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North American Gay Volleyball Association is holding its national championship tournament in Dallas this week.
NAGVA Volleyball championships held in Dallas
Championship weekend
NAGVA brings volleyball championship to Dallas
Tammye Nash | Managing Editor
About 1,300 players, coaches and fans representing 147 teams from across the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico are expected to converge on Dallas over the Memorial Day Weekend for the 34th annual North American Gay Volleyball Association Championship Tournament. This is the third time Dallas has hosted the championship.
The Dallas tournament is expected to be the second-largest tournament in NAGVA history. The largest, according to NAGVA President Jason Fallon, was in Las Vegas. "We had 169 teams competing that year," he said.
Host hotel for the tournament is the Hyatt Regency Dallas, 300 Reunion Blvd., on the edge of downtown. Games will be played at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center, 650 S. Griffin St.
Local registration, for Dallas players who will be competing, will be held Saturday, May 21, 4-7 p.m. in the Back Lot at Woody's Sports and Video Bar, 4011 Cedar Springs Road. Take-Off: The Pre-Party, begins at 8 p.m. Wednesday, May 25, at Cedar Springs Tap House at ilume, 4123 Cedar Springs Road.
Registration for those coming in from out of town will be held at the Hyatt from 7-9:30 p.m., with Ascend: The After-Registration Party taking place at Woody's from 8 p.m.- 2 a.m. on May 26.
The tournament begins in earnest on Friday morning, with morning group pool play at 8 a.m. and afternoon group pool play starting about 11:45 a.m. NAGVA's annual meeting will be held at the hotel Friday evening, followed by Avion: Dance Party at Kaliente Club, 4350 Maple Ave.
The second round of pool play begins at 8 a.m. Saturday. Things get serious with double elimination tournament play starting about 6 p.m. The day ends with Turbulence: Dance Party from 10 p.m.-2 a.m. at S4, 3911 Cedar Springs Road.
Tournament play begins again at 8 a.m. Sunday, and will wind up in time for a cocktail hour at the host hotel at 7 p.m., and the awards banquet at 8 p.m. Woody's hosts Descend: After Banquet Party, beginning at 10 p.m., while The Brick, 2525 Wycliff, hosts Plunge: After Banquet Party, also at 10 p.m.
The 2016 tournament concludes Monday, May 30, with Dive: The After Sand Tournament, at Sandbar Grill and Cantina, 317 S. 2nd Ave.
Fallon said NAGVA officers "have been working closely" with officers and members of Dallas Invitational Volleyball Association — or DIVA — to organize the tournament and surrounding activities and parties.
"We couldn't do this without the local guys helping us," he said.
DIVA member Adam Cebulski, the marketing and communications director for the NAGVA championship tournament and chair of the local organizing committee, said DIVA is thrilled to have the NAGVA tournament coming back to Big D.
"DIVA has grown leaps and bounds since the last time we hosted the championships, in 2005, and we are excited to show how far we've come and how the city itself has changed," Cebulski said.
"We have received an incredible amount of support from the city of Dallas throughout this whole process," he continued. "An event like this unifying the LGBT community will hopefully also let the residents know the city does support our community, and convince them to strive the further the work our local agencies do."
DIVA, which marked its 25th anniversary two years ago, currently has almost 400 playing members rated across six divisions and 50 teams. The league has 12-week spring and fall seasons, a six-week summer indoor season and a six-week summer sand season. The league also hosts two NAGVA-sanctioned tournaments each year: the Austin Summerfest each August and the Dallas Fall Classic each October.
For a list of all events taking place in conjunction with the NAGVA championship, visit Facebook.com/NAGVA2016/events. Games and parties in the Dallas bars are open to the public.
This article appeared in the Dallas Voice print edition May 20, 2016.
Spike! Dallas will host 2016 national gay volleyball tourney
The North American Gay Volleyball Association (NAGVA) selected Dallas to host its 2016 championship tournament next spring.
If it seems like Dallas keeps getting picked to host national tourneys, you're not wrong; since 2004, nine national championship gay sporting events have come to Dallas; NAGVA will make it an even 10 in 12 years.
"NAGVA could not be more excited about coming back to Dallas for the third time," NAGVA's president, Jason Fallon, said in a statement. The tourney was last held in Dallas in 2005; it was also here in 1996. DIVA, the Dallas Independent Volleyball Association, is one of the largest LGBT volleyball leagues in the nation. It was formed in 1989.
"We have a great tradition of LGBT [sporting] events here in Dallas an we look forward to welcoming the athletes to our diverse city," said Monica Paul, executive director of the Dallas Sports Commission.
The tournament will be held at the at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center May 27–29, 2016.
Funeral services set for Josh Cain
Funeral services for Josh Cain, the 21-year-old man killed last week in Hurst by a suspected drunk driver, will be held at 2 p.m. today (Tuesday, Aug. 26), at Moore Funeral Home South Chapel, 1219 N. Davis Drive in Arlington.
In lieu of flowers, the family is requesting donations in Josh's memory be made to Mothers Against Drunk Driving.
Cain was a member of the Dallas Independent Volleyball Association and the North American Gay Volleyball Association. He was riding his motorcycle Thursday night on Pipeline Road when an SUV turned in front of him, and he struck the front passenger side of the vehicle. He was transported to an area hospital where died.
Watch for more information and complete obituary information in Friday's print edition of Dallas Voice.
DIVA player dies in accident
Josh Cain of Bedford, 21, died Thursday night, Aug. 21, died after being hit by a suspected drunk driver.
Cain was a three-year member of the Dallas Independent Volleyball Association (DIVA), and a member of the North American Gay Volleyball Association. His fellow volleyball players honored him with a moment of silence before play began Friday night for the first night of competition in DIVA's fall season.
The accident occurred about 10:05 p.m. Thursday at the intersection of Pipeline Road and Hurstview Drive in Hurst. Hurst police said Cain was riding his Honda motorcycle westbound on Pipeline Road when a GMC Yukon driven by Rory Reaves, 35, of Hurst, turned from the eastbound lane north onto Hurstview, and turned in front of Cain's causing his motorcycle to hit the front passenger side of the SUV.
Police said Cain was transported to an area hospital where he died of his injuries.
Hurst Police Sgt. Craig Teague said Monday, Aug. 25, that Reaves was arrested at the scene of the accident and that charges of intoxication manslaughter with a vehicle are pending as police await the results of toxicology tests.
An online fundraiser to assist Cain's family in paying for the funeral and other expenses has been established at www.youcaring.com/Josh-Cain-Memorial. Watch Friday's issue of Dallas Voice for more information.
CD REVIEW: Cher, 'Closer to the Truth'
To find the truth on Cher's first album of new material in 12 years, look beyond that over-polished, Britney-circa-Femme Fatale-era cover art on Closer to the Truth, wherein our leading diva confuses an album shoot for a JCPenney underwear catalog. The truth, it turns out, isn't immediately apparent; it exists not in a 67-year-old woman trying to be a pinup girl, but in the frankness of Cher's always-authentic self, when she preaches feminism ("Woman's World"), tells a prospective lover to "Take It Like a Man" and, at her most honest, warns of her lethal wig-wearing, sequin-shimmering style ("Dressed to Kill").
Picking up where 2001's Living Proof left off — when Cher, impossible as it sounds, got even gayer — Closer to the Truth (her 26th LP) keeps the queers at her feet and on their knees; all three of the aforementioned songs pulse and bounce and bang like the icon never left the dance floor. And that's only somewhat problematic, since some of these aren't quite as ageless as the diva herself. "Woman's World," the first single, sounds very turn-of-the-millennium. One of two Pink-scribed contributions, "I Walk Alone," exercises a country march that both befits early-era Cher and shakes up the sameness of the more vanilla-produced dance jams. Then she gets back to ballads, making magic out of "Sirens," a glorious slow tempo that proves the timelessness of her voice, and breaking your heart just a little on her cover of Miley Cyrus' "I Hope You Find It." The truth is, Cher doesn't need to turn back time. She's fine right where she is.
