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Fluoride: What You and Your Family Need to Know
Master the Basics & We Will Thrive
Part 1: WATER – What You & Your Family Need To Know About Fluoride
Water is unarguably one of the basic needs for human survival in today's world. So what happens to us biologically and collectively when one of the master basics, water, is for the vast majority deprived of its proficiency? Altered with toxins? Not properly filtered of all the waste, antibiotics and chemicals that pollute it?
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What most people are over-looking is the fact that since the 1960's, fluoride has been added to the water supply in the vast majority of cities all across North America, and many other countries worldwide.
Those who are aware of this tend to assume that fluoridation of the water supply is somehow a good thing, so they've 'heard.' Well, we all know what can happen when one 'assumes,' enough said. The information is out there now, we simply need to be responsible for our 'disregards' and take action to shift a positive change where attention imperatively has to be payed by you, by us, everybody. And if you are already aware and have already taken action, then THANK YOU!
Here are some basic facts about fluoride, you can get more detailed information from www.fluoridealert.org or conduct your own research. Allow me to interject for a moment, that often nowadays, sponsored opinions, and ad campaign narratives are misconstrued for facts. Fact #1: 97% Of Western Europe has CHOSEN fluoride-free water (simple collective action had to be taken). Fact #2: Fluoride is the ONLY chemical added to drinking water for the purpose of medication (to prevent tooth decay). Google image search 'fluoride effects' and see what kind of information comes up. Fact #3: Contrary to previous belief, fluoride has minimal benefit when swallowed. Fact #4: Fluoridated water is no longer recommended for babies. Fact #5: Ingestion of fluoride has little benefit, but many side-effects. These side-effects include but are not limited to: cancer, brain damage in unborn fetuses, dental fluorosis, skeletal fluorosis, the lowering of IQ, memory loss, motivation loss, an impaired immune system, infertility, thyroid problems, autism, DNA damage, and receding gums. The bottom line is fluoride is a very destructive and dangerous chemical to be ingesting and absorbing unknowingly on a daily basis.
Instead of focusing on the "how did this happen?" Or "Why would poison be added in our water?" Or "making an angry phone call to the city," it is important to focus on the solution and what can be done moving forward to neutralize yourself and your family from continued fluoride poisoning. Through personal responsibility and through knowledge, one can easily solve this problem through a simple individual and consequently inter-connected concerted effort.
It is a simple 2-step action plan that you can implement today! Firstly, on a personal level, use an adequate filtration system in your family's home for your drinking and bathing water. It is crucially important to note, that our skin is the largest organ of our body and the most absorbent, so it is equally important to filter your shower/bath water. Secondly, and most importantly for the love and health of our extended family and friends who are not yet aware, share this knowledge.
And to wrap it all up and "squash this fluoride beef" and other collective 'beefs' we will be elaborating on in the Master The Basics And We Will Thrive articles. We must awaken to these past mistakes that were purposely implemented and nip them in the bud. It's really easy and simple to fix, so for your best health and the health of your parents and children, just get it done!
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1 Million + People Download Study Showing Heavy Aluminum Deposits In Autistic Brains
In Brief
- The Facts:
A landmark paper published in 2018 showing high amounts of aluminum in autistic brains has not been dowloaded more than 1 million times.
- Reflect On:
Why are federal health regulatory agencies ignoring the emerging science showing concerns with regards to injected aluminum? Why don't they address the concerns and conduct safety studies?
What Happened: In 2018, Professor of Bioinorganic Chemistry at Keele University, who is considered one of the world's leading experts in aluminum toxicology, published a paper in the Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine & Biology showing very high amounts of aluminum in the brain tissue of people with autism. Exley has examined more than 100 brains, and the aluminum content in these people is some of the highest he has ever seen and raises new questions about the role of aluminum in the etiology of autism. Five people were used in the study, comprising of four males and one female, all between the ages of 14-50. Each of their brains contained what the authors considered unsafe and high amounts of aluminum compared to brain tissues of patients with other diseases where high brain aluminum content is common, like Alzheimer's disease, for example.
It's now been downloaded by more than 1 million people. The photo below was posted recently via his Instagram account.
Here is a summary of the study's main findings:
-All five individuals had at least one brain tissue with a "pathologically significant" level of aluminum, defined as greater than or equal to 3.00 micrograms per gram of dry brain weight (μg/g dry wt). (Dr. Exley and colleagues developed categories to classify aluminum-related pathology after conducting other brain studies, wherein older adults who died healthy had less than 1 μg/g dry wt of brain aluminum.)
-Roughly two-thirds (67%) of all the tissue samples displayed a pathologically significant aluminum content.
-Aluminum levels were particularly high in the male brains, including in a 15-year-old boy with ASD who had the study's single highest brain aluminum measurement (22.11 μg/g dry wt)—many times higher than the pathologically significant threshold and far greater than levels that might be considered as acceptable even for an aged adult.
-Some of the elevated aluminum levels rivaled the very high levels historically reported in victims of dialysis encephalopathy syndrome (a serious iatrogenic disorder resulting from aluminum-containing dialysis solutions).
-In males, most aluminum deposits were inside cells (80/129), whereas aluminum deposits in females were primarily extracellular (15/21). The majority of intracellular aluminum was inside non-neuronal cells (microglia and astrocytes).
-Aluminum was present in both grey matter (88 deposits) and white matter (62 deposits). (The brain's grey matter serves to process information, while the white matter provides connectivity.)
-The researchers also identified aluminum-loaded lymphocytes in the meninges (the layers of protective tissue that surround the brain and spinal cord) and in similar inflammatory cells in the vasculature, furnishing evidence of aluminum's entry into the brain "via immune cells circulating in the blood and lymph" and perhaps explaining how youth with ASD came to acquire such shockingly high levels of brain aluminum.
Following up this paper, Exely recently published recently published a paper titled "The role of aluminum adjuvants in vaccines raises issues that deserve independent, rigorous and honest science." In their publication, they provide evidence for their position that "the safety of aluminium-based vaccine adjuvants, like that of any environmental factor presenting a risk of neurotoxicity and to which the young child is exposed, must be seriously evaluated without further delay, particularly at a time when the CDC is announcing a still increasing prevalence of autism spectrum disorders, of 1 child in 54 in the USA."
In the interview below, Exley answers a lot of questions, but the part that caught my attention was:
We have looked at what happens to the aluminum adjuvant when it's injected and we have shown that certain types of cells come to the injection site and take up the aluminum inside them. You know, these same cells we also see in the brain tissue in autism. So, for the first time we have a link that honestly I had never expected to find between aluminum as an adjuvant in vaccines and that same aluminum potentially could be carried by those same cells across the blood brain barrier into the brain tissue where it could deposit the aluminum and produce a disease, Encephalopathy (brain damage), it could produce the more severe and disabling form of autism. This is a really shocking finding for us.
The interview is quite informative with regards to aluminum toxicology in general, but if you're interested in the quote above, you can fast forward to the twelve minutes and thirty seconds mark.
Why This Is Important: There are many concerns being raised about aluminum in vaccines, and where that aluminum goes when it's injected into the body. Multiple animal studies have now shown that when you inject aluminum, it doesn't exit the body but travels to distant organs and eventually ends up in the brain where it's detectable 1-10 years after injection. When we take in aluminum from our food or whatever however, the body does a great job of getting rid of it.
When you inject aluminum, it goes into a different compartment of your body. It doesn't come into that same mechanism of excretion. So, and of course it can't because that's the whole idea of aluminum adjuvants, aluminum adjuvants are meant to stick around and allow that antigen to be presented over and over and over again persistently, otherwise you wouldn't put an adjuvant in in the first place. It can't be inert, because if it were inert it couldn't do the things it does. It can't be excreted because again it couldn't provide that prolonged exposure of the antigen to your immune system. – Dr Christopher Shaw, University of British Columbia. (source)
Furthermore, federal health regulatory agencies have not appropriately studied the aluminum adjuvants mechanisms of action after injection, it's simply been presumed safe after more than 90 years of use in various vaccines.
