Saturday, July 28, 2012

Louis Armstrong | The 20 Most Influential Americans of All Time | NewsFeed | TIME.com

Nice to see a Jazz Legend included on this list.

Louis Armstrong

Trailblazing Musician: 1901-1971

By Stanley Crouch | July 24, 2012

Hulton-Deutsch Collection / CORBIS

Pops. Sweet Papa Dip. Satchmo. He had perfect pitch and perfect rhythm. He was a small man, but the extent of his influence across jazz, across American music and around the world has continuing stature; he supplied revolutionary language that took on such pervasiveness that it became commonplace, like the light bulb, the airplane, the telephone.

He grew up poor, hustling and hustling. Yet his world was not dominated by the deprivation of poverty but by the ceremonial vigor of the Negroes of New Orleans and their music: rags, blues, snippets from opera, church music and whatever else. At the Colored Waifs’ Home, young Louis first put his lips to the mouthpiece of a cornet; soon he was formidable. Musicians then were wont to have “cutting sessions” — battles of imagination and stamina.

From 1920 on, young Louis was hell on two feet if somebody challenged him. Fairly soon, he was left alone. He took his music to Chicago, then to New York City, where his improvised melodies and singing set the city on its head. The stiff rhythms of the time were slashed away by his combination of the percussive and the soaring. His combination of virtuosity, strength and passion was unprecedented. No one in Western music — not even Bach — has ever set the innovative pace on an instrument , then stood up to sing and converted the vocalists. He did.

(MORE: What the Jazz Greats Knew About Creativity)

Apollo and Dionysus met in the sweating container of a genius from New Orleans whose sensitivity and passion were epic in completely new terms. He bent and twisted pop songs until they were shorn of sentimentality and elevated to serious art. He brought the change agent of swing to the world, the most revolutionary rhythm of the 20th century. Pops. Sweet Papa Dip. Satchmo.

This entry is excerpted from the new TIME book The 100 Most Influential People of All Time, which profiles spiritual icons, leaders, explorers, visionaries and cultural titans throughout human history. Available wherever books are sold and at time.com/100peoplebook

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Gorillas Outsmart Poachers: Are the Apes Rising? | NewsFeed | TIME.com

Gorillas Outsmart Poachers: Are the Apes Rising? | NewsFeed | TIME.com

Gorillas in Rwanda are outwitting potential captors and saving their peers from deadly traps.

According to field staff from the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund, several young gorillas have been spotted destroying snares that are set to maim and kill wild apes. “Today, two juveniles and one blackback worked together to deactivate two snares and how they did it demonstrated an impressive cognitive skill,” a staff person from the Karisoke Research Center told the Huffington Post. Just two days before, one such snare had severely injured a young ape named Ngwino, who dislocated her shoulder in a desperate attempt to escape. What’s worse, she contracted gangrene from cuts to her leg.

John Ndayambaje, the Fossey Fund field data coordinator, said he saw a group of gorillas nearing a snare, when a silverback called Vuba made a sound of warning. Two juveniles and a blackback responded by running toward the snare and destroying it with their bare hand. They did the same to another snare nearby.

This is only the latest demonstration of ape intelligence documented by researchers. Last year, scientists in Senegal observed chimpanzees using sharpened spears to kill smaller mammals before eating them. In the 1990s, Stanford researchers saw chimps hunting colobus monkeys with their bare hands. And decades of research shows that apes have better memories than college students, learn language through exposure (as human young do), and can be both socially violent and deeply empathic.

Even poop-throwing — that age-old indicator of ape idiocy — is actually a sign of high intelligence; scientists have found that chimps who throw their feces often and accurately tend to be the smartest and best communicators in their group.

So will gorillas soon start trapping their poachers, in a strange reversal of roles? Apparently, they didn’t need all that ALZ-112 after all.

