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The Doors
- Jim Morrison
- Ray Manzarek
- Robby Krieger
- John Densmore
The poetry's headiness and the rock's accessibility, bound together in a hazy acid fever-dream.
The Doors' fusion of jazz, psychedelic rock and blues was elevated to mythic status by their love of chaos and the darkly volatile Morrison.
The Doors were among the most intense and revolutionary bands of the Sixties (or any decade, for that matter).
The impact of their meteoric career has resonated far beyond their brief half-decade as a recording and performing entity.
Their words and music captured the Sixties zeitgeist with undeniable power.
A cult of personality continues to surround Jim Morrison, their tempestuous lead singer. Morrison was a brooding, charismatic frontman in the classic mold of Elvis Presley and Mick Jagger. Yet he was given to more extreme and confrontational forms of behavior than those icons. Morrison pushed himself to the limit with drugs, alcohol and hard living, becoming one of rock's most celebrated martyrs when his body gave out at the age of 27. Only six years passed from the Doors' formation in 1966 to Morrison's death in 1971. During that time, the group released six studio albums and left a smoldering trail of memorable and often controversial concert performances that cemented Morrison's legend.
The Doors comprised vocalist Jim Morrison, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, guitarist Robby Krieger and drummer John Densmore. Their music combined classical elocution with jazzy improvisation and infused heady psychedelic rock with the earthiness of the blues. As Manzarek put it in a 1997 interview: "[They] just combined the Apollonian and the Dionysian. The Dionysian side is the blues, and the Apollonian side is classical music. The proper artist combines Apollonian rigor and correctness with Dionysian frenzy, passion and excitement. You blend those two together, and you have the complete, whole artist." Quite obviously, the Doors were no ordinary group. Thirty years earlier, in the group's original bio, Manzarek had listed his "hobbies" as "projecting the feel of the future."
Morrison's lyrics, sung in a resonant baritone, evinced the sophistication of a schooled poet and the street-level immediacy of a rock lyricist. Especially on the classic albums The Doors (1967) and Strange Days (1967), the group epitomized the sound of "acid rock," which took psychedelia to its limits.
Morrison's charged theatricality and the band's challenging musical flights were suffused with unpredictability and genuine danger. On several occasions, the singer's erratic behavior, which included baiting audiences and authorities from the stage, put him in legal jeopardy and physical risk. He fearlessly approached Doors performances as a kind of experiment in mass provocation, resulting in scenes of illumination and chaos. It was his way of externalizing a personal philosophy. As he stated in the Doors' original Elektra Records bio, "I've always been attracted to ideas that were about revolt against authority. I like ideas about the breaking away or overthrowing of established order. I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos—especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to be to be the road toward freedom..."
What the Doors offered listeners was not just entertainment but an exhortation to "break on through to the other side." That was, in fact, the title of the Doors' first single and the opening track of their self-titled debut album from 1967. In addition to "Break On Through (To the Other Side)," The Doors included "Light My Fire." Penned by guitarist Krieger in his first songwriting attempt, the song catapulted the group to stardom, topping the charts for three weeks during the Summer of Love. (For purposes of AM airplay, the single version of "Light My Fire" was edited from its nearly seven-minute album length to just under three minutes.) Then there was "The End," a harrowing epic that ambitiously recast elements of the Greek tragedy Oedipus Rex in a disturbing, acid-rock frenzy. "The End" ran for more than 11 minutes, making it one of rock's first long-form compositions.
Over the next four years, The Doors released five more studio albums—Strange Days (1967), Waiting for the Sun (1968), The Soft Parade (1969), Morrison Hotel (1970) and L.A. Woman (1971)—and the concert compendium Absolutely Live (1970). In the 40 years since Morrison's death, there have been numerous compilations, live releases and box sets. The surviving members even recorded two albums (Other Voices, 1971 and Full Circle, 1972) as a trio. Still, the original studio albums remain the core of the Doors' still-viable catalog.
More than any other band, the Doors reflected the turbulence of the Sixties and the clash between generations. "We want the world and we want it now," Morrison screamed in "When the Music's Over" (from Strange Days). This album-closing masterpiece warned of ecological apocalypse well before the rise of an organized environmental movement that would sound similar alarms. "The Unknown Soldier," an unlikely Top 40 hit, was the most potent antiwar song of the Vietnam era. Drawing upon Morrison's and Manzarek's background in film studies, the Doors further recast the song as a dramatic rock video—one of the first.
The Doors' outsized personality came largely from Morrison, who projected sexuality (he once described the Doors as "erotic politicians"), a deep interest in shamanism and ritual, and an unsettling preoccupation with death. The source of Morrison's intensity was addressed early in the group's existence. "It's the feeling of a bowstring being pulled back for 22 years and suddenly let go," he explained.
Much as Bob Dylan raised the bar for lyric-writing in the folk realm, Morrison brought a heightened poetical sensibility to rock lyrics. As keyboardist Manzarek stated in a 2006 interview, "Jim Morrison was a great young American poet working in the genre of rock and roll." He was well-read and had a keen intellect. His principal literary influences ranged from Beat Generation writers (notably Jack Kerouac) to French symbolist poets (especially Arthur Rimbaud) and English poet-savants including John Keats and William Blake. He derived the Doors' name from a passage in Blake's "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell" that reads, "If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite." That same passage inspired the title of Aldous Huxley's 1954 essay on his first psychedelic experience, "The Doors of Perception," which Morrison had read.
The origins of the Doors date back to the summer of 1965, when Morrison and Manzarek—who met as students at UCLA's film school—first broached the idea of forming a rock band that would marry words and music in provocative new ways. Morrison had come to Southern California after an itinerant childhood. (His father, George Morrison, was a naval officer who attained the rank of admiral.) Young "Jimmy" Morrison lived in Clearwater and Tallahassee, Florida; Alexandria, Virginia; and Alameda, California, among other places. Manzarek hailed from Chicago, growing up in proximity to the blues scene on the city's Southside.
During a chance meeting between the two on Venice Beach, Morrison sang a few of his songs to Manzarek, including "Moonlight Drive" (which would appear on Strange Days, their second album). Manzarek responded by saying: "Jim, those are the best songs I've ever heard...Man, we've got to get a band together. We're going to make a million dollars!" Morrison responded, "Ray, that's exactly what I had in mind." Morrison even had the band's name picked out: The Doors.
Early Doors lineups evolved out of Rick and the Ravens, Manzarek's bar band, which included his brothers Rick and Jim. Guitarist Robby Krieger and drummer John Densmore, both of whom were in a meditation group with Manzarek, joined as others fell away, and the group solidified as a four-piece. Krieger could play a variety of styles, including flamenco, blues and psychedelia, and his skill as a slide guitarist became a core ingredient in the group's sound. As a drummer, Densmore had a creative, dynamic flair that lent itself to the Doors' surreal, kaleidoscopic music. Notably, the Doors had no bass player. Manzarek filled that role at live shows and on early recordings by playing a Fender keyboard bass with his left hand while playing conventional keyboards (organ and piano) with his right hand. In the studio, they would occasionally recruit other musicians to play bass. The list of bassists who played on Doors albums included sessionmen Larry Knechtel and Jerry Scheff, Clear Light's Douglas Lubahn and old-school rocker Lonnie Mack.
Much of the Doors' original repertoire came together during a series of extended club residencies on Los Angeles' Sunset Strip. For much of 1966 and 1967, the Doors were the house band at the London Fog and then the more prestigious and popular Whisky a Go Go. Their six-song demo, recorded in 1965, had been turned down by nearly every other label. Based largely on their burgeoning popularity as a live band, the Doors were offered a contract by Elektra Records. Among their champions on the local scene was Love, a band of similarly anarchic spirits who were on Elektra.
