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Chapters: Danny Bonaduce, Kim Ki Whang, Patrick Smith, Noah Hathaway, John Critzos Ii, William Zabka, Cynthia Rothrock, Bryce Papenbrook, Michael Worth, Mitchell Bobrow, Howard Jackson, Hwang Hyun Chul, Shin Jae Chul, Blake Foster, Pat E. Johnson, Hwang Kee, Darnell Garcia, Aaron Norris, John G. Barrett, Robert Wall, Ralph Johnson, Edan Gross, Neil Citron. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 86. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: This page has been deleted.The deletion and move log for the page are provided below for reference. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. Please search for Kim Ki Whang in Wikipedia to check for alternative titles or spellings. ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=20999824 ... Read more

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Chapters: Tang Soo Do Practitioners, Danny Bonaduce, Kim Ki Whang, Patrick Smith, Noah Hathaway, John Critzos Ii, William Zabka, Cynthia Rothrock, Bryce Papenbrook, Michael Worth, Mitchell Bobrow, Howard Jackson, Hwang Hyun Chul, Shin Jae Chul, Blake Foster, Pat E. Johnson, Hwang Kee, Darnell Garcia, Aaron Norris, John G. Barrett, Robert Wall, Ralph Johnson, Edan Gross, Neil Citron. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 92. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Kim Ki Whang (1920-September 16, 1993) was also known in the USA as Ki Whang Kim. He was a Grandmaster in Korean martial arts. He was for a long time the Chairman in the US of the Tang Soo Do Moo Duk Kwan Association. He is well known in the history of the unification of several Korean martial arts into the overall style known as Taekwondo. Kim Ki Whang was born in Seoul, now the capital of South Korea. At the time of his birth, Korea was under Japanese occupation. In his teen years, Kim Ki Whang moved to Japan and studied Judo. He took courses and studied at Japan's Nihon University, and while there, he also studied Shudokan, a "hard and external" form of Karate, under the tutelage of Toyama Kanken. This was as opposed to the hard and powerful style taught by Funakoshi. He also studied Kenpo, a Japanese tradition originating in the Chinese martial arts. At Nihon University he became friends with, Grandmaster Yoon Byung-In, a teacher of Master Kim Soo, Master Sang Kee Paik, and many others. Kim Ki Whang, in this time period, was promoted to shodan by the Yoshinkan. He also became the 1st non-Japanese captain of the Nihon University Karate Team. Grandmaster Yoon was a devoted student of the Chinese martial art of Chuan Fa, which he taught at the Seoul YMCA before relocating to the Sung Kyun Kwan university. Later, after graduation in...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=20999824 ... Read more

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Featuring vintage photos of music icons during a special moment with an animal companion. Contributing photographers include: Janette Beckman, Pattie Boyd, Danny Clinch, Henry Diltz, Lynn Goldsmith, Herman Leonard, Neal Preston, Frank Stefanko, Barrie Wentzell, and Robert Whitaker. Musicians include: Ian Anderson, Moby, Eric Clapton, Billie Holiday, Michael Jackson, John Lennon, Nile Rodgers, Patti Smith, Stephen Stills, Sting, Roger Waters, Neil Young and Frank Zappa.There's nothing musicians like to do more than to hang out with friends and play. There's nothing animals like to do more than to hang out and play with their friends. It's these moments in life we cherish, moments of joy together, a connection across souls, regardless of species, living in perfect harmony.The photographers of the Morrison Hotel Gallery (www.morrisonhotelgallery.com) are the best friends a musician and animal could ever have. As supporters of this fundraiser calendar project, they have contributed their vintage photos of these beautiful, unusual moments of some of our favorite music legends with their animals, captured with style and technical perfection.In Perfect Harmony is sponsored by Morrison Hotel Gallery, the premiere gallery for fine art music photography, representing an unsurpassed roster of world- renowned music photographers.Proceeds from the sale of this calendar benefit Rational Animal, a non-profit organization specializing in media and special events to increase awareness for at-risk animals.for volume discounts, please visit our website at www.rational-animal.org/calendar/ ... Read more

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If You Have Music or Animal Lovers in Your Address Book
"Music Legends and Their Animals -2010 Wall Calendar" has been created by "Rational Animals," an animal rights organization, and the Morrison Hotel Gallery, the leading fine art music photography gallery.It features a unique collection of thirteen unusual, original images of celebrated musicians and their animal friends sharing intimate moments.These images would probably sell for quite a bit of money in the gallery.And 100% of the calendar's sales profits will help support Rational Animal's campaigns for animals at risk, including TV spots promoting adoption and spay/neuter, benefit concerts and more.Among the featured performers are Michael Jackson, John Lennon, Billie Holiday, Sting, Eric Clapton and Stephen Stills. The images of the young Michael Jackson, and John Lennon, with kittens, are particularly striking; the images of Stephen Stills and his horse, and Billie Holiday cooking, with her dog, are unusually moving.