It's also important to note that A group of scientists and physicians known as The Physicians For Informed Consent (PIC) have discovered a crucial math error in a FDA paper regarding the safety of aluminum in vaccines.
If you want to access the science and studies about injected aluminum not exiting the body, and more information about aluminum in vaccines in general, you can refer to THIS article, and THIS article I recently published on the subject that goes into more detail and provides more sources, science and exampels.
The Takeaway: When it comes to vaccine safety, why does mainstream media constantly point fingers and call those who have concerns "anti-vax conspiracy theorists?" Why don't they ever address the science and concerns being raised that paint vaccines in a light that they've never been painted in? What's going on here? Would more rigorous safety testing of our vaccines not be in the best interests of everybody? Who would ever oppose that and why?
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CDC Virologist: OP Vaccine Has Created Polio Outbreaks
In Brief
- The Facts:
According to Mark Pallansch, a CDC virologist, the oral polio vaccine has created more disease outbreaks than they've stopped. The oral polio vaccine is now responsible for many outbreaks across multiple countries.
- Reflect On:
Can these outbreaks caused by the oral polio vaccine really be brought under control by another vaccine used to combat the oral polio vaccine outbreaks? Is that such a good idea or is more caution warranted here?
This article has been updated and corrected.
What Happened: In 2019 Mark Pallansch, a virologists with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta, told sciencemag.org that by using mOPV2 (oral polio vaccine), "we have now created more new emergences of the virus than we have stopped." This is known as "vaccine-derived poliovirus." Yes, you read that correctly, and it's one of multiple examples of vaccines causing disease outbreaks. For example, A study published in 2017 in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology found that "During the measles outbreak in California in 2015, a large number of suspected cases occurred in recent vaccinees. Of the 194 measles sequences obtained in the United States in 2015, 73 were identified as vaccine sequences…" This means 37 percent of the cases analyzed were a result of the vaccine. You can read more about the measles and the MMR vaccine specifically, here.
Why This Is Important: The spread of the virus due to the oral vaccine is plaguing Africa,
The global initiative to eradicate polio is badly stuck, battling the virus on two fronts. New figures show the wild polio virus remains entrenched in Afghanistan and in Pakistan, its other holdout, where cases are surging. In Africa, meanwhile, the vaccine itself is spawning virulent strains. The leaders of the world's biggest public health program are now admitting that success is not just around the corner—and intensively debating how to break the impasse. (source)
Children's Health Defense explains,
The oral polio vaccine (OPV) is in use around the world and constitutes the "workhorse" of global polio eradication efforts due to its low cost and ease of administration. The OPV contains live but weakened polioviruses that match up to wild polioviruses. Vaccine researchers have long known that these OPV-derived viruses can themselves cause polio, particularly when they get "loose in the environment." In settings with poor sanitation and iffy hygiene, the vaccine viruses can easily "find their way into water sources, and onto contaminated hands or foods," where they can then launch a self-perpetuating chain of transmission. Researchers concede that an OPV virus "can very rapidly regain its strength if it starts spreading on its own," acquiring "mutations that make it basically indistinguishable from the wild-type virus." In other words, there is no meaningful difference between a wild and OPV-derived poliovirus "in terms of virulence and in terms of how the virus spreads."
The oral vaccine has been causing outbreaks in multiple countries for a long time, in fact, it has been responsible for close to 90% of the vaccine-derived polioviruses circulating since the year 2000, but it was only recently when the World Health Organization (WHO) brought more attention to the issue via their website in September of this year.
In fact, between August 2019 and August 2020, there were 400 recorded cases of vaccine-derived polio in more than 20 countries worldwide
The Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), headed by the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation had scientists actually predict predict that some vaccine-virus-derived outbreaks would indeed occur, but they thought they could handle these outbreaks with another vaccine.
The frequency with which type 2 vaccine-derived outbreaks are occurring has far exceeded projections—and the rush to administer the new monovalent type 2 vaccine appears to be exacerbating rather than stemming the problem. In an astonishing admission, a CDC virologist has stated that due to the stop-gap use of the new type-2-only vaccine, "We have now created more new emergences of the virus than we have stopped." Another vaccine expert has remarked, "if you just keep trickling in with a little bit of [monovalent] vaccine every time you think you have a problem all you're doing is reseeding [more transmission chains]."
There had been no cases of wild poliovirus on the African continent since September 2016, but by July 2019, the WHO was cautioning that there was a high risk of ongoing type 2 vaccine virus spreading across Africa. Outbreak investigators have been documenting an uptick in circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 in both human and environmental samples since mid-2017 (two years after the "switch"), generally obtaining human samples either from children presenting with acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) or from "healthy community contacts." Although the WHO describes polio as just one of AFP's possible causes, African labs have been isolating type 2 vaccine virus in case after case of AFP.
To date, surveillance reports have noted the presence of the vaccine-derived type 2 poliovirus in Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, and Somalia. In Nigeria, type 2 has spread from the north of the country to Lagos—Nigeria's largest and most densely populated city. In Ghana, soon after investigators found type 2 vaccine viruses in sewage in the capital of Accra, a toddler 400 miles away was diagnosed with vaccine virus paralysis—representing Ghana's "first ever" reported outbreak of type 2 vaccine-derived poliovirus.
And to think in Pakistan they were jailing parents who were refusing to give their children the oral polio vaccine, perhaps they still are?
Something else to consider: According to fact-checker Health Feedback, "Vaccination has been effective in eradicating polio from the vast majority of developing countries, preventing an estimated 16 million cases and 1.5 million deaths worldwide. While vaccine-derived polio cases do occur, they are very rare and can be avoided by improving sanitation and vaccine coverage in vulnerable communities."
They go on to state that
While vaccine-derived polio cases currently exceed wild poliovirus cases, this is only because polio vaccination campaigns have eradicated the wild virus from the vast majority of countries. Only one of the three original strains of wild poliovirus remains. In contrast to the estimated 350,000 children paralyzed by polio in 1988, which is the year when the GPEI launched the vaccination program, the WHO reported only 539 polio cases worldwide in 2019. In the absence of the oral vaccine, the virus could have paralyzed more than 6.5 million children in the past ten years.
You can read more about what they have to say, about polio and the polio vaccine here.
The Takeaway: Why is so much credible information about the safety concerns regarding vaccines never addressed by the mainstream media? Why do they never address and counter the concerns, and why instead do they constantly use ridicule and terms like "anti-vax conspiracy theorists?" Would more rigorous safety testing of our vaccines not be in the best interests of everybody? Who would ever oppose that and why?
Related CE Article: Scientists Call For Safety Testing of Aluminum Based Vaccine Adjuvants
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Multiple Studies Strongly Suggest Wireless Radiation Is Harming Our Bees
In Brief
- The Facts:
Unnatural sources of electromagnetic seem to be harming not only us, but our bees, trees and other insects.
- Reflect On:
How is so much of this technology able to rollout without appropriate safety testing? Why do many countries already have bans and restrictions in places like schools and nursing homes?
Multiple studies have shown that unnatural sources of electromagnetic radiation "biological effects. period. This is no longer a subject for debate when you look at PubMed and the peer-reviewed literature. These effects are seen in all life forms; plants, animals, insects, microbes. In humans, we have clear evidence of cancer now, there is no question. We have evidence of DNA damage, cardiomyopathy, which is the precursor of congestive heart failure, neuropsychiatric effects…" – Dr. Sharon Goldberg, an internal medicine physician.
