Walk On Water
Posted by Michelle Moquin on May 12th, 2010
Good morning. No topic to speak of today. This morning I had issues getting into my blog, so I will be posting late. I was logged out for some reason and my password would not work. I was not receiving the e-mails to allow me to reset my password so that I could login. It is finally resolved.
So I am just going to respond and let you all do the chatting. Although before I do, since it is Wednesday, hump day…how about having some fun and challenging yourself to a walk on water? Impossible? These guys don’t seem to think so. As in the words of ‘Alice’: “Sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
Readers: Think you can walk on water?
Doug: From what I posted the other day and have read, I agree with Trish too: Good argument – I’m with you too. I too would prefer Wood over Kagan, but Kagan is who Obama nominated. Kagan may not be the best choice, considering the conservativeness of some of those serving the court, but she could quite possibly be the right choice.
Not my first choice, but certainly my second. But as we know, the Republicans would never go for Wood, so I think Obama made a good choice, and I support him. But more than anything, I am just delighted that we’re going to have another woman on the high court. So like Caroline and Ruth, I’ll run with Kagan; at least he listened to his right hand lady and picked a woman. I’m excited for Kagan and I look forward to her taking her place for a long time.
Peter: Interesting. Please keep us posted of your findings.
Mike: Obama and his campaign team knew how to get it done via the net. The Republicans are now hip to the power. It is going to be one crazy helluvan election. Oh…and it seems Ann Coulter is getting a little competition from Michelle Malkin. Conservative cat fight, or will they be the Townhall team?
Alice: Thanks for your persistency in getting your article posted. It is important. And nowadays with camera’s on almost every phone, if not every phone, taking photos is so convenient and easy.
Van: I was wondering if anyone was going to make the connection. Interesting Huh? We’re pretty much the opposite in what we stand for…I won’t say everything, because I don’t know enough about her, but a lot of what she seems to stand for is what I want to lay down and bury.
Ruth: Hi. Nice to hear from you. I hope that you and Evelyn had a lovely Mother’s Day together. Nice write – Thanks for the much needed reminder. I hope you and the girls are well.
Sidney: Girl, you need to go for it with the sister. You’ve been waiting way too long. If it doesn’t pan out, at least you gave it a shot and you can move on. There are plenty of pretty fish out in the sea for you to catch.
Tazib: I read your story last night, and like so many others who share your plight, it bothered me so much. You would not need to worry about your leg if you were a girlz, and certainly being a cripple would not prevent you from being one, that I can promise. If you truly want to go, I will put in a word. Until then, I wish you safety. Take care of yourself.
Tal2: Welcome.
Lastly, greed over a great story is surfacing from my ‘loyal’(?) readers. With all this back and forth about who owns what, that appears on my blog, let me reiterate that all material posted on my blog becomes the sole property of my blog. If you want to reserve any proprietary rights don’t post it to my blog. I will prominently display this caveat on my blog from now on to remind those who may have forgotten this notice.
Gratefully your blog host,
michelle
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May 12th, 2010 at 2:15 pm
ah, been there, done that, tee hee and bon jour to the walk-on-water-boys : )
I got nuttin’ for you today, honey, just wanted to say hey bc I saw ‘no comments’ and if I do have anything at all to do with opening that portal on days like this – well then, I’ve done my duty!
Catch you on the flip, Zen Lill
May 12th, 2010 at 2:17 pm
A MIDWIFE AT MENOPAUSE?
Why would you want to see a midwife at menopause? Because they offer a uniquely personal and holistic perspective on the journey.
Though historically their role has been to help women through childbirth, many modern midwives now focus on helping women to feel better and be healthier at the other end of the reproductive cycle.
It’s an intriguing concept, so I spoke with Angela Deneris, PhD, a certified nurse midwife and associate professor in the Nurse-Midwifery and Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner Programs at the University of Utah.
According to Dr. Deneris, who has been in practice for nearly 30 years and whose clients range in age from teens to a woman in her 80s, Certified Nurse-Midwives (CNMs) and Certified Midwives (CMs) are fully qualified to partner a woman through perimenopause, menopause and the postmenopausal years — and some actually specialize in caring for older women.
