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Our God is an Awesome God
1.an effect or extraordinary event in the physical world that surpasses all known human or natural powers and is ascribed to a supernatural cause.
2.such an effect or event manifesting or considered as a work of God.
3.a wonder; marvel.
Do you believe in miracles? I used to be of the camp that miracles happened but not to me. I knew people & knew people who knew people or people who knew of people who had experienced miracles, but not me. I have never had any first hand experience with miracles until recently. I want to share my miraculous story with you. Some of you may laugh, some may not believe me, and some may think there was just an error in my original diagnosis but for that one person that may find hope in my story I am willing to put this out there for the whole world to see. Our God performs miracles. It's our job to ask for these things because they aren't just handed to us. Yes God knows our hearts, our needs, our wants but we have to ask.
I never felt like I had the right to ask for something miraculous. After all, who am I? I rededicated my life to Christ approximately 2 years ago and I have grown so much over those two years. But I still witness many around me with a deeper or more profound relationship with our God. People would always tell me to "have faith," or to "trust God." And I really wanted to do these things but I always felt like God heard everyone's prayers but mine. I felt lower on the totem pole, the food chain, what have you. I put God in a box and I just banked on the fact that God did in fact hear my prayers but I had to be better in order for him to love me enough to answer them – NOT TRUE.
Here's the reason you followed this link – the story of my miracle.
About 3 months ago I consulted an elder at my church asking if he knew anyone in dentistry that could help me with some problems I had been having for quite some time. I am uninsured and I was looking for someone to be sensitive to that at billing time. I was referred by the elder to Dr. Frank Melazzo in Inverness. He was great! He got me in and out in a flash and said that he would love to help me. However the severity of my case was beyond his expertise. I had a bad tooth that had broken 5 months prior. I thought I'd get a filling or possibly at worst a root canal and be on my way. No such luck. Dr. Melazzo x-rayed my bad tooth (and a neighboring tooth) for free and then explained to me that the bad tooth would need to be extracted at the expert hands of an oral surgeon and the tooth right next to it would need a root canal but not until the bad tooth was extracted. I have had a lot of dental work done in the past ending with 5 molars surgically removed and the bad tooth was in fact another molar. I wept in that dental chair in front of my 7yr old nephew who was holding my 3month old daughter and I couldn't stop. I had finally found someone willing to help me and his hands were tied. I was devastated.
As time went on I learned to deal with the pain. No hot stuff, no cold stuff, rinsing after brushing with warm water, warming mouthwash under the running warm water, chewing only on one side of my mouth, etc. It was just awful.
Fast Forward 2 and a half months and I am at home the Saturday before Easter Sunday when the tooth pain literally blinds me and brings me to my knees. I have a high tolerance for pain just so you know. I have had 3 8lb babies with no drugs and this tooth made me weep. The following day my family arrived at church after a stop by the pharmacy where I purchased Ibuprofen, Kanka, Oragel, and every other OTC tooth pain med. They all seemed to work for about twenty minutes. I lasted about 5 minutes into the church service when I handed our baby to my husband and went to the restroom to splash my face with cold water to clean off the sweat that was a result of the pain. I went outside and sat on a bench for fresh air not sure if I was going to pass out or not.
Two friends approached me and prayed for me. Within about 10 minutes the pain subsided to a dull roar. I could see straight again. Monday I learned about UAB's school of Dentistry and how they offered dental services at a rate which was about 1/2 that of other dentists. I made an appointment and went down there. I'll skip all the boring stuff in between then and now and get to the really exciting stuff!
I went in there telling them I had a tooth that I needed extracted and a tooth that needed a root canal. X-rays were taken and they told me that they could save my tooth! They said the tooth that needed extraction actually only needed a root canal and that they could do it! I was so excited. So they did the root canal over the course of 2 days (4 hours total). The infection was so bad that once they got half way done they had to stop because the anesthesia wouldn't work due to the inflammation. But they finally finished it up after a second appointment. I was there again this past Thursday for them to finish the root canal job and they decided to look at that tooth neighboring it, the one that I was told needed a root canal by Dr. Melazzo. The dental student started cleaning out the decay and about half way through she told me it looked really bad. She said it was more than likely going to need a root canal. I knew about this but financially I really wasn't prepared to shell out another $600 on a root canal.
Not knowing what else to do I started praying. I prayed like I have never prayed before. All of my prayers before have been like a wish in a well while I toss a coin into the water and just wait for the plunk knowing there was a 50/50 chance. This prayer was different. I believe it was spirit led. I laid in that chair commanding healing over that tooth, I prayed that God would heal that tooth and that a simple filling would seal the deal. About 10 minutes later the dental student told me that she was pretty sure my tooth was going to need a root canal based off of my x-ray and what she saw but that it somehow looked as though it was just before the pulp and a filling should do the job! I was in SHOCK. I can't even tell you the feelings of joy, surprise and hope that flooded me. A tear rolled down my cheek and she asked me if I was okay. I told her I was the happiest I had ever been. She was of course confused so I explained to her my prayers just moments before and she said, "Well it worked."
This may not seem like a big deal to many of you but this was a huge breakthrough for me. I have been going through the motions and staying faithful and prayerful and doing what God says to do but it never really clicked for me. It is always so much easier to have faith for someone else. It is easier to believe that God will heal someone else. But I am here to tell you right now that when you reach up to God he reaches back down to you. If you only have it in you to reach up 10% God reaches down the other 90%. Our God does perform miracles and I got to experience it firsthand.
So now I get to be one of those crazy people talking about the miracle in my life while people look at me like I have 5 heads, try to decide if they still want to be friends with me, and while others think the same about me as I did about those who testified their personal miracles to me before I experienced my own.
I am looking back on my life and realizing that this wasn't my first miracle from God. There are no coincidences, there is no such thing as good luck. But there is a God, and He is real, and He can hear you and He wants to heal. Praise God for His mercy, His grace and His love, praise God for his miracles sent from above.
