Alcohol Interferes With Sleep & Lowers Testosterone? Surely Anheuser-Busch Can Sponsor Research That Will Find A More Palatable Result.

"Alcohol consumed at bedtime, after an initial stimulating effect, may decrease the time required to fall asleep. Because of alcohol's sedating effect, many people with insomnia consume alcohol to promote sleep. However, alcohol consumed within an hour of bedtime appears to disrupt the second half of the sleep period (7). The subject may sleep fitfully during the second half of sleep, awakening from dreams and returning to sleep with difficulty. With continued consumption just before bedtime, alcohol's sleep-inducing effect may decrease, while its disruptive effects continue or increase (8). This sleep disruption may lead to daytime fatigue and sleepiness. The elderly are at particular risk, because they achieve higher levels of alcohol in the blood and brain than do younger persons after consuming an equivalent dose. Bedtime alcohol consumption among older persons may lead to unsteadiness if walking is attempted during the night, with increased risk of falls and injuries (3).
Alcoholic beverages are often consumed in the late afternoon (e.g., at "happy hour" or with dinner) without further consumption before bedtime. Studies show that a moderate dose¹ of alcohol consumed as much as 6 hours before bedtime can increase wakefulness during the second half of sleep. By the time this effect occurs, the dose of alcohol consumed earlier has already been eliminated from the body, suggesting a relatively long-lasting change in the body's mechanisms of sleep regulation (7,8).

The adverse effects of sleep deprivation are increased following alcohol consumption. Subjects administered low doses of alcohol following a night of reduced sleep perform poorly in a driving simulator, even with no alcohol left in the body (9,10). Reduced alertness may potentially increase alcohol's sedating effect in situations such as rotating sleep-wake schedules (e.g., shift work) and rapid travel across multiple time zones (i.e., jet lag) (9). A person may not recognize the extent of sleep disturbance that occurs under these circumstances, increasing the danger that sleepiness and alcohol consumption will co-occur." See, http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/aa41.htm

"Alcohol, after causing a short period of stimulation, does have a sedative effect. It will put you to sleep. But first consider the drawbacks. Your peaceful sleep may last only three or four hours. Then that "relaxing drink" begins to disrupt your sleep patterns. Alcohol makes occasional or chronic insomnia worse in the long run. And, if you have not been getting adequate sleep, alcohol increases the symptoms of sleep deprivation."

See, http://sleepdisorders.about.com/cs/alcohol/a/nightcap.htm

"Not only does too much alcohol put the brakes on fat loss, it's also one of the most effective ways to slash your testosterone levels. Just a single bout of heavy drinking raises levels of the muscle-wasting hormone cortisol and increases the breakdown of testosterone for up to 24 hours [6]. The damaging effects of alcohol on testosterone are made even worse when you exercise before drinking [1]." See,

http://www.thefactsaboutfitness.com/research/alcohol.htm

If this confuses you, see, Alcohol Shrinks The Brain. Now They Tell Me.

Bill Moyers Journal: On Rove

"Watch Bill Moyers comments on Rove: Rove leaving the U.S. 'paralyzed, polarized, and mired in war, death, and corruption': Rove, professing his own agnosticism: Rove betting on 'fear and loathing' and using the Christian Right to turn an 'intellectually incurious, draft – adverse, naughty playboy' into the Governor of Texas, and finally, into the President of the United States."
Bill Moyers Journal: On Rove by Patti

McGregor Again

Though Angus & I have had our differences, he's considered family by some of my family & we all love Nanny. Angus gave Cousin Jim this fine flask for his birthday. Angus made & engraved it with his own hands, but do they call him McGregor the flask maker? Nooo laddie, they do not. Do they call him McGregor the engraver? Nooo laddie, they do not.

Though Angus is not partial to the Irish, it is rumored that he attended the Puck Fair this year.