All midwives are trained to provide the full spectrum of routine gynecological care — including pap smears and pelvic examinations and referrals for screening and diagnostic tests, such as mammograms and sonograms, as well as routine primary care, including annual physicals and screening for conditions such as diabetes, heart disease and declining bone health.
A MORE PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP
Midwives are trained in “whole woman care,” emphasizing natural treatments and lifestyle adjustments over pharmaceutical drugs.
For instance, said Dr. Deneris, for a woman complaining about hot flashes, a midwife will start by trying to ascertain whether specific situations trigger them and will also discuss dietary and lifestyle measures that might help reduce their severity or frequency.
A midwife will coach patients in how to take more responsibility for the aspects of her health that she can control by eating right, exercising and keeping track of medical history and records.
And for those women who really need something more, midwives are qualified to prescribe medication and hormone replacement therapy if appropriate.
MIDWIFE VS. MD — WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE?
Education for midwives varies from state to state, with some requiring a bachelor of science and others requiring a degree in nursing prior to midwifery training.
Accreditation requirements (for both Certified Midwives and Certified Nurse-Midwives) are standardized by The American College of Nurse Midwives (ACNM). An accredited midwife is able to do just about all aspects of routine care (and childbirth, of course) up to but not including surgery.
For older women in particular, midwives work closely with doctors when trying to determine whether symptoms and discomfort a patient is experiencing are caused by aging or disease –
especially if serious illness, such as cancer, is suspected. In that case, the doctor will take over the patient’s care, but the midwife often remains very involved.
For instance, Dr. Deneris told me she continues to provide gynecological and other care for her patients who have had breast cancer, including screening for heart disease, diabetes and depression as well as counseling for diet and exercise.
“Staying involved while a woman is receiving care for a serious, chronic health issue enables us to continue to treat our patients as whole, complete women,” she said.
PATIENTS GET MORE TIME
As part of their holistic perspective, Dr. Deneris said women can also expect that a midwife will devote much more time to each patient. She told me she spends about an hour with women over 40 for their annual visits.
“We discuss lifestyle, diet, exercise routines, and the particular stressors in their lives, and then put the pieces together,”
she said. “Rather than immediately prescribing something for mood swings or insomnia, we’ll look beyond such symptoms to examine the broader picture.”
Dr. Deneris said she routinely discusses sexuality with her patients… asks about quality of life… screens for depression… and makes it a point to explore whether there are possible issues around abuse or addiction.
It’s all intended to provide context for understanding what is happening with a woman’s health.
Most insurers cover midwife services. To locate a qualified midwife, Dr. Deneris suggested visiting http://www.midwife.org, the Web site for the American College of Nurse Midwives, which offers a search option for locating a midwife by entering a Zip code or town.
Source(s):
Angela Deneris, PhD, a certified nurse-midwife and associate professor in the Nurse-Midwifery and Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner Programs at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City.
May 12th, 2010 at 2:33 pm
So white people in Arizona want us Latinos to know that they are nor oppressing us. They show it by writing a bill to cancel Mexican-American studies.
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By JONATHAN J. COOPER, Associated Press Writer – Wed May 12, 6:23 am ET
PHOENIX – Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has signed a bill targeting a school district’s ethnic studies program, hours after a report by United Nations human rights experts condemned the measure.
State schools chief Tom Horne, who has pushed the bill for years, said he believes the Tucson school district’s Mexican-American studies program teaches Latino students that they are oppressed by white people.
Public schools should not be encouraging students to resent a particular race, he said.
“It’s just like the old South, and it’s long past time that we prohibited it,” Horne said.
Brewer’s signature on the bill Tuesday comes less than a month after she signed the nation’s toughest crackdown on illegal immigration — a move that ignited international backlash amid charges the measure would encourage racial profiling of Hispanics.
The governor has said profiling will not be tolerated.
