Monday, October 17, 2005
CHANGE THE STREET NAME TO LITTLE JOHN LANE!!!!!!
You regular readers would remember a column I wrote months ago of visiting my old area in Glen Falls.
I was sad to learn of the many people who died in such a short period.
Well, it happen again!
I was very upset once I found out that John T. McMillan Jr died on August 31st at the age of 34.
I just couldn’t believe it!
He was known by the people in that area as Little John!
Who is little John you asked?
When I first moved to Glen Falls, I quickly learned that it was like a little village within the City Limit.
As any other little area, it had a little store.
It was an convenience store and he named it - Little John's Variety Store
I’ll never forget the time, I walked through his door. He said - May I help you Sir? Thank you for coming Sir! Have a good day Sir!
After a few visits, I asked John - What’s with all the Sir..Sir…Sir???
He reminded me that he needed me and I didn’t need him. To him public relation was the utmost importance.
Once the Government decided to remove all the VLT’S from the stores, I gave my sympathy to John saying that I felt sorry for him because he won’t be able to go to Florida every winter? The machines were located right in the back.
He quickly replied - I am very happy the machines are gone because you don’t know the abuse I went through from people shouting at me because they lost all their money. From now on, the people who visits this store will buy from me and not to play the machines.
I couldn’t fight that one. Mind you. John had lots of pride with his little store. He spent thousands of dollars paving his yard.
He had two little kids- Taylor, 4, and Maggie, 1.
He wasn’t keen on shoplifters or people hanging around outside his store. He was stern and that’s the way he was!
Little John was good with the little kids and they always enjoyed going to his store.
He wanted to change it in a family store and he succeeded.
But unfortunately he died at such a young age. Life isn’t fair sometime.
They say the good dies young? Well that statement sure goes with Little John’s sudden death.
I heard the citizens in that area will petition Common Council to change the name from Glenview Avenue to Little John Lane?
It would be a fine tribute to a man who affected so many in such a short period on this planet.
May God Bless Little John!!!!
Friday, February 10, 2006
GLENVIEW AVENUE CHANGE TO John T. McMillan Ave!!!
LET THEM EAT CAKE??? NOT REALLY!!!!
Only in New Brunswick that the Residence of the Lieutenant Governor.
Not far away are the building which the occupants are the Shelter and the Soup Kitchen.
All is not loss for these neighbors.
The Lieutenant Governor staff don’t say – Let them eat cake!
Often after a ceremony they would show up at the Kitchen with leftovers.
I remember on one occasion while at the Soup Kitchen. I took a bite and it was delicious!!!! I was told it came from the Lieutenant Governor.
Yes, there are indeed different classes of citizenship but good neighbors.
There’s no let them eat cake in this relationship!
WARNING URGED ON STIMULANTS LIKE RITALIN!!!
Someone email me this story but here in New Brunswick? Bernard Lord will continue the drugging and the killing of our children. He came out in the Irving's papers todays telling the Irving's reporter that he truly cares for the children < especially their health > What a bunch of crap!!!
Warning Urged on Stimulants Like Ritalin
By GARDINER HARRIS
Published: February 10, 2006
GAITHERSBURG, Md., Feb. 9 — Stimulants like Ritalin could have dangerous effects on the heart, and federal regulators should require manufacturers to provide written guides to patients and place prominent warnings on drug labels describing these risks, a federal advisory panel voted on Thursday.
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The panel's recommendation promises to intensify a long-running debate about whether the medicines are overused. Nearly four million patients take the drugs to treat attention deficit disorder and hyperactivity, and committee members said they wanted to slow explosive growth in the drugs' use.
The committee's action was unexpected. The Food and Drug Administration had convened the panel to help it determine how to research possible heart risks of the drugs. The agency had not asked the committee to address the drugs' labels, and agency officials seemed taken aback by the votes, saying they would not act on the committee's recommendations anytime soon.
"We don't think anything different needs to be done right now," Dr. Thomas Laughren, director of the Division of Psychiatry Products at the agency, said at a hastily arranged news conference after the meeting. "We think the labeling right now is adequate."