Here's one out of thousands of studies that properly outline the health and environmental concerns of wireless radiation, including the novel 5G technology that's been rolling out all over the world. Not long ago, The Environmental Health Trust filed a case against the U.S. Federal Communications Commission regarding 5G and wireless radiation, citing health and environmental concerns.
Hundreds of scientists have been petitioning the United Nations about this issue but to no avail. Despite the concerns raising by more than 2000 studies, the topic is still ridiculed and sometimes even deemed a "conspiracy within the mainstream media.
If you want to find/read some more science on this subject, you can refer to this article for a few more examples, and be sure to visit the Environmental Health Trust for more.
What Happened: The Environmental Health TrustThe information below comes from and was put together by .
Electromagnetic fields from powerlines, cell phones, cell towers and wireless has been shown to negatively impact birds, bees, wildlife and our environment in numerous peer reviewed research studies. Specifically, electromagnetic radiation has been found to alter bee behavior, produce biochemical changes and impact bee reproduction.
A publication by Daniel Favre describes the methodology for a study in which direct adverse were seen in the bees' behavior following exposure to electromagnetic fields. Favre states, "The present data strongly suggest that honeybee colonies are affected and disturbed by electromagnetic waves (RF-EMF)." In his comprehensive review article, Ulrich Warnke cites multiple studies which examine the effects of radiofrequency radiation exposure on bees and notes the vital importance of bees as pollinators. Research has found behavioral effects after electromagnetic radiation exposure including inducing artificial worker piping (Favre, 2011), disrupting navigation abilities (Goldsworthy, 2009; Sainudeen, 2011; Kimmel et al., 2007) decreasing rate egg laying rate (Sharma and Kumar, 2010) and reducing colony strength (Sharma and Kumar, 2010; Harst et al., 2006). Furthermore, Neelima Kumar and colleagues found cell phone radiation influences honey bees' behavior and physiology. (2011).
As Clarke et al. (2013) has reported, bees have a particular sensory modality which allows them to detect electric fields, and thus they are particularly susceptible to large amounts of electromagnetic radiation.
5G Millimeter Waves, Bees and Insects
"Exposure of Insects to Radio-Frequency Electromagnetic Fields from 2 to 120 GHz" published in Scientific Reports is the first study to investigate how insects (including the Western honeybee) absorb the higher frequencies (2 GHz to 120 GHz) to be used in the 4G/5G rollout. The scientific simulations showed increases in absorbed power between 3% to 370% when the insects were exposed to the frequencies. Researchers concluded, "This could lead to changes in insect behaviour, physiology, and morphology over time…." (Thielens 2018)
Clearly, more research is necessary to understand the full impact of RFR on bees and other insects. However, enough research has been performed to indicate an urgent need to reduce electromagnetic radiation exposures to protect the bee population and in turn, protect the environment. As 5G will increase radiation exposures and use new higher frequencies shown to be highly absorbed into insects , scientists are calling for a moratorium on 5G.
Colony Collapse Disorder is thought to be caused by a combination of several factors including pesticides, chemicals and parasitic infection. Importantly, researchers have proposed that the stress of ever increasing electromagnetic radiation exposure has weakened bee populations and added stress that then results in decreased ability to maintain their health when also exposed to increased pesticides, chemicals and infections. The bees resistance to environmental stressors is weakened by EMF exposure.
Herriman, Sasha. "Study links bee decline to cell phones." CNN (30 June 2010).
Chokshi, Niraj. "If Cell Phones Are Behind the Bee Decline, What Are They Doing to Humans?" The Atalantic (30 June 2010).
- "In a study at Panjab University in Chandigarh, northern India, researchers fitted cell phones to a hive and powered them up for two fifteen-minute periods each day. After three months, they found the bees stopped producing honey, egg production by the queen bee halved, and the size of the hive dramatically reduced."
- "Andrew Goldsworthy, a biologist from Imperial College, London, told CNN that the reason may have to do with radiation from cell phones and cell towers disturbing the molecules of the chemical cryptochrome, which bees and other animals use for navigation. The "other animals" part there is key: it includes humans."
Derbyshire, David. "Why a mobile phone ring may make bees buzz off: Insects infuriated by handset signals." Daily Mail (13 May 2011).
- Dr Favre, a teacher who previously worked as a biologist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, said: 'This study shows that the presence of an active mobile phone disturbs bees – and has a dramatic effect.'
- He placed two mobile phones under a beehive and recorded the high pitched calls made by the bees when the handsets were switched off, placed on stand-by and activated.
- Around 20 to 40 minutes after the phones were activated, the bees began to emit "piping" calls – a series of high pitched squeaks that announce the start of swarming.
"Cell Phones Caused Mysterious Worldwide Bee Deaths, Study Finds." Fox News (13 May 2011).
Shepherd et al., Increased aggression and reduced aversive learning in honey bees exposed to extremely low frequency electromagnetic fields. PLoS One. 2019 Oct 10
- Exposure to ELF EMF reduced aversive learning performance and also increased aggression scores
- "These results indicate that short-term exposure to ELF EMFs, at levels that could be encountered in bee hives placed under power lines, reduced aversive learning and increased aggression levels. These behavioural changes could have wider ecological implications in terms of the ability of bees to interact with, and respond appropriately to, threats and negative environmental stimuli."
Shepherd et al., Extremely Low Frequency Electromagnetic Fields impair the Cognitive and Motor Abilities of Honey Bees, Scientific Reports volume 8, Article number: 7932 (2018)
- Extremely low frequency electromagnetic field (ELF EMF) pollution from overhead powerlines is known to cause biological effects across many phyla, but these effects are poorly understood. Honey bees are important pollinators across the globe and due to their foraging flights are exposed to relatively high levels of ELF EMF in proximity to powerlines. Here we ask how acute exposure to 50 Hz ELF EMFs at levels ranging from 20–100 µT, found at ground level below powerline conductors, to 1000–7000 µT, found within 1 m of the conductors, affects honey bee olfactory learning, flight, foraging activity and feeding. ELF EMF exposure was found to reduce learning, alter flight dynamics, reduce the success of foraging flights towards food sources, and feeding.
- The results suggest that 50 Hz ELF EMFs emitted from powerlines may represent a prominent environmental stressor for honey bees, with the potential to impact on their cognitive and motor abilities, which could in turn reduce their ability to pollinate crops.
Cammaerts, Marie-Claire. "Is electromagnetism one of the causes of the CCD? A work plan for testing this hypothesis." Journal of Behavior 2.1 (2017): 1006.
- The decline of domestic bees all over the world is an important problem still not well understood by scientists and beekeepers, and far from being solved. Its reasons are numerous: among others, the use of pesticides and insecticides, the decrease of plant diversity, and bee's parasites. Besides these threats, there is a potential adverse factor little considered: manmade electromagnetism.
- The present paper suggests two simple experimental protocols for bringing to the fore the potential adverse effect of electromagnetism on bees and to act consequently. The first one is the observation of bees' avoidance of a wireless apparatus; the second one is the assessment of colonies' strength and of the intensity of the electromagnetism field (EMF) surrounding them. If bees avoid a wireless apparatus, if hives in bad health are located in EMF of a rather high intensity, it can be presumed that bees are affected by manmade electromagnetism. This should enable searching for palliative measures.
Favre, Daniel. "Disturbing Honeybees' Behavior with Electromagnetic Waves: a Methodology." Journal of Behavior 2.2 (2017): 1010.
- "Mobile phone companies and policy makers point to studies with contradictory results and usually claim that there is a lack of scientific proof of adverse effects of electromagnetic fields on animals. The present perspective article describes an experiment on bees, which clearly shows the adverse effects of electromagnetic fields on these insects' behavior. The experiment should be reproduced by other researchers so that the danger of manmade electromagnetism (for bees, nature and thus humans) ultimately appears evident to anyone."
