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Give D'antoni a break! He is the only coach in NBA history who doesn't deserve to get blamed for anything.Remember, he was brought in here to start coaching this team once his third season with the Knicks got underway.
Ahh, another 50 loss season, thanks Mike No-D! how I admire your 8-man rotation, no defensive scheme, love of Duhound, not fouling when up by 3 with seconds left in the game, your poor communication skills with Marbury, N8, Hughes, etc., and especially your holier-than-thou, not-my-fault-we're-losing attitude and your stoic band of yes men. you are one of the worst Knick coaches I have ever seen, I dread watching and listening to you. Do you really think winning is all about the SSOL, and NOT defense? Why are you NOT starting Douglas at the end of the season? c'mon, what is up with Duhon?? what have you got to lose? face? you've lost enough potato face already, you mustachio moron! I hate you! How unfortunate that Donnie will keep you around, so you can have your 2 new max agents go wild with no offensive or defensive game plan. prove me wrong, D'assholio, and I will eat my words. Your substitutions suck ass, you don't belong in New York City! you and D'an D'an can go eat a big ****. oh, yeah, you already did. 50 losses and counting!!! wooo-weee!! way to go, D'amntoni!
ps: sorry for the offensive language folks!
Give D'antoni a break! He is the only coach in NBA history who doesn't deserve to get blamed for anything.Remember, he was brought in here to start coaching this team once his third season with the Knicks got underway.
Chill CoolClyde...
Once we pair Lee...
oops... I mean once we resign Lee for $10+mil...
then we pair him with a real big man center like Camby...
And Gallo gets his feet under him...
and we sign Joe Johnson...
and trade for CP3...
and trade for Rubio...
and wait two more years (b/c Douglas needs three years like Gallo to develop)...
and draft 3 more bench warmers...
then "Rightly So" we wait another three years for them to develop and proove to us worthy...
and we start running SSOL just like PHX when they won 50+ games and...
then and only then can we expect more.
Is that how it goes guy's? Or only Euro players allowed three years to develop?
O'well by this time next year, we will be tearing the league up! Yup it will be a new day, one in which the league fears our ability...
to outscore them!
...with like 150 points per!
What's with all the D'antoni hate here? Seriously, if anyone here could coach the Knicks to a better record why waste valuable minutes of your life posting on a forum? Why not go to the commissioner's office and ask for a coaching position in the Knicks' organization? I'm sure that if you made a quarter of Mike D'antoni's salary you would look at the Internet Basketball Community as a bunch of pions who have too much time in their hands.Maybe someone here could write a book entitled,"20,000 Ways to Express Your Resentment Towards Mike D'antoni".
Does anyone actually think that the more they complain about a particular athlete or coach, the more vibes they will send to him? Do people think that these vibes will eventually lead to the departure of this athlete or coach? I would have loved to believe in something like this had it resulted in the Knicks making the playoffs more than once in the last 9 years.But the truth is that you could rant and rave about the Knicks and their pathetic organization until you're blue and orange in the face, but you'll be wasting time that could have been used more wisely.
I am not knocking the people who come to this forum for emotional alleviation.Some of us let out our frustrations by breaking our remote controls into thousands of pieces, others unleash their emotions by writing 3 thousand word essays on why they hate the coach of their team.Whatever your reason is for being a devote member of Knicks Online, I respect that.I just honestly believe that some of us shouldn't get too carried away by our opinions.
Last edited by knicksin60; Apr 08, 2010 at 08:08.
love of duhon? the same duhon who was benched and got DNP's after all star break?
does a coach really have to tell an NBA PLAYER to foul in a situation like that? my *****, what are u in the league for???
marbury, n8 & hughes are nobody's in the league today. marbury couldnt take a chineese team to theplayoffs. some people are forgetting marburys 100 million he stole from us. we got the best out of the n8 deal. hands down.
worst knick coaches??? you forget isiah thomas so quickly my friend.
SSOL? we dont have a run and gun system anymore. if u been watching knick games and not box scores u would see this.
douglas receives most of the pg duties....he just put up 20 last night. Douglas is not a seasoned vet....he's a rookie....who makes rookie mistakes.
At the end of the season he did go out and get a centre tho. why is that move not noted?? lee now plays PF. this is a huge thing. it has to mean we are getting bosh. lee needs to adjust to the pf spot.
his substitutions suck ass? who the hell are you bringin on?? bender? house? giddens? how about we get eddy curry up off the bench so he can improve dantoni's substitutions.
who expected this team to make the playoffs? this is a throw away season fellas. we were competitive, we had excitement, and won a few games on the way.
Ok, i really don't think it's the coaches fault as much as it is the players. Lets go back in time when we had Lenny Wilkens, Larry Brown, Isiah Thomas as head coach. I've been seeing this time and time again, you CAN'T COACH EFFORT. I really can't blame the coach that much because I'm sure he emphasized defense day in and day out to the players but its whether or not the want to play D. We had mostly defensive minded coaches during the decade and they can't even help the Knicks win. Why? because you can't coach effort and players basically quit on the coaches. I believe this cleansing of the team is good becuase we have a chance to actually get players that want to win. I'm looking forward to a good season next year.
On another note, you can tell that Dantoni has come to the realization that TD is not suited as a lead PG. Anytime TD is on the court now he is playing alongside Duhorn or S.Rod. I've always said that TD is a scorer and that's it. He has trouble running a break which usually results in him taking a tough shot or making a bad pass.
