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"Wars have never hurt anybody except the people
who die."
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Memorial
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OUR PURPOSE: To carry the message...
OUR SPIRITUAL MASCOT: The Wild Goose
OUR MOTTO: Rule 62 - Don't take yourself too
seriously...
A MESSAGE FROM THE EDGE ...
Come to the edge, Life said.
They said: We are afraid.
Come to the edge, Life said.
They came.
It pushed Them...
And They flew."
- Guillaume Apollinaire
1870-1918
===FIRST THINGS FIRST===
A MOMENT OF SILENCE: for those who still
suffer...
A PRAYER: Today, please, help us to remember those who
died in the "War on Drugs"
Thank You.
OUR DAILY TASK:
"Practice random acts of kindness and senseless beauty."
--Anne Herbert
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THE COST OF WAR \ON IRAQ
http://costofwar.com/
U.S. BUDGET 2006 ADDICTION RECOVERY SERVICES
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2006/compassion.html
===ATTITUDE
ADJUSTMENT===
"Wars have never hurt anybody except the people
who die."
--Salvador Dali
===NOTABLE
QUOTEZ===
"A war is like when it rains in New York and
everybody crowds into doorways, ya know? And they all get chummy
together. Perfect strangers. The only difference, of course, is in a war
it's also raining on the other side of the street and the people who are
chummy over there are trying to kill the people who are over here who
are chums."
--Hawkeye Pierce, “MASH” The Interview Episode
We’re all scared. You hid in that ditch because you
think there’s still hope. The only hope you have is to accept the fact
that you’re already dead. And the sooner you accept that, the sooner
you’ll be able to function as a soldier’s supposed to function:
without mercy, without compassion, without remorse. All war depends upon
it.
--BAND OF BROTHERS
That was what, ultimately, war did to you. It was not
the physical dangers--the mines at sea, the bombs from the air, the
crisp ping of a rifle bullet as you drove over a desert track. No, it
was the spiritual danger of learning how much easier life was if you
ceased to think.
--Agatha Christie
===IN MEMORIUM===
LIST OF U.S. MILITARY KILLED IN IRAQ
2006 BY NAME, AGE, HOMETOWN & STATE
http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=1465238
As of May 26, 2007 - 2974 U.S. Military Dead in Iraq
DEATHS FROM DRUG OVERDOSE 2004 –
19,838 (LATEST AVAILABLE STATISTICS)
Deaths from accidental overdoses increased to 19,838
in 2004, from 11,155 in 1999
Unintentional fatal drug overdoses
nearly doubled from 1999 to 2004 and were the second leading cause of
accidental death in the United States in 2004, behind only automobile
crashes, according to the Centers for Disease Control.
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DEATHS FROM ALCOHOL-RELATED MOTOR VEHICLE
ACCIDENTS 2006 During
2006, 17941 people in the U.S. died in alcohol-related motor
vehicle crashes, (NHTSA 2006).
==== IN PERSPECTIVE===
Total Cost of War In Iraq 2006
$ 300
billion + and climbing –
expected
to reach a Trillion by the time (if it ever) is over…
Cost of War on Drugs 2005
$12 Billion (U.S. Govt. estimate)
U.S. Budget for Addiction Services 2006
$150 million
You do the math…
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===PROVERBIAL
WISDOM===
When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers.
--African Proverb
===NATIVE
WISDOM===
Let
him be just and deal kindly with my people, for the dead are not
powerless.
Dead,
did I say? There is no death, only a change of worlds.
^^^
I
will fight no more forever.
--Chief Seattle
===THOTZ FOR THE DAZE===
THE COST OF RECOVERY TREATMENT
…report
from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
(SAMHSA) calculates that the average cost for treatment of alcohol or
other drug addiction in outpatient facilities was $1,433 per course of
treatment in 2002.
