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Heart problems
13:44 Sep 30 2007
Times Read: 716
I think I know finally know why I have had those mini bursts of chest pains for the last 9 years, building up to a heart attack ??!
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Treating sleep apnea reduces heart attack, stroke risk: study
Friday, September 28, 2007 | 4:59 PM ET, CBC News
Treating people who suffer from obstructive sleep apnea by administering continuous positive airway pressure can lower a person's risk of heart attack and stroke, a small study suggests.
Obstructive sleep apnea, or OSA, is a condition in which a person's airway is partially or completely blocked during sleep, leading to a lack of oxygen and frequent waking. According to the study, it occurs in nine per cent of middle-aged women and 24 per cent of men.
A CT scan of a brain following a stroke. Obstructive sleep apnea is associated with an increased risk of death from heart disease or stroke.A CT scan of a brain following a stroke. Obstructive sleep apnea is associated with an increased risk of death from heart disease or stroke.
The condition is associated with an increased risk of death from heart disease or stroke.
"The majority of patients with OSA share several risk factors for atherosclerosis [the hardening of the arteries leading to heart disease], including obesity, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, insulin resistance, and hyperglycemia," said T. Douglas Bradley and Dai Yumino, both of the Sleep Research Laboratory at the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute at the Centre for Sleep Medicine and Circadian Biology at the University of Toronto, in an editorial in the same issue of the journal.
My little boy, UPDATE (long overdue)
19:37 Sep 18 2007
Times Read: 734
Liam is doing great. He is not officially walking yet.... but he has started walking on his knees which seems to work for him at the moment.
He has taken some steps on his own but he still prefers to walk on his knees. In the past few days he has taken more steps by himself. We all applaud and make a huge deal of it so that he knows he has done a great thing. He laughs and claps along with us.
He is trying to say more words and is doing more copying when he hears words. He says NO very clearly, dog, bla for blanket, bah for bottle. He is trying and we are trying to help him along.
He likes to play with trucks, put things together, and play in the sand and water.
He weighs 26 lbs and is about 2 1/2 feet tall. He is a big boy.
Another One for the WTF file14:50 Sep 14 2007
Times Read: 736
Report on Hindu god Ram withdrawn, Hindu activists say the canal project will damage Lord Rama's bridge
The Indian government has withdrawn a controversial report submitted in court earlier this week which questioned the existence of the Hindu god Ram.
The report was withdrawn after huge protests by opposition parties. The report was presented to the Supreme Court on Wednesday in connection with a case against a proposed shipping canal project between India and Sri Lanka.
Hindu hardliners say the project will destroy what they say is a bridge built by Ram and his army of monkeys.
Scientists and archaeologists say the Ram Setu (Lord Ram's bridge) - or Adam's Bridge as it is sometimes called - is a natural formation of sand and stones.
You fucking wingnuts
05:26 Sep 11 2007
Times Read: 738
Children's right to life should trump parents' rights, B.C. lawyer tells court
Provided by: Canadian Press
Written by: CAMILLE BAINS
VANCOUVER (CP) - The rights of children in need of potentially life-saving medical treatment should trump any rights of their parents, a lawyer argued Monday in a case involving blood transfusions given to four surviving sextuplets.
George Copley, who represents the Attorney General's Ministry, told a B.C. Supreme Court hearing that in a medical emergency the principles of fundamental justice under the Charter of Rights should protect children's lives instead of the parents' right to liberty.
"Surely where the life and health of the child is more immediately engaged, that is medical emergency care, then it's more compelling to prefer the child's right to life and health than to prefer the parents' rights, whatever they might be," he said.
The babies were born at B.C. Children's hospital on Jan. 7, almost four months premature. Two of them died within weeks while four others - two boys and two girls - survived.
Copley was in court along with a lawyer for the Children's Ministry and lawyers for the parents of Canada's first sextuplets, who cannot be named under a publication ban.
The parents did not give doctors consent to transfuse the premature babies because their Jehovah's Witness religious beliefs prohibit such intervention even to save a life.
Their lawyer, Shane Brady, has argued that fundamental justice was denied to his clients and that the seizure of their children was a breach of the Charter of Rights.
Brady, who is also a Jehovah's Witness, has said the government should not have seized the babies without giving the parents a judicial hearing.
But Copley said it's impractical for such hearings involving complex Charter issues to be held so quickly without jeopardizing children's lives when they need immediate medical treatment.
Other provinces have taken several months to six years in one case for hearings involving children seized for blood transfusions, Copley said.
Margot Fleming, a lawyer for the Children's Ministry, said the government's actions put the children's welfare before the parents' religious beliefs.