The measure signed Tuesday prohibits classes that advocate ethnic solidarity, that are designed primarily for students of a particular race or that promote resentment toward a certain ethnic group.
The Tucson Unified School District program offers specialized courses in African-American, Mexican-American and Native-American studies that focus on history and literature and include information about the influence of a particular ethnic group.
For example, in the Mexican-American Studies program, an American history course explores the role of Hispanics in the Vietnam War, and a literature course emphasizes Latino authors.
Horne, a Republican running for attorney general, said the program promotes “ethnic chauvinism” and racial resentment toward whites while segregating students by race.
He’s been trying to restrict it ever since he learned that Hispanic civil rights activist Dolores Huerta told students in 2006 that “Republicans hate Latinos.”
District officials said the program doesn’t promote resentment, and they believe it would comply with the new law.
The measure doesn’t prohibit classes that teach about the history of a particular ethnic group, as long as the course is open to all students and doesn’t promote ethnic solidarity or resentment.
About 1,500 students at six high schools are enrolled in the Tucson district’s program. Elementary and middle school students also are exposed to the ethnic studies curriculum.
The district is 56 percent Hispanic, with nearly 31,000 Latino students.
Sean Arce, director of the district’s Mexican-American Studies program, said last month that students perform better in school if they see in the curriculum people who look like them.
“It’s a highly engaging program that we have, and it’s unfortunate that the state Legislature would go so far as to censor these classes,” he said.
Six UN human rights experts released a statement earlier Tuesday saying all people have the right to learn about their own cultural and linguistic heritage, they said.
Brewer spokesman Paul Senseman didn’t directly address the UN criticism, but said Brewer supports the bill’s goal.
“The governor believes … public school students should be taught to treat and value each other as individuals and not be taught to resent or hate other races or classes of people,” Senseman said.
Arce could not immediately be reached after Brewer signed the bill late Tuesday.
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Whites enjoyed white only schools where they taught their little bigot-to-bes that they were better because of the color of their skins.
But the mere suspicion that some school curriculum could imply that whites may be a bit racist is grounds for an emergency legislative meeting to write a law to ban the class.
I’m starting to hat the white bastards.
Maria
May 12th, 2010 at 2:46 pm
Once again I want to emphasis the need to give up smoking. Here is an article.
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For years, Guam residents, and Pacific Islanders in general, have been told their genetic predispositions and heavy diets make them prime candidates for developing Type II, or adult-onset, diabetes.
Through exercise and eating healthy, diabetes can be kept at bay.
Wellness Works will get to diet in the coming weeks, but on your part, doctors, researchers and health educators say there’s one thing you can do immediately to prevent the risk of getting diabetes, and if you already have it, a way to reduce your chances of being hit with the serious complications that ensue from the disease: Quit smoking.
According to the International Diabetes Federation, when diabetes is already present, smoking increases the incidence, mortality and morbidity from cardiovascular complications, diabetic foot problems, diabetic eye disease and diabetic kidney disease.
“By having high-risk behaviors … the possibility of having the conversion from becoming pre-diabetic to diabetic is higher when a person doesn’t take care of themselves by not eating healthy, by smoking, by not exercising,” added Eugene Santos, a health education administrator at the Department of Public Health and Social Services.
“The use of tobacco, in diabetes, contributes to the reduction in circulation in the body and those are things that are tied in,” Santos said.
Since diabetes is caused by the failure or impairment of the pancreas to release enough insulin to break down glucose, the reduction in circulation caused by smoking hinders the ability for glucose to be absorbed quickly enough by the cells, Santos explained.
“It stays within the body and bloodstream, and it’s not being removed,” he said.
On Guam, about 27.4 percent of people are smokers, and about 7.9 percent of people have diabetes, Santos said citing 2008 figures.
“For those who have diabetes, the risk of cardiovascular disease can be 14 times the risk from either smoking or diabetes by itself,” Santos said. “People who have diabetes and smoke are three times more likely to die of cardiovascular disease than are other people with diabetes.”
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So now you have another reason to stop smoking.
