flotsam-and-jetsam

Flotsam and Jetsam - Thrash Metal Band

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Doomsday For The Deceiver 1986 Metal Blade
	Hammerhead Iron Tears Desecrator Fade To Black Doomsday For The Deceiver Metalshock She Took An Axe U.l.s.w. Der Fuhrer Flotzilla	Eric "A.K." Knutson Ed Carlson Michael Gilbert Jason Newsted Kelly David Smith
No Place For Disgrace 1988 Elektra
	No Place For Disgrace Dreams Of Death N.e. Terror Escape From Within Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting Hard On You I Live You Die Misguided Fortune P.a.a.b. The Jones	Eric "A.K." Knutson Ed Carlson Michael Gilbert Troy Gregory Kelly David Smith
When The Storm Comes Down 1990 MCA
	The Master Sleeps Burned Device Deviation Ocotober Thorns No More Fun Suffer The Masses 6, Six, Vi Greed E.m.t.e.k. Scars	Eric "A.K." Knutson Ed Carlson Michael Gilbert Troy Gregory Kelly David Smith
Cuatro 1992 MCA
	Natural Enemies Swatting At Flies The Message Cradle Me Now Wading Through The Darkness Double Zero Never To Reveal Forget About Heaven Secret Square Hypodermic Midnight Snack Are You Willing (ain't Nothing Gonna) Save This World	Eric "A.K." Knutson Ed Carlson Michael Gilbert Jason Ward Kelly David Smith
Drift 1995 MCA
	Me Empty Air Pick A Window 12 Year Old With A Gun Missing Blindside Remember Destructive Signs Smoked Out Poet's Tell	Eric "A.K." Knutson Ed Carlson Michael Gilbert Jason Ward Kelly David Smith
High 1997 Metal Blade
	Final Step Hallucinational It's On Me High Noon Your Hands Monster Lucky Day Toast High Everything Forkboy	Eric "A.K." Knutson Ed Carlson Michael Gilbert Jason Ward Kelly David Smith
Unnatural Selection 1999 Metal Blade
	Dream Scape Chemical Noose Promise Keepers Liquid Noose Falling ------- Brain Dead Way To Go Win, Lose Or Dead Welcome To The Bottom	Eric "A.K." Knutson Ed Carlson Mark T. Simpson Jason Ward Craig Neilson
My God 2001 Metal Blade
	Dig Me Up To Bury Me Keep Breathing Nothing To Say Weather To Do Camera Eye Trash Praise My God Learn To Dance Frustrate Killing Time I.a.m.h.	Eric "A.K." Knutson Ed Carlson Mark T. Simpson Jason Ward Craig Neilson
Dreams Of Death 2005 Crash
	Requiescal Straight To Hell Parapsychotic Bleed Look In His Eyes Childhood Hero Bathing In Red Nascentes Morimar Out Of Mind	Eric "A.K." Knutson Ed Carlson Mark T. Simpson Jason Ward Craig Neilson

DAXING, China - Sun Jiting spends his days locked behind metal bars in this military-run installation, put there by his parents. The 17-year-old high school student is not allowed to communicate with friends back home, and his only companions are psychologists, nurses and other patients. Each morning at 6:30, he is jolted awake by a soldier in fatigues shouting, "This is for your own good!"

Sun's offense: Internet addiction.

The patients range in age from 12-24 and their parents are paying upwards of 10,000 yuan a month - about 10 times the average salary in China - to 'cure' them.

The treatment includes:

1. "counseling"

2. military discipline

3. drugs ...Mom, I'm not addicted to the Net anymore but I could sure use some heroin.

4. hynosis

5. electroshock!

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To Hell And Back...

The best way of conveying the truth about drugs and their dangers is from the perspective of those who have 'been there' and can pass on what they have learned so others avoid going down the same path.

Here is a sampling of such real-life stories from those who have experienced the living hell of drug abuse. Too many however are not here to tell their stories.

Share this information with your loved ones. Drug education saves lives.