Sorry to disappoint some of you but TD will not be the starting pg next year. He may get valuable minutes off the bench as an off guard but he won't be counted on the run the team too often.
With that said, I wonder how TD will fit into the rotation with a healthy Chandler and possibly Joe Johnson coming aboard. At 6ft tall he would easily become a liability on defense as a SG. Either he works REALLY hard this off-season on his PG play or he could easily see reduced minutes. Obviously this all depends on the acquisitions made this summer.
Real Talk
we said this when we drafted TD that he would play a similar roll in the upcoming years to barbosa with better defense and more intensity. Other than that it is quite obvious that our players are the main reason we fail. I mean really lets go position by position
C we have none
PF lee is a top ten
SF not even in the top 15 or 20
SG we have none
PG bench players starting
WE have none.
How do you coach winning basketball with this type of roster.
The thing I love the most about our team, is we don't ever seem afraid
Wait 3 years, Red? You kidding me - we've waited long enough... there's no reason we shouldn't be contending next season.. just like the Celtics.
First in time in the forum guys!!!!! Well the only things i hate about mike is his freaking lineup changes wow and the love for he has for duhon wacthing him start him pisses me off ...we could of been talking playoffs if he played toney and jordan at the start of the season...next season this team is going to be diffrent we will see how it goes ... If it goes bad fire his ass hire baron scott or mark jackson or avery johnson ..plus his mustache is anoying
I agree with all the sentiment, but hey, it's my rant, and my book to write I just don't like the coach, no matter what happens. God bless Donnie for putting us in position to improve team 100%, but I still think D'amntoni is a sh*tty coach whose positive record at Phoenix was based on Steve Nash being PG supreme.
I believe a defensive-minded coach, who has respect for his players as opposed to attitude, who doesn't stick players in the doghouse to teach them lessons, who didn't push his godson on this team when we needed a PG or C, played the rooks more, and spread out the rotation, would have done a lot better with this team than Pringle has done. As evidenced by a decent December, this team was able to win games. Hell, any well-coached team is able to win games if executing properly. D'assholio was surprised that N8 was able to score 41 after he benched him for a MONTH, that was a BAD MOVE. He was surprised that Douglas was able to win games single-handedly, and then he puts Duhound back at starting PG? That's what really gets my goat and made me mad as hell. I believe in TD.
Re "Coach Thomas" - IT was not supposed to be Knicks coach in the first place, that was another poor (rich man) James Dolan decision.
Perhaps D'anteater just can't run a non-SSOL offense? I mean, any coach who preaches offense over defense sucks ass. word to y'all...
Nothing personally to u for being a fan favorite of Damtoni, u showed u do have B-Ball knowledge, but when a player or coach "change" teams they have to accept the "change" by doing everything in their power to better their new situation.
Watching "Knicks in 60" may not show u the entire game, but it does show u all the errors of the Knicks headcoach.
Last season (2008-9) u seen 50 (loss) reasons why Damntoni wasnt capable of coaching the Knicks.
This season (2009-10) u already seen 51 (loss) reasons why Damntoni does not have the capabilty to coach the Knicks and the season is not over yet.
The (28-51) Knick situation past and present
Last night Knicks 103-118 loss vs the Orlando Magic headcoach Stan Van Gundy (who called-out Damntoni infererior-coaching and Walsh cluelessness in choices of coaches), out-coached Damntoni in every facet of the game using a "2-UNIT" lineup throughout the 48 minutes of the game.
SVG was showing-off his coaching ability in "team-ball" using a 10-man rotation where u dont need a "STAR" player to win games.
Orlando's 2nd unit off the bench in the 2nd half of the game ate the Knicks up alive.
The Knicks were a "2-unit-rotation-team" the day headcoach Damntoni was hired.
The Knicks were a "2-unit-team" when Damntoni had his first Knick preseason game (in 2008-9), and was a "2-unit-rotation team" the following 2009-10 preseason games.
When a team dont have any "Super-Star" players or Star players on their roster, but do have a few young upcoming star players with alot of decent individual talent players in offense and defense within the roster, a real NBA coach will utilize all that talent to make three different lineups:
1) the best offensive lineup
2) the best defensive lineup
3) and the best offense/defense (Starting) lineup.
However, headcoach Damntoni small-rotation of players in a game is only for rotations that have a Super-Star with Star players in the rotation.
Inwhich the Knick roster did not have.
When Isiah Thomas departed from the Knicks, the new regime plus new headcoach inhereted 6 young rookie contract players wanting playingtime to be apart of the new coach team-system, along with a 6th lottery draft pick. The majority of the other 8 veteran players on the roster just wanted Isiah Thomas gone so they could play winning basketball (with 4 of those veteran players contract expiring before the 2010 offseason to lower cap space).
That is what the D'Antoni supporters don't realize. Even if he gets the talent to win, he is so obsessed with his ego and playing favorites with his rotations and shoving players into doghouses that the team still might not be able to get passed the first round of the playoffs, or even to the playoffs with him as coach. Plus, any coach that cares more about knocking down 3s than playing defense is going to handicap their team by doing so. Defense has to be a #1 priority to consistently win in the NBA.
Jeremon Linbury


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Ideas based on my personal experiences in learning how to manage type 2 diabetes. I stress that I am a diabetic, not a doctor nor a dietician. I have no medical qualifications beyond my own experience. Nothing written here is intended as medical advice, and any ideas you may decide to use should be discussed first with your doctor.
