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"Ich steh mit einem Fuß im Grabe"
(I am standing with one foot in the grave),
Monday, December 17, 2012
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Bill Evans Portrait in Jazz (Full Album) - YouTube
Published on May 13, 2012
Bill Evans Portrait in Jazz 1960
1. Come Rain or Come Shine - 3.19 (0:00)
2. Autumn Leaves - 5.23 (3:24)
3. Witchcraft - 4.30 (9:24)
4. When I Fall in Love - 4.52 (14:00)
5. Peri's Scope - 3.10 (18:54)
6. What Is This Thing Called Love? - 4.32 (22:09)
7. Spring is Here - 5.02 (26:46)
8. Someday My Prince Will Come - 4.50 (31:57)
9. Blue in Green - 5.20 (36:55)
Bill Evans - Piano
Scott LaFaro - Bass
Paul Motian - Drums
1. Come Rain or Come Shine - 3.19 (0:00)
2. Autumn Leaves - 5.23 (3:24)
3. Witchcraft - 4.30 (9:24)
4. When I Fall in Love - 4.52 (14:00)
5. Peri's Scope - 3.10 (18:54)
6. What Is This Thing Called Love? - 4.32 (22:09)
7. Spring is Here - 5.02 (26:46)
8. Someday My Prince Will Come - 4.50 (31:57)
9. Blue in Green - 5.20 (36:55)
Bill Evans - Piano
Scott LaFaro - Bass
Paul Motian - Drums
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Bill Evans Portrait in Jazz (Full Album) - YouTube
Sunday, December 9, 2012
The Black Keys - Magic Potion (Full Album) [HD] - YouTube
Published on Jun 23, 2012
Dropbox extra space: http://db.tt/xrFi7toH
iTunes link: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/magic-potion/id187083153
Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/Magic-Potion-Dig-Black-Keys/dp/B000GPIPD8
Buy their stuff here: http://store.theblackkeys.com/?q=store
00:00 Just Got To Be
3:01 Your Touch
5:45 You're The One
9:13 Just A Little Heat
12:56 Give Your Heart Away
16:23 Strange Desire
20:45 Modern Times
25:07 The Flame
29:44 Goodbye Babylon
35:40 Black Door
39:11 Elevator
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The Black Keys - Magic Potion (Full Album) [HD] - YouTube
LINK: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dEgBfkAd7Y
Friday, December 7, 2012
Africa's Moonshine Epidemic - YouTube
Nov 9, 2012
Ugandans are the hardest drinking Africans in the motherland, both in terms of per capita consumption and the hooch they choose to chug. Waregi, or "war gin," is what they call the local moonshine, and it makes the harshest Appalachian rotgut taste like freaking Bailey's.
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Saturday, December 1, 2012
Robin Williams on Alcoholics - YouTube
Robin Williams on Alcoholics
Robin Williams on Alcoholics - YouTube
Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLtPp_xIpC4
ASAP - American Society for Action on Pain

"Skip Baker demonstrates the amount of weight he lost because of severe, untreated chronic pain. He went without eating for 14 months, while the State of Virginia was deciding if he would be an "authorized pain patient," and get an increase in his pain medication. He averaged a one inch loss around the middle per month, for a total of 14 inches for the 14 months! This is like torture for a State to do this to a Pain Patient, who they knew all along, has Ankylosing Spondylitis," a VERY painful spinal disease."The decision to make him an 'authorized' pain patient could have been made in one hour by a good pain specialist, if this system wasn't in place in Virginia.
Skip Baker is President of ASAP and he would like you to join him in the campaign for sensible pain treatment. You can contact him at: skipb@widomaker.com or see our President's Page.
ASAP
American Society for Action on Pain
ASAP Home Page
Documents and Resources
Who We Are - And how you can help
The Panic Button -- Do you need immediate help with treatment for chronic pain? See this link.
