By: Karen Feldscher, BodiMojo project manager and mom with 30 years of writing and editing experience.
Ever do something stupid you regretted later? Take a risk and you weren’t sure why? There may be a reason why you reach for a bag of cheese curls instead of an apple when you want a snack. Why you skipped a class at school for the heck of it. Or why you drink a beer at a party even though you hadn’t planned on it.
It may be because you’re not thinking clearly. Literally.
Researchers say that the teenage brain is simply not fully developed. That’s why teens sometimes make snap decisions, that, in hindsight, seem like not the best decisions.
Here’s what the researchers say:
• Key areas of the adolescent brain — especially the prefrontal cortex, the part that controls higher order skills — is not fully mature until the early to mid-twenties.
• The prefrontal cortex governs things like planning, impulse control, and reasoning — such as how you behave when you’re angry or whether or not to eat a second piece of dessert.
• More 17-year-olds commit crimes than any other age group — and this risky behavior may have a lot to do with the fact that teens’ brains haven’t fully matured.
• When adults resist impulses, their prefrontal cortexes are highly active. But in teens’ brains, this doesn’t happen.
• When faced with risky vs. non-risky choices, kids often pick the riskier ones — even though they know they’re riskier: drug abuse, unsafe sex, group bullying. Peer pressure — or going with the crowd — also has influence on the brain’s reward centers to seek out stimulation.
What does all this mean? That, as a teen, it would be a good idea to push yourself to think about your choices carefully, even it doesn’t feel that important in the moment. Because the teen brain is still forming, exposure to certain things, like sugar, tobacco, drugs, will have a neurochemical effect, and could lead to addictions over time — or, unintentionally lead you to take risky behaviors that could do harm to yourself or others. For some people, a family history of depression or substance addiction or obesity is also something to consider, so you can be mindful of a number of factors that could be influential in certain circumstances.
So — before you drink that beer, or take that second piece of cake, or take a cigarette someone offers you — think about it. Will having the beer affect your driving? Will you regret the cake later, when you step on the scale? What if smoking one cigarette makes you want to smoke another one — and another?
Quick Quiz: How’s your judgment?
1. Have you recently stayed up so late that you were tired in school the next day?
2. Have you ever taken a ride from a friend whose driving made you nervous?
3. Have you ever lashed out at your parents or siblings — then regretted it later?
4. Have you ever wolfed down a fast-food meal, then felt sick afterwards and wish you hadn’t eaten it?
5. Do you tend to procrastinate on your homework, then realize you don’t have enough time to finish it?
If you answered “yes” to any of the above questions, take a minute to play out the pros and cons of decisions before you make them.
Want more information? Check out these resources:
- Science Today: The Adolescent Brain
- The National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy: The Adolescent Brain – PDF
This article has been reviewed by Tara Cousineau, Ph.D.
Last reviewed October 2014.


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Rising resin prices and a shortage of available material is being felt by molders who are increasing their own prices, limiting deliveries and potentially halting auto production.
Confer Plastics Inc., a North Tonawanda, N.Y.-based blow molder and swimming pool accessory maker, is rationing material and had to lay off 40 workers because of the resin shortage.
"My concern is, that as fluid as the situation has become, we might have to lay off more in the coming weeks," owner Bob Confer said in an email. "Currently, we're planned to be in receipt of about 30-40 percent of our typical monthly demand, which is a really significant hit, especially in a year when we've been busier than we ever have been."
Industrial material handling manufacturing giant Myers Industries Inc. is raising prices for its products by 8 percent as of March 1, citing "rapidly rising raw material costs, primarily resin."
The Akron, Ohio-based molder whose business portfolio includes molders Ameri-Kart, Buckhorn and Elkhart Plastics, said the price increase is effective "across a majority of its portfolio of products."
An auto industry executive who spoke with Crain's Detroit Business on the condition of anonymity said some seating supplier assembly lines were expected to run out of foam by March 8.
"A lot of production is down still for oil refinery byproduct, and in a few days no one is going to be able to make [propylene oxide]," the executive said. "Everyone is scrambling. This problem is bigger and closer than the semiconductor issue."
Others expect the impact of the foam shortage to hit sometime mid-month.
A North America-based purchasing executive with an automaker told Automotive News on March 4 that while the potential shortage is not an immediate issue for vehicle assembly plants, it may surface in a few weeks.
A source close to the PU flexible foam industry said the problem is industrywide, with raw materials shortages impacting production even before the bad weather hit.
"Producers are struggling to meet consumer demand, and the cold weather in Texas led to numerous plants being closed down," the source added, "with problems being experienced all the way down the polyurethane foam supply chain."
Confer said his company followed the lead of resin suppliers and declared force majeure for its products.
"Never in our 48 years of business have we done that, and we've seen the 1970s oil embargoes, the blizzard of '77, the Great Recession, hurricanes hitting suppliers, the COVID pandemic and so much more," he said. "That speaks to how unusual and how destructive this Texas cold spell has been and will be."
Dustin Walsh is a reporter for Crain's Detroit Business. Larry Vellequette, Laurence Iliff, Michael Martinez, Hannah Lutz, Urvaksh Karkaria and Philip Nussel of Automotive News; Greg Layson of Automotive News Canada; and Simon Robinson of Urethanes Technology International contributed to this report.

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Born in 1929, and raised in Corona, Queens in New York City, Taylor started piano lessons at the age of six, and attended the New York College of Music and the New England Conservatory. His early influences included Duke Ellington and Dave Brubeck, but from the start he sounded original. Early gigs included work with groups led by Johnny Hodges and Hot Lips Page, but, after forming his quartet in the mid-'50s (which originally included Steve Lacy on soprano, bassist Buell Neidlinger, and drummer Dennis Charles), Taylor was never a sideman again. The group played at the Five Spot Cafe in 1956 for six weeks and performed at the 1957 Newport Jazz Festival (which was recorded by Verve), but, despite occasional records like 1958's Looking Ahead, work was scarce.
In 1960, Taylor recorded extensively for Candid under Neidlinger's name (by then the quartet featured Archie Shepp on tenor), and the following year he sometimes substituted in the play The Connection. By 1962, Taylor's quartet featured his regular sideman Jimmy Lyons on alto and drummer Sunny Murray. He spent six months in Europe (Albert Ayler worked with Taylor's group for a time although no recordings resulted) but upon his return to the U.S., Taylor did not work again for almost a year. Even with the rise of free jazz, his music was considered too advanced. In 1964, Taylor was one of the founders of the Jazz Composer's Guild and, in 1968, he was featured on a record by the Jazz Composer's Orchestra. In the mid-'60s, Taylor recorded two very advanced sets for Blue Note, but it was generally a lean decade.
Things greatly improved starting in the '70s. Taylor taught for a time at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Antioch College, and Glassboro State College. European tours also became common. After being awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1973, the pianist's financial difficulties were eased a bit; he even performed at the White House (during Jimmy Carter's administration) in 1979. He also recorded more frequently, delivering albums like 1976's Dark to Themselves, and 1979's Cecil Taylor Unit. Taylor also started incorporating some of his eccentric poetry into his performances.
The death of longtime associate Jimmy Lyons in 1986 was a major blow, but Taylor remained active over the next few decades, issuing albums on labels such as hatART, Soul Note, Leo, and FMP, including 1986's For Olim, 1993's Always a Pleasure, and 1996's The Light of Corona. He also formed a trio with bassist William Parker and drummer Tony Oxley. During the 2000s, the pianist slowed little, often working often with his various ensembles, including his trio, and his big band. Having never compromised his musical vision, Taylor's stature grew in his later years. He was the subject of a 2006 documentary All the Notes, and in 2013 was awarded the Kyoto Prize for Music. In 2016, the Whitney Museum of American Art hosted a retrospective of his career titled Open Plan: Cecil Taylor. Taylor died on April 5, 2018 at his home in Brooklyn at the age of 89. ~ Scott Yanow, Rovi
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Regular ingestion of diets rich in foods of plant origin may confer significant protection against the development of lung cancer.
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Researchers observed that frequent consumers of diets rich in plant foods, such as fruits, tubers, and carotenoids, had low chances of developing lung cancer. On the other hand, generous intake of diets high in red meat, cholesterol-containing, and fatty foods was found to increase lung cancer development risk. The results of this study suggest that high dietary ingestion of fats, red meat, and cholesterol-rich foods may elevate an individual’s odds of developing lung cancer.

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Pharmacy ground-breaker named in national innovator list
Epic Pharmacy has been named in the Australian Financial Review Top 50 Most Innovative Companies for their development of digital health tools – Medication Manager and ChartFlow.
The Queensland-based company’s co-owner Cathie Reid said the recognition is exciting for Epic Pharmacy and the future of the health industry.
“To be listed in the Top 50 Most Innovative Companies is extremely exciting for Epic Pharmacy. Not only does it recognise the innovative work we are doing, it highlights how companies are bridging the gap between a paper-based industry and a digital future and are paving the way for a new era in healthcare,” she said.