Balmori, Alfonso. "Anthropogenic radiofrequency electromagnetic fields as an emerging threat to wildlife orientation." Science of The Total Environment 518–519 (2015): 58–60.
- Current evidence indicates that exposure at levels that are found in the environment (in urban areas and near base stations) may particularly alter the receptor organs to orient in the magnetic field of the earth.
- These results could have important implications for migratory birds and insects, especially in urban areas, but could also apply to birds and insects in natural and protected areas where there are powerful base station emitters of radiofrequencies.
Redlarski, Grzegorz, et al. "The influence of electromagnetic pollution on living organisms: historical trends and forecasting changes." BioMed Research International 2015.234098 (2015).
- "Current technologies have become a source of omnipresent electromagnetic pollution from generated electromagnetic fields and resulting electromagnetic radiation. In many cases this pollution is much stronger than any natural sources of electromagnetic fields or radiation. The harm caused by this pollution is still open to question since there is no clear and definitive evidence of its negative influence on humans. This is despite the fact that extremely low frequency electromagnetic fields were classified as potentially carcinogenic.
- For these reasons, in recent decades a significant growth can be observed in scientific research in order to understand the influence of electromagnetic radiation on living organisms. However, for this type of research the appropriate selection of relevant model organisms is of great importance. It should be noted here that the great majority of scientific research papers published in this field concerned various tests performed on mammals, practically neglecting lower organisms.
- In that context the objective of this paper is to systematise our knowledge in this area, in which the influence of electromagnetic radiation on lower organisms was investigated, including bacteria, E. coli and B. subtilis, nematode, Caenorhabditis elegans, land snail, Helix pomatia, common fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, and clawed frog, Xenopus laevis."
Richard Odemer, Franziska Odemer, Effects of radiofrequency electromagnetic radiation (RF-EMF) on honey bee queen development and mating success
- We have therefore exposed honey bee queen larvae to the radiation of a common mobile phone device (GSM) during all stages of their pre-adult development including pupation. After 14 days of exposure, hatching of adult queens was assessed and mating success after further 11 days, respectively. Moreover, full colonies were established of five of the untreated and four of the treated queens to contrast population dynamics. We found that mobile phone radiation had significantly reduced the hatching ratio but not the mating success.
Clarke, Dominic, et al. "Detection and Learning of Floral Electric Fields by Bumblebees." Science 340.6128 (2013): 66-9.
- "We report a formerly unappreciated sensory modality in bumblebees (Bombus terrestris), detection of floral electric fields. Because floral electric fields can change within seconds, this sensory modality may facilitate rapid and dynamic communication between flowers and their pollinators."
Cucurachi, C., et al. "A review of the ecological effects of radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMF)." Environment International 51 (2013): 116–40.
- RF-EMF had a significant effect on birds, insects, other vertebrates, other organisms and plants in 70% of the studies.
- Development and reproduction of birds and insects are the most strongly affected endpoints.
Favre, Daniel. "Mobile phone induced honeybee worker piping." Apidologie 42 (2011): 270-9.
- Electromagnetic waves originating from mobile phones had a dramatic impact on the behavior of the bees, namely by inducing the worker piping signal. In natural conditions, worker piping either announces the swarming process of the bee colony or is a signal of a disturbed bee colony.
Goldsworthy, Andrew. "The Birds, the Bees and Electromagnetic Pollution: How electromagnetic fields can disrupt both solar and magnetic bee navigation and reduce immunity to disease all in one go." (2009).
- Many of our birds are disappearing mysteriously from the urban environment and our bees are now under serious threat. There is increasing evidence that at least some of this is due to electromagnetic pollution such as that from cell towers, cell phones, DECT cordless phones and Wifi. It appears capable of interfering with their navigation systems and also their circadian rhythms, which in turn reduces their resistance to disease. The most probable reason is that these animals use a group of magnetically-sensitive substances called cryptochromes for magnetic and solar navigation and also to control the activity of their immune systems.
Goldsworthy, Andrew. "The Biological Effects of Weak Electromagnetic Fields: Problems and Solutions." (2012)
- "Many of the reported biological effects of non-ionising electromagnetic fields occur at levels too low to cause significant heating; i.e. they are non thermal. Most of them can be accounted for by electrical effects on living cells and their membranes. The alternating fields generate alternating electric currents that flow through cells and tissues and remove structurally-important calcium ions from cell membranes, which then makes them leak."
Thielens et al., "Exposure of Insects to Radio-Frequency Electromagnetic Fields from 2 to 120 GHz" Scientific Reports volume 8, Article number: 3924 (2018)
- "Insects are continually exposed to Radio-Frequency (RF) electromagnetic fields at different frequencies. This paper is the first to report the absorbed RF electromagnetic power in four different types of insects as a function of frequency from 2 GHz to 120 GHz. All insects showed a general increase in absorbed RF power at and above 6 GHz, in comparison to the absorbed RF power below 6 GHz. Our simulations showed that a shift of 10% of the incident power density to frequencies above 6 GHz would lead to an increase in absorbed power between 3–370%."
- "This could lead to changes in insect behaviour, physiology, and morphology over time due to an increase in body temperatures, from dielectric heating. The studied insects that are smaller than 1 cm show a peak in absorption at frequencies (above 6 GHz), which are currently not often used for telecommunication, but are planned to be used in the next generation of wireless telecommunication systems."
Greggers, Uwe, et al. "Reception and learning of electric fields in bees." Proceedings of the Royal Society B 280.1759 (2013).
- Honeybees, like other insects, accumulate electric charge in flight, and when their body parts are moved or rubbed together. We report that bees emit constant and modulated electric fields when flying, landing, walking and during the waggle dance.
- The electric fields emitted by dancing bees consist of low- and high-frequency components. Both components induce passive antennal movements in stationary bees according to Coulomb's law. Bees learn both the constant and the modulated electric field components in the context of appetitive proboscis extension response conditioning.
- Using this paradigm, we identify mechanoreceptors in both joints of the antennae as sensors. Other mechanoreceptors on the bee body are potentially involved but are less sensitive. Using laser vibrometry, we show that the electrically charged flagellum is moved by constant and modulated electric fields and more strongly so if sound and electric fields interact.
- Recordings from axons of the Johnston organ document its sensitivity to electric field stimuli. Our analyses identify electric fields emanating from the surface charge of bees as stimuli for mechanoreceptors, and as biologically relevant stimuli, which may play a role in social communication.
Harst, Wolfgang, Jochen Kuhn and Hermann Stever. "Can Electromagnetic Exposure Cause a Change in Behaviour? Studying Possible Non-thermal Influences on Honey Bees – An Approach Within the Framework of Educational Informatics." Acta Systemica-IIAS International Journal 6.1 (2006): 1-6.
- A pilot study on honeybees testing the effects of non-thermal, high frequency electromagnetic radiation on beehive weight and flight return behavior. In exposed hives, bees constructed 21% fewer cells in the hive frames after 9 days than those unexposed.
Odemer, Richard & Odemer, Franziska. (2019). Effects of radiofrequency electromagnetic radiation (RF-EMF) on honey bee queen development and mating success. Science of The Total Environment. 661. 553-562. 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.01.154.
- Chronic RF-EMF exposure significantly reduced hatching of honey bee queens. Mortalities occurred during pupation, not at the larval stages. Mating success was not adversely affected by the irradiation.mAfter the exposure, surviving queens were able to establish intact colonies.
Kimmel, Stefan, et al. "Electromagnetic radiation: influences on honeybees (Apis mellifera)." IIAS-InterSymp Conference (2007).
- 39.7% of the non-irradiated bees had returned to their hives while only 7.3% of the irradiated bees had.
Kumar, Neelima R., Sonika Sangwan, and Pooja Badotra. "Exposure to cell phone radiations produces biochemical changes in worker honey bees." Toxicology International 18.1 (2011): 70–2.