Having conquered the L.A. club scene, the Doors achieved national success and critical acclaim soon after the release of The Doors, their 1967 debut. Produced by Paul Rothchild—as was every one of the original Doors albums except L.A. Woman—The Doors was a tour de force of literate, visionary acid-rock and one of the major releases of 1967. Its follow-up, Strange Days, appeared later the same year and drew from the same impressive wellspring of material. Notable tracks included "When the Music's Over," "Love Me Two Times" (a raunchy, riff-driven hit) and the haunting title song. For the last of these, Morrison's vocal received an eerie electronic treatment from Moog synthesizer pioneer Paul Beaver. If any album ever captured the disorienting aura of those conflicted times, steeped in violence-, political- and drug-induced paranoia, it was Strange Days. The album was strange right down to its Fellini-esque cover rendering of a back-street carnival freak show.
Waiting for the Sun—the Doors' third album, released in 1968—was their first (and only) album to hit Number One, a position it held for four weeks. Despite its chart success, it had been a difficult album to make, as the group had nearly exhausted its reserve of original material and "hit the third album wall," in producer Paul Rothchild's words. Moreover, Morrison's hedonistic lifestyle was wearing him out and wearying his bandmates as well. The group failed to cut a satisfactory take of Morrison's magnum opus, a suite of poetic songs and snippets entitled "Celebration of the Lizard," although lyrics from it were printed inside the album. Still, it had some exceptional moments, including "The Unknown Soldier," "Hello, I Love You" and "Five to One." The last of these, a bluesy rant about generational conflict and youthful revolt, contained the often-quoted line "No one here gets out alive."
The most problematic of the Doors' albums, The Soft Parade, followed a year later. It was made with relatively less enthusiasm and involvement from Morrison, and the inclusion of strings and horns on many tracks took it far afield from the Doors' previous work. Tellingly, he insisted that the shared group songwriting credit be abandoned and that each song's primary writer—either Krieger or Morrison—be identified. The album reached Number Six and spawned four Krieger-penned singles, including the Number Three hit "Touch Me," which included a jazzy sax solo by hornman Curtis Amy. The eight-minute title track, largely a Morrison creation, was the most notable track and the Doors' last epic composition.
Morrison reasserted himself on Morrison Hotel, their fifth album, which took a bluesier, more down-to-earth approach. It kicked off with "Roadhouse Blues," their hardest-charging song and a bonafide anthem on par with Steppenwolf's "Born to Be Wild." It also included "Waiting for the Sun" (a song left off the album of the same name), the sublime, jazzy "Queen of the Highway" and "Peace Frog," an apocalyptic slice of psychedelia revisited.
Away from the studio, Morrison's ongoing issues with drugs and alcohol—combined with his antiauthoritarian mindset—resulted in ever-unpredictable behavior. He was arrested onstage in New Haven in December 1967. His performances at Doors concerts during the difficult year of 1968 were erratic—often brilliant, sometimes problematic. The tumult engendered by Morrison came to a head in Florida. During an infamous concert at Miami's Dinner Key Auditorium on March 1, 1969, he was alleged to have exposed himself onstage and was subsequently charged with indecent exposure and public profanity.
With the specter and distraction of a court trial—and possible jail time—hanging over his head, Morrison found himself in real trouble. Interestingly, no photographic evidence affirming his exposure has ever surfaced. Prior to the Miami show, Morrison had been attending and even participating in performances by the provocative Living Theatre troupe. While he no doubt meant to challenge the audience in Miami in much the same way, it would appear that he employed suggestion and illusion to do so, stopping short of exposure. Nevertheless, he was found guilty on both charges and sentenced to 60 days in jail and a $500 fine. Those convictions were under appeal when Morrison died in 1971. In 2010 he was officially pardoned by the Florida Clemency Board, led by Governor Charlie Crist.
In the wake of the Miami incident and pending trial, Morrison and the Doors rebounded from adversity with renewed focus. They undertook a U.S. concert tour that found them delivering some of the strongest shows of their career. Many were taped for the double album Absolutely Live, which culled the best takes from along the tour. By this point, the Doors were working more bluesy and roots-oriented material—both originals and covers—into their sets. ("The Doors were basically a roadhouse blues band with intellectual pretensions," Manzarek noted in Keyboard magazine.) Decades later, beginning in 2001, a number of these concerts were released in their entirety on Bright Midnight, the surviving Doors' label for archival releases. The Doors' final performance took place in New Orleans, on December 12, 1970, where Morrison appeared creatively spent and mentally and physically exhausted.
All the while, much like such kindred spirits and guiding lights as Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsburg, Morrison nurtured a growing fascination with America in his later song lyrics and the poems he was writing outside the group. Some of Morrison's readings of his poetry—recorded in a Los Angeles studio on his 27th (and last) birthday—were posthumously issued in 1978, with music overdubbed by the surviving Doors, as An American Prayer.
The Doors sixth and final studio album—L.A. Woman, released in 1971—harkened back to their early years, when they collectively worked out new material in a more casual, workshop-type setting. After Paul Rothchild, the Doors' long-time producer, walked out in frustration early in the sessions, the Doors decided to self-produce the album with engineer Bruce Botnik. The group rose to the challenge—especially Morrison, who tempered his excesses as best he could during the sessions. Despite all the controversy, including blacklisting by radio stations and concert promoters, the Doors still proved capable of cracking the Top 40, as both "Love Her Madly" and "Riders On the Storm" were sizable hits in 1971. The propulsive, seven-minute title track acutely captured the alluring yin and alienating yang of the City of Angels, becoming one of the group's best-loved songs.
Before the release of L.A. Woman, Morrison took an open-ended hiatus from the Doors and moved to Paris. There was talk of him returning to tour with the group, based on the resurgent momentum generated by the album's success, but it was not to be. Jim Morrison died of a heart attack in the Paris apartment he shared with longtime girlfriend Pamela Courson on July 3, 1971.
Morrison's death at age 27 closed the door on the original group, although the surviving members released two albums as a trio—Other Voices (1971) and Full Circle (1972)—before disbanding and moving on to other projects. Both Krieger and Manzarek have issued solo albums. Manzarek also produced the first four albums by the celebrated L.A. punk-rock group X; briefly belonged to Nite City, an L.A. rock group; and collaborated with Beat Generation poet Michael McClure. Drummer Densmore and keyboardist Manzarek published autobiographies of their lives with the Doors in 1990 and 1998, respectively.
Meanwhile, the continuing interest surrounding the Doors periodically erupted into a phenomenon whenever a fresh young audience discovered them. The first such wave occurred in 1980. It was triggered by three things: the use of "The End" in a scene from director Francis Ford Coppola's Vietnam War film, Apocalypse Now (1979); the publication of the first in-depth Doors biography (No One Here Gets Out Alive, by Jerry Hopkins and Danny Sugarman); and Elektra Records' release of Greatest Hits (which has sold more than 3 million copies in the U.S.). In 1981 Rolling Stone ran a feature on the Doors' resurgence with a cover shot of Morrison alongside the unforgettable line, "He's hot, he's sexy and he's dead."
Oliver Stone's 1990 film biography of the band, which ran for more than two hours, triggered another wave of Doors-mania. Another newsworthy event was the 2000 release of Stoned Immaculate: The Music of the Doors. This 17-track CD found a variety of artists—ranging from John Lee Hooker and Aerosmith to Creed and Stone Temple Pilots—covering Doors songs, often joined by one or more original band members. The release of several Doors box sets—especially 1997's The Doors Box Set, with its wealth of unreleased material, and the 2006 leviathan Perception—also provided ways for new and old fans to approach or rediscover the legacy. Meanwhile The Best of the Doors, a double-disc compilation released in 1987, has quietly become the top-selling album of their career, having been certified nine times platinum (the equivalent of nine million copies sold).
In 2002 Krieger and Manzarek formed the Doors of the 21st Century with vocalist Ian Astbury (of the Cult) and other musicians, touring under that name in 2003 and 2004. Drummer Densmore sued his former bandmates over their use of that name, and in 2005 a California court decreed that no permutation of the Doors' name could be used without the consent of all members of the Doors' partnership. (That decision was upheld by the California Supreme Court in 2008.) Krieger and Manzarek have subsequently performed as Riders on the Storm and Manzarek-Krieger.