In Memory of Abigail Hope Dahlen
The Dahlen family lost their daughter in a tragic accident on Sunday, April 11th, 2010. Not knowing what to do to honor this sweet child I just did what I do in times of happiness and sorrow alike…I wrote something. My heart is overflowing with sadness for this family. My prayers are ceaseless for them and my thoughts are with them constantly.
Angelic is your face
Beauty in its rarest form
Innocent and pure
God holds you in his arms
Always in our hearts
Inspiring us to love
Looking down upon us in Heaven from above
Hearts long for your laughter
Only a memory away
Precious child how we will miss you
Each and every single day
When do I bathe my newborn?
A lot of Moms aren't sure when to bathe their newborn babies. Many people wait until the umbilical cord stump falls off. Some lose that first bath experience to hospital staff. I have some very important info on why Mothers should wait to bathe their babies and I want to share it.
A bath will lower the baby's body temperature which may then prompt hospital staff to insist on placing the baby in a warmer until its temperature rises sufficiently. Be aware that if you do choose to delay bathing your newborn or refuse a formal bath entirely, hospital staff may treat your baby as a biohazard. In the case of a homebirth, this is a non-issue.
Comfort measures:
I test the temp with my wrist, not my fingers as my hands have become desensitized to temperature over time. Try it – you'll feel a difference in the water temp just going from your hand to your wrist. I turn the heat on and close the bathroom door to keep it nice and warm in there. Have a cup, tear-free baby wash and a rag handy. Don't bathe your baby right after a feeding or when they're hungry or tired.
Bathe with your baby:
There is nothing wrong with getting into the bath with your baby. I did this with my first for every bath and I would hand her off to hubby when she was all done. I just bent my legs and she sat there, propped on them with her bottom resting on my pelvic area. My babies always loved when I got in the bath with them, then if they get upset you can just pull them right up to the breast and nurse through the bathing if need be.
My firstborn was bathed in the hospital against my wishes after a transfer from the birth center. My last two children were both water births so they had a bit of bath on their birthdays and I did not bathe them again until 2 weeks or so.
Some Moms worry about they baby crying during the bath or hating it all together. I say do whatever keeps them happy. At 1-2 weeks it is so hard to hear them cry (hormonally). No need for undue stress. My girls love the bath but I don't know how much in part of that is from being welcomed into the world that way and how much of that is just their personality.
Here's a tidbit on why you should wait to bathe your baby AND avoid artificial rupture of your membranes (having your water "broken").
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Tests (Western analysis and immunochemistry) revealed that lysozyme, lactoferrin, human neutrophil peptides 1–3, and secretory leukocyte protease inhibitor were present in the amniotic fluid samples and in organized granules embedded in the vernix samples. These immune substances were tested using antimicrobial growth inhibition assays and found to be effective in inhibiting the growth of common perinatal pathogens, including group B. Streptococcus, K. pneumoniae, L. monocytogenes, C. albicans, and E. coli.
The authors point out that the innate immune proteins found in vernix and amniotic fluid are similar to those found in breast milk. As the baby prepares for extrauterine life, pulmonary surfactant (a substance produced by the maturing fetal lungs) increases in the amniotic fluid, resulting in the detachment of vernix from the skin. The vernix mixes with the amniotic fluid and is swallowed by the growing fetus. Given the antimicrobial properties of this mixture, the authors conclude that there is "considerable functional and structural synergism between the prenatal biology of vernix caseosa and the postnatal biology of breast milk" (p. 2095). They also suggest that better understanding of these innate host defenses may prove useful in preventing and treating intrauterine infection.
Routine artificial rupture of membranes increases the likelihood of intrauterine infection because it eliminates the physical barrier (the amniotic sac) between the baby and the mother's vaginal flora. This study suggests an additional mechanism for the prevention of infection when the membranes remain intact: A baby bathed in amniotic fluid benefits from antimicrobial proteins that are found in the fluid and in vernix caseosa.
The results of this study also call into question the routine use of some newborn procedures. Early bathing of the baby removes vernix, which contains antimicrobial proteins that are active against group B. streptococcus and E. coli. Delaying the bath and keeping the newborn together with his or her mother until breastfeeding is established may prevent some cases of devastating infections caused by these bacteria. The fact that preterm babies tend to have more vernix than babies born at or after 40 weeks might mean that healthy, stable preterm babies derive even greater benefit from staying with their mothers during the immediate newborn period.
Finally, this study illustrates how the normal physiology of pregnancy and fetal development is part of a continuum that extends beyond birth to the newborn period. The immunologic similarities between amniotic fluid, vernix, and breast milk provide further evidence that successful initiation of breastfeeding is a critical part of the process of normal birth.
So you see it is for the child's benefit to wait a while and not rush into that first bath on the day of birth or even in the first week of life. I hope you have found this information useful.
Make sure you take pics of that first bath! And good luck!
Stop the Abuse of OxyContin
Contrary to FALSE CLAIMS THAT LESS THAN 1% of PATIENTS GET ADDICTED, the CT Attorney General has stated the addiction rate is around 13% but some feel it is as high as 30%. All Patients (100%) do become physically dependent.
Two years ago, the company Purdue Pharma L.P. had to pay $635 million to settle federal charges that it underplayed the drug's potential for abuse.
Is there really an EPIDEMIC? In recent years there has been a 556% increase in the sales of oxycodone. According to an Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) fact sheet, an estimated 1.6 million Americans used prescription-type pain relievers for non-medical reasons for the first time in 1998.
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Pregnancy & Childbirth Are Normal
This post is here for information about birth and birth procedures. Feel free to add any links that you feel may be helpful!
I'll start off with an encouraging tidbit that I wrote myself. I hope you all find this helpful!
Giving birth and giving birth away
Childbirth is one of the most empowering events in a woman's life. It is an opportunity to trust in the nature of how we were designed and what we were created for. It is a time to revel in our beauty, our flawless construction for creating life. It is a time to celebrate, not to numb our bodies and our minds out of fear. Giving birth is a very special event that each woman should remember always as a pivotal moment in life. It should never be reflected on in regret. Yet so many women are experiencing mourning after their childbirth experience because they gave birth away.
