving it up sometime around 8:30PM (no cover charge!). Hope you can make it out and join us for some fun! - Will Gunn
[FairfieldLife] Re: Palestinian loss of land 1946 - 2005
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, guyfawkes91 guyfawkes91@ wrote: On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram and said, 'To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates - the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites and Jebusites' (Genesis 15:18-21). Come on we're all intelligent people here. You can't possibly believe that God acting as a real estate broker in land grab 3000 years ago confers legitimacy today. I'm explaining why many religious Jews think they have a right to the land, to correct Barry's misperception that the only reason it ever occurred to anybody to allow the Jews to take it over was because the Palestinians were powerless to resist. Whether you or I or anyone here believes the promise related in the Bible confers legitimacy is irrelevant to the point I was making, you see. Ole guyfawks either missed your point, or intentionally disregarded it, or intended to make a complete different new observation, who knows?
[FairfieldLife] Re: Martin Luther King on Bongo Brazil
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, do.rflex do.rf...@... wrote: snip Even the Iranian Jews who were offered cash to move to and settle in Israel turned down the offer. FWIW, from the Guardian: Iran's Jews have given the country a loyalty pledge in the face of cash offers aimed at encouraging them to move to Israel, the arch- enemy of its Islamic rulers. The incentives ranging from £5,000 a person to £30,000 for families were offered from a special fund established by wealthy expatriate Jews in an effort to prompt a mass migration to Israel from among Iran's 25,000-strong Jewish community. The offers were made with Israel's official blessing and were additional to the usual state packages it provides to Jews emigrating from the diaspora. However, the Society of Iranian Jews dismissed them as immature political enticements and said their national identity was not for sale. The identity of Iranian Jews is not tradeable for any amount of money, the society said in a statement. Iranian Jews are among the most ancient Iranians. Iran's Jews love their Iranian identity and their culture, so threats and this immature political enticement will not achieve their aim of wiping out the identity of Iranian Jews. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/jul/12/israel.iran
[FairfieldLife] Re: Palestinian loss of land 1946 - 2005
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, BillyG. wg...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, guyfawkes91 guyfawkes91@ wrote: On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram and said, 'To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates - the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites and Jebusites' (Genesis 15:18-21). Come on we're all intelligent people here. You can't possibly believe that God acting as a real estate broker in land grab 3000 years ago confers legitimacy today. I'm explaining why many religious Jews think they have a right to the land, to correct Barry's misperception that the only reason it ever occurred to anybody to allow the Jews to take it over was because the Palestinians were powerless to resist. Whether you or I or anyone here believes the promise related in the Bible confers legitimacy is irrelevant to the point I was making, you see. Ole guyfawks either missed your point, or intentionally disregarded it, or intended to make a complete different new observation, who knows? He missed it because he mistakenly assumed that I was quoting the Bible as authoritative on this point. Richard made the same error. Both of them *also* made their own points against Israel, which is fine with me. I just find it very difficult to come down firmly on one side or the other. I don't think it's possible to do that without ignoring a great deal of what's gone on. I *do* think, as my sister said in a different forum, that the powerful side has to be the one to make peace with the powerless side, not the reverse. But there's more to this situation than just the Israelis and the Palestinians. Peace has to be made between Israel and the Arab countries as well, and that's a very daunting task indeed.
[FairfieldLife] Re: A scam, with no basis in science?
John wrote: Fluctuating temperatures and abnormal weather events are an expected occurrence as the data overall clearly indicates a continuous warming trend. Apparently sunspot activity now indicates a cooling trend. Easily one of the most important stories of 2008 has been all the evidence suggesting that this may be looked back on as the year when there was a turning point in the great worldwide panic over man-made global warming. Just when politicians in Europe and America have been adopting the most costly and damaging measures politicians have ever proposed, to combat this supposed menace, the tide has turned in three significant respects. Read more: '2008 was the year man-made global warming was disproved' By Christopher Booker Telegraphy, December 29, 2008 http://tinyurl.com/8p7d83
[FairfieldLife] Re: Apple Quicktime Help
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter drpetersutp...@... wrote: No, XP home, with all Windows upgrades. Why are you having such silly, unnecessary problems ? Get a checking, and you will be alright !
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Apple Quicktime Help
TurquoiseB wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter drpetersutp...@... wrote: No, XP home, with all Windows upgrades. It's probably the fault of WinXP Service Pack 3, Pete. Microsoft did all sorts of nasty stuff under the covers of that release, and it has caused innumerable problems for users all over the world. They changed the default security permissions, and made them far more strict. This is to cover security holes in their own operating system, so it's even more annoy- ing. For example, before when I downloaded files from another computer, I could open them like any other file. After SP3 I started getting a security prompt that forced me to enable them first. And not just the first time I opened the file, every time after that. It took me a long time to figure out where this new behavior was coming from and get rid of it. As I've mentioned before, they also made it impossible to open *their own* DOC files created in Word 2.0. I had to spend time Googling and finally downloading a patch from Microsoft before I could do so. What's funny is that it's a patch to their own new feature, and they don't tell you on their own support site that it's available in response to queries on the error message. The cause of your problem is most certainly permissions, as several have posted. How to get around them is currently beyond me. But I'd be willing to bet that most of the reasons that you *have* to get around them are the result of new features in Service Pack 3. Bastids. Microsoft should get out of the OS business. Maybe just make a distro of Linux with the Windows interface. There is no way they can ever afford to put that many eyes on their code plus they have little ego wars between engineers often with the best solution not winning out and screwing the customer.As it is they are laying off about 10% of their workforce. Their permissions thing especially with Vista is very screwy. They had to do it their way rather than just use the age old methods of UNIX which are found on the Mac and Linux. Mac users didn't seem to have a problem learning about root permissions. The problem at Microsoft is you have a bunch of 20 somethings who believe they are God's gift to computing and they're not. In fact they should spend 10 years in an apprenticeship before being turned loose on their own. But the suits look at them (and East Indian programmers) as the goose that lays the golden egg.