The committee voted unanimously to recommend patient guides, and it voted 8 to 7 to suggest that stimulant labels carry the most serious of the agency's drug-risk warnings — a "black box."
"I must say that I have grave concerns about the use of these drugs and grave concerns about the harm they may cause," said Dr. Steven Nissen, a cardiologist at the Cleveland Clinic and a panel member.
The votes came after F.D.A. medical officers described reports of 25 sudden deaths among people taking stimulants — the deaths were mostly children — and a preliminary analysis of millions of health records that suggested stimulants might increase the risks of strokes and serious arrhythmias in children and adults. The reports of sudden deaths never exceeded one in a million for any stimulant drug, although the F.D.A. usually receives reports of only a fraction of drug problems.
The preliminary analysis suggested that the stimulants might increase heart risks more than twofold. Such an increase may not be significant in children, whose heart risks are low, but could cause concern in adults, panel members said.
One of the drugs, Ritalin, has been marketed since 1955, and dozens of studies have shown it to be safe and effective. But no studies have been of sufficient duration or included enough participants to evaluate stimulants' long-term effects on the heart.
But the drugs' soaring popularity and increasing use in adults, panel members said, mean that the F.D.A. should study them more closely and warn patients and doctors about the potential risks to the heart.
Arthur A. Levin, director of the Center for Medical Consumers in New York City and a member of the panel, said that patients assumed that stimulants were safe, but that that confidence was misplaced.
"For us to sit around and talk about it, and for us to not make a very strong warning about the uncertainty of these drugs and their possible risks, would be unethical," Mr. Levin said.
Dr. Thomas R. Fleming, a professor of biostatistics at the University of Washington and a panel member, said stimulants might be far more dangerous to the heart than Vioxx or Bextra, drugs that were withdrawn over the past two years because of their ill effects on the heart.
The committee was composed largely of drug-safety specialists. Next month, the F.D.A. will ask another committee, mostly pediatricians and psychiatrists, to weigh the same issues. Such clinicians tend to focus on drug benefits and oppose warnings that might scare patients.
The vote by the drug-safety panel reflects changing notions about what the drug agency should do in the face of uncertainty. For decades, it generally refused to warn doctors about theoretical medical risks, even when there were strong hints of danger. But the committee said such silence was a mistake, particularly when millions took the drugs.
Put yourself in our shoes," said Dr. Peter A. Gross of Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey and the panel's chairman. "Most of us see our role as protecting the public health. As often happens, the data we would like to see is not clear. In that setting, what we would like to see is a clearer warning."
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But top F.D.A. officials said warning patients about theoretical risks might scare many away from needed treatment. "I think it's important not to minimize the benefits of these drugs," Dr. Laughren said.
Representatives of Johnson & Johnson, the maker of Concerta, and Shire, the maker of Adderall, two stimulants, said they would work with the drug agency on any label changes.
Dr. Todd Gruber, an executive of Novartis, which makes Ritalin, has said that Novartis has found no evidence that the drug raises the risks of heart problems.
Stimulants are the most widely prescribed medicine for childhood behavioral problems. Data presented at the meeting suggest that about 2.5 million children and 1.5 million adults are taking them. More than 30 million prescriptions for the drugs are written annually.
Several F.D.A. medical officers addressed the committee, and each suggested that the risks could be significant. Dr. Kate Gelperin, a medical officer in the Office of Drug Safety at the agency, began her presentation by telling the committee, "This morning I'm going to tell you a little bit about why the F.D.A. is so worried about these issues."
Dr. Gelperin noted that stimulants had long been known to increase blood pressure and heart rates. Other studies have shown conclusively that increased blood pressure leads directly to increased deaths from heart problems, she said.
Dr. Andrew Mosholder, also a medical officer in the Office of Drug Safety, said he reviewed the chemical structures of stimulants, and he noted that these structures were similar to drugs like ephedrine that had proven heart risks.