Densmore has also refused to allow the Doors' songs to be used for commercial purposes, despite offers of millions of dollars. In a partnership proposed by Morrison back in 1965, each group-related decision requires unanimity. In 1969, Morrison strongly disapproved when the others approved the use of "Light My Fire" for a Chrysler commercial without his consent, threatening to take a sledgehammer to the car in question on national TV if the deal weren't rescinded. By honoring Morrison's refusal to license the Doors' songs, Densmore has allowed their music—almost alone among rock acts of any significance—to remain uncompromised by such associations.
Inductees: John Densmore (drums; born December 1, 1944), Robby Krieger (guitar; born January 8, 1946), Ray Manzarek (keyboard; born February 12, 1939, died May 20, 2013), Jim Morrison (vocals; born December 8, 1943, died July 3, 1971)


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Check out what the Campus Activities Board (CAB) has planned for your entertainment on campus. Our energetic group of volunteers work hard to make sure you have opportunities for fun and enjoyment while at Thomas University. From concerts at the Residences Hall to Movies on the Green, speakers, intramurals and free novelty items, CAB is ensuring you have great college memories. Plus, you can get involved as a member of CAB; we are always looking for new enthusiastic members to help support all programming. Make sure to check out our photos of past events on Facebook! See you at the next Event!
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Images: Serendipitous Discovery of Asteroid 128177 (2003 RA11)
What is an asteroid? An asteroid is a small chunk of rock orbiting our sun. The largest asteroid is nearly 1000 km across, although most are smaller, with many less than 1 km across. The majority spend their lives orbiting the sun in a diffuse belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. They are considered to be remnants from the epoch of planet formation.
What does an asteroid look like? To a passing spacecraft, an asteroid appears to be a giant, pitted rock. However, from the distant platform of Earth, tiny asteroids look very much like any faint star. That is, they look like a tiny spot of light. How, then, does one distinguish between a star and an asteroid? An asteroid is much closer to us than a star. Therefore, one can see it appear to drift with respect to the background stars as the Earth passes by. But how does one discover an asteroid, since it seems you must already know where it is and follow it for several hours? The answer: by accident. At least, this is how we discovered this asteroid.
The story: In an attempt to measure the rotational period of a known asteroid, we took a series of 30 five minute exposures. It turns out that in the field of view of these images we saw not only the asteroid whose rotation we were trying to measure, but three other unexpected asteroids as well! We deduced they were all asteroids since they all looked like little stars that slowly moved across the star field as the night progressed. We checked their positions against those of known asteroids and found that one of them was not on the list. We had discovered a new asteroid!
The movie follows the new asteroid over a period of three hours (a faint, stationary spot near the middle of each frame). Stars drift up and to the left at a rate of 32 arcseconds per hour, in response to the Earth's motion past the asteroid. This is like in a home movie of a dog running around the back yard. The camera follows the dog, which appears stationary in the middle of each frame while the grass drifts by. The movie consists of ten frames created from the 36 images we took, so each frame is actually the average of three to four images. This helps to show the incredibly faint asteroid more clearly.
The still image shows a larger portion of the field of our observations. In this image we averaged together all of the movie frames, still holding the position of the new asteroid fixed. The motion of the stars up and to the left over three hours make them long trails in this image. The new asteroid (circled in red) shows as a pointlike image. There are also two short trails moving up and to the right. These are two other asteroids, moving more like the new asteroid than the stars, but differently enough to trail somewhat (also circled). The asteroid in the upper left corner is named Yokotatakao (6649), while the one in the lower right is van den Heuvel (3091). The latter was the target of the rotation study. That one is able to discover a new, exceedingly faint solar system object in a single field of view is a testimony to the power of an excellent telescope on a rare Michigan night of superb transparency.
Processing: The discovery images were taken on September 5, 2003 from 12:30 am to 4:00 am. The images were all five minute exposures taken with a red filter. After reducing the data by dark subtraction and flat fielding the images, astrometric positions and brightnesses of each of the asteroids in the field were determined. An even longer series of images were made the following night to confirm the existence of the new asteroid.
Positions for both nights were submitted to the Minor Planet Center, the institution responsible for keeping track of all the small bodies in the solar system. They confirmed that the object was indeed not previously observed and assigned a provisional designation of 2003 RA11 (based on the date of discovery). After additional observations over later oppositions, the orbit was sufficiently refined for it to receive its permanent numerical designation, 128177 (on March 20, 2006). Only at this point is the discoverer allowed to suggest a permanent name to the International Astronomical Union. [See our asteroid recovery page for an details on tracking Asteroid 128177.] The observations, data reduction, and image processing were all done by Calvin student Andrew Vanden Heuvel.
Orientation and scale: North is up and East is to the left. The angular dimensions of the movie is 4.4 by 4.1 arcminutes, and of the still is 10 by 10.6 arcminutes.The apparently bright star (GSC 5232:1066) approached by Asteroid 128177 in the movie has a visual magnitude of 15.5, some ten thousand times fainter than the faintest star visible to the unaided eye. Asteroid 128177 had a magnitude of about 19.5, forty times fainter again than the "bright" star.
On the night of its discovery, Asteroid 128177 was in the constellation of Aquarius, just 10 degrees north of the planet Mars, which dominated the night sky, shining eight hundred million times more brightly than the asteroid.
The celestial coordinates of the star GSC 5232:1066 are 22h20m25.2s, -6deg44'9'' (epoch 2000).


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The Mana'olana Pink Paddlers invite you to paddle with Mana'olana as a visiting member to see how you like Hawaiian Outrigger Paddling and the Pink Experience.
New paddlers are welcome. Take part in an exciting adventure in the canoe as we paddle together to improve physical and mental strength, to make new friends, to overcome fear, and to encourage and learn from one another. Half way through our paddle we lava (stop) to rest, chant, pray, sing, laugh and learn together as we find hope and enjoy the beauty and culture of the Hawaiian Islands.
The Mana'olana Pink Paddlers paddle every Tuesday and Thursday morning. Please join us at the beach no later than 7:45 am to sign in, and get your paddle and instructions. Paddlers launch at 8:30 and return at 9:30 am to wash our canoes, have coffee and "talk story" to enjoy, empower, and be in community with each other!
First time is free to cancer survivors! Make sure to arrive early, as space is limited.
Mana'olana is located with Maui Canoe Club at Sugar Beach in North Kihei, Maui. (Just north of Sugar Beach Condominiums (300 N. Kihei Rd). Watch for the pink and red, white, and blue canoes. Mana'olana meets under the Pink Paddle on the tree in the middle of the Club...Just look for all the Pink Shirts!
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The World Academy continues to expand its network of regional centers with the establishment of a new office in Bucharest, Romania.
|WAAS Divisions
|SEED: The South East European Division of WAAS was formally established in November 2005 on the occasion of the World Academy's General Assembly held at Zagreb, Croatia. Ivo Šlaus is the President of SEED. The Academy's Cadmus Journal is published in collaboration with SEED. Together with its partners SEED-WAAS has organized numerous international conferences, sessions during international conferences and meetings, including events at Banja Luka (2006, 2010), Barcelona (2010), Dubrovnik (2009, 2012), Istanbul (2006 and 2009), Ljubljana (2008), Podgorica (2009), Sarajevo (2006), and Zagreb (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2013).
|WAAS Centers
|Bucharest: WAAS has entered into agreement with the Romanian Ministry of Education to establish a center of the World Academy in Bucharest under the leadership of Emil Constantinescu, Member of the WAAS Board of Trustees and former President of Romania and Rector of the University of Bucharest. The Center will promote the activities of the Academy within Romania and in collaboration with other institutions in Europe and the Mediterranean.
|Italy: The World Academy is proud to include the Person-Centered Approach Institute, Italy as an official WAAS center. IACP is one of the largest psychological counselling and post graduate psychological education and training institutions for psychotherapists, teachers and counsellors in Italy, co-founded by the world-renowned psychologist Carl Rogers and WAAS Trustee Alberto Zucconi in 1979. Headquartered in Rome, IACP conducts research, training and consultancy to protect and promote human capital. IACP is recognized by the Italian Ministry of Education for post-doctoral training courses and is an official Collaborating Centre of WHO and ILO on health promotion training and research. IACP is associated with the Western Behavioral Sciences Institute, an international think tank and is a member of the International University Centre (IUC) of Dubrovnik. In 2012 it received from the American Psychological Association, Division 32, Bühler Award for outstanding and lasting contributions to humanistic psychology. In May 2010 IACP hosted a meeting of the Board of WAAS at its Florence offices. IACP is also one of the founding charter members of the World University Consortium and has offered its long experience in fund-raising to assist the Academy in financing its research projects.