About Me
Monday, May 04, 2009
Do some searching on the web or just listen to your well-meaning friends next time you reach for a diet drink. It happened to me again yesterday. I opened the fridge and took out a Coke Zero and my friend immediately said "Don't drink that - it's got that poisonous aspartame stuff in it!" Regardless of my answer, I was unable to change his conviction that he was saving me from a terrible fate.
If you are a type 2 diabetic and that hasn't happened to you yet, rest assured, it will. The sweetener police are a Special Squad of the Diet Police, always out to save us from ourselves.
Let me put it politely and succinctly. It is ALL utter nonsense.
We can thank a few individuals for this myth. The truth is lost in the mists of time. This anti-aspartame web-page claims that a certain Betty Martini was the originator, but this equally anti-aspartame page is dedicated to Nancy Markle, who is more often accredited with the "discovery." Some believe they were the same person. There are several disciples on the web these days, busily spreading the gospel according to Nancy Markle (note added 11th March 2011. That Nancy Markle page has disappeared and the various Betty Martini web-pages now claim Markle never existed).
If you do some searching on the web you will find that the followers of these kooks are very web-savvy and have ensured they will be on the first page of your search results. If you have the time, read some of them. You will find a web of inter-woven "supporting" research papers, some real, some not, most quoting each other, rarely peer-reviewed by any reputable journal and most performed using unlikely levels of aspartame on unrepresentative rodents.
On the other hand, if you go to more reputable sites such as the US National Cancer Institute, a division of the US national Institutes of Health, you will find some more credible references. Their summary (the emphasis is mine) is as follows:
"A study of about half a million people, published in 2006, compared people who drank aspartame-containing beverages with those who did not. Results of the study showed that increasing levels of consumption were not associated with any risk of lymphomas, leukemias, or brain cancers in men or women.
Researchers examined the relationship between aspartame intake and 1,888 lymphomas or leukemias and 315 malignant brain cancers among the participants of the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study from 1995 until 2000. Development of these cancers was not associated with estimated aspartame consumption, refuting a recent animal study with positive findings for lymphomas and leukemias and also contradicting claims regarding brain cancer risk."
As a person with leukemia, those conclusions were of direct interest to me. I should note that I rarely consumed aspartame in any form before my double-diagnosis in 2002; I have consumed it daily since. Both conditions have improved; I don't credit that to aspartame, I am just making the point that neither got worse.
Similarly, another organisation that gives credible support using reputable studies for their conclusions about aspartame is Green Facts. You can read their reports here: Scientific Facts on Aspartame.
For further reading, start with Snopes: Kiss my Aspartame
No matter what food substance you test someone, somewhere will have problems with it. Of course some people will have problems with aspartame. Some people have deadly problems with peanuts, or fish, or gluten or even lactose. But that does not mean that any of those substances necessarily have any dangers, if ingested in moderation, for the rest of us.
I have also consumed almost all of the other artificial sweeteners available to us these days, including Splenda, saccharine, and several others. None have harmed me in any way.
I repeat, I never drank diet sodas until AFTER my cancer and diabetes diagnoses and the only effect it has had on me has been to let me enjoy soft drinks without harming my blood glucose levels.
You must make your own judgement and test for yourself.
Cheers, Alan
Everything in Moderation - Except Laughter
PS. Comments from the kooks will not be published, so don't waste the effort of typing.
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I don't think the kooks read your stuff mate, too many unknown words like;
reputable journal
reputable sites
credible references
The dictionary they use doesn't explain them :-)
- 5/04/2009 9:34 pm
- Foodie McBody said...
thanks for this. I was just diagnosed with D2 in April and am exploring the world of nonsugar sweeteners...
- 5/05/2009 4:54 am
- web said...
I get so angry when people post fear-mongering comments about artificial sweeteners, usually in the form of "I heard from my cousin whose uncle was a nurtritionist..." or some such blather. I don't indulge that often, but they allow me to have at least a small amount of participation in social rituals, which are usually heavily connected to food and drink. I always bring my own diet drinks to parties now, so I don't have to feel totally cut off and left out.
- 5/05/2009 6:50 am
Finaly some common sense.Bravado to you
- 5/05/2009 11:43 am
- Tom and Amanda said...
The only thing I can add to this convo is that I have absolutely NO allergies to anything...aspartame (phenylalanine) makes me violently ill which I discovered at the tender age of 10 when I drank my first diet coke. Coincidentally, my younger brother is also sensitive to aspartame which we discovered the first time he drank diet faygo orange when he was four. My other family members seem to tolerate it without any troubles. Just my two cents...neither of us has any other allergies of any sort. Weird. Being sensitive to aspartame makes life as a diabetic slightly more challenging.
- 5/05/2009 12:20 pm
- Alan said...
When I wrote "Comments from the kooks will not be published, so don't waste the effort of typing" I probably should have been clearer. Issues like this tend to attract zealots on both sides of the argument.
Read my sig - everything in moderation.
If you are one of those who sent me a pre-prepared anti-anti-aspartame manifesto of over 800 words, I'm really not out to become an evangelist on this subject. All I am trying to do is inject a dose of reality to help diabetics in their range of food choices.
I won't be clogging up the comments section with long diatribes supporting either side of the argument.
Brief personal comments, pro or con, such as those we have already seen are fine.
- 5/12/2009 4:19 pm
- country mouse said...
