Archive for April, 2008

What’s Missing from Your Nutritional Plan

What’s Missing from Your Nutritional Plan Published April 30th, 2008 by admin IS FAITH - NOT VITAMIN C WHAT’S MISSING FROM YOUR NUTRITIONAL PLAN? Being a nutritionist in private practice for 12 years, I’m not suggesting to neglect the thirteen vitamins and seventeen minerals essential to the human […]

AP Says Americans Unloading ‘Prized Belongings’; Cites Two Examples

Let’s just get right to the report by the Associated Press’s Anne D’Innocenzio (HT to a NewsBuster commenter): The for-sale listings on the online hub Craigslist come with plaintive notices, like the one from the teenager in Georgia who said her mother lost her job and pleaded, “Please buy anything you can to […]

Do We Plan Our Life Challenges Before Birth?

Do We Plan Our Life Challenges Before Birth? This is a book that Tim read and the same medium (Staci) that he later consulted. Both are highly recommended. Cindi So often, when something “bad” happens to us, it appears to be […]

Some CSI Bloke In More Exciting Than CSI Drug Bust

Just watching more than one episode of CSI per lifetime is enough to turn anyone into a snarling drug-addicted mess, so imagine actually starring in it. Seriously, it must mess you up something rotten. Let’s take any CSI actor completely at random and see what starring in CSI has done to them. Let’s […]

IS IT THE FINAL NAIL IN THE COFFIN FOR ROGER CLEMENS?

A LONG TIME RELATIONSHIP WITH A YOUNG COUNTRY STAR! Roger Clemens had a decade-long relationship with country star Mindy McCready that began when she was a 15-year-old aspiring singer and the pitcher was a Boston Red Sox ace, the Daily News reported. “I cannot refute anything in the story,” McCready told the newspaper […]

Gary Dourdan

Dourdan, who stars on “CSI,” was arrested by police “after locating suspected cocaine, heroin, Ecstacy, miscellaneous prescription drugs and paraphernalia,” The AP reports. He was found passed out in his car, which was parked on the wrong side of the street. Hat Tip: Many thanks, JUNGLE JIM
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Bio-IT World day 2 - iPhones, Virtualization, EC2 and the Semantic Web

A quick report on Day 2 of Bio-IT World. The day started with a keynote by Josh Boger, founder and CEO of Vertex. His talk spanned several real world examples and some food for thought. Highlights Vertex has made active use of a MedChem ELN, which has been extended to their […]

‘CSI’ Actor Suspected Of Drug Possession

Police say “CSI” star Gary Dourdan has been arrested on charges of possession of narcotics and dangerous drugs.
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Parents Behind Bars

The startling statistic that approximately one in 99 U.S. adults is serving time in jail or prison has gotten a lot of attention. What isn’t getting as much play is the effect this has on other people, specifically the children of incarcerated adults. It’s estimated that more than 2 million children have one […]

carnival of eating disorders #16

hello people! this is the new edition of the carnival of eating disorders. unfortunately, i’ve been having problems with the blog carnival site (the site that administers all the carnivals) so i have had only a few submissions this month, two of which i’ll be including. to substitute for the slim pickins, i’ll […]

Comment by B&NWestCoast on Barnes and Noble is Scum

I have worked for Barnes & Noble for 7 years. I really enjoyed it most of the time. I have ever been promoted, despite earning the 50cent raise every year. I am currently doing a manager’s job, and have been for over a month. I just found out that the manager’s absence may be drug […]

NRCC - Shea-Porter’s Taxpayer-Funded Handout: Needles for Drug Addicts

Democrats Lift Ban Prohibiting Tax Dollars From Funding Needle-Exchange Efforts in D.C. Washington- Last summer, Carol Shea-Porter (NH-01) joined her liberal Democrat Party in Washington in voting to allow tax dollars to be spent on providing drug users in the nation’s capitol with new needles. Now, almost a half million dollars is being […]