|Podgorica: At the invitation of the Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts, WAAS established the Podgorica Centre in June 2012 under the leadership of Momir Djurovic, President of MASA and Member of the WAAS Board of Trustees, when we jointly conducted a major conference and general assembly.
|Pondicherry: The Mother's Service Society, a social science research institute based in Pondicherry, India, which has worked in close collaboration with WAAS since the late 1990s. Since November 2011, it officially serves as the Academy's administrative office and publishing center for Cadmus, Eruditio and WAAS newsletters, under the direction of Garry Jacobs, CEO of WAAS and Vice President of MSS and Ashok Natarajan, WAAS Fellow and Secretary of MSS. WAAS and MSS jointly conduct research on new economic theory, new paradigm, employment, individuality, transdisciplinary social science, mind and creativity, and related subjects. MSS also has a research team led by WAAS Associate Fellow Janani Harish supporting the activities of the World University Consortium on global higher education. MSS is a major donor for recent WAAS conferences, research projects and publications. Click here for a complete list of WAAS-MSS past activities.
|Trieste: Since 2010 The Risk Institute has been collaborating with the South East European Division of WAAS and the Mother's Service Society to publish Cadmus Journal. In March 2013 Trieste became an official regional center of the Academy when it organized a major international conference, the Trieste Forum, on Impact of Science and Technology on Society and Economy. The Center is headed by Orio Giarini, WAAS Trustee and Director of the Risk Institute, and Domenico Romeo, WAAS Fellow and former Rector of the University of Trieste. The Institute was the major source of funds for the Forum and provides ongoing financial support for publication of Cadmus.
|Zagreb: The International Centre for Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems located in Croatia is a non-governmental and a non-profit organization headed by WAAS Fellow Neven Duić. SDEWES was approved as a WAAS Centre after conducting six highly successful conferences on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems to provide a wider platform for communication and exchange of ideas between scientists and researchers that promotes multidisciplinary approaches to sustainability. WAAS has been a co-sponsor for a number of these conferences. The SDEWES centre promotes sustainable development of energy, water and environment systems through organization of courses, summer schools, public lectures, seminars and workshops and by providing professional opinion on important issues of sustainability. We are extremely pleased to include SDEWES in the WAAS network.
|Zagreb: Collaborating since 2012 at the Dag Hammarskjold University College, the Zagreb Centre has been a focal point for organizing WAAS conferences in the region, including Actions to Enhance Global Security, a NATO funded symposium conducted in collaboration with the European Leadership Network at Zagreb on May 3-4, 2013 under the direction of Ivo Šlaus, President of WAAS and Dean of DHUC.


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Mary clay portraits
Mary by Philip Werner
Clay on skin.
Melbourne. November 2013.
Romahni Rose – Clay & Nudes
Getting over shame through nude photography
I do a fair bit of nude photography, and almost exclusively of women, but the below story shows how it relates also to men and couples.
A friend of mine, Eva, was complimenting some of my photos in a series of clay covered nudes and since I mostly shoot friends, I remarked that it could be her in those photos. She chuckled, declined and said she had a lot of body image issues. Stunning as she is I was not surprised since this is unfortunately all too common.
To combat one particular body image issue and taboo I have also been working on a coffee table photo book called 101 Vagina, a collection of 101 photos with a message from each of the women. When this arose in conversation I again asked if she might be interested in participating. Again she declined.
But her compliments kept coming and I suggested she might appreciate seeing herself through fresh eyes. In the end it was her boyfriend who emboldened her, saying it might help her get over some of her negative body image. So she got in touch to participate, in both projects no less.
Most people are a little awkward in front of a camera at first, but Eva was almost inconsolable. She was visibly struggling, so I went to give her a hug. I was stunned. Her whole body was shaking, from the inside, as if some massive tectonic plates were shifting in her character, dislodging old and strong patterns of shame. I had never witnessed anyone confront such massive fear, and have the courage to go ahead in spite of it. Massive kudos to her!
As it turned out it didn't take long for her to relax into the shoot and we got some great images. She could hardly believe that the images were of her, seeing herself through my eyes allowed her to see the beauty in my beholder's eye, rather than the critic in hers.
The next day Eva wrote to me that she looked at herself in the mirror naked for the first time ever!
More recently she shared this about how it affected her relationship. "It certainly has changed our relationship, firstly I was so amazed and felt so loved when he [boyfriend] told me to go ahead with something that I thought most guys would discourage. When I sent him the pics I was really nervous, and I was so happy to hear that he loved them. I'm much less shy around him now, and find it slightly easier to talk to him about my body."
Witnessing such shifts is the reward for the conscious nude photographer. But it was not always so.
My journey with nude photography began many years before I ever took a nude photograph; in my mind. I dreamed of doing it ever since I became sexually aware but there was a huge barrier in the way. That barrier was shame.
My mother was a fairly strong feminist and the message I inadvertently internalised was that male sexual desire is the root cause of all evil in the world, that nudes are degrading and people who take them akin to murderers. And yet I loved the images.
Perhaps fittingly it was a woman who finally invited me into the world of nude photography, and that first experience, and all that followed, have worked to reverse my inhibitions. It was a healing process for me, an affirmation that my appreciation of the female form is not only tolerated, but appreciated. Further to that, it was often a healing experience for the women also.
Any shame we hold around our bodies and sexuality will always impact on the way we share ourselves with others. Shame is a powerful hindrance to happiness and it does not dislodge easily. If it's easy to talk about it's not shame you're dealing with. Shame is the last thing we want to talk about, ever. But it's the first step to really being honest and connecting with ourselves and others.
Clay & Nudes – Eva
The Studio Brunswick
Melbourne. June, 2012.


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Brendan DeMelle | February 11, 2013
By Brendan DeMelle • Monday, February 11, 2013 - 00:44
A new academic study confirms that front groups with longstanding ties to the tobacco industry and the billionaire Koch brothers planned the formation of the Tea Party movement more than a decade before it exploded onto the U.S. political scene.
Far from a genuine grassroots uprising, this astroturf effort was curated by wealthy industrialists years in advance. Many of the anti-science operatives who defended cigarettes are currently deploying their tobacco-inspired playbook internationally to evade accountability for the fossil fuel industry's role in driving climate disruption.
The study, funded by the National Cancer Institute of the National Institute of Health, traces the roots of the Tea Party's anti-tax movement back to the early 1980s when tobacco companies began to invest in third party groups to fight excise taxes on cigarettes, as well as health studies finding a link between cancer and secondhand cigarette smoke.
Published in the peer-reviewed academic journal, Tobacco Control, the study titled, 'To quarterback behind the scenes, third party efforts': the tobacco industry and the Tea Party, is not just an historical account of activities in a bygone era. As senior author, Stanton Glantz, a University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) professor of medicine, writes:
"Nonprofit organizations associated with the Tea Party have longstanding ties to tobacco companies, and continue to advocate on behalf of the tobacco industry's anti-tax, anti-regulation agenda."
The two main organizations identified in the UCSF Quarterback study are Americans for Prosperity and Freedomworks. Both groups are now "supporting the tobacco companies' political agenda by mobilizing local Tea Party opposition to tobacco taxes and smoke-free laws." Freedomworks and Americans for Prosperity were once a single organization called Citizens for a Sound Economy (CSE). CSE was founded in 1984 by the infamous Koch Brothers, David and Charles Koch, and received over $5.3 million from tobacco companies, mainly Philip Morris, between 1991 and 2004.
In 1990, Tim Hyde, RJR Tobacco's head of national field operations, in an eerily similar description of the Tea Party today, explained why groups like CSE were important to the tobacco industry's fight against government regulation. Hyde wrote:
"… coalition building should proceed along two tracks: a) a grassroots organizational and largely local track,; b) and a national, intellectual track within the DC-New York corridor. Ultimately, we are talking about a "movement," a national effort to change the way people think about government's (and big business) role in our lives. Any such effort requires an intellectual foundation - a set of theoretical and ideological arguments on its behalf."
