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Harvard Study: Lower IQ in Children Exposed to FluorideActivism, Healthy Living
Are you still drinking fluoridated water, using fluoride toothpaste or permitting the dentist to administer fluoride treatments on your children? Even worse, are you using fluoride tablets thinking this will somehow help prevent cavities in your child?
Parents: It's time to wake up! The strong evidence that fluoride negatively impacts children's neurological development and actually lowers their IQ just keeps growing and growing.
The latest nail in the coffin for fluoride comes from the prestigious journal Environmental Health Perspectives which has recently published a thorough and systematic review by Harvard researchers of eligible studies through the end of 2011 in order to examine the possible adverse effects of exposure to fluoride and the potential of delayed neurobehavioral development in children.
The findings of the Harvard researchers whose study was funded by the National Institutes of Health is nothing short of disturbing:
"… children in high fluoride areas had significantly lower IQ scores than those who lived in low fluoride areas."
As a result of their analysis, the researchers concluded the following about fluoride exposure:
"The results support the possibility of an adverse effect of high fluoride exposure on children's neurodevelopment. Future research should include detailed individual-level information on prenatal exposure, neurobehavioral performance, and covariates for adjustment."
This research dovetails with what the EPA already knows having classified fluoride as a chemical for which there is substantial evidence of toxicity to neurodevelopment.
Fortunately, communities around the United States are finally starting to take action by voting to have fluoride removed from the drinking water, something that most European countries along with China and Japan have already done.
While important, having your children drink nonfluoridated water is only the first step in protecting them from the devastating neurological impact of fluoride exposure.
These ten tips are provided by the Fluoride Action Network as the best ways to protect from the neurological ravages of excessive fluoride exposure:
- Stop drinking fluoridated water.
- Don't let your child swallow fluoride toothpaste (I would add that it is better to not even use fluoridated toothpaste at all!)
- Do not allow fluoride gel treatments at the dentist. Find a holistic dentist who will let you opt out!
- Eat more fresh food and less processed food as the more processed a food is, the more fluoride it will actually have.
- Buy organic grape juice and wine.
- Use organic tea or reduce tea consumption. Another option is to use white tea made from younger tea leaves. Bottled tea is the worst!
- Avoid cooking in teflon pans.
- Don't take Cipro if you can possibly avoid it and be aware of the fluoride content of many pharmaceuticals.
- Avoid mechanically deboned chicken as fluoride concentrates most heavily in the bone and bone fragments end up in machine processed meat.
- Avoid fluoridated salt.
Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist
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More Studies Link Fluoride to Brain Damage
Legislators Are Mislead About Gravity and Extent of Fluoride Brain Risk
New York — September 13 — Newly discovered and translated published studies reveal fluoride is linked to lower IQ, even at levels added to US water supplies, reports the Fluoride Action Network (FAN). Further, fluoridation promoters misrepresented newly published Harvard fluoride/IQ research.
Thirty-seven studies now link fluoride to reduced IQ in humans. Dozens of other studies correlate fluoride to impaired learning and memory, altered neurobehavioral function, fetal brain damage, and altered thyroid hormone levels. Full studies available at FAN's website http://www.fluoridealert.org/articles/iq-facts/
Harvard researchers recently concluded, after reviewing 27 fluoride/IQ studies, that fluoride's effect on children's developing brains should be a "high research priority" especially in the US which has never investigated brain/fluoride effects.
Fluoridation advocates, however, misinterpreted this research and mislead legislators in Phoenix, Portland, Wichita and elsewhere by stating the Harvard research isn't relevant to Americans. Advocates claimed the Harvard study found only a ½ point difference in IQ, and that the fluoride levels were much higher than Americans experience.
That's wrong. The Harvard team found that fluoride exposure was associated with a statistically significant reduction of 7 IQ points, not the ½ point claimed by advocate, Dr. Myron Allukian. The Pew Children's Dental Campaign and other fluoridation advocates, including Allukian and Portland Mayor Sam Adams, have stated the Harvard study focused on fluoride levels of 11.5 mg/l. Only one of the studies, however, was at 11.5 mg/l.
The majority of water studies examined by the Harvard team investigated fluoride levels which the US EPA says is safe — less than 4 mg/l.
· One study, sponsored by UNICEF, found reduced IQ at just 0.88 mg/l — a level within the "optimal" fluoride range added to the drinking water of over 200 million Americans.
Seven found reduced IQs among children drinking water with fluoride levels between 2.1 and 4 mg/l – levels that 1.4 million Americans drink everyday.
Four found effects at levels between 1.8 and 2.0 mg/l – levels that over 200,000 Americans drink everyday.
EPA's conventional approach to risk assessment limits chemical exposure to levels ten times less than those known to cause adverse effects. With fluoride and IQ, the levels of fluoride in water and urine are – at most – just two or three times more than the amount experienced by tens of millions of American children
Children with iodine deficiencies are particularly harmed by fluoride. And iodine deficiency has increased significantly, now affecting up to 12% of the US population.
Marie Farrar
I am disturbed (as I'm sure would be the authors of the study you quote) at your sweeping pronouncements about fluoride. It is well documented that fluoride strengthens tooth enamel and prevents untold dental decay and pain and suffering. As many other above have pointed out, the Harvard study is a meta-analysis about overexposure to naturally occurring fluoride, many in rural Chinese populations. One of the populations had a whopping 1361.7 mg/kg (1L=1kg) because they burn fluoride-polluted coal. Here is a link to a chart of the studies included: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3491930/table/t1/. Note that most of the control groups had fluoride levels in the range of the recommended fluoridation level of 0.7 mg/L. Please note that this miniscule therapeutic dose of fluoride is almost 6 times less than the EPA's maximum allowed in US water supplies (4 mg/L). What the authors are highlighting is the need for additional research about what that maximum levels should be.
The whole fluoridation controversy is so overblown, and I'm constantly amazed that otherwise rational folks can get misled into believing bizarre conspiracy theories.
For a more balanced approach, I suggest your readers look at the EcoDentistry's blog;http://ecodentistryblog.com/2012/01/19/eda-co-founder-dr-fred-pockrass-talks-fluoride/
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It's not just IQ that's at risk:
Ive been looking at the Pelican whole house water filter, but it doesn't filter fluoride. I need to buy a separate filter for that, which would total like $1600 (which is why we haven't bought it yet). :(. Do any of you own this or an Aquasana?
I have been using Aquasana filtration systems for both my drinking water and my showers. It is reasonably priced and allows me to retain the essential minerals (water is supposed to have) while eliminating chlorine, Cysts, VOCs, Lindane, Alachlor, Atrazine, Benzene, TCE, Lead and last I heard was working on documenting the removal of fluoride. I got a discount by going to http://naturesbeginnings.com
Anytime natural minerals or anything is altered from its natural state, the body does not know what to do with it, and problems will arise. Chemical-based believers don't want to face it, and it's too bad – for them.
If fluoride concentrates in the bones, what does this mean for bone broth??
This is what I am wondering too.
Any info on fluoride exposure during pregnancy, especially from black tea consumption? Had no idea tea was high in fluoride.
Sarah, do you have any knowledge or information about using Borax (boron) for fluoride neutralization/detoxification? There are a few sources online (none very reputable) that make the claim that borax bonds to fluoride and has it pass through your body and can leach fluoride out of your bones. They also claim it helps mobilize calcium, but that's a separate issue.
Any information you have would be worthwhile.
Thanks, Irena
First of all, like all the other lazy asses who took one look at a headline and then copy-pasted all the sources, your title is misleading. The Harvard study did not confirm that fluoride lowers IQ. You actually quoted what they really said in your article: "results support the possibility an adverse effect of high fluoride exposures on children's neurodevelopment". Support. Not Confirmed.
Then there's this whole other thing you didn't notice while you were busy thinking of all the ways to protect your and all your readers from the "neurological ravages" of fluoride. That study that you cited? The authors were actually talking about the fluoride in the waters of China and India (You will see this in fine print in the study itself). Countries where mega-doses of fluoride seep into the water from the soil. So unless you think your toothpaste can compete with that… then I think you're all pretty safe.