NRCC - Hodes’ Taxpayer-Funded Handout: Needles for Drug Addicts

Democrats Lift Ban Prohibiting Tax Dollars From Funding Needle-Exchange Efforts in D.C. Washington- Last summer, Paul Hodes (NH-02) joined his liberal Democrat Party in Washington in voting to allow tax dollars to be spent on providing drug users in the nation’s capitol with new needles. Now, almost a half million dollars is […]

Device Approved to Assess Arterial Plaque

HealthDay - TUESDAY, April 29 (HealthDay News) — The InfraReDx LipiScan NIR Catheter Imaging System, a device that helps doctors explore blood vessels to assess the fat content of venous blood blood plaque, has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. More: - Brought to my attention by […]

Albert Hoffman RIP

Last night, chemist Albert Hoffman died of a heart attack in his home in Switzerland at age 102. Hoffman changed the course of history with his synthesis of lysergic acid diethylamide, better known as LSD, while studying the medicinal properties of a fungus that grows on wheat. A small bit accidentally spilled on his […]

Europol: Romania is a drug transit point for Latin America

Europol: Romania is a drug transit point for Latin America de A.C. HotNews.ro 11:21 English | Top News Trans-Atlantic drug traffickers changed their modus operandi to include Romania and Bulgaria as possible transit points for drug trafficking, Europol Director Max Peter Ratzel declared for the Finnish daily Helsingin […]

What Do You Do For Exercise?

For months now I have been going through a flare and I have been in an emotional slump.  I just decided last week that even if I feel like crap I am going to get some exercise.  So I started walking and riding bikes with my son and I have noticed that my emotional […]

Another European Trend Not To Follow

As a teacher, I already have enough to do just to teach my students history and engage in the day-to-day minutiae of managing a classroom. I don’t need to be monitoring these additional factors that the Brits are going to impose upon schools (and ultimately, upon teachers) in the very near future. […]

(The Man Who Inspired) Timothy Leary is Dead

Albert Hofmann, who invented LSD, has died. He was 102 years old. His invention, or “problem child” as he once called it, turns 70 this year. I tried LSD once, when I was in High School. It was 1979. It was a very nice, sunny spring day; I went with a friend […]

RIP Albert Hofmann, LSD Discoverer

RIP Albert Hofmann, LSD Discoverer April 30th, 2008 by John Horgan Albert Hofmann, a Sandoz chemist who accidentally discovered the properties of LSD in 1943, inaugurating the psychedelic era, died on Tuesday. Hofmann’s fateful discovery took place in Basel, Switzerland. I met Hofmann in Basel in November 1999 […]

Free Internet Video Tells Corp. & Union & Govt. Health Plans How To Obtain 100% of Generic Drug Savings From PBMs

Pharmacy Benefit Consultants has distributed a free world wide web video to ensure that health plans - not PBMs - obtain the budgeting reward that result from generic drug use. The video describes what every collective and union and superiority health plan must do to ensure it obtains 100% of generic drug savings. The […]

Seven promises evidence on Corby drugs

The Seven Network will present evidence to show Mercedes Corby and her brother were involved in the “vile” drug trade, a jury has been told. Tom Hughes QC, for Seven, said the evidence would also show Mercedes Corby lied to the public by denying either she or her family had any involvement with drugs. […]

Slapping Mexico

US Defense Secretary Gates made a rare visit to Mexico in which he discussed counter-drug issues. From AFP: Failure of the US Congress to approve a 1.4 billion dollar counter-drug aid package for Mexico would be “a real slap at Mexico,” US Defense Secretary Robert Gates has stated. Gates said on Tuesday the focus […]

The Magic Bullet

What if someone told you there was a magic pill you could take that would help your body fight off attacks of diabetes, heart disease, osteoporosis - almost anything that ails you - wouldn’t you grab that pill? You can read the entire article  HERE, at the New York Times. PERSONAL HEALTH […]

stoned geopolitics

As Gordon Brown moves to consolidate the cannabis trade further under the control of organized crime, a proposition emerges: Regardless, it suffices to say that the sinister underworld elements who supply our green, represent a challenge to anyone who considers themselves socially liberal. What is to be done? With legalization still a generation away, […]

