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10 Must-Do Hikes in the Mountain West
From Montana's Livingston Range to the Lechuguilla Desert of southern Arizona, the U.S. region known as the Mountain West is brimming with top-caliber hiking destinations. Narrowing down a list of 10 standouts is no small feat, but we took a stab at it anyway, choosing from the eight states that make up the U.S. Census Bureau's Mountain West zone.
Take note: These aren't the 10 best hidden hikes in the Mountain West; none of these routes are particularly obscure. In fact, several rank among the most celebrated trails in the country—and for good reason. A journey into the maw of one of the world's most sublime canyons, backcountry skylines gloriously rock-torn, adventures in wide-open heights and close-hemmed halls of stone: These destinations highlight the scenic punch and variety characteristic of this outdoor playground and its seemingly infinite opportunities for adventure.
1. The Chinese Wall, Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex, Montana
As you might expect from a mighty watershed frontier, the Continental Divide in North America comes mantled in some pretty heady scenery along most of its length. And one of its most dramatic expressions comes in the heart of one of the largest roadless areas in the Lower 48, the Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex of northwestern Montana. Deep within the "Bob"—named for an early champion of the federal wilderness area and a hardcore long-distance hiker—about a dozen miles of the Divide between Larch Hill Pass and Haystack Mountain separates the Flathead and Sun basins in the guise of a slanted, east-facing limestone ledge 1,000 feet high: the famous Chinese Wall.
Hike in the lee of this great pale escarpment via the Continental Divide National Scenic Trail from the Benchmark Trailhead, or climb to its spine at Haystack Mountain. Whichever way you go, be sure to keep an eye out for grizzly bears, a suitably majestic beast to go along with the big terrain.
2. The Thorofare, Greater Yellowstone, Wyoming
You'll also be walking in the shadow of the grizzly on this legendary backpacking route into the roadless wilds of far southeastern Yellowstone National Park and the adjoining Teton Wilderness. You'll tramp down the eastern shores of Yellowstone Lake—the largest above 7,000 feet in the U.S.—to its southeast arm and the willow-clad delta of the Yellowstone River, then upstream along the meandering channel between the Two Ocean Plateau and the Absaroka Range. Somewhere on the National Forest land beyond the park's southeastern boundary is the anonymous chunk of turf farthest from a road in the Lower 48 states. But the entire high-elevation valley is deliciously remote and charged with the presence of the silvertip bear, equally cantankerous moose, and those aforementioned grizzlies.
3. Big Sandy Trail, Wind River Range, Wyoming
This heavily used trail to the iconic Cirque of the Towers in the southern Wind Rivers serves as a classic gateway to Wyoming's vast uncrowded high-country wilderness. Like the similarly breathtaking Titcomb Basin to the north, the gray battlements of the Cirque—one of the emblematic mountain vistas in the West—are worth seeing even if you'll likely have company.
Reached by a long-slog blacktop-to-dirt drive from U.S. 191 near Pinedale, the Big Sandy Trail, an old American Indian route, follows the Big Sandy River to Big Sandy Lake, then on a steepening track past North and Arrowhead lakes to 10,800-foot Jackass Pass. Here you'll gain your introductory prospect of the Cirque of the Towers, which cradles Lonesome Lake (which is not particularly lonesome in summer and fall) in its hard granite embrace. These prongs, spires, and prows—which include Warbonnet, Wolf's Head, Pylon Peak, Warrior, Shark's Nose, Lizard Head (at 12,842 feet, the high point of the Cirque of the Towers), and gloriously standoffish Pingora—create some of the most esteemed climbing walls in the Rockies.
Keep soaking in the granite garden by trekking farther to Shadow Lake on the "back side" of the Cirque of the Towers.
4. Alice Lake, Sawtooth Range, Idaho
The jags, towers, and cliffy brows of the Sawtooths represent a pinnacle (so to speak) of Idaho's prodigious mountain scenery, and Alice Lake—one of 300-plus tarns chiseled by glaciers into this snarled-up range—makes a fabulous introduction. Set at about 8,600 feet, Alice Lake reflects the west face of 9,902-foot El Capitan and a ripsaw rampart southward.
Reach this rockery tarn via the Tin Cup Trailhead at Pettit Lake. The trail muscles some 5.5 miles upslope through mixed conifer woods and high glades, making multiple stream crossings en route. Alice Lake is a popular day hiking or overnighter destination, but can also serve as a springboard for longer adventures in the southeastern Sawtooth high country. You can undertake a memorable 19-mile loop by journeying on to Twin Lakes, up and over a high pass, and dropping down to big Toxaway Lake.
5. Highline Trail, Uinta Mountains, Utah
The Uintas are geographic trivia—one of the only west-east-trending mountain ranges in the Western Hemisphere—and also one of the country's conterminous grandest alpine expanses, rivaling Colorado's San Juans, the burliest range in the Southern Rockies, for sheer extent of alpine territory. The Highline Trail shows off the storm-licked splendor of the High Uintas Wilderness on a week-plus, nearly 100-mile trek between Hayden Pass and U.S. Route 191, much of it above the 10,000-foot contour.
Lonesome tarns, rusty Precambrian pyramids and fins, windswept tundra passes, staggered canyons—oh, and did we mention the thunderstorms? This is a Rocky Mountain roof-of-the-world traverse of the highest order.
6. The Maroon Bells, Elk Mountains, Colorado
Geographically speaking, the Elk Mountains lie close to the heart of the Southern Rockies, and two of their half-dozen fourteeners—the Maroon Bells—form arguably that skyscraping region's scenic culmination. Given the paired loom of 14,156-foot Maroon Peak and 14,014-foot North Maroon, plus the eye-catching red of their capping Maroon Formation sedimentary layers, and it's no surprise they're said to be the most photographed summits in Colorado.
They're also plenty well-loved, so don't come here seeking solitude; treat it as a pilgrimage to one of the great landmarks of the American Rockies. The hike to Crater Lake puts you at the very foot of the Maroon Bells, but the views just keep expanding if you trek up to Buckskin Pass, which can also be strung together with West Maroon, Frigid Air, and Trailrides passes in a roughly 30-mile backpacking loop.