Personally, I don't care if other people drink it but I really object to it (and sucralose) being snuck into foods. Aspartame makes me stupid and gives me horrible migraines. Sucralose, well,let's just say I cannot tell you the number of times I've been caught with my pants down from foods stuffed full of sucralose and not labeled as such. the gas generated by sucralose would have me convicted of war crimes.
Terrible stuff.
- 5/21/2009 2:12 am
- Alan said...
G'day mouse.
Sorry to hear of the migraines; there is always someon who will have porblems with any substance.
"Aspartame makes me stupid". I hadn't heard of that side effect before. Have you been tested to be certain it's the aspartame that's at fault? Are you sure the problem was corrected when you stopped drinking it?
- 5/21/2009 4:28 pm
- Alan said...
PS Aspartame may cause typing errors...actually, at the moment I'm sipping a nice aspartame-free Shiraz...
- 5/21/2009 4:29 pm
- country mouse said...
@alan re stupid :-) good one. seriously, I've experienced cognitive dulling from a variety of drugs and conditions such as hypothyroid. drs are always amazed at the before and after. it really sucks because I've was dismissed from a contract job because undiagnosed hypothyroidism made me look like I was drunk or on drugs.
so whenever the "stupids" creep up on me, I start eliminating drugs/foods and that is how I discovered aspartame causes me problems. hidden lower levels = stupids, higher level = migraines.
I am glad that fake sweets work for somebody. there is not a single one that does not cause me problems usually of the intestinal kind. being t2 now, it looks like sweets will only be the rare piece of fruit.
- 5/21/2009 7:08 pm
- Alan said...
Glad you took it in the way it was intended:-)
Sorry to hear of your other medication difficulties. However, I think it would be reasonable to say you aren't representative of the average aspartame user; or of the average medication user for that matter.
- 5/21/2009 7:47 pm
- country mouse said...
Glad you took it in the way it was intended:-)hey, life is too short to get pissy. Unfortunately, I don't always live by that rule especially when it comes to software failing and making it impossible for me to work ( am disabled, need speech recognition)
Sorry to hear of your other medication difficulties. However, I think it would be reasonable to say you aren't representative of the average aspartame user; or of the average medication user for that matter.I'm the kind of person that makes many things fail in new and interesting ways. For example, when developers gives me a nice bright shiny new toy, just holding in my hands makes dark brown smelly stuff news out of every opening. Power supply spark and with a final whimper of defeat, the developer takes the now gooey object from my hands and shuffles off with a black cloud overhead.
- 5/22/2009 9:31 am
- Margie's Musings said...
Hi Alan, What is your opinion of the high fructose corn syrup that is found in nearly any product at the market?
- 5/22/2009 9:47 am
- Alan said...
I can't really get into that discussion Margie, because it's not a major problem in my country so I haven't really done the research. Australia is a a major sugar-cane produceer, I'm surrounded by cane-fields here, so HFCS is generally only in imported products here.
From the reading I have done I suspect that if I did the research I would share your concern.
- 5/22/2009 11:08 am
- Cia said...
Thanks for the article on Aspartame. I use it all the time and have many allergies as you know, but have not found one diet sugar that has given me an allergic reaction. I'm happy it is available so that we have more variety in our choices of soft drinks and foods.
See, I do visit your site often. :)
Good day to you.
- 5/24/2009 11:45 am
- Alan said...
Nice to see you again, Cia.
Cheers, Alan
- 5/24/2009 12:32 pm
- Shelly said...
I am a new diabetic (type 2) and I do love the "food police" so much. I am an adult and actually choose what goes in my body, I happen to choose diet coke, and have LONG before my diagnosis. "Should you be eating/drinking that?" as they are stuffing their faces with a large cream cheese slathered bagel. Some people don't get it at all.
Great Blog!
- 6/03/2009 5:29 am
I'm very interested to read Countrymouses's experiences, because they are close to mine.
I have always tolerated liquid sucralose in small amounts.
All of my intolerances improved once I went gluten free (not just low carb and gluten lite). Gluten also had a lot to do with the migraines, as it turned out!
I've been told that the increased sensitivity is an indicator of poor gut health/increased permeability. After going GF/CF, I used Vitamin D, probiotics and glutamine - all these seem to help.
I have not tried aspartame again yet - I had such a bad migraine last time and I had the aspartame on its own without any food.....but I am much more tolerant of fragrances and my health seems more robust in general.
I guess what I am trying to say is that if aspartame causes some one difficulties, it may be a sign of other issue(s) that need attention.
- 6/22/2009 4:53 am
I guess you could use your own question here: Who or which of the following may go blind, etc., when it turns out aspartame causes some unforeseen problems?
It seems from the comments that the major reason to use aspartame is to drink soda. If you stop and think about it - what is that stuff, diet or otherwise? I haven't had a soda in over 2 years, and I don't miss it.
Are sodas so critical to your happiness that you can't give them up? Try it for a couple of weeks, and then taste one, very carefully. They actually taste like crap. I try not to be a kook, but I prefer my food to come from nature, not a laboratory.
- 6/25/2009 11:36 am
- Alan said...
Fair enough Abe; I accept that you aren't a kook and I've posted the comment.
I don't think I need to respond, my views are quite clear in the blog post. But if others wish to, feel free.
- 6/25/2009 12:55 pm
Abe, with T2, all I can drink is water and that is getting boring really fast. I'm not drinking enough just because I can't stand the taste of water. I'm one of these people that need a large variety of flavours in order to maintain interest in food. So I look forward to sweet drinks with bright colors and flavors not found in nature for taste and visual entertainment, also, when I'm cooking my pies (of some renown), I need a sweetness to bring out the more subtle flavors in the fruit and spices rather the rather flat taste you get from just fruit alone.