Doctor's Voices – Stuart Fischbein, MD
I've been wondering what I could do to help our friends in Australia as well as here in the US where midwifery is constantly under threat…where midwifery and women and baby's right are being trampled…hear the truth from the doctors who are bravely speaking out. I present "Doctor's Voices" as a way to support midwifery AND the doctors who support the midwifery model of care/mother-baby focused birth and reform of our current system.
Restricting oral fluid and food intake during labor
Since the evidence shows no benefits or harms, there is no justification for the restriction of fluids and food in labour for women at low risk of complications.
Intrapartum antibiotics for known maternal Group B streptococcal colonization
This review finds that giving antibiotics is not supported by conclusive evidence.
Listening to music reduces pain intensity levels and opioid requirements, but the magnitude of these benefits is small and, therefore, its clinical importance unclear.
Maternal positions and mobility during first stage labor
Here is evidence that walking and upright positions in the first stage of labour reduce the length of labour and do not seem to be associated with increased intervention or negative effects on mothers' and babies' wellbeing. Women should be encouraged to take up whatever position they find most comfortable in the first stage of labor.
The evidence provided by the three included RCTs shows that enemas do not have a significant effect on infection rates such as perineal wound infection or other neonatal infections and women's satisfaction. This evidence does not support the routine use of enemas during labour; therefore, such practice should be discouraged.
Routine perineal shaving on admission in labor
There is insufficient evidence to recommend perineal shaving for women on admission in labor.
Immersion in water in labor and birth
Evidence suggests that water immersion during the first stage of labour reduces the use of epidural/spinal analgesia. There is limited information for other outcomes related to water use during the first and second stages of labour, due to intervention and outcome variability. There is no evidence of increased adverse effects to the fetus/neonate or woman from labouring in water or waterbirth. The fact that use of water immersion in labour and birth is now a widely available care option for women threatens the feasibility of a large, multicentre randomised controlled trial.
Position in the second stage of labor for women without epidural anesthesia
The tentative findings of this review suggest several possible benefits for upright posture, with the possibility of increased risk of blood loss greater than 500 ml. Women should be encouraged to give birth in the position they find most comfortable. Until such time as the benefits and risks of various delivery positions are estimated with greater certainty, when methodologically stringent trials' data are available, women should be allowed to make informed choices about the birth positions in which they might wish to assume for delivery of their babies.
Routine Newborn Baby Care Procedures
Choices for newborn baby care procedures begin immediately at birth. The best preparation is to have considered them and decided beforehand what procedures you desire (or don't want) for your newborn. For a hospital birth, there are numerous routine procedures which can be administered, delayed or even refused…Many parents don't realize the impact that these procedures can have on their newborn child…Another critical point to remember is that you can and absolutely have the right to receive information about each and every procedure that will be performed, as well as the right to either request the procedure be performed in your room or that a parent/guardian accompany the newborn for each one. This includes weighing, measuring and the pediatrician's evaluation of the baby – all can be performed right there in the mother's room. Remember, your first responsibility is to the welfare of your child, not to the comfort of the hospital staff nor arbitrary hospital policies.
The most commonly performed routine newborn baby care procedures to consider are:
Delayed Cord Clamping Vs. Immediate Cord Clamping
Newborn Vitamin K Injection
PKU Test
Silver Nitrate or Antibiotic Eye Ointment
Hep B Vaccine
To Bathe or Not to Bathe
Benefits And Risks Of Episiotomy
The benefits and risks of episiotomy are very disproportionate. When compared together, the research supports that routine episiotomy should be banished as a practice of the past. Even ACOG's positions is that the research does not support the practice of routine episiotomy.
Normal, natural birth sets the stage for problem-free breastfeeding—what nature intended—while a complicated, intervention-intensive labor and birth set the stage for problems.
The cascade of intervention
I'm angry, I'm sad, I am frustrated as hell! I want to scream from the rooftops in complete and utter disgust for the misinformation women receive from Doctors regarding ignoring the spontaneous actions that occur in the natural process of childbirth. "Let's induce you and get things going," "You'll be holding your baby within an hour if you let me…" Here it comes. Yes, here comes my stance on inductions for non-medical reasons. Here come the facts. The things your Doctor doesn't tell you!
A due date is an estimated due date and can be off by as much as 2 weeks (in either direction – early or late). Women need to be prepared for what may happen during an induction. First of all, breaking your water will not speed anything along unless you are already in a good pattern of labor. So more than likely the Doc will break your water then want to give you drugs to force your body to have contractions (these drugs WILL NOT dilate your cervix). The drugs they use to induce labor only cause contractions, they do not dilate the cervix (which is what has to happen in order for the baby to come out). There is a risk of your baby going into distress from strong, chemically induced contractions without dilating. Babies will only be able to withstand chemically induced contractions for so long before it stresses their little system. You are putting your birth on a time table by agreeing to an induction. Once your water is broken you have roughly 12 hours (I believe it is 12 hours at most hospitals but it may be 24) to have your baby. If you haven't had your baby within 12-24hrs hours they call it "failure to progress" and will perform a major abdominal surgery to remove them and call it an "emergency" even though they caused it by artificially breaking your water and trying to force your body into something it wasn't ready to do.
Most Docs tell you they will induce you because it is easier for them - NOT for you. And that's what's up ladies. Birth is easier for them when they are in control.
So now in "labor" with artificial contractions you will more than likely receive pain management drugs because chemically induced contractions are much stronger and harder than the contractions the body naturally produces. The method used for relief will most likely be a catheter placed in your spinal cord, also known as the epidural.
I just want to say here that I am all about an informed decision. Every woman has the right to decide for herself how she chooses to birth her baby. But I have heard WAY too many stories from mothers saying their doctor never discussed these risks with them so I am putting it out there for all the world to see.
There are risks involved with the placement of a catheter into your spine (epidural). Yes it is common, yes it happens everyday but it is not without serious risks to you and your child!! Here are some things the doctors may not discuss with you before offering up this drug to you as if it were a simple Aspirin or Tylenol.