7. Wheeler Peak, Snake Range, Nevada
The crown of relatively little-visited Great Basin National Park, of the Snake Range and essentially of Nevada (though Boundary Peak in the White Mountains on the California line modestly outranks it), 13,063-foot Wheeler Peak is a special mountain. The Snakes are their own sky-island range, loftiest in the eastern Great Basin, and rising from the sagebrush sea of that cold desert to subalpine aspen forests and wizened bristlecone-pine groves. (In 1964, a bristlecone 4,844 years old was chopped down on a Wheeler Peak moraine.) Wheeler Peak is also known for its small glacier, one of the southernmost in the U.S.
An 8.6-mile round-trip hike from the trailhead above Wheeler Peak Campground takes you to the rubbled summit with its head-spinning Basin-and-Range panorama. It's not a demanding hike, but well worth doing.
8. The Narrows, Zion Canyon, Utah
North Fork Virgin River's world-famous gorge and its domeland surrounds are so knock-you-over-the-head scenic that any trail in Zion National Park verges on the unreal. Two, though, attract the lion's share of attention: Angel's Rest—the up-top, vista-rich one (strictly for non-acrophobes)—and the Narrows, the shadowy, amphibious, down-low one through the twisty, high-walled slot forming the head of Zion Canyon.
You can join the masses wading upstream into the Narrows from the end of the popular Riverside Trail at the Temple of Sinawava, or drop down from Chamberlain's Ranch on a more adventurous 16-mile trek. The latter requires a permit; from the Temple of Sinawava, you don't need one as far upstream as Big Spring.
There are countless quieter slot canyons in the Colorado Plateau, but the Narrows is legitimately wondrous, and if you combine it with remoter adventures (including those farther up its course), you might even enjoy the oohing-and-aahing camaraderie of it all. It's a communal National Park experience on par with watching Old Faithful erupt or staggering all scenery-drunk around Yosemite Valley.
Accessible and well-visited though the lower portion of the Narrows may be, it's also dangerous given the potential for flash floods. Check in at the Zion Canyon Visitor Center for the most up-to-date forecast and flood hazard rating, and don't play the odds.
9. North Kaibab Trail, Grand Canyon, Arizona
Hike from montane woods to hot desert in one 14.2-mile swoop on the North Kaibab Trail, the only maintained route connecting the North Rim of the Grand Canyon to the Colorado River. It's popular but not as much as its South Rim counterparts (the Bright Angel and South Kaibab trails), and given the "Big Ditch's" one-of-a-kind topographical breadth, it serves up mega-scale scenery not many hiking trails can match.
The North Kaibab Trail drops from the Kaibab Plateau's conifers at 8,241 feet to the Colorado nearly 6,000 feet below. From Coconino Overlook less than a mile down-trail, it descends southeastward to Supai Tunnel and Redwall Bridge in Roaring Springs Canyon—named for a weeping limestone cliff reachable by a 0.3-mile spur—then cants southwestward into Bright Angel Canyon (Cottonwood Campground, 6.5 miles and 4,200 feet down from the trailhead, offers a good first-night stopover). A mile past that, a side trail leads to Ribbon Falls. Near its end, the North Kaibab Trail traverses the tight Vishnu Schist confines of the Box before attaining Phantom Ranch and the bridge to Bright Angel Campground at the bottom of the canyon.
After a night or three down here, you can retrace your steps back to the North Rim or add a "Grand Canyon Rim-to-Rim" feather to your cap by climbing the Bright Angel Trail to the South Rim.
10. Bull Pasture/Estes Canyon Loop, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Arizona
Braving grizzlies at the Chinese Wall, you're within easy reach of the Canadian border. On the very opposite side of the country, this short but mesmerizing walkabout in the heart of the Sonoran Desert shows off rugged scenery that is, ecologically speaking, more Mexico than the U.S. Remote Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument lies in an awesome, sparsely settled expanse of the Sonoran that also includes the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge and Mexico's desolate Pinacate backlands.
This 3.5-mile loop links the Bull Pasture and Estes Canyon trails on the western flanks of the Ajo Mountains. You'll have plenty of opportunity to admire the eccentric namesake cactus, which barely makes it north of the border, as well as the Sonoran Desert's defining species, the monolithic saguaro, plus a whole slew of other desert plants. The impressive stature of both the organ pipe and saguaro cacti complements the burliness of the Ajos' craggy bosses. And the views from the Bull Pasture leg unfurl far south across the Sonoyta Valley into Sonora, Mexico.
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The build began with a very old PS/2 optical mouse he had lying around. Inside this mouse was a MCS-12085 optical sensor connected to a small, useless microcontroller via a serial interface.
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Magical Creation Unicorn Theme
"In a field of horses be a Unicorn" – That is definitely the best way to describe my daughter. Perfect example here on her birthday as everyone wore Unicorn headbands that I crafted she had to wear her tiara.
This year was geared for thinking about the mystical unicorn and creativity. The imagination of this child is starting to flourish at the age of 6 and I can already tell she will soar with ideas.
Here are some of our party ideas and images – vendor credits will be listed on the bottom.
Each favor bag was crafted by myself, none were alike so no fighting girls 😉
Here are some of the crafts we incorporated for this party –
Pencil Water colors
String your own candygum ball necklace for your unicorn
Make your own Magical glitter confetti bottles
No party is complete without a game – What is more perfect than 'Pin the horn on the Unicorn'
The BIG surprise for the event was to have a real life white UNICORN come – but instead we got a pony unicorn due to the weather apparently the white unicorn couldn't fly in the rain as we had some issues that day with showers. In the end I don't think the girls minded the pony unicorn and even stuck through it all cold and wet – excited as ever!
The expression on my daughter's face was priceless!
I hope you enjoyed this themed event as much as we did!
