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February 2005
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to the Red Cross and other aid organizations. Although the
tsunami happened a few weeks ago, there will be a continuing need
for financial aid for a long time to come.
Dear Wildmind Subscriber,
According to a recent Washington Post article, "Brain
research is beginning to produce concrete evidence for something
that Buddhist practitioners of meditation have maintained for
centuries: Mental discipline and meditative practice can change
the workings of the brain and allow people to achieve different
levels of awareness."
Not only does meditating bring lasting benefits,
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In this issue:
Meditation in the news
Many articles this month dealt with the recent Tsunami in south
Asia, showing how meditation is helping monks to deal with the
emotional effects of cremating thousands of tsunami victims, and
how meditation is being used to help survivors to deal with their
emotional traumas.
We at Wildmind were delighted to be featured in an article by
Microsoft Magazine on the topic of learning meditation online.
Look out for the article entitled "Ommm-line Zen," dated
January 3.
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Jan 26 Ayurveda
combines exercise, diet, meditation (News-Leader, Missouri)
The system of wellness places people into one of three basic metabolic
types, known as doshas.
Jan 25 Resetting
your racing mind, to calm down (Newsday)
Lisa Dolan calls it "brain freeze." I see it as "mosquito mind."
Kathleen Brown describes it as "a hummingbird on crack." Names
aside, we all know just what it is - it's that fracturing that
occurs when, despite starting out the day with an excellent plan
and well-focused brain, we flip into racing-mind mode.
Jan 23 Meditation
quiets the mind and calms the body (Free Lance-Star, Virginia)
But doing it takes patience and practice.
Jan 22 Bridging
eastern and western Buddhism (San Francisco Chronicle)
Book reviews.
Jan 20 Recommended
for weekend editions (Newsday)
Deepak Chopra's new book, "Peace Is the Way," offers seven daily
practices that he says will create inner peace and, by extension,
a more placid world.
Jan 18 Doc
says meditation may be hazardous to mind, body, spirit (Agape
Christian News Service)
Christian physician and author says transcendental meditation
may be harmful.
Jan 17 Walking
meditation (Express Newsline, Mohali, India)
Meditation is the best way to reduce stress and tensions, increase
feelings of well-being, and improve concentration.
Jan 16 Lynch:
'Bliss is our nature'(Chicago Sun-Times)
Director David Lynch explains what motivates him spiritually.
Jan 14 Meditation
can be key component of stress management (Pioneer Press,
There are several reasons to add meditation to your stress management
toolbox. Practiced correctly, it induces deep relaxation. Practiced
regularly, it becomes a therapeutic process that reduces habituated
Jan 9 C'mon,
get happy, but the calm will take some cash (NY Times)
Americans working longer hours and carrying larger workloads are
a big force driving a lucrative new market centered on relaxation.
Jan 8 Yoga,
meditation to detraumatise tsunami-hit kids (Hindu News, India)
"Yoga and meditation will be put to good use as mental health
experts try to detraumatise thousands of tsunami-struck children
in Andaman and Nicobar Islands who panicked even after 12 days
at the thought of a wall of water chasing them."
Jan 6 'Everyone
Has His Vietnam' (Beliefnet)
A Vietnam vet-turned-Buddhist monk and peace activist on how mindfulness
can heal even the deepest spiritual wounds.
Jan 5 Thai
Buddhists bury tsunami victims (NPR Audio)
In Thailand many Buddhist monks have trained in meditation as
a way to focus on the transitory nature of life. That training
is proving to be critical at this time as Buddhist temples cremate
many of the tsunami victims.
Jan 4 North
Texans pray for tsunami victims (Dallas Morning News, Texas)
Many in North Texas are turning to their faith in an effort to
reconcile devastation previously off the scale of human imagination.
They went to their temples, churches and mosques, offering and
receiving comfort.
Jan 4 Meditation
gives brain a charge, study finds (Washington Post)
Brain research is beginning to produce concrete evidence for something
that Buddhist practitioners of meditation have maintained for
centuries: Mental discipline and meditative practice can change
the workings of the brain and allow people to achieve different
levels of awareness.
Jan 4 Years
of 'corpse meditation' now serving monks well (Washington
The grim task of cremating thousands of tsunami victims has fallen
to Thailand's saffron-robed monks, whose training requires them
to stare at photos of decomposing bodies to better understand
the transitory nature of life.
Jan 3 Ommm-line
Zen: Meditate with your computer (Microsoft Home Magazine)
"When nurse Jerry Meadows needed stress relief, he turned
to meditation. And when he needed a way to learn meditation while
working 12-hour night shifts in Royal Oak, Mich., he enrolled
in an online course with Wildmind, a Buddhist meditation site."
Jan 3 A
moment's peace (Portsmouth Herald, New Hampshire)
While some start the new year hoping to lose 10 pounds or save
more money, those at the Aryaloka Buddhist Retreat Center on Sunday
had a loftier goal in mind - to spread peace.
Jan 2 300
mourn Orbach at star-studded funeral (Indianapolis Star, Indiana)
Jerry Orbach was mourned with music, memories and meditation Friday
during a funeral in which he was eulogized as the quintessential
New Yorker on the long-running police drama "Law & Order."
Jan 1 Set
achievable resolutions to see immediate results (Lansing State
Journal, Michigan)
At the top of New Year's goal lists: better organization of time
and clutter, and personal growth issues such as improving attitude
or state of mind.
Jan 1 Pause
and reflect (Bangkok Post)
Looking back on the past year and forward to the next while staying
in the moment
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Quote of the month
"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine
what you desire; you will what you imagine; and at last you create
what you will."
-- George Bernard Shaw
Imagination can play an important role in meditation, and in
spiritual practice generally, but we have to be clear what we
mean by imagination. I don't simply mean the mind in its normal,
distracted state in which we fantasize, seemingly nonstop. Rather
I mean the ability to either spontaneously or purposely and mindfully
call an object of concentration to mind.