What I've found to solve my flavor/taste problem is a soft drink called zevia. Sweetened with Stevia it has that classic long sweet tail that last long after the soda has passed through your mouth. It's not as bad as the taste you get from aspartame or sucralose but it's clearly artificial. It's kind of expensive. At the local Hannaford's it's something like $5.50 for a sixpack.
The other sweetener that helps is Zweet.(Erythritol). It really tastes very close to sure. Mouth feels very similar. And best of all, I have not mentioned a single bump on my glucose readings. Apparently, you don't get the digestive upsets of other alcohol sugars because this supposedly goes out through the small intestine and through the kidneys like regular sugar. Read the website if you want the PR but, I'm happy with it. I can make lemonade, lineade, sweetened iced herbal tea which starts taking care of my sweet drink craving.
sorry about the anon but I really don't feel like retrieving my password --cm
- 6/28/2009 2:14 am
I'm a type2 with a background in research. I suspect that aspartame reaction may be based on the individual. I notice that for me aspartame consumption seems to cause my blood sugar to bounce up as much as 75 points. I noticed this before reading any of the hysterial nonsense found on the web. I wouldn't go so far as to ban the very helpful stuff, but if control becomes a problem - it might be wise to see if you are sensitive to it. Just switch to seltzer for a week or so. (I miss my diet Pepsi) I also notice that some brands of diet tonic water are made with saccharine and not aspartame. They do not raise my blood sugar, either. It makes sense that that are a wide variety of metabolisms and possibly a variety in metabolic responses - Momcat
- 10/19/2009 6:20 am
- Alan said...
That response is certainly unique. I have to say that I have never before heard of anyone with such an extreme blood glucose reaction to aspartame. It suggests that you are one of the few who are actually allergic to it. As you said: "aspartame reaction may be based on the individual".
- 10/19/2009 11:57 am
- Sam Durkin said...
The aspartame fear pervades even my most intelligent of friends. People who know peer review is important. Yet they still fear the sweetener. They know the fear is irrational, but it still has them worry about using it and pass on those fears to other people.
- 2/22/2010 6:37 am
I guess my question is; why all the fuss? If apartame does not have all the side effects, what do the kooks really have to gain by going after aspartame?
- 3/29/2010 9:22 am
- Badgertale said...
I've been off of Diet Coke for about two weeks and I feel the withdrawals and I am suffering hypoglycemic bouts every other day. For me, and I STRESS for me, it seems to have an effect. Something to look into if you are a Diabetic type 2 as I am.
As others have said on the site, individually, people should check this out before bashing it wholesale. We're all different, after all.
- 10/19/2010 3:17 am
I do occasionally get pins and needles, which does stop within a day or two of stopping aspartame (maybe coincidence??) - but that's the only thing I've noticed with it! if I go asp free for a few days, I go back on it and I'm fine!
- 2/23/2011 12:14 pm
- Diabetologica said...
Thanks for pointing to the literature and evidence. I think there is a strong tendency to demonize and fear technology, including sugar substitutes and big pharma, both of which have helped immensely.
- 3/12/2011 12:32 am
- Natalie said...
For the person who said aspartame raises his BGs -- I have found that green tea, drunk without sweetener does the same thing. Someone suggested that it was the caffeine, and I wonder if you've been drinking caffeinated soft drinks, and whether that might actually be the culprit.
- 3/12/2011 2:10 am
It is so funny that this article was even written because it was written by someone who has had brain dammage caused by the poison of aspartame. it is a known fact that aspartame is a chemical that in your body turns to formaldehyde and MANY other poisonous substances. It is not a natural product it is a man made CHEMICAL, how could that be safe?! if you google aspartame there have been so many studies on it and the majority of them tell you how unsafe it is. The only ones who say they are unsafe are the ones benefiting finacially from it. It is also very unsafe for people with diabetes. It actually causes you to crave more carbohydrates and causes your body to be less likely to control your diabetes. Aspartame is actually a sponser of the diabetes foundation that is why the diabetes foundation says it is good . why would you put a chemical into your body. this sweetner is poison and should be banned! it is killing people and causing an increase in many types of diseases. Use stevia instead it is a natural sweetner from a herb and it does not cause your blood sugar to rise! Just because aspartame is on the market still does not mean it is safe, look at cigarettes, they are still on the market and everyone knows how unsafe they are!
- 3/23/2011 1:22 pm
- Alan said...
I reject many comments daily; mostly spam but the occasional passionate kook.
I allowed the previous comment to add some balance and give the opposing point of view. You can form your own opinion as to which of us is brain-damaged.
On benefiting financially I suspect I will still be waiting for my cheque from the aspartame people for a long time to come.
On the other hand, many of those who get vehement about aspartame seem to have links to stevia sales. Not that I have anything against stevia; use whatever works for you.
- 3/23/2011 1:59 pm
- Kris said...
My "doctor" (that's PAC to you) advised me just yesterday to ditch the diet sodas because they're "proven metabolic disrupters." I was flabbergasted, finally managed to splutter, "Um--the ADA disagrees." I'm newly diagnosed diabetic (A1C 6.9%), and I'm finding that a lot of what my PAC says doesn't jibe with what the CDC, ADA, or other reputable organizations say. I'm happy to read this, though--it's in keeping with my own thoughts.