The common public understanding of the origins of the Tea Party is that it is a popular grassroots uprising that began with anti-tax protests in 2009.
However, the Quarterback study reveals that in 2002, the Kochs and tobacco-backed CSE designed and made public the first Tea Party Movement website under the web address www.usteaparty.com. Here's a screenshot of the archived U.S. Tea Party site, as it appeared online on Sept. 13, 2002:
CSE describes the U.S. Tea Party site, "In 2002, our U.S. Tea Party is a national event, hosted continuously online, and open to all Americans who feel our taxes are too high and the tax code is too complicated." The site features a "Patriot Guest book" where supporters can write a message of support for CSE and the U.S. Tea Party movement.
Sometime around September 2011, the U.S. Tea Party site was taken offline. According to the DNS registry, the web address www.usteaparty.com is currently owned by Freedomworks.
The implications of the UCSF Quarterback report are widespread. The main concern expressed by the authors lies in what they see happening overseas as the Tea Party movement expands internationally, training activists in 30 countries including Israel, Georgia, Japan and Serbia.
As the authors explain:
"This international expansion makes it likely that Tea Party organizations will be mounting opposition to tobacco control (and other health) policies as they have done in the USA."
Freedomworks and Americans for Prosperity are both multi-issue organizations that have expanded their battles to include other policies they see as threats to the free market principles they claim to defend, namely fighting health care reform and regulations on global warming pollution. The report's warning about overseas expansion efforts by Freedomworks should therefore also be heeded by groups in the health and environment arenas.
Finally, this report might serve as a wake-up call to some people in the Tea Party itself, who would find it a little disturbing that the "grassroots" movement they are so emotionally attached to, is in fact a pawn created by billionaires and large corporations with little interest in fighting for the rights of the common person, but instead using the common person to fight for their own unfettered profits.
climate criminal replied on Permalink
It's most unfortunate that document is pay-walled
It's most unfortunate that this very important document is pay-walled
Brendan DeMelle replied on Permalink
Full article is now available - no paywall
The full article is now available for free at this link: http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/
John Mashey replied on Permalink
Sadly, that happens sometimes
Sadly, that happens sometimes with high-rated journals. Unlike many, this one is actually worth the $30, given the amount of material and pointers it has.
Don't read any further.
Folks, dont bother reading any further.
This article was probably targeted for FUD (Fear Uncertainty Doubt) because its popular. Its been facebooked like 6k times, and tweeted 600+ times.
marbee appears to spouting the typical conspiracy theory garbage denialists do.
This consists of references to bloggers as though they some how know everything, and all kinds of random political sources. Its the standard tripe of the paid trolls.
I still remember Rosa… claiming Wind Turbines have exhaust ports, and seemingly and inexhaustable supply of carbon to dump in the atmosphere. I laugh whenever I think about it.
In other news… Bird deaths are finally being taken seriously. As you all know windows of houses and sky scrapers kill more birds than anthing else by a healthy factor of 10,000.
In this case, a company avoided fines by using a special window film which keeps the birds away.
Wonder how the TEA Party "libertarians" would react to this, knowing that they are not really libertarians, but corporate astro-turf drones, doing the bidding of their corporate masters? Not actually fighting for their own freedom or liberty. But lobbying for companies, who, if were in charge, would argue the very people supporting them should be taxed more and the corporations less. But keep those subsidies coming. They are a necessity.
There is no conflict of interest.
Tea Party is Authoritarian and its members really are drones that just do what they are told.
For a good read on their means and motives, read this.
the rest of big pharma shill
I'mm surprised that it took so long for the giant pharmaceutical corporate entity to attack freedom in this way! Given that Johnson & Johnson"s anything BUT "non-profit", The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, funneled tens of billions of dollars into health organizations to an end, to control and push their cessation drugs, I'd say this story is just propaganda. Besides the various grants the ACS gets from RWJF (As of last on-line financial report, RWJF owned 42,343,491 shares of J&J stock). If RWJF does something that causes J&J stock to go up by $10/share, such as greatly increasing sales of stop-smoking products might, that puts many more millions of dollars into RWJFs bank account. The more J&J's stocks increase, the more money and corrupt power RWJF has, the more studies they fund, the more advocacies they create, the more laws they push for to sell more of their products. It keeps going. They also get tens of millions of dollars in grants from the Federal Government, which they then turn around and use their 501(c)(4) (ASC CAN) to lobby the government for more money, for increased taxes against consumers and for laws which drive the need for more J&J over-the-counter products. They also run their own smoking cessation program. The ACS needs to get back to finding a cure in our lifetime, instead of the wasting the donations they have. According to their 2008 Consolidated Division 990s, they spent just about $4 million on research but spent almost $400 million on salaries, pensions, benefits and payroll taxes. http://www.cancer.org/acs/groups/content/@nho/documents/document/group99...
GingerLadySlipper replied on Permalink
The Robert Wood Foundation gave
substantial funding to a man I know who's anti-tobacco work had nothing to do with any cessation drugs, just solid and path-breaking research on tobacco's adverse effects on the health of smokers and nearby non-smokers.
Payed for "science" phony as a 3 dollar bill
Since this whole charade of harm from smoke has been fully exposed like global warming, there is only one conclusion, total control of a previously free population. But the extreme taxation global warming's cap and trade would bring enrages the same public that allows smokers to be outrageously taxed and discriminated against. There is just no other explanation feasible! These tobacco control nnuts are breaking the bank and and you know what happens then! Total ruin. But then maybe that was the plan in the first place! From the Cato Institute:The Second-Hand Smoke Charade http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=5811
Quote: It now turns out that the influential 1993 EPA report "Respiratory Health Effects of Passive Smoking: Lung Cancer and Other Disorders" was as phony as a three-dollar bill. State officials and private businesses that believed that ETS was a public health danger (and not just a nuisance) were completely misled by the EPA. And, of course, so was main street American public opinion.
GingerLadySlipper replied on Permalink
Just a guess!
I'm guessing this screed cites one S. Fred Singer's document published by the De Toqueville institute dissing the 1993 EPA report, signed by 16 scientists from Berkeley, etc. I read Singer's report (never a fun exercise) and found nothing that put any hole in the EPA's report. Nothing there but burble.
Singer's work is documented to have been planned with the tobacco company institute, money filtered through 'non-profit' institutes.
A man I know
told me he wasn't married and he was fixed. Guess what?
Oh Goodie
Oh look, a libertarian tobacco lobbyist trying to ply his trade on a site dedicated to exposing the likes of him.
Marbee, maybe you would find more support for your snakeoil on right wing forums, like WUWT, or Bishop Hill? Or Oncology forums? Just sayin.
Then again, despite their right stance on most things, funnily enough, Watts even admits the no brainer:
"both of my parents died of tobacco related illnesses."
But goes on to rant with the obligatory dog whistle about Al Gore, so his readers know where the political compass of the site is pointing. But that's to be expected.
Cato is still paying people to push this shit? After all this time? Good gig mate.
Philip Machanick replied on Permalink
the you're a bigger one argument
Deflect the case that you're a shill by calling others shills. No one here is arguing the case for big pharma and anyway the tea party cause promotes the interests of all big business.
"Science" payed for by those
"Science" payed for by those who profit is cherry picked data put into one "study" to show what they want it to. Even the CDC has finally admitted this. The 1998 WHO Bofetta study showing that SHS may even have a protective effect and not the least harmful was withheld because it didn't promote total control of the population. . The abstract of that study is misleading however: they noted finding evidence of a "weak" positive relationship for workplace and spousal exposure, BUT the evidence for a protective effect in children was much stronger: a 22% reduction in adult lung cancers, a statistically significant level, unlike the relationship they chose to highlight. Need proof?
http://web.archive.org/web/20021128202555/http:/www.telegraph.co.uk/html...An abstract of the study is available here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9776409?dopt=Abstract .The entire study can be found here. http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/content/90/19/1440.full.pdfThe WHO's press release is located here.http://www.who.int/inf-pr-1998/en/pr98-29.html
Just like any denialism, I'm
Just like any denialism, I'm sure you can find an obscure paper here and there, that supports your ludicrous case, but even other deniers don't back you up. Tough sell buddy. I mean, there are easier crowds to peddle your wares to.