When we first begin to meditate we often use a physical object
to focus on, such as the breath. Later, a more subtle object may
spontaneously arise as the mind begins to develop greater calmness
and stability. Such a subtle object is known as a nimitta,
which may take various forms, including a pleasing sense of rhythm,
a silk-like sensation that accompanies the breath but is not a
part of the normal sensations of the breath, or a very clear,
pleasing, and stable mental image of some sort.
When a nimitta arises spontaneously in this way what seems to
be happening is that the imagination, having reached a calmer,
more concentrated, and clearer state than usual, of its own accord
finds an object that is suited to that level of calmness. And
as the mind continues to focus on that object it becomes more
concentrated still.
This principle of finding a mental object of concentration that
leads us into new and more refined mental and emotional states
can also be used purposely in meditation. For example there are
visualization practices that involve calling to mind an Enlightened
figure, with whom we then experience a connection. This connection,
in the form of blessings and light flowing from the figure to
us, helps us to develop the qualities of compassion and wisdom
that the figure embodies.
Even in the metta bhavana (development of lovingkindness) practice
the use of the imagination can help us "re-create" ourselves
in a more positive way. We may, for example, consciously visualize
ourselves behaving in a caring and compassionate way towards someone
that we normally get into conflict with. We imagine this, and
then in the future we find that our will (our wish) is actually
to behave in a more friendly way to this former enemy, and then
from that action follows.
So as George Bernard Shaw said, we can imagine what we desire,
and our will and actions follow, so that we create a new way of
being for ourselves. An initial, mental, creation provides the
template for a new way of being into which we grow.
Book of the month
Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment, by Ekhart
Tolle ($10.50, paperback)
By the age of 29 Ekhart Tolle had been depressed for many years
and was in a suicidal state, unable to see the point of living
but without enough energy to end it. And then something remarkable
happened. He had a powerful experience of spiritual awakening,
in which he had no thoughts although he was fully conscious, and
in which he lost his fear. After that he found himself with a
heightened sense of the miraculousness of everyday life, and with
a deep sense of peace that has abided to this day. Tolle is now
a spiritual teacher, and this book -- his first -- is a distillation
of his teachings, much of it drawn from transcripts and including
questions from students.
Much of what he teaches is very recognizable to a Buddhist practitioner
(from study, if not always from experience). Tolle emphasizes
the importance of being in the moment, which is familiar to practitioners
of mindfulness meditation. He draws a distinction between mind
(mental processes including thoughts, ego identification, and
reactive emotions), and consciousness (the luminous and aware
space in which mind takes place) and encourages us to identify
with consciousness rather than mind. This will be familiar to
Vipassana practitioners and even more so to those familiar with
the Dzogchen and Mahamudra traditions.
Tolle presents a spiritual path (although he probably wouldn't
use that expression) which is completely secular and accessible
to all Westerners. He uses the term "God" but makes
it clear that he is not referring to an anthropomorphic deity.
He also quotes widely from many religious traditions without identifying
himself with any of them. He makes it abundantly clear that he
is not teaching a "religion." This makes his work particularly
interesting to Western Buddhists seeking ways to communicate the
essence of the Buddhist spiritual path to their fellow Westerners
without the baggage of Eastern cultural trappings.
He is largely successful in this endeavor, which makes his book
particularly interesting, but tends to lapse into New Age jargon
about "energy frequencies," "activating the pain
body," and the like, and to my mind this pseudoscientific
language detracts from the underlying clarity and simplicity of
his message and sows doubt as to the depth of his realization.
I find it hard to believe that Tolle know from personal experience,
for example, that as one spiritually develops the body's "molecular
structure actually becomes less dense."
But such lapses into what Time called "mumbo jumbo"
aside, this book does contain valuable lessons about embracing
the present moment, realizing that past and future are merely
ideas, and about the fact that we become more peaceful when we
cease to identify with the every-changing contents of "mind"
and relax back into the luminous space of consciousness. It's
very apt that the title contains the word "Power" since
Tolle's message, in its essence and (ironically) stripped of its
New Age ideological baggage is very powerful indeed.
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VASS, NC (AP) — Authorities say a Moore County deputy has been shot and killed as he tried to arrest an Iraqi war veteran with an outstanding arrest warrant for not paying child support.
Sheriff Lane Carter said Thursday that 58-year-old Richard Rhyne had spoken to the suspect and determined he was wanted when the man pulled out a gun and shot him outside an abandoned home near Vass.
Lane says Martin Poynter then shot and killed himself with the same gun.
The sheriff says Rhyne was investigating a trespassing complaint when he encountered Poynter and his brother. He spoke to the men, checked their names and was about to take Poynter into custody when he was shot.
Rhyne had been in law enforcement for 37 years and a Moore County deputy since 2007.
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|Barry Pederson on M&M: Bruins 'built to be good for a number of years to come'
|02.27.12 at 2:55 pm ET
With the NHL trade deadline just hours away, NESN Bruins studio analyst Barry Pederson joined Mut & Merloni Monday afternoon to talk about what the Bruins need to improve and what kind of moves they should make, if any.
Very few major moves have been made by any teams, but Pederson said that he would be more surprised if the Bruins made no move than if they made a major trade.
"I think they need some depth, especially when Andrew Ference went down, that really showed me that you needed another left-handed defenseman," Pederson said. "I would look for them to try to add that because I know that Dennis Seidenberg can play the right side, he showed that and then some in the playoffs what he could do when he's with [Zdeno] Chara, and I think they'll want to do that come playoff time again.
"I think you want to get some depth up front for the reasons we just talked about — you're not sure what's going to happen with Nathan [Horton], you're hoping he can come back, and Rich Peverley with that knee injury, you never know what they're going to be like."
That being said, Pederson noted that the Bruins would be wise to not jeopardize the promising future that they have with their current roster.