- 3/31/2011 9:39 am
I just want to say that I was drinking diet pepsi every day for 6 years. Prior to this I did not have any health issues. I was afraid of gaining weight, so I switched to diet pepsi.
Before I get started I wanted to say that I'm a very healthy eater and I practice calorie counting. I only take in 1,200 - 1,300 of lean meats, veg, fruits. I don't eat processed. Aside from that I got hooked onto my soda because to me it was a daily treat. I was taking in 8 oz, once per day.
After about 3 years of drinking diet pepsi, diet pepsi max, and diet vanilla and cherry pepsi, I started putting on weight. I steadily gained and put on 30 lbs.
I attributed that to old age, and started working out more and cutting on some things that I thought I was eating that could be creating the problem. Had a thyroid and blood work up done. Nothing showed up that would suggest a health problem. My doctor suggested I was entering perimenopause. I was 40 at the time.
I continued to gain another 10 lbs. totaling my gain to 40lbs. I decided to get off the diet pepsi. I stopped cold turkey, and switched off to one regular soda per morning to combat any caffiene withdrawal. (I'm not a coffee drinker)
I developed tremors in my hands, vomiting, and sleepless nights. I went back on the diet soda and it all went away.
I stayed on it for another six months, and within that period of time I developed tinnitus, dizzy spells, heart racing, and restless legs. Just from one can per day.
I went to my GP who checked me over for everything. Went to a cardiologist for a work up, then a neurologist and internist to make sure it wasn't something else because I had a hard time believing that diet soda would cause heart racing.
My dr called me up during that period of time to let me know that my blood work had returned and that he wanted me back in for an AC1 test because my blood sugars were high. Shortly after I was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes.I was shocked about that because I don't eat processed things, white flour or sugar.
No one in my family has diabetes, so I was shocked. When I asked my dr if aspartame can cause my high blood sugar he said no. So I continued to drink it.
Now at that point people would say why didn't you stop it when you felt that sick? I was in total denial. The doc said it was OK, and to be honest I was addicted to it. I felt like I needed it to get through the day. It took a mild stroke to wake me up. I was in my home and my husband was on the way to work when I suddenly felt confused, the world behind me started to fall away, my face went extremely burning hot, and when he spoke to me the words that fell out of my mouth were slurred and garbled. Then I lost feeling in my legs and went down. I went to the ER in an ambulance.
I was in the hospital for two weeks. They ran every test on me that they could and found nothing. They diagnosed it based on my symptoms. In the hospital I wasn't given diet soda so I began to detox off of it then.
When I got out of the hospital with my life still intact, I stayed off the diet soda and I continued getting better after the first couple of weeks of shakes, headaches, and sleeplessness. I started to feel very good again and my weight dropped by 8 lbs in two weeks. It has steadily dropped since then over the course of the year.
Now I don't know if aspartame caused all of this for sure, and I can't prove it. All I can say is that I was a very sick woman, and once I quit it, I have regained my health.
Thank you
- 4/19/2011 7:29 pm
- Alan said...
I thought for a while before allowing the previous comment. I decided to approve it in the interests of fairness for further balance.
However, I have absolutely no way of checking on Andie Clarke's bona fides nor have I any way to check on her story.
- 4/20/2011 8:01 pm
- Robert Miles said...
Margie's Musings: I've found that the researchers are still arguing about how safe high fructose corn syrup (HCFS) is. The research conducted on rats and mice used such high levels of fructose (higher than that found in HCFS) that it produced some bad effects on them, including insulin resistance (the main feature of type 2 diabetes). Research conducted on honeybees showed that if HCFS is overheated (as it often is during manufacture or transport), pairs of the fructose molecules combine into larger molecules that are toxic to honeybees (but with no sign that they're anywhere near as toxic to humans).
Do either of these results apply to humans? I've seen no sign that significant research on this question has been done - only such a wide variety of "expert" opinions on whether it does or not that it's rather doubtful that many of these "experts" should have the quotes removed.
- 9/03/2011 7:39 pm
@Andie Clarke: all the things you were drinking also contain significant amounts of caffeine which may be responsible for your symptoms.
I found this site via an osteoporosis site, as one of the better meds for that contains aspartame. Luckily, I was informed today that I've got vit D deficiency, so only have to regenerate my Vit D stores. However, I'm also epileptic and a close friend suffers from migraines. We are both "triggered" by aspartame, so we avoid it. Not being diabetic, we're able to go for sugar alternatives. I'm not sure what option I'd go for if I was.
Take care all,
- 9/29/2011 1:42 am
- lexiwords said...
Newly diagnosed myself and glad to hear I don't have to give up the diet pepsi.
I do have friends who truly believe that it was the diet pepsi that gave me diabetes and not a medication reaction.
Thanks again
- 3/01/2012 2:27 pm
Drink up, pal. :)
- 2/26/2013 6:33 am
Ajinomoto is the world's largest manufacturer of aspartame.
Ajinomoto was a member of the Lysine price fixing cartel in the mid-1990s.
Of the 166 studies felt to have relevance for questions of human safety, 74 had Nutrasweet industry (those who make aspartame) related funding and 92 were independently funded. One hundred percent of the research performed by the company who makes aspartame confirmed aspartame's safety, whereas 92% of the independently funded research found problems with consuming aspartame. Other reports of federal employees working for the companies responsible for the testing and distribution of aspartame are cited on all of the sites and books opposing the use of aspartame. DOn't get ''kooky'' now..
