Smoking Tobacco is Self-Destructive

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
-Mark Twain

I've never let my school interfere with my education.
-Mark Twain

Omar Khayyam

"I drink not from mere joy in wine nor to scoff at faith -- no, only to forget myself for a moment, that only do I want of intoxication, that alone.  -- Omar Khayyam

Jon Hendricks-"Gimme that wine!" -Live at the Trident 1963 - YouTube

Jon Hendricks-"Gimme that wine!" -Live at the Trident 1963 - YouTube: ""

Uploaded by zimbadaboom on Nov 30, 2010

One of singer Jon Hendricks' better post-Lambert, Hendricks & Ross recordings of the 1960s, this spirited live set has been reissued on CD by Polygram under the Smash subsidiary. Recorded in Sausalito, CA, with local musicians (the fine but obscure tenor Noel Jewkes, pianist Flip Nunez, bassist Fred Marshall, and drummer Jerry Granelli), the CD does an excellent job of summing up Hendricks' music of the era. He performs some hip bop ("Stockholm Sweetnin'"), revisits some of his previous group material ("Cloudburst" and "Shiny Stockings"), sings a couple of current tunes ("This Could Be the Start of Something Big" and "Watermelon Man"), performs a touching version of "Old Folks," breaks up the place with his humorous "Gimme That Wine," and revives the ancient ballad "I Wonder What's Become of Sally." Excellent music.

Buy here:
http://www.amazon.com/Recorded-Person-Trident-Jon-Hendricks/dp/B0000046JR

Category:

Music

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• Jon Hendricks
• Trident
• Sausalito
• San Francisco
• vocalese
• be bop
• hard bop
• vocalist
• genius

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Standard YouTube License

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The Insane thing about Alcohol Addiction

 A friend of mine wrote this note to me:

I think once you reach 45-50 or so, alcoholism is almost incurable, IMO, but I’m probably wrong. My thinking is that the alcohol addiction groove in the brain is perhaps ploughed too deep by then.
 -P


My answer:

Alcoholism only exists when the person (idiot) is dumb enough to keep trying to drink. You are completely right about the "groove" in the brain. Alcohol changes your brain and it can be seen on an MRI just like MS can be seen. It is tragic to ignore this science. Accept the science and realize you can't win. No matter how strong your will might be, if you drink you go into "one more" mode and you are back to wanting to be drunk. Prove it to yourself by stopping for months, if you have been an alcohol abuser, and have a few shots of vodka. It is scarey to feel your metabolism or whatever it is asking for more. Somewhat like what happens to massively obese people, the fat of there body actually starts producing hormones that encourage the continuation of morbid obesity.

Alien of invasion your endocrine system!!!!

Blogger Philosophy

My Philosophy of Blogging



There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or to be the mirror that reflects it.
- Edith Wharton

Ms. Wharton sums up how I think of blogs. My desire is to reflect the articles and pictures that inspire me when surfing the Web by posting them on my blogs. Blogs create a scrapbook of events to review later inspiring me for a second time. This is a great pleasure and an educational activity providing me with learning missed when I was in school. The Web has demonstrated its great value in generating and spreading new ideas. Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Occupy Wall Street and other revolutions have gained momentum on the Web.
If you have a favorite cause like animal rights, you can play a part in education the world by posting to your blog. The possibilities are limited only by your imagination.


"To read means to borrow; to create out of one's reading is paying off one's debts."
- Charles Lillard

Communicating my worldview, as seen from my backwater home town situated on an island in the Pacific, is my way of staying engaged with current events.  Multiple Sclerosis has reduced my physical energy and keeps me close to home so I need to adapt and find new ways of relating to the world at large.

Hang over cure

If you start seeing little girls standing on crocodiles, it is likely to stop your drinking careen toute suite.

Joe Louis Walker - Change my ways

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Dalai Lama - Mission Statement

“He frequently states that his life is guided by three major commitments: the promotion of basic human values or secular ethics in the interest of human happiness, the fostering of inter-religious harmony and the welfare of the Tibetan people, focusing on the survival of their identity, culture and religion.”

Beginner's Mind

Sit down before facts like a little child, and be prepared to give up every preconceived notion.  Follow humbly whatever and to whatever abyss nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
- T.H. Huxley

List of 105 blogs:

Work In Progress:

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My Diverse Blog Topics Demonstrate My Struggle To Focus On One Topic By Attempting To Categorize Many Interesting Tings Into Themes

You had a Hangover for how long?

http://www.thefix.com/content/one-big-pain-brain

How long after you stop using do drugs remain in your system? Most doctors agree that a healthy body metabolizes most substances in a matter of days: coke, meth, and heroin rarely remain in the blood or urine longer than five days. While your body can burn off alcohol within 24 hours, the agonizing agitation, shaking and other symptoms of alcohol withdrawal can last for a week or more. The side-effects of prescription drugs, like benzodiazepines, can last even longer. Ditto for pot if you're a heavy smoker. But while the substances you're withdrawing from may escape your body in a matter of days,  it often takes a lot longer than  that for your mind to return to “normal.” Exactly how much longer depends on which substance you used, along with how much, how long, and how often. (Check outTime magazine’s “Addiction and the Brain” for some cool graphics depicting the science of addiction.)

“With opioids like heroin or methadone, there are two distinct withdrawal phases,” says Dr. Arnold Washton, the author of Willpower’s Not Enough: Recovering From Addictions of Every Kind and the director of Recovery Options, a private practice geared toward high-functioning addicts. “First there's the acute withdrawal—or cold-turkey phase—which is followed by a later, longer-lasting phase known as ‘protracted withdrawal.’” (Protracted withdrawal is also known in some recovery literature as PAWS, or Post–Acute Withdrawal Syndrome.) During protracted withdrawal for opioids, according to Washton, many addicts are still hampered by low energy, sleep problems, depression, hyperirritability, generalized apathy—and, of course, intense cravings for their drug of choice. “For anyone who has been using high-dose opioids, that period can easily go on for six months after the initial withdrawal phase,” Washton says. These symptoms take their own sweet time to leave. Most addicts don’t tell you they feel sick at this stage—instead they complain that “they just don’t feel like themselves,” he says.

That's the conventional wisdom, anyway. In fact, some researchers believe that it can take up to two years for certain chemically-compromised regions of the brain to return to normal. There is also growing evidence that on average, it takes about 90 days for the brain to break free of the immediate effects of the drug and reset itself. Researchers at Yale University call this 90-to-100 day period the “sleeper effect,” a time during which the brain’s proper analytical and decision-making functions gradually recover. That Alcoholics Anonymous recommends newbies to attend a meeting a day for the first 90 days of their recovery might just be a curious coincidence—or a precient prediction of much-later scientific studies.

Brene Brown: The power of vulnerability - YouTube

I'm posting this video on a blog about alcoholism because Shame plays a big part in the mentality of alcohol dependence.


Brene Brown: The power of vulnerability - YouTube: ""

Posted by TEDtalksDirector on Jan 3, 2011

http://www.ted.com Brene Brown studies human connection -- our ability to empathize, belong, love. In a poignant, funny talk at TEDxHouston, she shares a deep insight from her research, one that sent her on a personal quest to know herself as well as to understand humanity. A talk to share.

TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes.

Watch a highlight reel of the Top 10 TEDTalks at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10

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