— Chris Azzopardi
Three-and-a-half stars.
Dallas Gay Basketball Association revs up with two events this week
With all the sports leagues in the LGBT community here, we've long been without a basketball one — until now. As one of the organizers of the new Dallas Gay Basketball Association, Steven Coleman has been helping to get the word out on the new league. The interest is there. Coleman guesstimated about 40 people showed up to DGBA's open gym session last week at Reverchon Rec Center.
"This is something we need here," he said.
DBGA's mission as posted on their Facebook page reads:
The Dallas Gay Basketball Association was founded in 2012. This league was created for LGBTAQ men and women to create an atmosphere for athletes. In hopes of strengthening a community and providing alternative option for socializing within the gay community. The league invites all skill levels, and encourages new members.
According to Coleman, they've been in talks with DIVA citing their structure as a direction DGBA may borrow from. That makes total sense seeing how successful the volleyball association is in expanding its membership practically each new season. DGBA will serve as a co-ed league for teams. Whether Reverchon will be the only location for play was not mentioned.
DGBA gets social tonight (Wednesday) by hosting a meet and greet at Woody's at 6 p.m. Organizers will be there to answer questions and encourage enrollment. They follow up with another open gym session on Thursday at Reverchon where interested persons can sign up with the league. The only requirement at this point is to have a card issued by the rec center (city of Dallas) to play.
Coleman provided pics from last week's open gym. See those after the jump.
Mi Diva Loca tonight at Sue Ellen's
Livin' la Diva Loca
Get your New Year on with Mel Arizpe and Laura Carrizales as Mi Diva Loca tonight. The partners in life and song turn top hits into their own with subtle rearrangements and way fab voices. Besides, live music should be your resolution for 2012.
DEETS: Sue Ellen's, 3014 Throckmorton St. 7 p.m. SueEllensDallas.com.
DIVA invites players to its New Member Clinic tonight
Make your play
Everything you ever wanted to know about volleyball can be learned tonight at DIVA's (Dallas Independent Volleyball Association) new member clinics. New members of all skill levels are invited to come out and check what the next season has in store. All members are rated for team division as well as basics of the game are covered. Never played? No worries. That's what these clinics help with. DIVA is all about sportsmanship and nobody gets left behind.
DEETS: K.B. Polk Recreation Center, 6801 Roper St. 7 p.m. DivaDallas.org.
Whistlin' Dixie
Dixie Longate peddles plastic as America's funniest Tupperware Lady
STEVEN LINDSEY | Contributing Writer
Someone at Amway is very jealous, because fast-talkin', Southern drawlin' Dixie Longate (né Kris Andersson) has turned catalog sales into a small empire. It's mostly thanks to some hilarious shtick, the mouth of a sailor and a surprisingly thorough product knowledge in her plastic extravaganza, Dixie's Tupperware Party.
In her one-woman interactive comedy show, starting Wednesday in Fort Worth's McDavid Studio, Dixie reveals her sordid past, what with three dead ex-husbands and three children home alone in a trailer in Mobile, Ala. Stints in and out of prison keep her grounded and streetwise. But it's her genuine passion for those burpable bowls that has made the Tupperware HQ take notice since she began selling nearly a decade ago. After her first year, she landed in the top 20 of national sales and hasn't ever dropped out of it. Twice, she was the No. 1 Tupppersalesperson in the nation.
"I work real hard," she says. "When I was No. 1, I was doing buttloads of home parties. I don't sell as much at my shows because people are coming to be entertained — buyin' Tupperware is not always on their minds. But I'm not going to take that away. What sort of lady would I be if I showed all this fine-quality plastic crap and then forbid you the opportunity to purchase it? That would just make me sad."
Even though her show is wildly entertaining, it is an elaborate sales pitch. Tupperware is indeed available for purchase and what she started in small home shows translates just fine to bigger venues because she's confident in what she does. Becoming Tupperware's top sales diva has been motivating, but Longate acknowledges that there are other things in life.
"I have tasted sweet victory; now I want to taste other kinds of things," she laughs. "You have to keep puttin' stuff in your mouth to keep tastin' 'em. Victory tastes good. But you know what? So does a Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader!"
Longate is stoked to be returning to Texas, if only to experience our hospitality: "Everybody's so neighborly. People want to have sex with me and I have to say, 'Not everybody!' Because I'm busy," she says. "I didn't get my chance to ride a mechanical bull, and that makes me happy, so I need to find one when I'm in Fort Worth. There's nothin' more fun than gettin' on mechanical bull and ridin' more than eight seconds, diggin' your heels in and just havin' a cocktail in a Tupperware tumbler in one hand and ridin' it like a Christian."
Longate is serious about her Tupperware sippy cup, always in-hand during her parties.
"Oh hell yes, I don't want to spill my drink. Riding is so much exercise, you need to make sure you're hydrated."
Longate takes a dragtastic approach to sales that shocks suburbia. "There are a couple fun gals that are now selling Tupperware, making sure your food storage needs are being met. But you know how some Tupperware ladies just suck ass?" she asks. "They just sit there and they're boring as hell. You don't want someone sittin' there talkin' to your face about some bowl. You want to get up and have fun and do something crazy. That's why it's called a party, after all."
And it's one hell of a party. She's taken it on the road all over the U.S., and even out to sea on several Atlantis gay cruises. It's there she first came to love and accept the homosexuals — even if she can't say the word.
"Oh you know what? At first I was a little scurred of the homosectionals because in the Bible they say things like don't touch tongues with another man because that's filthy and all that. But I was like, well wait, I touch tongues with other men and they're so nice," Longate says. "And then I met some of them homosectionals, and at first I clutched my Bible and said, you're not supposed to be like that. But let me tell you somethin'. Homoesectionals always smell good and they travel in packs so you don't want to mess with one because another one's gonna come up and throw glitter at your head and that's gonna get in your eye and sting."
There are also other benefits to hanging out with the homosexual set.
"They are just such nice people, please and thank you and oh-ma'am-you-look-so-pretty-today. They're never trying to rub up on your leg when they buy you a drink. They just buy you a drink and that's that. And for that the Bible says I'm supposed to burn them? I don't believe in that part of the Bible."
As for her three dead ex-husbands, Longate swears there won't be a fourth.
"It's like they say: You can take the milk out of the cow, but you can't have sex twice in the same room without losing the camcorder. Or something like that," she says. "I'm gonna have some fun and meet some people behind the dumpster and lift my leg up just enough to put a smile on my face, but I'm not gonna get in a serious relationship again."
After all, she's got her job. Tupperware has been very good to her. Her bestsellers continue to be her Jell-O Shot Caddy (for takin' to church, of course), her safe-edge can opener and a new product that she swears the gays are going to love.
"I know you all go to the gym all the time and work out. We have this little shaker that you put all your protein shakes and stuff in and you shake it up real quick and it blends it without all those big lumps," she explains. "You don't want a big lump in your mouth when you're at the gym. Maybe afterward in the locker room, but that's different."
Look for that and plenty of other products to be demonstrated like never before at her party. And because she says the "homosectionals" like beautiful things, she promises you'll be happy just to sit and stare at her on stage.
"I'm just lucky Jesus made me pretty. I have nice legs and can have sex like a trucker for a month. I might not be able to cook real well and I might not be able to add stuff together without a really big calculator, but that's what Asian people are for," she says. "Everybody has their niche."
And Dixie's niche is one that can't be filled by just anyone.
This article appeared in the Dallas Voice print edition March 4, 2011.