- The present study was carried out to find the effect of cell phone radiations on various biomolecules in the adult workers of Apis mellifera L. The results of the treated adults were analyzed and compared with the control. Radiation from the cell phone influences honey bees' behavior and physiology. There was reduced motor activity of the worker bees on the comb initially, followed by en masse migration and movement toward "talk mode" cell phone. The initial quiet period was characterized by rise in concentration of biomolecules including proteins, carbohydrates and lipids, perhaps due to stimulation of body mechanism to fight the stressful condition created by the radiations. At later stages of exposure, there was a slight decline in the concentration of biomolecules probably because the body had adapted to the stimulus.
Lambinet, Veronika, et al. "Honey bees possess a polarity-sensitive magnetoreceptor." Journal of Comparative Physiology A(2017): 1-8
- "Honey bees, Apis mellifera, exploit the geomagnetic field for orientation during foraging and for alignment of their combs within hives. We tested the hypothesis that honey bees sense the polarity of magnetic fields."
- We created an engineered magnetic anomaly in which the magnetic field generally either converged toward a sugar reward in a watch glass, or away from it. After bees in behavioral field studies had learned to associate this anomaly with a sugar water reward, we subjected them to two experiments performed in random order. In both experiments, we presented bees with two identical sugar water rewards, one of which was randomly marked by a magnetic field anomaly. During the control experiment, the polarity of the magnetic field anomaly was maintained the same as it was during the training session. During the treatment experiment, it was reversed.
- We predicted that bees would not respond to the altered anomaly if they were sensitive to the polarity of the magnetic field. Our findings that bees continued to respond to the magnetic anomaly when its polarity was in its unaltered state, but did not respond to it when its polarity was reversed, support the hypothesis that honey bees possess a polarity-sensitive magnetoreceptor.
Oschman, James and Nora Oschman. "Electromagnetic communication and olfaction in insects." Frontier Perspectives (2004).
Philips, Alasdair and Jean Philips. "Animals, Birds, Insects and Plants." Radiofrequency EMFS and Health Risks (2017).
- The current problem is thought to be a combination of different factors. Pesticides are weakening the bees without killing them, making them more susceptible to other environmental pollutants. The bees seem to leave the hive looking for nectar and fail to return.
EMFs from telecommunications infrastructures could interfere with bees' biological clocks that enable them to compensate properly for the sun's movements and may fly in the wrong direction when attempting to return to the hive. They could disappear mysteriously. This phenomenon has been widely reported in the past months.
"Report on Possible Impacts of Communication Towers on Wildlife Including Birds and Bees." Ministry of Environment and Forest, Government of India, 2010.
- This report details the on impacts of communication towers on wildlife including birds and bees submitted to MoEF. It warns of harmful radiation and recommends special laws to protect urban flora & fauna from threats radiation emerging from mobile towers.
Sainudeen, Sahib.S. "Electromagnetic Radiation (EMR) Clashes with Honey Bees." International Journal of Environmental Sciences 1.5 (2011).
- Recently a sharp decline in population of honey bees has been observed in Kerala. Although the bees are susceptible to diseases and attacked by natural enemies like wasps, ants and wax moth, constant vigilance on the part of the bee keepers can over come these adverse conditions. The present plunge in population (< 0.01) was not due to these reasons. It was caused by man due to unscientific proliferation of towers and mobile phones."
- Six colonies of honeybees ( Apis mellifera ) were selected. Three colonies were selected as test colonies (T1,T2&T3) and the rest were as control (C1,C2&C3). The test colonies were provided with mobile phones in working conditions with frequency of 900 MHz for 10 minutes for a short period of ten days. After ten days the worker bees never returned hives in the test colonies. The massive amount of radiation produced by mobile phones and towers is actually frying the navigational skills of the honey bees and preventing them from returning back to their hives.
- The study concludes, "More must also be done to compensate individuals and communities put at risk. Insurance covering diseases related to towers, such as cancer, should be provided for free to people living in 1 km radius around the tower. Independent monitoring of radiation levels and overall health of the community and nature surrounding towers is necessary to identify hazards early. Communities need to be given the opportunity to reject cell towers and national governments need to consider ways of growing their cellular networks without constantly exposing people to radiation."
Sharma, V.P. and N.K. Kumar. "Changes in honeybee behaviour and biology under the influence of cellphone radiations." Current Science 98.10 (2010): 1376-8.
- We have compared the performance of honeybees in cell phone radiation exposed and unexposed colonies. A significant (p < 0.05) decline in colony strength and in the egg laying rate of the queen was observed. The behaviour of exposed foragers was negatively influenced by the exposure, there was neither honey nor pollen in the colony at the end of the experiment."
Sivani, S., and D. Sudarsanam. "Impacts of radio-frequency electromagnetic field (RF-EMF) from cell phone towers and wireless devices on biosystem and ecosystem – A Review." Biology and Medicine, vol. 4, no. 4, 2012, pp. 202–16.
- There is an urgent need for further research and "of the 919 research papers collected on birds, bees, plants, other animals, and humans, 593 showed impacts, 180 showed no impacts, and 196 were inconclusive studies".
- "One can take the precautionary principle approach and reduce RF-EMF radiation effects of cell phone towers by relocating towers away from densely populated areas, increasing height of towers or changing the direction of the antenna."
Warnke, Ulrich. "Birds, Bees and Mankind: Destroying Nature by 'Electrosmog'." Competence Initiative for the Protection of Humanity, Environment and Democracy 1 (2009).
- Bees pollinate approximately 1/3 of all crops and they are disappearing by the millions. Warnke raises the concern that the dense, energetic mesh of electromagnetic fields from wireless technologies may be the cause.
"Briefing Paper on the Need for Research into the Cumulative Impacts of Communication Towers on Migratory Birds and Other Wildlife in the United States." Division of Migratory Bird Management (DMBM), U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, 2009.
- "Potential Radiation Effects on Other Pollinators Radiation has also been implicated in effects on domestic honeybees, pollinators whose numbers have recently been declining due to "colony collapse disorder" (CCD) by 60% at U.S. West Coast apiaries and 70% along the East Coast (Cane and Tepedino 2001).
- CCD is being documented in Greece, Italy, Germany, Portugal, Spain, and Switzerland. One theory regarding bee declines proposes that radiation from mobile phone antennas is interfering with bee navigational systems. Studies performed in Europe have documented navigational disorientation, lower honey production, and decreased bee survivorship (Harst et al. 2006, Kimmel et al. 2006, Bowling 2007).
- This research needs further replication and scientific review, including in North America. Because pollinators, including birds, bees, and bats, play a fundamental role in food security (33% of our fruits and vegetables would not exist without pollinators visiting flowers [Kevan and Phillips 2001]), as pollinator numbers decline, the price of groceries goes up.
- Harst et al. (2006) performed a pilot study on honeybees testing the effects of non-thermal, high frequency electromagnetic radiation on beehive weight and flight return behavior. They found that of 28 unexposed bees released 800 m (2,616 ft) from each of 2 hives, 16 and 17 bees returned in 28 and 32 minutes, respectively, to hives. At the 1900 MHz continuously-exposed hives, 6 bees returned to 1 hive in 38 minutes while no bees returned to the other hive. In exposed hives, bees constructed 21% fewer cells in the hive frames after 9 days than those unexposed. Harst et al. selected honeybees for study since they are good bio-indicators of environmental health and possibly of "electrosmog." Because of some concerns raised regarding the methods used to conduct the Harst et al.(2006) study, specifically the placement of the antenna where bees could contact it (i.e., potentially a bias), the experimental methods need to be redesigned and the studies retested to better elucidate and fine tune the impacts of radiation. The results, while preliminary however, are troubling. Kimmel et al. (2006) performed field experiments on honeybees under conditions nearly identical to the Harst et al. (2006) protocol except that bees were stunned with CO2 and released simultaneously 500 m (1,635 ft) from the hives. However, in one of their experimental groups, they shielded the radiation source and antenna in a reed and clay box to address potential biases raised in the Harst et al. study. Sixteen total hives were tested, 8 of which were irradiated. After 45 minutes when the observations were terminated, 39.7% of the non-irradiated bees had returned to their hives while only 7.3% of the irradiated bees had."