We can, I imagine, agree that $25 is a lot of money to spend for a wall calendar, but you can enjoy these pictures when 2010 is long gone.And the money does go for some very good causes.Furthermore, if you have music, or animal lovers in your address book...

Gorgeous Photography
I am so thrilled with this calendar, I have one at home and have given one to my boyfriend for his office (just the cover is up now pre-2010), he gets compliments on it all the time.Morrison Hotel Gallery has contributed 12 beautiful prints by world class photographers - I think some of them usually sell for several hundred dollars to art collectors.Even better for me is that the money goes to a non-profit in new york, promoting animal welfare.I'll probably get a few more to give as gifts over the holidays.Highly recommended! ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from JOPERD--The Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, published by Thomson Gale on February 1, 2007. The length of the article is 1335 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Do PERD professionals get enough training in behavior management and supervision in physical activity settings?
Author: Barry Lavay
Publication: JOPERD--The Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 78Issue: 2Page: 11(2)

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Inside the stapled, illustrated wraps with a silver hologram, you'll find "Fathers and Sins", "The Saga of Spidey's Parents", "How I Created Spider-man", "I Remember Gwen", "A Friend in Need", "Spider-man: The First Thirty Years", "Letters", "A Special Preview of Spider-man 2099". Plus a gatefold poster of Spidey, Venom and Carnage! ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Journal of School Health, published by American School Health Association on January 1, 1995. The length of the article is 4134 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: Parents of elementary school children in rural east-central Texas were surveyed about their attitudes toward and knowledge of Comprehensive School Health Education. Data indicated widespread support for health education compared to other subject areas. Parents felt alcohol and other drugs, nutrition, and first aid were the most important topics to be covered in elementary school, while sexuality, cancer, and stress were the least important. Parents were most comfortable discussing alcohol and other drugs, family life, and growth and development with their children and least comfortable discussing exercise, cancer, and sexuality. Implications for school health programs are discussed. (J Sch Health. 1995;65(1):9-13)

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Title: Opinions of rural Texas parents concerning elementary school health education.
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The secretive Mysteries conducted at Eleusis in Greece for nearly two millennia have long puzzled scholars with strange accounts of initiates experiencing otherworldly journeys. In this groundbreaking work, three experts—a mycologist, a chemist, and a historian—argue persuasively that the sacred potion given to participants in the course of the ritual contained a psychoactive entheogen. The authors then expand the discussion to show that natural psychedelic agents have been used in spiritual rituals across history and cultures. Although controversial when first published in 1978, the book’s hypothesis has become more widely accepted in recent years, as knowledge of ethnobotany has deepened. The authors have played critical roles in the modern rediscovery of entheogens, and The Road to Eleusis presents an authoritative exposition of their views. The book’s themes of the universality of experiential religion, the suppression of that knowledge by exploitative forces, and the use of psychedelics to reconcile the human and natural worlds make it a fascinating and timely read. This 30th anniversary edition includes an appreciative preface by religious scholar Huston Smith and an updated exploration of the chemical evidence by Peter Webster. ... Read more

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Road To Dreamland.
Since more than two thousand years the road to Eleusis is abandoned. Nobody visits the shrine anymore. No one could explain what the Mysteries really were. But some scholars - long before this book was written - presumed what the Mysteries really were. They believed that the principal idea of the Eleusinian Mysteries was the resurrection of life and the Mysteries used the metaphor of the grain that fell in the soil and died while giving 'birth' to a new straw. Life and death were linked together and that would mean eternal life. Drugs were given by the priestesses of the shrine to the attendance so that their delusional state of mind made them convinced that the words they heard were the truth: eternal life.

In conclusion I would like to point out that this book has cultural and scientific value. It should not be disregarded.
It also contains a new translation of The Homeric Hymn to Demeter as a source for the myth that underlies Eleusis.

Beverly Potter, Publisher, Ronin Publishing
This reprint of the classic ROAD TO ELEUSIS is "unauthorized".The only living author of the Work, Carl Ruck, asserts that the editor, Robert Forte, who has now published two reprints, has no rights to the Work. Mr. Forte may have an old contract with Wasson's daughter.However, he has never shown any contract to Carl Ruck.

Carl Ruck has not been given even one copy of this reprint - his own original Work - and he is being paid not one penny from the sales.The publisher, a colleague, has chosen to remain mute on the subject of rights to the Work.

Evidencing shamanic themes in ancient Greece, the Eleusinian mysteries, supports religious freedoms today.
The Road to Eleusis, Unveiling the Secret of the Mysteries.
Thirtieth Anniversary Edition
by R. Gordon Wasson, Albert Hofmann, and Carl A. P. Ruck, 1978/2008

Evidencing shamanic themes in ancient Greece, the Eleusinian mysteries, supports religious freedoms today.