To Get Help for Pain go to:
Doctors with Compassion
What Patients Can Do To Help Themselves
Pain Placement Reps
Proper Dosing of Pain Medications
To subscribe to the Action-on-pain list send a blank email to: mailto:Actiononpain-subscribe@yahoogroups.com or go to: http://www.onelist.com/subscribe/Actiononpain/
To unsubscribe, just send a blank email to: Actiononpain-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com
Doonesbury on Pain Treatment -- The Doonesbury comic strip from Sunday, July 26, 1998
Understanding The Issues
In order to understand how we got to the present problems with pain management in the US, it is necessary to understand basic facts about heroin, the opiates, and the history of our laws and policies regarding these drugs. The best overall view of this issue, in our opinion, comes from the first section of the Consumers Union Report on Licit and Illicit Drugs.
We recommend the following chapters as basic to the understanding of how we got to the current problems with pain patients.
Chapter 1 - Nineteenth Century America - "a dope fiends paradise"
Chapter 2 - Opiates for pain relief, for tranquilization, and for pleasure
Chapter 3 - What kinds of people used opiates?
Chapter 4 - Effects of opium, morphine and heroin on addicts
Chapter 5 - Some eminent narcotics addicts
Chapter 6 - Opium smoking is outlawed
Chapter 7 - The Pure Food and Drugs Act of 1906
Chapter 8 - The Harrison Narcotic Act (1914)
Chapter 9 - Tightening up the Harrison Act
Chapter 10 - Why our narcotics laws have failed: 1) Heroin is an addicting drug
Chapter 11 - Why our narcotics laws have failed: 2) The economics of the black market
Chapter 12 - The heroin "overdose" mystery and other occupational hazards of heroin addiction
Deadly Morals, By Katherine Eban Finkelstein - The DEA is busting doctors for prescribing drugs and patients are dying in pain.
The Police State of Medicine by Dr. William Hurwitz -- Dr. Hurwitz is the doctor who was featured on 60 Minutes because he was persecuted for treating patients with severe chronic pain. He is one of the heroes of our time.
Caught in Pain's Vicious Cycle, an interview with Dr. William Hurwitz
Medical Society of Virginia's Guidelines for the Use of Opioids in the Management of Chronic Non-Cancer Pain.
Senate Bill 402 - California, 1997 - Pain Patient's Bill of Rights
Summary: Existing law, the Intractable Pain Treatment Act, authorizes a physician and surgeon to prescribe or administer controlled substances to a person in the course of treating that person for a diagnosed condition called intractable pain, and prohibits the Medical Board of California from disciplining a physician and surgeon for this action. This bill would establish the Pain Patient's Bill of Rights and would state legislative findings and declarations regarding the value of opiate drugs to persons suffering from severe chronic intractable pain. It would, among other things, authorize a physician to refuse to prescribe opiate medication for a patient who requests the treatment for severe chronic intractable pain, require the physician to inform the patient that there are physicians who specialize in the treatment of severe chronic intractable pain with methods that include the use of opiates, and authorize a physician who prescribes opiates to prescribe a dosage deemed medically necessary.
Frequently Asked Questions About the Opioids - by Mike Hamilton
Fact Sheet on Chronic Non-Malignant Pain by Marcia E. Bedard, Ph.D.
Opioid Pain Killers Available in the US
CHRONIC USE OF OPIOIDS AND ANTIPSYCHOTIC DRUGS: SIDE EFFECTS, EFFECTS ON ENDOGENOUS OPIOIDS, AND TOXICITY - Annals New York Academy of Sciences pp151-172
METHADONE AND OPIATE DRUGS: PSYCHOTROPIC EFFECT AND SELF-MEDICATION - Annals New York Academy of Sciences, 1982. V.398 pp 44-53
Pain Management Resources
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Pain Management Policy - California Board of Registered Nurses
Prescribing Controlled Substances for Pain - A Statement by the Medical Board of California
Summit on Effective Pain Management: Removing Impediments to Appropriate Prescribing - Summit Report - State of California - 1994
The Tragedy of Needless Pain by Ronald Melzack -- Scientific American February 1990 Volume 262 Number 2 -- Contrary to popular belief, the author says, morphine taken solely to control pain is not addictive. Yet patients worldwide continue to be undertreated and to suffer unnecessary agony
The Painful Dilemma -- The Use of Narcotics for the Treatment of Chronic Pain, A report prepared by the Sacramento-El Dorado Medical Society ad hoc committee on the treatment of pain, 1990
Anatomy of a pain summit from November, 1994 - Sacramento, Medicine By Harvey L. Rose, MD
State of Florida Medical Guidelines on Pain Management Using Dangerous Drugs and Controlled Substances, 1996
Medical References on Pain and Pain Medication - Part 1
Medical References on Pain and Pain Medication - Part 2
Links to Other Pain Related Sites
Source:
ASAP - American Society for Action on Pain
Link:
http://druglibrary.org/schaffer/asap/index.htm
Jack Kerouac's List of 30 Beliefs and Techniques for Prose and Life
“No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language and knowledge.”