"They're still in great, great shape," Pederson said. "They've got a great core, they're well-positioned salary cap-wise, they're young, they're talented, they're physical, they're packing the building over here.
"The Bruins fans are excited not only because of last year's win, but if you look ahead and you go, 'You know what? Barring any major injuries, this organization is built to be good for a number of years to come.' "
Part of the reason the Bruins should be weary of a major trade, to Pederson, is that trades often come with a wide array of variables and can often backfire.
"The difficult part with that, and it's the same thing I'm sure the Rangers are kind of talking about and Pittsburgh with [Sidney] Crosby, is you have concussions and you also have great chemistry, and that's something that you can't take for granted," Pederson said. "One of the major reasons for the Bruins to be so successful in that Cup run last year was they had each other's back.
"It was an all-for-one, one-for-all type of mentality. The Rangers, I think, have that right now, I think Pittsburgh's getting that. That, to me, is so important."
|Brad Marchand on M&M: Actions of Canadians fans 'just embarrassing'
|02.17.12 at 2:56 pm ET
Bruins forward Brad Marchand made his weekly appearance on Mut & Merloni Friday afternoon to discuss his criticism of Canadians fans and his father's role in keeping him stable after the Stanley Cup last summer, among other things.
After Canadiens fans cheered Bruins defenseman Zdeno Chara getting hit in the face with a puck in the Bruins' 4-3 win Wednesday, Marchand was publicly outspoken about the fans' reaction. To him, it was a disrespectful move that is never justified in sports, no matter what teams are playing.
"Anytime a guy gets hurt, you have to respect the fact that he's out there doing his job, trying to make a living," Marchand said. "It's a dangerous sport, it's a dangerous game and when people are cheering'¦if he takes a puck in the throat, it could have been a really bad situation. The fact that they were cheering when he got hurt, it's just embarrassing."
Marchand has found himself in the news recently for his off-the-ice actions, as he revealed in a recent Sports Illustrated interview that he was too drunk to appear in the Bruins' commemorative championship DVD. He admitted that he had too much fun in the aftermath of winning the Stanley Cup, but that his father was a crucial figure in helping him stay in line.
"He sat me down after a while and was actually really upset with me, just like, 'You're taking it too far, you've only won it one time. I don't want you to win it once, I want you to win it three or four [times],'" Marchand said. "So he said, 'If you win two Cups in the next three years, I'll leave you alone and let you celebrate and party the way you want to. He said, 'Until then, I'm going to be all over you until you do it again.' I like the challenge." Read the rest of this entry »
|Andrew Ference on D&C: 'I totally understand' Habs fans' cheering of Zdeno Chara's injury
|at 11:48 am ET
Bruins defenseman Andrew Ference checked in with the Dennis & Callahan show Friday morning and touched on the behavior of Canadiens fans after Bruins defenseman Zdeno Chara was hit in the face Wednesday night by a clearing attempt by Tomas Plekanec. Habs fans cheered while Chara was down on the ice and bleeding.
The social media world soon blew up with tweets lecturing Montreal about showing class as a fan base, but Ference appeared less concerned.
"I wouldn't say I was offended," Ference said. "You don't like it, but I know where they're coming from. I don't know if it'd be a very different story in a lot of arenas for whatever big rivalries happen no matter what sport it is. … It's just the way it is. It's not something you really like but, like I said, I totally understand it."
Added Ference: "When people talk about it being it being a heated rivalry and people caring a lot about it, it's true, it's not just kind of empty words. They do care a lot about it. They're passionate about hockey and so when one of your most hated rivals and the biggest guy on the team goes down like that, like I said, it's not that surprising."
Ference also discussed the domino effect of losing key players on the team and what kind of impact it's had on other players and the way the Bruins have played night in and night out.
"It's not easy, especially if you've been playing with a certain guy for a long time, it makes it more difficult. But that just comes down to something that if GMs are looking at players, they wonder how adaptable they are and how quickly they can either change their style of game or change the way they play with certain players, and that's obviously a plus," Ference said. "The more people you can have that can do that the better, and obviously some people are better at doing it than others. I think that over the past few years we've had pretty good success with injuries and dealing with them, and some pretty big guys. I think you just kind of cross your fingers and hope that guys will keep their game at a high level despite their linemates being out."
|History repeats itself: Zdeno Chara breaks his own hardest shot record with 108.8 mph blast
|01.28.12 at 9:30 pm ET
Another year, another new record.
Bruins captain Zdeno Chara broke his own record for the NHL's hardest shot, blasting a 108.8 mile-per-hour bomb on his second attempt in the hardest shot contest Saturday night in Ottawa.
Chara won the contest for a fifth straight year, defeating Shea Weber, amongst others. The previous record, which Chara had set last year, was 105.9 mph. He broke that on his first attempt Saturday with a 106.2 mph shot, before registering the all-time best 108.8 mph. His last two attempts clocked in at 106.9 mph and 107 mph.
Tyler Seguin, who competed in the accuracy shooting competition, struggled and did not complete the drill in 30 seconds. Dallas' Jamie Benn won the competition.
The All-Star captains picked participants for Saturday night's skills competition, and it's no surprise that Zdeno Chara and Shea Weber will once again square off in the hardest shot contest.
Chara, who has won the competition for the last four years (he broke his own record with a 105.9 mile per hour blast last year), will be joined by Dennis Wideman, Dion Phaneuf and rookie Luke Adams on Team Chara. Team Alfredsson's group for the competition includes Weber, Daniel Alfredsson, Jason Spezza and rookie Justin Faulk. Chara will also participate in the skills challenge relay.