[FairfieldLife] The Saraswati River
To All: According to David Frawley's book, Gods, Kings, and Vedic Secrets, the Saraswati refers to the stream of consciousness within the human when mentioned in the ancient books like the Rig Veda. By extension, we can derive that the river represents the spinal cord which allows the cosmic nourishment to the body through the various nodes in the body or the chakras. From the Shrimad Bhagavatam, there is story which relates to this concept of the stream of consciousness. The story starts with a multiheaded snake that inhabited one of the rivers in India. It stayed in one place and caused poisons to accumulate in the river. Thus, the people who were living nearby were suffering from the effects of the poison. The people complained to Krishna of the strange snake that was poisoning the river. In order to help the people, Krishna went swimming in the stream where the snake was living. Soon enough, the snake approached Krishna for invading his territory. Thus, a fight ensued in which Krishna deptly avoided all of the snakes multiheaded attacks. Instead, Krishna danced on top of the snakes heads. The snake was getting his bells rung to submission. When the snake's wives saw this rout, they begged Krishna to spare the snakes life. As such, Krishna let the snake go. So, the snake left his abode on the stream and proceeded out towards the ocean. Soon after, the poisons in the river stream disappeared and the people became relieved and happy. IMO, this story refers to the upward progression of the kundalini. If the kundalini is stopped from proceeding in any one of the various chakras, the body of the person will suffer its negative effects in the guise of diseases and mental aberrations. The story shows the need to develop higher levels of consiousness in order to let the stream of consciousness flow, and the kundalini to flow to fountainhead of the cosmos. By doing so, the body enjoys happiness and joy. By projection, the entire society would also benefit.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What is this process called, does anyone know?
Stu wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcg...@... wrote: A while back, someone posted this link: http://www.spiritualregeneration.org/Flash/AccrossTheUniverseFionaAppleV er.swf I have a presentation for my business that I would like to set up on the internet like this. That is, a slide show accompanied by a vocal track, in sinc with the slides. Does anyone know what this process is called? I thank you in advance for your attention to this query. Looks like a JPEGs strung together in iMovie, FCP, Premiere, or Avid and converted to a streaming flash video. Its pretty easy to do. A little harder to do well. s. It's a Shockwave Flash presentation and those are often NOT streaming files with video. They actually have the pictures, audio and code for transitions in the file. That makes for a very small file compared to a streaming video. Apparently proprietary and Adobe charges a lot for the software to do it though I think they used to have a basic version for less. If Shemp is taking any classes like at a college (or teaching any for that matter) he could get a student discount. Adobe is hurting and I don't think raising their prices was the solution. They just had layoffs too. Then there is a open source initiative to replace Flash which probably includes Shockwave presentations. If it wasn't proprietary companies like Ulead, Nero, Magix and Pinnacle would have released similar products. Big problem is many lame web designers go wild with Flash and bog down browers. I've seen one Flash add running on a website the maxes out everyones CPU. Users found if they used Flash block and turned off that ad the CPU max out went away. I guess it is time to add performance modules to web design software with warnings that tell the hair-brained that there design will cause problems.
[FairfieldLife] Prostate cancer. What to do
I have a very close friend who has just been diagnosed with prostate cancer. 3 nodes of the biopsy have a Gleason Index of 7. Otherwise my friend is in excellent health and recently had an Ayurvedic consult at the Raj and was pretty much given a clean bill of health. My friend and I are debating what to do. My friend also lives in Austin, TX and has the best of medical insurance. He's got a consult scheduled with a world famous Urologist who has performed 1,200 Di Vinci robotic prostrate cancer surgeries. The odds are that my friend will retain full functioning except for that which the prostate provides because the robotic surgery is so targeted if he opts for surgery. I am urging my friend to not pursue alternate therapies including Ayurveda to handle the slowing growing cancer (PSA went from 4 to 12 in 7 years). IMO Ayurveda is a nice preventative but that's about it. It would be much better if this diagnosis were made in 2090, assuming humankind still exists then, but the options aren't so bad in 2009. Would anyone care to comment about what course of action my friend should take? Yeah, he's a long time citizen sidha and all that.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: What is this process called, does anyone know?