Unicorn Strawberry's – with love by Mom
Cookies & Push Pops Flour Blossom Bakery
Unicorn Cake & Oreos – Marlenes creative side
Unicorn chocolate bark & Pearl Gumballs – Sweeties Candy Cottage
Gold Trays – Maison dubonbon
Graphic art & Pin the horn – Annoucing You
Art Supplies – Picasso Kidz
Unicorn Name – NothingPanda
Custom Unicorn dress – Sweet Annies Boutique
Photography – CMC photography & Kelvin Photo
Unicorn horns , Unicorn favor bags, Event planning and Styling – dear jeni
Unicorn plates and napkins, straws – Amazon
Unicorn plush stuff animals – Amazon
Spiral Unicorn horn balloons – Balloons
Tent – Chance of Showers
Unicorn Pony – Dream Catcher Pony Parties


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Unethical Promotion and Testing of Medicines on Humans
A Judicial Investigation into the Presidency and Health Ministry and criminal proceedings against Christine Qunta are necessary. SUMMARY "34. (1) A person desiring to initiate or conduct a clinical trial in respect of an unregistered medicine, a new indication or new dosage regimen of a registered medicine or substance, shall apply to the Council on a form determined by the Council for authority to conduct such a clinical trial". "(5) No person shall conduct clinical trials referred to in subregulation (1) without the authorisation of the Council."
A Judicial Investigation into the Presidency and Health Ministry and criminal proceedings against Christine Qunta are necessary.
"34. (1) A person desiring to initiate or conduct a clinical trial
in respect of an unregistered medicine, a new indication or new
dosage regimen of a registered medicine or substance, shall apply to
the Council on a form determined by the Council for authority to
conduct such a clinical trial".
"(5) No person shall conduct clinical trials referred to in
subregulation (1) without the authorisation of the Council."
Government Notice R510 in Government Gazette 24727, General
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1. There is prima facie evidence that illegal and unethical experiments were conducted on people living with HIV/AIDS with a toxic and unregistered substance named Virodene.
2. The aim of the experimentation was commercial benefit.
3. Virodene P058 is a derivative of the toxic, potentially lethal industrial solvent N, N dimethylformamide (DMF). It has never been registered with a medicines regulatory authority of any state in the world.
4. There is evidence that the Office of the Presidency, President Mbeki and Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang were involved in these trials after the Medicines Control Council and the University of Pretoria ruled them unethical and in contravention of the law.
5. State support for AIDS denialism and pseudo-science emanating from the President and the Minister of Health over the last decade has led to unnecessary and preventable loss of life.
6. Therefore, the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) calls for the appointment of a judicial commission of inquiry. The mandate of the inquiry into unlawful experimentation on human subjects should include
examinations of:
6.1. the extent of the involvement of the President, officials in the Presidency, the Health Minister or any other senior office bearers in government;
6.2. the extent of involvement by private South African citizens, organisations (public and private) in experimentation on people in South Africa and other African countries;
6.3. the legal steps that should be taken against officials of the South African government, private citizens and organisations; and
6.4. the degree to which the Presidency and the Health Ministry have been involved in undermining the independence of the Medicines Control Council required by the Constitution and Parliament to prevent unlawful
human experimentation and to regulate medicine safety, efficacy and quality in the public interest.
1. There is prima facie evidence that Christine Qunta, a practising attorney, is an investor and director in a company that profiteers from selling untested and unregistered cures and treatments for AIDS.
2. Qunta was also appointed at the "instance of the Presidency" by Manto Tshabalala-Msimang to "The Presidential Task Team on African Traditional Medicines in South Africa" on 11 October 2006. 1 Other members of the
Task Team include Professor Herbert Vilakazi, the promoter of Ubhejane another untested remedy for HIV/AIDS, and Professor Anthony Mbewu previously associated with Matthias Rath. 2
3. While we accept that everyone is entitled to legal representation, Qunta Inc, the legal firm, has earned tens of thousands of rands in fees profiteering from the unethical, unscrupulous and unlawful activities of Matthias Rath, the vitamin salesman. She and her law firm have not merely represented Rath, they have pro-actively defended his activities in the media.
4. Until 15 September 2007, the public was not aware that Qunta is "an investor and director" of the company Comforter's Healing Gift (CHG) which markets its fake HIV/AIDS cure as "Ancient African Wisdom".
5. CHG 's chief marketer and the head of Qunta's company, Freddie Isaacs from Uitenhage has styled himself a prophet and is a known confidence-trickster.
6. Their company sells an unknown substance that they have patented.
7. Qunta claims that "until tests were completed" the product should be described as a nutritional supplement. However, there is evidence that the product is actually sold as a treatment for AIDS. They have learnt from Rath to try and disguise their "medicines" as food while profiteering from the desperate and dying poor.
8. The TAC calls on the Law Society and the Directorate of Public Prosecutions to start disbarment and criminal proceedings against Christine Qunta. These bodies have to ask the following questions:
8.1. As a lawyer has she intentionally subverted section 20 of the Medicines Act to sell untested medicines to desperate and dying people?
8.2. What scientific and medical qualifications does she have to make claims about the nutritional or medicinal properties of untested substances?
8.3. On whose scientific or clinical advice do her companies rely?
8.4. Has she used her position and connection with the Presidency and Health Minister to promote untested remedies?
8.5. Did she disclose her conflicts of interest to the President and Health Minister?
9. The sale of untested remedies by her company is more than enough evidence to start disbarment proceedings on whether she is a fit and proper person to be an attorney. However, a further question arises to protect the public, can an entrepreneur whose company sells untested remedies protect consumer interests? Or, is her real agenda on the Presidential Task Team on African Traditional Medicines an attempt to undermine the imperatives of the Medicines Act that requires regulation in the public interest based on stringent tests for safety, efficacy and
quality of medicines.
On the weekend of 15-16 September 2007 several articles appeared in the Independent Group Newspapers and the Sunday Times alleging financial support of Virodene emanating from the Presidency and the sale of an untested remedy for the treatment of AIDS by a company of which Christine Qunta is co-director. 3 These two stories are not directly related, but they are further evidence of a continued support for AIDS pseudoscience by President Mbeki and those close to him since 1997.
This pseudoscience has at various times included actions and statements that question the causal link between HIV and AIDS, dispute the efficacy of antiretroviral medicines, cast doubt that there is a large HIV epidemic in
South Africa and promote untested, even dangerous, medicines for the treatment of AIDS.