The epidural can cause permanent numbness in your back and other parts of your body. It, like the induction drugs can also cause fetal heart rate decelerations (fetal distress). This can occur following the use of epidurals because the mothers blood pressure gets so low that blood cannot be adequately pumped into the uterus to deliver oxygen to the baby. Also, trauma to blood vessels can occur as a result of epidural anesthesia. Bleeding in the spinal column and unintentional placement of the catheter into an artery or vein occurs in 67 women out of every 1000 epidurals. The catheter actually escapes outside of where it is supposed to go 1 to 6% of the time. Hemorrhages can occur around the spinal cord and even within the skull following epidural anesthesia. These are associated with persistent backaches or headaches. Failure to treat these problems usually results in permanent paralysis. Surgery must be performed within 8 hours of the onset of paralysis or the prognosis is poor. Chronic subdural hematoma has resulted from epidural anesthesia and has even presented as post-partum psychosis!!
Infections can develop at the site of injection of the epidural. Bacterial meningitis can occur from contamination during placement of the epidural. An abscess can also form at the site where the epidural catheter is placed. Backache after an epidural is a common complication. Back pain commonly occurs after epidural anesthesia (18.9% of the time). Upper back pain can happen at some distance from the site where the epidural is injected. The back pain can last very long-term. Nineteen percent of women have long-term backache after epidural anesthesia. It probably results from a combination of its effects on the nerves and from extreme postures and stretching that occurs after the epidural during labor. Low back pain after epidural anesthesia for childbirth is also frequently mentioned by moms I know that have undergone this procedure.
Also a hidden danger of epidural anesthesia is its interaction with medications commonly used to soften the cervix and "start labor" (prostaglandins). The use of prostaglandins is common at hospitals and creates a potentially dangerous situation in which the usual medications used to treat low blood pressure during labor will no longer work.
20-30% of women experience nausea after epidural anesthesia, while 3 to 7% have vomiting during labor and afterward and lemme tell you – puking in labor is NOT COOL!
Mothers can experience excessively slow heart rates (bradycardia), heart block in which the electrical activity of the chambers of the heart become dissociated and sometimes even stoppage of the heart (cardiac arrest)!
One last thing on the epidural and I'll stop though there is sadly much more to be said.
Local anesthetics rapidly cross the placenta…you aren't just drugging yourself, you are drugging your baby as well. There is scientific evidence that 'caine drugs (yes epidurals are in the same family as cocaine), the family of anesthetics used in epidurals, do, in fact, profoundly disturb instinctive newborn breastfeeding behavior. 'Caine anesthetics, whether given as a pudendal block, epidural block, or local injection for an episiotomy, enter the mother's circulation and cross the placenta.
Surprisingly, Docs do not discuss the relationship between the birth itself and the early days of breastfeeding. We are just beginning to understand and appreciate how a woman's body prepares for breastfeeding during pregnancy, how what happens during labor and birth sets the stage for breastfeeding, and how the first minutes and hours after birth affect breastfeeding. The way the birth proceeds powerfully influences the first hours and days of breastfeeding.
Normal, natural birth sets the stage for problem-free breastfeeding—what nature intended—while a complicated, intervention-intensive labor and birth set the stage for problems.
In addition, the babies of medicated mothers cry substantially more, which is often attributed to frustration. They also run significantly higher temperatures, which could be due to crying and this is disadvantageous in that it means a greater expenditure of calories. Calories are VERY important to a newborn baby.
The typical "problems" that plague early breastfeeding – difficult latch, sore nipples, sleepy baby, and engorgement are rare when the mother has had a normal birth and has not been separated from her baby. Epidural = sleepy baby that is difficult, if not impossible, to nurse or even to rouse awake to nurse. Once your baby can't nurse the whole natural process is thrown off and again is a downward spiral. Baby can't nurse, so the breast isn't being stimulated, so you don't make the milk the baby needs, so the baby is supplemented with formula which means you make even less milk because again the baby isn't feeding from you (it's a supply and demand type thing with regards to producing milk).
Who would sign a consent if it included the above language? The degree to which the facts about the risks of inductions and epidural anesthesia are hidden from women in labor is astonishing.
What About Dairy?
I am so over the dairy campaigns about milk and weight loss, bone health and calcium. Dairy is not a necessity in our diet people! I found this site and really wanted to share some interesting facts on how not only is dairy not necessary but how it is harming Americans everyday.
"There is no human requirement for milk from a cow," says Suzanne Havala, RD, author of the American Dietetic Association's "Position Paper on Vegetarian Diets" and several books on nutrition. "The use of milk and its products in our country is strictly a cultural tradition," she notes. "There are millions of people around the world who never consume cow's milk and are none the worse for it."
While the question of whether dairy foods contribute to or detract from the well- being of our skeletons often occupies center stage, there are additional serious health concerns that might make you wary of dairy.
Allergies: Milk is the most common cause of food allergy. A recent study found that one way to reduce the number of allergies in infants is for the breastfeeding mother to avoid consuming, or make very limited use of cow's milk.
Women's health concerns: Studies indicate that osteoporosis, which afflicts 20 million American women, and ovarian cancer are most common in those countries with the highest consumption of dairy food and lowest in those countries with low dairy intake. According to gynecologist Christiane Northrup, MD, author of Women's Bodies Women's Wisdom, other health problems associated with the consumption of dairy foods include benign breast conditions, recurrent vaginitis, acne, menstrual cramps, fibroids, chronic intestinal upset and increased pain from endometriosis.
Anemia: Overreliance on milk in children can lead to anemia, as milk is very low in iron, and drinking large quantities of it can crowd iron-rich foods from the diet. In young infants, protein from cow's milk can cause intestinal bleeding, another possible cause of anemia.
Colic: Sensitivity to cow's milk can cause colic, a digestive ailment in infants. Colic can cause problems even in infants who aren't drinking cow's milk but whose mothers are.