So in conclusion, what "possibility" actually means here is that the authors couldn't find any really conclusive answers (despite going all the way to china and india) yet their study still gets eaten up by the likes of you because you saw the word "Harvard" attached to their study.
Maybe next time you jump on the bandwagon you should dig a bit deeper. Oh and not rub any salt in your wounds but here's an example of what a well researched fluoride article is: http://www.cracked.com/quick-fixes/fluoride-lowers-your-iq-b.s.-headline-week/. Oh and look it's from last month. If it's any consolation… your other stuff is ok. I like the fizzy chocolate thing. Good job with that one.
Sara r
I think that article lowered my IQ more than any fluoride exposure…geez. (gab's article).
As Oliver alluded to above, you're exposed to all the nasty chemicals in your water when showering. Therefore, a good shower filter is paramount, not only for your skin. You absorb a fair amount of water through your skin when showering.
And you absorb fluoride and chloride through your lungs while taking a shower.
I just got a new berkey filter (I switched over from dr. mercola's filter) and am LOVING it! I can taste all the mineral goodness. I got the extra filters that remove the flouride and arsenic.
Just curious – Does this filter retain the other elements, the other minerals ( iron, calcium, sodium etc) that is in natural water. Does the filter know to distiguish and separate? Was it designed specifically to target and remove only flouride (and arsenic). Do they tell you what is actually left behind?
Kate @ Modern Alternative Mama
As far as I know, the Berkey removes chlorine, organophosphates, fluoride, and other toxins — more than any other system. But yes, it does leave in iron, calcium, sodium and other trace minerals. I am not sure how it works nor sure they would tell you, trade secret and all. We've been using a Berkey for a year and a half.
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Sarah or other readers: Fluoridation of my drinking water has always irked me. Any idea where I can go to look up the fluoride concentration in my local drinking water? (I live in Arlington, VA).
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When my daughter was a baby, our dentist insisted on flouride drops since we have well water. Every time I tried to give them to her, she would vomit them right back up. After 4-5 tries, I threw the bottle away. The dentist plagued me with tales of how her teeth would be adversely affected and cavity ridden. At almost 22, she has perfect teeth with not one cavity. I read in a holistic dentistry book (sorry can't remember which one) that Hitler purposely added flouride to the drinking water in Germany because at certain levels, it makes people more controllable. Just what the government wants us to be….sheep.
Christine: The Harvard study is a review of 27 fluoride/IQ studies, a meta-analysis, which together show an average deficit of 7 IQ points in children, which is a significant finding, and, unlike most critics information, was published in a scientific peer-reviewed journal. And that journal is published by the federal government (US Dep't of HHS)
There are now over 40 published human studies linking moderately high fluoride exposures with reduced intelligence and/or neurobehavioral deficits
· Over 40 animal studies showing that prolonged exposure to varying levels of fluoride can damage the brain, particularly when coupled with an iodine deficiency, or aluminum excess;
· 15 animal studies reporting that mice or rats ingesting fluoride have an impaired capacity for learning and memory;
· 4 human studies linking fluoride exposure with impaired fetal brain development.
The following is an explanation by Paul Connett, PhD, Executive Director of the Fluoride Action Network and co-author of the book, The Case Against Fluoride.
"Xiang et al, 2003, one of the 27 studies reviewed by Choi estimated that the threshold for the lowering of IQ was 1.9 ppm. A child drinking two liters of water at 1 ppm fluoride (2 mg of fluoride per day) would get more fluoride than some of the Chinese children drinking one liter of water at 1.9 ppm (1.9 mg/day).
'Moreover another study ( Ding et al., 2012) found a lowering of IQ in the range of 0.3 – 3 ppm. No matter how you cut it – and no matter how much you want fluoridation to continue for emotional reasons – the science says that there is no adequate margin of safety – by any normal and rational toxicological standard – to protect ALL of America's children from this serious end point. This outdated practice must be ended QUICKLY before we do further damage to our children and our future. If you must have fluoride, then brush it on your teeth and spit it out but don't force it on the whole population via our drinking water."
About whether the F water levels in the 27 original studies are close enough to be relevant to those in US fluoridated cities. Actually, an even better question is whether the TOTAL F intake in the subjects in China overlaps the F intake of Americans.
When you look at the levels of water F in all of the 27 studies (Choi Table 1) in fact many of the low F reference groups had water F that was considerably less than 0.7 mg/L, with several as low as 0.4 mg/L. The high F groups had as little as 0.88 mg/L F in their water, and many high F groups were in the 2-3 mg/L range. Thus some low F groups had water F concentrations lower than in US fluoridated cities and some had high F concentrations only somewhat higher than in US fluoridated cities.
You might argue that a water F concentration of 2 mg/L is more than "somewhat" higher than in US fluoridated cities. But there are two counterarguments:
First, in toxicology, it is common to provide a safety margin of at least a factor of 10. So a safety factor of 2 just isn't sufficient.
Second, a more relevant measure of F exposure is urine or serum F, both of which reflect the total intake of F from all sources, not just drinking water. In the studies from China, almost none of the children used fluoridated toothpaste, had F supplements, or had dietary sources of F besides drinking water. In the US, all these additional sources of F can easily double the total F intake of a child. So, a Chinese study with a high F group drinking 2 mg/L F would provide a total exposure similar to a population of American children drinking 1 mg/L water.
For references on the urine F level in the Chinese studies, it turns out that 11 reported urine F in addition to water F. For 5 of these the mean urine F was less than 3 mg/L. There is a surprising dearth of information on urine F levels in American children with which to compare these Chinese data. However, a study in the UK (Mansfield 1999) found that about 6% of adults had more than 3 mg/L F in their urine, and the UK has much less fluoridation than the US. Children will tend to have higher total F intake for their body weight and therefore higher urine F because they drink more water for their body weight and are much more likely to swallow toothpaste. That information can be found in the NRC 2006 report.
Most of the Chinese studies are available in translation online at no cost.
So, to put the Choi study into context quantitatively, it suggests that Chinese children with total F exposures that are similar to some American children in fluoridated cities had an average IQ decline of 5-10 points. The levels of F exposure and the consequences are quite pertinent to water fluoridation in the US.
The most important finding of the Choi study is the remarkable consistency of the Chinese studies. Only 1 of the 27 did not find a lowering of IQ in the higher F exposure group. Such consistency is rarely found in meta-analyses. Choi also provides arguments for why it seems unlikely that a systematic bias is creating a spurious effect in all these studies.
Even if the Choi meta-analysis and the studies that underlie it can't prove that IQ is lowered by F at exposure levels occurring in the US, the fact that no government that supports fluoridation has ever sponsored a single higher quality study to try to provide a better answer does not reassure us of the safety of fluoridation.
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I just passed this study on to my dentist office. I think it's important to let our practitioners know that we know what is currently being studied and that we're not uninformed patients. (That, and I just had this discussion a week ago with my hygienist who insisted flouride is completely safe after I told her I don't use toothpaste with flouride because it's a poison. I know… I'm such a trouble-maker!!!) 😛
You ma'am, are an idiot. The professionals are smarter than you. They're constantly performing tests and studies like these. There is a natural level of fluoride in all water. If you want to go back to "natural" everything, our "natural" age to die is in our thirties. Our teeth didn't used to even make it until then. On top of that, there is fluoride in the rivers. Its at a lower amount, but its still present. Your bodies have receptors and very impressive mechanisms to remove toxins. We're very efficient at it. A low level of fluoride is naturally taken care of by your body and makes a large and significant difference in your dental health.
First off, name calling is inappropriate and detracts from your credibility.
Secondly, the fluoride added to the water system is quite different and is a toxic waste product of petroleum fertilizer manufacturing.