On Dec 29, 2008, at 2:55 PM, Bhairitu wrote: It's a Shockwave Flash presentation and those are often NOT streaming files with video. They actually have the pictures, audio and code for transitions in the file. That makes for a very small file compared to a streaming video. Apparently proprietary and Adobe charges a lot for the software to do it though I think they used to have a basic version for less. If Shemp is taking any classes like at a college (or teaching any for that matter) he could get a student discount. Adobe is hurting and I don't think raising their prices was the solution. They just had layoffs too. Then there is a open source initiative to replace Flash which probably includes Shockwave presentations. If it wasn't proprietary companies like Ulead, Nero, Magix and Pinnacle would have released similar products. I have many of the Adobe products, including Flash and I find it's programming interface weirdly retro. It's not a real friendly programming environment from what I've seen. Because of that, when I've needed to use Flash, I just use a freeware app based on the FFmpeg which includes an Flash/SWG muxer if I can. Adobe based Flash encoding is also horribly slow, the FFmpeg implementation had less options, but was much faster. So if Shemp wanted to just export it to a file format FFmpeg would take, it would be a quick and easy solution. The difficult part IMO is getting the embedded Flash file to work correctly in your HTML/CSS, esp. autostarting or getting it to have the controls you want on a rollover. Big problem is many lame web designers go wild with Flash and bog down browers. I've seen one Flash add running on a website the maxes out everyones CPU. Users found if they used Flash block and turned off that ad the CPU max out went away. I guess it is time to add performance modules to web design software with warnings that tell the hair- brained that there design will cause problems.
[FairfieldLife] Israeli and Palestine: Let peace begin here on FFL
I have been an avid reader and participant of FFL for many years. Because I don't want to blow my cover with the TMO I have taken a pseudonym. I am overjoyed when I read the debates on global warming, on the Middle East situation and other controversial matters on FFL these days. Maharishi told us that we'd have difficulty seeing the changes TM brought in us because consciousness takes on the form knower, knowing and known and as the knower and process of knowing changes, refines, the known appears different. Maharishi said that we wouldn't notice great differences in ourselves because the process we use in knowing would also change. So y'all might not notice this, but if you drag up debates on these very formerly heated discussions on FFL, you see that there's a big difference between now and a decade ago, 5 years ago, 3 years ago, just a couple of years ago. Take Israeli. I've seen Israeli attacked in the last couple of days over and over again. And in my opinion, rightfully so. Israeli isn't the only bad guy. So many different sides have blood on their hands and have been stirring the shit for so many decades. But it seems to me this is the first time that one can express displeasure with Israeli without immediately being attacked as an anti-Semite. This is good, IMO. FFL used to be so polarized, so full of hate, so full of attacks, of ad hominims, so full of jingoism. Now it's possible to explore all sides of an issue and not get and stay in a dog fight. I have some real doubts about my participation in the cult of TM. Some real questions about the ME, the usefulness of the numbers in the domes and of the pandits. What I can observe, as Yogi Berra would say with my own eyes, that there's so much more maturity, so much less rancor on FFL. How can a bunch of people who follow all sorts of spiritual paths be so full of hate and wanting to go for the jugular? Those questions always bothered me. I am pleased and heartened by what I see here now. It's an awfully good sign to me that the times they are a changin'.
[FairfieldLife] Letters on TM from religious/spiritual leaders
-Original Message- From: David Orme-Johnson [mailto:davi...@earthlink.net] Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 2:06 PM To: David Orme-Johnson Subject: Letters on TM from religious/spiritual leaders Dear Colleagues, I just posted recent letters on the Transcendental Medication program from an Andean shaman, two Catholic priests and a sister, two rabbis, and ministers of the United Methodist Church and the Unity Church. Here is the link to the page, which is reproduced below. http://www.truthabouttm.org/truth/IndividualEffects/IsTMaReligion/ReligiousL eaders/index.cfm All the best, David David W. Orme-Johnson,Ph.D. davi...@earthlink.net mailto:davi...@earthlink.net www.TruthAboutTM.com http://www.truthabouttm.com/ www.Orme-JohnsonPaintings.com/ http://www.seagroveartist.com/ 191 Dalton Dr. Seagrove Beach, FL 32459 850-231-2866 850-231-5012 Fax - Letters from Religious Leaders on the Transcendental Meditation Program A universal theme in these letters from religious leaders is that the Transcendental Meditation program deepens their own spiritual life and enhances their comprehension and love of their own tradition. They note that it does not require any belief or change in life style to practice. They point out that the technique has been scientifically validated http://www.truthabouttm.org/truth/Research/TMResearchPublications/index .cfm to reduce stress http://www.truthabouttm.org/truth/IndividualEffects/ResultsforHealth/in dex.cfm#stress and improve mental clarity http://www.truthabouttm.org/truth/IndividualEffects/ResultsforEducation /index.cfm , health http://www.truthabouttm.org/truth/IndividualEffects/ResultsforHealth/in dex.cfm , and interpersonal relations http://www.truthabouttm.org/truth/IndividualEffects/ResultsforHealth/in dex.cfm#social , which are beneficial to any cultural tradition and which serve to increase appreciation and tolerance of other people's traditions and worldviews. Contents: Andean Path Shaman Mallku Aribalo, November 4, 2008 http://www.truthabouttm.org/truth/IndividualEffects/IsTMaReligion/Relig iousLeaders/index.cfm#Mallku#Mallku Catholicism Father Thomas R. Miller, June 17, 2008 http://www.truthabouttm.org/truth/IndividualEffects/IsTMaReligion/Relig iousLeaders/index.cfm#Miller#Miller Father Cletus Stein, October 2, 2008 http://www.truthabouttm.org/truth/IndividualEffects/IsTMaReligion/Relig