Food safety concerns: Washington Post columnist Colman McCarthy chides that milk is tainted with so many that it should be sold by prescription only. Dairy farmers regularly administer drugs and growth hormones to cows to boost milk production. Investigations have routinely found residues of these veterinary pharmaceuticals in milk and other milk products, some of which may raise cancer risks. One compound approved for use in 1993 and now widely employed by commercial dairies is the controversial genetically engineered Bovine Growth Hormone (BGH). Many feel that this compound– which increases milk production in an era of serious milk surplus– poses grave potential health risks for consumers (including elevated antibiotic residue levels in milk) while favoring large-scale factory farms at the expense of small dairy producers. Unfortunately, producers who shun BGH are forbidden from labeling their products as such. Only organic dairy foods are certified to be free of antibiotic and BGH residues.
Heart disease: Dairy products are major contributors of fat, saturated fat and cholesterol to the diet. According to cardiologist Dean Ornish, MD, "Milk rates second only to beef as the largest source of saturated fat in the American diet." Consider, for example, that one glass of 2% milk has as much saturated fat as three strips of bacon. Almost half the calories in whole milk come from fat.
Insulin-dependent diabetes: Recent research indicates that consuming cow's milk throughout adolescence increases the risk of developing Type I diabetes. About 1 million Americans have this disease. (13)
Lactose intolerance: Many people cannot stomach lactose, the sugar in milk, because they lack the necessary digestive enzyme. Some people are also sensitive to milk protein. An estimated 50 million Americans experience intestinal discomfort after consuming dairy products. Symptoms include bloating, stomach pain, cramps, gas or diarrhea.
Such findings prompted breast surgeon Robert Kradjian, MD, in 1993 to review more than 500 medical articles written about milk since 1988. "How would I summarize the articles?," Kradian asks. "First of all, none of the authors spoke of cow's milk as an excellent food, free of side effects. The main focus of the published reports seem to be on intestinal colic, intestinal irritation, intestinal bleeding, and anemia, allergic reactions in infants and children as well as infections such as salmonella… In adults the problems seemed centered more around heart disease and arthritis, allergy, sinusitis, and the more serious questions of leukemia, lymphoma and cancer."
More links to info on what's really in that cow's milk, what's really going on with those cows and what it's really doing to your body:
Dark Dairy Doings
Dairy Monsters


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Top 10 Best NBA Shooting Guards Of The Past Decade
(Sorry about the odd order at the beginning. I forgot to rearrange them.)
The List
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- 10Up 17Down 54I've always been a big Michael Redd fan. He can score like crazy. He's not necessarily tough to defend, but what he lacks in speed and quickness, he makes up for in his relentless scoring prowess. Back in his day, Michael Redd was a beast on the offensive end. Remember? He was the face of the Bucks! He was an All-Star! He even knocked down 8 three pointers in one quarter! So why isn't he higher? Because that's all he does. He scores extremely efficiently. That's about it. He's next to useless on the defensive end and his injuries are starting to weigh him down, but in the early and mid 2000s, he was beast.
His career stats are 20.0 ppg, 4.0 rpg, 2.3 apg, 1.0 spg.
- 9Up 35Down 37While he wasn't that prominent at the beginning of the decade, he's become a powerhouse since. It's hard to imagine an Atlanta Hawks team without Joe Johnson. I'll be the first one to admit, they pay him way too much. They pay him more than Lebron gets paid. While he's not as good as Lebron, he's an excellent leader to a young but talented team. His ability to get open and find his own shots is second to none. Not to mention that he competed in the three point shootout. He's very durable and he's a great passer. Only thing "wrong" with him is his rebounding. Considering how tall he is, he's not that aggressive.
His career stats are 17.7 ppg, 4.5 apg, 4.2 rpg, 1.0 spg.
- 8Up 37Down 36He'll never be and has never been the face of a franchise. He's not the best overall player. He is, however, an extremely quick and exceptionally talented scorer. He's a wonderful scoring option for a point guard. Rip's had Chauncey Billups for most of his career, but that doesn't mean Rip didn't have to do anything. Chauncey needed a good scorer. Rip was the only choice. He's a great defender and excellent shooter. He's just lacking in everything else, including ball control. His durability and consistency make him a very reliable scorer though.
His career stats are 17.7 ppg, 3.5 apg, 3.2 rpg, .8 spg. And yes, that is a mask.
- 7Up 38Down 35While he wants to play every position, he's a shooting guard at heart. He hasn't been in the NBA for long, but his pure scoring ability and his ability to lead his team make him stand out among the rest. The majority of people think that LaMarcus Aldrige is the key to the Trail Blazers success, I say otherwise. Even though he's young, he's still got allot of experience. Remember that he went to college all four years. His knack for picking up injuries and inconsistency on the scoring end have held him back since he entered the NBA, however. His career stats are 19.0 ppg, 4.7 apg, 4.1 rpg, 1.0 spg.
- 6Up 60Down 32I really don't like Manu Ginobili. He's extremely aggressive and tenacious, he's got some anger issues, he's ugly, and he plays for the Spurs. I've got to give him props though. He's one talented basketball player. He's a 3x NBA Champion and former sixth man of the year. He's always played for a good team though. His team is so talented, we can't tell if he's immensely talented or not. One thing is for sure; he knows when to step up. His playoff stats are most impressive.
His career stats are 15.3 ppg, 4.0 rpg, 3.9 apg, 1.5 spg.
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Well the first day of the show is behind us and it certainly was a great day. It started early yesterday morning when our friends at Pyramyd Air restarted the traditional Airgun Breakfast. It is an opportunity for all those who shoot and love airguns to get together and take stock in the industry. It was a great event that ended with the surprise announcement of a new airgun themed TV show called American Airgunner. The footage we saw of the show looks really exciting. You can learn more at this link:
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The Marauder was not the only gun we released at the show, we have our new PCP Challenger which is generating it's own excitement and promises to be another airgun milestone this year. It takes everything that is great about the Discovery, the adjustable match grade trigger from the Marauder and combines them with the classic Challenger stock and a floating Lothar Walther barrel. This is something we will be talking more about on the blog very soon.