Thirdly, if you would take the time to read the work of Weston A. Price and other scientists, and this blog and many others, you'll discover that there were many societies around the world who, eating their native diets before the arrival of modern processed foods, had perfect teeth with virtually no decay. This tooth health was reflected in the rest of their bodies which were strong and resistant to disease.
First off, anyone who strongly believes that every dentist out there in America is trying to POISON them, is an idiot. The dentists and practitioners have already seen this study and they know that it doesn't prove anything. The doses and concentration are significantly higher (5x-1000x) than anything you would get here in the US. Also, the source of the fluoridation (since that seems so important to you) was different. Calling something a "toxic waste product" doesn't mean anything. For one, its only toxic in extremely high doses. Second, we can synthesize this compound in a lab; however, its much more expensive that way so we purify it from a different source. The work of Weston A. Price was done in the 1930's! Its completely obsolete by todays standards. There have been MANY other studies. Also, I like how you reference the other societies where their teeth were perfect. Please, tell me: what was their life expectancy? How often did they eat? What was the percent of the population that starved to death? How many hours did they sleep? Are you suggesting that we follow their example? Are you really holding up some random society as the pinnacle of the best standard of living?
Show me ANY area where ALL the experts "agree." There has always been a lot of debate about the use of flouride in drinking water, hence you see cities that have never flouridated and those that have recently stopped. So saying "the professionals are smarter than you" is meaningless. Which ones? Also, please cite any studies that show that areas with flouridated water have seen decreased levels of dental caries, please?
If you don't trust our government, here's some from Australia:
Er – the first link is a summary of the CDC's official position (no studies), the second link is broken and the third link discusses fluorosis in children's teeth (the mottling of developing teeth due to exposure to too much flouride) but I see nothing about benefits.
Again, where is a study that shows communities BEFORE and AFTER flouridation, that clearly shows a decline in caries?
Here is a study showing flouridated water does NOT decrease dental caries:
In New Hampshire, flouridated water sources must contain a warning:
"Your public water supply is fluoridated. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, if your child under the age of 6 months is exclusively consuming infant formula reconstituted with fluoridated water, there may be an increased chance of dental fluorosis. Consult your child's health care provider for more information."
From the Journal of the American Dental Association, flouride does not decrease cavities but does increase the instance of flourosis.
I'm sorry I can't hold your hand through the CDC website. There are links throughout the article. On the left side of the background page I sent you to is a link called Journal Articles. That's the website that lists all of the articles. They have done studies before and after. The links need to be approved, which takes the moderator some time so I'm not going to put it in. I'm hoping you can figure it out?
The CDC isn't a for-profit government business. The fact that even Republicans don't cut funding to the CDC makes it pretty important. They're role is to be objective. The FDA is overly regulatory and I would argue pretty strongly that they should let more things through than less. No one should ever ban bacon. It should be up to people whether or not they should eat bacon. The only reason I agree with removing fluoride from the water is because it should be up to people.
There is a difference between saying a product is safe versus saying a product is necessary. Fluoride is safe; however, it is not necessary. I know everyone on this website is hypervigilent about hygiene and what goes in their bodies, so its essentially preaching to choir when I say that you do need oral hygeine and to clean your mouth. The easiest anti-microbial (especial in your mouth) is fluoride.
vaccines, like bacon, should also be a matter of choice – and not forced on families, or have the family denied other services from their local clinics because they don't subscribe to certain hysteria or hype.
The CDC wants you to beleive they are an objective agency, giving equal voice to all sides of the debate – this is so not the case, and again if there was Zero profit yeilded, vaccines wouldn't have legs and the CDC wouldn't push it so hard.
And for the record, if you haven't read my rantings and ravings before, I loves me some bacon – HOWEVER, heated fats, fired fats etc can very much be carcinogenic.
Nothing is truly objective, not even the CDC. I don't necessarily believe they are out to poison us all but they are not infallable either. Government agencies are big and slow to change. I'm glad you agree with choice, we all should look at the available reseach and make our choices. I don't think anyone here has made their choices without doing any research, which goes back to my original point. The "experts" do not all agree that flouride has any benefit on dental health. There are other ways of keeping good oral hygiene; oil pulling and probiotics to keep the pathogenic bacteria at bay are some examples. (Flouride kills all bacteria, good and bad.) These methods are more effective at preventing periodontal disease, which is one of the main causes of tooth loss in adults.
Another weak facet of your argument is giving the CDC the final say in the debate – why do you believe CDC has the most authority over other similar government agencies that support not flouridating water in their country? Why do you believe the CDC knows better than health officials in Germany, Greece, Austria, etc., etc., ect?
Have you ever met a scientist? Scientists are know-it-alls who constantly try to out know-it-all one another. The articles that the CDC reference are really good. If there was a weakness in their argument, data (statistically, the way the data was taken, if there were enough controls), the paper would not have been publishes- essentially, I believe peer reviewed papers. The CDC takes its position from these peer-reviewed papers. The paper that the author is referencing is peer-reviewed and legitimite; HOWEVER: the sources of the fluoridation was significantly higher than the doses here in the US, the source of the fluoridation was different here in the US. They couldn't account for the dose of iodine or aluminum. And they didn't have the proper controls when it came to IQ of the rural areas they were testing in China in India. Lastly, the study needed to combine multiple studies that had different methods of testing the IQs, different levels of fluoride, different areas of the world. IQ tests themselves are not very reliable and can change due to language barriers. Anyway, the reason they needed combine all these different factor was to get ANYthing statistically significant to even say. And then they can ONLY say, "support the possibility." Also, those "significantly" lower IQ scores were five points. Your IQ can change five points during the day if you forgot to have your morning coffee. I trust the CDC because the articles are literally a time-based study that they performed before fluoridated water and after and they tested for cavities and safety.
Jenza – bogus reports and studies are published all the time. Decent, reputable studies are published as well and sometimes they have to retracted just like many manufactures of reliable products have to recall a faulty product (Baby carriages, cars etc).
Scientists get the biggest pass in this country and the world over – because they are scientists, and we just assume they are right and all knowing; "If a scientist said it it must be true…"
Unless you really know about a subject, one can be told and in most cases convinced of anything – this dynamic is true in sports, entertainment, finance and science etc – until you really know for yourself, you never really know.
Don't "trust" the CDC – u don't know them – and more importantly they don't know you – they don't know you enough to really care about your particular needs. Don't trust anyone. Be a cynic, a skeptic – always the safer way to go than being gullible – or the appearance of gullible, like saying you trust a stranger… Trust your family, friends and loved ones. Trust what you have learned from your own studies based on your own investigations,,, and then trust your instinct.
We have quite a few scientists in the family and the more they study, the more humble they become knowing they really know so little. NONE of them are know it alls, thankfully. I would feel suspect of any study where the authors have huge egos that are likely to get in the way of any unexpected or undesireable results.
Also, this morning I posted a link to a published study (and very current, you'll like that) that shows exactly the opposite, it's still waiting to be approved.
I didn't mean it as the scientists know everything and therefore they are God. I meant it as, if I tell a scientist that the grass is green, they're going to want spectral wavelength evidence of twelve different varieties of grass in order to prove it. There will never be a study in which someone publishes their opinion such as, "my kids were unvacinated and therefore healthier than yours." Thats empirical. What I mean is that scientists are skeptics. They're skeptical of everything. You can't state anything as fact unless you have evidence in your hands showing how you know what you know and why its true. The reason articles are retracted, and they are, is because other scientists have found fallacies in their data or argument. A retraction is considered incredibly shameful in the scientific community. That being said, the articles that the CDC references have never been retracted. They are in peer review journals and published by credible authors. Frankly, I am a skeptic. I'm a huge skeptic, and I've read this article and its more or less useless. The spin that people are putting on this paper is wrong. The paper should be titled, "High and varying doses of fluoride (and possibly aluminum or iodine and maybe other things) possibly cause a lower test score that was given various different ways in different languages to a particular group of people that may or may no be significantly significant"
Jenza – you can have anything you want published, and it can be ludicrous, factful, false, it doesn't matter. Science debates, black holes, the existence of god, life after death, you name it.