iousLeaders/index.cfm#Stein#Stein Sister Carol Wirtz, August 25, 2008 http://www.truthabouttm.org/truth/IndividualEffects/IsTMaReligion/Relig iousLeaders/index.cfm#Wirtz#Wirtz Judaism Senior Rabbi Allan Green, June 27, 2008 http://www.truthabouttm.org/truth/IndividualEffects/IsTMaReligion/Relig iousLeaders/index.cfm#Green#Green Rabbi Michael Shevack, November 12, 2008 http://www.truthabouttm.org/truth/IndividualEffects/IsTMaReligion/Relig iousLeaders/index.cfm#Shevack#Shevack United Methodist Church Reverend Jonathan Chadwick, November 4, 2008 http://www.truthabouttm.org/truth/IndividualEffects/IsTMaReligion/Relig iousLeaders/index.cfm#Chadwick#Chadwick Unity Church Reverend Don Lansky, June 30, 2008 http://www.truthabouttm.org/truth/IndividualEffects/IsTMaReligion/Relig iousLeaders/index.cfm#Lansky#Lansky Andean Path Shaman Mallku Aribalo, November 4, 2008 As a Shamanic Andean spiritual leader, I can say that Transcendental Meditation (TM) as a technique for inner development and growth has no contradictions to what the ancient masters from the Andes were teaching and practicing. Au contraire, we are finding that some of the spiritual wisdom regarding both theory and practice of the Andean traditions was lost. Now, through Transcendental Meditation, the Andean people can receive the great benefits of understanding and experiencing that they can have a life where their mind, heart, and daily actions can be in balance and harmony with all of nature; they can grow in peace, energy, creativity, love, and wisdom. I think it is also important to express that there have been hundreds of scientific research studies performed on the TM technique that have shown its effectiveness in enriching all, aspects of life. From my own experience, I can recognize the soft and clear ways in which the TM technique acts in the life of a person, and I highly recommend the TM technique to be introduced and taught in our communities with the main goal of having peace on Earth. With gratitude to master Maharishi for illuminating this time with his blessings. Mallku Aribalo Author of the books: The Awakening of the Puma, Machu Picchu Forever, Cusco Forever, and Inka Power Places. President of the: Mondial Association of Andean Writers (AMEA) Return to Top http://www.truthabouttm.org/truth/IndividualEffects/IsTMaReligion/Relig iousLeaders/index.cfm#Top#Top Catholicism Father Thomas R. Miller, June 17, 2008 To whom it may concern: In my experience of thirty-nine years regular practice of Transcendental Meditation
[FairfieldLife] Kucinich calls for UN investigation into Gaza Strikes
Congress's voice of reason speaks out again: http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Kucinich_UN_should_investigate_Israeli_Gaza_1229.html
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prostate cancer. What to do
Can you post his birth data, including time, date, city and country of birth? I'll check his birth horoscope and let you know what I find. JR --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, I am the eternal l.shad...@... wrote: I have a very close friend who has just been diagnosed with prostate cancer. 3 nodes of the biopsy have a Gleason Index of 7. Otherwise my friend is in excellent health and recently had an Ayurvedic consult at the Raj and was pretty much given a clean bill of health. My friend and I are debating what to do. My friend also lives in Austin, TX and has the best of medical insurance. He's got a consult scheduled with a world famous Urologist who has performed 1,200 Di Vinci robotic prostrate cancer surgeries. The odds are that my friend will retain full functioning except for that which the prostate provides because the robotic surgery is so targeted if he opts for surgery. I am urging my friend to not pursue alternate therapies including Ayurveda to handle the slowing growing cancer (PSA went from 4 to 12 in 7 years). IMO Ayurveda is a nice preventative but that's about it. It would be much better if this diagnosis were made in 2090, assuming humankind still exists then, but the options aren't so bad in 2009. Would anyone care to comment about what course of action my friend should take? Yeah, he's a long time citizen sidha and all that.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prostate cancer. What to do
---assuming the C is in the slowly progressing type; he should avoid surgery at this time even though that may seem to be the quickest fix. Naturally, the urologist will counter my suggestions but again, take the ALTERNATIVE route.: (disclaimer - I don't market supplements or have any connection to the companies listed, other than being a customer): 1. Flax hull lignans (flax seeds are ok but this is FLAX HULL LIGNANS. Access the Goldflaxseed.com website and check out the testimonials, especially for cancer. 2. Laminaria Japonica - (brown seaweed harvested from the Kuril Islands). The parent Co. is http://www.modifilan.com or something like that. Again, they have numerous anti-cancer testimonials but they recommend the distributor http://www.poseidonsharvest.com 3. Lauricidin - available from Lauricidin.com (once more, check out the testimonials). 4. Nano-Curcumin (a highly bioavailable type of curcumin many times more effective than ordinary curcumin). Available from http://www.life-enhancement.com (numerous articles ont their website). 5. Nano-resveratrol (same company - highly bioavailable type of resveratrol). #4 and #5 will set one back in the $ department. One could always go with ordinary' curcumin but if one can afford it, the nano type is the most advanced anti-cancer substance known to mankind (along with nano-resveratrol) that doesn't also kill normal cells. Due to the high cost of #4 and #5, use very sparingly, say only 1 drop alternating, every 2 hours or so. The regularity is far more important than the amount. So it's a trade-off. Have surgery and suffer from the side-effects for the rest of his life. OR - go the alternative route and spend some $ since no insurance co. will pay for the items. Feel free to have him contact me if he's considering the alternative route; but he's going the other route, good luck. All I can say is, big mistake. Here's an e mail from the Modifilan Co: Your best option to order Modifilan in retail will be to contact the following source: Company name:Poseidon's HarvestToll-free phone: 800-790-8867Web site: http://www.poseidonsharvest.com/E-mail: sa...