The consequences of this have been delayed and poor implementation of the mother-to-child transmission prevention and antiretroviral treatment programmes coupled with massive public confusion. This has caused
hundreds of thousands of avoidable deaths and undermined the rule of law by allowing numerous charlatans to breach the Medicines Act with impunity. Therefore the TAC calls for the following:
* There should be a judicial investigation into the links between the presidency and the promotion or testing of Virodene, a poisonous industrial solvent that the country's medicines regulatory authority, the Medicines Control Council, determined should not be tested on humans. At best it appears someone in the Presidency acted unethically in 2000 and 2001. At worst, there is direct involvement of the President himself in corrupt, illegal actions with potentially deadly consequences for patients with HIV. If this is the case, Thabo Mbeki is unfit to hold public office. The public has a right to know what the truth is and a judicial investigation would resolve these concerns. If the President is innocent, he should welcome such an investigation.
* We further call for the people who have made the allegations about the Presidency's involvement in the funding of Virodene to come forward. Similar allegations have surfaced in the past, but those making the allegations hide behind anonymity making it extremely difficult to get to the bottom of this story.
* There should be disbarment and criminal proceedings against Christine Qunta because of her activities with the company Comforter's Healing Gift, which has sold unregistered medicines for the treatment of AIDS to members of the public. Qunta's involvement in this company as well as her support of other AIDS pseudoscience render her an inappropriate choice for the SABC board, let alone its head.
Presidency's Alleged Support for the Promotion and/or Testing of Virodene
On 15 and 16 September 2007 articles authored by Fiona Forde appeared in a number of prominent South African newspapers. They contain substantiated accusations that in 2000 and 2001 individuals connected with the Office of the Presidency channelled tens of millions of Rands towards the promotion, development, and clinical trial of Virodene P058, a full three years after the Medicines Control Council (MCC) suspended trials of the drug in South Africa and banned its further provision to patients.
In particular Ms. Forde's articles make the following explicit claims:
* Throughout 2000 and into early 2001 approximately R40 million was handed over by representatives of the Presidency to Olga and Zigi Visser, the lead developers of Virodene. This money was regularly and routinely collected in briefcases containing US$100 notes directly from the Union Buildings as well as from the Johannesburg offices of an unnamed ANC-linked businessman.
* An unnamed source in the articles, stated to be a former insider within the Virodene research team, claims that the money received from the Presidency went towards "researching, promoting and developing the drug" in South Africa and Tanzania. This claim is allegedly substantiated by hundreds of emails, letters and faxes handed over to the Weekend Argus.
* Between September 2000 and March 2001, during the period of time that the Presidency was diverting funds towards Virodene's development, the Tanzanian People's Defence Force conducted human trials of the drug on behalf of the Virodene research team.
The Tanzanian trials of Virodene were performed at two healthcare facilities, one a military hospital the other a private clinic, in Dar-es-Salaam. These trials were conducted on 64 HIV-positive men including retired military personnel as well as civilians.
In early 2001 South African Minister of Health Dr. Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, acting in her official capacity, visited Tanzania to carry out an inspection of the Virodene trials. This claim has previously been acknowledged by Dr. Tshabalala-Msimang herself and recently corroborated by staff from Lugalo Military Hospital in Dar-es-Salaam, one of the locations at which human testing of Virodene was carried out.
The Presidency has confirmed that it granted official authorisation for Dr. Tshabalala-Msimang's Tanzanian trip in 2001 but it remains unclear whether or not this approval extended to the trial inspections.
Citing problems with the study's ethical and scientific protocol, the Tanazanian trials of Virodene were suspended by Tanzania's National Institute for Medical Research in March 2001, shortly after Dr. Tshabalala-Msimang's inspection. The trials were apparently continued later that year.
Representatives from both the Virodene research team as well as the Presidency have denied that there was any financial support given to Virodene's development by the South African government . A spokesperson for the Presidency has, however, admitted that there was 'some kind of contact' between the Presidency and lead Virodene researcher Olga Visser.
Many of the points raised in Ms. Forde's articles have been on public record for several years. Researcher James Myburgh has written a detailed 5 part synopsis on the Virodene scandal. 4 Details of the Tanzanian trials of Virodene were widely reported in South African and international media in 2001 and the studies are even cited in an executive brochure available for download on the website of Virodene Pharmaceutical Holdings (VPH, the company that manufactures Virodene P058). 5
Likewise, Minister of Health Tshabalala-Msimang's inspection of those trials has also been previously commented on in media sources. Tshabalala-Msimang has formerly acknowledged the fact that she visited the clinics at which clinical testing of Virodene was taking place during her trip to Tanzania in 2001 but her office insisted that the
link with Virodene was 'purely coincidental'.
The new information that Ms. Forde's articles contain is that the source of funding for Virodene's promotion and development, including the Tanzanian trials, which has long been a matter of intense speculation. Virodene P058, a derivative of the toxic, potentially lethal industrial solvent N, N dimethylformamide (DMF), has never been registered with the pharmaceutical regulatory authority of any state in the world. The drug has failed clinical tests for safety and efficacy in South Africa, Great Britain and Germany. Rather than acting against HIV, several studies
have shown that Virodene either has no effect on inhibiting the progression of HIV or that the drug may possibly even activate the virus.
Despite the fact that by the late 1990s Virodene was proven to be unsafe as an anti-AIDS drug, huge sums of money continued to be pumped into its development. Commenting on the Tanzanian studies, VPH shareholder
Charles Fourie was quoted in September 2001 as saying that, "the Vissers are being funded by someone and must have spent at least R10 million on these recent trials".
Furthermore Mr. Fourie stated that Zigi Visser had contacted him "from Tanzania just two weeks ago to offer to buy us all out for US$5 million". The identity of Virodene's mystery benefactor(s) has never been ascertained, having remained hidden even from fellow VPH shareholders. The evidence suggests, however, that Virodene's primary sponsors are intimately connected to senior officials within the South African government and the ANC.
There is clear evidence that high-ranking members of the South African government and the ANC, including President Thabo Mbeki, were enthusiastic political patrons of Virodene. The presentation to cabinet given by Virodene's research team in February 1997, an event arranged by then Deputy President Thabo Mbeki and former Minister of Health Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, was greeted with spontaneous applause from cabinet members and a 'favourable' response from Mbeki on possible state support for Virodene's development.
