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Helping Helps the Helper

Recovery Is Sexy.com — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 09:53:56 +0100

CONCLUSIONS: These findings provide compelling evidence that recovering alcoholics who help other alcoholics maintain long-term sobriety following formal treatment are themselves better able to maintain their own sobriety. Research; Pagano ME, Friend KB, Tonigan JS, Stout RL. Helping other alcoholics in alcoholics anonymous and drinking outcomes: findings from project MATCH. J Stud Alcohol. 2004 Nov;65(6):766-73. See also MP3’s and Movie of Bill W. Recovery Stoppers Twelve Step Sponsorship Emotional Sobriety Tools of Recovery Alcoholism, Addiction & Codependency Recovery Bookstore Hazelden Books, DVD's & Medalions (Source: Recovery Is Sexy.com)

Felony Charges for Recording a Plainclothes Officer

Cato-at-liberty — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 15:23:42 +0100

By David RittgersYesterday I wrote about the University of Maryland student beaten by police and falsely charged with assault during a post-game celebration. I concluded with a warning that a law barring citizens from taking photos or videos of law enforcement officers (such as those in force in Great Britain) would have prevented the false charges and beating from coming to light. I did not know that Maryland was already heading that direction. Video: // < ![CDATA[ // < ![CDATA[ DayPortPlayer.newPlayer({articleID:"22384",accSite:"WMAR",accPos:"CCTVI.NEWS.LOCAL",categoryID:"14",rootCategory:"",domain:"wmar.web.entriq.net",playerInstanceID:"24FAD9E0-DC70-2532-414F-7E6F051C4C2F",videoAdConDefID:"2",videoAdObjectID:"4",bannerAdObjectID:"5"}); // ]]> Anthony Graber was riding his motorcycle...

Due Process Victory for Concealed Carry Permit Holder

Cato-at-liberty — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 11:03:26 +0100

By David RittgersThat’s the outcome in the Second Circuit (full decision here), where a Connecticut man who has held a concealed handgun permit since 1982 was given the run-around when he tried to renew it, prompting a year-and-a-half of delay. In March 2007, Kuck applied to DPS to renew his permit to carry a firearm. He was subsequently contacted by Defendant Albert J. Masek, an employee of DPS, who requested that Kuck provide a U.S. passport, birth certificate, or voter registration card in support of his renewal application… Kuck objected to the requirement, arguing that he had submitted proof of citizenship when he first applied for a permit in 1982 and, over the subsequent 25 years, had never before been asked to provide such proof with a renewal application. He claimed then, as h...

Open Carry Victory

Cato-at-liberty — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:20:30 +0100

By David RittgersAs I previously noted, one of the areas where enforcement of the right to keep and bear arms will impact states and localities is in the carrying of handguns, either open or concealed. Until then, handgun carry proponents will be forced to comply with state laws that mandate open carry where concealed handgun permits are not issued or are only issued to those who happen to have fame, money, or political connections. Wisconsin is one of two states with no provision for concealed carry (Illinois is the other). Frank Hannon-Rock, a member of Wisconsin Carry, a pro-gun rights organization, was arrested for open carrying on his front porch. He filed suit and was recently awarded $10,000 by a federal district court. This parallels (but does not equal) the experience of Danladi M...

Bikers Carrying the Message of Recovery

Recovery Is Sexy.com — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 10:04:00 +0100

Motorcyclists carrying ‘The (AA) Message’ rumble, pipes roaring, in honouring Big Bruce. The collective rumble of a hundred motorcycles, mounted by riders hell-bent on staying “clean and sober” and spreading the message of sobriety and goodwill, awakened a traditionally sombre setting in West Texas: A Midland funeral. The sight and sound initially perhaps conjured up images of the hell-raising gang, the fearsome Hells Angels Motorcycle Club or the Boozefighters Motorcycle Club — “A drinking club with a motorcycle problem.” But those were not these motorcyclists. Maybe they were drunken hell-raisers in times past but no more. Today, they are clean and sober. Donning riding outfits, sans helmets, and mostly, it seemed, dedicated to smoking tobacco, ...

Small But Mighty: Meet Rickina of Stick Me Designs

Diabetes Mine — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:00:07 +0100

So much diabetes news, so little attention to the individuals “in the trenches”… It seems we’re bombarded with headlines, often about developments from the major pharmaceutical and device companies that do play a key role in how we live and manage our diabetes. But what about the folks that don’t have a billion-dollar budget? The [...] (Source: Diabetes Mine)

Duh Study: Carrying Gun Ups Shooting Risk

Healthbolt — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:03:42 +0100

Ok, I have the first in Healthbolt’s Duh Study File. I had a Duh Study File in Blisstree’s Condition and Disease blog, if you want to read more of them. Duh studies are studies that make me wonder one of a few things: *WHY* did they waste time and/or money on this? Who the heck doesn’t know that already? How on earth did the researchers get funding for this study? And this helps us how? Today’s Duh Study is that carrying a gun increases your chance of being shot. Really. According to a study done by a researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, people who carry guns are 4.5 times as likely to be shot and 4.2 times as likely to get killed compared with unarmed citizens. When the team looked at shootings in which victims had a chance to defend themselves, their od...

