tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145499502011-12-08T18:34:43.305-05:00Acting on intentions, without attachment to outcome.<br> <a href="mailto:garolds@yahoo.com">garold.stone@gmail.com</a> noreply@blogger.comBlogger481100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14549950.post-7517030950350468982011-06-20T18:08:00.002-04:002011-06-20T18:08:55.994-04:00

Commodore USA begins shipping replica C64s next week, fulfilling your beige breadbox dreams (video) -- Engadget

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FOXygen -- "The heady mix of partisan hackery, character assassination, and manufactured outrage."  "Foxygen" was coined by John Stewart on his Daily Show, May 12, 2011, as a protologism describing the kind of orchestrated disinformation that is continuously AIRed by FOX News. "Jon Stewart again smacked Fox News for its fury over Common’s White House appearance, pointing out last night that

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A U.S. jury  has banned Pastor Terry Jones from staging a protest in front of the largest mosque in North America in the U. S. state of Michigan.  The jury in Dearborn, home  to one of the country's largest Muslim communities, said such a protest would disturb the peace. Jones, pastor of a small evangelical church in the southern state of Florida, made international headlines last year when he

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GAAAK -grs 2011.01

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May we each help create some safe space for others and ourselves, in each moment wherever we may be, where we may begin to nurture civility, curiosity, deep listening, understanding, empathy, love, reconciliation, and joy; so we can reduce each other's existential pain, which is the precursor to escalating suffering, fear, anger, intolerance, hatred, strife, atrocities, tyranny, war and genocide.

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Be mindful. Be curious. Be compassionate. Ease suffering. Be grateful. Be joyous. Be free. Repeat ... fractally. - gs 2010.09.05

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i   have arrived, we are home, in the here and the now. we are solid, we are free. in the ultimate we dwell. - 2010.08.25 by gs adapted from You Are Here: Discovering the Magic of the Present Moment (2009)  By Thich Nhat Hanh underlined words changed by gs

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Please see Safe & Reliable Haiti Earthquake Donation on wbpf-blog.blogspot.com

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Face flush Breeze softNow coolNow stillNow still - gs 2010.01.10

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http://www.marylehman.comEndorsement by District 1 County Councilman, Tom Dernogawww.TomDernoga.org

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This afternoon i saw this little hungry and thirsty kitten, who had been hiding from the hot sun under the entrance sign at Crystal Plaza for who knows how long. After calling SPCA in Prince George's County, i caught it with a harm-free HavaHart trap; feed it and gave it water; and then delivered it for health care and, hopefully, adoption.

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Outcomes? Yes, there will always be some kind of Outcome. So, in this new moment i will humbly try to help create the Now we all need; Patiently observing the arising Outcomes, without clinging or aversion; And continue trying to help create each new, needed, ever-changing Now. -- gs 2009.04.02

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Arise, mindful wave!Know that there is arising.Who is arising?Arise, mindful wave!Absorb nearby momentums'summing energies.Arise, mindful wave!Beware the heady self.Take just what's given.Abide, mindful wave!Know that there is abiding.Who is abiding?Abide, mindful wave!Experience follows mind,Led and made by mind.¹Abide, mindful wave!Breathe. See clearly. Know what is.Let go to be free.Engage,

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I recently came across three fairly simple video conference services that support at least 16 people - MeBeam.com, TokBox.com, and MeBeam-in-Skype. All 3 have adequate privacy. All 3 are free. I have not yet tried any other video chat tools, like Yahoo IM, etc. but presumably they entail installing software, registering, and settings configuration. MeBeam.com is the very simplest and easiest of

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Continued below...It's so nice, i bought it twice THRICE.Chapter 2 - Rude AwakeningDec 4, 2008, i woke up to find that my 2004 Scion xB had been stolen -- leaving only a pile of glass from the left passenger window in my parking space. It was one of the rare nights that i had not used my club-style steering wheel lock. I got a free unlimited mileage rental car and waited 21-days for State Farm to

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It is sad for me to think that if it were not for the Daily Show, i might never have known about Lara Logan and her unflinching reporting on war. youtube.com/watch?v=zh2A_SYuhlsand all the other Lara Logan clips on YouTube going back for a long time.

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Stepped out of my houseInto unexpected heat;Fogged my glasses.- gs June 8, 2008

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Check out my list of opportunities to take personal action locally to save world civilization -- really !