Later, when the MCC suspended trials of Virodene in South Africa, Minister Dlamini-Zuma dismissed MCC chairperson Peter Folb and curtailed the MCCs regulatory powers in retribution. The ANC intervened on several
occasions between 1997 and 1999 after the MCC continued to reject Virodene research protocols. The ruling party called on the council to accelerate the bureaucratic and investigative processes that would allow for the reinstatement of clinical trials of the drug in South Africa. During this period of time Deputy President Mbeki even personally arbitrated in an internal legal dispute between Virodene's producers. The personal involvement of high-ranking ANC government officials such as Dlamini-Zuma and Mbeki in the Virodene saga suggests that the ruling party, for whatever reasons, had invested a sizeable political stake in furthering the drug's development. Dr. Manto Tshabalala-Msimang's 2001 inspection of Virodene trials in Tanzania serves as further proof of the political investment in Virodene research made by the ANC government.
Questions still remain however as to whether or not the ANC ever had a financial investment in Virodene P058. In early 1998 the Democratic Party released documents in its possession which indicated that the ANC stood to benefit from Virodene's production. 6 These documents showed that the ruling party owned a 6% share in the Virodene company, though how the shares were acquired was never clarified. These allegations were denied by then Deputy-President Mbeki: "Neither the ANC nor anyone in its leadership, whether working inside or outside government, has been or will be involved in any financial arrangement related to Virodene".
Less than three months after Mbeki's denial that the ANC was financially involved in any way in Virodene's promotion or development, it emerged that a group of South African and Namibian investors led by ANC member
and MK veteran Joshua Mxomalo purchased a 60% stake in Virodene. The new shareholders insisted that their identities remain secret, but according to media reports they included 'business people involved in primary
health care- a central component of government policy". 7 According to these same media reports, Mxomalo had been instrumental in arranging for "Virodene's founders to meet senior government officials, including
Mbeki". For his "introductions" work Mxomalo had previously been "given" a small stake in the Virodene company. But despite Mxomalo's close links with Mbeki, a report released in May 1999 by Public Protector Selby Baqwa found that neither Mbeki nor Dlamini-Zuma had ever been involved in any financial or business transactions related to Virodene.
If this recent news reports alleging the involvement of the Presidency in the promotion, distribution, development and clinical testing of Virodene P058 are accurate, they describe actions that are at best unethical, but quite possibly illegal.
Christine Qunta's Involvement in the Promotion of an Untested AIDS Medicine
Christine Qunta has been nominated to the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) board and is expected to be selected by President Mbeki to head it. Her involvement in AIDS pseudoscience and in the activities of a company profiteering on people with HIV renders her unsuitable for public office of any kind.
The Independent Group newspapers reported that a University of Rhodes student together with TAC activist Emma Baleka recently purchased two containers of pills and a bottle of black liquid manufactured by Comforter's Healing Gift (CHG) from Uitenhage 'healer' Freddie Isaacs. Isaacs, who is co-director of CHG along with Christine Qunta and businessman Mashudu Ramano, purported that the pills and liquid were cures for AIDS. In a follow-up interview Isaacs confirmed that the CHG products are being marketed at outlets nationwide and that the idea for
the AIDS cure 'came to him in a dream'. Isaacs' daughter has also suggested that the products could help diabetics.
The reports state that Ms. Qunta, a lawyer whose firm defends Matthias Rath, denied personal involvement in the marketing of CHG products as cures for AIDS. She is reported to claim that she plays no role in the day to day administration of the company. Qunta has stated that any comments made by Isaacs on the alleged healing properties of CHG's products reflect Isaacs' own personal views and not those of the company. Apparently the products have been submitted to the MRC and the CSIR for testing and pending the results of those tests Qunta has stated that the products should be described as 'nutritional supplements'. Qunta asserts that she and Ramano had instructed Isaacs not to make any 'claims for the product until scientific tests were completed as this would be unethical'. Indeed, attributing false claims of healing effects to a scientifically unproven product is unethical and illegal.
Yet accompanying the article in the Saturday Argus (one of the Independent Group newspapers that broke the story) is a photograph of the CHG building in the Nelson Mandela Metropole. A nearby sign identifies the CHG building as a treatment centre and a sign on the building reads "Our mission is to fight all AIDS-related illnesses."
Therefore the reported claim by Qunta that Isaacs is acting in his personal capacity and that she was unaware that the product is being sold as an AIDS treatment is implausible.
Furthermore, Qunta appears to misunderstand that proper testing of a product for efficacy against HIV requires Medicines Control Council approved phased clinical trials on people. Laboratory testing for efficacy against HIV is insufficient. Also, no testing in humans should begin unless there's scientific evidence that a medicine is likely to be safe and effective. No claims should be advertised about a medicine unless the medicine is registered with the Medicines Control Council for that claim.
Mr. Isaacs' sale of substances which he purported to be cures for HIV/AIDS to members of the public, substances whose therapeutic efficacy and safety have not been scientifically verified and whose registration has not been approved by the Medicines Control Council (MCC), constitutes a breach of the Medicines Act and is therefore in violation of the law. Isaacs has committed a criminal offence and the TAC demands that both he and Comforter's Healing Gift face appropriate legal sanctions. Although she denies any personal wrongdoing, Qunta as co-director of CHG bears a professional responsibility for the illegal actions taken by fellow co-director Isaacs. The TAC will therefore lodge a complaint against Qunta with the Law Society and the Director of Public Prosecutions. We also demand that Qunta steps down from the SABC Board.
1. Government Gazette, 11 October 2006. No. 29288.
2. See tac.org.za/nl20060615.html
3. See
4. James Myburg's synopsis The Virodene Affair:
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5. See
Interestingly, the executive brochure available on the VPH website
claims that the clinical trials of the drug conducted in Tanzania were
only completed in 2004.
6. Medicine for Beginners: How ANC burnt its fingers on AIDS solvent,
Sunday Times: 26 September 1999.
7. Virodene's New Black Owners, Mail and Guardian: 19 June 1998.


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I went by the Druid stone
That broods in the garden white and lone,
And I stopped and looked at the shifting shadows
That at some moments fall thereon
From the tree hard by with a rhythmic swing,
And they shaped in my imagining
To the shade that a well-known head and shoulders
Threw there when she was gardening.
I thought her behind my back,
Yea, her I long had learned to lack,
And I said: 'I am sure you are standing behind me,
Though how do you get into this old track?'
And there was no sound but the fall of a leaf
As a sad response; and to keep down grief
I would not turn my head to discover
That there was nothing in my belief.