And not all bogus publications are retracted – they just hang around in the files… And to that, the CDC has had plenty of articles "updated, abridged" so to speak.
Sometimes, when science projects go afoul (drug making for instance) they don't retract or recall anything – until they are sued. The most sued company in america is one that is filled with scientists, scientists who get stuff wrong at our expense – Pfizer. Those scientists at Pfizer aren't skeptics – they don't weight out pros or cons or morals etc – they just get paid and couldn't really care about being skeptical – so too with the scientists who make cigarettes.
And Pfizer and the CDC are the best of bedfellows ( you can google that too).
Here is a WHO graph showing the decline of instances of caries in 12 year olds in fluoridated countries. Of course, the additional graphs show the same decline in unfluoridated countries. Not sure if you give the WHO equal authoritative weight to the CDC.
I looked through the CDC journal articles. Only one touches on the subject of effectiveness and safety of water fluoridation. When the fluoridation experiment began, some cities fluoridated and some were not (the controls.) The studies were supposed to last 10 or fifteen years. In some cities (Grand Rapids and Newburg, NY), fluoridation was considered a success after only five years. This is not enough time to even see the permanent teeth of children who had been drinking the fluoridated water. The unfluoridated cities asked to become fluoridated at this time, after five years. The study was therefore never completed. If it were actually a valid study, it seems reasonable to expect that the instance of caries would have declined in both groups, as we see with the WHO data. Do you have another source showing the efficacy of water fluoridation?
Here is an interesting article showing the rates of cavities in cities that stop fluoridating their water. They decline.
Ah, Prawda, you are correct in assuming that I would also trust the WHO. I do have to concede the point that fluoride in water does not decrease the instances of cavities or caries. (now I'm wondering what is causing the overall decrease? increased awareness of the importance of oral hygiene?) Regardless, thank you for looking up those sources, I do appreciate it. I still stand by my statement that small doses of fluoride (such as the one in the tap water) does not cause brain damage or neurological deficiencies- however, if it isn't doing anything, there should be no reason for taxpayers to continue to pay for it to be added.
Oliver- anything can be published or put online. Peer-reviewed journals (Nature, Cell, Science, even Environmental Health Perspectives- which btw, NOT PRESTIGIOUS) have a much higher standard. Every journal article must be sent to other scientists in the field. Essentially, your competitors. These scientists attempt to poke holes in the data and your argument. If you data and points stand up to such scrutiny, the article gets published. The CDC is objective. Sometimes the other side of the argument is just wrong. You wouldn't give any credence to a blind person arguing that the grass is really pink. You wouldn't alter textbooks to account for the opposite side of the debate. First off, the blind person can't see. Second, they're wrong. Their argument deserves and should receive no such credibility or time. As such, creationism shouldn't be taught in schools and doctors shouldn't listen to parents who think they're informed because they read Jenny McCarthy's book. Doctors should be able to read scientists data that measures the decrease in the measles, mumps, reubellsa as a direct correlation to the availability in the vaccine. They should be able to read the ingredient list of the vaccines, along with MSDS fact sheets, scientific proof that everything contained in the vaccine does no harm. They shouldn't have to listen to parents that have no medical background, have taken no science course, can't even explain how a vaccine actually works and think that the doctors are there to poison them. I'm sorry, they don't deserve a place in the argument.
I really wondered the same thing about the decline . . .
Jenza –"high Standards" is a relative term as is prestigious. High levels of medicine, politics, religion and education etc have done some many scrupulous things over the decades and centuries — some have been exposed and offered up weak apologies and some who have been errant are still in denial. The level of scrutiny of someone's work does not determine if it will be published or implemented, or in the case of these many powerful drugs that get created every year, sold to the public.
You can't ignore that reality. You can't ignore, that published papers turn out to be wrong or inaccurate all the time. You keep clinging to this idea of "published" as the gold standard for truth and justice and the American way. Money and profit is the American way, and if you think a little publishing dynamic is going to get in the way of the big business that is health care, drug making/selling, vaccines etc, you are grossly looking at this through rose colored glasses — respectfully.
The CDC is hardly objective — they have an agenda and they rarely veer from it. One case in point is their giving us both sides of the story on raw milk vs pasteurized — actually they have only one side; raw milk will kill you and you must drink the P milk. They give countless tales of damage done due to drinking raw milk and even provide links to get more testimony as to the ravages caused by raw milk. There is no mention or link to any testimony of the many people and families that have lived for decades and centuries on raw milk here and around the world. There are plenty of healthy folk who drink raw milk — some right here on this blog (maybe the CDC should provide a link to sarahs blog ïŠ).
The CDC says that raw milk can be contaminated. Poor farming practices will of course give you high risk contaminated milk but what person is buying from there? Why doesn't the CDC move to shut those places down? And why doesn't the cdc say that perhaps we should seek out a reputable farm known for its high level of sanitary practices and conditions etc…
Why don't they give the truth of both sides? Answer: Because the raw milk industry is perhaps less than one percent of the milk industry. Raw milk farmers have little money, little power, little voices, and zero funding for lobbying etc. Cash is king — please try to understand that that is what rules the roost.
The CDC who also gives the green light and blessing to Pfizer on a number of issues.
I would much rather listen to one mom that 100 scientists. You give too much credit to science. Quiet as it's kept, science is not an exact science. Science, way more times than not, gets in the way of itself. Scientists always seem to get a pass. More than any other profession it seems, scientists can do no wrong and never be wrong — "If a scientist said it, it must be so…" This is part of the problem. Science will never be smarter than mother nature — or mother.
We have become accustomed as a civilized culture, to waiting around for science to give us the thumbs up or the green light or go ahead on so many things. It evolves into a type of fear mongering. This country no longer knows how to breast feed. There are actual books out there on how to breast feed. There are books out there on how to give birth. Really? Profit has it that you need thirty trained people in the room in order for you to have a baby. You spend thousands of dollars to make sure 30 trained people are waiting for you at the hospital and then you go and have the baby in the taxi cab — delivered by a bike messenger (true NY story).
HA HA HA Whos laughing? I'm not laughing, but some folks in third world nations are laughing as they pop babies out all the time right there in the hut. And they didn't need some lemaze class to learn how to breathe and push. And then those third world mommies and some sensible ones right here in the US, without fear, enjoy the other most natural act on the planet— suckling.
But to each his own. If you want or need to wait around for "science" to figure everything out for you that is your choice. If it only matters to you that the WHO says you can now breastfeed up to and past 3 years of age, then feel free to have them dictate to you what you can or can do with your body or your baby.
I'm not sure it's letting post the website to the CDC. The CDC website on fluoridation literally lists every single journal article showing that the fluoridation reduces cavities in children and adults. The way the fluoridation works is as an anti-microbial. Anyway, the CDC also has links to articles that were not funded specifically to determine whether fluoride is safe and its efficacy. There is no reason the government or dentists would give fluoride to people without making sure its safe.
The CDC is truly about making money – they make a fortune in vaccines – even though they say they're giving both sides (or all sides) of the story, their real agenda is to sell product. If you paruse there website it's like Amazon, with so many things to sell you…
As for the governmentdoing what the do, you shouldn't put your faith, or beliefs in them either. Even the FDA doesn't really care about you as an individual or your family — they don't want your money necessarily but there is plenty of lobbying that involves the FDA . The FDA that we all hold on high as the governing body created to protect us from foods and drugs that can harm us. Have you seen the list of things they've approved over the years; Bacon, cigarettes, alcohol.
How does the FDA, an agency of the US Department of Health and Human Services, responsible for protecting and promoting public health give the green light to cigarettes, alcohol and bacon? Like flouride perhaps, is alcohol safe? Or cigarettes? Stevia, a plant that yields a lower carb sugar is still trying to get approval but the FDA feels it might not be safe. That might not be safe yet bacon, cigarettes, and booze gets the thumbs up.