- 3/17/2013 4:53 am
- Alan said...
In the interests of fairness to all sides of the debate I'll leave the recent post citing various dubious statistics up for a week, awaiting cites and references for the statements made. In the absence of support it will be deleted after one week.
Cheers, Alan
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Provided photo Tegan DonnellyBRANDON — Tegan Donnelly never considered herself outspoken. But that changed during her junior year at Plymouth State University when she took up the cause of women's issues.
Her advocacy on the part of women didn't go unnoticed by the school, which honored Donnelly this month with its annual Powerful Outstanding Women's Advocate award.
"It was actually a great surprise," said Donnelly, a 2010 graduate of Otter Valley Union High School. "I didn't realize that it was an award at all until my boss told me and then I went to the ceremony and didn't realize how much of an honor it was."
In her remarks, PSU President Sara Jayne Steen said Donnelly "has been one to stand up for women, to speak out against sexism and misogyny and to help educate people on women's issues, and she has done so with tact and respect."
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Donnelly said she became passionately involved in women's issues after returning last year from the National Young Feminists Leadership Conference in Washington.
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FORMER TIMES Leader Sports Writer Robin Yocum recently held a book signing at the Sardis Library in Monroe County. Yocum, a Brilliant native and Buckeye North High graduate, is now a nationally recognized author, based in Columbus. After leaving The Time Leader, he landed with the Columbus Dispatch, spending 11 years as an investigative reporter. That beat led him into the publishing business. He has since published four novels with a fifth nearing completion. Yocum, a Bowling Green product, has won numerous awards for his writing expertise.
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THE BELMONT County Veterans Service Commission honored two of its van drivers during its regular meeting in February. Drivers Troy Skukan and Joe Skoda were recognized for their years of service and outstanding safety record. Both drivers take veterans to the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Pittsburgh Monday through Friday and log more than 50,000 miles-a-year for the veterans service office. Both have been full time drivers since 2007.
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i ****in hate byron scott, so i want to see the spurs 2003 champs
nets are the first team who quallified in the finals
imo the spurs will represent the west, but who would you like to win?
personally, i'd like to see the nets the 2003 champs, it's been some good years since the trophee was won by the east... good ol' MJ days...
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i ****in hate byron scott, so i want to see the spurs 2003 champs
you'll probable laugh but i'm gonna give credits to the nets
in the regular season they splited the games (1-1), and that should give NJ some good hopes
kidd and duncan are both in great shape but maybe ther nets will be more motivated after last year's 0-4 with the fakers
let's starts some predictions arround
it seems that this forum will go down sooner or later, posts are not too constructive, so at least this should be a little fun.
Game 1: SA
Game 2: SA
Game 3: NJ
Game 4: SA
Game 5: NJ
Game 6: SA
let's see what you've got to say
let's see:
anybody is feeling with me ?
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spurs sweep nets
duncan is still MVP
Game 1 spurs
Game 2 spurs
Game 3 nets
Game 4 spurs
Game 5 spurs
do what you gotta do!
nets will win the series in 7 IMO
JVG also predicted a NJ win, so i guess he knows something
Kidd & co win:
Game 2
Game 3
Game 5
Game 6
hmm. i wanted to predict a nets win, but after game 1, it's hard to believe the nets will overcome
tho it's just 1-0 spurs, NJ will probably win game 3 at home, and that's it
lets me give you my thoughts on the upcoming games:
Game 2: SA
Game 3: NJ
Game 4: SA
Game 5: SA
Kenyon did well, but the rest of the team sucked it up...
If the Spurs and Duncan continue to play like this and if Kidd continues to shoot like hell, then the Spurs will definitly SWEEP this!
still.. never underestimate the heart of the nets
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yeah i'll say...
btw: can robinson actually be seen in the game???
do what you gotta do!
now this is going to be very interesting
Jason Kidd scored seven points in the final 1:16 and Stephen Jackson's potential game-winning trey went in and out as the Nets edged the Spurs 87-85 Friday night to even NBA Finals 2003 at one win apiece
props to mutombo who did a really good job guarding duncan
spurs must win at least one more game in NJ, else i don't see them wining both in SA
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i've just heard that scott and mutombo don't get that well together, and in fact, the other players insisted that dikembe to playOriginally Posted by KnickFan2080
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I think it had me listed in my correct home town only twice last year. I did get all my points with no problem. They also did not have my join date correct for the weekly points, but in the forum everything was fine.
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High-profile attorney Michael Sussman said Dr. David Sager has filed a lawsuit against Sullivan County for what he called retaliatory firing. Speaking at a packed news conference at the government center in Monticello on June 12, Sussman said that Sager, who was serving as a deputy commissioner in the Sullivan County Division of Family Services (DFS) was fired in retaliation for looking into a number of cases that were mishandled.
Sussman said that the part of the motivation for the firing may have been to protect other members of DFS who were responsible for some of the cases in question, which included cases of sexual child abuse that Sager was looking into "with an eye toward cleaning them up."
Sager was fired by DFS commissioner Randy Parker on May 16, which came as a surprise to many people familiar with county operations. Parker subsequently told a newspaper that he fired Sager because Sager, a chiropractor, did not have sufficient social service experience to adequately serve in the position.
At the news conference, Sussman disputed that. He said that previous to the firing, Parker had praised Sager's work and in fact expanded his role in DFS.
Sussman also said that Sager would be willing to communicate with the acting county manager, Joshua Potosek, and detail the allegations about what had taken place within DFS.