Yet I wanted to look and see
That nobody stood at the back of me;
But I thought once more: 'Nay, I'll not unvision
A shape which, somehow, there may be.'
So I went on softly from the glade,
And left her behind me throwing her shade,
As she were indeed an apparition—
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Elizabeth Smith has worked up a post with a full listing of the new symbols in the Cairo extension (a 2D graphics library for PHP).
Originally we were only going to support the latest (1.6), but then the new 1.8 version was released and I started adding support to that as well. Then we noticed that dreadfully slow/out of date RHEL and derivatives still have 1.4 versions of Cairo floating around (yuck). So the extension will support 1.4+ However the cairo docs are incorrect in a couple of places regarding new symbols. After some header diffing here is a complete list for 1.8 and 1.6 (to make life easier for anyone else writing language wrappers).
Her list includes forty new symbols for the 1.8 release of the extension and twenty-two for version 1.6.


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TechRadar Verdict
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Quite inexpensive for a carbon fibre tripod
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You can usually expect to pay upwards of £300 for a decent quality carbon fibre tripod and head. This makes the full-sized Hama Omega Carbon II look something of a bargain, because it's widely available for around £180 and comes complete with ball and socket head, plus a good quality padded carrying case.
One of the main attractions of carbon fibre camera tripods, compared with their aluminium cousins, is that they save weight, while still offering good stability. Let's see if the Hama delivers on its potential.
The Hama Omega Carbon II tripod and head kit has a combined maximum load rating of 4kg. That's easily sufficient for a bulky DSLR and long telephoto zoom lens but, even so, the load limit is only half that of some competing (and slightly cheaper) aluminium tripod and head combinations, such as the Benro A297EX and BH2-M ball head, or the Giottos MTL9361B and MH1311652 ball head.
The folded height for carrying the tripod around is 69cm, and the maximum height in use is 174cm, with the centre column fully extended. That's not particularly impressive considering that the Hama Omega Carbon II has four-section legs, whereas most tripods of this size have only three sections.
As well as having an extra set of clip locks that you need to operate to extend the tripod to its maximum height, it also means that the bottom leg sections are quite thin and spindly. From top to bottom, the diameters of the sections measure 28mm, 24mm, 20mm and 16mm.
As with most modern tripods, you can adjust the legs to any of three different angles from the centre column. This enables shooting down to a height of 48cm, and you can also unscrew the safety ring from the bottom of the centre column, so you can invert it and shoot from lower levels with the camera upside-down. However, unlike some competing tripods, the Hama Omega Carbon II lacks a pivot facility for the centre column.
Other features include both a compass and bubble level on the tripod shoulder, and a weight hook at the bottom of the centre column. The ball and socket head provided in the kit has a full complement of locking screw, adjustable friction damper and separate panning control. The last of these has a handy scale calibrated in 9-degree increments.


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A titular see of Albania. Croia (pronounced Kruya, Albanian, "Spring") stands on the site of Eriboea, a town mentioned by Ptolemy (III, xiii, 13, 41). Georgius Acropolites (lxix) mentions it as a fortress in 1251. A decree of the Venetian senate gave it in 1343 to Marco Barbarigo and his wife. In 1395 it was held by the Castriots (Mas-Latrie, Trésor de chronologie, 1773), and it was the birthplace of the Lion of Albania, the national hero, George Castriota or Scanderbeg (died 17 Jan., 1468).
It was captured by Mohammed II 14 June, 1478, and the whole population was slaughtered together with the Venetian garrison, except the few who embraced Mohammedanism.
Since the thirteenth century Croia has been a Latin suffragan of Dyrrachium (Durazzo). Farlati (Illyricum sacrum, VII, 411-432) mentions fourteen bishops from 1286 to 1694 (Gams,( 404; Lequien, III, 955, incomplete); Eubel (I, 224; II, 156) adds four names and corrects some data. Croia is to-day the chief town of a kaimakamlik in the vilayet of Scutari, with about 10,000 inhabitants, all Mussulmans. The Venetian citadel, 1500 feet above the sea, is still preserved together with Turkish guns and bells dating from the days of Skanderbeg. Croia is renowned among the Bektashi dervishes for the tombs of many of their saints.
HOPF, Chroniques gréco-romanes; DEGRAND, Souvenirs de la Haute-Albanie (Paris, 1901), 215-227.
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What Happened to the Survivors of the Lynyrd Skynyrd Plane Crash?
A horrific plane crash took the lives of members of Lynyrd Skynyrd, their road crew and both the pilot and co-pilot on Oct. 20, 1977, irrevocably altering the course of the Southern rock outfit, their families and music history.
Frontman Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines and his sister, backup singer Cassie Gaines, were lost. Dean Kilpatrick, a personal assistant to the band, also died. The rest of those onboard suffered various injuries, the majority of them severe. Some passengers, in fact, were unable to make their way out of the wooded swampland in Gillsburg, Miss., a tiny town on the border of Louisiana where Lynyrd Skynyrd's Convair CV-240 went down.
Drummer Artimus Pyle and two crew members sought help from a local farmer some distance away. The recovery effort was slow and laborious, first as rescue and emergency personnel struggled to reach the crash victims – and then as Lynyrd Skynyrd began their own lengthy healing process.
During the decades since, some initial survivors have passed away, while others did their best to endure. Many dealt with their own demons in the wake of the disaster. Eventually, they returned to music – and then to Lynyrd Skynyrd. Here are their stories.
Allen Collins
Allen Collins suffered a cervical spine injury; he also almost lost his right arm after suffering a severe gash, according to Lynyrd Skynyrd: Remembering the Free Birds of Southern Rock. A couple years later, the guitarist got together with fellow Skynyrd member and guitarist Gary Rossington to form the Rossington Collins Band.
Tragedy struck again: Collins' wife Kathy died of a hemorrhage when she suffered a miscarriage while he was on the inaugural Rossington Collins Band tour in 1980. Following the 1982 dissolution of that group, he created the Allen Collins Band, which included bassist Leon Wilkeson and keyboardist Billy Powell – both of whom were also key parts of Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Collins' battles with depression, various substance addictions and law enforcement – he was reportedly arrested 18 times between 1974 and 1985 – came to a head Jan. 29, 1986, when he crashed his brand new Ford Thunderbird. The one-car accident killed his passenger, girlfriend Debra Watts. Collins was left paralyzed from the waist down, and charged with DUI manslaughter, ultimately receiving two years' probation.
