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HIV Transmission Among Black College Student and Non-Student Men Who Have Sex With Men --- North Carolina, 2003
In the United States, young black men who have sex with men (MSM) and reside in urban settings have high rates of infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), with incidence and prevalence as high as 14% and 32%, respectively (1--4). Few epidemiologic and behavioral studies have been conducted in this population, and even fewer data are available for black MSM from non-urban areas of the southern United States. In November 2002, the North Carolina Department of Health (NCDOH) identified two cases of acute HIV infection among non-Hispanic black male college students. A retrospective review of all men aged 18--30 years with HIV diagnosed during January 2000--May 2003 indicated an increase in HIV case reports in male college students, from two cases in 2000 to 56 during January 2001--May 2003 (5). Of these 56, a total of 49 (88%) were black, and nearly all were MSM, including some men who had sex with both men and women. In August 2003, NCDOH invited CDC to assist with an epidemiologic investigation of young HIV-positive black MSM in North Carolina. This report summarizes the results of that investigation, which indicated that black MSM college students and non-students in North Carolina had high rates of HIV risk behaviors, underscoring the need for enhanced HIV-prevention programs in these populations.
NCDOH surveillance data from 1998--2002 for newly reported HIV infections and North Carolina census data were reviewed (6); age- and race-specific HIV rates were calculated. A case-control study was conducted to identify behavioral risk factors for HIV infection in young black MSM. Cases were defined as those occurring in HIV-positive college students who had HIV diagnosed during 2001--2003, were black MSM aged 18--30 years, and were North Carolina residents. Two groups of HIV-negative controls were enrolled in the study (i.e., college students and non-students), all of whom also were black MSM aged 18--30 years who lived in North Carolina. Face-to-face interviews were conducted to obtain epidemiologic and behavioral information. Sexual behaviors were reported for the 12-month period preceding either the date of diagnosis for HIV-positive college students or the date of interview for HIV-negative college students and non-students.
To complement quantitative information collected by questionnaire, all participants were asked to share insights about why high-risk sexual behavior was occurring among young black MSM. In addition, three discussion groups were convened with approximately 60 black male and female students from 11 colleges in North Carolina to discern perceived barriers to sexual risk reduction and to elicit suggestions for prevention programs targeting college students.
During 1998--2002, rates of newly reported HIV infection in North Carolina were higher in black men in all age groups compared with white men overall (Figure). Among black men aged 18--24 years, a statistically significant increase was observed during this period, from 65 per 100,000 population in 1998 to 92 in 2002 (p<0.01).
Of the 49 HIV-positive black male college students who had been identified previously by the NCDOH HIV surveillance system, 17 (35%) were recruited for the study; 24 could no longer be located or did not respond to inquiries, seven refused participation, and one was deceased. One case was identified in an HIV-positive college student during control recruitment activities. Overall, 19 HIV-negative college students and 15 HIV-negative non-students were recruited during HIV pre- or post-test counseling activities at local health departments (n = five), gay nightclubs (n = 26), and the North Carolina Pride Festival (n = three).
In general, characteristics of the HIV-positive and HIV-negative college student groups were similar to one another but different from the HIV-negative non-student group (Table). Other than lifetime history of gonorrhea, no statistically significant differences were seen among the three groups. College students were younger than non-students, and the mean number of lifetime sex partners was lower for college students than non-students. The mean number of partners and the frequency of unprotected receptive anal intercourse with casual and steady partners were similar for the three groups. The majority of both steady and casual sexual partners for all three groups were black and aged 18--30 years. Approximately 20% of study participants had a female sex partner during the preceding 12 months.
Nearly one third of both HIV-positive and HIV-negative college students met sex partners on college campuses, but the majority of both of these groups met their sex partners at gay nightclubs or over the Internet. Fewer college students than non-students identified as gay or disclosed their sexual identity to everyone or to most people. Nearly 70% of study participants previously had tested for HIV, and 70% believed they were unlikely to have been infected with HIV at the time of their most recent HIV test. Two HIV-positive students, six HIV-negative students, and four non-students reported having had recent sex partners in multiple states outside of North Carolina, including Delaware, Florida, Georgia, New York, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and the District of Columbia.
