Ok, from the start they are saying to push on the wound so it won't bleed. Then they say "Neda (the girl who is dying) don't be afraid, you'll live. Then her eyes roll up into her head and they all scream "Oh God no! She's dead! No! Neda please don't die!"
And then the video cuts off.
The Iranian resistance needs to avenge this cruel death. Neda's tragic death is a powerful symbol of the severe repression of the Iranian people under the dictatorship of the Ayatollahs. The only hope for Iran's future is that they realize their faith need not guide their government, and that they wrest power from the Mullahs and the theocracy.
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Just looking for hits
It's spicy on the list of Google Trends. Can I say it. The 2012 Movie trailer. Yes, everybody's BEEN talking.
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Monday, June 15, 2009
Black Magic Woman 1970-I've known a few
Suzie. She dated Carlos. Actually red magic. Fire. Barbara. Black. Deadly. Kim. Blue. Cold. Caribbean. Rainbow. Red, Black, Blue. Hot.
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Shulgins connections with DEA and individualized experiments
Refer to this post for his 1977 UCSC connection. Also a good article in New York TimesIn 1965, Shulgin left Dow to pursue his own interests, and became a private consultant, also frequently teaching classes in the local universities and at the San Francisco General Hospital. Through his friend Bob Sager, head of the U.S. DEA's Western Laboratories, Shulgin formed a relationship with the DEA and began holding pharmacology seminars for the agents, supplying the DEA with samples of various compounds, and occasionally serving as an expert witness in court. He also authored a definitive law enforcement reference book on controlled substances and received several awards from the DEA.
In order to carry out consulting work with the DEA, Shulgin obtained a DEA Schedule I license for an analytical laboratory, which allowed him to possess and synthesize any otherwise illicit drug. Shulgin set up a chemical synthesis laboratory in a small building behind his house, which gave him a great deal of career autonomy. Shulgin used this freedom to synthesize and test the effects of psychoactive drugs.
In 1967, Shulgin was introduced to MDMA (ecstasy) by Merrie Kleinman, a graduate student in the medicinal chemistry group he advised at San Francisco State University. MDMA had been synthesized in 1912 by Merck and patented in 1914 as a byproduct of another synthesis, but was considered useless, and was never explored. Shulgin went on to develop a new synthesis method, and in 1976, introduced the chemical to Leo Zeff, a psychologist from Oakland, California. Zeff used the substance in his practice in small doses as an aid to talk therapy. Zeff introduced the substance to hundreds of psychologists around the nation, including Ann Shulgin, whom Alexander Shulgin met in 1979, and married in 1981.
After judicious self-experiments, Shulgin enlisted a small group of friends with whom he regularly tested his creations, starting in 1960. They developed a systematic way of ranking the effects of the various drugs, known as the Shulgin Rating Scale, with a vocabulary to describe the visual, auditory and physical sensations. He personally tested hundreds of drugs, mainly analogues of various phenethylamines (family containing MDMA and mescaline), and tryptamines (family containing DMT and psilocybin). There are a seemingly infinite number of slight chemical variations, all of which produce variations in effect—some pleasant and some unpleasant, depending on the person, substance, and situation—all of which are meticulously recorded in Shulgin's lab notebooks. Shulgin published many of these objective and subjective reports in his books and papers.
Shulgin has had what he calls a few "hairy experiences", the worst being with a substance he calls 5-TOM. Developed in the early Eighties, the drug appeared, according to Shulgin, to be "benign and destressing, enabling fantasy and visual interpretation". While testing it, one of the male group members suffered what seemed to be a form of neurological shock and slipped into a catatonic state. Though he didn't seem to be in distress (and seemed, Shulgin says, to have drifted into a very childlike state), he couldn't hear what was being said, couldn't move, couldn't speak.
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