@poseidonsharvest.com This distributor has product in stock, offers FREE expedited shipping in the continental US and provides volume discount on multiple bottles orders. You can purchase Modifilan from Poseidon's both on-line and over the phone. With all questions about using Modifilan, please do not hesitate to call here directly. Again, thank you for your time and business! With kindest regards,sergei Sergei Zimin Pacific Standard Dist., Inc. ph: 760-479-1460 fax: 800-741-2164 international fax: 415-963-4456 e-mail: sa...@modifilan.com In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, I am the eternal l.shad...@... wrote: I have a very close friend who has just been diagnosed with prostate cancer. 3 nodes of the biopsy have a Gleason Index of 7. Otherwise my friend is in excellent health and recently had an Ayurvedic consult at the Raj and was pretty much given a clean bill of health. My friend and I are debating what to do. My friend also lives in Austin, TX and has the best of medical insurance. He's got a consult scheduled with a world famous Urologist who has performed 1,200 Di Vinci robotic prostrate cancer surgeries. The odds are that my friend will retain full functioning except for that which the prostate provides because the robotic surgery is so targeted if he opts for surgery. I am urging my friend to not pursue alternate therapies including Ayurveda to handle the slowing growing cancer (PSA went from 4 to 12 in 7 years). IMO Ayurveda is a nice preventative but that's about it. It would be much better if this diagnosis were made in 2090, assuming humankind still exists then, but the options aren't so bad in 2009. Would anyone care to comment about what course of action my friend should take? Yeah, he's a long time citizen sidha and all that.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Palestinian loss of land 1946 - 2005
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunshine@ wrote: snip And in fact, there was at least one large boatload of Jews from Europe during WW2 that attempted to land in the US but weren't allowed to, so it returned to Europe where basically everyone on it died. The ship was the St. Louis of the Hamburg-America Line. The story was dramatized in 1976 in the film Voyage of the Damned. Actually, of the 900-some passengers, only about 250 died in the Holocaust after they returned to Europe. The whole voyage turned out to have been a propaganda exercise by the Nazis designed to prove that no country wanted the Jews, so the Nazis shouldn't be criticized for finding their own solution to the Jewish problem. Not only the U.S. but Canada and Cuba as well refused permission for the ship to land. When the ship returned to Europe, the passengers were allowed to get off in Great Britain, France, the Netherlands, and Belgium. The three latter countries, of course, were ultimately invaded and occupied by the Nazis, so the passengers who ended up there weren't safe for long. * The lawyer for the refugees botched the negotiations: On May 28, the day after the St. Louis arrived in Havana, Lawrence Berenson, an attorney representing the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), arrived in Cuba to negotiate for the St. Louis passengers. Berenson had been president of the Cuban- American Chamber of Commerce and had extensive business experience in Cuba. He met with President Bru, who refused to allow the passengers into the country. On June 2, Bru ordered the ship out of Cuban waters. But as the St. Louis sailed slowly toward Miami, the negotiations continued. Bru offered to admit the passengers if the JDC posted a $453,500 bond ($500 per passenger). Berenson made a counteroffer, which Bru rejected, then broke off negotiations. http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?ModuleId=10005267 More than 700 of the St. Louis refugees had U.S. immigration quota numbers, which would have had allowed them to enter the U.S. in three years.
[FairfieldLife] Plus, she's ugly
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAgI4AS1NVg
[FairfieldLife] Re: What is this process called, does anyone know?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_re...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Stu buttsplicer@ wrote: It took me about 4 hours to put this together the In Memoriam clip I posted here last year: http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/video/2008/inmemoriam_video200803 Thanks for reposting this, Stu. It was even better on a repeat viewing. Speaking of these death montages, have you seen the one for this year created by the TCM channel? I think they play it between features. My brother just sent me a link to it, making the point that it's often better than the Oscar In Memoriam death montage. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmheOWja1RE Mine's funnier. That whole George Carlin thing is a downer. s.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Prostate cancer. What to do
He was born in St. Peter's Hospital, New Brunswick, Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States of America on February 14, 1948 at 6:20 PM., EST. My friend has an email in to Mark Toomey at the Raj where he had his consult in August. He's looking around for an oncologist who specializes in prostate cancer, not a surgeon. Surgeons get a result back from the biopsy that there's cancer and of course want to show off their spiffy new surgical robot. My friend has surfed the web and learned that often an oncologist will recommend against surgery because prostate cancer is so slow growing and often the form the cancer cells have taken don't indicate surgery. Of course my friend doesn't want to go into denial. If he needs surgery or radiation therapy or both he'll go for it. On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 2:33 PM, John jr_...@yahoo.com wrote: Can you post his birth data, including time, date, city and country of birth? I'll check his birth horoscope and let you know what I find. JR --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, I am the eternal l.shad...@... wrote: I have a very close friend who has just been diagnosed with prostate cancer. 3 nodes of the biopsy have a Gleason Index of 7. Otherwise my friend is in excellent health and recently had an Ayurvedic consult at the Raj and was pretty much given a clean bill of health. My friend and I are debating what to do. My friend also lives in Austin, TX and has the best of medical insurance. He's got a consult scheduled with a world famous Urologist who has performed 1,200 Di Vinci robotic prostrate cancer surgeries. The odds are that my friend will retain full functioning except for that which the prostate provides because the robotic surgery is so targeted if he opts for surgery. I am urging my friend to not pursue alternate therapies including Ayurveda to handle the slowing growing cancer (PSA went from 4 to 12 in 7 years). IMO Ayurveda is a nice preventative but that's about it. It would be much better if this diagnosis were made in 2090, assuming humankind still exists then, but the options aren't so bad in 2009. Would anyone care to comment about what course of action my friend should take? Yeah, he's a long time citizen sidha and all that. To subscribe, send a message to: fairfieldlife-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo! Groups Links