Tyler Seguin will represent Team Chara in the accuracy shooting competition. He will be joined by Jamie Benn, Marian Hossa and rookie Cody Hodgson. Representing Team Alfreddson will be Spezza, Steven Stamkos, Daniel Sedin and rookie Matt Read. Both Seguin and Tim Thomas will participate in the elimination shootout.
|Claude Julien to coach Zdeno Chara's All-Star team
|01.20.12 at 4:10 pm ET
Straight from the "no duh" department, but the NHL announced Friday afternoon that Bruins coach Claude Julien's staff, consisting of Julien and assistants Doug Houda, Doug Jarvis and Geoff Ward, will coach Zdeno Chara's team in the All Star Game on Jan. 29.
Daniel Alfredsson's team will be coached by John Tortorella and Todd McLellan.
Chara and Alfredsson will pick their teams in a fantasy draft on Jan. 26.
|P.K. Subban, Max Pacioretty say Bruins aren't dirty
|01.12.12 at 12:56 pm ET
While there has been talk out of Vancouver about the Bruins having dirty players, members of the Canadiens said Thursday that their rivals are not dirty.
"No. They play a certain way and I think that's why they're successful," Max Pacioretty, who had his season ended last year by a shove from Zdeno Chara, said when asked if he finds the B's to be dirty. "To some extent, I wish we played a little more like them. Maybe not as much as they do, but they're definitely an intimidating team to play against. They have so many guys who can step up — I'm not talking about fighting — I'm talking about physical. You watch the games recently in the NHL, and there's not many pretty plays happening. They're all tough, grinding goals, and a big body presence. I think that's why they're successful this year."
Defenseman P.K. Subban said he has not seen former world junior teammate Brad Marchand's hit on Sami Salo, but that he does not consider Marchand or the Bruins to be dirty.
"It's tough," Subban said. "There's a fine line now when you're throwing hits, so you've just got to pay attention to it."
Said Subban of the B's: "They're in your face, you know what I mean? They've had a lot of success over the year. They're Stanley Cup champions, and they're playing some good hockey this year. Whatever they're doing, they're doing something right. Whenever you play them, you know they're going to be in your face, they're going to finish their checks and they're going to work hard.
"They've got some tough guys on that team. Some real tough guys. They play the game hard. Our team, we're not built to kind of brawl it out every night. We're going to stick up for each other as a unit as a group."


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This woman is a vedictive con artist and theif. Ex-hooker who tried to go back into the buisness in 2010 but was unable to due to no one was willing to pay for her. She claimes full disability from the government but has worlked for Master Made Feeds in Grapevie for over a year up until about 5-2013 when she was told not to comeback because the owner is in fear that the IRS will be called on him. She tried to steal 2 Barb horses and a Throroghbred mare from 2 individuals. One was the neighbor to her property on Precinct line road. The Other was a woman who had to go to court to fight to get her horses back. Roxanne placed all 3 horses at Amy Akers property with the intentions the horses would be well hidden. Once Amy figured out that Roxanne was trying to set her up to be the fall guy for the stollen horses Amy contacted the original owners and had them returned. The 2 barb horses were pickedup by their owner on 5-15-2013 and the Thoroghbred was given to Ms. Akers by her owner due to his inability to pay the needed moneys to fix the horses health. The Thoroghbred has a new owner that will be retrieveing her once they return to the USA from a military tour in Korea. Beware Roxanne Brewer and Michale Bryant they work together to screw people over. Roxanne will post false allegations against anyone that catches her doing something wrong. She will Text bomb you and say the most horrible things. She will post in the third person so as to keep a direct link to herself clear. This woman sufferes from major mental issues and can not be trusted. She prays on people's kindness and uses her disability as a wedge to get in to your lives. She is cunning and manipulative. Hateful and so very vendictive. I Amy Akers did not steal any horses or orther property from her. I had not spoken to her in almost a year when she called me up and claimed GOD had told her she needed to make amends for her poor treatment of me. I gave her an opertunity to prove that she was back in my life because she was truely a freind but it took no time at all to realise i was bing used. Now she has posted lies on this Ripoff Report about me under a false personna. Beware of all persons listed here they are dangerous and will try to ruin your lives. She can't hurt me becuse i have done no wrong. Sticks and Stones... But if she persists i will be able to file charges for harrasement and slander.
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I happen to know for a fact all the paperwork was filed to REMOVE MORGAN MCCOMB from the board members. They couldn't do it fast enough! I know they found out about Morgan crying rape and she wasn't, Amy Akers being arrested for street walking in the ghetto of Fort Worth . Plus Morgan McComb was posting racist remarks about black people and the Republican Party couldn't distance themselves fast enough from her. She was also being investigated for death threats against elected officials by the Texas state troopers. I can tell you from my conversations with them and they wanted nothing to do with them. They saw what they were they knew they were above it. They wanted her off anything that had
to do with them because it dirtied it up. Both McComb and Akers lied under oath without batting an eye. Amy Akers used to leave her children at Roxanne's house and tell her she didn't want them and was that a bad thing. Roxanne was appalled at what she heard Amy gave Roxanne a weekly pill box witch had handful of pills to put down her son because she couldn't stand being around him and she wanted him to go to sleep at 7:30 or 8. Then she would give him another Handful in the morning because she said she just couldn't take being around him. She would dump those kids at Roxanne's house for days. In conversations with Roxanne I told her to call CPS. She, being the kind of person she was,
just couldn't do it. , I told her I do it I had no problem with it. No one should have children that act like that woman but Roxanne talked me out of it. Every horse under Amy's care, I know from talking to people at stop 6 and conversations with Roxanne, have had broken legs half of a good fall half off. We don't know how that could happen and we're constantly needing to be stitched up for some reason or another. That woman should never be around a horses. I wanted to turn her in to the Humane Society once again Roxanne stopped me. Amy and Morgan are two of the most mentally ill people people on the face of this Earth. Their joy in life is to make other people's worlds Miserable They are self-centered
psychotic sociopaths. Morgan lives off her mother she doesn't have a job her mother gives her money and that's it. She's not rich she's nothing special. Amy lives off her dad or did until he ran out of money from what I've been able to research. I've tried to share some of the information that I have researched with Roxanne. She has no interest in even hearing their names. It was no surprise McComb and Akers took up with these two Jo Claire Ray Cochran and Julie McDuffy .They are haters that spread nothing but hate across the Internet and try to close people down that are innocent and legit. They are responsible for more deaths of horses than we believed killed buyers are. They are worse than kill
buyers they are actually horse murders. By blocking legit fundraisers for legit rescues they have caused such hardship that the rescues Many have to close down and they are proud of that. Just like Morgan who bragged that she cried rape and got her ex-boyfriend arrested tried and labeled a sex offender. She would brag can you believe I got that done. Roxanne was appalled then when I talk to other people they were just as appalled as she was . As Jo Claire Cochran and Julie McDuffy trash the internet with lies/libel plus slander about legit rescues and then brag about it as I said before. Forcing rescues to have the close their doors makes them more happy than I bet sex does . With nowhere to go for these
horses they will surely go to slaughter and I believe personally the debt is there goal. If anything's coming it's a class action suit of hundreds against Joe Clair Ray Cochran Julie McDuffie and her entire class of bullies. Everyone involved in the screenshots the thousands of screenshots that I know they have is going to be sued. I know they've talked to two lawyers who are willing to take it on at no cost. They feel that they have what they need that will really take this whole nightmare down and make the internet a friendly place again.