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No more Josh & Yulisa! Good riddance, assholes. I hear one of the "importants" in the new ownership is married to Ivanka Trump. I don't know if that's true or not.
I'll call them and see what's going to happen with the fridge fees.
No more Josh & Yulisa! Good riddance, assholes. I hear one of the "importants" in the new ownership is married to Ivanka Trump. I don't know if that's true or not.
I'll call them and see what's going to happen with the fridge fees.
First time since Bernard shut it off over a week ago, last Saturday morning, April 6. I was outside waiting for my fridge delivery, which I ordered from PC Richards myself because though Fortune East knew I'd been without a fridge since I faxed them 12/27/12 (printed transmission confirmation in my files at work), they did nothing. I'm still debating whether I should follow through on sticking them with the bill or not. It was just under $230.
While I was out there I "caught" Bernard, standing around, guilty expression and body language. The door to the basement was open too. That's where the boiler room is.
Last month they shut off the heat entirely for six days, and then gave us minimal heat another four before they finally relented.
They sent B over on the 6th because temps hit 60 that day, but it was cold at night and some days only hit a high of 45 at the end of last week. Someone must've called 311 again. Right now it's 53 out, but the heat will make yoga practice better, if I ever get on the mat. (We're thinking 2:30pm.)
I'd already run the bath before the heat came on. I've discovered it warms the apartment additionally for quite some time after you're out of it. I don't drain the water for awhile. So now I'll be extra toasty. Hooray!
Not to be a stickler, but that only took TEN DAYS. I suppose "they" wouldn't mind if I paid no rent for the six it was out completely and only half rent for the remaining days it was half way on.
So… the latest saga is reduced heat. Here in NYC, the temperatures went up to the 50s, starting on my birthday, Saturday March 9. Our heat immediately went OFF. We had zero heat for five days. Supposedly the boiler had a crack. That's what Bernard – the new, off-site super – said.
Temperatures dropped back to the 30s on Thursday, March 14. All of a sudden we had heat, but not much. It goes off at night, all night, and doesn't start until late in the morning. This past Sunday the heat didn't kick in for the first time in the day until 10:45am.
One tenant, home this morning, had this to say in our Google group:
The heat seems to be blasting now, with nobody having been in the boiler room this morning (unless they tiptoed). I hear everything that happens underneath me and no repairmen have been down there (nor have I heard Bernard yet this morning, who generally wakes me up rattling the recyclables around). Is the timer being deliberately played with to keep us chilled during the night? If the inspector happens to come today, all will be "miraculously" well. I'm off to work, but keep me posted. It was in the 20's last night — my floor was so cold it felt like I was walking on an ice floor.
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On the third hand it's the rent stabilized who have the under insulated apartments most effected by the heat being off. So high stakes harassment?
We really DO have the under insulated apartments… The old windows ratting in rotted frames, the doors that don't shut properly… That has nothing to do with it but… I remember one summer day when I was about to leave and go get ice cream and my door knob just fell off, effectively locking me out. I was able to call Eddie that day and he came by in a half hour. Would Bernard? If it happened again I'd probably call the police.
Numerous complaints to 311 have been logged, but we have been entirely without heat, at 120 East FuckYaMotha 4th, since Saturday March 9. That's four fucking days we have to pay fucking rent for not a completely fucking liveable fucking cunting apartment!!!!
And the temps are dropping tomorrow.
I hope that Josh & Yulisa both end their lives as homeless vagrants, living on the streets, shunned by all.
…of a pending visit by the "Division of Code Enforcement".
They knew about the state of my walls since I had to call 311 to get them to fix a hole in the ceiling, as per this post. That was mid January, 2011. It seems like it was longer ago! They'd taken control as the building's "managing agents" the November before. In the first year they managed to clear half the units. Some new tenants left of their own accord, since living in the building was like inhabiting a noisy, dusty construction site for the better part of a full year.
When Yulisa called the week of 11/19 and said, What time next week can you give us access to paint your apartment, I knew it wasn't for MY benefit. She got downright surly when I expressed doubt that such a job could be done in one day. I mean…. portions of the walls look like this.
I explained to her that 1) it'd have to be guaranteed done in a day; 2) since I'm a paid by the hour freelancer I'd need to arrange to work from home; 3) Since it's a small, one-room apartment with no cross ventilation I'd need to make arrangements to sleep on a friend's couch a night. Near home anyway. I'd have let the painters in and then gone to Starbucks to do my work. Since I got a stomach bug on Tuesday, the 27th, and had to leave work and miss nearly that whole day's pay, and since I didn't feel up to couch surfing that week, I called & left a message saying we'd have to postpone until the following week.
I knew from another tenant they were anxious to get up in peoples' business before December 6… They'd have had Monday through Wednesday of that week to get in and paint, but they never called me back. Maybe they thought I had advance information and was just fucking with them, but that wasn't the case.
I'd sort of forgotten about it, but last night I got home to find this notice slipped under my door.
It is INDEED in my interests to be there for the second visit, and you can bet your ass I will be.
Bitches are desperate to get a return on their investment!
I bumped into another long-term tenant on the subway this morning. She'd gotten a message demanding access too, but it wasn't the almost always bitchy Yulisa. It was some young sounding woman. Supposedly they needed to check her fire escape, from the inside, which makes no sense at all. Also they wanted to check her "basement sink". She's not in it above the basement and her neighbor below told her he hadn't had any leaks.
Her walls must not be crumbling to the extent mine are! They are obviously worried about looking bad. [But they're so good at it!]
She checked with the fire dept and they said they'd never heard of such a request. If fire escapes need inspecting it should be from the roof down, and if this isn't possible Fortune East needs to address that.
Hey I'll let them paint but I'm not getting sick for their schedule, nor am I missing billing unless they'd like to waive a month's rent. They've got to work with me so I can arrange work to bring home and a place to sleep that night.


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Its pretty simple to cross reference the Abrams roster to the Magic Elevator cast lists on IMDB Pro.
Berinika reminds everybody she's not an actress every time she casts herself in one of her films.
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Sweet Jesus.