Actually, dentists in my area are all fine not giving flouride and it is not uncommon for parents to decline this treatment for their children. None of them offer amalgam fillings, either, even though the government and half of the US dentists say that it is safe.
What is flouridated salt? I've never heard of it.. Would somebody kindly enlighten me on what it is,(other than the obvious..) where it's usually hidden, etc..? : )
If you put a white tee shirt into the sink and let the tap water run for a half hour or so onto it, you will see a host of other chemicals (on your shirt), that are equally puzzeling and potentially harmful – It's no wonder why so many people have hair and skin issues – by way of showering.
What are the best options for water if you want to drink unfluoridated water?
Keep it simple
Boil it or buy bottled
Boiling will not remove fluoride, just chlorine. You need a special water filter made to remove fluoride. I got mine from the water exchange.
We have a Berkey filter and you can buy an extra filter to take out fluoride.
Of course the government has been knowing this lowers IQ's since the 20's! The Soviets used it in their water supply to dumb down the public! I have been trying to ring the alarm for so long. But I get labeled a "conspiracy theorist"! Also studies have shown that it harms blacks more than any other race (as a black person myself this really has me more reasons to be upset! – http://iaomt.org/news/archive.asp?intReleaseID=249 ). We don't have this in our water supply (we have chlorine!) it's time people stop being zombies and start taking their lives & health back! Thank you Sarah!
But I grew up on well water, and now I either drink it bottled (which doesn't do much) or filter it.
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Great article! I spent three years in Japan (been back in the states for almost a year now) and didn't know if the water was fluoridated or not, so I just didn't drink it. It wasn't until about a year and a half ago that I even learned the dangers of fluoride or the benefits of traditional food. Anyway, I'm glad to know that Japan and many other countries have banned, rejected, or stopped the use of fluoridated water. I'm also glad I was raised on filtered well water!
I am pregnant with our first child, and we will be moving to Japan by the time it is one year. I am SO THANKFUL that it will grow up in a place where the water isn't fluoridated!
Good luck with the radiation instead!
Here in Portland, Oregon, the city council is taking upon themselves to put fluoride in our water in motion. We are the 2nd largest city that has stopped fluoride being place in our water up until now. So much for being a progressive city, I feel like we just entered the dark ages.
I tried to quote this study at a rally when one of my co-protesters stopped me and said that these studies were looking at relatively high levels of fluoride in the water compared to what Portland expects to put in our water. (So therefore, the argument is invalid.) I would like to use this study in an upcoming open forum, but would like to be able to answer to this potential objection. Do you have any advice?
Sarah, TheHealthyHomeEconomist
Here's is one potential help to you. Check this link. http://www.fluoridation.com/c-country.htm
"In 1978, the West German Association of Gas & Water Experts rejected fluoridation for legal reasons and because 'the so-called optimal fluoride concentration of 1 mg per L is close to the dose at which long-term damage [to the human body] is to be expected.' "
You don't need high levels of fluoride to have neurological damage which is why Europe has pretty much uniformly rejected it in drinking water.
Re: flouride and lower IQ.
What you fail to note is that the study data from rural China, the flourine poisoning comes from burning contaminated coal inside their homes without proper ventilation. The smoke from cooking is making them sick. It has nothing to do with flouride in water supplies.
A headline translates into fearmongering by those that are willfully ignorant. I thought it was strange that rural China would be fluoridating their water, they are not. It took 3 minutes to find the blatant misrepresentation by those with an agenda, where the actual facts of the scientific study, are not important.
The research that the Harvard Study did was in reference to 27 epidemiological studies where they "conducted sensitivity analyses restricted to studies using the same outcome assessment and having drinking-water fluoride as the only exposure." I think the report is significant enough to be concerned about putting fluoride in our water. Who can stand to lose even a point of their IQ? In addition, placing fluoride in our water is a loss of our liberties. If I want fluoride in my water, I can just swallow my toothpaste.
FYI, China does NOT flouridate their water.
"The researchers conducted a systematic review of studies, almost all of which are from China where risks from fluoride are well-established. Fluoride is a naturally occurring substance in groundwater, and exposures to the chemical are increased in some parts of China. Virtually no human studies in this field have been conducted in the U.S., said lead author Anna Choi, research scientist in the Department of Environmental Health at HSPH."
Fear if you must, but there is no basis for fearing minuscule amounts of flouride in potable water.
Fearmongering is easy. Rational thought is scarce these days.
So, a lower level of poison is okay? Also, it may be cumulative; you'd need to find some verifiable information on that.
Every organic entity on this planet is poison – everything has some level of toxicity, from the apple to the carrot to beets to peanuts to fish and birds and cows. And this is not due to science screwing things up, they do add a lot of crap to the equation, but it is the natural way of all organic life – and inorganic as well (natural metals and minerals are also toxic).
It is our job, like every other species, to figure which things are lesss harmful and how much should we ingest of it. We used to know this instinctively (like the rest of the species still do), but we have long since screwed that up – there is no "blueprint" left for what man used to eat and should only eat, and drink.
Every summer I drink water straight from the mountain water falls. People complain about the parasites and other microorganism in the water – those microorganisms are natural to us and our bodies and are actually essential to our good health.


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Total Performance Shop Tour -- Kit CarWritten by Eric Geisert on January 18, 2006 Contributors: Chuck Vranas
Mickey Lauria, the owner of Total Performance in Wallingford, Connecticut, has a saying: "God must love T-buckets--that's why he made so many of them." While it might be accurate (though it was Ford who actually made more than 2 million variations of the Model T in 1923 alone), finding an original Model T to modify into a hot rod is getting harder to do.
But that hasn't always been the case. Back in the '60s, it was easy to find original tin to work with, but why would you want to work with 50-year-old metal when you could buy a new body made of 'glass for next to nothing? That was the thought four members of the Connecticut Street Rod Association had in the early '70s, one of them being Mickey Lauria. Mickey had been impressed with what Andy Brizio was doing out in California with his Instant T program--where you could go to one shop and custom-order your own T-bucket, or at least be able to buy any part you need to do the work at home.
There weren't a lot of one-stop shops back in 1972, and certainly not in New England, but that's what got Total Performance off the ground. In fact, that's where the name came from: Total meaning everything in one place. Over the years, the partners bought each other out, and by 1988 Mickey was the sole owner. And while he was doing well with it, he began thinking about the future and what he wanted to do with his business.
The Fad T, the style of T-bucket prevalent in the early '70s, was most aptly named. Big brass lantern lights, long windshield stays, and Coors kegs for gas tanks were all just fads. So when that look died (fads always do), Mickey was faced with what was he going to sell now? Well, what sold the basic concept of a hot rod T-bucket 30 years ago still holds true today: It is the least expensive hot rod you could build, and easily one of the cheapest types of cars you can still buy in kit form. Where one-stop shopping was innovative in the '70s, building an entire car on the Internet is what Mickey believes is the wave of the future. At www.tperfor mance.com, you can create a car online, add and delete options, find out what it will cost, order it, and have it delivered to your doorstep. Can't pay for it all in one chunk? Total is one of the few companies that will do lay-aways, allowing you to make payments for your car over the course of a year!
But what style to build? Nowadays hot rodders have a choice as to what their T-bucket will look like. Resto, Fad (yes, they're still out there!), traditional (with perhaps a flathead or a Red Ram Hemi), Performer-style with a blown big-block (you thought the power-to-weight ratio was high in your Cobra?), high-tech (with carbon-fiber pieces and billet aluminum wheels), and even rat rod style with an old straight-six, a six-pot log manifold, and 16-inch steelies on each corner set up with caps 'n' rings would look good in your driveway. Diversity is the key to why the T-bucket phenomenon hasn't died off after all these years--no two will ever look alike! Diversity can be seen in Lauria's business plan, too. In 1988, he purchased Ingelse, which manufactures multiple carb-induction systems for all sorts of engines (and heavily used in the Cobra world). A few years later, in 1990, Total's Pro Street T (riding the wave of popularity for cars with the Pro Street look) was named Best Street Rod Kit by KIT CAR magazine.