Medication Manager and ChartFlow are two innovations the company has seen from concept through to development and implementation into the market.
“We’re always working to be digitally ‘fit’ in a fast-paced industry, while also addressing current and relevant issues in the healthcare sector. Medication Manager and ChartFlow are addressing today’s pain points and at the same time positioning the industry for an e-health future,” Reid said.
Medication Manager is a secure electronic platform which allows patients and healthcare professionals real time access to pharmacy information, including medication profiles. This important information can be accessed via any mobile or PC device and shared with authorised parties, and includes the option of real-time dose reminders that prompts patients to take their medication.
ChartFlow was developed to allow pharmacy and nursing staff to capture an image of the medication chart via a tablet device, where they can annotate instructions, flag urgencies then send directly to the pharmacy for dispensing. This not only transforms hospital pharmacy workflows, reducing turnaround times for pharmacy orders, but improves the safety and efficiency of medication supply by eliminating the opportunity for transcription errors.
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Tomislav Karamarko, the leader of the senior ruling Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), said on June 7 that the party has initiated procedures to remove technocratic Prime Minister Tihomir Oreskovic.
The collapse of Croatia’s ruling coalition has been happening step by step, but its end now seems certain. Croatia’s main opposition party, the Social Democratic Party (SDP), has decided to support HDZ’s non-confidence motion against Oreskovic, meaning the prime minister is virtually certain to be ousted given the overwhelming majority the two parties command in the parliament.
Karamarko said on June 4 that Oreskovic should resign or HDZ would seek a government reshuffle. The previous day, Oreskovic called on both his deputies - Karamarko and Bozo Petrov, leader of the HDZ's junior coalition partner Bridge of Independent Lists (Most) - to resign due to an on-going row between the coalition partners over a no-confidence vote against Karamarko.
Karamarko defined the current government as “dysfunctional” and said that the HDZ does not want to be a “clown in this bad story” on June 7, according to About Croatia. The non-confidence vote against Oreskovic will be a “positive shock” and there is still time for a government reshuffle, according to Karamarko.
The deputy prime minister also wrote on his Facebook page that Croatia has “no time for ... high level scrimmages” and that the HDZ “no longer wants and will not participate in political intrigue and games”.
Karamarko said on June 4 that early elections were possible.
Zoran Milanovic, the head of the SDP, is also keen for elections to be held. Milanovic said on June 7 the that SDP will push for early elections by the middle of next month.
"We are in a complicated situation ... and the message is that we need to go to the polls as soon as possible," said Milanovic told a press conference at the party's headquarters on June 7, according to a party statement.
Tim Ash from Nomura Securities reiterated on June 7 in an e-mailed note that it will be hard to see the market-friendly Oreskovic surviving, given the SDP’s decision to vote to oust him. “So this could be the end of the Oreskovic/[Finance Minister Zdravko] Maric double act which played so well with investors over the past six months, according to Ash. Maric likely will stay for the time being as long as the HDZ still leads the coalition government, Ash said.
The timing of the no-confidence vote against Oreskovic is unclear. If it is held before the SDP’s no-confidence motion against Karamarko, which should be held by June 18 according to Croatian legislation, Karamarko will escape from facing a no-confidence vote in the parliament since the current ruling coalition will have already collapsed.
After the HDZ files the no-confidence vote against Oreskovic, the government has eight days to send the motion to the parliament, according to About Croatia. About Croatia also reported that if a new prime minister is not elected by the parliament within 30 days of the collapse of the current government, the president should call early elections.
Erste Group research said on June 6 that politics will remain the top story in Croatia while the no-confidence motion against Karamarko prompts questions about political stability in the region. “The political situation in Croatia is still unclear and it is very hard to make any sound predictions,” Erste said, adding that “the probability of early elections is clearly on the rise, but a reshuffle of the government would be more rational for coalition parties HDZ and Most, as both could be strongly hit in snap elections.”
While the Croatian government has been approaching to the end, concerns over the future of the reforms initiated by Oreskovic’s government has been rising. Another concern is whether the current political turmoil will damage the recent macroeconomic recovery. Croatia emerged from a six-year recession in 2015.
A possible snap election seems unlikely to bring a radically different result from last November’s election, and is even less likely to address Croatia’s deep-seated economic challenges. Oreskovic warned on June 3 that early elections would cost Croatia between€1bn and €2bn, and would also hurt on-going reforms.
The current ruling coalition came to power in January, and holds only 76 seats in the 151-seat parliament, giving it a very slim majority especially following Most’s loss of four MPs.
Oreskovic’s cabinet has never enjoyed comfort since it came into power. However, it seems that the claims that surfaced about Karamarko’s wife Ana Karamarko’s business links with a lobbyist working for Hungarian state-owned energy company MOL - precipitating the current crisis - will be the final nail in the government’s coffin.


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Global Cotton Stocks Forecast at Record High
The latest U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) projections for 2012/13 indicate that world cotton stocks are expected to rise for the third consecutive season, reaching a new record. Global ending stocks are currently projected at 74.5 million bales for 2012/13, nearly 11 percent or 7.2 million bales above 2011/12 (fig. 1).
World cotton stocks have grown considerably as a result of the recent record cotton prices that encouraged area increases in 2010 and 2011 and subsequently led to large crops. Meanwhile, the higher prices promoted fiber substitution at mills and the slowdown in the global economy reduced demand further, exacerbating the stocks rise. The growth in world stocks for the 2011/12 and 2012/13 seasons is largely occurring in China, where purchases for its national reserve program have been extensive and stocks are projected to expand by nearly 20 million bales over the 2-year period. However, most of this cotton will be unavailable to mills outside of China as demand rebounds.
2012 U.S. Cotton Production Projection Unchanged
USDA’s projection for the 2012 cotton crop remains estimated at 17 million bales this month. In 2011, the U.S. cotton crop totaled nearly 15.6 million bales. The higher production is based on an increase in harvested area from last season’s drought-reduced crop despite prospective plantings that reduced cotton area about 11 percent.
The planting estimate—currently at 13.2 million acres—will be updated in the Acreage report released by USDA on June 29th. This report will include actual plantings as of early June as well as estimates for any remaining cotton to be planted. As of June 10th, 96 percent of the expected cotton area had been planted, slightly above both last season and the 5-year average. In addition to planting progress, cotton development is running ahead as well with 19 percent of the cotton area squaring, compared with 11 percent for both 2011 and the 5-year average.
Based on the current projections, U.S. harvested area is forecast at 10.5 million acres, implying an abandonment rate of 20 percent; last season’s final abandonment reached a record 36 percent. The U.S. cotton yield remains forecast at 777 pounds per harvested acre for 2012, compared with 790 pounds per harvested acre for 2011. USDA will begin “in field” production surveys in August.
Revisions to Supply and Demand Estimates
Adjustments to June’s U.S. cotton supply and demand estimates were limited to exports and stocks. Offsetting export changes were made in 2011/12 and 2012/13 as foreign import demand was increased for 2011/12 but reduced for 2012/13. The U.S. cotton export estimate for 2011/12 was increased 200,000 bales this month to 11.6 million bales based on recent shipment data, while the 2012/13 forecast was reduced by an equal amount to 11.8 million bales. Based on the current export estimates, the U.S. share of world trade in 2012/13 is expected to rise from an 11- year low of 27 percent to 32 percent.
As a result of the export adjustments in June, U.S. ending stocks were lowered for 2011/12, but were unchanged for 2012/13. Stocks are now estimated at 3.2 million bales for 2011/12 and 4.9 million bales for 2012/13, for stocks-to-use ratios of 21 percent and 32 percent, respectively. Based on the latest supply and demand estimates, the forecast for the 2012/13 U.S. average farm price is projected to range between 60 and 80 cents per pound, with the midpoint of this range well below the latest estimate of 91 cents per pound for 2011/12.
U.S. Cotton Textile Trade Update
U.S. cotton textile trade during the first quarter of 2012 declined from that of a year earlier as consumer demand for apparel products has been affected by the sluggish growth in the economy. During January-March 2012, cotton product imports approached only 1.9 billion (raw-fiber equivalent) pounds, 10 percent below the amount imported in the corresponding period of 2011. Similarly, cotton textile and apparel exports for the first 3 months of 2012 were below a year earlier at 413 million pounds. As a result, the cotton product trade deficit for first-quarter 2012 was 1.4 billion pounds, compared with 1.6 billion for the comparable period in 2011. Cotton continues to account for the largest share of the total fiber product deficit, contributing more than 50 percent during first-quarter 2012.
Although the volume of U.S. cotton product imports was lower from most sources, the five leading suppliers’ combined share rose slightly during first-quarter 2012 at the expense of other countries. Among the top five countries, however, only India and Bangladesh experienced share growth from the most recently completed calendar year (fig. 2). During the first 3 months of 2012, India’s share approached 10 percent, compared with 8 percent for both 2010 and 2011 calendar years, while Bangladesh’s share rose less than 2 percentage points to 7.6 percent. Meanwhile, the share for China—the single largest source for U.S. cotton products—reached 28.5 percent during the first 3 months of 2012. While above the corresponding period of 2011, the share is considerably lower than both 2010 and 2011.