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Morgan your name is still on as Board member and with the latest situation she has pulled can backlash legally on the board members. Please contact me on f.b. my profile pic is a white mule and a black horse. I will require a text copy of d.l. so i know it is you and not her. I need info before calling the Texas Attorney General.
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AMY AKERS AND MORGAN McCOMB ARE BEHIND THIS SLANDER
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I h listed aboveave 3 things to say all that horrible stuff written above is lies by Amy Akers and Morgan McComb. It turns up when Morgan McComb is trying to discredit Roxanne Brewer after she and Amy Akers have lied under Oath.
Amy Akers was arrested for solistation STREET WALKING she was with a BLACK JOHN in the middle of oral sex when arrested.
Morgan McComb was also arrested for trying to run over elderly father of her small childrens father.
Roxanne has not been arrested or has she been involved in anything. The IRS will show that Roxanne Brewer never took any money in through the 501c3 that was not reported. She only had the 1. The other Non profits were not listed as 501c3's and she never asked for dontions. It was all private.
But Amy has sold hay off peoples property she didn't own we have talked to a person she did that too. She stole from Roxanne using that sell the horse and get it back and sell it again with K. She jumped in and told so many lies to steal that horse. Just like the horses she has on her property that she changes names and sells under other names. She is the worst of the horse industry. Plus she the prostitute. The worse kind a street walker.
Morgan McComb is just a liar and a thief thae worst kind of person. We call both of them Hellhounds because they both want to pull you from God and drag you to hell. Don't take out what I have to say about you on Roxanne because she told me this stuff was stupid....
My name is Stephen Garcia you got something to say you bring it to me. You 2 b****** ain't got what it takes to bring it to me...You have to keep attacking Roxanne who is a really good person.
So you got somethingthing to say you bring it. You can find me at Stop 6 or the stockyards. You not brave enough to bring it too me because I tell the truth....
FYI Elderly people look out for Morgan McComb if you tick her off she will run your a** over....
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This person is just jealous of my cousins life and is copying the stalker from 2008 whom was a liar then and this woman is a liar now. It's all crap. When you are a good person and have a good life people who don't attack. This is all rediculious. Refer to "Amy Akers"
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The House of Lords decided in Star Sea in January 2001 that in order to make out a defence under Section 17 of the Marine Insurance Act 1906, underwriters had to show that a claim was "made fraudulently" (Lord Justice Hobhouse). The duty was limited to one of "honesty" (Lord Justice Scott). On the facts there was no finding of fraud in any respect, with the result that the defence necessarily failed and that no further refinement of the principles was required.
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In Agapitos the Court of Appeal revisited this territory. There were two questions for consideration: first, whether it would be enough for insurers to prove that the insured had used fraudulent means to promote a claim, which might itself prove to be valid in all respects, or whether the claim itself must be fraudulent in some respect; second, whether the application of the common law rule and/or Section 17 ceases entirely with the commencement of litigation. In answering these questions, Lord Justice Mance embarked upon a full consideration of the nature and scope of the fraudulent claim rule and its consequences.
The litigation point appears to have given the Court of Appeal little difficulty. There were powerful dicta in the speeches of Lord Justice Clyde and Judge Hobhouse in Star Sea to the effect that once litigation starts, its rules govern the parties' rights and supply the remedies; there is no room for greater obligations or rights arising from Section 17 or a common law rule. Arguably, Lord Justice Steyn and Lord Justice Hoffmann had endorsed this view. The Court of Appeal in Agapitos applied the dicta, extending them to cover any separate common law rule regarding fraudulent claims, as well as the Section 17 duty with which the House of Lords was concerned in Star Sea.
This decision, which was the ratio of the judgments, probably precludes any reliance by insurers on steps taken by their insured in the conduct of litigation as a defence. In Agapitos, Judge Mance ruled that the courts will not permit insurers to "pick over the prior course of the litigation… to find an additional defence".
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Judge Mance, with whom Lord Justice Brooke and Mr Justice Park agreed, held that the use of a fraudulent device is a sub-species of fraudulent claim. Thus the fraudulent claim rule is not limited to fraud affecting the validity or amount of the claim. This avoids drawing a distinction between points going to the substance of the claim itself and points going only to a defence, which could give rise to difficulty. Judge Mance also held that the rule can apply to the fraudulent maintenance of an initially honest claim.
More importantly still, Judge Mance grappled with the difficult question of materiality. His "tentative" solution was to treat as relevant "any lie, directly related to the claim to which the fraudulent device relates, which is intended to improve the insured's prospects of obtaining a settlement or winning the case, and which would, if believed, tend objectively, prior to any final determination at trial of the parties' rights, to yield a not insignificant improvement in the insured's prospects – whether they be prospects of obtaining a settlement, or a better settlement, or of winning at trial".
