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[Peckers_Pics] Model Wars, PICS; Mar 14, 2011-Safe PICS For All Ages



Model Wars, PICS; Mar 14, 2011
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Moderator Note: I am in the middle of moving - out of state.  From now through the next 10 days, I may not be posting as much.  During a period following this post from Sunday, Mar 13 through Thurday, Mar 17, 2011, or Friday Mar 18, 2011, I will not be posting at all.  Posting may be slow after those dates as I shall be travelling, busy, unpacking, etc.  Please keep posts down to a minimum.  Thank you ....Jake

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Does Iodine Really Protect Against Radiation?

by Michael Santo on 03/12/2011; HULIQ

In the wake of the reactor explosion at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, Japanese officials are planning to give citizens iodine to "protect" against radiation, but the question then arises: does iodine really protect against radiation?

The answer is both yes and no. Unfortunately, the answer would really be, in most cases, no. According to the CDC, potassium iodine is great for protecting people against radioactive iodine, which is one of the things released in the Japan nuclear reactor explosion. However, it only protects the thyroid gland. It does not protect the rest of the body.

Here's how it works: after a radiological event, radioactive iodine may be released into the atmosphere. It can then enter a human body by being breathed into the lungs, or being ingested through contaminated food or water. The CDC calls that "internal contamination." The thyroid gland could be easily damaged by the chemical, as it readily absorbed iodine, but the potassium iodine blocks the radioactive iodine from being taken into the gland.

It should be noted that if a person has hyperthyroid (overactive), frequently they simply give him radioactive iodine to take to "kill" the gland. Thereafter, the patient takes a thyroid supplement for the rest of his or her life.

Howver, potassium iodine cannot protect against radioactive agents, such as cesium, which was also released in the Japanese reactor explosion. It cannot prevent an agent from entering the body and damaging other portions, such as the lungs if ingested via breathing. It cannot reverse the damage caused by radioactive iodine once it has been done to the thyroid.

In effect, what Japan is doing with their implmentation of a distribution of potassium iodine is protection against radioactive iodine, but that is it. It will be good against thyroid damage, but as an extreme example, you couldn't have save someone from the effects of the radiation from fallout from the Nagasaki or Hiroshima atomic bombs through the use of iodine.

That said, the CDC still has a series of recommendations about the use of potassium iodine (KI):

After a radiologic or nuclear event, local public health or emergency management officials will tell the public if KI or other protective actions are needed. For example, public health officials may advise you to remain in your home, school, or place of work (this is known as "shelter-in-place") or to evacuate. You may also be told not to eat some foods and not to drink some beverages until a safe supply can be brought in from outside the affected area. Following the instructions given to you by these authorities can lower the amount of radioactive iodine that enters your body and lower the risk of serious injury to your thyroid gland.

The FDA has approved two different forms of KI—tablets and liquid—that people can take by mouth after a nuclear radiation emergency. Tablets come in two strengths, 130 milligram (mg) and 65 mg. The tablets are scored so they may be cut into smaller pieces for lower doses. Each milliliter (mL) of the oral liquid solution contains 65 mg of KI.

According to the FDA, the following doses are appropriate to take after internal contamination with (or likely internal contamination with) radioactive iodine:

•Adults should take 130 mg (one 130 mg tablet OR two 65 mg tablets OR two mL of solution).

•Women who are breastfeeding should take the adult dose of 130 mg.

•Children between 3 and 18 years of age should take 65 mg (one 65 mg tablet OR 1 mL of solution). Children who are adult size (greater than or equal to 150 pounds) should take the full adult dose, regardless of their age.

•Infants and children between 1 month and 3 years of age should take 32 mg (½ of a 65 mg tablet OR ½ mL of solution). This dose is for both nursing and non-nursing infants and children.

•Newborns from birth to 1 month of age should be given 16 mg (¼ of a 65 mg tablet or ¼ mL of solution). This dose is for both nursing and non-nursing newborn infants.