[FairfieldLife] Re: Kucinich calls for UN investigation into Gaza Strikes
if someone was firing rockets at your home and their rockets were in civilian places/homes, would you not respond and defend your self? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozg...@... wrote: Congress's voice of reason speaks out again: http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Kucinich_UN_should_investigate_Israeli_Gaza_1229.html
[FairfieldLife] That white plastic tube they put up your butt
Here's my complaint: When I turned 50 several years ago my doctor prescribed that I have a colonoscopy done. Apparently, at that age, it's good to have it checked. Whatever. Boy, the trouble you have to go through: not only fast the night before but take this god-awful stuff that makes you poo-poo out every last drop of fecal matter so that those doing the exam have clear sailing when looking to see what's up in there. Well, thankfully, they knock you out with one of those wonderful drugs that make you feel that chemicals are oh-so-much-better than your last meditation so you don't feel that huge plastic thing they shove up your butt to do the exam. My complaint is that while they've got you under and your goddamn sphincter is expanded to accomodate the plastic doo-hickey you'd think they'd kill two birds with one stone! Check my goddamn prostate while you're up there, won't you buddy? If you don't I will, on my next visit to my GP, have to suffer through the doctor sticking his plastic-gloved middle finger up there WHILE I DON'T HAVE THE BENEFIT OF DRUGS and have to be humiliated bent over on his exam table. I've had to go through that twice before with doctors and, no, sorry, I can't just try and relax those particular muscles once every 15 years so you can feel around. Why it isn't standard practise to do the prostate exam at the same time as a colonoscopy I'll never know! Doctors are sadists who like to play God and watch lesser people scream. -- Bren telling Juno while she can't have her spinal tap just yet. From Juno --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, I am the eternal l.shad...@... wrote: I have a very close friend who has just been diagnosed with prostate cancer. 3 nodes of the biopsy have a Gleason Index of 7. Otherwise my friend is in excellent health and recently had an Ayurvedic consult at the Raj and was pretty much given a clean bill of health. My friend and I are debating what to do. My friend also lives in Austin, TX and has the best of medical insurance. He's got a consult scheduled with a world famous Urologist who has performed 1,200 Di Vinci robotic prostrate cancer surgeries. The odds are that my friend will retain full functioning except for that which the prostate provides because the robotic surgery is so targeted if he opts for surgery. I am urging my friend to not pursue alternate therapies including Ayurveda to handle the slowing growing cancer (PSA went from 4 to 12 in 7 years). IMO Ayurveda is a nice preventative but that's about it. It would be much better if this diagnosis were made in 2090, assuming humankind still exists then, but the options aren't so bad in 2009. Would anyone care to comment about what course of action my friend should take? Yeah, he's a long time citizen sidha and all that.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Kucinich calls for UN investigation into Gaza Strikes
Betty Blue - First of all, I wouldn't be in that situation that the Israelis are in. Those people chose to live in the 'land of enemies' with better alternative choices. The Palestinians are far more indigenous to that land as well as being poor. When one lives in among 'gangs' one is at greater risk. Why be addicted to a 'religion' that is not the best choice in the probable opinion all conscious-non-religion types? Arhata if someone was firing rockets at your home and their rockets were in civilian places/homes, would you not respond and defend your self? --- In FairfieldLife@ yahoogroups. com, Bhairitu noozg...@.. . wrote: Congress's voice of reason speaks out again: http://rawstory. com/news/ 2008/Kucinich_ UN_should_ investigate_ Israeli_Gaza_ 1229.html
[FairfieldLife] The War of 1812: a lesson for the Palestinians
At one point during the War of 1812, some upstart American pricks from upstate New York snuck over the Ontario border, visited some nearby Canadian farms and attempted to wreak some havoc. The Canadians took no pity on them. They shot and killed some, causing the remaining Americans to run, tails between their legs, crying like little girls back to the American side of the border. Mischief was met with death and a heavy hand. Well, it worked. You Americans haven't bothered us since. In fact, we've become the greatest friends and allies for the ensuing 200 years and, in addition to enjoying peace and prosperity together, enjoy the friendliest border in the world and the largest trading partnership of any two nations on the face of the Earth. But it took putting you Americans in your place to have this relationship. It took a DISPROPORTIONATE response to your mischief in order for you to learn to be our friends. The Palestinians would do well to heed the lesson the Americans learned. If you lob bombs across the border expect to have the heavy hand of discipline rain down upon you by the Israelis. The Lebanese learned that lesson two summers ago. I am pretty confident in saying that that is the reason they haven't been causing the Israelis as problems since.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Kucinich calls for UN investigation into Gaza Strikes