The significance of this formulation is that it departs from the more stringent test proposed by Lord Justice Longmore in the Court of Appeal's decision in Mercandian Continent. In that case, Judge Longmore had held that the fraud must be material, in the sense that it would have an effect on underwriters' ultimate liability and that the gravity of the fraud must be enough to enable the underwriters to terminate the contract for breach.
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Perhaps the greatest court time in the next months and beyond will be devoted to the film finance insurance litigation. The House of Lords is due to consider the effect of the exclusion and waiver clauses in HIH v Chase, while in a considerable case management exercise, these cases proceed towards trial at first instance. There is little doubt that the points considered in Agapitos will be before the courts again soon.
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AMD's announcement of the Athlon 64 X2 comes less than a week after Intel launched its first mainstream dual-core chips, dubbed the Pentium D, which support DRM.
Both companies have been in a tight race to deliver the processors since engineers realised that simply ratcheting up the clock speed of single-core chips was creating too much heat and not producing the same improvements seen in previous models.
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The Holidays were a lovely blur of knitting and I didn't photograph any of my projects- 4 cowls, 3 scarfs, 2 hats and a mitten (it was too small, back to the drawing board on that one.) We stayed close to home, made good food, lazed with family and got projects done around the house. Now that the holidays are past, I relish the work ahead of me- unpacking and getting settled in to my studio and making our house really feel like home.
January is one of my favorite months because it's the start of the gardening year too, and even though I have a large tin of seeds left over from last year, I still enjoy poring over the Fedco seed catalog. When February and March set in though, teasing days of warmer weather make the wintry days harder to bear, and wheatgrass planters, blooming amaryllis and paperwhites satisfy my longing for something green. This year I didn't have any terra cotta pots to plant the bulbs in so I used the tacky plastic pots they came with. Inspired by the knitted covered vases of Leigh Radford's, I made sweater-covered pots with the sleeves of a cast-off sweater of Laura's. (I feel like I've seen the idea of using felted sweaters to make a candle holder or vase as well, but after lot's of Googling, still can't find what I remember seeing, so apologies if I'm duplicating what someone else has done already- inevitable I guess now and then!)
It's really too simple to be a full-blown tutorial, but here's what I did:
1. Measured the pot height and cut a piece from the top of a partially-felted sweater sleeve that was about 2 inches longer than the pot.
2. Pulled the sweater piece up over the pot, leaving about a half inch on the bottom. It naturally folds under the base to make a clean edge on the bottom. Then folded the top raw edge- you can do this one of two ways. If the sweater piece fits loosely around the pot, you can tuck it outside the pot rim. The piece I had was really tight and kept sliding down, so I tucked it inside the pot rim and used-
3. gravel (from my driveway) to anchor the bulbs and hide the raw edge. I know that tucking the sweater over the edge wouldn't work for a flowerpot holding a long-lived plant, but as these plants are semi-disposable (compostable), I think the wool will hold up just fine.
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WHITE BEAR LAKE, Minn. (AP) — A White Bear Lake woman accused of harassing her neighbors for years was barred from her home Tuesday until a judge determines whether she has violated terms of her probation.
Lori Christensen, 49, was charged last week with two counts of aggravated stalking for allegedly videotaping her neighbors and calling authorities to say their home had suspected code violations.
The incidents are the latest in what neighbors Kim and Greg Hoffman say are a string of harassing acts they've endured in the last five years, and they come after Christensen served time for violating a restraining order.
A hearing on whether she violated her probation is set for Friday. Until then, Ramsey County District Court Judge George Stephenson ruled, Christensen can return home only once under police escort to get her dogs and some belongings.
The Star Tribune reported (http://bit.ly/N6VLeF ) the Hoffmans accused Christensen of taunting Kim Hoffman, a recovering alcoholic, for years. The alleged harassment included 50 signs posted over the years, including a banner that said, "I saw mommy kissing a Breathalyzer." Christensen also allegedly changed the words to the song "Drunken Sailor" by singing aloud, "What do you do with a drunken mother?"
Police Chief Lynne Bankes said the Hoffmans aren't the only neighbors being abused. Authorities have gotten at least 80 calls about Christensen in the past three years.
Christensen's attorney, Gary Wolf, said she denies the current accusations.
Christensen, an executive assistant at the Metropolitan Council, declined to talk to the newspaper about the latest charges, but described herself as a single mom supporting her family.
"I'm just trying to fight for myself," she said. "I want to give my daughter back her childhood."
Neighbors next door to Christensen have a court order forbidding her from having contact with them. An elderly woman moved because of Christensen's behavior, Bankes said.
"In my 35 years as a police officer, I have never met or heard of anybody who is so persistent in their negative behavior toward their neighbors — or anyone," said Bankes. "It's unconscionable."
Prosecutor David Hunt argued Christensen should be held until Friday's hearing because she doesn't care about the judge's order that she have no contact with the Hoffmans.
Stephenson allowed Christensen to remain free, but said she may not call authorities about the Hoffmans, even if their house was on fire.
"You will not be the one to call 911 to report it," the judge said.
The Hoffmans say the harassment began about five years ago, when they say Christensen's daughter poured nail polish on one of their girls. They say Greg Hoffman went to talk to Christensen and was sworn at and told to take care of his own kids.
"I said, 'Lori, you may intimidate everyone else, but you don't intimidate us,'" he said. "Those were the last words we spoke to her for two years."
In 2009, Kim Hoffman had to go to the hospital after mixing alcohol and prescription drugs. That year, she tried to pull her daughter away from Christensen, who was screaming at the children.