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Thanks for the chuckles guys! This is too funny to read!! OMG! I am ROTFL!! Thanks, I needed a good laugh today!
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EVEN IF it were moral/legal to produce films in this way, I'd probably still say no because the tone with which you discuss "broke actors" shows a really disrespectful attitude toward our profession.
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Comedy implies funny...I'm still waiting.
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The only "Aleksandra Slaska" listed on IMDB is a Polish actress who died in 1989.
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Death Note commentary.
January 4th, 2008 by Lianne
We've never talked about it on this site–I meant to ages ago, but now it's so popular that my opinion will probably just be redundant–but I think Death Note is great. The manga is great, the movies both had fantastic original endings (totally didn't see them coming), and the anime, although definitely flawed in a few unique ways, has its own fair share of great. Death Note has its problems, but overall it's super smart and miles ahead of most Shounen Jump stuff. And yes, you should read it until the end, because although the second half is weaker, it's still full of great.
Although everyone and his dog hailed Death Note as great when the manga was first coming out in English, recently I heard a lot more criticism of it. And I don't mean detailed and intelligent criticism, I mean "Death Note is bad" type criticism from people who are supposedly informed comics reader/critics/etc. This baffled me. But…Death Note is great? And then Zac Bertschy, better known as Anime News Network's Answerman, said this in one of ANN's forums:
Death Note is a good manga and a decent TV series. The people who say it's "ridiculous" or terrible or whatever are kneejerk backlashin'.
Not that it's impossible to dislike, which I'm sure plenty of people do, but to say it's totally awful and all the praise is unwarranted is pretty much wrong.
Ha ha ha! I like that.
And I agree. You don't have to like it, but Death Note is great. Like how Monster is great, but I still don't like it. What you like and what is objectively good do not always match up. Isn't that supposed to be a critic's creed? Sheesh.
Sorry, now I'm just being really negative. I don't hate all comic reviewers, I swear.
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on 07 Jan 2008 at 7:01 am MangaBlog » Blog Archive » Manga: More satisfying than spandex?
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on 07 Jan 2008 at 11:36 am gia
At risk of sounding contentious: how can anything be "objectively good?" "Good" is by its very nature a subjective concept.
In keeping with Death Note as an example: I think overall it's a good manga (but somewhat overrated– I won't go there now). I think the art is phenomenal and some of the characters are absolutely amazing. I also think the plot direction and pacing leaves something to be desired.
On the other hand, I know people who think that the plot is perfect, but who find the art overwhelming at times and the lead characters a bit obnoxious. And then there are people who find the series to be flawless, and still others who don't like a thing about it.
So…"objectively good?" I dunno. I think it's kind of a contradiction in terms.
on 07 Jan 2008 at 2:10 pm Tsubasa
Something is objectively good if it pleases it's target audience. A "good kids' story" isn't necessarily fun for adults, and no one can be forced to like, say, shoujo even the title would be the best of it's kind.
It's the job of the critic to recognize good works of art even outside their own preferences.
on 08 Jan 2008 at 3:02 pm gia
Well, nothing pleases 100% of its target audience. There will always be a handful of kids in the appropriate age range who DON'T watch Hannah Montana or whatever other product.
So is this "objective goodness" determined by majority? And if so, why would we need critics at all? We could just decide what to buy based on the top sales lists
Nah, I don't think it's a critic's job to make a broad, sweeping statement about what is "good" and what is "not good." I think their job is to put themselves in their readers' shoes and say, "I think YOU will like this (even if I don't)."
on 09 Jan 2008 at 11:39 pm Manga News Bites » Comics Worth Reading
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on 10 Jan 2008 at 1:14 am Lianne
Yeah, the term "objectively good" is vague and arbitrary, and Post Modern Theory probably wants to take on human form to kill me just for typing it. Still, I think there are some general traits that the vast majority of critics can agree are "good" or "bad." For example:
-A "bad" artist has no sense of perspective, inconsistent character designs, poor depth (unless a flat look is intentional), etc. A "good" artist avoids all of those problems and also has a unique style, backgrounds that complement the foreground well, etc.
-A "bad" writer has a sloppily inconsistent tone, plot holes, inconsistent characters, an incoherent story, etc. A "good" writer avoids those problems and also has a meaning/purpose/point to his or her work, even if the point is there IS no point (such as in a gag manga). Also, "good" writers tend to explore ideas, plots, emotions, etc. that aren't overexposed, or at least provide new perspective on old material.
I don't think something selling well means it's "good," nor do I think that something selling well means it's "bad." Both "good" and "bad" things sell. But these general senses of "good" and "bad" are based on, as mentioned, a number of general observations that I think most critics can agree on, and it's the critic's job to look for these traits regardless of the genre of the work or who the work is aimed at. For example, if a critic is a 30-year-old man, he should be able to look at a work aimed at a teenage girl and judge it on its art quality, story comprehension, the aim of the work, etc. and give it a fair review even if the critic is NOT a teenage girl and has no interest in reading anything for a teenage girl. (Also, I think part of a critic's job is to evaluate a work in a more global sense AFTER evaluating it in a vacuum – for example, maybe a work is solid on its own, but it's weaker if it's just a retelling of something told many times before by other works – but that's the topic of another post.)
Anyway, it's very late, and I'm very tired. But in summary: there's no such thing as "objectively good" for everyone, but I think that critics share much of their criteria for what makes a work strong or weak, and thus some works can meet enough universal criteria for "what makes a strong work" to be considered, to an extent, "objectively good" in general by critics. If a critic trashes something that most would call "objectively good," and said critic doesn't provide many solid reasons for that, then that's a good warning sign that the critic is crippled by bias. We all have bias – but a good critic doesn't let it blind him or her.
on 10 Jan 2008 at 1:47 am Lianne
Hm, Comics Worth Reading has taken issue over this. Well, I was kind of expecting that. And we've come to indirect blows over some issues before, so I'm not surprised we disagree on other things. That's okay – I love civil debate.