"My goal in life wasn't living...it was getting high. I was falling in a downward spiral towards a point of no return. Over the years, I turned to cocaine, marijuana and alcohol under a false belief it would allow me to escape my problems. It just made things worse. I had everything, a good job, money, a loving family, yet I felt so empty inside. As if I had nothing. Over 20 years of using, I kept saying to myself, I'm going to stop permanently after using this last time. It never happened. There were even moments I had thought of giving up on life."

— John

"It started with the weed, then the pills (Ecstasy) and acid, making cocktails of all sorts of drugs, even overdosing to make the rushes last longer. I took copious amounts of these chemicals every day for as long as two years until I had a bad trip one night and went into toxic psychosis. I prayed and cried for this feeling to go away, I had voices in my head, had the shakes and couldn't leave home for 6 months. I became very withdrawn and thought everyone was watching me. I couldn't walk in public places. Man! I couldn't even drive.

I ended up homeless and on the streets, living and sleeping in a cardboard box, begging and struggling to find ways to get my next meal.

I asked myself if this is rock bottom and I believe that it was. While observing these homeless people, I decided that I had had enough. Yes, I wanted drugs but I realized that I could want life more."

— B.K.

Why do drugs attract young people?

Heroin, like any other drug, does tremendous harm. It breaks up families and it destroys lives. Why then do young people let themselves become trapped by it?

Some answers:

To be “in on something.” A person gets high to “be like my friends.” (For many, this can be an important reason for taking drugs.)

To numb the physical or mental sufferings of life.

To emulate role models. Celebrities admit to using heroin. Popular magazines try to make drug use seem “fashionable.”

Drugs offer a “solution” to the feeling of many adolescents that they have “no future.”

Young people are duped into believing lies about heroin, such as that it increases creativity, rids a person of problems and gives meaning to life.

Experimenting with heroin offers the thrill and excitement of taking a risk.

Any of the above reasons could provide a young person with an excuse to experiment with heroin or any drug.

There are so many different stories about drugs and heroin it can be hard to discern what the truth is.

Heroin: What is it?

Heroin (like opium and morphine) is made from the resin of poppy plants. Milky, sap-like opium is first extracted from the pod of the flower. This opium is refined to make morphine, then further refined into different forms of heroin.

In its purest form, heroin is a fine white, granular powder. It can also be rose, gray, brown or black colored. Its tint reflects the relative purity of the drug and what additives have been used to dilute it, which can include sugar, caffeine or other substances.

Heroin can be injected (the strongest and most dangerous method of use), smoked or sniffed. The first time it is used, the drug creates a sensation of being high. A person can feel extroverted, able to communicate easily with others and may experience a sensation of heightened sexual performance – but not for long.

“Heroin cut me off from the rest of the world. My parents kicked me out. My friends and my brothers didn’t want to see me anymore. I was all alone.” — Dave, Drug Addict

The origins of heroin

Heroin was first manufactured in 1898 by the Bayer pharmaceutical company of Germany and marketed as a treatment for tuberculosis as well as a remedy for morphine addiction. The name heroin comes from the Greek world heros, meaning hero or warrior (half god, half man), so named because those who took the drug suffered delusions of heroism.

Heroin use is anything but heroic or god-like. The mortality rate of heroin addicts is 30 times greater than the rest of the population.

Causes of death include:

5% suicide
15% overdose
15% accidents
30% murder
35% illness

A vicious circle

During the 1850s, opium addiction was a major social concern in the United States and was handled by providing opium addicts with a less potent and supposedly “non-addictive” substitute – morphine. Morphine addiction soon became a bigger problem than opium addiction.

As with opium, the “solution” to the morphine problem was another “non-addictive” substitute — heroin, which proved to be even more addictive than morphine. With the heroin problem came yet another “non-addictive” substitute. The new drug was developed in Germany during the 1940s and named “Adolphine,” after Adolf Hitler.

Adolphine was later renamed methadone and was soon being widely used as a treatment for heroin addiction. Unfortunately, it proved to be even more addictive than heroin.