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Esther Jubril-Badmos, 48, and her friend Mary Aderonke Idowu, 59, are stuck in legal limbo in China with worsening health, their families said today. Mrs Idowu, a grandmother-of-five from Hackney, was travelling with Mrs Jubril-Badmos, a mother-of-five from Enfield. They were supposed to return from Guangzhou in southern China in June after a week away.
But their families said today that the pair are now in a Catch-22, marooned in a hotel and the Chinese authorities are refusing to let them leave the country as their visas ran out during their imprisonment.
Mrs Jubril-Badmos is a jewellery and clothing importer and Mrs Idowu was advising her on styles when their troubles began during a visit to a supplier.
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I finally got the better part of the Andre Roubo workbench done. I should add, I have the whole thing assembled and the front vice on, but I've yet to design and add my tail vice.
I'm waiting until I have my tail vice designed and built before I drill the holes in the top my workbench so that I can be sure they line up properly with whatever I come up with. I'd have to have things all askew! I already have a tail vice screw that I'll use so it's simply reviewing different tail vice designs and using or adapting one for my own.
Somewhere in the process I managed to lose my workbench book written by Chris Schwartz. What a pain! I had sketched out all my pieces on paper to refer to so it wasn't a complete catastrophe though.
If you have any particular tail vice design that you really like then please send me an email or leave a comment below! I'd really appreciate hearing what works or doesn't from someone who has already been through this process.
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I had never tried hand carving signs before, but I figured there's no time like the present to learn. I volunteered (again!) for the local community garden to make a sign for the trail going into the garden area.
I had never done hand carved lettering before but I figured it couldn't be too bad. After starting the project, I soon wished the sign was shorter than "Hamilton Wenham Community Garden". That's a lot of letters to hand carve with just a chisel!
I think it cam out okay for a first attempt. I learned a few tricks that I'll use on my next sign -- like making sure I cut deeply and cleanly when making cuts with the grain so it won't accidentally remove more wood than I was planning.
It's hard to decide to cut down a tree. Especially when it's perfectly healthy. In this case, the blue spruce was just too big and too close to the house. It was even too big to be a Christmas tree! It had to go. Goodbye tree!
Our town is making a community garden and I volunteered to make a picnic table to donate for people to use and enjoy. I figured that a table would be a nice place to sit down and enjoy some really fresh vegetables -- for those who can't wait to get home and enjoy them! It also makes a great place for gardeners to get together and socialize and trade gardening tips.
I used some pretty standard 2"x6" lumber for the main tresses and supports with 1" dimensional lumber for the seats and tabletop. I used the quintessential and timeless picnic table plan for this project.
As you can see from the photos below, it wasn't a complicated project and the results were excellent! (Note: I really hadn't finished connecting the pieces in the last shots -- I was just dry fitting them to make sure things were good. I wanted to really assemble it on the gardening site to make it easier to transport!)


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Previous to our stormy night, it was a very pleasant evening. We went for a nice dinner at a restaurant called Umu. We got talking with some locals named Wayne and Michele who invited us to their home after dinner and showed us a lovely time. They showed us around their 1.6 acre property on which they are able to keep 2 sheep and some chickens, grow olives, 2 kinds of grapes, tangelo, lime,peach, apricot, plum, apple, and orange trees, plus a vegetable garden and herb garden. They have a lovely big modern home plus a guest cottage that they rent out. All that on 1.6 acres.
Even though we had a fierce wind this morning, we didnt get the rain that was expected so we packed up and headed off to our next destination hoping that we wouldn't run into severe weather along the way. Because of the bad weafher we didn't get to go down the east side of the peninsula and see the hot water beach that Cathy wrote about. The wind howled all day and we ran into heavy rains here and there but it wasn't too bad. Our Camry is such a great touring car, we rarely felt the wind and no trouble driving through downpours.
We are now in Whakatane, by the on the Bay of Plenty in a beautiful 2 bedroom motel apt. It is brand new and has a lot of luxuries like a spa tub and a heated towel rack and a dishwasher. Can't wait to try the spa tub with all those jets. It is huge, like a small swimming pool! We are here for 3 nights. There is even free laundry and decent wifi.
We are hoping to get some beach time at Ohope Beach while we here. It will all depend on the weather. There are other interesting things to do in this area so I am sure will be able to occcupy ourselves. And for sure we will be telling you all about it!
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Sometimes wild weather adds a certain element to a trip, eh? Was the sky wild? Does it smell the same after a rain there? Your photos are gorgeous...everything looks so crisp. I try to imagine myself there ;o)
Hey ladies...didn't anyone ever tell you not to go to strangers houses? We're going to have to send a chaperone with you next time (I volunteer for the job!). Glad you're safe, and thanks for sharing your adventures!
All that on less than two acres! I had no idea
olives grew in New Zealand. Not sure why I thought that.
A few years ago Jerry and I spent a week on an olive farm in
Italy. The owner sent us back with the most heavenly olive oil.
Thanks for stirring that memory.
Glad the storm didn't rip off any roofs.
Bad weather in the states. Tornados south and midwest.
Enjoy the spa tub.


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This violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act [2], a U.S. law designed to thwart bribery of foreign officials, according to the U.S. Department of Justice [3]and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, which announced Thursday's settlements.
The SEC filed related charges against the three former Magyar executives: Chief Executive Elek Straub, director of central strategic organization Andras Balogh, and director of business development and acquisitions Tamas Morvai.
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We develop a model of the gambler's fallacy (the mistaken belief that random sequences should exhibit systematic reversals). We show that an individual who holds this belief and observes a sequence of signals can exaggerate the magnitude of changes in an underlying state but underestimate their duration. When the state is constant, and so signals are i.i.d., the individual can predict that long streaks of similar signals will continue { a hot-hand fallacy. When signals are serially correlated, the individual typically under-reacts to short streaks, over-reacts to longer ones, and under-reacts to very long ones. We explore several applications, showing, for example, that investors may move assets too much in and out of mutual funds, and exaggerate the value of financial information and expertise.