Unable to perform, Collins served as musical director for the Lynyrd Skynyrd Tribute Tour, which kicked off some 20 years after the crash in 1987. Two years later, the incapacitated guitarist contracted pneumonia. Collins lost that fight, succumbing to respiratory failure on Jan. 23, 1990 – almost four years to the day after his crippling car accident. Collins was 37 years old.
Leon Wilkeson
Known as the "Mad Hatter of Southern Rock" due to his predilection to wearing caps of all fanciful shapes and sizes onstage, Leon Wilkeson suffered such a catastrophic arm injury that he had to reconfigure his bass so that he could play it in a unique, almost upright style. He also broke his leg and suffered a chest wound in the plane crash. Wilkeson's heart failed twice at the scene, according to Lynyrd Skynyrd: Remembering the Free Birds of Southern Rock. His teeth had also been knocked out.
Wilkeson stayed close to his Skynyrd brethren in both the Rossington Collins Band and Allen Collins Band, then joined them for the tribute tour in 1987 and onward. Bad luck followed. While on the road in the early '90s, a sleeping Wilkeson had his throat slit aboard the Lynyrd Skynyrd tour bus. Guitarist Ed King blamed Wilkeson's wife for the injury, while she claimed it was King in an infamous article published by Spin. No one ever figured out who did it.
Wilkeson was subsequently found dead in a hotel room July 27, 2001, at the age of 49. He had been dealing with liver and lung disease, and a combination of the two seems to have played a role. His passing was chalked up to "natural causes."
Billy Powell
Billy Powell's nose was nearly sliced off completely in the crash; he also suffered a right knee injury. Yet the keyboardist became the de facto spokesman for the band in the weeks that followed, giving updates on those still in the hospital to both print and broadcast media with stitches tracked across his deeply bruised face.
Like Wilkeson, Powell joined the Rossington Collins Band, the Allen Collins Band and then the reunited Lynyrd Skynyrd. Along the way, he earned generations of new admirers through sturdy live interpretations "Free Bird," "Tuesday's Gone," "What's Your Name" and "Sweet Home Alabama," all of which featured notable contributions from Powell. He was on a break from Lynyrd Skynyrd's regular touring schedule in 2009 when he suffered a heart attack. Powell was 56.
Artimus Pyle
The sole member of Lynyrd Skynyrd to literally walk away from the mangled plane, Artimus Pyle's physical wounds somehow consisted of only cuts and abrasions. A couple of years later, however, Pyle had to bow out of the Rossington Collins Band after a motorcycle accident left his leg broken in 20 places.
He later returned to music as leader of the Artimus Pyle Band before reconvening with Lynyrd Skynyrd from 1987 until the early '90s. He departed after recording of Lynyrd Skynyrd 1991, citing the toll from continued legal battles between the surviving band members and Ronnie Van Zant's widow Judy.
After that, the drummer dealt with serious run ins with the law, and more court cases, while reviving the Artimus Pyle Band. He pleaded guilty and received probation on charges of attempted capital battery, and lewd and lascivious assault in the presence of a child in Jacksonville, Fla., in 1992. Fifteen years later, he was arrested for not properly registering as a sex offender after his address changed. The case went to trial, and he was acquitted in 2009.
More recently, his involvement in a proposed biopic called Street Survivor: The True Story of the Lynyrd Skynyrd Plane Crash led to new legal issues. A U.S. district judge halted production permanently, finding Pyle in violation of a 1987 consent order which prohibits anyone from participating in a band-related project without the participation of at least three surviving members from Lynyrd Skynyrd's pre-crash era.
Gary Rossington
Gary Rossington was the most critically injured survivor of the 1977 plane crash, having broken both arms and wrists, both legs and ankles, and his pelvis. While his road to recuperation might've been the longest, the guitarist has also made the most of his second musical chance: He co-founded the Rossington Collins Band, and later the Rossington Band with his wife Dale-Krantz Rossington, then became the driving force behind Lynyrd Skynyrd's reunion – and, eventually, its final remaining original member.
Still, Rossington has had to deal with his fair share of obstacles and setbacks. A well-publicized drug and alcohol addiction was immortalized in Lynyrd Skynyrd's "That Smell," a cautionary tale written by Collins and Van Zant after Rossington plowed his new car into an oak tree and then a house after passing out at the wheel. He's since sobered up, only to face a series of health issues.
Rossington suffered a heart attack in late 2015, and had surgery to repair blockage in his arteries the following year. Still, he soldiers on, waving the Lynyrd Skynyrd flag proudly – and even reviving the Rossington Band with a 2016 LP that was appropriately titled Take It on Faith.
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January 29, 2003: FLAC Joins Xiph.Org
The Beginning
Many moons ago, the Ogg project started with a codec called 'Squish.' Squish was an attempt to build a royalty-free lossless audio codec. Someone had a trademark on the word 'Squish,' so the name was changed to 'Ogg Squish.' This was an extremely minor setback, but there was another obstacle to the project on the horizon.
In September of 1998, Fraunhofer IIS sent out 'letters of infringement' to several MPEG audio layer 3 development projects, and focus quickly changed to develop an alternative to mp3. The Ogg Vorbis project was born.
Back To The Future
While we were busy working on our own stuff, several projects popped up to embrace different aspects of open and free multimedia. One of the most impressive was FLAC, or Free Lossless Audio Codec. FLAC does what Squish was supposed to do. More importantly, with version 1.1.0 now released to the universe, it's a more-than-capable full-featured codec that's ready for prime-time.
Here at Xiph.Org, it's our job to support open and free multimedia, even if it wasn't created here. A couple months ago, I approached the head of the FLAC project, Josh Coalson, with a proposition: Why not join forces for global domination? FLAC will get access to Xiph's resources and a laissez-faire approach to their codebase, and we get to put a working project in place to fill the gap left by a focus change that happened five years ago.
Josh sent out a missive to the FLAC development team. Open Source and Free Software projects are more often collaborative efforts than strictly the brainchild of one person. It was important to us that the FLAC team be cool with the idea. Happily, response was positive.