A simple question for you sir right wing tobacco lobbyist. Do you think the lungs prefer or function better with just clean air………or smoke? Derp.
By the way, sterling job there ol chap in diverting the subject away from the Koch's and the Tea Party and derailing it onto some bullshit defense of tobacco. That deserves a sustained golf clap.
Kevin Grandia replied on Permalink
You're actually serious? Honestly, can you mail me whatever you're smoking please (as long as i isn't cigarettes).
GingerLadySlipper replied on Permalink
Second Hand Smoke definitely affects 3000/Americans a year
This is a weak affect; fortunately for me most children of smokers do not get lung cancer. Still 3000 Americans with new cases every year – and study after study has found this number – is not insignificant.
The surprising finding was that after non-smokers stopped by smoked on in restaurants, bars, etc., the heart attack rate dropped by 1/3. This was found in multiple cohort groups in multiple locations around the world.
GingerLadySlipper replied on Permalink
The Original Article
estimating 500-3000 cases of lung cancer per year due to passive smoking by Repace and Lowrey in Science magazine in 1980 was totally unfunded.
How about you: Do you get paid by the tobacco industry?
"DISCLAIMER: I get no
"DISCLAIMER: I get no funding from anyone, period. ."
I least you have a sense of humour.
GingerLadySlipper replied on Permalink
Right again! you can't read
I said Repace's work in 1980 did not receive funding, not in 1996. Eventually he built a solid reputation and responded to requests for his work.
Johnson & Johnson's Nicoderm doesn't sell in the volume that their bandaids do. You have some kind of a bee in your bonnet but it doesn't make much sense to others. Stop it from buzzing, listen to reality, tobacco is loathsome and people ought to be informed of its dangers.
Personal note: A couple of years ago, I thanked my Dad for quitting smoking in his 30s. He was then 98. He lived to be 99 and I got to know him better because of the time.
What's loathsome is nuisance laws and taxes (those made in the interest of corporate profit) take away everything that we hold dear: Private property rights, Parental rights, Privacy rights, Equal rights, Labor rights, etc. The very same thing has happened to business owners with smoking bans! "Since when did the meaning of freedom change from "freedom to" to "freedom from"? The prefernce of a non-owner dictates how a business owner runs his business. One of the 5 main things the Constitution guarantees is that this nation protect property rights (from smoking bans) and earnings (taken for tobacco control), yet this uneducated government would take away the rights of privately owned businesses. The smoking ban is an attack! Did you know that legislators are scored based on the anti tobacco bills they introduce, support & pass. Their scores are tallied at the end of session and their campaign contributions from the anti's are based on their score. We get some real b.s. bills, like making tobacco prescription only, they tried to close down smoking in smoke shops, to increase the cigarette and other tobacco products taxes and always, ban smoking on public streets and parks. It never ends. The anti's are in a tight spot as the state budgets continue to fall. How much does anti tobacco suck from the state budget that could go to schools and other basic state services. The politicians have been bought off and they don't give a damn if all small businesses go out of business, so long as they get their campaign contributions. I am pretty certain it is the same nationwide, that is why the anti's write the bills and can always count on one of their pre-paid minions in state government carry the bills. The state lawmakers don't write the bills, special interest writes them.
Kevin Grandia replied on Permalink
Yah I know
Stopping kids from smoking known carcinogens is such a waste of money. At last the gov't didn't spend a trillion on fighting the threat of nonexistent weapons of mass destruction…. Oh wait, forget it.
Mentioning Repace lost your argument
Did you read about his testimony in the Greenbelt second hand smoke case? I'm still laughing over that one! (The Judge is too) His $5 smoke detector messed up and measured second hand smoke in the non smoking courtroom!
If you guys want people to believe your global climate change or your ETS stuff, you better find better, less pharma funded, people to quote.
I know there's lots of money in producing papers, and numbers can be juggled to say about anything. I think that Marbee has made legitimate arguments here, and the best you can do is try and belittle the messenger. VERY grammar school!
What, are you guys sitting
What, are you guys sitting next to each other at the same desk at Cato or something? Sheeesh.
Same question for you. Do you lungs function better with or without smoke in them? Do they prefer smoke or not?
Many would do well to read
Many would do well to read Michael J. McFadden's "Dissecting Antismokers' Brains" and educate themselves instead of shilling for big pharma. Such nonsense that we TEA Partiers are working for big tobacco. What next???
"and educate themselves
"and educate themselves instead of shilling for big pharma."
Soooo, the tobacco companies are responsible for thousands of deaths due to their product, but it's all "big pharma's" fault for creating products that help people quit the shit?
Nice bait and switch technique there mate.
Lets see, it's banned from cars with kids, public transport, hospitals, restaurants and work places and it's just because people are shilling for "big pharma"?
Wow. That has got to be one of the best brainwashing available, whatever the course you have been on.
Sorry Phil
Read the Harvard report on the NRT products of Johnson and Johnson, and then tell us about how wonderful the tactics of pharma are in marketing these worthless products!
If the patches and gums worked, they wouldn't be having to buy Legislators and legislation to push them onto people.
How about pharma deaths?
Over 100 THOUSAND deaths occur every year due to pharmaceuticals. THAT is the true bait and switch! One only has to look at the marketing strategies by Johnson & Johnson, makers of their own brand of nicotine in droplets stuck in a piece of gum and bariatric surgery that maims the demonized overweight people, and all of the deadly drugs they've put out lately that has resulted in recalls, and the fact that they were busted for bribery recently, to see that this is just more propaganda. Tobacco is in the nightshade family that includes potatoes, tomatoes, broccoli, cauliflower. Should we ban those? Not yet, pharma doesn't have a substitute, but they do have vitamins, thus the push to ban raw milk, herbs, junk food, soda, and backyard gardens. They use bogus "science" to hoodwink uneducated legislators into making unconstitutional laws in the name of "public health" that in essence just wipes out the competition in a BRILLIANT marketing scam, and these legislators have no idea that they've given away OUR farm. More and more people are paying attention, We The People DEMAND the nanny state retreat to the scum ponds from which they came and the sheeple to stop following them!
GingerLadySlipper replied on Permalink
Agree in part
There are too many iatropic deaths, and we have no way to count them because of the secrecy. Pharmaceutical companies have too often been careless or even marketed stuff they should know better. Once is too often.
Tobacco is unhealthy, causes or increases the risk of lots of diseases. And I DON'T NOT WANT TO BE SMOKED ON.
Anti-Smoking doctor disputes "evidence"
"Dr. Michael Siegel demonstrates that epidemiological studies showing a very minor risk from SHS were cherry picked to arrive at a pre-determined conclusion.
Here Dr. Siegel re-examines a 1997 Study on Secondhand Smoke and Heart Disease. And finds that data which did not support the pro-smoking ban agenda was omitted so as not to taint the findings to what scientists wanted the studies to reveal. In other words the data was manipulated or fixed to arrive at a pre-determined agenda. Now combine that manipulation with the fact that most of these pro-smoking ban researchers and groups received funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) which has direct ties to the Nicoderm manufacturer Johnson & Johnson Company, and you have an indictable offense worthy of an international investigation." http://cleanairquality.blogspot.com/2006/11/dr-siegel-demonstrates-that....
Kevin Grandia replied on Permalink
Nothing more compelling than a link to a free blogspot site. Oh, except for text written in red. That's all I need man - I'm going to 7-11 right now to pick up a carton for me and the kids. Gonna have us a smoke-a-thon!
Next thing you know the govt gonna want to take my automatic Bushmaster because "they kill people."
David B. Benson replied on Permalink
Yet another
denailist, I fear.
David B. Benson replied on Permalink
David B. Benson replied on Permalink
Site hiccup
The propaganda goes like this
The propaganda goes like this: Second-hand smoke contains over 4,700 chemicals, over 200 poisons and over 50 human carcinogens.