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Dec 04 2010
A couple of years ago I watched a preview screening of "State of Play" with a fellow journalism lecturer who taught print media. Towards the end of the movie, my colleague was almost in tears. Her melancholy mood was not the result of being forced to watch Russell Crowe try to act. It came from the film's credits, rolling over giant printing presses putting the newspaper to bed. Not so long ago, print journalists had to complete their stories in the evening, for the subeditors to lay out with photos and headlines overnight, before the paper was printed in the early hours of the morning. Online media and the 24-hour news cycle mean that those days are gone forever. As my colleague pointed out, she and I (as a radio lecturer) were teaching dying mediums.
If the events of late November and early December are anything to go by, journalism – or at least what journalism used to be – will also be a distant memory. I hate resorting to whatever words young people deem to be cool these days but I will raid their vocabulary for the two words I feel most adequately describe the reaction of the media to the actions of whistleblowing site Wikileaks. Epic fail.
One of the few bright spots in media coverage of the leaks was the Guardian, Roy Gleenslade arguing that "journalists who oppose WikiLeaks are opposed to journalism" and "deny their own trade – disclosure". The Atlantic called the attacks on Mr Assange shameful. Others were just as erudite in expressing their sheer disgust at the behaviour of the press, such as Antony Lowenstein whose analysis of "cablegate" asked why presenters on the Australian public broadcaster were acting as mouthpieces for the US state department.
When a Canadian professor joked that Wikileaks founder and Australian citizen Julian Assange should be assassinated, the asinine response from the CBC anchor was a warning that the comments were "pretty harsh", instead of asking, for example, whether the good professor thought killing him would stop Wikileaks & solve the problems faced by US diplomacy. At least the professor tried to qualify the statement by saying it was a joke – the Washington Times, incredibly, ran an opinion piece that seriously called for Mr Assange's killing. University of Canberra journalism academic Julie Posetti, herself no stranger to the inability of old media to cope with the new, reflected on Twitter that it marked an "extraordinary period of upheaval (and unhinging) in media history".
Time magazine asked Mr Assange how he morally justified the leak of US diplomatic cables – imagine, a media outlet asking whether the world needed transparency! I wondered if their reporter kept a straight face during the interview. The normally respected Christian Science Monitor asked what Julian Assange wanted and was the subject of reader scorn when its editor dismissed the information revealed in the cables as insignificant, while simultaneously condemning the actions of Wikileaks as profound far-reaching.
By and large mainstream media missed the point. Why not ask why Wikileaks is doing what journalists are supposed to be doing? Or why US military and government security is so flawed? Or where the diplomacy of the world's last remaining superpower went so wrong that its diplomats were asked to spy on members of the United Nations? (And while Sarah Palin blamed Obama for Wikileaks not a single journalist thought to ask, who do we blame for Sarah Palin?)
I think it is a combination of both jealousy on behalf of some media outlets that others were chosen to work with Wikileaks with early access to the cables, and severe cutbacks and changes to the way the media operates resulting in the rise of more sensationalized and light-hearted news in an attempt to stem falling audience numbers. When the quality of the coverage is this dire, is it any wonder that reader and listener numbers are haemorrhaging, and audiences baulk at paying for content?


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There are actually three recipes for Coq au Vin in this encyclopedic volume. The first is listed as an "old" recipe, the second is a "country" version, and the third I can't remember off the top of my head, but included a woman's name. I combined the first two for my version.
Instead of cooking a whole chicken, I chose to use all thighs, since dark meat has so much more flavor than white. Plus, it's more chicken for less money, which is always better. And, I couldn't find pearl onions, so I used quartered white onions instead.
Otherwise, I followed these recipes pretty closely, and I must say – yum!
I started by rendering some bacon in a heavy enameled cast-iron dutch oven, and then I added the onions and let them soften and brown a bit.
Then I removed the bacon and onions and added six chicken thighs to the pot, skin down.
I let these brown on the skin side, then turned them to brown slightly on the other side.
Then I removed them from the pot and poured off most of the fat.
I added the mushrooms to the pot and let them brown before adding salt and pepper, which draws out some of the liquid and works to deglaze the pan drippings.
To this I added the chicken, bacon and onions that were set aside earlier, along with some carrots and a bouquet garni (thyme, bay leaf, rosemary, parsley).
I poured a bottle of red wine over the whole thing and covered it and allowed it to simmer for two hours.
After two hours had passed, I removed the chicken and most of the veg from the cooking liquid. I made a beurre manie and worked this into the liquid slowly, whisking to incorporate.
Once the sauce had thickened, I added the chicken and vegetables back (including some green peas, per Julia's suggestion) and let it simmer a bit longer.
I served it over egg noodles with a rustic french loaf on the side.
Coq au Vin
6 chicken thighs
3 medium white onions, quartered
4 slices of bacon, diced
1 pound cremini mushrooms, halved
fresh thyme, parsley, rosemary
2 bay leaves
1 bottle red wine
salt and pepper to taste
2 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons flour
1. render bacon
2. add onions, cook until softened and slightly brown
3. remove onions and bacon, add chicken skin side down. cook until brown and most of fat has rendered out. turn over and brown slightly on other side.
4. remove chicken and pour off most of fat.
5. add mushrooms and cook until they brown. add salt a pepper, allowing mushrooms to release some of their liquid, deglazing pan.
6. return onions, bacon and chicken to pan, along with bouquet garni (herbs wrapped in cheesecloth or coffee filter and tied together) and carrotts.
7. pour entire bottle of wine over ingredients and bring to a simmer. allow to simmer for 1.5 to 2 hours.
8. combine softened butter and flour in small bowl and knead with fingers until a paste is formed (beurre manie).
9, remove chicken and vegetables from cooking liquid and set aside. drop pea-sided bits of beurre manie into liquid, whisking to incorporate. as the liquid comes to a boil, it will thicken.
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