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More photos at http://tinyurl.com/2our59Choose SLIDESHOW (upper left) OR click selected photos. Download photos with Picassa program OR use right-mouse click to SAVE selected photos (lower resolution).

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Each little fly buzzes persistently around my breakfast -- a source of untold disease. My plastic fork repeatedly waves off their ever circling descents toward the bright orange landing zone that is my daily cheese-topped scrambled eggs. They will be the death of me yet.-gs 2007.07.29

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So, if there is a fountain,From which they say youth springs.I think, one might, to find it,Begin again to notice little things.-gs 1964How did i forget that for so long?

Garoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04492901845697927705noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14549950.post-883491282383779672007-07-09T13:46:00.000-04:002007-09-30T18:25:12.771-04:00

On a napkin on my car windshield at Crystal Plaza ... These are the offending bumper stickers ... Click image to enlargeSo, apparently, what that note really meant was -- It is not the U.S. Constitution and the peaceful rule of law, but rather wars (any wars?) that are what preserve our freedom of speech -- which we then apparently dare not exercise without risking aggressively angry verbal

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Free falling.Cat-like gyrations.Feet first.This time.-gs 2007.07.05

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Let it not go without mention ..."Don Herbert, 89, who as television's Mr. Wizard was for many years one of the nation's foremost popularizers of science, particularly noted for his ability to attract, inspire and hold the interest of children, died June 11 at his home in the Los Angeles area." Obituary (Washington Post June 13, 2007)Thank you, Mr. Wizard, for many an inspiring Saturday morning.GS

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There once was a goldsmithBoth clever and bold,Who made crowns of brass not of gold.Archimedes found out,and gave out with a shout.Eureka!, this crown's been Brasso'd.- Winning entry submitted by GS to a monthly Brasso advertising jingle contest announced in the Army Times newspaper, in 1971 while stationed at Ft. Meade, Maryland, desperately awaiting ETS (expiration term of service) and return

Garoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04492901845697927705noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14549950.post-51268561818031073092007-05-14T00:17:00.000-04:002007-05-14T00:22:00.909-04:00

TO: Scott Adams,I offer the following in defense of Wally. From his point of view, he's not irresponsibly unproductive -- he's responsibly conserving his ability to surge, however rarely necessary that may be. Why, i mean, there was one late afternoon just last year when Wally ...Be well,Garold Out-at-Five Stone, retired federal bureaucrat & former cubicle denizenPS: Your Out-at-Five motto helped

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Thanks to Joe Murchison for sharing his personal quandary and insights about giving to beggars ("Panhandlers offer parents a perfect teaching moment," Jan 18). It is indeed sometimes, but not always, hard to tell the frauds from the truly needy. Here's what I do -- your own mileage may vary. If they are not an obvious fraud, I choose to err on the side of compassion by giving them a food gift

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On Saturday, January 27th, between 1-4 pm, the Buddhist Peace Delegation and Buddhist Peace Fellowship will march on the D.C. Mall as part of a larger rally, "Act Now to End the War" organized by United for Peace and Justice, a coalition of more than 1000 religious and secular groups. Children and families are especially welcome. There will also be a Meditation and Teach-in the night before,

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Considering all that our military personnel sacrifice personally to serve our country, whether they are actually protecting our country or whether while in military service they simply professionally carry out the various missions assigned to them by our country's leaders, wise or unwise, please let us remember their humanity and consider saying at least "Thanks" once and a while, especially

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What, then?What them?Want them?What end?Want's end!One tent.Onement.-gs(*) This enduring question is asked in various ways in:-- The Year of Living Dangerously (film),-- What Shall We Do Then? Leo Tolstoy-- Luke 3:10-11.-- Lotus Sutra.This form of morphemic transformation is familiar to many of us from our childhood as "the telephone game", except that in that game all we get is the original

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The logic is syllogistic in its simplicity and conclusiveness:Parties grow by others joining.Your "Enemies' don't join you.Therefore, stop treating opponents as "Enemies".... Duh !This is not Pollyanna thinking -- It is Strategic! Please consider my reasoning.People bemoan the current "extreme polemics" of American politics -- Reds versus Blues -- each side looking for a slimmest possible

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Lure in the water,with no kind of hook at all.Fish bite ----------------------------------------------- i feel.-gs 2007.07.10More about Fishing Hookless Currently reading : Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Create Your Life, Your Relationships, and Your World in Harmony with Your Values