Hafa adai
Anna
May 12th, 2010 at 11:56 pm
This is dedicated to everyone who ever attempted to get into a regular workout routine.
Dear Diary,
For my birthday this year, my Husband (the dear) purchased a week of personal training at the local health club for me.
Although I am still in great shape since being a high school football cheerleader 43 years ago, I decided it would be a good idea to go ahead and give it a try.
I called the club and made my reservations with a personal trainer named Christo, who identified himself as a 26-year-old aerobics instructor and model for athletic clothing and swim wear.
My husband seemed pleased with my enthusiasm to get started! The club encouraged me to keep a diary to chart my progress.
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SUNDAY:
I’m having the Church van pick me up for services today so I can go and thank GOD that this week is over. I will also pray that next year my husband will choose a gift for me that is fun –
like a root canal or a hysterectomy. I still say if God had wanted me to bend over, he would have sprinkled the floor with diamonds!!!
May 13th, 2010 at 8:05 am
Michelle
We at Burns & Clark noticed the similarities in the names. Like the ice creams and a few other products.
My assistance said that although she was out there before you, it has only been recently that she has been getting so much play.
Hmmmmmm
Lois
May 13th, 2010 at 8:57 am
SURPRISING CAUSE OF DANGEROUS FALLS
Here’s a worrisome new research finding: Several commonly prescribed medications seem to make elderly patients more vulnerable to dangerous falls, including antidepressants.
Researchers at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver) looked at 22 studies involving 79,081 people over the age of 60 to see whether different types of medications may be associated with falls, which –
as you know, because I’ve written about it before — is a leading precursor to death among the elderly and therefore is a major concern.
They studied nine classes of medicine commonly prescribed for this age group and, after adjusting for factors such as age, sex, cognitive problems and other health problems, found that three classes of drugs were significantly associated with falling.
The two strongest associations involved sedatives and benzodiazepines (such as Ativan, Xanax and Klonopin to treat anxiety or insomnia) — no surprise, since these are well known for causing sleepiness.
Nearly as bad, researchers found, was the association between falling and antidepressants — these widely prescribed drugs were associated with a 36% increased risk.
BALANCING RISKS AND BENEFITS
To learn more, I called an expert on balance and the causes of falling, otolaryngologist Yuri Agrawal, MD, at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
She told me that many antidepressant drugs manipulate the neurotransmitter serotonin to help regulate mood and that serotonin is also involved with healthy cognition, leading to confusion that could be a factor in a fall. Another factor — antidepressants are known to cause dizziness.
This study provides further evidence of why it is so important to measure risk versus benefit before deciding on a particular type of treatment, Dr. Agrawal pointed out.
She says that while many older adults continue to be robust, others are frailer and have less reserve when it comes to adapting to drug side effects.
Doctors and patients should weigh the hoped for benefit against the possible negative impact of any drugs, including antidepressants.
It may be better to consider nonpharmaceutical therapies, such as cognitive behavior therapy or psychotherapy for emotional issues — in other words, methods that can be successful but do not carry the worrisome side effects of drugs.
Source(s):
Yuri Agrawal, MD, resident, department of otolaryngology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore.
May 13th, 2010 at 9:01 am
Hafa adai
Peter this guy was caught in Guam.
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Taiwan man pleads guilty in Iran missile case
By CURT ANDERSON (AP) – 44 minutes ago
MIAMI — A Taiwanese businessman has pleaded guilty in Miami to federal charges of conspiring to export items to Iran that can be used for missiles and military drones.
Yi-Lan Chen pleaded guilty to conspiring to violate the U.S. embargo against Iran and attempting exports to that country. Each charge carries a maximum 20-year prison sentence, but the 40-year-old Chen likely will receive far less, in part because he is cooperating with U.S. investigators.
Court documents say Chen arranged at least 30 banned shipments to Iran since 2007. The exports included missile engines, spare parts, seals, military-grade electrical connectors and other items.
Chen was arrested in February in Guam and flown to Miami to face the charges.
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Don’t mess with America in Guam.
Loni