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Deuteronomy - Chapter 30
Deuteronomy Chapters
1 'And when all these words have come true for you -- the blessing and the curse, which I have offered you -- if you meditate on them in your heart wherever among the nations Yahweh your God has driven you,
2 if you return to Yahweh your God, if with all your heart and with all your soul you obey his voice, you and your children, in everything that I am laying down for you today,
3 then Yahweh your God will bring back your captives, he will have pity on you and gather you back from all the peoples among whom Yahweh your God has scattered you.
4 Should you have been banished to the very sky's end, Yahweh your God will gather you again even from there, will come there to reclaim you
5 and bring you back to the country which belonged to your ancestors, so that you may possess it in your turn, and be made prosperous there and more numerous than your ancestors.
6 'Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, so that you will love Yahweh your God with all your heart and soul, and so will live.
7 Yahweh your God will make all these curses recoil on your foes and on your enemies who have persecuted you.
8 And once again you will obey the voice of Yahweh your God and you will put all his commandments into practice, which I am laying down for you today.
9 Yahweh your God will make you prosper in all your labours, in the offspring of your body, in the yield of your cattle and in the yield of your soil. For once again Yahweh will delight in your prosperity as he used to take delight in the prosperity of your ancestors,
10 if you obey the voice of Yahweh your God, by keeping his commandments and decrees written in the book of this Law, and if you return to Yahweh your God with all your heart and soul.
11 'For this Law which I am laying down for you today is neither obscure for you nor beyond your reach.
12 It is not in heaven, so that you need to wonder, "Who will go up to heaven for us and bring it down to us, so that we can hear and practise it?"
13 Nor is it beyond the seas, so that you need to wonder, "Who will cross the seas for us and bring it back to us, so that we can hear and practise it?"
14 No, the word is very near to you, it is in your mouth and in your heart for you to put into practice.
15 'Look, today I am offering you life and prosperity, death and disaster.
16 If you obey the commandments of Yahweh your God, which I am laying down for you today, if you love Yahweh your God and follow his ways, if you keep his commandments, his laws and his customs, you will live and grow numerous, and Yahweh your God will bless you in the country which you are about to enter and make your own.
17 But if your heart turns away, if you refuse to listen, if you let yourself be drawn into worshipping other gods and serving them,
18 I tell you today, you will most certainly perish; you will not live for long in the country which you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess.
19 Today, I call heaven and earth to witness against you: I am offering you life or death, blessing or curse. Choose life, then, so that you and your descendants may live,
20 in the love of Yahweh your God, obeying his voice, holding fast to him; for in this your life consists, and on this depends the length of time that you stay in the country which Yahweh swore to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac and Jacob that he would give them.'
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First off, we're talking almost at cross pupposes. I've benefitted a great deal from your posts here, and I appreciate them.
And I agree very much with you in principal, especially about the "lazy" aspect. It's harder to change those than some people think, so I think your warnings are always necessary.
Now, as in the above, I use a multi-byte project simply because I do a lot of file i/o and Unicode, even if I really understood Unicode properly, still makes file i/o harder than plain multi-byte.
I will eventually move into Unicode and learn all I need to know about it when I do. But for now, my application doesn't suffer even the slightest iota because it's not big enough to suffer, even though I know that VS takes my multi-byte progject and converts it to Unicode and back again.
So that is a case of an inexperienced programmer opting for the easy way since it doesn't degrade my app in any way.
Now then, there are other projects, such as BibleWorks, whose programmers are unbelievable. They are former physicists and they have written an algorythim that performs very complex searches on multiple Bible version in less than a tenth of a seconde, or faster. Nothing in commercial software can touch them with regard to their search capabilities on biblical texts, or other things.
I know for a fact that they use multibyte in a LOT of their routines, but they also use Unicode substantially as well. I couldn't even begin to tell you where or why they do what, but I know that they do, for I am about to produce the 2nd version of my Boss program, which is much more sophisticated than my first, and so I've had to ask them a number of things in order to get my program to interact with theirs.
But I NEVER bother them with programming advice unless it directly effects what I'm doing. However, I've seen eough to see that these guys are light-years beyond, not only myself, but other experienced programmers I've interacted with.
So I'm just saying that there are viable reasons, even if I can't give them all to you.
But once again, I absolutely support your warnings and advice, because one should learn to it "right" the first time, and then as he gains knowledge and experience he can deviate from it if and when he deems appropriate.
As I said, I believe you and freddie1 both offered good answers, and after thinking about it, I think your answer was the better over-all answer, as it was simple and also instructional.
But I understand freddie1's rationale.
In short, many times there is a lot of pontificating about this or that and not enough simple answers to the question, especially, as I keep saying, with beginners. What may seem simple to you, even when you explain it, may still be WAY over the beginner's head.
Right now he just wants and answer. In this case, you did the very best thing --
You gave him an answer but you also gave him BRIEF reasons why.
In short, you kept it SPECIFIC and SIMPLE, and that's the key, especially for beginners.
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Last week TV Land launched a social experiment with the debut of their newest series, Forever Young, and ETonline has an exclusive clip from this week's all-new episode!
Forever Young gives viewers a unique look at two different generations (under 30 and over 70) as they cohabitate and compete to earn money. And while challenges highlight the differences between these two age groups, the lessons everyone learns prove they're more alike than previously believed.
Forever Young airs Wednesdays at 10 p.m. on TV Land.