Gorillas Seen Destroying Poachers' Snares In Rwanda

The Huffington Post UK | By Ted Thornhill

Poachers’ snares pose one of the biggest threats to mountain gorilla populations according to campaigners – and it seems that the gorillas themselves have worked this out, because they’ve been observed dismantling traps.
Field staff of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund in Rwanda report that on Monday they saw several young gorillas destroying snares – which maim and often kill gorillas – with their bare hands.
“We knew that gorillas do this but all of the reported cases in the past were carried out by adult gorillas, mostly silverbacks,” said Veronica Vecellio, gorilla program coordinator at the Karisoke Research Center.
gorillas smash snares

One of the young gorillas destroying a snare “Today, two juveniles and one blackback worked together to deactivate two snares and how they did it demonstrated an impressive cognitive skill.”
Dian Fossey staff explained that just two days previously a juvenile called Ngwino was caught in a snare with the rope making severe cuts into her leg, resulting in gangrene.
She also dislocated her shoulder as she desperately tried to escape.

gorillas destroying snares

Experts said the gorillas showed amazing intelligence Fossey Fund staff intervened with vets from the Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project but were unable to save her.
Hers is the second death this year resulting from a gorilla being caught in a poacher’s snare.
John Ndayambaje, Fossey Fund field data coordinator, reported that he saw one snare very close to the group.
Since the gorillas were moving in that direction, he decided to deactivate it.
A silverback called Vuba pig-grunted at him - a vocalisation of warning - and at the same time juveniles called Dukore and Rwema together with a blackback called Tetero ran toward the snare and together pulled the branch used to hold the rope.
They saw another snare nearby and as quickly as before they destroyed the second branch and pulled the rope out of the ground.
Four other snares were also removed by Dian Fossey trackers in the same area.
“Our battle to detect and destroy snares from the park is far from over, however, and the recent death of Ngwino, has given us all further motivation. Today we can proudly confirm that gorillas are doing their part too,” Felix Ndagijimana, director of the Karisoke Center, said in a press release.

Measuring the Evolution of Contemporary Western Popular Music : Scientific Reports : Nature Publishing Group

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Popular music is a key cultural expression that has captured listeners' attention for ages. Many of the structural regularities underlying musical discourse are yet to be discovered and, accordingly, their historical evolution remains formally unknown. Here we unveil a number of patterns and metrics characterizing the generic usage of primary musical facets such as pitch, timbre, and loudness in contemporary western popular music. Many of these patterns and metrics have been consistently stable for a period of more than fifty years. However, we prove important changes or trends related to the restriction of pitch transitions, the homogenization of the timbral palette, and the growing loudness levels. This suggests that our perception of the new would be rooted on these changing characteristics. Hence, an old tune could perfectly sound novel and fashionable, provided that it consisted of common harmonic progressions, changed the instrumentation, and increased the average loudness.

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The Sound of (Pop) Music: Too Loud, Too Much the Same | My Sentiments Exactly!!!

A sea of homogeneity? … revellers at the park stage at Glastonbury 2011. Photograph: Adrian Dennis/AFP/Getty Images

In case you’ve tuned out of Top 40 radio lately (and we wouldn’t blame you if you did), we’re happy to fill you in: all pop music sounds the same these days. And scientists have confirmed it.
A team of Spanish researchers specializing in artificial intelligence dug through the freely-available Million Song Dataset — in which algorithm-happy researchers from Columbia University turned a million hit songs from 1955 until 2010 into mineable data bits — to determine what the musical trends are in today’s most popular songs.
Their findings: Pop songs are louder and more “blah” than ever before.

The combination of turning up the volume when recording the songs mixing with fewer varieties of notes and chords makes today’s musical appetite for creativity a shrinking lot. Joan Serra, who headed up the team of researchers at the Spanish National Research Council, told Reuters that you could call this trend a “homogenization” of today’s popular music. “In particular, we obtained numerical indicators that the diversity of transitions between note combinations — roughly speaking, chords plus melodies — have consistently diminished in the last 50 years.”
To further this sameness, our timbre — the term used to explain the same note sounding different on varying instruments — palette has also shrunk substantially, giving us an even greater reduction in the variety of sounds (and instruments) we hear, according to the evaluation released in the journal Scientific Reports.
By turning up the volume during recording, songs play back louder — even while set to the same volume on your personal device — than those recorded at a softer level in the studio. That marginal increase in volume has been anecdotally shared over the years, but the new findings establish that soft-playing songs now appear out of date, compared to what our ears have grown accustomed to hearing.
But even with the tricks of the trade applied, the continued trend toward a monochromatic-like sound of our pop culture makes listening to today’s tunes quite different from the past, but so similar to everything else in the now. So here’s a hint: if you’re looking to make the trendiest, most in-demand pop song – just crank up the volume and use those pleasant-sounding chords. You’ll have a hit in no time.