In 1992, Total began promoting their Coolflex line to the home builder--a product that came about by filling a need of the custom car builder. In the early days of hot rodding, if you went to your local auto parts store for a hose, invariably you'd come back with the wrong length. Coolflex hoses are flexible "fluid transfer" hoses for the radiator or heater and come in three lengths (12-, 24-, and 36-inch) in show chrome and four other colors. Now Coolflex lines can be found on all sorts of vehicles, whether they're show cars or not. By the mid-'90s, Mickey wanted to promote the ease at which these cars can go together, so he hauled a finished T around to different car shows, disassembled it the night before, then had his two teenaged daughters, Gina and Lisa, assemble the car at the show in front of a crowd. It was a great way to show how the cars went together and great publicity for Total Performance, too. In 1996, Mickey got hooked up with Shadetree Mechanic--the TV show that featured cars being built by the two hosts. When the show (the precursor to today's Two Guys Garage on SPEED Channel) aired five episodes of how to build one of Total's Ts, business shot through the roof.
In 2001, Total Performance became a dealer for the Dearborn Deuce, the '32 Ford convertible featuring a folding top that disappears into the upper rear apron (think Mercedes SL). Over the years, the Wallingford shop has expanded, now encompassing over 21,000 square feet with 26 employees. But Mickey's expansion plans didn't stop in Connecticut; he also has his eye on Florida. Destination Daytona is a new 100-plus-acre facility being built just north of Daytona, Florida, which will be devoted to the car and Harley-Davidson enthusiast. With car and motorcycle shops, a nine-mile cruising road, restaurants, a 300-room hotel, and much more when it opens in May 2006 (with a grand opening later that year in October), Mickey will have the only street rod shop there--a place for folks to see and buy his line of hot rods.
And back at Total, yet another branch of the T-bucket family tree is being produced. Lauria is looking into building a new track-nose T he calls the King T, which will feature a '23 front half and a rear section of a '27. It just seems you can't keep a good guy down! Sure, fads may come and go, but after 35 years in business, Mickey Lauria believes T-buckets are here to stay, and his ideas for them and his customers are what is going to keep Total Performance in the forefront for years to come!
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That's Mickey Lauria, owner of Total Performance, which this past year celebrated 35 years in business. That's good for any company, but it's great for him, considering his main focus all these years has been the T-bucket market!Total Performance also has its brand-new signature SST, which features a factory-fresh 350 Chevy V-8 linked to a TH350 trans, an 8-inch Ford rear, limited-edition trim, and glistening cobalt-blue gloss.Total's Jim Wilkos shows us just how easy it is to work the hinged, chopped Carson-styled top that is one of the many nice features on Tim Morgan's fresh Total T.In Total's showroom (the entire shop is roughly 21,000 square feet), you can find just how easy it is to get started in hot rodding. Total offers its basic T kit for $3,995, which includes a jig-welded frame with pre-drilled bracketry; deluxe fiberglass body with floor and transmission tunnel; front suspension with all components; complete steering system, including master cylinder and brake pedal; plus an assembly manual!One of the innovations the all-steel Dearborn Deuce body offers is the ability to fully retract and conceal its convertible top. Total Performance is an authorized dealer for these bodies....with its mix of carbon fiber pieces and updated engine, it showcases yet another build style for the T-bucket.
For big-block Ford fans, Inglese offers this independent runner system for Cobras featuring four lined-up Weber 48IDA carbs.IDFs, IDAs, downdrafts, sidedrafts, inline . . . whatever carb combination you'd like to run, there's a good chance Total has the setup for you.Since Total fabricates their own T-bucket chassis from scratch, out in the fabrication shop you'll find this Delta gang-press, which is used for production work on framerails, including all necessary threading.Total also builds custom buckets for customers. The assembly area at Total is always busy, and work was just being finished up on this nostalgia T outfitted with a blown small-block.Like to have this in your garage? This stroked 383-cube Chevy is topped with a set of Trick-Flow heads and a quad IDA Weber carb setup.


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Imagine that! Usually I loath the annual awards show where Hollywood honors Hollywood, but this year's show was actually pretty entertaining. Maybe it was the fact that I recorded it on TiVo, so I could get through the entire show in about an hour or so, but the Academy Awards was actually fun this year.
I have to say that grabbing Jon Stewart to host was the perfect move to give the Oscars a shot in the arm. He's hilarious, and he appeals to a younger crowd. I wouldn't be surprised if this was the highest rated Academy Awards show in years just because of Mr. Stewart.
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Brokeback Mountain? Nope. Capote? Huh uh. Crash? I thought that movie was about slamming into trees while doing "it." Good Night, and Good Luck? Nada. Munich? Can't say that I did.
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Baxter's Preflucel seasonal flu vaccine has been approved in 13 European countries via the repeat mutual recognition procedure (rMRP). Austria, which approved the vaccine back in September 2010, acted as the reference state for clearance of the drug via the rMRP pathway. Baxter says the latest countries in which the drug is now approved, including Germany, Spain, the U.K., and Nordic countries, will implement the license in order to make Preflucel available for the 2011-12 flu season.
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Where can I see a list of top users according to their rank on Stack Overflow?
Your current reputation at Stack Overflow is 155
When you pass 200 points you can see your rank here:
A TLDR, simple answer:
Go to this StackExchange Data Explorer Query, provide your userid (clip it from your profile url on the site) and a Reputation Cutoff, and you'll see where you rank (in terms of the top N percent, as opposed to percentile rank discussed further below).
Interesting cutoffs:
More involved/complicated answer:
To find your percentile rank amongst all Stackoverflow users with rep over 200 (which I find to be the most interesting figure), go to
and note your rank. Then look at the total reputation table, and note the number of users with rep at 200+. Then calculate, for example in Python:
Which prints for me,
And if you have a goal for your percentile, find the 99th percentile cutoff (currently the 99th percentile reputation is 24,531, and the cutoff is rank ~1687. )
And your current reputation target is, based on your desired percentile:
So my target rank to be in the 90th percentile is 16879.5
A convenience function to show multiple ranks required:
To quickly find where the 16879.5 ranking is, skip to find the user with the one percentile ranking and their reputation (currently the 34th page in, I got there by browsing in a few pages and then editing the url).
Multiply that page number (including the decimal fraction for how far down the page) by the number of percentiles below 100 to quickly find page with the rep for the ranking you desire. so (34.5-1) * 10 is 335 pages in (but I have to browse over to 338).
And I find that the cutoff for my target percentile is currently 3,569.
Since everyone's rep is constantly growing and StackOverflow is getting new users over our 200 cutoff, that's a moving target, so I need to aim beyond that, probably setting a mental goal of 4000 rep points so I can safely say I'm in the 90th percentile of users with rep over 200.
The Stack Exchange leagues page allows you to see all users, sorted by reputation over various time periods (week, month, quarter, year and all time), with your own profile placed nicely at the top. For example, if I select "All Time", I currently see this:
You can see the lists for all sites in the Stack Exchange network.
Note that it also notes on that page:
That's why you are not able to see yourself in the list yet.
You will need to pass the 200 reputation mark before your reputation is comparable to the likes of the Skeet and co.
If you go to your profile page (click your username in the top nav) and click the link displayed in the image below:
If you want to access it quickly now, you can use this link. But for future reference use the highlighted method above.


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Welcome to another helping of badlandian joy, this time we have a steaming hot alphabet soup to feast your eyes on, with a side dish of texted portraits. For all of you who wanted to know what happens when art directors stop being polite, and start using that "spray image" tool in freehand....
Possibly the first one, hands down the coolest anyway since it moves, and it's webancient , Bob Dylan (and other artists) faces appear written by the lyrics they sing.
Watch it in action here @ ni9e.com.
Finalists in 2004 for 'illustration and graphic techniques' in the Epica awards, SCP created this campaign for the Göteborg Symphonic Orchestra. Illustrated by Eva Lilja.