Both MSM study participants and college student discussion group participants provided similar explanations for why MSM specifically, and young black people in general, continue to engage in high-risk sexual behavior. The most common reasons were 1) lack of sustained prevention messages targeting young blacks, 2) feeling personally disconnected from the reality that they might contract HIV, and 3) believing that physical characteristics and appearance can inform one about their partner's HIV status.
Reported by: P Leone, L Hightow, MD, Univ of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; E Foust, MPH, J Owen-O'Dowd, S Phillip, MHA, P Gray, MPH, B Jones, MPH, North Carolina Dept of Health. L Fitzpatrick, MD, G Millett, MPH, K Jones, MSW, R Stall, PhD, S Holmberg, MD, A Greenberg, MD, Div of HIV/AIDS Prevention, National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention; L Ahdieh-Grant, PhD, C Eure, MD, EIS officers, CDC.
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The findings in this report highlight the need for enhanced HIV-prevention programs among young black MSM and are consistent with previous studies documenting elevated HIV risk behaviors and infection in this population (3,4). The high-risk sexual behaviors noted among the limited number of black MSM college students and non-students in this investigation could be related to the increase in HIV rates observed for black men aged 18--24 years in North Carolina surveillance data and might provide insights into the broader HIV transmission patterns among young, black MSM in general.
Although one third of black MSM college students reported meeting partners on campus, the majority reported meeting partners either at nightclubs or over the Internet, suggesting that prevention activities need to be targeted both on and off campus. Moreover, because many young black MSM might not regularly visit traditional testing sites such as health departments for sexually transmitted disease (STD)- and HIV-related health concerns, alternative venues such as nightclubs and the Internet should be considered as nontraditional testing and/or prevention sites for this population.
Despite the high rates of high-risk behaviors, STDs, and previous HIV testing in this population, the majority of study participants did not perceive themselves at risk for HIV infection at the time of their most recent HIV tests. This finding suggests that current HIV-prevention messages are not effectively reaching young black MSM and that education about HIV risk needs to be more effectively communicated at the time of HIV testing. Moreover, because risk perception might be diminished by receipt of a negative HIV test, reports of high-risk sexual behavior must be addressed with appropriate prevention messages at the time of HIV pre- and post-test counseling. In addition, the results of this study support the integration of HIV-prevention activities into routine STD evaluation and care.
Because a substantial proportion of the college students either did not identify as gay or were not open about their sexual identity, prevention messages that focus on sexual risk reduction rather than gay identity should be developed for young black MSM. In addition, because nearly 20% of study participants also reported having recent female sex partners, HIV risk--reduction messages should be developed and communicated to young women as well. The information collected in the discussion groups with black college students highlights the value of soliciting community input before developing on- and off-campus HIV-prevention messages for this population.
Because study participants reported having recent sex contacts in multiple states, the frequency of high-risk behaviors in this population might not be limited to North Carolina. Further surveillance activities are needed to define the extent of high-risk behaviors among young black MSM in other geographic areas so appropriate on- and off-campus HIV-prevention activities can be designed.
The findings in this report are subject to at least four limitations. First, the sexual behaviors of enrolled participants might have been different from those persons not enrolled. Second, recall bias for high-risk behaviors might have occurred, especially for students with HIV diagnosed in 2001. Third, a selection bias might have been introduced because HIV-positive participants were identified through case reports, whereas HIV-negative participants were recruited primarily at nightclubs. Finally, the small sample size limits the ability to make certain inferences regarding differences in sexual behaviors.