Dr. David Graham, another medical officer in the drug safety office, described the agency's preliminary analysis of millions of medical records that suggested an increased risk of strokes and arrhythmias.
"The number of arrhythmia hospitalizations really struck us as surprising," Dr. Graham said. "Arrhythmia is believed to be the pathway for sudden unexplained death."
In an interview after his presentation, Dr. Graham said, "There's smoke. Does that represent a fire? We want to answer that question."
After hearing the presentations, most committee members decided they should do more than simply make suggestions for further research.
"I want to cause people's hands to tremble a little bit before they write that prescription," Dr. Nissen said.
Psychiatrists and psychologists who treat and study attention deficit disorder and hyperactivity were deeply divided over the decision.
"I'm not saying a warning would be baseless, but if we're not careful we're going to engage in a Chicken Little scenario in which we sensationalize what is a very, very low-probability event," said Dr. Russell Barkley, a research professor of psychiatry at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University in Syracuse.
Others said that a black-box warning could prompt families to explore behavioral treatments as an alternative to drugs, which "would be a very good outcome for kids with A.D.H.D. and their families," said William Pelham, director of the Center for Children and Families at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
All agreed that parents of children on stimulants who have pre-existing heart conditions should consult their doctors.
IS THE GOVERNMENT BEHIND THIS STUDY????
I truly believe the Government is behind this study!
I always believed that once a person got angry? This would help the blood pumped through the heart.
But with this new study? This is not the case. If you get angry? It causes heart disease.
Is this just a way for the Government to calm people down???
Angry Young Men and Heart Disease
By Larry Axmaker, EdD, PhD
In a long-term study at Johns Hopkins university, young men with quick tempers and hostile feelings were shown to be significantly more likely than their less angry colleagues to have an early heart attack (before 55 years of age) or other cardiovascular disease. More than 1,000 young male medical school students and physicians were surveyed starting in 1948. They were followed and monitored from between 32 and 48 years.
Five Times More Likely!
Those young men who reported they expressed or even concealed anger, were irritable, or participated in gripe sessions were five times more likely to have an early heart attack (some as early as in their 40s) than their calmer counterparts. This was true regardless of family history of heart disease and other factors.
Why?
It is not known for sure how anger contributes to heart disease, but evidence points to stress-related release of hormones that can constrict blood vessels and force the heart to work harder to supply the body with enough blood. Regular measures of blood pressure and medical treatment for elevated blood pressure is an important step in reducing risk.
What Can You Do?
Researchers recommend professional help to manage anger. Anger management has been shown to be effective in the prevention and treatment of heart disease.
Regular medical checkups, including close monitoring of blood pressure is important in preventing heart disease. Daily physical activity and a healthful diet are necessary for good health.
Don't let your temper determine your lifespan.
I always believed that once a person got angry? This would help the blood pumped through the heart.
But with this new study? This is not the case. If you get angry? It causes heart disease.
Is this just a way for the Government to calm people down???
Angry Young Men and Heart Disease
By Larry Axmaker, EdD, PhD
In a long-term study at Johns Hopkins university, young men with quick tempers and hostile feelings were shown to be significantly more likely than their less angry colleagues to have an early heart attack (before 55 years of age) or other cardiovascular disease. More than 1,000 young male medical school students and physicians were surveyed starting in 1948. They were followed and monitored from between 32 and 48 years.
Five Times More Likely!
Those young men who reported they expressed or even concealed anger, were irritable, or participated in gripe sessions were five times more likely to have an early heart attack (some as early as in their 40s) than their calmer counterparts. This was true regardless of family history of heart disease and other factors.
Why?
It is not known for sure how anger contributes to heart disease, but evidence points to stress-related release of hormones that can constrict blood vessels and force the heart to work harder to supply the body with enough blood. Regular measures of blood pressure and medical treatment for elevated blood pressure is an important step in reducing risk.
What Can You Do?
Researchers recommend professional help to manage anger. Anger management has been shown to be effective in the prevention and treatment of heart disease.
Regular medical checkups, including close monitoring of blood pressure is important in preventing heart disease. Daily physical activity and a healthful diet are necessary for good health.