Sussman added that he had heard just before the news conference that some destruction of documents may be underway as a means to cover up alleged wrongdoing. He said. "Those in Sullivan County who are responsible for maintaining books and records and files that relate to important functions of government would be blatantly violating the law, if they were to destroy any materials that were pertinent to these allegations. Any shredding of material, any destruction of material will be met by the courts, in my view, very sternly."
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Home List of Titles Analysis of arsenic concentrations and correlation in water, soil and aurum by neutron activation analysis technique: a case study in Bagerhat, Bangladesh
Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/90093
- Title
- Analysis of arsenic concentrations and correlation in water, soil and aurum by neutron activation analysis technique: a case study in Bagerhat, Bangladesh
- Author(s)
- Abdullah, S. M. A.; Islam, M. T.; Islam, S. Z.; Hossain, Iqbal; Samsuzzoha, M.; Hossain, M. D.; Latif, S. A.; Islam, F. M. A.
- Abstract
- Arsenic concentrations were measured in water, soil and arum (vegetables) samples using the Neutron Activation Analysis method and a correlation between arsenic concentrations in the samples was investigated. The case study at Bagerhat, Bangladesh revealed that almost all the water samples were contaminated by a hazardous level of arsenic that exceeding the World Health Organization recommended value of 0.05 mg/L for Bangladesh. Arsenic concentration of all the water samples ranged from 0.09 to 0.87 mg/L. The concentrations in soil and aurum samples were found to be in the range of 2.22-35.21 and 0.07-0.73 mg/kg, respectively. A positive correlation between arsenic concentrations in soil and water samples was observed. Aurum sample was found to be contaminated by arsenic to a harmful level if the corresponding water sample was also highly contaminated.
- Publication type
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- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Engineering and Industrial Sciences
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- Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, Vol. 85, no. 3, pp. 301-306
- Publication year
- 2010
- FOR Code(s)
- 03 Chemical Sciences; 05 Environmental Sciences; 06 Biological Sciences
- Keyword(s)
- Arsenic; Aurum; Bangladesh; Neutron activation analysis; Soil; Vegetables; Water
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- 0007-4861
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- Copyright © 2010 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.
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ST.?CLAIRSVILLE?– A contest has been filed with the Belmont County Board of Elections regarding David Lucas' recent election as sheriff.
A letter of protest was received this week by county elections officials from Gary Landers of Bellaire, who identifies himself as "an elector in the state of Ohio." Landers states that Lucas wasn't a qualified candidate for sheriff under Ohio law, which requires elected sheriffs be employed as a law enforcement officer within the past four years to hold the job.
Landers claims that Lucas listed his date of retirement on his certification for candidacy as Oct. 31, 2007 – a little more than five years prior to the general election.
Lucas' petition for candidacy was approved by Common Pleas Court Judge Jennifer Sargus and the Belmont County Board of Elections. Lucas ran unopposed in the 2012 Republican primary for sheriff, then defeated Democrat Richard "Dick" Flanagan for the office in the Nov. 6 general election. He is set to take office at the start of 2013.
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#209884 - 03/02/13 04:02 PM Re: Social intercourse..Dickensian [Re: Tromboniator]
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I'm sorry to hear that, Trombo! I'll agree that some of his lengthy descriptive passages are tedious - fairly obviously written to fill up the pages for his latest episode to be pubilshed in the magazine that week - but I would advise that you 'skip read' those bits (there is sometimes important information contained within the descriptions!) The stories always come to a satisfactory end - now and again a bitmawkish, but that was Dickens satisfying his Victorian public. On the whole, and despite some stylistic deficiencies (from a modernist point of view!) he is a very fine writer and many of his ideas are as current today as they were then!_________________________
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#210212 - 04/02/13 07:54 AM Re: Social intercourse..Dickensian [Re: Rhubarb Commando]
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I was force-fed David Copperfield, tried Great Expectations (twice) and never got past page 14. I was told repeatedly, "Oh, but you must read A Tale of Two Cities. It's different. You'll love it." Well, it wasn't, and I didn't. That's the one that flew. There were other attempts, but I've forgotten what they were. There's no doubt of his brilliance, but I just can't get past the style and, as you say, the mawkishness. My hopes are dimming for finding a Dickens I can appreciate.
#210214 - 04/02/13 11:18 AM Re: Social intercourse..Dickensian [Re: LukeJavan8]
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that's what movies are for.
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#210217 - 04/02/13 11:27 AM Re: Social intercourse..Dickensian [Re: Buffalo Shrdlu]
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You took the words out of my mouth.
I have many of them on DVD._________________________
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#210222 - 04/02/13 04:24 PM Re: Social intercourse..Dickensian [Re: LukeJavan8]
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Yeah, but that doesn't scratch the same itch.
#210224 - 04/02/13 04:40 PM Re: Social intercourse..Dickensian [Re: Tromboniator]
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There is nodoubt that Dickens is a writer - like Marmite - that you either love or hate! My dear wife was of the same opinion as you, Peter, deapite allmy proletysing.
I'm sure that a Freudian Analysist would make something out of it, but then - they always do, don't they?_________________________
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#210227 - 04/02/13 06:08 PM Re: Social intercourse..Dickensian [Re: Rhubarb Commando]
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I'm afraid I've never read Marmite ( ), but perhaps here in the West we can learn to appreciate the wonders of the Yeast.
#210242 - 04/04/13 11:22 AM Re: Social intercourse..Dickensian [Re: LukeJavan8]
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