U.S. cotton product exports remain more concentrated than imports. During January-March 2012, the top five countries accounted for 85 percent of the total, compared with 84 percent a year earlier. Although the share for the leading destinations was similar to a year ago, individual country shares varied. For Honduras—the top destination for U.S. cotton products—the share declined from 40 percent a year ago to 36 percent. In contrast, the shares for Mexico, El Salvador, and Canada each increased during first-quarter 2012, combining to capture the share lost by Honduras.
World 2012/13 Cotton Crop Forecast Revised Downward
Global 2012/13 production is forecast to decline 6 percent from the preceding year to 115.3 million bales. The revised forecast reflects a 1.4-million-bale reduction from the previous month due to expectations that Australia, Argentina, and Brazil will reduce area (and thus production) in response to the continuing decline in world cotton prices. Australia and Brazil are forecast to produce 4.25 million bales and 7.0 million bales in 2012/13, respectively, a decline of 10 percent and 23 percent from the previous year. Area harvested in 2012/13 is expected to decline 18 percent to 475,000 hectares in Australia, while Brazil’s area is forecast to contract 23 percent to 1.1 million hectares.
China and India are forecast to produce 30.5 million bales and 25.0 million bales, respectively, down 9 percent and 6 percent from the previous year. Pakistan’s 2012/13 crop is forecast to decline 6 percent from a year earlier to 10 million bales. The United States is the only major producer where the 2012/13 crop (17 million bales) is expected to increase (9 percent) from the preceding year, the result of last season’s devastating drought. Global harvested area is forecast at 33.7 million hectares, down 6 percent from the previous year, while yield is forecast at 746 kg/ha, similar to 2011/12.
World 2012/13 Mill Use To Rebound; Ending Stocks To Reach a Record
Although world 2012/13 cotton consumption is revised downward by a million bales (1 percent) from the previous month, the forecast of 109 million bales represents an increase of nearly 3 percent from a year earlier. China is forecast to consume 40 million bales in 2012/13, down 2 percent from the previous year. This would be the lowest mill use in 8 years, if realized. The forecast contraction in consumption by China is expected to be more than offset by increased mill use in India, where 2012/13 cotton consumption is forecast at 21.3 million bales, up 6 percent from the preceding year.
In Pakistan and Turkey, 2012/13 mill use is forecast at 11.0 million bales and 5.6 million bales, respectively, up 7 percent and 6 percent from the previous year.
Brazil is forecast to consume nearly 4.3 million bales, up 6 percent from the preceding year, while in the United States 2012/13 consumption is expected to rise 3 percent to 3.5 million bales. Thailand is expected to consume nearly 1.6 million bales in 2012/13—a 22-percent increase from the preceding year, as mills there recover from the severe flood problems experienced in 2011/12.
Global 2012/13 ending stocks are forecast at a record 74.5 million bales, an increase of 11 percent from the previous year, as expected production outpaces forecast consumption. Not surprisingly, the resulting increase in the stocks-to-use ratio to 68 percent is expected to weaken global cotton prices. China’s 2012/13 ending stocks are forecast at 31.3 million bales, a 15-percent increase from the preceding year, leaving the world’s top cotton consumer to account for 42 percent of global ending stocks (fig. 3). India and Brazil are forecast to account for 12 percent and 10 percent of global 2012/13 ending stocks, respectively. The United States, Pakistan, and Australia are expected to account for 7 percent, 5 percent, and 4 percent, respectively.
Global Cotton Trade To Contract in 2012/13
China’s 2012/13 imports are forecast at 13.5 million bales, down 42 percent from a year ago due to a record level of 2012/13 beginning stocks, estimated at 27.3 million bales. The decline from previous year’s imports is made more pronounced by the June WASDE’s revision of China’s 2011/12 imports to 23.3 million bales, an increase of nearly 1.8 million bales from the previous month’s estimate, as shipments continue to arrive from Australia, Brazil, India, and the United States.
Bangladesh and Indonesia are forecast to import 3.6 million bales and 2.1 million bales in 2012/13, an increase of 14 percent and 6 percent, respectively, from the previous year. Pakistan and Turkey are forecast to import 2.2 million bales and 3.0 million bales, respectively, up 83 percent and 30 percent, from the previous marketing year.
Global 2012/13 exports are forecast at 37 million bales, down 15 percent from the previous year. The 2-percent export increases forecast in 2012/13 in Australia (4.3 million bales) and the United States (11.8 million bales) are far less than the declines projected in Brazil and India. Brazil is forecast to export 4.1 million bales in 2012/13, a 16-percent contraction from the preceding marketing year due to a smaller expected crop from which some of the exports will be derived. India, usually the world’s second largest exporter, is expected to export only 4 million bales in 2012/13, down 60 percent from the previous year. If realized, India will lag behind Australia as the third largest exporter globally. Uzbekistan’s 2012/13 cotton exports are forecast at 2.6 million bales, up 4 percent from the preceding year.
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Tesla open to merger with rival but Elon Musk won't indulge in hostile takeover
Tesla is leading the charge, and literally at that, in the world of electric mobility. Such has been the dominant performance - and meteoric rise - of Tesla in recent times that CEO Elon Musk has now become the world's second richest man. And yet, concerns over profitability remains clear and present. This may be a reason why Musk recently said that he is not obtuse to the idea of Tesla merging with a rival automaker even if it won't indulge in any hostile takeover moves.
According to Reuters, Musk has said that a merger with another car maker is possible if the situation so arises. Speaking at an Axel Springer event in the German capital of Berlin, Tesla CEO expressed his views on such a possibility in no uncertain ways. "We are definitely not going to launch a hostile takeover. If somebody said it would be a good idea to merge with Tesla, we would have this conversation," he was quoted as saying.
Speculations suggest that Musk's views on a merge - if and when such a possibility arises - may stem from the fact that he is looking at cost cutting and increased production to increase profit margins at Tesla. He had recently written an email to employees asking them to be mindful such that there is no reversal in Tesla's soaring stock prices. "When looking at our actual profitability, it is very low at around 1% for the past year. Investors are giving us a lot of credit for future profitability, but if, at any point, they conclude that’s not going to happen, our stock will immediately get crushed like a souffle under a sledgehammer!" the email reportedly read. (Read more here)
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At a time when competitors - even traditional giants like Volkswagen and Mercedes - are aiming to mount a challenge to Tesla, Musk appears doggedly determined to not just retain the EV crown but to also put an increased focus on profitability as well as expanding post-sales network.
Tesla currently has an 18% market share in the EV space globally. This is far more than Volkswagen, the car maker with the next largest share. And while rivals are looking at offering more and more electric products - PHEVs or full battery, Tesla is now also looking at coming out with more affordable products as well as expanding to newer markets.

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Increasing the optical response of TiO2 and extending it into the visible region through surface activation with highly stable Cu5 clusters
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|Title:||Increasing the optical response of TiO2 and extending it into the visible region through surface activation with highly stable Cu5 clusters
|Author:||Lara Castells, María Pilar de
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Ramallo López, José Martín
Buceta Fernández, David
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López Quintela, Manuel Arturo
Requejo, Félix G.
|Affiliation:||Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Departamento de Química Física
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Instituto de Investigacións Tecnolóxicas
|Date of Issue:||2019
|Publisher:||Royal Society of Chemistry
|Citation:||Pilar de Lara-Castells, M., Hauser, A. W., Ramallo-López, J. M., Buceta, D., Giovanetti, L. J., López-Quintela, M. A., & Requejo, F. G. (2019). Increasing the optical response of TiO2 and extending it into the visible region through surface activation with highly stable Cu5 clusters. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 7(13), 7489-7500
|Abstract:||The decoration of semiconductors with subnanometer-sized clusters of metal atoms can have a strong impact on the optical properties of the support. The changes induced differ greatly from effects known for their well-studied, metallic counterparts in the nanometer range. In this work, we study the deposition of Cu5 clusters on a TiO2 surface and investigate their influence on the photon-absorption properties of TiO2 nanoparticles via the computational modeling of a decorated rutile TiO2 (110) surface. Our findings are further supported by selected experiments using diffuse reflectance and X-ray absorption spectroscopy. The Cu5 cluster donates an electron to TiO2, leading to the formation of a small polaron Ti3+ 3d1 state and depopulation of Cu(3d) orbitals, successfully explaining the absorption spectroscopy measurements at the K-edge of copper. A monolayer of highly stable and well fixated Cu5 clusters is formed, which not only enhances the overall absorption, but also extends the absorption profile into the visible region of the solar spectrum via direct photo-induced electron transfer and formation of a charge-separated state|
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Tea Party Etiquette
American independence was born in the streets of colonial Boston. Based on the life of George Robert Twelves Hewes, Tea Party Etiquette follows the poor shoemaker through celebrated events such as the 1770 Boston Massacre and the 1773 Boston Tea Party. The program reveals how working people participated in the American Revolution and were changed in the process. (Length: 30 minutes)
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Week 1 for the 2022 growing season and welcome back!