Jack Kerouac — cultural icon, symbolism sage, exquisite idealist — with his list...
Belief and Technique for Modern Prose:
Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy
Submissive to everything, open, listening
Try never get drunk outside yr own house
Be in love with yr life
Something that you feel will find its own form
Be crazy dumb saint of the mind
Blow as deep as you want to blow
Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind
The unspeakable visions of the individual
No time for poetry but exactly what is
Visionary tics shivering in the chest
In tranced fixation dreaming upon object before you
Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition
Like Proust be an old teahead of time
Telling the true story of the world in interior monolog
The jewel center of interest is the eye within the eye
Write in recollection and amazement for yourself
Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea
Accept loss forever
Believe in the holy contour of life
Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind
Dont think of words when you stop but to see picture better
Keep track of every day the date emblazoned in yr morning
No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge
Write for the world to read and see yr exact pictures of it
Book movie is the movie in words, the visual American form
In praise of Character in the Bleak inhuman Loneliness
Composing wild, undisciplined, pure, coming in from under, crazier the better
You’re a Genius all the time
Writer-Director of Earthly movies Sponsored and Angel in Heaven
The list was allegedly tacked on the wall of Allen Ginsberg’s hotel room in North Beach a year before his iconic poem “Howl” was written — which is of little surprise, given Ginsberg readily admitted Kerouac’s influence and even noted in the dedication of Howl and Other Poems that he took the title from Kerouac.
As Charles Eames might say, “to be realistic one must always admit the influence of those who have gone before.”
With items like “No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge” and “Accept loss forever,” the list is as much a blueprint for writing as it is a meditation on life.
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Jack Kerouac's List of 30 Beliefs and Techniques for Prose and Life | Brain Pickings
Margaret Atwood's 10 Rules of Writing
“Do back exercises. Pain is distracting.”
In the winter of 2010, inspired by Elmore Leonard’s 10 rules of writing published in The New York Times nearly a decade earlier, The Guardian asked some of today’s most celebrated authors to each produce a list of personal writing commandments.Margaret Atwood gives us her denary decree:

- Take a pencil to write with on aeroplanes. Pens leak. But if the pencil breaks, you can’t sharpen it on the plane, because you can’t take knives with you. Therefore: take two pencils.
- If both pencils break, you can do a rough sharpening job with a nail file of the metal or glass type.
- Take something to write on. Paper is good. In a pinch, pieces of wood or your arm will do.
- If you’re using a computer, always safeguard new text with a memory stick.
- Do back exercises. Pain is distracting.
- Hold the reader’s attention. (This is likely to work better if you can hold your own.) But you don’t know who the reader is, so it’s like shooting fish with a slingshot in the dark. What fascinates A will bore the pants off B.
- You most likely need a thesaurus, a rudimentary grammar book, and a grip on reality. This latter means: there’s no free lunch. Writing is work. It’s also gambling. You don’t get a pension plan. Other people can help you a bit, but essentially you’re on your own. Nobody is making you do this: you chose it, so don’t whine.
- You can never read your own book with the innocent anticipation that comes with that first delicious page of a new book, because you wrote the thing. You’ve been backstage. You’ve seen how the rabbits were smuggled into the hat. Therefore ask a reading friend or two to look at it before you give it to anyone in the publishing business. This friend should not be someone with whom you have a romantic relationship, unless you want to break up.
- Don’t sit down in the middle of the woods. If you’re lost in the plot or blocked, retrace your steps to where you went wrong. Then take the other road. And/or change the person. Change the tense. Change the opening page.
- Prayer might work. Or reading something else. Or a constant visualization of the holy grail that is the finished, published version of your resplendent book.
Atwood’s latest nonfiction, In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination (public library) .
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Margaret Atwood's 10 Rules of Writing | Brain Pickings
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