The report, "Alcohol and Drug Services Study Cost
Study," concluded that residential treatment cost $3,840 per
admission. For outpatient methadone treatment, the 2002 cost was $7,415
per admission.
"Treatment is a bargain compared to expenditures
for jails, foster care for children, and health complications that often
accompany addiction," said SAMHSA Administrator Charles Curie.
"Rarely do we have public initiatives that can save society as much
as substance-abuse treatment and recovery support services. Treatment
provides an opportunity for recovery for the individual, better homes
for children, and improved safety for our communities."
According to the report, personnel expenses were the
single largest component of all costs for all types of treatment,
accounting for 63 percent of non-hospital residential care costs, 65
percent of the cost of outpatient methadone treatment, and 79 percent of
the cost of outpatient non-methadone treatment.
The report was based on site visits to 280 facilities
nationally, as well as a telephone survey of 2,395 treatment facilities.
===THE LAST WORD===
Peace on war…
Lumpy
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| 20 MAY 2007 |
Life affords no
greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than raising of the
next generation.
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ALCOPOPS AND POCKET SHOTS...
TODAY IS: Sunday, the 20th Day of May, 2007
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OUR PURPOSE: To carry the message...
OUR SPIRITUAL MASCOT: The Wild Goose
OUR MOTTO: Rule 62 - Don't take yourself too
seriously...
A MESSAGE FROM THE EDGE...
Come to the edge, Life said.
They said: We are afraid.
Come to the edge, Life said.
They came.
It pushed Them...
And They flew."
- Guillaume Apollinaire
1870-1918
===FIRST THINGS FIRST===
A MOMENT OF SILENCE: for those
who still suffer...
A PRAYER: Today, please, help us reach
out to our youth...
Thank You.
OUR DAILY TASK:
"Practice random acts of kindness and senseless beauty."
--Anne Herbert
===SURF'Z UP! ===
TRENDY ALCOHOLIC DRINKS POPULAR AMONG TEENS
AMA FACTS ABOUT YOUTH & ALCOHOL
ALCOHOL ADVERTISING & YOUTH
TEENAGE ALCOHOL STATISTICS
TEENS AGAINST DRINKING & DRIVING (T.A.D.D.)
TEENS AGAINST DRUGS & ALCOHOL
===ATTITUDE ADJUSTMENT===
Life affords no greater
responsibility,
no greater privilege,
than raising of the next generation.
--C. Everett Coop
===PROVERBIAL WISDOM===
Where old age is evil, youth can learn
no good.
--English Proverb
The aged in council, the young in
action.
--Danish Proverb
===WHAT'S HAPPENED?===
 | Alcohol is a leading cause of death among
youth, particularly teenagers. It contributes
substantially to adolescent motor vehicle crashes, other
traumatic injuries, suicide, date rape, and family and
school problems.
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| Every day, on average, 11,318 American youth
(12 to 20 years of age) try alcohol for the first time,
compared with 6,488 for marijuana; 2,786 for cocaine;
and 386 for heroin.
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| Alcohol is by far the most used and abused
drug among America's teenagers. According
to a national survey, nearly one third (31.5%) of all
high school students reported hazardous drinking (5+
drinks in one setting) during the 30 days preceding the
survey. 3
| Children who are drinking alcohol by 7th grade
are more likely to report academic problems, substance
use, and delinquent behavior in both middle school and
high school. By young adulthood, early
alcohol use was associated with employment problems,
other substance abuse, and criminal and other violent
behavior. 4
| Young people who begin drinking before age 15
are four times more likely to develop alcoholism than
those who begin drinking at 21.
5
| More than 1,700 college students in the U.S.
are killed each year—about 4.65 a day—as a result of
alcohol-related injuries.
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1Ninth
Special Report to the U.S. Congress on Alcohol and
Health from the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Rockville, MD: USDHHS, Public Health Service,
Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health Administration,
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Jun
1997. Kann, L., Warren, C., et al., Youth Risk
Behavior Surveillance—United States, 1995.