LAZY

I need more vacation! I need more naps! Ack! I’ll return to regular blogging soon, but I’m contemplating a break since I already screwed up on blog 365. Break could last anywhere from a couple days to a few weeks, but I feel it on the horizon. In completely unrelated news: I somehow […]

Jock on drugs…

…but if some of you arrived here because of a scurrilous Labour leaflet trying to discredit me because of my opinion on drugs issues, I wanted to settle your minds, I hope, with a synopsis of my position… I am indeed in principle in favour of legalizing the vast majority […]

Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

Albert Hofmann, the Swiss chemist who discovered the hallucinogenic drug LSD, dies at the age of 102.
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Rock and Roll Report Podcast #12 - Spring Has Sprung! Turn It Up!

Well Spring has truly sprung here in Montreal and what better way to celebrate than blaring some cool rock and roll to heat things up! After the last 2 podcasts clocked in at over an hour, this one is a slightly shorter (but still rockin’!) 40 + minutes of amazing indie and […]

Mexicans seal gang war hospital

Mexican troops close off a Tijuana hospital to protect suspected drug traffickers wounded in gang warfare.
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Bunny Suicides

0 comments edit related share humor56 Pioneer chemist Albert Hofmann dies at age 102Albert Hofmann, a scientist who accidentally discovered and created the drug Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) in 1938, has died today at the age 102. picked by AutumnLotus 5 hours
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Tripping the light fantastic

On April 29, 2008, the world said goodbye to one of the people responsible for unlocking the metaphysical abilities of the human mind, freeing it from the cramping shackles of realism with what he referred to as “medicine for the soul.” On that day, we said goodbye to Alfred Hofmann. To […]

Swiss discoverer of LSD dies

ZURICH (Reuters) - Albert Hofmann, the Swiss chemist who discovered the hallucinogenic drug LSD, has died aged 102, the organisation that republished his book on the mind-altering substance said.
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The Case Of The Missing Kyoto Accord Chapter Six

Whether or not I fell like the proverbial ton of bricks, it sure felt like I had been hit over the head with them. When I came to it was with feelings I’d normally associate with the morning after the night before washing over me. The pain cutting through my head made it feel […]

Gates: New US Carrier In Gulf A “Reminder” To Iran

MEXICO CITY — Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday that sending a second U.S. aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf could serve as a “reminder” to Iran, but he said it’s not an escalation of force. Speaking to reporters after meeting with Mexican leaders, Gates said heightening U.S. criticism of Iran and its […]

Beacon Hill Roll Call - April 21 to April 25, 2008

Beacon Hill Roll Call / Volume 35-Report No. 17 / April 21-25, 2008 Copyright © 2008 Beacon Hill Roll Call. All Rights Reserved. By Bob Katzen THE HOUSE AND SENATE. Beacon Hill Roll Call records local representatives’ votes on three roll calls and local senators’ votes on one […]

Re: Doctor Doctor Give Me The News

ou can’t pay criminals for a story but the mainscream can make people look guilty and ugly and pay them thousands and send them on holidays if you lie? A former friend of Schapelle Corby was paid “something like” $120,000 in cash by Today Tonight for a fabricated story, a defamation jury heard […]

Re: SMH CORBY V COREN ?

Security called as woman disrupts Corby case A woman has disrupted the defamation action brought by the sister of Schapelle Corby, shouting support for the convicted drug smuggler from the public gallery of a Sydney court. The woman, dressed in a long purple dress and with long grey hair, interrupted Jodie Power’s […]

Big boozer, big loser

Raising taxes to make all alcohol more expensive is one way to curb Australia’s booze problem, a visiting academic says. Professor Robin Room said alcohol was too cheap and readily available from a public health point of view. “If you want to seriously do something about alcohol in Australia, then raising taxes […]

‘Father’ of LSD dies at 102

‘Father’ of LSD dies at 102 0 Comments Published by Mink Hippie April 30th, 2008 in obituaries NEW YORK (AP) — Albert Hofmann, father of the mind-altering drug LSD whose medical discovery grew into a notorious “problem child,” died Tuesday. He was 102. Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann, […]