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Arhata Osho arhatafreespe...@... wrote: Betty Blue - First of all, I wouldn't be in that situation that the Israelis are in. Those people chose to live in the 'land of enemies' with better alternative choices. Oh, this one I want to hear. What, pray tell, were the better alternative choices? The Palestinians are far more indigenous to that land as well as being poor. When one lives in among 'gangs' one is at greater risk. Why be addicted to a 'religion' that is not the best choice in the probable opinion all conscious-non-religion types? Arhata
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prostate cancer. What to do
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, I am the eternal l.shad...@... wrote: He was born in St. Peter's Hospital, New Brunswick, Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States of America on February 14, 1948 at 6:20 PM., EST. Absolutely zero relevance to your friend's situation, but that's the hospital I was born in, six years earlier, also in February. Wishing him the best, whatever he decides to do.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Prostate cancer. What to do
Do you read your Yahoo email? Since I'm the guy with all the science (and a med school background), I'm running interference for my friend on this right now. Money is not an issue here. The issue that I can see is precisely what my friend does once he gets tossed out on his ear by the urologist for choosing to go AMA. I'm a member of Life Extension Foundation. I'm going to send an email to them to see if they know of any doctors in Austin who'd be wiling to help with this. My friend will really need a way to see if the alternate therapies are working. That means he'd need a doctor to periodically test his PSA, as PSA appears in this case to be a reliable indicator of the progression of my friend's prostate cancer. If, with alternate therapy, the PSA continues to rise, at some point he'd have to call off the alternate treatment, go for another biopsy and the surgery. Any thoughts on how to handle this? I am familiar with the curcumin and resveratrol. I also know that for about 3 years my friend was taking LDN. It's entirely possible that my friend's PSA took 7 years to go from 4 to 12 and not a higher reading because of the LDN. But I'd advise my friend that if he can't almost immediately get his PSA down to perhaps 10, he's got to bite the bullet and have the surgery. If he can get his PSA down below 10 and keep it there, well, he can buy sufficient time for truly targetted anti-prostate cancer treatments to be developed and have the cancer killed with a magic bullet. Of course if the alternate treatment keeps getting his PSA down, so much the better. Now to get someone to measure his PSA. There's always the south of the Rio Grande route but that's a little scary. Perhaps LEF offers PSA testing. On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 2:36 PM, yifuxero yifux...@yahoo.com wrote: ---assuming the C is in the slowly progressing type; he should avoid surgery at this time even though that may seem to be the quickest fix. Naturally, the urologist will counter my suggestions but again, take the ALTERNATIVE route.: (disclaimer - I don't market supplements or have any connection to the companies listed, other than being a customer):
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prostate cancer. What to do
--Life Extension (me too). Fine, then start with BCM-95 (enhanced bioavailable curcumin from LEF; along with lots of IP-6 and modified citrus pectin (MCF). Then also take the FLAX HULL LIGNANS from Goldflaxseed. The BCM-95 will stop the progression of the disease in its tracks, along with the other items. - In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, I am the eternal l.shad...@... wrote: Do you read your Yahoo email? Since I'm the guy with all the science (and a med school background), I'm running interference for my friend on this right now. Money is not an issue here. The issue that I can see is precisely what my friend does once he gets tossed out on his ear by the urologist for choosing to go AMA. I'm a member of Life Extension Foundation. I'm going to send an email to them to see if they know of any doctors in Austin who'd be wiling to help with this. My friend will really need a way to see if the alternate therapies are working. That means he'd need a doctor to periodically test his PSA, as PSA appears in this case to be a reliable indicator of the progression of my friend's prostate cancer. If, with alternate therapy, the PSA continues to rise, at some point he'd have to call off the alternate treatment, go for another biopsy and the surgery. Any thoughts on how to handle this? I am familiar with the curcumin and resveratrol. I also know that for about 3 years my friend was taking LDN. It's entirely possible that my friend's PSA took 7 years to go from 4 to 12 and not a higher reading because of the LDN. But I'd advise my friend that if he can't almost immediately get his PSA down to perhaps 10, he's got to bite the bullet and have the surgery. If he can get his PSA down below 10 and keep it there, well, he can buy sufficient time for truly targetted anti-prostate cancer treatments to be developed and have the cancer killed with a magic bullet. Of course if the alternate treatment keeps getting his PSA down, so much the better. Now to get someone to measure his PSA. There's always the south of the Rio Grande route but that's a little scary. Perhaps LEF offers PSA testing. On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 2:36 PM, yifuxero yifux...@... wrote: ---assuming the C is in the slowly progressing type; he should avoid surgery at this time even though that may seem to be the quickest fix. Naturally, the urologist will counter my suggestions but again, take the ALTERNATIVE route.: (disclaimer - I don't market supplements or have any connection to the companies listed, other than being a customer):
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Prostate cancer. What to do