Morb Mortal Wkly Rep CDC Surveillance Summaries,
45(4):1-84, Sep 27, 1996.
2Data
reported by Jill Schmidtlein, White House Office of
National Drug Control Policy, Drug Policy Information
Clearinghouse, Feb 13, 1998. The data were extrapolated
from Preliminary Estimates from the 1996 National
Household Survey on Drug Abuse,
Rockville, MD: Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Services Administration (SAMHSA), 1997.
3Youth
Risk Behavior Surveillance – United States, 1999. June
09, 2000 / 49(SS05);1-96 Kann, L., S. Kinchen, B.
Williams, J. Ross, R. Lowry, J. Grunbaum, and L. Kolbe.,
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview
/mmwrhtml/ss4905a1.htm
accessed June 19, 2001.
4
Ellickson, P., Tucker, J., and Klein, D. Ten-year
prospective study of publc health problems associated
with early drinking. Pediatrics 111(5):949-955,
2003.
5Grant,
B., and Dawson, D. Age at onset of alcohol use and its
association with DSM-IV alcohol abuse and dependence:
Results from the National Longitudinal Alcohol
Epidemiologic Survey. Journal of Substance
Abuse, Vol. 9, Jan. 1998. pp. 103-110.
6Magnitude
of Alcohol-Related Mortality and Morbidity Among U.S.
College Students Ages 18-24: Changes from 1998 to 2001;
Ralph Hingson, Timothy Heeren, Michael Winter, Henry
Wechsler; Annual Review of Public Health, April
2005, Vol. 26: pp. 259-279.
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===THERE OUGHTA BE A LAW===
This product is so OBVIOUSLY
aimed at our youth, that it HAS to be criminal...
or should be,
if it isn't already...
ALCOPOPS
POCKET SHOTS
Take your booze everywhere!! Alcohol now comes in easy to smuggle
plastic bags called Pocket
Shots. How was this never thought of before!? Besides the
trashyness of this product, the potential is endless: school, work,
church, hangin' tough, dance floor mojo recharge, sporting events,
and best of all — the rock 'n roll show. Never pay ten dollars for
a shot of Jack again!
The packaging the is brain-child of Jarrold Bachmann, who saw
some South African workers buying some celebratory pay-day booze in
a bag. Bachmann saw the potential of the method, designed a FDA
approved booze shaped bag, and is now bestowing this blessing upon
us. That's another point for South Africa — first the Pronto
condom, now this! Every South African is probably running around
with quik condoms and booze! Well, let's hope they are.
The shots come in Rum, Gin, Vodka, Tequila, and Whiskey. Though
you cannot get your major brand label — you can only dream. No
trash is good but a little 50ml bag is better than a thick plastic
shot bottle. Pocket Shots cost about $1.50.
===YOUTH ISSUES===
Alcohol Advertising and Youth
| Research reports show that exposure to alcohol
advertising shapes young adolescents' attitudes toward alcohol,
their intentions to drink, and underage drinking behavior.
| Alcohol advertising appeared during all 15 of
the top teen television shows in 2002. Alcohol advertisers spent
60% more to advertise on these shows in 2002, including Survivor,
Fear Factor , and That '70s Show, than in
2001.
| Alcohol advertisers spent $990 million (22%
more) for TV ads in 2002 and placed 39% more alcohol ads on TV
than in 2001.
| Twenty-two percent of the alcohol ads aired on
TV in 2002 were more likely to be seen by youth 12-20 years of
age than adults. These 66,218 ads were also more likely to be
seen by youth ages 12-20 than by young adults ages 21-34.
| According to a 1998 advertising agency study,
youths six to 17 years of age identified Budweiser's cartoon ads
as their favorite, more popular than any ads for Pepsi, Barbie,
Snickers, or Nike.
| A 1996 survey of children ages nine to 11 found
that children were more familiar with Budweiser's television
frogs than with Kellogg's Tony the Tiger, the Mighty Morphin'
Power Rangers, or Smokey Bear.
| American young people heard more radio
advertising for beer and distilled spirits than did people of
legal drinking age in 2001 and 2002.
| Magazine ads for alcoholic beverages reached
more youth 12 – 20 years of age than adult readers in 2001.
| High intensity point-of-sale advertising is
common in convenience stores and combination gas
station/convenience markets where 75% of teenagers shop weekly.