This investigation demonstrates that expansion of multiple HIV-prevention activities for young black MSM is needed. Because this is the first investigation conducted in young black MSM outside of large urban settings, further studies should explore whether similar phenomena are occurring in other states, particularly in the southern United States. In response to these findings, CDC and NCDOH are collaborating to adapt a scientifically based preventive intervention for the black MSM population in North Carolina (7). In addition, CDC recently announced the availability of funding to implement rapid-- HIV-testing demonstration projects in settings that include college campuses. State and local health departments as well as community-based organizations should consider engaging in similar HIV-prevention efforts and in the development of effective preventive interventions for young black MSM.
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Memorial Day Features Interleague Doubleheader and 12 Live Hours of Coverage Starting at 12:00 p.m. ET
Secaucus, N.J., April 25, 2013 – MLB Network Showcase continues with five games in May as part of MLB Network's 23 live games scheduled for the month, which includes eight division matchups and five Interleague games. Games featured on MLB Network Showcase presented by Chevrolet in May include:
- May 2: Washington Nationals @ Atlanta Braves, 7:00 p.m. ET
Ø Justin Upton, MLB's leader with 11 home runs, and the NL East-leading Braves play host to 2012 NL Rookie of the Year Bryce Harper and the reigning NL East Champion Nationals.
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- May 16: Detroit Tigers @ Texas Rangers, 8:00 p.m. ET
Ø 2012 MLB Triple Crown winner Miguel Cabrera and the defending AL Champion Tigers visit Adrian Beltre and the AL West first-place Rangers.
Ø Announcers: Matt Vasgersian, Tom Verducci and Sam Ryan
- May 21: New York Yankees @ Baltimore Orioles, 7:00 p.m. ET
Ø Division foes collide as Robinson Cano and the Yankees take on Adam Jones and the Orioles in a rematch of last year's ALDS.
Ø Announcers: Bob Costas, John Smoltz and Sam Ryan
- May 30: New York Mets @ New York Yankees, 7:00 p.m. ET
Ø David Wright and the Mets travel cross-town to play the rival Yankees in the finale of their four-game Interleague series.
Ø Announcers: Bob Costas, Jim Kaat and Sam Ryan
- May 31: Boston Red Sox @ New York Yankees, 7:00 p.m. ET
Ø The MLB Network Showcase schedule for May concludes with MLB RBI leader Mike Napoli and the AL East-leading Red Sox facing the division-rival Yankees.
Ø Announcers: Bob Costas, Jim Kaat and Sam Ryan
On Memorial Day, Monday, May 27, MLB Network will air 12 hours of live coverage, including an Interleague doubleheader. The Emmy-Award winning MLB Tonight will begin MLB Network's coverage at 12:00 p.m. ET, leading up to the first game of a four-game series between the Orioles and Nationals at 1:00 p.m. ET. MLB Tonight will return following the game and lead viewers into the opening game of the Yankees and Mets series at 7:00 p.m. ET. Following the Yankees at Mets, MLB Tonight will provide highlights and analysis of completed games and games in progress before MLB Network's regular season highlights show of record, Quick Pitch, recaps the day's action at 11:00 p.m. ET.
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Now, after 41 years of surveying the bay's blue crab and oyster populations, Abbe is retiring. Most of this work was conducted as a research scientist at the Morgan State University Estuarine Research Center (ERC) on the Patuxent River in St. Leonard, Md. The ERC, formerly known as the Benedict Estuarine Laboratory, was founded by the Academy in 1967 in Benedict, Md. It moved downriver to St. Leonard in 1994.
Abbe leaves behind quite a legacy, most notably his role as leader of the longest continuous survey of the blue crab (Callinectes sapidus) population in the Chesapeake Bay.
The survey has been conducted "in the exact same places, with the same methods, by the same person," says Abbe. "It's been the same way for 41 years. It's been the most consistent; that's why some say it's the longest."