However, in a 20 foot square room:
For Benzo[a]pyrene, 222,000 cigarettes would… be required to reach the lowest published "danger" threshold.
For Acetone, 118,000 cigarettes would be required.
Toluene would require 50,000 packs of simultaneously smoldering cigarettes.
At the lower end of the scale– in the case of Acetaldehyde or Hydrazine, more than 14,000 smokers would need to light up simultaneously in our little room to reach the threshold at which they might begin to pose a danger.
For Hydroquinone, "only" 1250 cigarettes are required. Perhaps we could post a notice limiting this 20-foot square room to 300 rather tightly-packed people smoking no more than 62 packs per hour?
It is increasingly clear to us that ETS is a political, not scientific, these laws rob Constitutionally protected property rights and freedom and are criminal!
"It is increasingly clear to
"It is increasingly clear to us that ETS is a political, not scientific, these laws rob Constitutionally protected property rights and freedom and are criminal!"
Funny how history is replete with corporations crying foul, or playing the political card when they arent able to pollute as much as they wish. Even funnier, the people they are able to dupe to rally to their cause. I mean. It's one thing to get paid to spin shit like you do. But you gotta feel sorry for the poor dupes who get paid nothing and still push their propaganda. Totally oblivious to reality and totaly manipulated. The furthest from freedome one could achieve. As they are mentally shackled to corporate agenda's and are unwitting soldiers in the army of product defense.
They want to stop our smoke stacks filling the sky with smog, it's all political I tell's ya, they are taking our freedoms.
They want to stop us dumping toxic sludge into rivers, it's all political I tell's ya, they are taking our freedoms.
They want to stop us using CFC's, it's all political I tell's ya, they are taking our freedoms.
They want to stop us putting lead in paint or petrol, it's all political I tell's ya, they are taking our freedoms.
They want to stop us from selling tobacco that kills people, it's all political I tell's ya, they are taking our freedoms.
They want to stop us from adding an extra layer of CO2 to our plant that we all share, craeting havoc for everyone, it's all political I tell's ya, they are taking our freedoms.
Man, when do you nutters tire of that shit?
Do you support my business?
I am a self employed nail stylist. Let's say you call me for an appt and I do not wish to have you as a client. It is my right to deny you an appt. I choose who I cater to. The smoking ban takes that right away from an owner. Now the mob gets to dictate their smoke free preference on an owner. Tobacco is a legal product, may be sold in any bar, yet use of it will not be allowed. If you were to feel threatened by smoke, you could choose to enter or not, a sign would be all that's needed. A sign in braille if needed. You alone would be "jeopardizing your health" if that's how you see it. I work for myself and by myself. I have no other employees. I don't want the nanny state protecting me from myself or my smoking clientele. My non-smoking clientele's air is cleaned by air filtration. So, please explain why the government feels they must enact a law to ban smoking? There was never a law that smoking must be allowed, there shouldn't be one banning it!
I'm anti smoking... buut...
I don't support banning smoking. I believe people should have choice. Although I detest tobacco companies selling and advertising to teenagers.
In Canada taxing the hell out of cigarettes, just makes sense since the government therefore the public has to pay for the medical costs associated with cigarettes.
I believe that now that Obamacare is in place, all Americans now have to subsidize the costs associated with cigarettes. (FYI, cigarettes and low Socio-Economic Status go hand in hand.) In effect all Americans are now subsidizing the health care costs caused by smoking because poor people tend to smoke.
John Mashey replied on Permalink
Tobacco business plan
Since the early 1980s, if not before, tobacco's business plan to stay in existence has been:
1) Addict children to something that will kill many, slowly. For most people, the addiction only gets "set" while brains are developing. In practice, very few long-term smokers start after 20, and they have an easier time stopping. See Importance of Younger Adults (if youy read carefully, it isn't 18-24 that counts, it's 11-18). For more detail, see Appendix F in Fakery 2 … here at DeSmogBlog. Few adults decide to smoke and stay smoking, since it's not an adult decision.
See discussion of Joe Camel, TwistaLime and similar items.
2) Fund the thinktanks to be "independent" voices, do things like "off-the-record" talks with legialstors, "access to GW Bush".
and most successfully
3) Create the Tea Party to help the companies protect their right to kill children, probably not what msot Teat Partiers realize they are doing, not even getting paid for it.
Just who do you think funds the Legacy Foundation that put the "Importance of Younger Adults"? The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Johnson & Johnson's "non-profit", makers of high priced nicotine in gums and patches. And the DeSmogBlog is all in for global warming, another debunked scam that purports taxing the hell out of people for the profit of the elitists. Perhaps you haven't heard of ClimateGate. Nice try though.
Philip Machanick replied on Permalink
nice typo
I'm sure it's a typo, but I like it: "teat party".
And here we have someone suckling at myths like secondhand smoke is good for children. How repulsive can you get?
What I find bizarre is that someone who has the evidence presented straight to them that their beloved movement is nothing but manipulation by big money interests, and they can do no better than repeat the self-serving lies propagated by those interests.
It takes a lot to admit you've been duped. Failing to accept that in such a public way only makes it worse.
Keep those nail clippings - big tobacco may need them
"I am a self employed nail stylist."
As the title suggests you may just want to keep those clippings as big tobacco may be able to use them to aid with filtration or free-basing.
If you don't understand then never mind "Dissecting Antismokers' Brains" YOU need to read:
Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition by Robert Proctor.
Oh and amongst many other ex's I am an ex-smoker only here now writing this by being fortunate to survive two cardiac arrests in two days, the second whilst in ITU wired and plumbed like a Space Shuttle on the launch pad, neither of which by rights I should have survived. But then I am an ex-military (well naval) type who led a very active life with lots of extra exercising on assault courses, mountain walking and climbing, survival and fitness courses and much sport, the medics considered that it was my underlying stamina which helped pull me through.
At that stage I was only smoking about five a day (unless socialising with a drink) and my usual by choice non-filter at that having figured out long ago that filters were bunk and as they turn out more dangerous. See Proctor for the why. Not had a 'fag' (UK idiom for cigarette) since.
The tobacco industry is pernicious and their cover mendacious.
PS Why do links not go live even when using Gandalf?
haha, is that all you have?
"Keep those nail clippings - big tobacco may need them"
Infantile at best.
Now there are ads on TV sayins smoking is a "treatable condition"! So I googled smoking treatable condition and found this! This about says it all!
SUMMARY POINTS: Some forms of "medicalisation" may now be better described as "disease mongering" — extending the boundaries of treatable illness to expand markets for new products.
Alliances of pharmaceutical manufacturers, doctors, and patients groups use the media to frame conditions as being widespread and severe. Disease mongering can include turning ordinary ailments into medical problems, seeing mild symptoms as serious, treating personal problems as medical, seeing risks as diseases, and framing prevalence estimates to maximise potential markets. Corporate funded information about disease should be replaced by independent information.
In 1998 the American Cancer Society finally retracted their 53,000 statistic, stating in a press release: "The American Cancer Society will no longer use the statistic because we too have been unable to acquire the documentation to support this citation." In other words, it was a lie. Wonder why the figure is still being used? They simply can't stop lying. Close to 90% of the weight of tobacco smoke is composed of oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, and plain water (1989 Report of the Surgeon General p. 80). This mix is usually called "fresh air."
Dude. You're trolling the internet for bloggers and calling their statements facts.
Infantile indeed.
Next thing you're going to tell me is that the high school graduate Anthony Watts is smart. (Too bad he couldn't make it ALLL the way through university.)
I trust peer reviewed science for a reason. I use it every day of my life. And it protects me from complete and total idiots inventing garbage and pretending its true.
Keep those nail clippings - big tobacco may need them - try 2
The text body of my post for some reason vanished with only the heading appearing. Not sure why this was but it looks like Phil M suffered from something similar upthread.
My post was not as infantile as you thought for big tobacco may have a use for those clippings as an aid in producing the perfect filter or in free-basing.