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The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
Review by Master LL
"Not as perfect as Ocarina of Time but it's still one of the best N64 games ever."
The Legend of Zelda, probably one of the best games in the history of gaming industry. This is one game that gave Nintendo a big boost in fan loyalies due to it's gameplay and originality.
When Zelda 64: Ocarina of Time was released on Nintendo 64, gamers were worried if it'll be different than it's famed SNES version A Link to the Past. Surprisingly, it was just as great as ever.. and it won lots of faith for the Zelda fans.
Now, with it's 2nd Zelda game out for the N64.. does it live up to it's expectations as Ocarina of Time? In my honest opinion, it nearly did.
This game is NOT for all gamers!
Yes it's true, due to the fact there's a unique system known as ''72 hours & it's game over'' (ok, maybe it isn't known like that.. but close enough). Majora's Mask is a side-quest game (like the GameBoy's Link's Awakening). You have 3 days to save the world of Termina from destruction. How? Well, it's up to you to find out. With three days, which equals to 72 hours, which equals to near 1 full hour in REAL TIME, which means you don't have lots of time to play around! BUT the good news is that you can play the ocarina to go back to DAY 1, but will result some ''side effects''. This means the player(s) must learn to keep track of time and organization to figure out ''what to do'', ''where to go'' and ''how to save the world''. Organization is the KEY word for this game. Without it, you won't get too far.
It's a little loose unlike Ocarina of Time's flawless controls.. but it's not too noticable and won't be a factor in life and death situations. Other than that, it's still one of the best game-playing configuration ever!
There maybe more polygons and such.. but it's not a big difference between this and Ocarina of Time. Still, it's beautiful and excellent. This is all thanks to the required expansion pack.. but it still doesn't help from the minor lags it may experience from mass polygon graphics.
A minor improvement to Ocarina of Time. The big factor is that it contain the most famous music from Zelda's history... HYRULE THEME! Another great music is when countdown is started (the sad music played when you have 5 hours left). The rest of the musics (especially the Temples) are weak compared to Ocarina of Time's music. SFX is excellent and as simple as always!
Unless you start over and try to complete all the side-quests (if you havn't done so) or beat the game with weaker equippments... replay is basically average.. either you replay it or not.
A great game which maybe turned down by gamers who doesn't like the 72 hour system (due to needed organizations). This is a game, even with a high rating, is needed to be RENTED before bought to see if one likes the system or not. Granted it's not as near-perfect as Zelda: Ocarina of Time due to the fact it's a side-story game.. but it's one of the best games on the Nintendo 64 console.
Overall Summery [+/-]
+ 72hrs System means organization
+ Graphics, music & controls
+ 20 side-quests and other challenges
+ Interesting gameplay & situations (due to the 72hrs System)
- Starting puzzles can prove hard to novices
- Smaller world (lack of temples and areas)
- 72hrs System may turn off gamers
- Game is shorter than Ocarina of Time
Master LL- organization is the key and the reason why this game is fun!
Grade Scale (01-10):
01- Avoid like plague
05- Average
10- Perfect
Reviewer's Rating: 4.0 - Great
Originally Posted: 11/06/00, Updated 11/06/00
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Alison Bechdel 1 of the OUT100!
OUT Magazine is naming thier annual OUT100 and it includes Vermonter Alison Bechdel!!!
Here's what they say…
While many know Bechdel for her strip Dykes to Watch Out For, the cartoonist has turned to autobiographical territory in her latest projects and received even more mainstream attention in the process. Following her 2006 graphic memoir, Fun Home, about her father, this year she published Are You My Mother? Subtitled A Comic Drama, it weaves in psychoanalysis to interpret dreams and Bechdel's relationship with her mom.
Photographed at Sun Studios in New York City on October 1, 2012
Posted: November 2nd, 2012 under Amber.
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LRW Creative: DIY Baby Headband and Giveaway!
8 comments:
- hair accessories said...
I love the photos of your little model, she's so pretty with the headband. Anyway, thanks for sharing tutorial. I will give this a try. :)
- August 25, 2010 at 12:26 AM
- Sophia Harcourt Photography said...
This is the best diy I came across! I am not the most creative on my own or I see to many options I like, I don't know. Anyway I just gone making 2 headbands for a newborn I am photographing tomorrow. I will post a link to my blog when I have the images up from the shoot. Thanks so much!
- March 3, 2011 at 6:13 PM
- Vanessa said...
So cute! The thing I love most about summertime is SWIMMING. I live in HOT Arizona so we practically live in the pool during summertime.
- August 16, 2011 at 6:45 PM
- Elow23 said...
Such a great dyi headband! Love it and your photography!
- August 17, 2011 at 11:39 AM
- Proud Mama said...
LOVE! The best thing about summer is being able to spend more time with my daughter. Schedules are crazy during the school year and I welcome and enjoy a little time to slow down & spend some quality time together.
- August 12, 2012 at 7:32 AM
- Achi said...
Your baby is so beautiful and so does the headband very cute..,
- January 23, 2013 at 7:29 AM
- Brandy said...
That is such a great idea! I love DIY styles although I don't have alot of time for it. The things I love about summer is the sun shining down on you and the smell of sun tan lotion. The sound of waves crashing on the rocks and family bbqs. Clear blue water with whales jumping out. Surfing and tanning, palm trees swaying, and air conditioning times in the house. Btw I live in Maui,Hawaii. so its basically summer all the time here (:
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Know Your Candidates -- Lamar Jones
1389 Van Duyn Place, Age 57; 15 years in Teaneck. Married to Wilma Davenport; 1 son, Rodney, 11. Occupation: Teacher of exceptional children, New York City. B. Sc. and M. Sc. Ohio state University. Further study: Mexico City College, N. Y. U., Highlands University, New Mexico, and Paterson State.
Civic Activities - Former member, Board of Education, Former Member, Advisory Board of Community Relations, Member, Board of Governors, Town and Gown Society, F. D. U. Trustee, United Methodist Church of Teaneck. Chairman, Education Committee, United Methodist Church. Collected for Community Chest and Boy Scouts.
Question: Teaneck has long operated on a non-partisan basis in council elections. Do you think this policy should be continued? Please give your reasons.
Answer: Yes, we must continue non-partisan government. If political parties take control, we can expect scandal and corruption. Mediocrity will become the rule for appointments. Those who are able and independent would not be appointed to various positions. The Council would become more concerned with the welfare of the party rather than that of Teaneck. We must remain non-partisan for the good of Teaneck.
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The Best TV Moments of 2010
Now that most shows are comfortably enjoying their holiday break, it's time to reflect on some of its greatest television moments from 2010. Celebuzz has gathered a collection of the year's finest clips that run the gamut of emotions: Funny and sad, thrilling and soothing, redeeming and damning, heartwarming and heartwrenching. Such was the year, and there was no shortage of amazing moments on the tube to choose from, and here's our faves:
1) Lost Series Finale: It was an event six years in the making, and while some found the ending infuriating, you can't say it wasn't worth watching. Watch Matthew Fox discuss whether he thought all of the mysteries were resolved or not in that final episode.
2) Betty White on SNL: This Golden Girl proved that you can never be too old for comedy when she hosted SNL last May following a massive Facebook push to get her on the show.
3) Conan O'Brien's debut on TBS: After being cut from The Tonight Show, O'Brien found himself without a show. That is, until he made his big, viral comeback on cable.
4) Tom Cruise's performance at the MTV Movie Awards: Speaking of comebacks, the actor who's had some trouble in the public image area of late turned things around when he revived Les Grossman from Tropic Thunder for a hysterical performance. Word is it even got himself an entire Grossman-based movie.
5) Britney Spears guest stars on Glee: How can you dedicate a show to one of the world's biggest pop stars without at least giving her a few lines? The "Stronger" songstress dawned her old cheerleading outfit to make an appearance, and maaaan Heather Morris can dance!
6) Larry King interviews Lady Gaga: In a clash of generations, there's bound to be some tension due to misunderstanding. Watch the Mother Monster answer questions while dressed strangely similar to her interviewer. In terms of awkward awesomeness, this takes the cake … and kudos to Larry for hanging in like a pro.
7) The Hills Series Finale: So, was it all fake or not? The final scene left many viewers questioning the legitimacy of Lauren Conrad, Heidi Montag, the deplorable Spencer Pratt, and the rest of the well-to-do gang. As far as finales go, though, it delivered on all fronts.
8) Amazing Race contestant hit with a watermelon: Not all great moments on television are serious moments. Here, one hapless participant breaks a watermelon with her face. After the incident, however, she's gently reminded that "They don't call it the Amazing Race for nothing." Amazing, indeed.
9) Simon Cowell says farewell to American Idol: After simultaneously lowering the self-esteem of several while entertaining millions, Mr. Cowell decided it was time to end his reign as television's harshest critic. In the end, it turns out he made some friends along the way. We'll miss you, you cranky SOB.
10) Jimmy Fallon Glee's up the Emmys: What a beginning! Singing, dancing, cameos, and even a joke about Kate Gosselin's subpar performance on Dancing With The Stars.
11) Tiger Woods apologizes: It doesn't matter if you were a fan of golf or not. The nation tuned in to see how this husband and father and business mogul would deal with his many acts of infidelity.
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But seriously, I hope everyone is enjoying their long weekends. My apologies to those of you who aren't out, soaking up the sun, sleeping in, or just not, you know, staring into the white-hot abyss of a computer screen.
For those of you who are with us today — again, I'm so sorry — I'd like to share some of the best reader comments posted over the last week. We do this every Friday, as a way of rewarding our funny, insightful readers for sharing their thoughts. And now, onto the good stuff!
Lady Gaga rose like a phoenix from the ashes of her media blackout to deliver a moving speech and a performance of the National Anthem for New York City's Gay Pride kickoff rally:
"She nailed it! Proud american" – Ash
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We learned that Justin Bieber banned everyone on his team from listening to any of Selena Gomez's music. One user summed up my feelings:
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There were quite a few unhappy campers when news broke that Happy Endings would not return for another season:
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Lastly, the final round of our Album Anticipation Showdown rages on, and sides have been taken!
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Is "Yeezus" Being Turned Into a Movie?
According to multiple sources Kanye West's album, Yeezus is being turned into a film.
Apparently West asked Bret Easton Ellis, author of "American Psycho," to write a film based off of the album.
In an interview with Vice, Ellis confirmed the collaboration but gave little details about it, saying the project is in "Kanye-land."
Ellis had this to say about West, "I really like him as a person. I know he comes off in this performance art way in the press, but if you're just alone with him in a room talking for three hours, it's kind of mind-blowing," according to the Huffington Post.
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Warts are actually benign tumors of the epidermis caused by a virus. The virus responsible is the human papillomavirus (HPV), a double-stranded DNA virus. The virus resides in the bottom layer of the epidermis and replicates into an almost normal-looking skin. Different sub-types of HPV cause different types of warts. Some human papillomavirus subtypes also cause cervical cancer and other more obscure types of wart-related cancers.