Abbe began the survey in 1968, one year after he was hired by Dr. Ruth Patrick as the very first employee of the Academy's estuarine laboratory. Research was conducted near Calvert Cliffs, Md., along the western shore of the Chesapeake to determine the effects of cooling-water discharges from power plants on populations of blue crabs and oysters (Crassostrea virginica). The work evolved into two areas of study for Abbe, including the blue crab survey, one of only four major fishery-independent surveys conducted in the Chesapeake for assessment of crab stocks. The second area includes oyster growth and mortality, accumulation of metals (copper, silver, and cadmium) by oysters and the effects of Dermo disease on oysters.
Through these studies, Abbe has seen firsthand the effects of overharvesting and pollution on the populations of blue crabs and oysters. "We had 50 times as many oysters 100 years ago as we have now," says Abbe. And, because of overharvesting, the blue crab population has been declining in both abundance and individual size. "Crabs can usually survive in nasty conditions. What they can't live in is an area that is heavily fished. That's what is driving populations down," Abbe says.
"It's a wait-and-see kind of thing," says Abbe.
In order to boost the populations of oysters, Abbe has faith in restoration through aquaculture, or oyster farming. "There is going to be a move from hunting oysters to raising oysters," says Abbe. "That's the way it's going in New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. Maryland has been slow with buying into aquaculture but I think that's the future. However, we'll need an oyster that can stand up to disease."
In the last seven years, more than one billion oysters have been planted on oyster bars in the bay, and 100 million oysters planted in the Patuxent River, one of the bay's tributaries, Abbe says. These efforts were led by the Oyster Recovery Partnership, a coalition of individuals, businesses, organizations, and institutions, including the Academy.
Abbe's dedication to his work earned him the prestigious title of Honored Life Member of the National Shellfisheries Association in 2003, one of his greatest professional accomplishments, he says. His lengthy career has also earned him the respect and admiration of his colleagues.
"George has been highly regarded for a lot of his projects," says Bill Yates, the facilities manager and dive master at ERC who has worked with George since 1976. "Some of his oyster work has been very helpful in attempts to restore the population and get a better understanding of what's working and what's not working."
After his official retirement in March, Abbe plans to have a part-time presence at the ERC. "I'm hoping to do some more disease work with the oysters and I wouldn't mind writing some more on crabs. I still have work to do," Abbe says. "I don't think he'll ever completely retire," says J Hixson, program manager at the ERC and colleague of Abbe's since 1972. "Some people can walk away from a job and never look back, but this job, it's George's life's work, and there's a difference."
Abbe's semi-retirement will afford him more time with his wife, kids, and grandchildren and for wildfowl carving and winemaking. Abbe says what he'll miss most is being out on the water. "But, it's getting harder on the body," he says. "I've got aches and pains that I didn't have 25 years ago."
"I've had so much fun and I've accomplished a fair number of things," Abbe says. "For 40 years, it feels like I haven't worked. It's been an interesting career."
1967: The Academy of Natural Sciences establishes the Benedict Estuarine Research Laboratory in Benedict, Md.
1994: The research lab and its staff move to a new facility in St. Leonard, Md., renamed The Academy of Natural Sciences Estuarine Research Center (ERC).
2004: The ERC is deeded to Maryland's Morgan State University. The Academy continues to have a presence at the center and collaborates with ERC scientists on various estuarine projects.


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In the wake of the protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, virtually every city in the nation is trying to determine if their statues and monuments are politically correct (including my city of Tallahassee). For many, the memorials of our founding fathers are now epicenters of violence and hatred. It seems everyone now falls into one of two groups: those who want the statues to remain and those who want them removed.
The real question, though, isn't about monuments at all. The real question is, "How do we approach the sins of our fathers?"
As Christians, we should seek our answers and direction from the Bible. This alone—and not our personal bias or agenda—should be our standard.
Noah's Mistake
The story of Noah in Genesis chapter 9 seems particularly relevant to us today.
Noah had just saved his family and a remnant of animals from the flood. He then planted a garden and a vineyard to begin cultivating a new food supply. However, the first batch of wine must have been stronger than he realized, because he "drank of the wine and became drunk, and uncovered himself inside his tent" (Genesis 9:21).