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Insomnia can be particularly hard on parents, because taking care of kids while managing work and other tasks requires so much energy. Some parents are more likely than others to have insomnia—for example, one National Sleep Foundation poll found that 74 percent of stay-at-home moms reported symptoms of insomnia. And parents are more likely to drive drowsy, meaning that sleep disturbances can pose a safety risk as well.
Insomnia in parenthood can come from having to multitask and balance busy lives, complicated schedules, and multiple sets of needs on a daily basis. Some parents find it hard to be "on" all day, managing kids and work demands, and then disconnect completely enough to rest well at night. Instead, lying down in bed brings spinning thoughts of to-do lists and worries about family matters, both small and large.
Create a peaceful sleep environment, wind down, and practice relaxation techniques–these are all important ways to protect sleep as a parent. Make sure your room is comfortable, with a good mattress, pillows, and bedding, and is uncluttered and peaceful (some parents put energy into their children's rooms but forget that their own sleep environment is also important). Disconnect from electronics such as phones and tablets for an hour before bedtime and try not to check emails or go online close to bedtime or in the middle of the night. If you have trouble falling asleep, do a relaxation exercise while lying in bed. These exercises can be very helpful, especially if you practice them regularly. Since your sleep is tied to your child's sleep, talk to your pediatrician if your child is not sleeping through the night.
To a certain degree, sleep troubles are inherent to parenthood. But you should not let bad sleep become a way of life. If you've tried to apply sleep hygiene tips and relaxation exercises and still have trouble sleeping, call your doctor to talk about insomnia and other treatment options.

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George Clooney & Stacy Keibler -- Meet the Parents!
George Clooney & Stacy Keibler Meet the Parents!
It's getting really serious between George Clooney and Stacy Keibler ... 'cause the lovebirds have taken their relationship to the next level ... and flown out both of their parents to Clooney's home in Italy.
While entertaining their 'rents, Stacy and her folks were spotted having ice cream in Lake Como (top) as George and his mom and pop (bottom) walked around town on Tuesday.
This is the first time we can remember seeing Clooney and his parents hanging out with one of George's special ladies and her family.
So we gotta ask ...
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Credit bureaus to get federal oversight for first time
As posted on July 16, 2012 on nbcnews.com
America's credit bureaus are about to get some new scrutiny. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau adopted a rule on Monday that will allow it to keep an eye on the nation's credit reporting industry.
Starting September 30th, the agency will monitor the country's big credit bureaus and conduct on-site examinations to see if these companies are complying with the law. It's similar to what the CFPB already does with the nation's big banks.
This is the first time the federal government will be take an active role in trying to clean up an industry that has a reputation for sloppiness and arrogance, consumer advocates say. Until now, no single federal government agency could access all the information necessary to generate a complete picture of what's happening inside these companies. The CFPB will enforce the laws already on the books and write new rules as needed.
"Supervising this market will help ensure that it works properly for consumers, lenders, and the wider economy," CFPB director Richard Cordray says in a prepared statement. "There is much at stake in making sure it is both fair and effective."
Consumer groups, which have urged better federal oversight for years, are extremely pleased with today's announcement.
"It's important because credit report mistakes are all too common," says Pamela Banks at Consumers Union, the advocacy arm of Consumer Reports. "We hear from people that when they find a mistake on their credit report, they contact the credit bureau and the bureau does little to investigate, or refuses to remove the mistake – even after the consumer has made a case that the information is wrong or inaccurate."
Credit bureaus are required by federal law (the Fair Credit Reporting Act) to remove or correct inaccurate, incomplete or unverifiable information, generally within 30 days of being notified about the problem.
How errors can hurt you
Credit bureaus collect information on your transactions. They know if you pay on time, late or not at all. They know how much credit you have from various lenders, the balances on your creditcards and if you've paid off your mortgage. They also collect information from public records about court judgments, liens and bankruptcies.
Almost every adult in this country has a credit file. Each of the three largest credit reporting companies (Equifax, Experian and TransUnion) maintain files on more than 200 million Americans. The amount of information collected and distributed is mind-boggling. According to the CFPB, the industry sells more than 3 billion reports a year to lenders, utilities, landlords, insurance companies and prospective employers.
A bad credit history can be devastating. You could be denied a car loan or mortgage, pay more for insurance, have higher interest rates on your credit cards, be unable to rent an apartment or even lose a job. And those negative consequences are the same whether the report is accurate or based on erroneous information.
John Ulzheimer, president of Consumer Education at SmartCredit.com, worked at one of the big three credit reporting agencies. He supports any effort that encourages the industry to do a better job of maintaining accurate records.
"People are sick and tired of having inaccurate credit information that impedes their ability to get jobs, get competitive financing or get competitive premiums on insurance policies," he says. "Quite frankly, they're fed up."
How many mistakes?
No one knows for sure how many mistakes the credit reporting agencies makes. Estimates are all over the map. The most recent information comes from The Columbus Dispatch which reported the results of a yearlong investigation in May.
For its series, Credit Scars, the paper collected and analyzed tens of thousands of consumer complaints filed against Equifax, Experian and TransUnion. The findings are eye-opening:
- Nearly a quarter of the complaints filed with the Federal Trade Commission involved mistakes about credit cards, mortgages and car loans.
- More than 5 percent of the complaints dealt with basic personal information – such as birth dates, addresses or Social Security numbers – listed incorrectly.
- More than 5 percent of those who complained to the FTC said their reports listed an account that was not theirs.
- And nearly 200 people said their credit reports listed them as dead, which made it impossible for them to get credit.
The Dispatch reports that Stuart Pratt, president of the Consumer Data Industry Association, questioned the validity of the results. He told the paper that about a fifth of the complaints are filed by people who are trying to have negative but accurate information removed from their file. NBCNews.com contacted CDIA for a comment on today's announcement, but so far no response.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been looking at this issue and plans to publish its findings this fall.
My two cents
This new federal oversight is long overdue and much welcomed. The industry may say it's doing a good job, but by all indications it is not. Even one mistake can be devastating if it's your credit at risk.
The trade group for the credit reporting industry says mistakes happen less than 1 percent of the time. Even if that figure is correct – and I find that had to believe – a 1 percent error rate means about 2 million files contain inaccurate information. That's simply unacceptable.
We live in a world where an error in a credit report can have serious negative consequences. We can't opt-out of the system, so it must work properly. Hopefully, the Consumer Financial Protection Agency can make that happen. You shouldn't be forced to take a credit bureau to court to get a mistake in your file corrected.
Finally, you need to do your part. Federal law gives you the right to get a free copy of your credit report every 12 months from each of the credit reporting agencies. Right now, about 96 percent of these reports are not claimed. That's terrible. The only way to spot a mistake before it hurts you is to look for it. That's your responsibility.
Get those free reports at AnnualCreditReport.com or by calling 1-877-322-8228. Check for errors and if you spot them, report them. If they're not corrected – file a complaint.
The CFPB has a factsheet about its supervision of credit reporting. It's also released a Consumer Advisory about credit reports and a series of questions and answers about credit reporting in its 'Ask CFPB' database.


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No Eisenhower
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The Secretary of Defense gave a good speech over the weekend at the Eisenhower library. Gates used the occasion to evoke Eisenhower and call for discipline in defense spending. But he didn't really mean it.