Now if you don't understand what free-basing is then forget "Dissecting Antismokers' Brains" and go study:
'Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition' by Robert N Proctor.
Which will demonstrate quite clearly how dishonourably the tobacco industry, and their army of lawyers and PR Agents, have behaved.
Oh, and amongst many other ex's I am an ex-smoker only here now writing this by being fortunate to survive two cardiac arrests in two days, the second whilst in ITU wired and plumbed like the space shuttle on the launch pad, neither of which by rights I should have survived. But then I am an ex-military (well naval) type who led a very active life with lots of extra exercising on assault courses, mountain walking and climbing, survival and fitness courses and much sport, the medics considered that it was my underlying stamina which helped pull me through.
At that stage I was only smoking about five a day (unless socialising with a drink) and my usual by choice non-filter at that having figured out long ago that filters were bunk and as they turn out more dangerous. See Proctor for the why. Not had a 'fag' (UK idiom for cigarette) since.
Public health policies come
Public health policies come from pharma who stand to profit in the tens of billions on any given day! You can buy their book on Amazon for $80.00: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's (Johnson & Johnson's anything BUT "non-profit"'s Series on
Health Policy, Tobacco Control. Policy.http://www.amazon.com/Tobacco-… Foundation-Anthology/dp/078798745X
Many "non-profits" have major ties to huge entities. First, the non-profits CREATE a crisis that benefits these huge entities. Like the health advocates. Like big pharma. They are not really concerned with health, they are concerned with profits to be made. Then the state gets their hands in there for the taxes to be raised. Just like the global warming scammers trying to make people believe that skyrocketing taxes in the name of the planets health are acceptable, the second hand smoke charade, and the newly CREATED obesity "crisis" demonizing our youth, these non-profits have a global agenda of trying to make people believe that We The People are too stupid to make our own decisions and need bans of all kinds to protect us from ourselves! In
truth, these scams land on the heads of incompetent politicians. Free enterprise is in dire jeopardy.
I rest my case.
Please locate some facts, and stop grabbing random bits form the internet.
It's all there, open your eyes!
In 1988 a rise in Salmonella poisoning had scientists sure that it came from eggs and announced the scare, leading to the slaughter of millions of chickens and thousands of egg producers were put out of business, then the blunder came to light and the government did an about face and acknowledged that eggs were not the problem in the first place! Then came the mad cow disease scare. Then the Y2K scare. And the DDT scare that led to 50 million people dead. Now we have deliberate manipulation of climate data, obesity data, and second hand smoke data, all politically driven. Obesity is a CREATED "CRISIS" that benefits pharma, they own the market on Splenda and Ethicon-Endo bariatric surgery, not to leave out Nicoderm and Nicorette for the CREATED second hand smoke "CRISIS"! Now we see all of the medicines pharma is making from none other than the tobacco plant. Destroy the competition, isn't that their creed? All we have to do is look back into history to see just how easily hoodwinked by special interest that government officials, the press, and the public can be! But we ARE catching on! Too bad all of us won't.
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Not sure about the others but
(1) man cow desease was real; the local veterinary school did some of the research for this region.
(2) Y2K would have been an actual problem if not for the work of thousands of people who helped to keep it from occurring; I was one.


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Missouri's football roster features 35 players from Texas, including 10 starters, but that didn't stop defensive tackle Sheldon Richardson from making some pointed comments about the state in an interview with a Columbia, Mo., TV station this week.
Richardson, a St. Louis native whose Tigers will play No. 16 UT in Columbia on Saturday, said he's tired of hearing about how great the football is south of the Red River.
"I hate people from Texas," Richardson said. "I give people on our team from Texas a hard time because they're from Texas. I hate Texas. I just do. I hate Texas. Any other overrated state in football I pretty much hate. That's how I feel about it … Overrated. Overrated. Overrated. It's blown out of proportion. It really is. I played against their best recruits and I wasn't impressed, at all."
Neither Richardson nor Tigers coach Gary Pinkel have ever beaten the Longhorns, who have won six games in a row against Missouri. But Richardson said, "We're gonna change that."


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In yesterday's Wall Street Journal, Karl Rove explains that groups like his SuperPac American Crossroads are under fire for being too effective.
Obama administration officials, liberal pundits and Democratic apparatchiks this past week have launched a coordinated attack designed to weaken support for conservative Super PACs. Democrats saw how these groups created more GOP victories than expected in 2010 and strongly countered Team Obama's attempt to strangle the Republican ticket this summer by spending 20% of the president's campaign budget on a TV blitz attacking Mr. Romney.
Just as they did after the successful 2010 election, groups such as Crossroads will carefully review their activities to determine what was effective and what wasn't. But Democratic attacks aren't weakening the commitment of conservative Super PAC benefactors. They're in it for the long haul and don't take direction from the left. Their attitude is: The fight goes on, beat 'em next time.
That is not the view expressed by the donors I've talked to. They express concern—not about attacks by the Obama administration—but about the super PACs' poor win-loss ratio; about their overheads, salaries, and other costs; about transparency and accountability in the expenditure of funds. Even more fundamentally, they worry that the super PACs lead Republicans to overinvest in redundant advertising and to underinvest in party building and Get Out the Vote.


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Okay, so I figured out how to view my webalizer logs. Now, here's the trick: how to understand them? That's something I've only half-figured out yet, and I haven't been able to find a place which outlines what all the stats mean.
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The Republican's sweeping tax overhaul, the largest in three decades, is heading for the finish line this week, even if runs into a few last obstacles along the way.
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- Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) confirms he'll vote yes, too.
- The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget says the bill, which will cost $1.456 trillion under conventional scoring, could cost up to $2.2 trillion. Factoring in economic feedback effects and interest costs, the real tab is likely to be around $2 trillion, the group says.
- The conservative Tax Foundation's dynamic analysis of the bill shows it reducing revenues by $448 billion over 10 years.
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TOXNET (TOXicology Data NETwork)
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NORTHFIELD, Vt.—Top-ranked Norwich University (13-1-0, 8-0-0 ECAC East) used a three-goal third period to overcome the #13/16 Beacons (9-3-1, 3-3-1 ECAC East) Friday night and earn a 6-1 win at Kreitzberg Arena.
The loss broke the Beacons 8-game unbeaten streak and seven-game winning streak, that dated back to mid-November. UMass Boston's one goal was their fewest all season long, and fewest since a 3-1 loss at Norwich last season on February 17, 2012, a span of 14 games.
After a relatively even first period in which Norwich took a 2-1 lead into the break, the Cadets scored three goals within two minutes in the second period to blow the game wide open.
Norwich senior forward Colin Mulvey scored two goals including his national-leading sixth game-winning goal of the season, to keep the Cadets undefeated in conference play.
Junior forward Mark Grinhaus (Scarsdale, N.Y.) picked up the lone UMass Boston goal at 9:05 of the first period to momentarily tie the game at 1. Fellow junior Cam Harvey (Bow, N.H.) picked up the assist on the play.
In net, freshman goaltender Zach Andrews stopped 18 of the 24 shots he saw, in his first action against the ECAC East power. Junior Chris Czarnota made 15 stops on 16 shots for the Cadets.
Norwich took an early 1-0 lead at the 7:33 mark when Travis Janke beat Andrews on the second Cadets shot of the game.
Grinhaus evened it up at the 9:05 mark, but Norwich would grab the lead for good just 19 seconds later. Mulvey took a pass from Tory Allan and the senior forward buried it by Andrews for a 2-1 lead.
The two teams would play even hockey for the next 20 minutes of action, but the quick-strike Norwich offense blew the Beacons out of the game just after midway through the second.
Within a one minute and 55 second span, Nevin Lawler, Shane Gorman and Bryce Currier all scored for the Cadets to make it a 5-1 Norwich lead at 13:16 of the second period.
UMass Boston would hold their own in the third period, outshooting the Cadets 7-4, but Mulvey made it 6-1 Cadets with a goal at 16:46 of the third.
For the game, UMass Boston's top-ranked power-play went 0-for-3, while Norwich ended the night 1-for-5.
The Beacons will get right back onto the ice Saturday, when they take on St. Michael's College at 3:00 p.m.


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