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Tuesday, July 24, 2012

The American Folk-Blues Festival 1962-1966 vol.1 - YouTube

Uploaded by axavild on Dec 13, 2010

01. T-Bone Walker — Call Me When You Need Me
02. Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee — Hootin' Blues
03. Memphis Slim — The Blues is Everywhere
04. Otis Rush — I Can't Quit You Baby
05. Lonnie Johnson — Another Night to Cry
06. Sippie Wallace — Women Be Wise
07. John Lee Hooker — Hobo Blues
08. Eddie Boyd — Five Long Years
09. Walter "Shakey" Horton
10. Junior Wells — Hoodoo Man Blues
11. Big Joe Williams — Mean Stepfather
12. Mississippi Fred McDowell — Going Down to the River
13. Willie Dixon — Weak Brain and Narrow Mind
14. Sonny Boy Williams — Nine Below Zero
15. Otis Spann — Spann's Blues
16. Muddy Waters — Got My Mojo Working
17. Finale: Muddy Waters, Sonny Boy Williamson, Memphis Slim, Willie Dixon — Bye Bye Blues
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18. Earl Hooker — Walking The Floor.Over You/Off The Hook

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Monday, July 23, 2012

Memorializing Amy

by frabricion on Jul 23, 2011

Amy Jade Winehouse (14 September 1983 -- 23 July 2011)

I'm Back To Black for Amy.

TrackList:

1. "Rehab"
2. "You Know I'm No Good"
3. "Me & Mr Jones"
4. "Just Friends"
5. "Back to Black"
6. "Love Is a Losing Game"
7. "Tears Dry on Their Own"
8. "Wake Up Alone"
9. "Some Unholy War"
10. "He Can Only Hold Her"
11. "Addicted"

Bonus Tracks:

1. "Valerie"
2. "Cupid"
3. "Monkey Man"
4. "Some Unholy War" (Down Tempo)
5. "Hey Little Rich Girl"" (feat. Zalon & Ade)
6. "You're Wondering Now"
7. "To Know Him Is to Love Him"
8. "Love Is a Losing Game" (Original Demo)

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Amy died on July 23, 2011 at her London home from accidental alcohol poisoning.

On the day of Amy Winehouse's funeral, as her family and friends gathered at a synagogue in north London, a steady stream of people came to visit the makeshift shrine outside her house in Camden Square.

The memorial left by her adoring fans:

"They were not alone in their distaste. Around the world, people saw the jumble of bottles and cans, half-filled with lurid pink wine and warm beer, and took this as a cruel slight against the woman whose life – and perhaps her death – was defined by drink and drugs."

But I don't think the offerings were meant to be cruel; they were meant to be defiant, a cheeky middle finger up to fate. How odd and hypocritical would it have been if we had pretended that in death Amy Winehouse was something she wasn't in life?

A shrine made of lace pillows and copies of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poetry might be more picturesque, but would hardly honour the irreverence of a woman who once stopped an interview to say, “Oh – I've gobbed on myself.”

Memorializing Amy: Ashes to ashes, booze and butts - The Globe and Mail

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/memorializing-amy-ashes-to-ashes-booze-and-butts/article4182077/

Back To Black (Amy winhouse).

Rehab

The Addiction Labyrinth

Sunday, July 22, 2012

Tennis ace Venus Williams became a raw vegan after autoimmune disease diagnosis - National Celebrity Fitness and Health | Examiner.com

Tennis star Venus Williams, who recently won the 2012 Wimbledon women's doubles title with her sister Serena, has been following a raw vegan diet since being diagnosed with Sjogren's syndrome last fall.

Sjogren's syndrome is an autoimmune disease that causes fatigue and joint pain and affects some 4 million Americans. There is no cure.