Seeders AND the many field crop entomologists across the Canadian prairies are out and raring to go for another growing season! This week….
Please take a moment to review the historical Risk Maps for our most economically important insect pests of field crops on the Canadian prairies. These prairie-wide geospatial maps offer insight into potential risk and help growers prioritize their scouting lists.
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Peasant farmers from Brazil’s central plateau delivered more than three tons of fresh vegetables and homemade cakes, cookies and cheese to local schools last week. This was the first delivery as part of the National Program of School Meals (PNAE) and marks a significant step toward food sovereignty in a region threatened by the expansion of agro-fuels plantations and GMO seeds.
Spearheaded by Grassroots International partner, the Popular Peasant Movement (MCP), 40 families delivered the locally grown, organic food to local schools in Goiás state. And MCP families are already working in the next batch.
For over six years, Grassroots International has supported MCP efforts to protect their land and seeds rights through the Creole Seeds Project, an initiative that has served as an entry point for local organizing among peasant families. Using popular education techniques, MCP organizes small, hands-on experiments with local families to identify the most productive varieties of corn, sweet potatoes, cassava, rice and beans and compare those results to costly commercial seeds. The experiments’ results demonstrate that peasant farmers do not need to become dependent on commercial seeds and agrochemicals to farm successfully. With this realization, small farmers recognize their power to protect their way of life as peasants against the growing encroachment of transnational corporations on their land and food system.
In the last six years, MCP’s membership has grown to over 1,000 families from a small group of 15, and the organization is now branching out to three other states in Brazil. The Creole Seeds Project remains the driving force behind the growth of MCP. The 400 tons of creole seeds produced last year alone have generated new opportunities for local families to generate income, like the farm-to-school program.
For Edla Lopes, a MCP member, “the [Farm-to-School] initiative is very important for the peasant families, because it helps with their income. They now can make a living without needing to get a job elsewhere to earn extra cash. This is good, especially for peasant women. Many women can now earn their own income by marketing their products.”
According to MCP’s spokesperson, Marina Mendes, the participation of MCP families in the PNAE will guarantee the inclusion of fresh, locally produced foods in the school cafeterias that respect the local food habits. MCP’s vegetables, dairy and grains are produced using agroecological practices that are socially just and environment friendly. “It will allow the students – our children – to eat healthy foods so they can learn more and be exposed to good eating habits.”
The successes of MCP’s Creole Seed Project show that peasant families are not only feeding the world, but how they can feed the next generation with healthy foods, one school at a time.

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World Village Festival
This is an event to celebrate the Go Green campaign for mother earth. The event has a lot of activities lined up such as concerts, skits and performances. Also a few guidelines are given for visitors when they come to the festival so that everything they do is in sync to the Go Green theme! This is an excellent way to make saving nature more fun.

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While holistic doctors are murdered for sharing real life saving and empowering information on vaccines, previously and still largely undisclosed vaccine ingredients such as nagalase, and how to reverse damage by this toxic scheme, there are moms. Moms of vaccine injured children. I have personal connections with quite a few of these courageous women, who had to face one or more of her children harmed by vaccines, while they thought they were doing all they could to protect them. They listened to their doctors. They couldn’t believe it happened to them, and their children. Until they saw it first hand. Everything changed when they saw their children hit every mile stone, and then turned out brain damaged, some of them permanently. They saw their little ones regress and stop talking. They heard their babies’ high pitch cries. They watched them seizing, banging their heads on the floor, and had to deal with their explosive diarrhea. And it still took a while before they discovered why and how they found themselves living this nightmare. While their doctors “coincidenced” them to near death, they had nothing left to loose and started listening to that quiet inner voice, otherwise known as intuition, and mother’s instinct. They started researching. They found answers. And now that they do know the truth, they are a force to be reckoned with. They continue to research and investigate everything in search for answers, leaving no stone unturned. Their tenacity and dedication leaves FBI agents in the dust. They will do what it takes to put the word out, so that other moms and their children at least have a chance to not have to face the same fate.
Rochelle Brooks is such a mom.
(Copied from her public facebook post. Please note the many references to government websites.)
“Peer reviewed studies on vaccines that demonstrate vaccines are neither safe or effective.
Hypothesis: conjugate vaccines may predispose children to autism spectrum disorders.
the potential effects of conjugate vaccines on neural development merit close examination. Conjugate vaccines fundamentally change the manner in which the immune systems of infants and young children function by deviating their immune responses to the targeted carbohydrate antigens from a state of hypo-responsiveness to a robust B2 B cell mediated response. This period of hypo-responsiveness to carbohydrate antigens coincides with the intense myelination process in infants and young children, and conjugate vaccines may have disrupted evolutionary forces that favored early brain development over the need to protect infants and young children from capsular bacteria.
Serological association of measles virus and human herpesvirus-6 with brain autoantibodies in autism.
Considering an autoimmunity and autism connection, brain autoantibodies to myelin basic protein (anti-MBP) and neuron-axon filament protein (anti-NAFP) have been found in autistic children. In this current study, we examined associations between virus serology and autoantibody by simultaneous analysis of measles virus antibody (measles-IgG), human herpesvirus-6 antibody (HHV-6-IgG), anti-MBP, and anti-NAFP. We found that measles-IgG and HHV-6-IgG titers were moderately higher in autistic children but they did not significantly differ from normal controls. Moreover, we found that a vast majority of virus serology-positive autistic sera was also positive for brain autoantibody: (i) 90% of measles-IgG-positive autistic sera was also positive for anti-MBP; (ii) 73% of measles-IgG-positive autistic sera was also positive for anti-NAFP; (iii) 84% of HHV-6-IgG-positive autistic sera was also positive for anti-MBP; and (iv) 72% of HHV-6-IgG-positive autistic sera was also positive for anti-NAFP. This study is the first to report an association between virus serology and brain autoantibody in autism; it supports the hypothesis that a virus-induced autoimmune response may play a causal role in autism.
Effectiveness of pertussis vaccines for adolescents and adults: case-control study
The adjusted estimate of effectiveness of Tdap vaccination against pertussis was 53.0.
Neurologic Adverse Events Following Vaccination (Progress in Health Sciences Vol. 2(1) 2012•pp 129-141.)
“Conclusions: Despite the assurances of the necessity and safety of vaccinations, there are more and more questions and doubts, which both physicians and parents are waiting to be clarified… It seems that it would be worthwhile to apply the precautionary principle – the ethical principle (from 1988) according to which if there is a probable, although poorly known, risk of adverse effects of new technology, it is better not to implement it rather than risk uncertain but potentially very harmful consequences.”
Abnormal measles-mumps-rubella antibodies and CNS autoimmunity in children with autism.
“Thus the MMR antibody in autistic sera detected measles HA protein, which is unique to the measles subunit of the vaccine. Furthermore, over 90% of MMR antibody-positive autistic sera were also positive for MBP autoantibodies, suggesting a strong association between MMR and CNS autoimmunity in autism. Stemming from this evidence, we suggest that an inappropriate antibody response to MMR, specifically the measles component thereof, might be related to pathogenesis of autism.”
Influenza: marketing vaccine by marketing disease
Closer examination of influenza vaccine policies shows that although proponents employ the rhetoric of science, the studies underlying the policy are often of low quality, and do not substantiate officials’ claims. The vaccine might be less beneficial and less safe than has been claimed, and the threat of influenza appears overstated.
An unmasking phenomenon in an observational post-licensure safety study of adolescent girls and young women.
Our recent experience in a post-licensure safety study of autoimmune conditions following the quadrivalent human papillomavirus vaccine in 189,629 girls and young women ages 9-26 years led us to question the adequacy of the exclusion of Day 0 events to prevent the erroneous association of prevalent conditions with vaccination. Of the 18 confirmed cases of Graves’ disease diagnosed in days 1-60 following vaccination, only 6 cases appeared to be truly new onset. Among the remaining 12 cases, 2 cases had abnormal thyroid stimulating hormone or thyroxine labs drawn prior to or on Day 0 but had no documented pre-existing symptoms. The other 10 cases had mention of symptoms of hyperthyroidism referencing a period prior to first HPV-4 dose. This ‘unmasking’ phenomenon, due to health care visits that include vaccination and new workups of preexisting symptoms, may not be adequately controlled through the exclusion of Day 0 events.
How aluminum, an intracellular ROS generator promotes hepatic and neurological diseases: the metabolic tale
Metal pollutants are a global health risk due to their ability to contribute to a variety of diseases. Aluminum (Al), a ubiquitous environmental contaminant is implicated in anemia, osteomalacia, hepatic disorder, and neurological disorder. In this review, we outline how this intracellular generator of reactive oxygen species (ROS) triggers a metabolic shift towards lipogenesis in astrocytes and hepatocytes. This Al-evoked phenomenon is coupled to diminished mitochondrial activity, anerobiosis, and the channeling of α-ketoacids towards anti-oxidant defense. The resulting metabolic reconfiguration leads to fat accumulation and a reduction in ATP synthesis, characteristics that are common to numerous medical disorders. Hence, the ability of Al toxicity to create an oxidative environment promotes dysfunctional metabolic processes in astrocytes and hepatocytes. These molecular events triggered by Al-induced ROS production are the potential mediators of brain and liver disorders.”
