"The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years."
-Audrey Hepburn
Sunday, June 16, 2013
Quote of the Week :)
"The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years."
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
Sunday, June 2, 2013
Comic Art, DIFFA fundraiser at Cirque in Dallas
Here are two pictures of me at a small art fundraiser benefiting DIFFA (Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS)
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Princess Time
Had a fun Saturday decorating T-Shirts for Miss Texas with my Princess Ja'la and her sweet little sister Lelia!
A princess always needs some sparkle !
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We even found some decorations for the 4th of July!
Thursday, May 9, 2013
Friday, May 3, 2013
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Monday, April 29, 2013
Flight Museum at Love Field Air Port in Dallas
So This was not an official pageant appearance where I usually would wear my crown instead I was asked to be a Pan Am Girl and got to wear an official Pam American Airway uniform for the Levine Academy Fundraiser Gala!
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I hope you all enjoyed the pictures as much as I enjoyed putting a smile on peoples faces in this uniform!
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Monday, April 22, 2013
Special Olympics opening ceremony!
Doing the Chicken dance!
Walking with the teams!
Signing some pictures although I was freezing! ;)
So honored to have a picture with these brave gentlemen!
Being silly when dancing in a circle doing the chicken dance!
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Monday, April 8, 2013
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
DIFFA
*HOUSE OF DIFFA *
A good friend of mine Mrs. Jo-Anne Perkins made all of the yummy desserts for the evening!
DIFFA (Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS) is an organization that is very near and dear to my heart. These are pictures from one of the biggest and most fashionable charity event of the year in Dallas in which money was raised to benefit various local HIV/AIDS resource centers, free HIV/AIDS testing and support groups. This is an organization that I volunteer for in my spear time and will continue to work with my year as Miss Texas/Miss America to get the word out so that more donations can be made.
Monday, March 18, 2013
More Hopeful news in HIV/AIDS battle!
I read this amazing story on abcnews.com about 14 people being functionally cured of HIV! This makes me so hopeful for the future of those living with this virus.
Adult HIV Patients 'Functionally Cured' Before Mississippi Baby -- What These 'Cures' Mean
By SYDNEY LUPKIN (@slupkin)
March 16, 2013
On the heels of the supposed first "functional cure" for HIV in a baby born in Mississippi, French researchers reported Friday that they'd studied 14 adult patients who'd experienced a similar remission from the virus. The patients in the French study had been off HIV medications for up to 10 years.
The French researchers followed patients who'd undergone treatment with antiretroviral drugs soon after they'd become infected with HIV. They'd stayed on the medications for several years but then stopped taking the antiretrovirals. That was "fashionable at the time," said Christine Rouzioux, a professor at Necker Hospital and University of Paris Descartes. They are all now in what Rouzioux calls "HIV remission," because the virus has not worsened and they have not shown symptoms for years. "I know that the U.S. term is 'functional cure,'" Rouzioux told ABCNews.com. "In France, we speak about 'remission.' … The patient controls the virus, but they still have the virus."
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The study, which was published Friday in the journal PLOS Pathogens, may show that the baby was not the first documented case of someone "functionally cured" of HIV as researchers announced earlier this month.
Rouzioux and PLOS representatives told ABCNews.com that they did not rush their study into publication when the case of the Mississippi baby was announced.
While Rouzioux and Asier Sáez-Cirión, a senior HIV researcher at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, reported about 100 copies of HIV DNA or RNA per 1 million cells in their patients, Persaud said she found less than five copies of HIV DNA or RNA per 1 million cells in the Mississippi baby.
"I'm not sure anybody knows what that means," said Dr. Mark Kline, a pediatric HIV and AIDS specialist at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. "I don't know that someone with five is necessarily going to be better off in the long term than someone with 100."
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Kline said he, too, has had patients who were technically HIV-positive but have had no need for antiretroviral medication. He has also heard of patients who started antiretroviral therapy and could stop without experiencing worsening symptoms.
"This phenomenon that they're describing has been appreciated and known," Kline said. "I think there's a good rational for saying if you can identify these people and do treatment earlier, you can decrease the viral burden and decrease the reservoirs of infected cells in the body and probably alter the long-term course."
But it can take anywhere from a few weeks to a few years for a person to show HIV symptoms from the time that person was infected. As such, early treatment isn't always an option, Kline said.
Rouzioux's patients all experienced symptoms very early, which is why they were able to get swift antiretroviral treatment, she said. Rouzioux and her colleagues followed their patients for about 11 years, she said.
Although these types of patients have been written about before, Kline said this particular study was important because it identified which patients had a genetic predisposition that allowed them to naturally keep HIV at bay and which did not, and therefore went into remission because of treatment.
Monday, March 11, 2013
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
What an amazing story in the Fight to combat HIV/AIDS globally!
(CNN) -- The case of the first toddler ever to be "functionally cured" of HIV could have wide-ranging effects on the global fight to end the AIDS epidemic.
"If we can replicate this in other infants ... this has huge implications for the burden of infection that's occurring globally," said Dr. Deborah Persaud, a pediatrician at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center. Persaud is the lead author of a report on the toddler's case that was presented at the 2013 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Atlanta on Monday.
"For the unfortunate ones who do get infected, if this can be replicated, this would offer real hope of clearing the virus."
Some 1,000 infants are born with HIV every day, according to the latest estimates from the UNAIDS Global Report. That means some 330,000 children are living with the deadly virus. The majority of these infections are in the developing world.
The most common way children get HIV is through perinatal transmission -- HIV transmission from an infected mother to a child while she is pregnant, giving birth or when she breast-feeds the child.
The number of infant infections in the United States has gone down some 90% since the mid-'90s, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; that's in large part because pregnant women are routinely tested. When a mother is identified as being HIV positive, her doctor is then able to administer preventive interventions that will, in most cases, keep the virus in check.
To Read More Go To: http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/05/health/hiv-cure-global-hope/index.html?sr=fbmain
Sunday, February 24, 2013
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