Venus, 32, dramatically overhauled her diet to deal with the chronic fatigue caused by her condition.

"Changing my diet has made a big difference," Williams told CBS News on July 9, 2012. "I'm not perfect, so I forgive myself when I make mistakes [with my vegan diet]. I do a lot of juicing as well, a lot of wheat grass shots...lots of fresh juices and things like that."

Venus, who pulled out of the 2011 U.S. Open after being diagnosed with Sjogren's, says the disease affects her entire body.

"Dry eyes and dry mouth are the hallmark symptoms, but fatigue can be so heavy that sitting in a chair is a huge effort," she says. "So, as a professional athlete, if you have fatigue, then that's tough. You can also have joint pain...issues with your internal systems."

Being constantly exhausted is a major challenge for Williams, but her condition has been improving since she became a vegan.

"I've made huge improvements since I was first diagnosed, so that has been huge for me, and it's a journey that I continue on," she says.

Samantha Chang, Celebrity Fitness and Health Examiner

Samantha Chang is the executive editor and co-owner of www.theimproper.com., an arts and entertainment website in New York City. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Samantha is a former financial journalist who enjoys running, cycling and music. Contact her at schang@theImproper.com.

By Smantha Chamng
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Saturday, July 21, 2012

Vitamin D deficiency contributes to progression of CIS to clinically definite MS - Orlando multiple sclerosis | Examiner.com

Continued reports this week from the European Neurological Society (ENS) by Dr. Daniel M. Keller, PhD held in Prague, Czech Republic said that “Low vitamin D levels in patients with clinically isolated syndromes (CIS) predict a near-term conversion to clinically definite multiple sclerosis (CDMS).

Dr. Keller stated “Various studies show a geographical gradient of MS prevalence, with higher prevalence in regions farther from the equator, and the intensity of sun exposure is less in these regions.”

Dr. Xavier Montalban, MD, PhD, chairman of the Department of Neurology and director of the Multiple Sclerosis Center of Catalonia at Vall d'Hebron University Hospital and professor of neurology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona in Barcelona, Spain, who was not involved in the study, commented to Medscape Medical News that it is becoming increasingly clear that vitamin D plays a role in the genesis or evolution of MS.
It still remains to be seen whether or not the medical community will recommend vitamin D supplements to the world at large, but it is clear more study is needed.

Dr. Montalban said "The prevalence of MS has doubled in the past 50 years, so apart from vitamin D, which is important, there are other factors that escape our knowledge."

Vitamin D deficiency contributes to progression of CIS to clinically definite MS - Orlando multiple sclerosis | Examiner.com

National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)

National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)

National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism is an informative site, if you are looking for information about alcohol abuse, such as this description of when drinking gets out of hand....

Alcohol Use Disorders

Alcohol use disorders are medical conditions that doctors can diagnose when a patient’s drinking causes distress or harm. In the United States, about 18 million people have an alcohol use disorder, classified as either alcohol dependence—perhaps better known as alcoholism—or alcohol abuse.
Alcoholism, the more serious of the disorders, is a disease that includes symptoms such as:

Craving—A strong need, or urge, to drink.
Loss of control—Not being able to stop drinking once drinking has begun.
Physical dependence—Withdrawal symptoms, such as nausea, sweating, shakiness, and anxiety after stopping drinking.
Tolerance—The need to drink greater amounts of alcohol to feel the same effect.

People who are alcoholic often will spend a great deal of their time drinking, making sure they can get alcohol, and recovering from alcohol’s effects, often at the expense of other activities and responsibilities.
Although alcohol abusers are not physically dependent on alcohol, they still have a serious disorder. Alcohol abusers may not fulfill responsibilities at home, work, or school because of their drinking. They may also put themselves in dangerous situations (like driving under the influence) or have legal or social problems (such as arrests or arguments with family members) due to their drinking. *
Like many other diseases, alcoholism is typically considered chronic, meaning that it lasts a person's lifetime. However, we continue to learn more and more about alcohol abuse and alcoholism; and what we’re learning is changing our perceptions of the disease. For instance, data from NIAAA’s National Epidemiological Study on Alcohol and Related Conditions has shown that more than 70 percent of people who develop alcohol dependence have a single episode that lasts on average 3 or 4 years. Data from the same survey also show that many people with alcohol dependence recover with no formal treatment; and many people who do seek treatment are able to remain alcohol free.
However severe the problem may seem, many people with an alcohol use disorder can benefit from treatment.