The speech makes excellent points about how our military's size long ago ceased to have anything to do with our potential enemies. He pointed out that the non‐war defense budget has grown by about half since September 11 and that country's current fiscal circumstance means that that growth has got to slow.
But the speech shows no indication that Gates wants to cut defense spending. It isn't even clear that he has changed his view that defense spending should grow by about 2% annually no matter what happens in the world. He claims that while defense secretary he has canceled programs worth $330 billion in their lifetime. True, but they were replaced by other programs, and the budgets Gates has sent to the Hill have been bigger each year in real terms. A cynical take is that Gates is trying to preempt calls for defense cuts by acting as if roughly flat budgets require great discipline.
What's really going on here is that the cost of the current defense program is growing so fast that you need large annual increases just to keep what you have. The main cause is rapid growth in the cost of operations and maintenance and personnel. Those accounts are squeezing others (research, development and procurement) needed for new vehicles and weapons. Last year, Gates responded to that pressure by proposing cuts in procurement spending. People treated him like a revolutionary for doing so, but he was just balancing his books. Now that the worst white elephant programs are gone (with several glaring exceptions), Gates is pushing the services to cut overhead costs and shift the saving into procurement. And he is telling them to buy more cheap platforms by controlling requirements creep. Same price, better product. End of story.
The point Gates missed about Eisenhower is that he used strategy to limit spending. The New Look was an air force‐first strategy that limited army and navy spending, much to the chagrin of those services. Gates' enthusiasm for counter‐insurgency wars has not lead him to propose cutting the navy and air force budgets to fund the super‐sized ground forces one needs for such missions. His official strategy shows little inclination for hard choices.
Real reductions in military spending require reductions in the ambitions it serves. A cheaper military means doing less. This administration has shown no interest in that. Maybe the fiscal situation will force them to reconsider.


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Welcome Back
In today's post I will be reviewing; Billy Showell's book; A – Z of Flower Portraits.
- Title: A-Z of Watercolour Flower Portraits
- Author: Billy Showell
- Publisher: Search Press
- Price: £17.99 (at time of writing)
My Reason for Buying
I wanted to improve my watercolour techniques, and especially colour mixing and blending. Since sketching trips have been difficult due to health issues, I decided the garden was full of flowers and would provide me with more opportunities to sketch. I tell you this as often a review is based on how well the book lived up to the expectations of its reader, for their purpose 😉
- Introduction
- Composition
- Materials and equipment
- Techniques
- The Flowers
- Plenty of techniques show step by step and photo descriptions at the start of the book
- Finished paintings of the subjects are shown on the individual glower section
- Colour mixes are shown next to the flowers and the colours used for the mixes are listed too
- Smaller pictures of sections of the flower at different stages are shown, which helps you see how the layers progress
- Process of the painting is described, but shortened as the description of the techniques them selves is just at the beginning.
- Haven't got any
Value for Money
Excellent, I've learnt a lot from this book. It's an excellent colour reference for new flower painters.
Would I buy it Again?
Totally. I have the hard back version and recommend you get that if you can, as this is such a useful reference book. The hard back will stay open next to you more easily than a paper back.
Summing up
Although the only 'photographs' are in the techniques section at the start, each flower is shown completed and very clever partially completed pictures are also shown around the page too. I like to see how the layers build up and is often several layers in, before your flower will look like Billies. There is a description of the painting process next to each flower.
This is a beautiful book, a great reference guide for techniques and colour mixes but if you are just starting out and struggle to complete a painting before you subjects wilt, then I'm also enjoying learning to paint different flower/leaf and petal shapes by copying small sections of the images in the book.
Billy is an amazing artist and an excellent teacher too. There is also a DVD available separately that shows the complete process for three flowers; a narcissi, a hellebore and an anemone. This is available from the SAA (See link on my Art tab at the top of the blog). If you have never tried this style of painting before, get the DVD as well as it helps seeing the techniques in action and reinforces the process shown in the book.
A beautiful book and extremely helpful and informative. Highly recommended for anyone interested in paining flowers in watercolour.
Do visit the authors website, where you can not only purchase the book and DVD but also find out about where she teaches.
- Billy Showell website.
- SAA The Society for All Artists
Best wishes and thanks for reading, see you soon
Billie 🙂


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Porsche officially unveiled the 919 Hybrid, their Le Mans Prototype for 2014. Unlike Audi, they haven't figured out their livery yet, so the drivers were announced alongside the still camouflaged car.
Young driver Brendon Hartley was named as a brand new factory driver for the team. He and long-standinng works driver Mark Lieb join as the final drivers for the two car program, alongside already announced Timo Bernhard, Romain Dumas, Neel Jani and Mark Webber. Webber is still officially a driver for Red Bull, meaning he is still prohibited for advertising for Porsche until the end of the month, leading to one of the most awkward press photos of all time.
While Porsche's engine is much lower displacement than its competitors (2.0L is more commonly seen in touring cars, with the GT class at Le Mans being over twice the displacement) the engine rules being based on fuel consumption may work to their advantage.


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Treasonous Murder of ST6: Demand Congressional Investigation!
Treasonous Murder of ST6: Demand Congressional Investigation!
Thanks and a tip of the hat to We The People for embedding this press conference
and bringing it to my attention.
The Gold Star Mother and her colleagues have strength & dignity far
beyond me. In their situation, I would be cursing constantly; praying
for the immediate and eternal damnation of the traitors responsible for
my loss.
This video is long and it is not easy listening. The
stories are heart rending. I ask you to watch and listen to the
whole thing. I ask you to follow up by contacting your
Congressman & Senators demanding a full investigation leading
to impeachment, conviction and removal from office of the AssWhole
chiefly responsible.
After viewing this press conference, share it with
everyone you can induce to watch it. We need to make this fact and
emotion filled press conference go viral, now, well in advance of the
next election cycle.
We are fighting a war half-hearted, unwilling to
identify the enemy and unwilling to make an effort to win. The
rules of engagement are suicidal, as emphasized by the speakers in the
press conference.
The enemy is Islam. Islam, with no qualifiers: not
"extremist", "radical", "Islamist" or "Islamonzi". "Its Islam, Stupid!". The conflict
is existential. The war will not end until Islam is triumphant or
Islam commands global conquest until only Allah is
worshiped, "altogether and everywhere". Islam commands global
conquest until Jews & Christians are subjugated and extorted.
Islam threatens those who refuse to participate in
Jihad with Hellfire. Islam promises those who fight for Allah
admission to his celestial bordello. Islam declares that our
blood and property are not sacred to Muslims; that we have no human
rights until we become Muslims.
The full facts, if widely known, would result in a
clamor for the extinction of Islam. The following list of links
to the Qur'an & hadith offers access to the most crucial of those
3:151, 8:12,39,57,60,65,67,
9:5,29,38, 39,111,120,123,
Sahih Bukhari 1.7.331 & 4.52.220.
We do not need to revolt. We do not need to change
our form of government. We need to remove and replace the LibTurds
& RINOs who are leading us
into Hell. We must replace them with honest, patriotic
Conservatives with enough courage to discover the truth and govern
accordingly. We need to be involved, informed and vigilant. We
must inculcate those lessons in future generations so that our error
will never be repeated.


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little circus
Can I even tell you how much I'd like to shop here? I mean in person, to walk around playing with toys and clothes and shoes. It all looks incredibly well collected and terribly fun.