I'm not going to go into detail regarding why I think Death Note is so brilliant, because, as I briefly mentioned, a billion other people have already written essays on why Death Note is a very strong manga (ESPECIALLY considering it ran in Shounen Jump). My point was that I thought Death Note was one of those few titles that everyone could put aside his or her preferences for and appreciate for being unique, morally complicated, hyper analytical, well-drawn, far-reaching, etc. I'm always surprised to hear people call it "bad" or "weak" or even "disappointing," and I've yet to hear really good non-visceral ("it's boring"; "Near is annoying") reasons why*, which let me make a point about what I think makes a bad critic. Also, I was trying to be funny…my reusing the word "great" was supposed to be funny. Anyway, I was hoping nobody was going to judge my ability as a critic based on that single post, considering it's come (as it was intended) as a brief observation/rant after I've written a bazillion other reviews for this website. But whatever.
*(The strongest arguments I've heard against Death Note so far are the inherent misogyny lurking behind the story and the long-windedness of the plot. But I think Death Note more than makes up for those weaknesses with its broad scope, its very direct handling of tricky issues regarding death and crime and what constitutes fighting for the greater good without cramming any one view down the reader's throat, its unique insight into the insane rumination brilliant sociopaths are likely to go through…dammit, I said I wasn't going to go into Death Note itself here, because I have less-discussed manga to discuss. I'm done now.)
on 10 Jan 2008 at 5:58 pm gia
My main argument has nothing to do with misogyny and is only tangentially related to the plot's length.
You say Death Note has a "very direct handling of tricky issues regarding…what constitutes fighting for the greater good," but in my opinion, that was the *promise* of the series and I felt like it never actually delivered. Oh, sure, characters hammered the point home by sometimes admitting that they could understand where Kira was coming from or agreeing with him, or by declaring him nothing but a murderer and denouncing him.
But where was the actual debate? By the end of volume 2 or 3, Light has made the choice: he will protect himself and his ability to slaughter criminals, regardless of whether it costs innocent lives. He becomes a more or less flat character and doesn't show any regret, hesitation, or internal debate until his death. As such, he becomes evil, and the debate ends.
Instead of debate on good, evil, and justice and it became a complex and increasingly unlikely cat-and-mouse chase. Now, at this point I can bring in the long-winded argument– if the series was simply going to be a complicated detective story, it could have been shortened and made less clunky and would have been a perfectly acceptable detective story.
But I would have preferred something that actually explored the themes it brought up at the very beginning, rather than what sometimes felt like the author saying "look how brilliant I am! I can come up with a super-complicated maze and then I can get out of it! Woohoo!"
Obviously I feel like I have a legitimate argument. Is it strong? That's up to whoever actually reads this.
on 11 Jan 2008 at 11:28 am Lianne
I do think you have a legitimate argument, but I disagree with it. Actually, I did recently hear some other people talk about Death Note "not delivering" on the moral argument about what constitutes justice, as you yourself have mentioned. I think Death Note DOES deliver, just in a roundabout manner modeled off of its magazine peers – shounen style.
Death Note ran in Shounen Jump, and although it bears little resemblance to other Shounen Jump titles, at its base, I think it works like many other shounen titles: there's a message hidden behind lots and lots of action. The action in Death Note is deducing. Just because the majority of the series is focused on its action doesn't mean there isn't meaning behind the action. In shounen, the boys fight – the theme/meaning/point is in WHY they're fighting. Light decides fairly early on that he knows what justice is. L thinks he knows, and his opinion differs. Then he and Light out-deduce each other for a million pages. A number of side characters get involved, and each person has a different idea regarding what constitutes justice – the police believe that justice is maintaining the law, that lawyer who shows up later in the manga (forget his name) believes in a more universal justice that the law can't provide, Near believes in ending evil without compromising international law/ethics at all, etc. Mello and Misa both believe in self-gain, aka a type of personal, selfish justice ("I'm going to get what I want, because no one has the right to tell me I can't go after what I want"). These characters are, pretty much without exception, flat. They don't grow over the course over the series. That's not the point. We don't need to see characters go through epiphanies regarding what justice is, because their one-note characterizations represent at least half a dozen different INTERPRETATIONS of what justice is, and the manga itself isn't trying to drive any one point home – it lets the reader decide. The only message that the manga itself pushes by the end is, in my opinion, the futility of mortality. As humans, we're only pawns in a greater game, and there's only so much control we have. But that doesn't eliminate the possibility that there IS a sort of universal human justice. It's up to the reader to decide, after s/he has been exposed to a number of different viewpoints. Hell, the reader can come up with his/her OWN viewpoint after digesting all the characters' views – God knows most of the characters weren't shown in a positive light. The manga lets the reader decide who is good, who is evil, who is right, etc.
I think it's monumentally important to look at a work in the context in which it was published, and I think that's what's holding Death Note back in a lot of people's eyes. Death Note ran in a magazine primarily aimed at junior high school boys. (Way more people read Shounen Jump, obviously, but that's still the main, historic targeted readership.) It based itself off a standard shounen formula – quick set-up, obvious character motivations, and then lots and lots of action while each character fights for his or her own reason – but then introduced uncommon themes like widespread present-day murder, crime & punishment, the true difference between good and evil, what constitutes justice, etc., and let the reader make his/her own judgments. That is BRILLIANT. Talk about taking your readership by the hand and then leading them into a whole new realm of thinking – and specifically by NOT telling them what to think. (By the way, the young readership is yet another argument against Death Note being too long-winded – kids have to be able to follow what these super geniuses are thinking, hence the sometimes long explanations.)
So I think Death Note had a definite, noble purpose, and it nailed that purpose. Hard. And I always assumed that was what elevated a manga from "good" territory into "great" territory. I'll stand by Death Note until the end of time.
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[...] do a review or essay or something on Death Note now; I've practically written one in the comments section of last post already, but that's lame – I need something more organized. Time to replace my mouth with [...]
you guys read comics?
I didnt know there were comics for this series.
OH yes dont read on if you watch the series in Amirica and don,t like spiolers Well light dies
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I think the moral point is more about right of judgement than about justice.


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