Iraq-Escalation By The Numbers

"Someday, we will undoubtedly discover that, in the term 'surge' -- as in the President's 'surge' plan (or "new way forward") announced to the nation in January -- was the urge to avoid the language (and experience) of the Vietnam era. As there were to be no 'body bags' (or cameras to film them as the dead came home), as there were to be no 'body counts' ('We have made a conscious effort not to be a body-count team' was the way the President put it), as there were to be no 'quagmires,' nor the need to search for that 'light at the end of the tunnel,' so, surely, there were to be no 'escalations.'" Escalation by the Numbers What "Progress" in Iraq Really Means By Tom Engelhardt

LIMERICK 5-11 WATERFORD 2-15. The Treaty Men To Face The Cats in The September 2nd Finals

"WE have been through it all before against Kilkenny, Clare and Cork but we will never again experience dismay, anguish and disappointment to the extent that was palpable at the end of this absorbing and breathtaking hurling contest at Croke Park on Sunday last. One could almost touch the disbelief of the silent Waterford supporters filing out of the ground as behind them Limerick supporters celebrated with their players as Waterford had a week earlier with theirs after the Cork game." GAA: More semi-final heartbreak for Waterford as Limerick shock Déise
By: Phil Fanning in the Waterford News & Star.

American Football-Not As Manly As Hurling, But Still Colorful

"At Georgia Southern, we don't cheat. That costs money and we don't have any."

Erk Russell / Georgia Southern.
"Football is only a game. Spiritual things are eternal. Nevertheless, Beat Texas."

Seen on a church sign in Arkansas prior to the 1969 game.
"After you retire, there's only one big event left....and I ain't ready for that."

Bobby Bowden / Florida State
"The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely to be the one who dropped it."

Lou Holtz / Arkansas
"When you win, nothing hurts."

Joe Namath / Alabama
"Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated."

Lou Holtz / Arkansas
"If you want to walk the heavenly streets of gold, you gotta know the password,

"Roll, tide, roll!"

Bear Bryant / Alabama
"A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall."

Frank Leahy / Notre Dame
“There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.”

Woody Hayes / Ohio State
"I don't expect to win enough games to be put on NCAA probation. I just want to win enough to warrant an investigation."
Bob Devaney / Nebraska
"In Alabama, an atheist is someone who doesn't believe in Bear Bryant."

Wally Butts / Georgia
"You can learn more character on the two-yard line than anywhere else in life."

Paul Dietzel / LSU
"It's kind of hard to rally around a math class."

Bear Bryant / Alabama
When asked if Fayetteville was the end of the world.
"No, but you can see it from here."

Lou Holtz / Arkansas...
"I make my practices real hard because if a player is a quitter, I want him to quit in practice, not in a game."

Bear Bryant / Alabama
"There's one sure way to stop us from scoring-give us the ball near the goal line."

Matty Bell / SMU
"Lads,you're not to miss practice unless your parents died or you died."

Frank Leahy / Notre Dame
"I never graduated from Iowa, but I was only there for two terms -

Truman's and Eisenhower's."

Alex Karras / Iowa
"My advice to defensive players:Take the shortest route to the ball and arrive in a bad humor."

Bowden Wyatt / Tennessee
"I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades."

Duffy Daugherty / Michigan State
"Always remember..... Goliath was a 40 point favorite over David."

Shug Jordan / Auburn
"They cut us up like boarding house pie. And that's real small pieces."

Darrell Royal / Texas
"Show me a good and gracious loser, and I'll show you a failure.”

Knute Rockne / Notre Dame
"They whipped us like a tied up goat."

Spike Dykes / Texas Tech

"I asked Darrell Royal, the coach of the Texas Longhorns, why he didn't recruit me

and he said: "Well,Walt, we took a look at you and you weren't any good."

Walt Garrison / Oklahoma State
"Son, you've got a good engine, but your hands aren't on the steering wheel."

Bobby Bowden / Florida State
"Football is not a contact sport-it is a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport."

Duffy Daugherty / Michigan State
After USC lost 51-0 to Notre Dame, his postgame message to his team:

"All those who need showers, take them."

John McKay / USC
"If lessons are learned in defeat, our team is getting a great education."

Murray Warmath / Minnesota
"The only qualifications for a lineman are to be big and dumb.

To be a back, you only have to be dumb."