Reusable Shopping Bags and Bugs

Healthbolt — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:17:04 +0100

Warnnig: Reusable Shopping Bags Could Be Making You Sick That’s the word from a recent study commissioned and funded by the Environment and Plastics Industry Council(EPIC) in Canada. Randomly testing of reusable bags used by consumers in Toronto turned up an interesting result. It appears that the bags were not only carrying groceries. They are also carrying around high levels of mold, bacteria, and yeast. Full results indicated that… * Sixty four percent of the tested reusable bags were contaminated with some level of bacteria * Nearly 30 percent had bacterial counts higher than what is considered safe for drinking water. * Forty percent of the bags contained the presence of yeast or mold. * Some of the sampled bags contained unsafe levels of coliforms and fecal intestinal bacteria....

The Ultimate Exercise Pack: There’s Nothing to It

Diabetes Mine — Fri, 08 May 2009 20:37:02 +0100

Have you also long been in search of a pack you can strap on during exercise that will actually hold the essentials you need for your diabetes? Hold your stuff in place, I mean, without bouncing? It seems someone finally invented one, and I kid you not, there’s practically nothing to it — just a [...] (Source: Diabetes Mine)

Lost and, Very Hopefully, Found

Autism Vox — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:06:58 +0100

Reading another account of an autistic child, 11-year-old Alex Irvin, who found his way back to trailhead after three nights alone in the woods, I think back to the numerous stories about autistic children lost, wandering off, left behind that have been circulating this summer and conclude, I know why an autism consultant to Charlie’s school district talked about teaching kids to know when they are lost, and to know what to do (and what not to). You’ve got to know you’re lost first, so you can look for help. Tags: Airplane, asd, asperger, autism, autism blog, church, disabilities blog, disability, Family, family blog, first responder, Health, keep calm and carry on, lost, mantra, missing child, Parenting, pdd-nos, policeShare This (Source: Autism Vox)

Public Spaces Mean Extra Precautions

Autism Vox — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 07:04:35 +0100

I got a new phone yesterday. I’d been hesitant to this for a long time. Even though I knew I’d be able to have my same phone number ported over to the new phone, that little voice that says “well, you never know, could be……” kept running an endless loop in my head. Charlie, you see, has memorized my cell phone number and recites it perfectly. When we’re out in places like New York city, we’ve been placing a card with his name, mention of his having autism, and my cell number on his person. But if he knows the number, he can always have it with him. Meaning that, I always need to have the cell phone with me, and that phone always has to have the same number. Sure Charlie could memorize a new number, but who knows which number he might say at a...

Bill Wilson On The Fifth Tradition

A Dozen Steps — Wed, 21 May 2008 23:26:06 +0100

From “The Language of the Heart” page 82-83; “For to our kind, those who suffer alcoholism, recovery is a matter of life or death. So the Society of Alcoholics Anonymous cannot, it dare not, ever be diverted from its primary purpose.” Fortunately, for all of us, Bill knew what an undying promoter and glory seeker he was, as are most of us. “Temptations to do otherwise will come aplenty. Seeing fine works afoot in the field of alcohol, we shall be sorely tempted to loan out the name and credit of Alcoholics Anonymous to them; as a movement we shall be beset to finance and endorse other causes. Should our present success continue, people will commence to assert that AA is a brand new way of life, maybe a new religion, capable of saving the world. We shall be tol...

Never a tender moment

Metastatic liver cancer — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:00:02 +0100

With extra hugs for Kaye’s liver cancer story… …strong as you were… … tender you go… The above words kind of summarize the last months we spent with father when he was diagnosed with metastatic liver cancer. Celebrity music video In stead of showing one of the many James Blunt’s celebrity music video’s, we show you a compilation dedicated to a beloved mother, or as they mention in their video: What the caterpillar thinks is the end of the world The butterfly knows it’s only the beginning… Metastatic liver cancer last few days… But every time I hear : …strong as you were…… tender you go… my hearth misses a beat and our whole palliative care taking cancer story shows again in my mind… Rea...

Rats it's a Virus

The Diabetes Blog — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 04:00:00 +0100

Filed under: Type 1, Childhood, Lifestyle, Drugs, ResearchNo kidding! The rats are leading researchers to triggering events causing diabetes. The new findings suggest that there is, indeed, a genetic susceptibility to diabetes, but that the precipitating event is a viral infection. The virus in question is the Ljungan virus. Previous reports indicate that infections with the Ljungan virus can induce diabetes in laboratory rats, and that the diabetes can be reversed if the animals are treated with antiviral drugs before the destruction of insulin-secreting islet cells becomes widespread. I'm not sure how everybody else out there got their D-card. My diagnosing event happened shortly after I had the chicken pox, back in '85. The childhood christening event apparently left me out in the cold ...