And most recently (I presume, since I was just emailed this example.) - Spainish WWF campaign.
I do not know when this campaign 'aired' in any case, so don't jump to conclusions.
Another 2004 Epica nominee worth mentioning in this context is DDB Paris "Mohammed Ali" for L'EQUIPE. I can't tell if the text spelling our Alis face here is from "when we were Kings" or what is going on here really though. Still. Same-ish.
Know of any others?
NTL (phone, cable TV, broadband) in the UK is running a TV commercial that is so close to the Bob Dylan thing that it can't be a coincidence. Words like "broadband" swirl around and make a child's face, and "call now" come out of its mouth.
Close, but not quite the same. That old "ascii illustration" thing those ads used has been around for ages as well. I recall it seen in magazines rather than ads though. Works for louvre online.
I've always liked that sort of typographic illustration. Going back some years now, we used to do pictures like that (but not that complicated) in school typing class.


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Arts Maya Lin The Irrelevant
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This right-on, rock-hard beast of a story is why I love the Washington Post's cultural critic Philip Kennicott. (My last link to him was his essay on the gilt framing of the dead head of Zarqawi at a press conference.)
The question about Lin, posed right there in the Post headline from yesterday (via), is "Why Has Maya Lin Retreated from the Battlefield of Ideas?"
Dear lord is that the right question, and I wish I'd thought to ask it in print when Lin was here. Over the course of a 90-minute interview with me, she said nothing intriguing, nothing of importance, nothing that wasn't shockingly thin. Based on her Vietnam memorial, I thought this woman was a powerful thinker. "I wanted to bring the outdoors inside," she told me. In his last, addled days, my grandfather could have come up with that.
Then, her show was gimpy and irrelevant. Her two lectures (which admittedly, I couldn't and then didn't, attend) stirred no conversation that I've heard of. In fact, everyone I've spoken to who attended was struck at the lectures' total lack of insightfulness.
The only way the exhibition moved me was that I became needled by the knowledge that the Henry Art Gallery spent a whopping $288,000 on it. That makes it probably the highest-price exhibition the museum has ever put on, according to a museum spokeswoman. (Ninety thousand dollars of the $288,000 was labor costs to build the two least successful pieces: the mountainscape with grocery aisles between its parts, and the abbreviated hump of 2X4s that squeezed visitors to the walls around it and couldn't be walked on without signing a waiver).
Every few years, the Henry commissions a major exhibition from a contemporary artist. It's a noble act with plenty of risk involved, and the Henry can't entirely be blamed for a dud. But let's not pretend this show was an achievement. It was sad, and small, and disappointing, and very, very, very expensive.


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The process remains at least two years off and 200 miles away.
But California's effort to redesign its marine protected areas eventually will reach Del Norte County's coast.
Last month, the Marine Life Protection Act Initiative began focusing on the North Central Coast Study Region. That area stretches from Alder Creek, just north of Point Arena, to Pigeon Point, near San Francisco.
"It's close enough that hopefully, folks will at least follow the process," said Melissa Miller-Henson, operations and communications manager with the Marine Life Protection Act Initiative. "It gives them an idea."
Some local officials and scientists plan to watch.
"It's headed our way, and there's a lot of concern over what the implications will be," said Crescent City Harbormaster Richard Young. "What are we doing to get ready for it? Nothing, at this point."
In 1999, the state Legislature approved the Marine Life Protection Act requiring the state to draft a Marine Life Protection Program and set up a network of marine protected areas along California's coast.
"The concept is good," said Jim Waldvogel, area marine advisor with the University of California Sea Grant Extension in Del Norte County. "It really depends on how they intend to use them and that's probably going to change from area to area."
After a start and stop approach and a lack of funding, the initiative last year recommended marine protection areas for the Central Coast Study Region that stretches from Pigeon Point to Point Conception. The state's fish and game commission could adopt that plan in the spring.
The effort still must address the Bay Area, the coastline stretching from Point Conception to the Mexico border and the north coast from Point Arena to the Oregon border.
California now hosts 61 marine protected areas along its coast, along with 19 estuarine areas that run inland from a bay or estuary. But they fail to connect to each other on a biological basis, Miller-Henson said. They also lack purpose and the tools to measure their success at preserving habitat and aquatic life.
"We have this mish-mash out there," Miller-Henson said. "The focus is not on individual species. It's really on protecting habitat and ecosystems."
Marine plan
The initiative aims to shift resource management from single-species protection toward a broader ecosystem focus.
"The goal of the law is protecting biodiversity," said Susan Schlosser, a marine advisor at the Sea Grant Program of the University of California at Davis who served on the MLPA science advisory team for the central coast region.
The plan uses three different categories.
Marine reserves ban any extraction or taking from certain areas, preventing oil, sand, mineral, fishing. Marine parks prevent commercial extraction or takings, allowing only recreational fishing and other activities. Conservation areas allow a mix of limited recreational and commercial fishing and takings.
The impact from such designations could send the final blow to a flailing local commercial fishing industry, Young said.
"That's the concern," he said, wondering if the protected areas could mark good fishing spots as off-limits. "That's what's going to determine the economic impact."
But the designations could prevent habitat and species loss, said Frank Shaughnessy, associate professor of botany at Humboldt State University.
"(It's) something proactive rather than reactive," Shaughnessy said. "The point is conservation of the marine life to the benefit of all."
Marine management areas can help, Waldvogel said, but scientists lack data about their effectiveness and how large an area is needed to protect certain species.
"You should kind of tailor them," Waldvogel said. "You don't want to blanket the whole ocean."
Public participation
The process to map marine protected areas entails drafting profiles for each region with information on the community and the people that use the ocean fishermen, surfers, beachgoers, among others. A team of scientists, a regional group of stakeholders and a policy-crafting task force study each region and its existing marine protected areas.
Waldvogel will watch the process in the north-central coast region as well as an effort in Oregon.
Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski proposed naming that state's coast a National Marine Sanctuary. The move aims to block offshore drilling for oil and gas, draw more tourists, secure federal funding, boost research efforts and partner state, federal, tribal and other groups in managing the coast.
Shaughnessy points to coastal management techniques in Australia and New Zealand and national estuarine and research reserves set up in waters off of San Francisco and Oregon.
"Maybe one of these mechanisms is a better way to go," he said.
Harbor officials will monitor the process, as well.
"This is on everybody's radar screen," Young said. "It's not today's crisis."
Follow the process
A state Web site regularly posts meeting dates, a Web cast of meetings and an archive of videotaped meetings. Visit www.dfg.ca.gov/mrd/mlpa.


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Colters' Wife (Colters' Legacy Series)by Maya Banks
A continuation from Colters' Woman. It's a brief epilogue that continues right after the ending of Colters' Woman.
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A continuation from Colters' Woman. It's a brief epilogue that continues right after the ending of Colters' Woman.
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Colters' Wife based on 3 ratings. 1839 reviews.
i thought I was downloading a full book not a sample I am very dissapointed that they lead you to beleive you are downloading the whole book
I should have read the other reviews before downloading - I was just excited to be getting some free reading. This "book" was only 30 pages long and is basically about 3 brothers who share the same woman. The woman is pregnant, and they basically each have sex with her, the baby is born early, and the brothers have to deliver it themselves. It's written like you're supposed to go "Awwwww" at the touching love in this bizarre little family, but I can't say I enjoyed it. They should really put graphic content warnings on the descriptions.
if you don't know that maya banks writes menage stories then don't pick up her books cuz most of them are like that.
you do realize like practically the most prolific book buyers/readers are people who prefer romance novels and the steamier they are the more people like them? and we ARE in a day and age past authors having to use goofy euphemisms to make it sound less graphic.. seriously... grow up and dont grouch about a book if its free and you didnt like it dont read it you can say what the book is like without complaining about the kind of book it is... instead if you did read it all through comment politely
This was 39 pages of pure sex adultury and junk! It wasn't even a real book, it was a short story -- and one that should have been a whole lot shorter! I didn't even have to read it to see how awful it was!