Waning of Maternal Antibodies Against Measles, Mumps, Rubella, and Varicella in Communities With Contrasting Vaccination Coverage
Conclusions: Children of mothers vaccinated against measles and, possibly, rubella have lower concentrations of maternal antibodies and lose protection by maternal antibodies at an earlier age than children of mothers in communities that oppose vaccination. This increases the risk of disease transmission in highly vaccinated populations.
On the other hand in a small minority of individuals vaccine can trigger the appearance of autoantibodies as documented by Vista et al.17 and Perdan-Pirkmajer et al.18 Moreover, a link between immunization and defined autoimmune diseases has been reported elsewhere and herein.
“In 1990, infants received a total of 15 vaccine doses prior to their first year of life: 3 DPT injections (9 vaccine doses), 3 polio, and 3 Hib vaccines—5 vaccine doses at 2, 4, and 6 months of age. By 2007, the CDC recommended 26 vaccine doses for infants: 3 DTaP, 3 polio, 3 Hib, 3 hepatitis B, 3 pneumococcal, 3 rotavirus, and 2 influenza vaccines. While each childhood vaccine has individually undergone clinical trials to assess safety, studies have not been conducted to determine the safety (or efficacy) of combining vaccines during a single physician visit as recommended by CDC guidelines. For example, 2-, 4-, and 6-month-old infants are expected to receive vaccines for polio, hepatitis B, diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, rotavirus, Haemophilus influenzae type B, and pneumococcal, all during a single well-baby visit—even though this combination of 8 vaccine doses was never tested in clinical trials.
An article written by Guess, representing a vaccine manufacturer, claimed that it is “impractical to conduct preapproval studies of all combinations [of vaccines] in clinical practice.”1 However, a recent study by Miller and Goldman found that among the developed nations, infant mortality increased with an increase in the number of vaccine doses.2 Similar associations have also been found with respect to other serious adverse outcomes. Delong reported that the higher the proportion of children receiving recommended vaccinations, the higher the prevalence of autism or speech and language impairment.3 A CDC report on mixed exposures to chemical substances and other stressors, including prescribed pharmaceuticals, found that they may produce “increased or unexpected deleterious health effects.” In addition, “exposures to mixed stressors can produce health consequences that are additive, synergistic, antagonistic, or can potentiate the response expected from individual component exposures.”4 Administering six, seven, or eight vaccine doses to an infant during a single physician visit may certainly be more convenient for parents—rather than making additional trips to the doctor’s office—but evidence of a positive association between infant adverse reactions and the number of vaccine doses administered confirms that vaccine safety must remain the highest priority”
“Maternal transfer of mercury to the developing embryo/fetus: is there a safe level?”
“This study focused on standardized embryonic and fetal Hg exposures via primary exposure to the pregnant mother of two common Hg sources (dietary fish and parenteral vaccines). Data demonstrated that Hg exposures, particularly during the first trimester of pregnancy, at well-established dose/weight ratios produced severe damage to humans including death. . In light of research suggestive of a mercuric risk factor for childhood conditions such as tic disorders, cerebral palsy, and autism, it is essential that Hg advisories account for secondary prenatal human exposures.”
Empirical Data Confirm Autism Symptoms Related to Aluminum and Acetaminophen Exposure
“Autism is a condition characterized by impaired cognitive and social skills, associated with compromised immune function. The incidence is alarmingly on the rise, and environmental factors are increasingly suspected to play a role. This paper investigates word frequency patterns in the U.S. CDC Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) database. Our results provide strong evidence supporting a link between autism and the aluminum in vaccines. A literature review showing toxicity of aluminum in human physiology offers further support. Mentions of autism in VAERS increased steadily at the end of the last century, during a period when mercury was being phased out, while aluminum adjuvant burden was being increased. Using standard log-likelihood ratio techniques, we identify several signs and symptoms that are significantly more prevalent in vaccine reports after 2000, including cellulitis, seizure, depression, fatigue, pain and death, which are also significantly associated with aluminum-containing vaccines. We propose that children with the autism diagnosis are especially vulnerable to toxic metals such as aluminum and mercury due to insufficient serum sulfate and glutathione. A strong correlation between autism and the MMR (Measles, Mumps, Rubella) vaccine is also observed, which may be partially explained via an increased sensitivity to acetaminophen administered to control fever.”
Acetaminophen use after measles-mumps-rubella vaccination was SIGNIFICANTLY associated with autistic disorder when considering children 5 years of age or less, after limiting cases to children with regression in development and when considering only children who had post-vaccination sequelae adjusting for age, gender, mother’s ethnicity, and the presence of illness concurrent with measles-mumps-rubella vaccination. Ibuprofen use after measles-mumps-rubella vaccination was not associated with autistic disorder. This preliminary study found that acetaminophen use after measles-mumps-rubella vaccination was associated with autistic disorder.
A 1% increase in vaccination was associated with an additional 680 children having AUT or SLI. Neither parental behavior nor access to care affected the results, since vaccination proportions were not significantly related (statistically) to any other disability or to the number of pediatricians in a U.S. state. The results suggest that although mercury has been removed from many vaccines, other culprits may link vaccines to autism. Further study into the relationship between vaccines and autism is warranted”
“Furthermore, while India has been polio-free for a year, there has been a huge increase in non-polio acute flaccid paralysis (NPAFP). In 2011, there were an extra 47,500 new cases of NPAFP. Clinically indistinguishable from polio paralysis but twice as deadly, the incidence of NPAFP was directly proportional to doses of oral polio received. Though this data was collected within the polio surveillance system, it was not investigated.”
Detection of fecal shedding of rotavirus vaccine in infants following their first dose of pentavalent rotavirus vaccine. (and how they blame everything on kids that are not vaccinated is beyond me! These vaccines are helping to keep diseases in circulation..)
Studies on rotavirus vaccine shedding and its potential transmission within households including immunocompromised individuals are needed to better define the potential risks and benefits of vaccination. We examined fecal shedding of pentavalent rotavirus vaccine (RV5) for 9 days following the first dose of vaccine in infants between 6 and 12 weeks of age. Rotavirus antigen was detected by enzyme immunoassay (EIA), and vaccine-type rotavirus was identified by nucleotide sequencing based on genetic relatedness to the RV5 VP6 gene. Stool from 22 (21.4%) of 103 children contained rotavirus antigen-positive specimens on ≥ 1 post-vaccination days. Rotavirus antigen was detected as early as post-vaccination day 3 and as late as day 9, with peak numbers of shedding on post-vaccination days 6 through 8. Vaccine-type rotavirus was detected in all 50 antigen-positive specimens and 8 of 8 antigen-negative specimens. Nine (75%) of 12 EIA-positive and 1 EIA-negative samples tested culture-positive for vaccine-type rotavirus. Fecal shedding of rotavirus vaccine virus after the first dose of RV5 occurred over a wide range of post-vaccination days not previously studied. These findings will help better define the potential for horizontal transmission of vaccine virus among immunocompromised household contacts of vaccinated infants for future studies
“Effectiveness of trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine in influenza-related hospitalization in children: a case-control study.”
“Using the Cochran-Mantel-Haenszel test for asthma status stratification, there was a significant association between hospitalization in asthmatic subjects and TIV (p = 0.001). TIV did not provide any protection against hospitalization in pediatric subjects, especially children with asthma. On the contrary, we found a threefold increased risk of hospitalization in subjects who did get the TIV vaccine. This may be a reflection not only of vaccine effectiveness but also the population of children who are more likely to get the vaccine.”
The odds of having a history of asthma was twice as great among vaccinated subjects than among unvaccinated subjects (adjusted odds ratio, 2.00; 95% confidence interval, 0.59 to 6.74). The odds of having had any allergy-related respiratory symptom in the past 12 months was 63% greater among vaccinated subjects than unvaccinated subjects (adjusted odds ratio, 1.63; 95% confidence interval, 1.05 to 2.54). The associations between vaccination and subsequent allergies and symptoms were greatest among children aged 5 through 10 years.
DTP or tetanus vaccination appears to increase the risk of allergies and related respiratory symptoms in children and adolescents. Although it is unlikely that these results are entirely because of any sources of bias, the small number of unvaccinated subjects and the study design limit our ability to make firm causal inferences about the true magnitude of effect.
Four to 12 days post 12 month vaccination, children had a 1.33 (1.29–1.38) increased relative incidence of the combined endpoint compared to the control period, or at least one event during the risk interval for every 168 children vaccinated. Ten to 12 days post 18 month vaccination, the relative incidence was 1.25 (95%, 1.17–1.33) which represented at least one excess event for every 730 children vaccinated. The primary reason for increased events was statistically significant elevations in emergency room visits following all vaccinations. There were non-significant increases in hospital admissions. There were an additional 20 febrile seizures for every 100,000 vaccinated at 12 months.