The Wart Root Myth

Contrary to popular belief, warts do not have "roots." They only grow in the top layer of skin, the epidermis. When they grow down, they displace the second layer of skin, the dermis. They do not grow into the dermis. The underside of a wart is actually smooth.

The Appearance of Warts

Warts normally grow out of the skin in cylindrical columns. These columns do not fuse when the wart grows on a thinner skin, such as the face. On thicker skin, the columns fuse and are packed tightly together giving the surface the typical mosaic pattern. Black dots can sometimes be seen in a wart. These are actually blood vessels that have grown rapidly and irregularly into the wart and have thrombosed or clotted off.

Who Gets Warts?

Warts can occur in people of all ages but occur most commonly in children and young adults. They spread by direct contact, simply by touching the wart. Warts normally resolve spontaneously but the time it takes for this resolution is variable.

Most warts resolve within weeks or months, but some may take years. It appears that a person's susceptibility to warts and the time it takes for them to go away is related to the individual's immune system. People who have immune-related diseases such as AIDS and lymphoma or who are taking chemotherapy tend to have more warts that last longer.

Salicylic Acid for Warts

Most warts can be treated with simple over-the-counter remedies. For those who are resistant to these measures, other types of treatments are effective.

Salicylic acid is a very common and effective over-the-counter treatment but requires consistent application every day. They best way to use salicylic acid is to first pare the wart with a blade, pumice stone, emery board or small scrub brush. Soaking the wart in warm water will aid in the absorption of the medicine.

Salicylic acid is applied to the wart and allowed to dry. The normal surrounding skin may be protected with petroleum jelly. Occluding the treated wart with a band-aid or piece of tape also improves the absorption of the medicine. This procedure should be repeated daily ideally around shower or bath time. Salicylic acid can be found in several forms, including a thick oil or incorporated into an adhesive plaster form.

Freezing Warts

Cryotherapy is another effective treatment of warts. A provider applies liquid nitrogen as a spray or on a cotton swab to the wart. This freezes and kills the affected cells. The connective tissue is not destroyed; therefore, the lesion usually heals without significant scarring.

The human papillomavirus is not killed by cryotherapy and is released into the surrounding tissue allowing the immune system to kill it. A blister typically forms on the site treated, crusts over and falls off. Since blisters are painful to walk on, cryotherapy is not the first choice for warts on the bottom of the foot.

Other medicines that may be applied to warts or injected into them include lactic acid, trichloroacetic acid (TCA), formalin, glutaraldehyde, cantharidin, podophyllin, Retin-A, and bleomycin. These treatments should be supervised by a health care provider.


