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KTVO 3: M.U.M. Gets $1 Million Research Grant

September 26, 2009

MUM gets $1 million research grant

Friday, September 25, 2009 at 6:37 p.m.

FAIRFIELD, IOWA — University Receives $1 Million NIH Grant for Mind-Body Medicine Research

The National Institutes of Health recently awarded a grant of $500,000 per year for two years for research on the Transcendental Meditation® technique in the treatment of coronary heart disease in African Americans.

The research is a collaboration between Maharishi University of Management Research Institute’s Center for Natural Medicine and Prevention and Columbia University Medical School in New York.

The funding comes from the American Recovery and Investment Act, via the NIH-National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.

About 21,000 applications were submitted to NIH for these specific funds, with just 3% receiving grants.

“This recent achievement continues to place MUM Research Institute and its research on the Transcendental Meditation technique and Maharishi Vedic MedicineSM programs in an elite category in academic medicine,” said project director Robert Schneider, M.D., F.A.C.C., and dean of the Maharishi College of Perfect Health.

The research will compare the effectiveness of cardiac rehabilitation with and without the Transcendental Meditation program, especially after a heart attack. The study will utilize positron emission tomography (PET) to image and quantify changes in heart disease in the patients.

The Center for Natural Medicine and Prevention team includes Sanford Nidich, EdD, Carolyn King, PhD, Maxwell Rainforth, PhD, John Salerno, PhD, Marilyn Ungaro, Laura Alcorn, and Linda Heaton.

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President Clinton to Address the American Indian Sustainability Conference at Maharishi University

September 22, 2009


American Indian Initiatives
David Lynch Foundation
Post Office Box 738, Winnebago, NE 68071
AmericanIndianSustainableConference.org • 603-464-9989

President Clinton to Address
the American Indian Sustainability Conference
at Maharishi University via Video Message

Tribal leaders will collaborate with University faculty to bring
meditation, organic agriculture, renewable energy to Indian Country

President Bill Clinton will deliver the opening address via a special videotaped message to leaders of Indian Country who will be participating in the American Indian Sustainability Conference, which will be held September 25 to 27 at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa.

The leaders are assembling to explore how modern organic agriculture and renewable energy technologies combined with traditional meditation techniques and natural medicine practices can be used to build healthy, sustainable American Indian communities.

Special guest speakers include Joe A. Garcia, President of the National Congress of the American Indian; Robert Cook, President of the National Indian Education Association; Lucille Ecohawk, strategic planner for the Casey Family Programs; and Katherine Campbell education specialist with the Bureau of Indian Education.

The speakers will hold a news conference on Friday, September 25, 11 am (CDT), at Maharishi University of Management, Dalby Hall, in Fairfield, Iowa. The news conference will also be broadcast live on the Internet at http://www.AmericanIndianSustainableConference.org.

A key feature of the weekend event, according to Prosper Waukon, a hereditary leader – Thunderbird Clan, Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska, is a five-point plan for sustainability, developed by the Hocak Elders Council, Inc., of the Winnebago Reservation. The plan includes the scientific knowledge and techniques to:

• Dramatically improve academic performance and reduce the stress and violence that permeate impoverished Indian communities

• Prevent and reverse diabetes, which strikes 80 percent of Native Peoples, through a comprehensive program for stress reduction, healthy diet, and lifestyle changes

• Generate clean energy and economic self-sufficiency for American Indians by harnessing Nature’s wind and solar resources

• Provide healthy, nutritious food and economic self-sufficiency for American Indians through the establishment of organic agricultural greenhouses

• Safeguard the precious land, language, and culture of American Indian tribal communities, which are the foundation for systemic change

For information and registration: www.AmericanIndianSustainableConference.org.

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Beach Boys’ Mike Love recharges at The Raj

September 6, 2009

 

Picture 28WHITE_GROUP_8x10_lo-resSPECIAL TO THE REGISTER
The Beach Boys, from left: Christian Love, John Cowsill, Bruce Johnston,
Randell Kirsch, Mike Love, Scott Totten, Tim Bonhomme. Johnston and
Love have been members of the band since the 1960s.

By SOPHIA AHMAD
September 4, 2009
sahmad@dmreg.com

With its tight falsetto harmonies and sunny lyrics, the Beach Boys’ sound is immediately recognizable to both young fans – who consider it a retro band – and to older fans who grew up on hits such as “California Girls” and “Surfin’ USA.”

The legendary ensemble that has been entertaining audiences since 1961 will perform Monday in Fairfield – a quick return trip to Iowa after a recent show Aug. 14 at Meskwaki Bingo-Casino-Hotel in Tama. But Monday’s outdoor concert on Labor Day at a middle school in Fairfield also will deliver a different “vibration” for singer Mike Love. “My main place for rest and relaxation and recharging has been the Raj and meditating in the domes,” Love said last month during a stopover in Fairfield. The Raj is a Fairfield spa that integrates holistic practices into its treatments.

And Love routinely practices transcendental meditation (T.M.) inside the domes of Maharishi University of Management, founded by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

Love, one of the remaining 1960s members of the Beach Boys, will be named Energy Czar for the day by Fairfield Mayor Ed Malloy. He will also help unveil the city’s 40-point Green Sustainability Plan, funded by an $80,000 grant from Iowa’s Office of Energy Independence. The plan calls for energy conservation and support of local farms, among other initiatives. “Energy independence is something that is close to my children and grandchildren and their children’s heart,” Love said.

Proceeds from Monday’s concert also will benefit the David Lynch Foundation, which supports T.M. education, and the Fairfield Arts and Convention Center.

Love is a longtime fan of the eastern Iowa city.

“I’ve been going to Fairfield for a few decades,” he said. “One time I came here for three weeks and did treatments every day, and that was fantastic. I never felt better. “Transcendental meditation is so important to Love that he wrote a song about its founder: “Cool Head, Warm Heart.”

“Maharishi said once in a meeting, ‘You need a cool head and a warm heart,’ so I made a little sound out of it,” Love said about his inspiration for the song.

Love, who performs nearly 150 concerts per year, said he has a special connection to Iowa and its “small-town environment.” He recalled a recent memory of the “little gem in the heartland” when he landed at a Tucson airport. “This woman that drove me from the airport said she heard us at the Dance-land Ballroom in Cedar Rapids … Now how ironic is that?”

Additional Facts
The Beach Boys with The Nadas

WHEN: Monday, gates open at noon.

WHERE: Fairfield Middle School Outdoor Field, 404 West Fillmore

TICKETS: $12-$37.50 through Iowatix. Proceeds benefit the David Lynch Foundation and the Fairfield Arts and Convention Center

INFORMATION: www.fairfieldacc.com

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Also see Mike Love, Not War | Ireland’s Edwin McGreal interviews Mike Love for The Mayo News | Mike Love of the Beach Boys on Stories of Success | Beach Boys concert ‘fun, fun, fun’ for all | Beach Boys bringing green concert to tiny Fairfield

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