"No child should ever be put at risk of severe physical harm or death," Fleming told the court.
"At the end of the day the director (of child welfare) is extremely concerned about protecting the life of every child in this province."
Fleming echoed Copley's comments about a time-consuming court hearing before any medical treatment to potentially save a child's life.
"This case is about the state's role in protecting children from severe harm," she said, adding the children were suffering from anemia.
"It's a harm of the worst kind that can result in permanent disability or death."
Fleming noted, though, that the parents' lawyer does not acknowledge there was any medical emergency requiring immediate action.
"When would he accept, or the parents accept, that these infants were in urgent need of blood transfusions?"
Fleming said each fragile, tiny infant received blood transfusions only when medically necessary to prevent serious or permanent harm or death.
The hemoglobin levels of at least two of the babies had dropped to dangerously low levels when doctors transfused them as urgent cases when they were between three and four weeks old, she said.
One of the children was no longer feeding and may have been suffering from an intestinal infection as his hemoglobin level rapidly declined, Fleming said.
Brady has said he wants to cross-examine the doctors and social workers involved in the decision to transfuse the children.
Chris Christensen, a former Jehovah's Witness from Lac du Bonnet, Man., said outside court that he attended Monday's hearing because he doesn't agree with the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Canada's stance on blood transfusions.
The Georgetown, Ont.-based society speaks for members of the Jehovah's Witness sect and sets policies for them to follow.
On Aug. 31, the Alberta Court of Appeal ruled that the father of a teenage Jehovah's Witness who refused blood transfusions can proceed with legal action.
Calgary resident Lawrence Hughes alleged lawyers, including Brady, for The Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Canada counselled his daughter Bethany to refuse transfusions necessary to treat her leukemia. The 17-year-old died in September 2002.
Jehovah's Witnesses believe blood transfusions clash with certain passages of the Bible that forbid the ingestion of blood.
I have a hatred for Jehovah's Witnesses and this shit they are pulling, endangering the lives of their children is a big pile of SHIT.
Fuck you Jehovah's Witnesses
I am pissed off15:53 Sep 10 2007
Times Read: 741
2 weeks ago, my bicycle was stolen from a shopping center.
I found it yesterday as I happened to walk by the supermarket dumpster on my way to home, there was my bicycle -- without tires and seat. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
School Students burn 'Witches' to Death14:28 Sep 07 2007
Times Read: 745
From the Forum, grrr, its been closed :(
5 September 2007, 18:11 GMT
Two South African women have been burned to death after a group of students accused them of bewitching their high school with evil spirits.
Msaba Zungu and Thabitha Thusi, both 60, were seized from their homes near Manguzi in KwaZulu-Natal province.
Students and adults dragged them to a sports field where they were doused with petrol and set alight on Sunday.
Manhlenga High School pupils accused the women of being witches after they began to suffer strange crying fits.
Investigators said Ms Zungu died at the scene and Ms Thusi succumbed to her burns injuries on Monday.
Police captain Jabulani Mdletshe told the BBC News website: "On 17 August, the students at the mixed high school began to cry randomly and they did not know why.
"The students held a couple of meetings and allegedly decided the problem was these two women were witches who had cast a bad muthi (spell) on the school.
"At 8pm on Sunday, some students and community members took the women from their homes to a football field and set them on fire."
No arrests have been made but police are following a positive line of inquiry, said Capt Mdletshe.
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CryingMist
Posted: 19:55:54 - Sep 05 2007
I cant beleive they still do that knd of barbaic actions today...its inhuman, its barbaric....its disgusting!
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ThePinja
Posted: 20:11:35 - Sep 05 2007
There are two sad parts about this.
A. I can guarentee that all of those people who participated are christian.
B. Its obvious people are regressing back to the age of absolutes.
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KwaZulu-Natal's natives' old superstitions are much more important to them than Christian values.
KwaZulu-Natal's natives are mostly Zulu. All the tribes are very superstitions. A simple curse is to simply throw a handful of salt in someone's yard like your neighbour's yard.
Yes the natives have modern time religions (Protestant being one of the main churches), plus their old superstitions, their superstitions is part of their upbringing. They fear many things, for example:
There is a myth in Southern Africa about the "Tokolosie"
It is reputed to be a dwarf-like little black man that is VERY ugly and evil. According to the myth, he is the bringer of infant deaths, disease, madness etc. A lot of our local tribes STILL elevate their beds, but putting bricks underneath it, to prevent the Tokolosie from harming them when they are sleeping.