Talk with your doctor to determine the best course of action for you, or see http://rethinkingdrinking.niaaa.nih.gov/ToolsResources/Resources.asp#Pro... for resources

Rethinking Drinking

Tips for Cutting Down on Drinking

Older Adults and Alcohol: You Can Get Help

A Family History of Alcoholism - Are You at Risk?

*DSM IV
**Hasin D et al. Prevalence, correlates and disability associated with DSM-IV alcohol abuse and dependence. ArchGenPsy 64(7):83—842, 2007.

National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)

http://www.niaaa.nih.gov/

Neville Brothers - Bird On A Wire - YouTube

Stand By Me - YouTube

FOREVER MY DARLING AaRON NEVILLE - YouTube

Monday, July 2, 2012

Unusual Taxidermy

Ann Margret

Early life

Ann-Margret was born in Stockholm, the daughter of Anna (née Aronsson) and Gustav Olsson, a native of Örnsköldsvik. While young she moved with her parents to Valsjöbyn, Jämtlands län, which she later described as a small town "of lumberjacks and farmers high up near the Arctic Circle". Her father worked in the United States during his youth and moved there again in 1942, working with the Johnson Electrical Company, while his wife and daughter stayed behind.
Ann-Margret and her mother moved to the United States in November 1946, and her father took her to Radio City Music Hall on the day they arrived. They settled just outside of Chicago in Wilmette, Illinois. She became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1949 and took her first dance lessons at the Marjorie Young School of Dance, showing natural ability from the start, easily mimicking all the steps. Her parents were supportive and her mother handmade all her costumes. Ann-Margret's mother became a funeral parlor receptionistafter her husband suffered a severe injury on his job.While a teenager, Ann-Margret appeared on the Morris B. Sachs Amateur Hour, Don McNeill's Breakfast Club and Ted Mack's Amateur Hour.

Ann Margret - "Viva Las Vegas" - Hottest Dance Scene, in HD - YouTube

"Viva Las Vegas" - Hottest Dance Scene, in HD

Danang RVN
Johnny Rivers Show(March 1966m)

Danang Vietnam
Bob Hope Show
(1968-1969)

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Bob Brozman plays "Highway 49 Blues" - YouTube

Bob Brozman plays "Highway 49 Blues" - YouTube

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Slide guitar master Bob Brozman plays "Highway 49 Blues." From the Vestapol DVD "Bob Brozman in Concert." More info at http://www.guitarvideos.com/products/vestapol-dvds/bob-brozman-in-concert

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Sober and Serene, Oscar De La Hoya Is Still Swinging - NYTimes.com

The reason for his serenity is not difficult to figure out. De La Hoya, who took his first drink at the age of 9, checked himself into a Malibu, Calif., treatment center in May 2011. He has not had a drop of alcohol since, he said. He also came clean on using cocaine and cheating on his wife, Millie.

Of his many prized possessions, two seem to carry extra meaning. One is the gold medal. The other is a round chip marking the day he began the program.

“I almost lost everything,” De La Hoya said shortly after he notched his third straight bogey, at No. 4. “I’m sure glad she stuck around because any other woman would have easily just walked out on me and taken everything. And I wouldn’t have minded if she would have taken everything because I deserved it.”

There have been moments in his recovery when he thought about going back to the bottle. He went to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting instead.

“Everything was O.K. again,” he said.

At No. 5, a challenging, 444-yard par 4, De La Hoya hit his drive a long way and ended up with a par. He followed with another solid par at No. 6, a 409-yard par 4. On the back nine, he parred five holes, including three of the last four.

De La Hoya did not play golf growing up in East Los Angeles. “I didn’t know what a golf course was,” he said.

It was not until he reached his early 20s that his brother persuaded him to go to a driving range. He was awful, spraying the ball all over the place. Then came the last ball in his bucket. He killed it. He was hooked, hitting balls nearly every day.