No, drug addiction is not resolved by substituting one addictive drug for another; it is solved by freeing the individual from the harmful effects of drugs and enabling him to handle life without drugs. The simplest solution, of course, is to never get started on drugs in the first place.

A threat to young people

During the last decade, drug use in society has increased markedly, especially among youth. A survey of 31 nations by the World Health Organization released in February 2001 found 41 percent of 10th graders in the U.S. had tried marijuana and 23 percent of students surveyed in the U.S. had tried illicit drugs such as heroin and cocaine.

Yet what promise is there for you as the leaders of tomorrow if you are crippled by the harmful effects of drugs today? It has never been so important to know and understand the dangers of drug use and abuse for yourself. The facts and statistics are available. Before you start experimenting with drugs, learn the truth for yourself so you can make up your own mind.

“Drugs equal death. If you do nothing to get out, you end up dying. To be a drug addict is to be imprisoned. In the beginning, you think drugs are your friend (they may seem to help you escape the things or feelings that bother you). But soon, you can find you get up in the morning thinking only about drugs.

“Your whole day is spent finding or taking drugs. You get high all afternoon. At night, you put yourself to sleep with heroin. And you live only for that. You are in a prison. You beat your head against a wall, nonstop, but you don’t get anywhere. In the end, your prison becomes your tomb.”

— Sabrina, drug addict

“People believe that heroin is super, that it makes you ‘progress.’ But with drugs you lose everything: job, parents, friends, confidence, your home. Lying and stealing become a habit. You no longer respect anyone or anything.”

— Pete, drug addict

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1. Have you felt fatigued now and then for no apparent reason?
2. Do you sometimes feel wooden and lifeless?
3. Have you ever experienced drug flashbacks?
4. Do you feel less alert than you used to?
5. Do you sometimes get a feeling of light headedness or a feeling of being spaced out? 6. Do you feel irritable without reason or cause?
7. Do you have less energy and vitality than you used to?
8. Do you find it difficult to get excited about people or things?
9. Do you find you feel anxious and don't know why?
10. Do you have trouble reading or trouble learning new things even when you are interested in them?

Take the Test!

HOW POLLUTANTS AND DRUGS AFFECT US ALL

As vicious and damaging as street drugs have proven to be, medical and psychiatric drugs form an equally destructive vector in this biochemical trend. Statistics show that as early as the 1950s, daily dosages of sleeping pills or painkillers had become so commonplace that they were hardly considered drugs. Valium was the first drug to take its place amongst tranquilizers of choice. Today, however, we have the mind- and mood-altering drugs such as Thorazine, Stelazine, Zoloft, Prozac, Tofranil, Xanax and Ritalin, which are even more damaging than street drugs. The prevalence with which these are prescribed as a panacea is often shocking to the uninformed.

Mr. Hubbard’s research, however, yielded this conclusion: “Unfortunately, it is not recognized that a person whose pain has been deadened by a sedative has himself been deadened by the same drug, and is much nearer the ultimate pain of death. It should be obvious that the quietest people in the world are the dead.”

Drug taking is, in no small way, part of life in our modern world.

Man with mental image pictures of drugs and drug experiences reactivated

Additionally, the past century’s technological advances have produced many an insidious byproduct, each of them threatening to an individual’s well-being. Smog, for instance, was unknown before the rise of manufacturing centers in Britain. Every major city on Earth now advises its inhabitants daily about the quality of air they are breathing. A hundred years ago, the main food preservatives were salt or ice. Today, nearly any packaged food has a list of the artificial ingredients it contains that is longer than the list of natural ingredients. Environmental disasters such as the 1986 catastrophe at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in the former USSR—to say nothing of radiation exposure from widespread nuclear bomb testing—did not exist fifty years ago.

We live in a chemical-oriented society. The Environmental Protection Agency reports that the average American consumes four pounds of pesticides each year and has residues from over 400 toxic substances in his body. More than 3,000 chemical additives are found in the food we eat.

There is no escaping our contaminated civilization and, furthermore, it has been found that these substances can put an individual in a “wooden” sort of state: unfeeling, insensitive, unable, untrustworthy, a menace to his fellows trapped in the dramatizations of his reactive mind.