Knute Rockne / Notre Dame
"Oh,we played about like three tons of buzzard puke this afternoon."

Spike Dykes / Texas Tech
“It isn't necessary to see a good tackle. You can hear it.”

Knute Rockne / Notre Dame
"We live one day at a time and scratch where it itches."

Darrell Royal / Texas
"We didn't tackle well today but we made up for it by not blocking."

John McKay / USC
"Three things can happen when you throw the ball, and two of them are bad."

Darrell Royal / University of Texas
"I've found that prayers work best when you have big players."

Knute Rockne / Notre Dame
“Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football”
John Heisman

Cheney The Flip Flopping Dick-"It's a quagmire if you go that far and try to take over Iraq. . . how many additional dead Americans is Saddam worth?"

D.W. Washburn

DW Washburn, I heard a sweet voice say,
D W Washburn, this is your lucky day. . .
D W Washburn, we picked you to save. . . .

D W Washburn, I said to myself
. . . why don't they go save somebody else? . . .
I'd like to thanks all you good people
for coming to my aid.
But I'm D. W. Washburn and I believe I've got it made

This Day In 1040 Was Mac Bethad mac Findlaích's First Full Day As King of Alba

"To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing..." Mac Bethad mac Findlaích

American Beauty-Shelby

More Cross Species Love & Understanding.

Thanks To Jane.

Forgetting the Farm Bill & Listening to Helen Thomas-Patti's Back

Tom Forgetting the Farm Bill.

See also,

Helen Thomas: Obama has the right idea about diplomacy

Girls

Puck Fair August 10, 11, & 12 in Killorglin-Be There

Caoimhe O'Sullivan 2007 Queen of Puck

Having A Ball or Two.

A 3-year-old boy examined his testicles while taking a bath.
"Mom", he asked, "Are these my brains?"
"Not yet," she replied.

See, Bat testicles decrease in size as brain size increases, and vice versa

See, also, Big Balls In Cow Town.



Posted by Mary

Angus & Nanny Aren’t the Only Proponents of Cross Species Love & Understanding.

Lester "Roadhog" Moran and the Cadillac Cowboys Dedicate One To Burford & Everyone Else Who's Been Locked Up In the Hospital Like He Was.

It goes somethin like iss.

Fighting Dogs

These fighters refuse go give Michael Vick the presumption of innocense. Others have had varied reactions. “PETA thinks he's a villain. The NAACP thinks he's a victim. The NFL and his corporate endorsers think he's poison. Most of us, though, just think he's a damned fool. . . . . There will be idiots out there who will attempt to diminish the severity of the crime, as if despicable acts of cruelty against dogs are merely some cultural and class-based misunderstanding. . . If a man chooses to engage in a no-holds-barred caged brawl, that's his business. . . .But animals have no such options in the fight business. . . .The presumption of innocence does not extend to the world of print ads and TV spots. It stops at the courtroom steps, and if he didn’t know it before, Vick surely knows that now.” 'Keepin' it real' has helped damage Vick Like Pacman and A.I., QB unable to shed bad influences he grew up with. By Bryan Burwell

"They too, are created by the same loving hand of God which
Created us...It is our duty to Protect Them and to promote their
well-being. "
--Mother Teresa.

Little Debbie® On The Dole?

"McKee Foods Corporation received a $422,783 check from Arkansas taxpayers on July 24. The corporate welfare check . . . is said to represent a payroll rebate . . . It is the way state economic developers take your tax dollars to reward private corporations who hire more workers at relatively low wages. They call it "incentives," and it increases corporate profits at your expense.. . . How long and for how much we will keep subsidizing the corporation is unclear. You can count on more of your tax dollars going into the pocket of stockholders, so dig deep to reward the welfare state of mind for corporations. It's good for business.
McKee Foods Corporation makes Little Debbie Nutty Bars and other nutritious snacks, and they are taking us on one sweet ride. If they layoff workers next week, do you think they'll return the money? Fat chance." Little Debbie® Gets Your State Tax Dollars by Jonah

Don't Sleep With Bin Laden