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The illness of former French premier Leon Blum, who is reported confined to his bed at Bourrassol Manor, will not delay the opening on February 19 at Riom of the "war guilt" trials of Blum, Daladier, Gamelin, former Air Minister La Chambre and former armaments chief Jancomet, it was indicated here today.
The 215 prosecution witnesses who will be called to give testimony, chosen from among 900 heard at preliminary hearings, have been marshalled and the dossier, containing more than 100,000 documents, has been prepared. The defense, it is reported, also plans to call nearly 200 witnesses to aid in answering the 180-page indictment. At the rate of four hearings a week the trials are not expected to terminate before the beginning of summer and a decision will probably not be handed down until June or July.


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Costa Rica: Estación Pitilla, Guanacaste Conservation Area.
Worker: first gastral tergum devoid of erect setae; dorsum of postpetiole with a raised, subtriangular boss medially, and with a single row of about 6 long flexuous setae along anterior margin; dorsum of mesosoma with rugae organized into somewhat continuous wavy rugae, transverse on anterior pronotum, grading to longitudinal on rest of promesonotum; cephalic dorsum with dense, subparallel rugae; compound eyes relatively large (eye length greater than 0.15mm), with about 10 facets at maximum diameter; mesosoma length (WL) greater than or equal to 0.85mm; dorsum of postpetiole entirely smooth and shining; gaster much darker than the rest of body.
Similar species: haskinsi, longinoi.
Natural History
This species is like a large version of L. haskinsi, known from one collection from the northernmost slope of the Cordillera de Guanacaste in Costa Rica. Lachnomyrmex haskinsi has not been collected north of the Cordillera de Tilarán, so there is no evidence of sympatry of the two species yet.
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Feitosa, R. M., and C. R. F. Brandão. 2008. A taxonomic revision of the Neotropical myrmicine ant genus Lachnomyrmex Wheeler (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 1890:1-49.
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Recent studies bolster earlier evidence: Flu shots not beneficial
Mercury in vaccines sparks debate about safety
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Two recent studies published by the Cochrane Collaboration are supporting what earlier evidence has shown - and what some national public health officials have begun to acknowledge - there's no evidence flu shots work effectively, especially in reducing flu-related deaths among the elderly.
The Cochrane Collaboration describes itself as an international, non-profit, independent organization whose mission is to ensure the availability of up-to-date and accurate information about the effects of health-care interventions. It produces systematic reviews of such interventions and compiles scientific evidence, such as clinical trials and other studies, about their effects.
In an ongoing study published in 2009 and updated this year, entitled "Vaccines for preventing influenza in healthy adults," scientists said they found no plausible substantiation that the flu vaccine prevented death or hospitalization from flu-related complications and only marginally reduced the number of days of lost work attributed to the illness.
The study's goal, the researchers stated, was to "identify, retrieve and assess all studies evaluating the effects of vaccines against influenza in healthy adults."
The researchers, led by Dr. Tom Jefferson, a British epidemiologist and chief of the Vaccine Field Group at Cochrane, reviewed studies conducted between Jan. 1, 1966, and June 2010. The authors included 50 reports, of which 40 were clinical trials involving more than 70,000 people.
What they found was shocking. When the vaccination matched the viral strains actually circulating that season, with a high circulation - an uncommon occurrence - 4 percent of unvaccinated people developed symptoms compared with 1 percent of vaccinated people. In the more common years where vaccines did not match the circulating strain, two percent of unvaccinated people got the flu compared with 1 percent of those vaccinated.
In testimony earlier this year before the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Jefferson put those numbers in perspective.
"After reviewing more than 40 clinical trials, it is clear that the performance of the vaccines in healthy adults is nothing to get excited about," Jefferson said. "On average, perhaps one adult out of a 100 vaccinated will get influenza symptoms compared to two out of 100 in the unvaccinated group. To put it another way, we need to vaccinate 100 healthy adults to prevent one set of symptoms."
What's more, the study found no credible evidence the vaccines afforded any protection against complications such as pneumonia or death but did increase the potential side effects.
"Vaccination had a modest effect on time off work and had no effect on hospital admissions or complication rates," the researchers stated in the study. "Inactivated vaccines caused local harms and an estimated 1.6 additional cases of Guillain-Barré Syndrome per million vaccinations."
Those results, as bad as they were, might actually overstate the case for vaccine effectiveness, the researchers cautioned, because many of the studies - 15 of 36 trials with funding declarations - were industry initiatives.
Jefferson and his colleagues said they found a systematic tendency for prestigious medical journals to publish and cite industry-funded studies, while less publicized studies funded from public sources were significantly less likely to report conclusions favorable to the vaccines.
"Our results may be an optimistic estimate because company-sponsored influenza vaccine trials tend to produce results favorable to their products and some of the evidence comes from trials carried out in ideal viral circulation and matching conditions and because the harms evidence base is limited," the study stated.
So what about the efficacy of getting vaccinated?
The 2009 report determined there was no real scientific rationale to support routine flu shots for healthy adults.
"The results of this review seem to discourage the utilisation of vaccination against influenza in healthy adults as a routine public health measure," the study concluded. "As healthy adults have a low risk of complications due to respiratory disease, the use of the vaccine may be only advised as an individual protection measure against symptoms in specific cases."
The 2010 update, which reviewed additional studies, offered no change in that conclusion.
A major part of the problem, the researchers explained, is that while the flu vaccine might work against certain influenza strains, those represent only a small fraction of flu-like diseases - diseases for which the vaccine simply won't work.
"Over 200 viruses cause influenza and influenza-like illness which produce the same symptoms (fever, headache, aches and pains, cough and runny noses)," the authors wrote. "Without laboratory tests, doctors cannot tell the two illnesses apart. Both last for days and rarely lead to death or serious illness. At best, vaccines might be effective against only influenza A and B, which represent about 10% of all circulating viruses."
The elderly
The Cochrane Collaboration and Jefferson - along with lead author Dr. Roger Thomas of the University of Calgary - published another study in 2010, this one analyzing the effects of influenza vaccination for health-care workers who work with the elderly.
More precisely, the scientists stated, because health-care workers' influenza rates may be similar to the general public, and because they may transmit that influenza to patients, effective vaccination would likely reduce transmission rates.
To test that hypothesis, the study looked at four randomized controlled trials involving the vaccination of health-care workers and the subsequent repercussions for people over the age of 60 in long-term care facilities. Specifically, they measured laboratory proven influenza, lower respiratory tract infections, admissions to hospitals and deaths from pneumonia.
The study's conclusion? Vaccinating health-care workers who looked after the elderly in long-term care facilities had absolutely no impact among the elderly on the incidence of laboratory-proven influenza, pneumonia or deaths from pneumonia.