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Terribly fun indeed! The sort of store I'd end up spending a very, very long time in.ReplyDelete
I shopped there...my Lucky Boy Sunday pillow was one of the ones on the shelf!! Love it!ReplyDelete
<3 It's just in front of my school ! really coool, love it !ReplyDelete
We know what you mean. It is so inspireing.ReplyDelete
oh whow, this shop is amazing!!!!! see? i have ikea in about 5 minutes distance... you have circus!!! :) this is one thrilling shop!!! twiggsReplyDelete
i wish i could shop here too...it's so cute. is there anywhere in boise that is anything like this??ReplyDelete
This place looks amazing!ReplyDelete
It's like visiting a friend and looking around at his collections. So cosy..ReplyDelete
I love the floor tiles btw!
yes i LOVE this shop - i would totally just move in!ReplyDelete
i LOVE this shop!ReplyDelete
it is certainly one of my faves.
Yes it does!ReplyDelete
Hope you have a great day!
I agree!ReplyDelete
What a lovely little shop!
Happy valentine's!
Un gran beso
I could stay for hours! Such a grand place.ReplyDelete
:) Have a lovely week~
so honored ! thank you !ReplyDelete
this place look amazing!ReplyDelete
Whitney, no, there's nothing like this in Boise. Sorry to say!ReplyDelete
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Muppet Wiki's goal is to be as accurate and complete as possible, using the information that's currently available to us. On the Sesame Street Episode Guide pages, we try to track the earliest appearance that we can find for each insert sketch.
There are over 4,400 episodes of Sesame Street, so assembling a complete episode guide is a long-term project. Therefore, we note the "Earliest Known Appearance" of each sketch, with the understanding that that information will change if we find an earlier appearance of the sketch.
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Crew is our happy little guy these days.
I never thought the day would come, but Crew actually enjoys his tummy time now. He is also rolling both ways and really wishing he could crawl.
Skippy trying to be the center of attention.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
5 Months
Crew is our happy little guy these days.
Posted by Unknown at 6:12 PM
6 comments:
- benton said...
Hey is so cute and such a little chunk, I love it!!
- March 16, 2010 at 10:32 PM
- Bert and Benton said...
that was me, Brittany, by the way, benton had signed in and I never check before...
- March 16, 2010 at 10:33 PM
- tamiz said...
He's really a handsome baby! I'm guessing Mom finally called you late last night. She called here at 9, let it ring once and hung up... guessing she accidently dialed me when she really needed you!
- March 17, 2010 at 5:50 AM
- Anonymous said...
Hello. And Bye.
- March 20, 2010 at 6:39 PM
- teesha & joel said...
what a cutie!!
- March 26, 2010 at 6:56 PM
- DeEdra said...
He's a cutie!
- March 28, 2010 at 7:44 AM
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Two weeks ago when President Obama annnounced his new executive actions on gun control surrounded by children and Vice President Joe Biden he said, "Studies estimate that nearly 40 percent of all gun sales are made by private sellers who are exempt from this requirement."
From the Washington Post fact checker:
Earlier this week, we gave this claim a "verdict pending." We said we faced a bit of a conundrum because the 40 percent statistic was based on a single, relatively small survey of 251 people from nearly two decades ago — but that foes of gun control had made it difficult for further research to be conducted.
We also gave kudos to Vice President Biden for acknowledging that the statistic might not be accurate. So we said we would be watching carefully for how the statistic would be used by gun-control advocates in the future
Turns out according to even the Washington Post, that number is far from accurate.
Cash purchase from gun, hardware or department store, from pawnshop, or from seller at gun show, flea market or military, or through mail that respondent says "yes" was FFL [federally licensed dealer]: 22 percent
Add cash purchase from seller at gun show, flea market or military, or though the mail that respondent says "probably was/think so:" 20 percent
Add cash purchases, trades with family, friends/acquaintance that respondent says are or probably are FFL: 14 percent
In other words, rather than being 30 to 40 percent (the original estimate of the range) or "up to 40 percent" (Obama's words), gun purchases without background checks amounted to 14 to 22 percent. And since the survey sample is so small, that means the results have a survey caveat: plus or minus six percentage points.
So, do we really need new "universal background checks?" Marion P. Hammer says absolutely not, there are already plenty of laws on the books.
That's what "universal background checks" do. They turn traditional innocent conduct into a criminal offense. They target you, law-abiding gun owners.
Universal background checks are background checks on EVERY transfer, sale, purchase, trade, gift, rental, and loan of a firearm between any and all individuals.
All background checks must be conducted through a federally licensed dealer. (costing hard earned cash) Universal background checks have nothing to do with gun shows – they are about you.
It is ALREADY a federal felony to be engaged in the business of buying and selling firearms and ammunition without having federal firearm dealers license.
It is ALREADY a crime for a federally licensed dealer to sell a gun without doing a background check – that's all dealers, everywhere, including at retail stores, gun shows, flea markets or anywhere else.
Further, it is ALREADY a federal felony for any private person to sell, trade, give, lend, rent or transfer a gun to a person you know or should have known is not legally allowed to own, purchase or possess a firearm.
The penalty for selling a gun to a person who is a criminal, mentally ill, mentally incompetent, alcohol abuser or drug abuser is 10-year federal felony. That's now, today, with no changes to the law.
It is even a federal felony to submit false information on a background check form for the purpose of purchasing a firearm.
Even so, according to a 2012 report to the Department of Justice, more than 72,000 people were turned down on a gun purchase in 2010 because they didn't pass the background check. Yet, only 44 of those cases were prosecuted.
I encourage you to read Hammer's entire argument here.


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Friday, March 23, 2012
Creative Nonfiction Nonfiction
Lee Gutkind talks about Creative Nonfiction Writing for Scientists
I've been sharing some of the facts that Lee Gutking mentions to anyone who would listen - husband, friends, children, writer friends, the dog, etc. Here are the points that he made - in speaking about creative nonfiction for adults that struck a cord with me as a writer for children:
1) "Creative nonfiction is the fastest growing genre in the publishing industry, right now. Creative nonfiction is the fastest growing genre in the creative academic world, as well."
2) Research, in the past 4 to 5 years, shows that people remember facts that are presented to them and many more facts for a longer period of time when those facts are embedded in a story.
3) People are persuaded in a much more successful way, when the information is presented in a story.
4) We remember our life stories in chapters.
I was fascinated (and curious) by this information and how it relates to children and learning. It appears to me that creative nonfiction books for children have an amazing potential for education. Though creative nonfiction is used in the schools right now, it seems that there is maybe a huge untapped potential to help our children learn - backed by research and data.
I've also been sharing, to anyone who will listen, how Gutkind presented Organ Donation in his book, Many Sleepless Nights: The World of Organ Transplantation. It's toward the end of the video if you get a chance to listen.
So, if you are reading this, guess I have once again managed to get someone to listen to my "aha" moment about creative nonfiction. Love to hear your comments.
3 comments:
- Annalisa said...
"aha" for me too, hehehe.
- March 23, 2012 at 4:44 PM
- Unknown said...
Thanks for writing this, Anna. I looked at the video for a while and I have three comments: One of the MAJOR rules for all authors is "Show, don't tell." For someone who writes creative nonfiction, Lee Gutkin does way too much "telling" and not enough "showing." I got bored by his didactic approach. He would have held my attention if he had given some examples. Maybe he does at the end but he lost me. Second, a narrative is only one creative approach to nonfiction. There are many others including poetry and hands-on instruction to give experiences to readers. And third, not everyone knows what is meant by the term "creative" in "creative nonfiction." He should stipulate somewhere that "nonfiction" means "nothing is made up." I've had writers tell me that they write "creative nonfiction" when they are actually writing historical fiction.
- March 23, 2012 at 5:39 PM
- Linda Zajac said...
Thanks for sharing! Many cultures (Indian, African, for example) teach with story. It's funny (sad actually) how we need research to show that this method is worthy before it's actively pursued.
Vicki, you probably lost interest in the video before he said (near the end) that everything must be factual. He also spent quite a bit of time talking about how he structured his book.
BIG DIFFERENCE between creative nonfiction and historical nonfiction.
- March 23, 2012 at 7:49 PM