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 3:44 PM, yifuxero yifux...@yahoo.com wrote: --Life Extension (me too). Fine, then start with BCM-95 (enhanced bioavailable curcumin from LEF; along with lots of IP-6 and modified citrus pectin (MCF). Then also take the FLAX HULL LIGNANS from Goldflaxseed. The BCM-95 will stop the progression of the disease in its tracks, along with the other items. Well, this all reads very good. But I don't want to be practicing medicine without a license and on top of that urging my friend to go AMA (against medical advice). How to get him periodic PSAs? If your advice is so good (and I've read some of the testimonials) then my friend's PSA should start dropping in a matter of weeks (the prostate has next to no blood circulation). The problem is having someone take and monitor the PSA so my friend can decide to continue AMA or go back to the surgeon and make a date with the DeVinci robot. I used to have a good rapport with Bill Faloon at LEF. Maybe he can give me some advice to give my friend on how to stay within the medical establishment somewhat while staying AMA. On behalf of my buddy, I thank all so far.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Prostate cancer. What to do
--Bill Faloon - great dude!, fine humanitarian and a Saint in the relative sense. He knows what he's talking about. I've been a fan of his for many years. But he could get into hot water giving specific advice on supplements (although he's an expert in the PSA tests). - In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, I am the eternal l.shad...@... wrote: On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 3:44 PM, yifuxero yifux...@... wrote: --Life Extension (me too). Fine, then start with BCM-95 (enhanced bioavailable curcumin from LEF; along with lots of IP-6 and modified citrus pectin (MCF). Then also take the FLAX HULL LIGNANS from Goldflaxseed. The BCM-95 will stop the progression of the disease in its tracks, along with the other items. Well, this all reads very good. But I don't want to be practicing medicine without a license and on top of that urging my friend to go AMA (against medical advice). How to get him periodic PSAs? If your advice is so good (and I've read some of the testimonials) then my friend's PSA should start dropping in a matter of weeks (the prostate has next to no blood circulation). The problem is having someone take and monitor the PSA so my friend can decide to continue AMA or go back to the surgeon and make a date with the DeVinci robot. I used to have a good rapport with Bill Faloon at LEF. Maybe he can give me some advice to give my friend on how to stay within the medical establishment somewhat while staying AMA. On behalf of my buddy, I thank all so far.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Letters on TM from religious/spiritual leaders
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer r...@... wrote: -Original Message- From: David Orme-Johnson [mailto:davi...@...] Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 2:06 PM To: David Orme-Johnson Subject: Letters on TM from religious/spiritual leaders Dear Colleagues, The fact that the TM program has been derived from an ancient tradition in India and revived by a man revered there with a spiritual title, of course should have no bearing on the validity of the use of the TM program. The TM program is not Hinduism, therefore, any more than Einstein's theory of relativity is Jewish, or Genetic theory, conceived of by Monk Gregor Mendel is considered to be Christian. The practice of the program involves no religious beliefs but is a mechanical and effortless technique for experiencing increasingly refined or restful levels of mental and physiological activity enjoyed by individuals of all religious (and non-religious) backgrounds. I think this observation is preposterous, as if TM existed in a vacuum!
[FairfieldLife] Re: The Saraswati River
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, John jr_...@... wrote: To All: According to David Frawley's book, Gods, Kings, and Vedic Secrets, the Saraswati refers to the stream of consciousness within the human when mentioned in the ancient books like the Rig Veda. FWIW, a shloka (or whatever) from Yoga-kuNDalyupaniSat: tayoraadau sarasvatyaashchaalanaM kathayaami te . arundhatyeva kathitaa puraavidbhiH sarasvatii .. 9.. I guess that means something like: Of those two (tayoH) at first (aadau) I'll tell you (kathayaami te) about the movement(? chaalanam) of Sarasvatii (sarasvatyaaH). Sarasvatii is called (kathitaa) Arundhatii (arundhatyeva arundhatii + eva) by those who know the events of former times (puraavidbhiH). arundhatI f. a medicinal climbing plant AV. ; the wife of Vasisht2ha R. c. ; the wife of Dharma Hariv. ; the little and scarcely visible star Alcor (belonging to the Great Bear , and personified as the wife of one of its seven chief stars , Vasishtha , or of all the seven , the so-called seven R2ishss ; at marriage ceremonies Arundhati1 is invoked as a pattern of conjugal excellence by the bridegroom) A1s3vGr2. c. ; ***N. of a kind of super natural faculty (also called kun2d2alini1)***. purAvid m. knowing the events of former times GopBr. Mn. MBh. c.
[FairfieldLife] Re: spirituality spot found in brain
Regardless... the periods of transcendental consciousness during TM are NOT correlated with such such physiological effects.. Meditators, meditators, and non-meditators with spiritual transcendence? Om, seems there are meditators and there are meditators evidently. Some people are better at Spiritual experience? Some people are better at math. Some people have a head or brain for languages. What might be the percentage of people are predisposed to spiritual experience? 2%? 1% or less? If it was generally 5%, we'd already have the Maharishi Effect? Actually early TM research DID make the claim of hemispheric shift and they continued to make this false claim until independent researchers discovered it was an incorrect and false claim. IIRC they used poor controls. transcendent experiences, seems to occur for people who minimize right parietal functioning. all individuals, regardless of cultural background or religion, experience the same neuropsychological functions during spiritual experiences, such as transcendence. Transcendence, feelings of universal unity and decreased sense of self, is a core tenet of all major religions. Meditation and prayer are the primary vehicles by which such spiritual transcendence is achieved. -- Core Of All Major World Religions -- Has Neuropsychological Connection Or directly from: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081217124156.htm Also http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/202563