There are significantly elevated risks of primarily emergency room visits approximately one to two weeks following 12 and 18 month vaccination. Future studies should examine whether these events could be predicted or prevented
“Administration of thimerosal to infant rats increases overflow of glutamate and aspartate in the prefrontal cortex: protective role of dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate. “
In summary, the present study documents that exposure of infant rats to THIM perturbs the balance between excitatory and inhibitory amino acids in the brain, shifting it toward excessive neuroexcitation. Despite of intrinsic limitations, present findings have important clinical implications, as they provide a plausible mechanism, whereby THIM exerts neurotoxic effects in the brain. It is likely that this mercurial—still present in pediatric vaccines in many countries—causes a similar disturbance of excitatory and inhibitory neurotransmitters in the brains of human infants, leading to neurotoxicity, encephalopaties, and in consequence to neurodevelopmental disorders, including autism..*On the whole, the current study provides further empirical evidence that exposure to THIM leads to neurotoxic changes in the developing brain, arguing for urgent and permanent removal of this preservative from all vaccines for children (and adults) since effective, less toxic and less costly alternatives are available. The stubborn insistence of some vaccine manufacturers and health agencies on continuation of use of this proven neurotoxin in vaccines is testimony of their disregard for both the health of young generations and for the environment.*
“Thus vaccination DOES NOT account for the impressive declines in mortality seen in the first half of the century”
Thimerosal, an organomercurial added as a preservative to some vaccines, is a suspected iatrogenic factor, possibly contributing to paediatric neurodevelopmental disorders including autism. We examined the effects of early postnatal administration of thimerosal (four i.m. injections, 12 or 240 μg THIM-Hg/kg, on postnatal days 7, 9, 11 and 15) on brain pathology in Wistar rats. Numerous neuropathological changes were observed in young adult rats which were treated postnatally with thimerosal. They included: ischaemic degeneration of neurons and “dark” neurons in the prefrontal and temporal cortex, the hippocampus and the cerebellum, pathological changes of the blood vessels in the temporal cortex, diminished synaptophysin reaction in the hippocampus, atrophy of astroglia in the hippocampus and cerebellum, and positive caspase-3 reaction in Bergmann astroglia. These findings document neurotoxic effects of thimerosal, at doses equivalent to those used in infant vaccines or higher, in developing rat brain, suggesting likely involvement of this mercurial in neurodevelopmental disorders.
“Despite widespread vaccination, whooping cough incidence is on the rise worldwide, making it the only vaccine-preventable disease associated with increasing deaths in the United States. Although this disease is most often attributed to Bordetella pertussis infection, it is also caused by the closely related pathogen, B. parapertussis. However, B. pertussis has remained the center of attention, whereas B. parapertussis has been greatly overlooked in the development of whooping cough vaccines.
vaccination led to a 40-fold enhancement of B. parapertussis colonization in the lungs of mice.. these data suggest that the vaccine may be contributing to the observed rise in whooping cough incidence over the last decade by promoting B. parapertussis infection.”
Despite widespread childhood vaccination against Bordetella pertussis, disease remains prevalent. It has been suggested that acellular vaccine may be less effective than previously believed. During a large outbreak, we examined the incidence of pertussis and effectiveness of vaccination in a well-vaccinated, well-defined community.. Our data suggests that the current schedule of acellular pertussis vaccine doses is insufficient to prevent outbreaks of pertussis.
The data included 515 never vaccinated, 423 partially vaccinated, and 239 completely vaccinated children. In multiple regression analyses there were significant ( P < .0005) and dose-dependent negative relationships between vaccination refusal and self-reported asthma or hay fever only in children with no family history of the condition and, for asthma, in children with no exposure to antibiotics during infancy. Vaccination refusal was also significantly ( P < .005) and negatively associated with self-reported eczema and current wheeze. A sensitivity analysis indicated that substantial biases would be required to overturn the observed associations. CONCLUSION: Parents who refuse vaccinations reported less asthma and allergies in their unvaccinated children. Although this relationship was independent of measured confounders, it could be due to differences in other unmeasured lifestyle factors or systematic bias. Further research is needed to verify these results and investigate which exposures are driving the associations between vaccination refusal and allergic disease. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15805992
“Unvaccinated children tended to be white, to have a mother who was married and had a college degree, to live in a household with an annual income exceeding $75,000 dollars, and to have parents who expressed concerns regarding the safety of vaccines and indicated that medical doctors have little influence over vaccination decisions for their children.”
“Virus-induced autoimmunity may play a causal role in autism. To examine the etiologic link of viruses in this brain disorder, we conducted a serologic study of measles virus, mumps virus, and rubella virus. Viral antibodies were measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay in the serum of autistic children, normal children, and siblings of autistic children. The level of measles antibody, but not mumps or rubella antibodies, was significantly higher in autistic children as compared with normal children (P = 0.003) or siblings of autistic children (P http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12849883
We do not vaccinate against yellow fever in the US but this still is of importance because it shows that things like this can and HAVE happened.
“However, in 2001, the vaccine was found to cause a serious, frequently fatal, multisystemic illness, called yellow fever vaccine–associated viscerotropic disease (YEL-AVD), which resembles the illness it was designed to prevent (1–3). “
Effectiveness of Influenza Vaccine in the Community-Dwelling Elderly
“Most high-risk medical conditions that were measured were more prevalent among vaccinated than among unvaccinated persons.”
” The aim of this study was to compare the number of inactivated-influenza vaccine–related spontaneous abortion and stillbirth (SB) reports in the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) database during three consecutive flu seasons beginning 2008/2009 and assess the relative fetal death reports associated with the two-vaccine 2009/2010 season. The VAERS database was searched for reports of fetal demise following administration of the influenza vaccine/vaccines to pregnant women.. reporting bias was too low to explain the magnitude increase in fetal-demise reporting rates in the VAERS database relative to the reported annual trends. Thus, a synergistic fetal toxicity likely resulted from the administration of both the pandemic (A-H1N1) and seasonal influenza vaccines during the 2009/2010 season.”
Hepatitis B vaccine might be followed by various rheumatic conditions and might trigger the onset of underlying inflammatory or autoimmune rheumatic diseases.. Further epidemiological studies are needed to establish whether hepatitis B vaccination is associated or not with an incidence of rheumatic disorders higher than normal. A few cases of onset or reactivation of SLE after vaccination against hepatitis B have been described. The onset of symptoms occurred within 5 days–1 month after the immunization. Two patients had a lupus nephritis (associated in one with fever and arthralgia), one patient had pericarditis, one had thrombocytopenic purpura.. We observed four patients with myalgia and polyarthralgia, and, in three of them, fatigue following hepatitis B vaccination. These manifestations can be connected to the chronic fatigue syndrome. A few years ago, an independent working group agreed that there was no evidence of a cause–effect relationship between hepatitis B vaccine and chronic fatigue syndrome . However, the number of patients followed up may have been too small to detect a slight increase in the relative risk.
Various other conditions following hepatitis B vaccination have been described. They include erythema nodosum and polyarthritis , erythema nodosum with arthralgia and Takayasu’s arteritis , vasculitis [39–41], polyarthritis associated with hypercalcaemia and lytic bone lesions .
“Autoimmunity to the central nervous system (CNS), especially to myelin basic protein (MBP), may play a causal role in autism, a neurodevelopmental disorder. Because many autistic children harbor elevated levels of measles antibodies, we conducted a serological study of measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) and MBP autoantibodies. Using serum samples of 125 autistic children and 92 control children, antibodies were assayed by ELISA or immunoblotting methods. ELISA analysis showed a significant increase in the level of MMR antibodies in autistic children. Immunoblotting analysis revealed the presence of an unusual MMR antibody in 75 of 125 (60%) autistic sera but not in control sera. This antibody specifically detected a protein of 73-75 kD of MMR. This protein band, as analyzed with monoclonal anti bodies, was immunopositive for measles hemagglutinin (HA) protein but not for measles nucleoprotein and rubella or mumps viral proteins. Thus the MMR antibody in autistic sera detected measles HA protein, which is unique to the measles subunit of the vaccine. Furthermore, over 90% of MMR antibody-positive autistic sera were also positive for MBP autoantibodies, suggesting a strong association between MMR and CNS autoimmunity in autism. Stemming from this evidence, we suggest that an inappropriate antibody response to MMR, specifically the measles component thereof, might be related to pathogenesis of autism.”