Neither toxic pollution nor drug abuse were of major concern in 1950 when L. Ron Hubbard released Dianetics. By the 1960s, however, the frightful specter of both had arrived and Mr. Hubbard’s research showed that a person who had been heavily on drugs was not able to make spiritual gains from auditing. This condition had not been encountered earlier in his researches, as drugs had not yet encroached so deeply into society. But it became more and more prevalent and required a solution, as drugs now represented an increasingly serious block to auditing progress.

To enroll on the Purification program at the Church of Scientology nearest you, click here.

Drugs destroy millions of lives every year – too often the lives of young people upon whom our future depends. In a world where more money is spent on drugs than on food, it can be difficult to convince others to just say “no.” Society owes a debt of gratitude to anyone working to salvage others from the harmful effects of drug abuse. Standing by and doing nothing about the drug problem only helps those who profit from its spreading. But working together, we can succeed in educating others to the real dangers of drugs. And it is in that spirit this website has been produced. (learn more > )

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“He who uses ecstasy destroys himself and dies.” — Corriere de Romagna, Italy, October 19, 1996

There are certain characteristics and mental attitudes which cause about 20 percent of a race to oppose violently any betterment activity or group.

Such people are known to have antisocial tendencies.

When the legal or political structure of a country becomes such as to favor such personalities in positions of trust, then all the civilizing organizations of the country become suppressed and a barbarism of criminality and economic duress ensues.

Crime and criminal acts are perpetrated by antisocial personalities. Inmates of institutions commonly trace their state back to contact with such personalities.

Thus, in the fields of government, police activities and mental health, to name a few, we see that it is important to be able to detect and isolate this personality type so as to protect society and individuals from the destructive consequences attendant upon letting such have free rein to injure others.

As they only comprise 20 percent of the population and as only 2 1/2 percent are truly dangerous, we see that with a very small amount of effort we could considerably better the state of society.

Well-known, even stellar, examples of such a personality are, of course, Napoleon and Hitler. Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd, Christie and other famous criminals were well-known examples of the antisocial personality. But with such a cast of characters in history we neglect the less stellar examples and do not perceive that such personalities exist in current life, very common, often undetected.

When we trace the cause of a failing business, we will inevitably discover somewhere in its ranks the antisocial personality hard at work.

In families which are breaking up, we commonly find one or the other of the persons involved to have such a personality.

Where life has become rough and is failing, a careful review of the area by a trained observer will detect one or more such personalities at work.

As there are 80 percent of us trying to get along and only 20 percent trying to prevent us, our lives would be much easier to live were we well informed as to the exact manifestations of such a personality. Thus, we could detect it and save ourselves much failure and heartbreak.

It is important then to examine and list the attributes of the antisocial personality. Influencing as it does the daily lives of so many, it well behooves decent people to become better informed on this subject. (find out more > )

The constant buffeting and chafing of wood on wood that your sculpture has endured drifting on the surfaces of the lakes of Western Canada has created its wonderfully tactile facades. Its silver colouring is the result over time of exposure to the sun. The sculptures are used to the extremes of nature and suited to all weather conditions.

As Driftwood is a natural material it will eventually break down, however because our sculptures are formations of Red Cedar, the natural properties found within the wood mean that it deteriorates considerably slower than other species of wood. We therefore recommend the following guidelines to help your sculpture to remain beautiful for as long as possible:

• If standing upon grass or burying part of the wood in order to stand it in your garden, paint the base or buried section with a clear preservative. This will help prolong its life and delay its eventual breaking down resulting from contact with the earth.

• If standing your sculpture on a surface such as gravel or concrete you will not need to treat the wood.

• If you wish to secure the sculpture to hold it steady, such as for children to scramble on, we suggest you drill holes into the base to insert a bar long enough to push down into the ground for stabilisation.

We hope that you will receive many years of pleasure from your driftwood sculpture, and enjoy its natural beauty as much as we enjoy finding these unique treasures.