That, too, was a stirring conclusion because the elderly are an especially targeted population group in government flu vaccine campaigns, and the CDC has repeatedly said groups coming into frequent contact with the elderly pose an accelerated risk of spreading the disease unless they are vaccinated.
Not only did the results show no increase in risk because health-care workers were not vaccinated, but, the trials indicated, health-care workers themselves tended to dismiss the need for vaccination.
"Healthcare workers have lower rates of influenza vaccination than the elderly and surveys show that healthcare workers who do not get vaccinated do not perceive themselves at risk, doubt the efficacy of influenza vaccine, have concerns about side effects, and some do not perceive their patients to be at risk," the paper stated.
The bottom line?
The researchers said there was no evidence of vaccine stand-alone effectiveness, and they suggested other more traditional preventive methods might be effective to curb the spread of influenza.
"We conclude that there is no evidence that only vaccinating healthcare workers prevents laboratory-proven influenza, pneumonia, and death from pneumonia in elderly residents in long-term care facilities," the study stated. "Other interventions such as hand washing, masks, early detection of influenza with nasal swabs, anti-virals, quarantine, restricting visitors and asking healthcare workers with an influenza-like illness not to attend work might protect individuals over 60 in long-term care facilities and high quality randomised controlled trials testing combinations of these interventions are needed."
Earlier studies
The recent studies reinforce already published - but not highly publicized - analyses that flu shots are not effective enough, or at all, to warrant a mass vaccination policy, even among the elderly.
One such analysis did appear in The Washington Post in 2005, written by Steven Woloshin, Lisa Schwartz and Gilbert Welch, physician-researchers in the VA Outcomes Group in White River Junction, Vt., and faculty members at the Dartmouth Medical School.
In the piece, the authors observed that public health officials had run vaccine campaigns based on fear for years, though the statistics employed in those campaigns could not withstand logical scrutiny.
"A vaccination poster distributed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), for example, emphasizes that '36,000 Americans die of flu-related illnesses each year,' implying that the vaccine could prevent many of these deaths," the authors wrote.
The problem was, officials had been using those same fatality numbers for years even as vaccination rates had skyrocketed. A reasonable person might wonder: Why hasn't the number of deaths gone down?
"By choosing to highlight the annual number of flu deaths, the CDC employed an attention-grabbing tactic often used by public health and disease advocacy groups," the authors wrote. "It's a tactic readers should be inoculated against if they want a clear picture of the risks they face."
In fact, they continued, it was very difficult to know how many people were actually dying from flu-related diseases because those diseases share symptoms with many diseases - a fact Jefferson and his researchers reiterated - and because people most likely to die a flu-related death are also at high risk for many other causes of death.
In addition, they stated, when it comes to measuring death prevention, most flu vaccine effectiveness data comes from observational studies in which scientists count the number of deaths among people who did or did not get the vaccine rather than from more scientifically rigorous randomized trials, which, the authors asserted, were considered the gold standard for medical evidence.
"Only five randomized trials have examined the effectiveness of the flu vaccine," they reported. "In these studies, patients were randomly assigned - a selection technique equivalent to the flip of a coin - to get either a flu vaccine or a placebo injection. But none of these studies looked at whether the vaccine prevents death. Instead, the scientists measured who developed a flu-like illness."
In the absence of randomized trials, the authors suggested looking at time trends in flu vaccine rates compared with flu-related deaths in the elderly as one way to gauge vaccine effectiveness.
The results were again shocking. While there was almost no change in the flu-related death rate among the elderly between 1980 and 1998, vaccination rates during that time jumped by 148 percent.
By 1998, the vaccination rate among the elderly had risen to 62 percent, up from approximately 25 percent in 1980, yet flu-related deaths stayed at about 200 per 100,000 of the elderly population.
That's still a small number. According to the CDC, 90 percent of flu-related deaths occur among people age 65 years and older, but the chance of a flu-related death for people in that age group is only about two in 1,000. Put another way, the chance of not dying from flu for those aged 65 and older is 998 out of 1,000
As for measuring the effectiveness of the flu vaccine in reducing the number of days lost from work, the authors of the 2005 Post piece reported findings similar to those of Jefferson.
"On average, there are about 0.16 fewer days lost from work per person vaccinated," the authors wrote. "Another way of saying this is that about 5 percent of those vaccinated avoid missing about three days of work because of the flu . . . The other 95 percent vaccinated got no benefit."
Earlier this year, a leading doctor in the mainstream medical community acknowledged what the studies had been reporting: Flu vaccines just don't work very well, especially among the elderly.
Michael Osterholm, the director of the University of Minnesota's Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, coughed up the admission at a national conference on vaccine research earlier this year, according to a Minnesota Public Radio report.
"These 36,000 deaths that we keep talking about with the flu, that we want to get people vaccinated for so they don't happen, really is not going to occur. And we have to be honest about that," MPR quoted Osterholm as saying.
Flu campaigns continues
Despite the growing body of evidence, the federal government, including the CDC, state health departments, various advocacy groups and private corporations and their nonprofit research arms all continue to push flu shots every season, as the attempt to vaccinate virtually everybody continues.
This year, for the first time, the CDC has recommended that everyone six months and older get vaccinated, including pregnant women. In previous years, the CDC stopped short of that all-inclusive goal, urging only certain at-risk groups to get the vaccine. According to the CDC website, "vaccination is the best protection against contracting the flu."
Large nonprofit companies such as the RAND Corporation provide artillery for the vaccination foot soldiers. Indeed, that company is recommending a redirection of research dollars from biomedical efforts to the study of social and behavioral sciences - in other words, they want to study the best methods to change the minds of those reluctant to be vaccinated.
"The H1N1 flu pandemic exposed the reluctance on the part of many Americans to be vaccinated against the flu, even during a time of crisis," said Katherine M. Harris, a senior economist at RAND, in November. "We need to better understand how to respond to this reluctance before we can be truly prepared for a future flu emergency."
The science that would clarify the best ways to inform and motivate the public is severely underdeveloped, RAND researchers said: "More resources should be channeled into understanding and improving the public's view of flu vaccines before the ongoing biomedical advances can be translated into effective action."
Among RAND's major contributors are Ortho-McNeil Janssen Scientific Affairs, Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline, and Merck, all of which are researching or manufacturing flu vaccines, or supplying those manufacturers.
Safety of the vaccine
Meanwhile, while the discourse gets hotter about the vaccine's effectiveness, the debate about its safety continues to rage.
Those who support vaccination say it's better to be safe rather than sorry, while detractors say the vaccine could pose serious health risks.
Vaccine detractors point to studies showing an increase in cases of Guillain-Barré Syndrome as one potential side effect, but mercury in the vaccines is a much bigger issue. While mercury has been removed from most vaccines, at least in larger amounts, it is still a substantive component of most flu vaccines.