Three months later, he teed it up for the first time, firing a 97 at Montebello Country Club. It wasn’t too long before he was shooting in the 80s. Even his profession was not going to get in the way. “I would sometimes take days off from training to go play,” he said.

In the late ’90s, during a round at Friendly Hills Country Club in Whittier, Calif., he was on the phone with a representative of Titleist, the equipment company that had shipped him a set of clubs.

“Give me a second; I’m going to hit my shot,” he said.

The next sound the Titleist rep heard was an ecstatic De La Hoya, who aced a 185-yard par 3, the first of two he has recorded.

His Achilles’ heel, as is the case with many golfers, is the putter, which let him down on a few occasions during the day. In the last three months, he has experimented with five different versions, though he has avoided the belly putter. Nonetheless, De La Hoya, who tees it up about twice a week, said he planned to try out for the Champions Tour when he turns 50 in 2023.

“Got the green light from the wife,” he said. “She understands that golf fulfills me.”

De La Hoya, who has taken only one formal lesson, knows that making it as a professional will require great dedication. He is ready. “If it takes me to practice every day, a minimum four or five hours, I’ll do it,” he said.

De La Hoya, who in 2002 started Golden Boy Promotions, a Los Angeles-based boxing promotions company, has done quite well in the business world. As for his own boxing days, he said they were definitely over. De La Hoya, whose last fight was a loss to Manny Pacquiao in December 2008, is satisfied with what he has accomplished in the ring. He finished with 39 victories and 6 defeats.

Golf is another matter. He was certainly not satisfied with his performance at Trump National.

“I have not practiced much,” said De La Hoya, who was frustrated with his inconsistency off the tee. “If my driver is not on, then I can’t get into the groove.”

He did not stay frustrated for long. His life could not be better. At last.

Sunday, July 1, 2012

World of Proverbs: Zen

First there is a mountain,
then there is no mountain,
then there is.
~ Zen Proverb [19587]

The words of impermanence and perception trace back to Zen scholar Qingyuan Weixin, who explained:

Before I had studied Zen for thirty years, I saw mountains as mountains, and rivers as rivers. When I arrived at a more intimate knowledge, I came to the point where I saw that mountains are not mountains, and rivers are not rivers. But now that I have got its very substance I am at rest. For it's just that I see mountains once again as mountains, and rivers once again as rivers.

They were later made famous by Donovan Leitch who crafted them into song:

There is a Mountain

World of Proverbs: Zen

Quotes

Do not be wise in words - be wise in deeds. ~Jewish Proverb

Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup. ~Bennett Cerf

If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven’t been born yet. ~Neil Simon

I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it. ~Charles Schulz

You may delay, but time will not. ~Benjamin Franklin

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

~Robert Louis Stevenson

When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves.~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book

The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too. ~Teresa of Avila

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know. ~Saint Augustine

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss

can make it so. Belva Davis

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. ~J.R.R. Tolkien

One should always play fair when one has the winning cards. ~Oscar Wilde

The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs. ~Vance Havner

I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum. ~Frances Willard

Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right. ~John Donne

"Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life." - Eckhart Tolle

When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness... all the good things.~ Maya Angelou

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

We are disturbed not by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens

The 4 divine qualities of mind that heal and transform according to Buddha : Loving kindness, compassion, joy, equanimity.

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." Einstein

In silence wisdom speaks clearest, you cannot expect to learn the truth, if you listen to what you think you know.

Melancholia

"Ich steh mit einem Fuß im Grabe"

Saturday, July 28, 2012

Louis Armstrong

Trailblazing Musician: 1901-1971

Gorillas Seen Destroying Poachers' Snares In Rwanda

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Monday, July 23, 2012

by frabricion on Jul 23, 2011

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Amy died on July 23, 2011 at her London home from accidental alcohol poisoning.

Back To Black (Amy winhouse).

Sunday, July 22, 2012

Samantha Chang, Celebrity Fitness and Health Examiner

Saturday, July 21, 2012

Alcohol Use Disorders

Monday, July 2, 2012

Early life

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Sunday, July 1, 2012