When a woman gives birth to a deformed baby, the tribe will kill the child, because they believe that the Tokolosie slept with the mother. No other man will ever admit to having slept this that woman. She is outcast for the remainder of her life, because she is believed to be tainted by the Tokolosie and will always bring deformed children, death and disease.
If you want to commit suicide in South Africa but dont have the courage to do it yourself.... all you have to do is tell a tribal man that the Tokolosie slept with his mother.... He will hunt you down and kill you (and your family).
"Ugly looking" Animals are also reputed to be the Tokolosie's dogs... A Tribal person will not go into a property if there is a "Pug", a "Show" (because of the blue tongue and habit to stare at people), or a "Sharpei". They are considered evil animals, and will be avoided at all times.
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Another example from Africa:
Its the truth!!! Government settles football debt to witch
A government minister has promised to pay a 10-year-old debt to witch doctors believed to have jinxed the Ivory Coast football team. Mystics from the village of Akradio were called on to help the Ivory Coast to victory at the 1992 African Nations Cup.
But the witch doctors claimed they were not rewarded properly for the success and allegedly put a jinx on the side. The Ivory Coast has achieved nothing in the tournament ever since.
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Silentfury
Posted: 10:19:24 - Sep 06 2007
Personally I do not think these type of "sins" agains mankind will ever stop.
For some it only requires you being "different" before someone tags you with being "evil", and therefore have the need to be exterminated in a horiffic manner.
I do NOT condone the actions of the students, or the community in this case and believe that the school, and community should be disolved and placed elsewhere.
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disolving the community and placing them elsewhere would not do anything. Its the people and their superstitions, their superstitions will not go away.
Like the creative suicide ""If you want to commit suicide in South Africa but dont have the courage to do it yourself.... all you have to do is tell a tribal man that the Tokolosie slept with his mother.... He will hunt you down and kill you (and your family)."" and the mere accusation of being a witch or demon or the mere accusation of placing a curse without any proof, is enough to get you hurt,dismembered,killed or exiled down there.
Superstitions are core beliefs to the clans in Africa and to a lesser extent elsewhere.
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WorthlessLies
Posted: 20:08:40 - Sep 05 2007
why would they do something like that? How could any one burn another person to death especially two old women because of something like witch craft. I mean even if they did practice it, it is no reason to be burned.
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Changes are the women were innocent. When the students met, their Paranoia exploded, Someone must get the blame. Text book case of Mob mentality, beware of the power of stupid people in large groups.
Remember how the Salem Witch Hunt started ?!
Dread and Sadness
01:40 Sep 03 2007
Times Read: 753
New Phase of "For Better or For Worse" Begins Sept. 3
Posted: August 29, 2007 | News Bites Home
Kansas City, MO
Aug. 28, 2007 -- Lynn Johnston’s popular comic strip “For Better or For Worse” begins a new phase Monday, Sept. 3, as character Michael Patterson looks through a family photo album with his 5-year-old daughter, Meredith. With this strip, Michael begins retelling the Patterson family story by recounting the courtship of his parents, John and Elly, the central characters in the 28-year-old comic strip read by millions each day.
In a mixture of new, old and retouched work, readers will begin to see scenes of the past -- Elly reading in the library at college and catching the eye of the young dental student who will one day become her husband.
“This was an opportunity to give my readers new material, as well as my being able to pick and choose through the original art and making it different, making it a new entity, as it were,” says Johnston.
Johnston will keep fans engaged with a mix of special strips from the past and newly drawn panels that will help reintroduce favorite storylines. The strip’s current storyline will be interlaced with Michael's remembrances until it gradually reaches a natural closing stage sometime early next year. When that happens, time will stop for the extended Patterson family, but not their stories. The stories will be relived by a current generation of fans and introduced for the first time to a new generation.
Right now, Johnston is still exploring the budding romance between oldest daughter Elizabeth and an old high school flame.
"I'm interested and readers are interested to know what is going to happen with Anthony and Elizabeth," she said. "That resolution can't happen too fast. They've only just started to see each other again after a long time apart."
Translated into eight languages, "For Better or For Worse" now appears in over 2,000 papers in Canada, the United States and 23 other countries. Read by people of all ages, the award-winning comic strip deals honestly with both the lighthearted and the serious, and has effectively brought families together for laughter, tears and dialogue. Johnston, a Canadian, has produced collections of “For Better or For Worse” in 35 best-selling books, and her strip has been adapted into six animated television specials and a popular animated series.
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Noooooooooooooooooo! I have been dreading this for a long time
What a sad day.
- A fan of your work (Lynn Johnson) since 1992, I wish “For Better or For Worse” would never stop. You rock Lynn!
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