Alcohol marketing at the point of sale (interior and exterior
signage, floor displays and alcohol-branded functional objects
such as counter change mats with an alcohol company logo) often
includes low height alcohol ads that are in the sight line of
children and adolescents as opposed to adults. |
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===RESEARCH===
http://www.cspinet.org/booze
/alcopops_summary.htm
Summary
of Findings: What Teens and Adults are Saying about "Alcopops"
This summary highlights the major
findings of two nationally representative telephone studies
conducted among 600 Americans teens ages 14 to 18 and among 500
Americans 21 years of age and older. The "Alcopops" polls
were conducted by Penn, Schoen & Berland Associates, Inc. for
the Center for Science in the Public Interest.
These polls represent
a detailed portrait of the attitudes of American teenagers and
adults toward "Alcopops," the newer, sweeter alcoholic
malt beverages that include the popular brands Mike's Hard Lemonade,
Smirnoff Ice and Doc Otis' Hard Lemonade. The surveys' objective was
both to measure the awareness and usage of Alcopops among youth and
adults and explore the opinions and attitudes of Americans about the
marketing of "alcopops" to underage people.
The polls clearly
demonstrate that "alcopops" are extremely popular among
young people. Teenagers are aware of them, they can cite specific
brands, they drink them and they have easy access to them. Teens and
adults overwhelmingly believe that "alcopops" are being
marketed to underage people and they cite the product attributes of
"alcopops," particularly their taste, as the reason they
believe underage people are targeted by companies that produce them.
There is a consensus among adults that something has to be done.
Americans support a wide range of policies that restrict the
marketing of "alcopops" to our youth.
The major conclusions
of the study are as follows:
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Both teens and
adults believe that liquor and beer companies target young
people with their advertising and that this contributes to
underage drinking. These sentiments are stronger among teens
than adults.
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Both teenagers
and adults recognize that "alcopops" are much more
popular among underage drinkers than among adults. Teens are
three times as likely to be aware of "alcopops" and
nearly twice as likely to have tried them.
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"Alcopops"
appeal to young people because they are sweet, they do no taste
like beer or liquor and they are very easy to get. Teens and
adults cite those attributes as the reasons they believe "alcopops"
are marketed to youth.
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"Alcopop"
product attributes, especially taste, are the major reasons
teens prefer "alcopops" to beer and liquor.
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"Alcopops"
are a gateway drink because teens say "alcopops" make
it more likely that they will try other alcoholic beverages. And
adults are worried about drinks that encourage experimentation
with alcohol.
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Adults are
concerned about the marketing of "alcopops" to
teenagers and support restrictions on the marketing of "alcopops"
to youth.
===BY THE BOOK===
CHAPTER 3 Page 62
...we decided that hereafter in this drama of life, God was going to
be our Director. He is the Principal; we are His agents. He is the
Father, and we are His children. Most Good ideas are simple, and
this concept was the keystone of the new and triumphant arch through
which we passed to freedom.
===SOUL FOOD===
It is not our part to master all the
tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those
years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we
know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till.
What weather they shall have is not ours to rule.
--J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of The King
===THOTZ FOR THE DAZE===
It is the duty of youth to bring
its fresh powers to bear on Social progress. Each generation of
young people should be to the world like a vast reserve force to a
tired army. They should lift the world forward. That is what they
are for.
--Charlotte Perkins Gilman
===THE LAST WORD===
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