Today, Tomorrow and Beyond
Today, The FLAC project joins the Xiph.Org Foundation. FLAC's mailing lists and website will be moved over to Xiph's servers in the next few days, and our collaboration will be celebrated throughout the land.
What's next? After the housewarming party, FLAC will continue to progress, and all the current Xiph projects (like Ogg Vorbis, Speex, Theora and Icecast) will keep going, as well. 2003 has already been an exciting year for Xiph, and we're only twenty-nine days into it.
How Can You Help?
If you're a software developer, please consider donating some time and effort to our projects by grabbing some source code and hacking away from the comfort of your chosen location.
If you've got fairly deep pockets and you want to help make sure that we can continue to kick ass and take names, please consider making a donation to our fine organization.
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It involves friends and chili!
We all gather at my house eat chili and cornbread (of course)
and then head out to trick or treat!
I have posted this recipe before, but I love it and it is chili season,
so you get it again!
This is a mild, chunky chili. You can adjust some of the spices (cumin, chili powder, even cayenne) to your liking (I added more garlic, because I cannot get enough!). This is what we prefer.
- 1 Large Can Diced Tomatoes
- 1 Can stewed tomatoes
- 1/2 can Tomato Paste (I generally freeze the other half of a can)
- (Optional) 1 Can Tomato Sauce (depends on how thick you like your chili)
- 2 cans black beans (store brand)
- 1 can pinto beans (store brand)
- 1 can kidney beans (store brand)
- 1 16 oz can diced green chilies
- 1 can chopped olives (store brand)
- 1 red pepper, chopped
- 1 red onion, chopped
- 3 gloves garlic
- 1 Teaspoon cumin
- 1 Teaspoon dry mustard
- 1/2 to 1 Teaspoon Sea Salt
- 1/2 to 1 Teaspoon fresh ground black pepper
- (Optional, chili powder, depends on your taste)
- 2 Tablespoons Olive Oil
- NOTE 1: You can add cooked ground turkey, cooked ground beef, or cooked chicken to this chili too!
- NOTE 2: Occasionally I sneak in some cooked and pureed carrot into the mix too!
Cook It!
- Chop red pepper and red onion
- Chop or mince cloves or garlic
- Heat olive oil in a large pan over medium heat, add garlic.
- Cook for approximately 3-4 minutes, add red onion and red pepper.
- Cook until just caramelized, about 15 minutes (just watch it).
- In the meantime, empty the contents of the tomato cans in a large stock pot. (I had a helper!)
- Add the chilies and olives.
- Empty the cans of beans into a colander and let juices drain, rinse off and let water drain. (I drain my beans, but some prefer not too!)
- Add beans to the stock pot.
- Place on stove at a medium/low heat and begin to heat.
- Add the dry mustard, salt, pepper and chili powder (if you wish)
- As the stock pot heats, add the pepper/onion mixture.
- Stir
- Cook for approximately one hour on low, stirring occasionally. You can cook this in a crock pot on low for 4-5 hours.


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Make that difficult phone call. Delegate time-wasting tasks that you've let build up.
Some incompletions come from simply not having adequate systems, knowledge, or expertise for handling these tasks. Other incompletions pile up because of bad work habits.
Get into completion consciousness by continually asking yourself…What does it take to actually get this task completed?
Only then can you begin to consciously take that next step of filing completed documents, mailing in the forms required, or reporting back to your boss that the project has been completed.
The truth is that 20 things completed have more power than 50 things that are half-way completed.
Finishing writing a book, for instance, that can go out and influence the world is better than 13 books you're in the process of writing.
When you free yourself from the mental burden of incompletes and messes, you'll be AMAZED at how quickly the things you do want in life arrive.
Another area where you'll find incompletes in your life is in your emotions. Are you holding on to old hurts, resentments, and pain? Just like the physical clutter and incompletes, your energy is being drained by holding on to and reliving past pain and anger.
Remember, you'll attract whatever feelings you're experiencing. So, if you're stuck in revengeful thinking and angered in muck, you can't possibly be directing energy toward a positive future. You need to let go of the past in order to embrace the future. Letting go involves forgiveness and moving on.
By forgiving you aren't releasing the other person from their transgression as much as you're freeing yourself from their transgression. You don't have to condone their behavior, trust them, or even maintain a relationship with them. However, you DO have to free yourself from the anger, from the pain, and from the resentment once and for all!
When learning to forgive, make sure to complete the cycle.
Acknowledge your anger, your pain, and your fear. But also own up to any part you've played in allowing it to happen or continue. Make sure to express whatever it was that you wanted from that person, and then see the whole event from the other's point of view. Allow yourself to wonder what that person was going through and what kind of needs he/she was trying to fulfill at the time.
Finally, let go and move on. Every time you go through this process you're learning how to avoid letting it happen again!
I'll be back in two weeks with another edition of Success Strategies. Until then, see if you can discover ways to immediately implement what you learned from today's message.
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A helpful way to think about your toothpaste choice is to think about your goals, beyond basic hygiene, when you brush. Do you want fresh breath or whiter teeth? Do your teeth hurt when you brush? Do you want to avoid a long cleaning next time you're at the dentist? When you answer those questions, you'll start to narrow down that overwhelming selection of toothpastes to a more manageable few.
There are a few basic types of toothpastes out there today. However, it's important to realize that many toothpastes fit into one or more of the categories. (This is why there are more than 40 different types of Crest alone, after all.)
Fluoride Toothpaste
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Whitening Toothpaste
If you'd like your teeth to look a little whiter, whitening toothpastes can help. They're not as effective as dedicated whitening products (like whitening strips), but they can help you maintain whitened teeth. However, keep in mind that many whitening toothpastes can be more abrasive than regular toothpastes. If you use them, give your teeth an occasional break by using less abrasive toothpastes as well!
Desensitizing Toothpaste
Some people experience pain when their teeth are exposed to cold, heat, or touch—even the gentle pressure applied when brushing their teeth. If you experience this condition, called dentin hypersensitivity, you can use desensitizing toothpaste to make brushing a more pleasant (or at least not painful) activity.
Anti-plaque Toothpaste
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Kids' Toothpaste
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To be honest, the most important choice you make is to brush and floss regularly. The best toothpaste for you to use is one that supports your goals for oral health, and that you will use twice a day, every day.