A quarter century after Gordon Wasson first experienced the psilocybe mushroom with Maria Sabena in Oaxaca, Mexico, he, along with Dr. Albert Hoffman (the famed inventor of LSD), and Prof. Carl Ruck of Boston University, proposed that the sacred kykeon of the Eleusinian mysteries was the fungus Claviceps purpurea, or ergot, from which LSD was synthesized.

The importance of this book is that it proves, without a doubt, that strong inebriants were used throughout ancient Grecian history - especially surrounding the Eleusinian mysteries. The bulk of evidence presented in this book is provided by Prof. Ruck via his expertise in Greek classics, which is always fascinating, eloquent reading.

The question of this book's accuracy lies in proposals first made by Dr. Hofmann regarding ergotamine. Over the years his ideas of the method of preparation, and reports of amounts needed and effects, have been put under serious scrutiny (if not debunked entirely) thereby weakening the overall the work.

However, newer research presented in this 30th anniversary edition by Peter Webster brings new strength to the hypothesis by showing that ash, which was part of the descriptions of Persephone (the goddess of fire) at the mysteries, could be added to the kykeon causing the necessary chemical reactions to make Ergine and Isoergine, which he proposes, together, would be far more psychoactive than either alone, which are, in effect, inactive. His personal tests have shown psychoactivity with this method, and therefore the likelihood of this theory, which needs further laboratory testing; though in today's drug war climate, that is not something we may see anytime soon. But the mystery may be solved, thereby salvaging the rest of this book's proposals.

The forward in this edition by Robert Forte states (pgs. 5-6):

"Ten years ago I had a practical, legal intention for republishing the Twentieth Anniversary edition, one that remains an important function of the book in your hands. A 1975 court ruling against an American religious organization, The Church of the Awakening, forbade the church from using psychedelics or entheogens as sacraments, though they had been doing so for more than fifteen years. The court said that only Native Americans had a right to use `hallucinogens' as sacraments, because only they had a long history in their culture, and no such tradition existed for the white man."

Today the Native American and UDV churches have won legal right to use peyote and Ayahuasca (and decisions are currently pending for the Santo Daime). But entheogens like psilocybe mushrooms (and LSD/LSA) remain illegal for religious use, even though they were originally discovered as religious sacraments by Wasson in Mexico, used by the Mazatec (and other) Indian cultures.

Interestingly, as with Wasson who denied further evidence of entheogens in Judeo-Christianity beyond 1000 BCE, here too, Dr. Hofmann denies the possibility (pgs. 147-148):

"In conclusion, I wish once more to raise the fundamental question: why were such drugs probably used in Eleusis, and why are they still used by certain Indian tribes even today in the course of religious ceremonies? And why is such use scarcely conceivable in the Christian liturgy, as though it were not significant? The answer is that the Christian liturgy worships a godly power enthroned in heaven, that is a power outside of the individual. At Eleusis, on the contrary, an alteration in the innermost being of the individual was striven for, a visionary experience of the ground of being which converted the subjects into Mystai, Epotetai, Initiates."

But thankfully, here too, Hofmann erred. Recently new textual documentation from a Christian monastery in Greece has been found (The Holy Mushroom - Irvin, 2008) that discusses "the holy mushroom," thereby supporting John Allegro's original 1970 proposals in The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross. Furthermore, Prof. Ruck has also recently published substantial evidence refuting Wasson's position (and Hofmann's) regarding mushrooms and other entheogens in Judeo-Christianity and European folklore. So today, regardless of whether or not science disproves the proposals made in these early and subsequent investigations of Eleusis and ergot, we have definitive evidence of the religious use of entheogens throughout Europe, including Judeo-Christianity, and are able now to make a strong legal case.

The importance then is that this book is an original for daring to seek and explore European ancestry and the use of entheogens and attempt support the white man's religious right to use entheogens - which he himself has so banned.

5 stars! This book provides an essential history for understanding this field of study.

Incredible Book
The quality of the chapters varies by author, but the material by classicist Carl Ruck alone is worth the price of admission.And yet mainstream classicism and political philosophy continue to remain ignorant of these ancient practices or, worse, deliberately distort and misrepresent - so as to delegitimize - arguments such as those found in this work.This book is, quite simply, essential reading for anyone interested in ancient Greece.

A couple of my conference papers are mentioned on page 15 of the 20th and 30th anniversary editions.My own book Pharmakon:Plato, Drug Culture, and Identity in Ancient Athens (Lexington Books, 2010) expands on this work.

an intellectual feast!
This is an inspiring collaboration between a passionate amateur scholar and his professional scholar friends. How delightful to read something that isn't dumbed down. The analysis and induction is nicely supplemented by the "Hymn to Demeter." Much for the brain to chew on!

Wasson et al's revelations of the complexity of the myths that surrounded the Eleusian mysteries are fodder for hours upon hours of thought play about the foundations of our culture today. ... Read more