The possibility of mercury poisoning is acute, critics say, especially in young children and for pregnant women.
For one thing, as The Lakeland Times reported earlier this year, the concentration of mercury in a multi-dose vaccine five-milliliter vial stands at 50,000 ppb (parts per billion). Consider that the EPA requires liquid waste exceeding 200 ppb of mercury to be disposed of in a special hazardous waste landfill, and that drinking water cannot exceed two ppb mercury.
Is it really safe to inject infants and pregnant women with levels of mercury 250 times higher than hazardous waste levels? critics ask.
Indeed, according to the CDC guidelines, the higher content mercury shots are offered to children six month of age or older.
It should be noted that the vaccines contain a different type of mercury - ethylmercury, as opposed to the methylmercury found in drinking water, fish and released through industrial processes - and vaccine proponents call ethylmercury the "not-so-bad" mercury because it does not bio-accumulate as rapidly.
Nonetheless, both are classified as neurotoxins, and some say ethylmercury should be considered as potent as methylmercury in developmental policymaking, in the interests of protecting public health.
That's because, they say, while ethylmercury is less acutely toxic than methylmercury, infants and young children may be more susceptible than adults, and no substantial studies exist to compare the potencies and impacts of ethylmercury and methylmercury in developmental circumstances.
Detractors also point to a confessed lack of knowledge by drug-makers themselves about the vaccines' effect on pregnant women.
For example, a July 2010 material safety data sheet for Fluvirin, one of the major vaccines available this year, does not contraindicate the vaccine for pregnant women, as it does for children under the age of four, but the sheet acknowledges that it is "not known whether Fluvirin can cause fetal harm when administered to a pregnant woman or can affect reproduction capacity."
The company does say the vaccine should be administered to pregnant women only when "clearly needed," but, if CDC recommendations are to be believed, the shot is "clearly needed" for all healthy pregnant women, and there are no alternative vaccines - the same warning appears on the other flu vaccine medical data sheets as well.
Interestingly, in other areas, the government is stepping up its warnings about mercury ingestion. For example, the Federal Trade Commission recently required compact fluorescent light bulb manufacturers to put mercury labeling on packaging, including information on proper handling and cleanup when a CFL breaks in the home, primarily due to the escape of trace amounts of mercury vapor.
Decisions, decisions
If one does decide to receive a flu vaccine, is it possible to obtain a mercury free vaccine?
It is, though it is not probable. According to the CDC, for 2010-11, six influenza vaccine manufacturers were projecting that as many as 160-165 million doses of influenza vaccine would be available; of those, approximately 74 million would be thimerosal (mercury)-free or preservative-free (trace thimerosal) influenza vaccine.
That is to say, less than half of the available vaccines will be mercury free, or what is considered to be mercury free.
And how do you know if your vaccine is really mercury free? According to Consumer Reports, single dose flu shots produced by CSL Limited and Sanofi Pasteur are mercury-free, as are all intranasal vaccines produced by MedImmune; the Novartis single-dose H1N1 flu vaccine has trace amounts of mercury.
In the end, getting a flu shot is a matter of personal choice but one that should be informed. As Woloshin, Schwartz and Welch wrote in The Washington Post, the health community has not always made information readily available.
"To promote vaccine use, many in the public health community have overstated the risk of flu-related death and the effectiveness of the vaccine in preventing it," they wrote. "While the flu vaccine may have some important benefit (less flu-related illness), we really do not know whether it reduces the risk of death."
That's not to suggest that people avoid the vaccines, they wrote; instead, they should weigh the potential risks and benefits.
In his testimony before the European Council, Jefferson was more straightforward.
"Another consequence is the idea that influenza-line illness ("flu") and its ravages can be prevented or minimised with influenza vaccine," he said. "Cochrane reviews show that vaccines could only affect at the most (i.e. if they had 100 percent efficacy) some 7-15 percent of the annual flu burden, since this is the proportion of people with the flu who truly have influenza."
The government's approach to influenza and vaccination, he said, was a fantasy.
"This 'specificity' of approach (go for influenza, disregard all other causes of the flu) is probably based on what I call availability creep (let's concentrate on influenza because that's the one we have specifics for)," he said. "But, if you think about it, it is a wonderful utopian policy against a syndrome as unspecific as this (just think of the role that other viruses play).
"In my opinion, the lack of logic in this thinking is stunning."
Richard Moore can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Reader Comments
Posted: Saturday, February 12, 2011
Article comment by:
Beatriz Schiller
Dear Richard Moore. I was interested in your articles about vaccines.For the first time in my life I took Fluvirin 2010-11 Vaccine 10/25/10. In December I had pneumonia, for the first time in my life. Can it be related? Please let me know if any other case like mine occurred. Thank you, Beatriz
Posted: Monday, January 3, 2011
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I would like to add to Dr. Jefferson's comment---
Public health officials stupidity, arrogance, and the damage that they have caused is stunning as well.
These people have literally poisoned a generation of children
and adults---
They have injected unprecendented levels of heavy metals in the
population as well as other chemicals.
The reason why this is happening because the
idiot legislators
gave the vaccine manufacturers immunity from lawsuits.
If we could get just one
trial with a jury and
have the rules of discovery enforced,
all the dirty laundry of
the CDC and the drug companies would be revealed---
Posted: Friday, December 31, 2010
Article comment by:
Judith Acosta
Thank you for your work!
It's amazing that the pharmaceutical companies have us so bamboozled.
Judith Acosta
Posted: Friday, December 31, 2010
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EXCELLENT coverage of this topic by any standard! Many thanks to Mr. Moore. If there were more journalists like Mr. Moore, our world might be in much better shape right now.
Posted: Friday, December 31, 2010
Article comment by:
Anne McElroy Dachel
While health officials continue to pretend that the annual flu outbreak is a health care crisis, they ignore the fact that we are now a nation of the chronically ill and disabled. We are the most vaccinated people on earth and some of the sickest.
Anne Dachel
Age of Autism
Posted: Thursday, December 30, 2010
Article comment by:
Megan Allen
Thank you for this report. Consumers deserve unbiased information to make informed decision, not scare tactics and blanket statements that "vaccines save lives". The ingredients being injected into our bodies from these vaccines are considered to be toxins, so unless the vaccine is proven overwhelmingly effective, I do not believe most people would chose to receive this chemical cocktail innoculation.
Posted: Wednesday, December 29, 2010
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Green Your Life
Read "Vaccination I$ Not Immunization by Tim O'Shea which gives you a very well documented history of vaccines. www.thedoctorwithin.com
The only herd immunity is natural immunity.
Posted: Wednesday, December 29, 2010
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Hooray! Thank you for that article. I hope that everyone, whether they plan to get a flu shot or not, reads it. I'm from NJ, where flu vaccines are now mandatory for kids ages 6 to 59 months to attend preschool and daycare. Find out more at http://njvaccinationchoice.org
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Glad to see someone telling the truth about the flu shot. I almost died from a flu shot reaction in Oct 2005. It took 4 years to recover the feeling in my legs. The vaccine court agreed my damage was caused by the shot and settled with me this year.
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