Don't let your temper determine your lifespan.
GOD'S TWO MINUTES!!!
FOR IN HIM WE LIVE AND MOVE AND HAVE OUR BEING.
AS SOME OF YOUR OWN POETS HAVE SAID, "WE ARE
HIS OFFSPRING."
( ACTS 17:28 *NIV )
Dear Charles,
There are times when we may think we are not important to
God, after all there are tens of millions of Christians alive right
now. So how can just one person make a difference to our
Heavenly Father?
Well Charles, God knows you intimately for it is written;
INDEED, THE VERY HAIRS OF YOUR HEAD ARE ALL
NUMBERED. ( LUKE 12:7 ) After all God calls you His Child,
and even though you are just one in His Family of millions, He
knows you intimately!
Remember that He has said; "BEFORE I FORMED YOU
IN THE WOMB I KNEW YOU, BEFORE YOU WERE BORN
I SET YOU APART," ( JEREMIAH 1:5 ) and He even made
you in His own image did He not.
So always remember that He is very proud of you, and;
THE LORD YOUR GOD IS WITH YOU, HE WILL TAKE
GREAT DELIGHT IN YOU; HE WILL QUIET YOU WITH HIS
LOVE, HE WILL REJOICE OVER YOU WITH SINGING.
( ZEPHANIAH 3:17 ) Therefore, may you feel blessed in
knowing that joy fills God's heart every time He thinks
about you, Charles! Amen.
With My Love & Prayers,
your servant Allen
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SO THE KING GAVE THE ORDER, AND THEY BROUGHT
DANIEL AND THREW HIM INTO THE LION'S DEN.*
( DANIEL 6:16 *NIV )
*The Aramaic word for "DEN" means pit, thus implying that
it was underground.
Dear Charles,
There are times that we may feel just like poor Daniel
did when he was thrown into the lion's den. However,
just like Daniel our faith will come to our rescue as well!
After all; HE WHO DWELLS IN THE SHELTER OF
THE MOST HIGH WILL REST IN THE SHADOW OF THE
ALMIGHTY. I WILL SAY OF THE LORD, HE IS MY
REFUGE AND MY FORTRESS, MY GOD IN WHOM I
TRUST. ( PSALM 91:1-2 ) Further God has said; "FEAR
NOT, FOR I HAVE REDEEMED YOU; I HAVE CALLED
YOU BY NAME; YOU ARE MINE." ( ISAIAH 43:1-2 )
God has also stated; "DO NOT FEAR, FOR I AM WITH
YOU; DO NOT BE DISMAYED, FOR I AM YOUR GOD. I
WILL STRENGTHEN YOU AND HELP YOU; I WILL
UPHOLD YOU WITH MY RIGHTEOUS RIGHT HAND."
( ISAIAH 41:10 ) Therefore; "CALL UPON ME IN THE
DAY OF TROUBLE; I WILL DELIVER YOU, AND YOU
WILL HONOR ME." ( PSALM 50:15 )
So Charles, when you feel like Daniel always; TRUST IN
THE LORD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND LEAN NOT
ON YOUR OWN UNDERSTANDING; IN ALL YOUR WAYS
ACKNOWLEDGE HIM, AND HE WILL MAKE YOUR
PATHS STRAIGHT. ( PROVERBS 3:5-6 )
Now have a wonderful day Charles, knowing that you
are in good company with God by your side! Amen.
With My Love & Prayers,
Pastor Allen
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CLOTHES FOR THE POOR AT THE SOUP KITCHEN!
This week, I walked in there and people were all gathered around these clothes.
From what I'm told? A man showed up with seven boxes full of clothes.
Lots of new clothes I guess and it didn't long for the poor people to grab the good stuff.
There's a lot of good hearted people out there.
THEY'RE BOARDING UP IN FREDERICTON!
I chatted with a young girl last week who told me that she slept in that little shelter over night and it was cold.
There's a little bed in there for the poor people who have nowhere to sleep.
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