I must admit that I'm very disappointed in the other reviews listed here. This shorter storyline is part of the Colters' Legacy series by this author. I don't believe that the author is at fault here for the discription of this book not appearing, moreless mentioning that it's erotic and the story is about three brothers dearly loving one woman and yes sharing her in all ways. A complaint to this site about making a correction to the book listing (which I did) would have been more worth while then to trash the authors works. I did enjoy this addition to Maya Banks Colters' Legacy series. Yes, this being a freebie hooked me into checking further into what this book and series was about. I've also read a couple other selections by this author and enjoyed them as well. Since reading this I've back tracked into the series and purchased the first selection titled Colters' Woman. I'm into it a few chapters and it's a gripping page turner filled with all the background information that lends to Colters' Wife. :)
This was a great follow-up to book one and a good inside look before reading book two. It is a EROTIC romance so if you can't handle it don't read it! People read romance for the steam and sizzle not some nun-like story. It's a great book to escape to and beautifly written. I love this series!
this is less like a seperate book and more like an epilog to the first book and should be read with it.
Love the colter series!
Maya Banks is a great author. A great story in this entire series . Very erotic. Love it. Will re- read this series.
this free ebook was horrible. maybe because it was a sample, but oh my. some girl is sleeping with 3 brothers, very strange and creepy. i deleted it after reading the first few pages.
I've read all 4 books it was strange the women being married to 3 brothers but who i'm i to say it's wrong. The love her so much. I really enjoyed the story.. i would recommend all her books love is love. Lighten up there are always choices that ehat makes us different
Great Series!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wonderful character development. Really cared about the people and the plot was interesting.
This is a short Colter book.
I am new to Maya Banks and I loved this whole series. She always covers all the details and I enjoy findind out about their everafters.
Its preview of book 2...should be free
I liked it
Cute addition to the story!
This is the worse book I have ever read. Yes, I read it because I kept thinking there must be something more to it. There is not. There is almost no story line and the relationship between 3 brothers and 1 'wife' is absurd. Have you ever know 3 brothers to share any of their 'toys'? No this has to be a joke.
I really enjoyed it buy the other colter book.
If you like paranormal you must read this
Good book to read really enjoyed it
I enjoy reading anything from Maya Banks, but I fell in love with the Colter brothers. I always wondered what happened to this unique family. It was so loving and juicy, I hated for it to end.
A wonderful story, easy reading, will hold your interest. Good book for book club discussions.


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Golfing World chat with Scott Hend, who spent a successful 2013 playing all over the globe and racking up huge air miles.foot and 180 pounds, Hend is currently the longest hitter on the Asian tour , topping the rankings for the last two years with an average distance of 312 yards. That's just three yards short of Bubba Watson . And back in 2005, he was the first non-American to top that stat on the PGA tour . I think I've been very fortunate in my career so far, I've been very flexible, and lucky enough to be strong in
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Golfing World braves the sharks and checks out the offerings at Australia's Carbrook Golf Club.just grown up living in the lake like that sits beside the golf course there. -While some Carbrook residents still brave the water, the days of golfers jumping in to retrieve lost balls are long gone. But for quite a while after the flooding, many members refuse to believe the stories were true. -It's probably a bit of a myth at the start like the Loch Ness Monster . -And that went on for a number of-- a number of years and then a couple of people actually got some shotsdangerous water has it or undoubtedly the stars, this isn't a novelty golf course . The monthly tournaments here has been renamed in their honor, but Carbrook also hosts national level championships as it offers a stern test. -People talk about how good the greens are. Consistently year round they're always good. It's quite a forgiving place to play. There's a lot of water, but it's-- you know, it also have a lot of area where you can't miss it. Sort of a-- It's a lengthy field. It's a fairly flat golf course with some small undulations especially around the greens. There are a number of trees, but I would say it's a fairly open style of golf course . -There are two different nines. The front pretty straight forward. Like shape wise most holes are pretty straight and the holes are


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REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Oct. 2 / -- Eidos Interactive, one of the world's leading publishers and developers of entertainment software, today announced a partnership with Playboy, the premier online destination for men, and Fox Interactive Media to launch a Cyber Search for the ideal female to accompany the upcoming Eidos video game Kane & Lynch: Dead Men.
Utilizing the strengths and communities of three media giants --IGN.com, Playboy, and MySpace.com -- the Cyber Search will span three major online targets, from the gaming community and the leading men's lifestyle and entertainment site to one of the world's largest social networking sites actively involving these communities to find the perfect girl who can best evoke Kane and Lynch's dangerous vibe. Gamers can click here to submit and vote for their favorite candidate in the Cyber Search.Kane & Lynch: Dead Men is a cinematic crime drama that tells a raw and gritty tale of two anti-heroes -- one a flawed mercenary, the other a medicated psychopath -- set in an intense third-person action shooter. Forced to embark on a violent and chaotic journey, hating each other every step of the way, Kane & Lynch: Dead Men features a gripping storyline, relentless third-person action and an innovative twist on the online multiplayer gameplay experience.
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Barrett Smith will join the staff of the K-State Research and Extension Kiowa County office as an agriculture and natural resources agent, effective Aug. 5.
He worked previously at Smith Farms-Hopewell Livestock in Macksville, Kan., and as a technical service specialist with Osborne Industries in Osborne, Kan.
Smith earned bachelor's degrees in both agricultural technology and animal sciences and industry at K-State.
Agriculture and natural resources extension agents provide leadership in their communities by developing and delivering educational programming relative to agriculture-related information including crop and livestock production, environmental stewardship, farm and ranch management, agriculture public policy, and horticulture production.
More information about the K-State Research and Extension Kiowa County office is available by calling 620-723-2156 or on the Web: http://kiowa.ksu.edu.
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Indian police said on Friday they had arrested an Islamist militant who was allegedly planning to carry out "suicide attacks" in New Delhi after travelling to India from Pakistan via Nepal.
S.N. Srivastava, who heads an anti-terrorism unit, identified the suspect as Syed Liaqat Shah from Indian-administered Kashmir who had come from Pakistan to Nepal on a Pakistani passport.
"He was instructed to recruit people, choose targets and organise suicide attacks in New Delhi," Srivastava told a news conference in the Indian capital.
Shah was planning to organise the attacks in New Delhi to "avenge" the execution of a Kashmiri militant last month for his role in a 2001 attack by Pakistani-based gunmen on the Indian parliament, he said.
The execution of Mohammed Afzal Guru, convicted of helping to plot the attack on the parliament that left 10 people dead, has driven up tensions in the Himalayan region of Kashmir, whose ownership India disputes with Pakistan.
"The Pakistani passport was made by the suspect's handlers in Pakistan and he was instructed to destroy it on his arrival in Kathmandu to break any link with Pakistan," Srivastava said.
The last militant attack in New Delhi was in 2011 when a bomb killed 13 people outside a court in the city while in 2008, a series of bombs planted in shopping areas killed 22.
The suspect, alleged to belong to Kashmir's largest militant outfit, the Hizbul Mujahideen, was detained on Wednesday in the eastern Indian city of Gorakhpur near the border with Nepal, he said.
Shah had been due to take a train for New Delhi and meet with a contact in a hotel room near Jama Masjid, New Delhi's largest mosque, he said.
Srivastava said detectives raided the room and found an assault rifle, three hand grenades and ammunition. "We are still interrogating the man and expect more arrests soon," he added.
The suspect left Indian Kashmir for Pakistan in 1997 when a separatist insurgency against New Delhi was at its peak in the Indian-held zone, Srivastava said.
This was the latest in a recent string of arrests by Indian authorities of militant suspects with alleged connections to nuclear-armed rival Pakistan with which India has fought three wars.
Police in Indian Kashmir on Tuesday said they had arrested four people including a Pakistani member of militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) over an attack that killed five policemen last week.
India accuses Pakistan of fomenting violence on Indian soil, charges which Islamabad rejects.