“Autoimmune hazards of hepatitis B vaccine”
“According to Hippocratic tradition, the safety level of a preventive medicine must be very high, as it is aimed at protecting people against diseases that they may not contract. This paper points out that information on the safety of hepatitis B vaccine (HBV) is biased as compared to classical requirements of evidence-based medicine (EBM), as exemplified by a documented selectivity in the presentation or even publication of available clinical or epidemiological data. Then, a review is made of data suggesting that HBV is remarkable by the frequency, the severity and the variety of its complications, some of them probably related to a mechanism of molecular mimicry leading to demyelinating diseases, and the others reproducing the spectrum of non-hepatic manifestations of natural hepatitis B. To be explained, this unusual spectrum of toxicity requires additional investigations based upon complete release of available data.
-More research is necessary and there is a need that the scientific community exerts pressure on health authorities to obtain that all existing data become available for peer-reviewed debate.
-There is an impressive convergence of data given credibility to a potential of this vaccine to induce severe and irreversible central demyelinating disorders.
-A number of clinical or epidemiological data on the safety hepatitis B vaccine (HBV) have not been published and do not seem to be.
-Modern vaccine research and development does not comply with basic requirements of evidence based medicine (EBM).”
“We find that ethylmercury not only inhibits mitochondrial respiration leading to a drop in the steady state membrane potential, but also concurrent with these phenomena increases the formation of superoxide, hydrogen peroxide, and Fenton/Haber-Weiss generated hydroxyl radical. These oxidants increase the levels of cellular aldehyde/ketones. Additionally, we find a five-fold increase in the levels of oxidant damaged mitochondrial DNA bases and increases in the levels of mtDNA nicks and blunt-ended breaks.. These mitochondria appear to have undergone a permeability transition, an observation supported by the five-fold increase in Caspase-3 activity observed after Thimerosal treatment.”
The future of measles in highly immunized population. A modeling approach
However, despite short-term success in eliminating the disease, long-range projections demonstrate that the proportion of susceptibles in the year 2050 may be greater than in the prevaccine era. Present vaccine technology and public health policy must be altered to deal with this eventuality.
Prior to the introduction of vaccines, children who were absent at a village examination had the same mortality as children who were present. During 1984-1987, children receiving DTP at 2-8 months of age had higher mortality over the next 6 months, the mortality rate ratio (MR) being 1.92 (95% CI: 1.04, 3.52) compared with DTP-unvaccinated children, adjusting for age, sex, season, period, BCG, and region. The MR was 1.81 (95% CI: 0.95, 3.45) for the first dose of DTP and 4.36 (95% CI: 1.28, 14.9) for the second and third dose. BCG was associated with slightly lower mortality (MR = 0.63, 95% CI: 0.30, 1.33), the MR for DTP and BCG being significantly inversed. Following subsequent visits and further vaccinations with DTP and measles vaccine, there was no difference in vaccination coverage and subsequent mortality between the DTP-vaccinated group and the initially DTP-unvaccinated group (MR = 1.06, 95% CI: 0.78, 1.44).
In low-income countries with high mortality, DTP as the last vaccine received may be associated with slightly increased mortality. Since the pattern was inversed for BCG, the effect is unlikely to be due to higher-risk children having received vaccination. The role of DTP in high mortality areas needs to be clarified.
Aluminium is the most widely distributed metal in the environment and is extensively used in daily life that provides easy exposure to human beings. The exposure to this toxic metal occurs through air, food and water. However, there is no known physiological role for aluminium within the body and hence this metal may produce adverse physiological effects. Chronic exposure of animals to aluminium is associated with behavioural, neuropathological and neurochemical changes. Among them, deficits of learning and behavioural functions are most evident. Some epidemiological studies have shown poor performance in cognitive tests and a higher abundance of neurological symptoms for workers occupationally exposed to aluminium.
High blood mercury level was associated with ADHD. Whether the relationship is causal requires further studies.
Abstract: Aluminum is an experimentally demonstrated neurotoxin and the most commonly used vaccine adjuvant. Despite almost 90 years of widespread use of aluminum adjuvants, medical science’s understanding about their mechanisms of action is still remarkably poor. There is also a concerning scarcity of data on toxicology and pharmacokinetics of these compounds. In spite of this, the notion that aluminum in vaccines is safe appears to be widely accepted. Experimental research, however, clearly shows that aluminum adjuvants have a potential to induce serious immunological disorders in humans. In particular, aluminum in adjuvant form carries a risk for autoimmunity, long-term brain inflammation and associated neurological complications and may thus have profound and widespread adverse health consequences. In our opinion, the possibility that vaccine benefits may have been overrated and the risk of potential adverse effects underestimated, has not been rigorously evaluated in the medical and scientific community. We hope that the present paper will provide a framework for a much needed and long overdue assessment of this highly contentious medical issue.
Failure of the excretory system influences elimination of heavy metals and facilitates their accumulation and subsequent manifestation as neurotoxins: the long-term consequences of which would lead to neurodegeneration, cognitive and developmental problems. It may also influence regulation of neural hyperthermia. This article explores the issues and concludes that sensory dysfunction and systemic failure, manifested as autism, is the inevitable consequence arising from subtle DNA alteration and consequently from the overuse of vaccines.
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Lasting neuropathological changes in rat brain after intermittent neonatal administration of thimerosal. “These findings document neurotoxic effects of thimerosal, at doses equivalent to those used in infant vaccines or higher, in developing rat brain, suggesting likely involvement of this mercurial in neurodevelopmental disorders”
The ACIP policy recommendation of routinely administering influenza vaccine during pregnancy is ill-advised and unsupported by current scientific literature, and it should be withdrawn. Use of thimerosal during pregnancy should be contraindicated.
adult influenza vaccines contain an equivalent of 25 µg of mercury per dose (Table 1). An average-sized pregnant woman receiving an influenza vaccine will be exposed to organic mercury that exceeds the EPA limit by a factor of 3.5 (Table 4). The fetus could potentially receive a dose of mercury that exceeds EPAlimits by a much larger factor. Furthermore, fetal blood mercury concentrations have been shown to be as much as 4.3 times the maternal level. Alarger proportion of ethyl mercury accumulates in fetal tissues relative to maternal tissues, especially in the central nervous system. The observation of a 7.8-15.7% prevalence of elevated umbilical cord mercury in the United States, at levels associated with loss of IQ, adds to the significance of additional mercury exposure from prenatal vaccination.
“Prior to contemporary vaccination programs, ‘Crib death’ was so infrequent that it was not mentioned in infant mortality statistics. In the United States, national immunization campaigns were initiated in the 1960s when several new vaccines were introduced and actively recommended. For the first time in history, most US infants were required to receive several doses of DPT, polio, measles, mumps, and rubella vaccines.14 Shortly thereafter, in 1969, medical certifiers presented a new medical term—sudden infant death syndrome.”
“One of the challenges of evidence-based evaluation of vaccines is that some effects, e.g. rare adverse effects following immunization (AEFI) or population effects, are usually difficult or impossible to assess in pre-marketing clinical trials due to their limited size and are unknown at the time of recommendation  and . The respective evidence arises usually through post-marketing surveillance. Another challenge is the use of immunogenicity markers in vaccine studies. While these accepted correlates of protection are adequate for regulatory purposes, they are considered indirect evidence and are therefore of lesser quality with regard to the primary question of how effectively a vaccine can prevent the disease. Generating the evidence through randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in the post-marketing phase might be difficult for ethical reasons or logistically challenging and very expensive. Therefore, one often has to rely on epidemiological observational studies to adjust programs. According to the principles of epidemiology and the criteria of evidence-based medicine (EBM), however, observational studies have greater potential for bias and confounding compared to RCTs, and may be attributed a lower score of quality of evidence even though they could have been designed and implemented very well and lead to results that are relevant and more valid (e.g. post-licensure studies on measles vaccine safety ). Lower grading from observational studies could potentially lead to a lower public confidence in recommendations and immunization programs “
“Formaldehyde has been classified as a known human carcinogen (cancer-causing substance) by the International Agency for Research on Cancer and as a probable human carcinogen by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Research studies of workers exposed to formaldehyde have suggested an association between formaldehyde exposure and several cancers, including nasopharyngeal cancer and leukemia.”
“ However, since vaccine preparation involves the use of materials of biological origin, vaccines are subject to contamination by micro-organisms. In fact, vaccine contamination has occurred; a historical example of vaccine contamination, for example, can be found in the early days of development of the smallpox vaccine. The introduction of new techniques of vaccine virus production on cell cultures has lead to safer vaccines, but has not completely removed the risk of virus contamination. There are several examples of vaccine contamination, for example, contamination of human vaccines against poliomyelitis by SV40 virus from the use of monkey primary renal cells. Several veterinary vaccines have been contaminated by pestiviruses from foetal calf serum.
These incidents have lead industry to change certain practices and regulatory authorities to develop more stringent and detailed requirements. But the increasing number of target species for vaccines, the diversity of the origin of biological materials and the extremely high number of known and unknown viruses and their constant evolution represent a challenge to vaccine producers and regulatory authorities.”