The protective effects of a dose of KI is about 24 hours. KI is available without a prescription, and a pharmacist can sell you KI brands that have been approved by the FDA.
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Toronto's mayor slams gay Israel-bashers 
By BENJAMIN WEINTHAL / March 13, 2011 / The Jereselum Post 
 
Apartheid comparison row continues as municipality pulls over $100,000 in funds for Gay Pride Week due to anti-Israel group's participation. 
The mayor of Toronto, Rob Ford – and leading gay leaders and activists in North America and Europe – have slammed the anti-Israel focus among groups within the Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) communities in New York and Toronto.

According to a report in Thursday's Canadian Jewish News, Ford announced that his administration plans to pull the plug on more than $100,000 in city funds for the Toronto Gay Pride week events slated for late June, because of the participation of Queers Against Israeli Apartheid.

"Taxpayers dollars should not go toward funding hate speech," said Ford.

After New York's LGBT center in Manhattan's West Village denied space to Siege Busters – a group that compares Israel to the former racist South African regime and sought to hold a "Party to End Apartheid" at the center early this month – LGBT activists staged a demonstration and initiated a petition campaign against the center's decision.

On Sunday, the center's management will host a community forum to discuss its decision to ban the anti-Israel group from its premises.

Siege Busters is currently raising funds to send a new flotilla to break Israel's blockade of Hamas.

In an interview on Saturday with The Jerusalem Post, Frank van Dalen, former head of the Netherlands' LGBT federation (and currently an Amsterdam city council member for the Liberal Party), said people "can disagree with Israel's policies, but it is wrong to say it is apartheid."

Groups invoking LGBT labels to equate Israel with apartheid have "nothing to do with the LGBT cause," van Dalen said. The LGBT community "should be careful about entering global themes of politics."

According to van Dalen, LGBT groups should direct their energies to fighting to end homophobia, and secure same-sex marriage rights.

Van Dalen, a former chairman of the Amsterdam Gay Pride, expressed disbelief about the presence of the anti-Israel queer group at Toronto's parade. While stressing what he said were the mixed up priorities of the anti-Israel LGBT groups, he said fighting for same-sex marriage in Israel as well as in the Arab world is important.

Stuart Appelbaum, president of the New York City-based Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union and Jewish Labor Committee, said, "We would not have tolerated a synagogue allowing its facilities to be used for homophobic events. So why should we tolerate the center being used for what is really an anti-Semitic event?" Appelbaum was the first international trade union leader to acknowledge that he is gay. He is also a co-founder of Trade Unions Linking Israel and Palestine, which seeks to promote cooperation between Israeli and Palestinian labor unions and rejects boycotts, divestment and sanctions aimed at Israel.

Gay critics say that a fringe segment of the LGBT community is disguising their anti-Semitism through the cottage industry of boycotts, divestment and sanctions targeting Israel – and the comparison with the former regime in South Africa.

In late February, Michael Lucas, a prominent columnist for the US gay magazine The Advocate (and adult entertainment movie producer), triggered the successful protest against the slated anti-Israel event at New York's LGBT center.

Writing in his Advocate column earlier this month, Lucas, who is Jewish, said the anti- Semitism of Siege Busters "is of a more subtle variety.

"The group's goal is that all of Palestine should become a multi-racial secular state," he wrote. "The inevitable consequence of that is that demographics would turn this `Palestine' into an Arab-dominated state, and Jews would lose their homeland... That, in my mind, is anti-Semitic."

Lucas said the rhetoric of Siege Busters, and of Sherry Wolf, a lesbian anti-Israel activist and member of Siege Busters, "is hateful, runs counter to the cause of LGBT rights, and has no place at an organization established as a safe space for all members of the LGBT community."

Wolf, a self-described "Jewish anti-Zionist," sharply disagreed in an Advocate guest commentary – terming Lucas's criticism an "odious charge that people who argue that Israel is an apartheid state are `anti-Semitic.'" She cited Judith Butler, a University of California at Berkeley gender studies professor and BDS advocate, as a supporter.

Yet Butler, a Jewish lesbian academic, has been under pressure because she waxed lyrical about Hamas and Hezbollah as "progressive" and "leftist" forces.
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