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Five Syllables andseven syllables and thenfive more -- Haiku.-gs 2004.03 @ NBP-1

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Engage, Mindful Wave,Shaped by and gently shapingVast contingent seas.-gs 2005-gs 2008.06.11 Arise vice Abide-gs 2008.09.04 Abide vice Arise, Gently vice Briefly-gs 2008.10.12 Engage vice Abide; Vast vice AllSee Mindful Wave 2009.02.15

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From: [Me]To: [My Friend]Subject: re: Fw: Fw: Fw: Fw: "The Jewish Mistress"Dear Friend,It is always good to get email from you ... even when you are only forwarding a "joke" that just came to you over the internet (below).Please let me share with you what came to my mind when i read it and why i feel strongly that it is not "just a joke"

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Join our rally in Washington, DC on April 30th, 2006.The Rally to Stop Genocide will feature leading voices in the effort to stop the genocide in Darfur, including a broad spectrum of prominent faith leaders, political figures, human rights activists, celebrities, and survivors of genocide.Take action: sign up today for the Rally to Stop Genocide.Who, What, When Where?Click here for the latest

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Send a Christmas Card in your own words to Tony Blair, encouraging himto continue in 2006 to lead world-wide efforts to end global poverty.http://www.makepovertyhistory.org/xmascard/

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As printed in Letters to the Editor in the Laurel Gazette, Dec 14, 2004Thanks for the excellently researched Dec. 2 article, "Voting machine opponents report notes election troubles." In that article, a local election judge was quoted saying, "Voting is a privilege, not a right." Voting is most certainly not a mere "privilege" -- it is the most fundamental right of each citizen in a democracy.

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Ours is a pluralistic society, with wise constitutional protections against government-sponsored establishment of religion -- and for freedom of individual expression of belief.It is, therefore, an egregiously evil breach of mutual repect, civility and the law for any one religious group (majority or miniority) to try to force its own religious views (mainstream or extreme) on the rest of society

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This gas station in Burtonsville, MD on Route 198 just west of Rt.29 is one of the first gas stations in the Laurel, MD area to recently install electronically changeable gas price signs -- at ground level -- other than the very tall signs usually seen along the interstate where changing the signs mechanically would require dangerous climbing. I'm told that there is another electronic sign at the

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About 30 very enthusiastic AIDS activists marched briskly south on Route 1 today, right past me as i sat in the Silver Diner, on their way to overnight in College Park. Tomorrow, they will walk the final leg of their journey on foot from the Lincoln Tunnel in NYC to the Lincoln Memorial in D.C.. There they will begin four days of action to END AIDS.I walked with them for a few minutes and took

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Exxon Gas Station at intersection of Rt. 198 eastbouond and Rt. 1 southbound Oct 28, 2005All the more reason to check Laurel/Betlsville gas prices at this link or for any city at http://MarylandGasPrices.com with links to other sites for gas prices in other states.

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I just got back from a day at a rally of over 800 people at the White House, which was part of a nation-wide "A Day for Darfur" to bring more attention to the still unrelenting Genocide in Darfur. Pictures from the rally. Background on Darfur. Darfur updates and What you can do right now to help. I didn't realize until i got there that a big part of that event was

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On Sunday, August 20, my son, Jesse, married a wonderful woman, Rachel McLaren, from a wonderful family. I couldn't be happier. Gary & Linda Stone, Jesse Stone & Rachel McLaren, Grace & Brian McLarenJesse's Mother, Linda, and our son Eliot (Jesse's Best Man)More pictures

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To read and comment on this item on my Muirkirk Road News and Views Blog click here

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To read and comment on this item at my Muirkirk Road News and Views blog click here

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I felt anger when i read about the President promotingthe teaching of "Intelligent Design" in public schoolscience classes.But, if the purpose of Skepticism is to achieve formyself, and promote in others, respect for reason andreasoned argument based on empirically demonstrable factsand well-tested theory ... then it behooves me as aSkeptic to be not only passionate in defense of reason,but at

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I revised my previously posted message with this title and moved it to my new Muirkirk Road News and Views blog [now renamed "South Laurel News & Views"], which i just today created specifically to discuss the termination of the chosen ICC route at Muirkirk Road, and other topics relevant to local communities along Muirkirk.To read it, click here

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