Porcine circovirus type 1 (PCV1) is highly prevalent in swine and was recently reported in some rotavirus vaccines. Since animal-derived raw materials, such as cells, trypsin, and serum, can be a major source of introducing virus contamination in biological products, we have investigated PCV1 in several cell lines obtained from ATCC that have broad use in research, diagnostics, or vaccine development. It is expected that these cell lines have been exposed to bovine and porcine viruses during their establishment and passage history due to the use of serum and trypsin that was not qualified according to current testing guidances or processed using new virus-inactivation methods. This study showed that Vero, MRC-5, and CEFs, which represent cell substrates used in some U.S. licensed vaccines, and other cell lines used in investigational vaccines, such as MDCK, HEK-293, HeLa, and A549, were negative for PCV1 using a nested PCR assay; some were also confirmed negative by infectivity analysis. However, MDBK cells, which are used for some animal vaccines, contained PCV1 sequences, although no virus was isolated. Although the results showed that PCV infection may not have occurred under previous culture conditions, the recent cases of vaccine contamination emphasizes the need for continued efforts to reduce the likelihood of introducing viruses from animal-derived materials used in product manufacture.
Autism: a novel form of mercury poisoning
“Thimerosal, a preservative added to many vaccines, has become a major source of mercury in children who, within their first two years, may have received a quantity of mercury that exceeds safety guidelines. A review of medical literature and US government data suggests that: (i) many cases of idiopathic autism are induced by early mercury exposure from thimerosal; (ii) this type of autism represents an unrecognized mercurial syndrome; and (iii) genetic and non-genetic factors establish a predisposition whereby thimerosal’s adverse effects occur only in some children.”
“These findings are consistent with the hypothesis that immunization with the recombinant hepatitis B vaccine is associated with an increased risk of MS, and challenge the idea that the relation between hepatitis B vaccination and risk of MS is well understood. “
“Hepatitis B vaccination does not generally increase the risk of CNS inflammatory demyelination in childhood. However, the Engerix B vaccine appears to increase this risk, particularly for confirmed multiple sclerosis, in the longer term.”
“A majority of the ophthalmological complications seen following hepatitis B vaccination consist of vision loss, optic neuritis, papillary edema, uveitis, acute placoid pigment epitheliopathy and central vein occlusion. We present a 9-year-old girl who was referred to our hospital with decrease in vision and pain in the left eye a week after hepatitis B vaccination. A diagnosis of vaccine induced optic neuritis was made.”
Acute Fulminant Myocarditis after Diphtheria, Polio, and Tetanus Vaccination
A previously healthy 8-month-old female baby, body height 67cm and body weight 8.0kg, suffered from fever (38.3°C) 12 hours after she received triple vaccination against diphtheria, polio, and tetanus. Dyspnea occurred 3 days later. She presented with poor activity, persistent dyspnea with subcostal retraction and skin mottling 5 days later. There was no prior history of adverse reactions to previous diphtheria, polio, and tetanus vaccinations, or other vaccinations.
poor ventricular contractility recurred 2 months Cardiac catheterization showed patent coronary arteries and a left ventricular ejection fraction of 14%. Endomyocardial biopsy was still not attempted due to poor general condition. The patient died while waiting for heart transplantation.
Myocarditis after triple immunisation.
“We describe a 3 month old infant who developed myocarditis several hours after diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis vaccination. The time of occurrence of symptoms, the clinical course, and the negative virological studies suggest a possible cardiogenic adverse reaction to the vaccine.
” Inflammation, platelet reactivity and cardiac autonomic dysfunction increase the risk of cardiovascular events, but the relationships between these prognostic markers are poorly defined. In this study, we investigated the effect of an inflammatory stimulus (influenza A vaccine) on platelet activation and cardiac autonomic function.. Together with an inflammatory reaction, influenza A vaccine induced platelet activation and sympathovagal imbalance towards adrenergic predominance. Significant correlations were found between CRP levels and HRV parameters, suggesting a pathophysiological link between inflammation and cardiac autonomic regulation. The vaccine-related platelet activation and cardiac autonomic dysfunction may transiently increase the risk of cardiovascular events.”
Impairments in social relatedness and communication, repetitive behaviors, and stereotypic abnormal movement patterns characterize autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). It is clear that while genetic factors are important to the pathogenesis of ASDs, mercury exposure can induce immune, sensory, neurological, motor, and behavioral dysfunctions similar to traits defining or associated with ASDs. The Institutional Review Board of the Institute for Chronic Illnesses (Office for Human Research Protections, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, IRB number IRB00005375) approved the present study. A case series of nine patients who presented to the Genetic Centers of America for a genetic/developmental evaluation are discussed. Eight of nine patients (one patient was found to have an ASD due to Rett’s syndrome) (a) had regressive ASDs; (b) had elevated levels of androgens; (c) excreted significant amounts of mercury post chelation challenge; (d) had biochemical evidence of decreased function in their glutathione pathways; (e) had no known significant mercury exposure except from Thimerosal-containing vaccines/Rho(D)-immune globulin preparations; and (f) had alternate causes for their regressive ASDs ruled out. There was a significant dose-response relationship between the severity of the regressive ASDs observed and the total mercury dose children received from Thimerosal-containing vaccines/Rho (D)-immune globulin preparations. Based upon differential diagnoses, 8 of 9 patients examined were exposed to significant mercury from Thimerosal-containing biologic/vaccine preparations during their fetal/infant developmental periods, and subsequently, between 12 and 24 mo of age, these previously normally developing children suffered mercury toxic encephalopathies that manifested with clinical symptoms consistent with regressive ASDs. Evidence for mercury intoxication should be considered in the differential diagnosis as contributing to some regressive ASDs.
“Vaccine-type rotavirus was detected in all 50 antigen-positive specimens and 8 of 8 antigen-negative specimens. Nine (75%) of 12 EIA-positive and 1 EIA-negative samples tested culture-positive for vaccine-type rotavirus. Fecal shedding of rotavirus vaccine virus after the first dose of RV5 occurred over a wide range of post-vaccination days not previously studied.”
“ Effectiveness of trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine in influenza-related hospitalization in children: a case-control study.”
“Using the Cochran-Mantel-Haenszel test for asthma status stratification, there was a significant association between hospitalization in asthmatic subjects and TIV (p = 0.001). TIV did not provide any protection against hospitalization in pediatric subjects, especially children with asthma. On the contrary, we found a threefold increased risk of hospitalization in subjects who did get the TIV vaccine. This may be a reflection not only of vaccine effectiveness but also the population of children who are more likely to get the vaccine.” Allergy Asthma Proc. 2 ”
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Rexxie Features Bella Shmurda In BACK TO BACK.
Trending music producer Rexxie has employed the services of hot Naija music sensation, Bella Shmurda in a new track Back 2 Back.
The Grammy Award winner, Rexxie serves Back 2 Back as a follow up to his 2020 mega-hit single, KPK.
“KPK,” which stands for Ko Por Ke and means “It’s Not Enough?”. Mohbad Imole, Naira Marley’s protege, wrote and voiced the song.
The first single from Rexxie’s upcoming ‘A True Champion’ #ATC project, ‘KPK,’ features an all-star lineup from Africa and beyond.
This is a fast-tempo song as usual, from Rexxie. Bella surely did his thing on this track.
Listen and download below.


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They are all basically the same except for the potency or flash. Your shotgun primers will work fine, for now but you might want to experiment with different brands, later. ..
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The lodge was brand new , perfect for us .
The place was very quiet ,what we had wanted.Immaculately clean and tidy.
Female staff pleasant and helpful at Heritage office .
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*Checking in ,called to reception on arrival to collect keys as no keys at lodge .
As we had done that on arrival we did the same on departure, dropped keys to reception Saturday at 9.30 am.
However you are to leave keys in security box at lodge.*
We had a great week. Did not want too leave.
We did have amazing weather though
Tenby very busy , find very hard too park as parking limited , left every time.
Saundesfort only really busy at weekends .
Amroth is lovely , peaceful ; few miles away .Pirates cafe ; great food, service.
Blue lagoon really good fun for a few hours at Narbreth .
Wisemans bridge really nice , you can walk it from lodges or drive and park.
Popular pub, busy,Classic basic pub food.
Good British holiday .Would definetly return and recommend.

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Governor Bello Matawalle of Zamfara State has said his government plans to introduce a law that recommends death sentence for reckless drivers responsible for the death of their passengers.
He added that such drivers will pay compensation for every life lost.
Matawalle said this while paying a condolence visit to Ibrahim Bello, Emir of Gusau, over the death of 15 persons from the Emirate.
He was accompanied by members of his Executive Council and the management of BUA Group.
Matawalle expressed sadness over the loss of lives which has been blamed on reckless driving by a truck driver who ran into their vehicles last Wednesday along Gusau/Funtua road.
He said his administration would introduce speed limit gauge on highways as well as weight measurement on trucks. He added that drug tests would also be enforced to curb reckless driving on major roads in the state.
He announced a donation of N2 million to families of each of the deceased who were married and N1.5 million to families of those unmarried among them.
The governor also declared that each of the families of the victims would be receiving monthly allowance of N50,000 each up to the end of his tenure.


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Black Cherry Wine: The Best Summer Drink
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