This appears to have been an accident on Noah's part but, regardless of how it happened, Noah found himself in a compromising position. That's when Noah's son Ham "saw the nakedness of his father" (Genesis 9:22). Perhaps Ham had an ax to grind against his dad. Or maybe he thought that it was time for Noah to step aside so he could take the lead. Whatever his reasons, he decided not to cover his father discreetly. Instead, he left him naked and "told his two brothers outside" (Genesis 9:22). The Hebrew word for "told" is nagad, which means "to be conspicuous." Ham didn't whisper a concern for his father; he declared his father's mistake out loud so he and his brothers could revel in their father's shame.
Ham's brothers, Shem and Japheth, didn't take the bait. They didn't broadcast the situation to their wives and children. They didn't make jokes about "dear ol' dad" or post incriminating pictures on Facebook. No, they simply took a garment, like a cloak or wrap, and laid it over their father. In fact, they didn't even look at him, but walked backwards into the tent so they could cover his nakedness while maintaining his dignity. (See Genesis 9:23.)
A Child's Response
What is the right response, then, when we don't approve of the actions of our forefathers? When we wish there had been more equality, more grace, more sympathy from past leaders? When we're appalled, ashamed, and embarrassed of their sinful acts?
Usually, our response is to be like Ham. We yell to others to "Come and see!" We point fingers and sling accusations and curses. We want others to bear witness: "See how bad he was? Don't be like him!" We think this is our duty, and we call our hatred righteous indignation.
The truth, though, is that we are all like Noah. We think that our sins and shame are hidden in our own tents, that no one will know our mistakes or see the darkness of our hearts. But we are exposed before God, and our own children will judge us.
We all hope that future generations will treat us like Shem and Japheth, that they will look upon us with respect and dignity, regardless of our mistakes. That they will try to see our situation as it is now, and not in the clearer vision of hindsight. Should we not care for our own forefathers in the same manner?
None Can Boast
Remember, Noah was the only person on the face of the planet who "found favor in the eyes of the Lord," which is why God chose him and his family to repopulate the earth after the flood. We know that Noah was "a righteous man, blameless in his time; Noah walked with God" (Genesis 6:8-9). This was a man unequal in his day, and yet he made a mistake.
Noah's son Ham treated him with callousness, while his sons Shem and Japheth were respectful. Nevertheless, Noah's mistake was not covered up when his sons covered his nakedness. No, his mistake is now captured in every printed Bible for all the world to see!
That's how history works. A man can have a noble heart and do a thousand good deeds, but we may seize upon his faults, skewing our perception of him. Or perhaps the history books correctly characterize the sinful acts of a person, but they cannot tell us the motives of his heart.
When we talk about history, we forget that it was forged by men and women…people just like us. And the Bible says that none of us is without sin. (See Romans 3:10.) None of us can boast that we have lived a life of perfect righteousness…not even Noah, from whom the whole world was saved. Instead, we must boast in Jesus, the Righteous One who saved us from our sins. (See Acts 3:14.)
A Godly Response
Our past is more than statues and history books. We are constantly affected by the actions of our parents and our ancestors, and we must decide how to react: whether to protest, support, vote, volunteer, expose, or blow the whistle.
It is my prayer that we will approach our history—and the sins of our fathers—like Shem and Japheth approached Noah. To do so, we must set aside our arrogance and seek the truth in humility, for that is the beginning of wisdom. And as we reveal the truth, we must avoid reveling in its sins, for that will only bring dishonor upon ourselves. (See Proverbs 11:2.)
We must also cover the sins of the past, not with a cloak of darkness or with lies, but with mercy and forgiveness. Mercy couldn't hide Noah's mistake, and it won't make the sins of the past go away. It will, however, remove the sting of sin and enable us to forgive our forefathers.
And isn't that what we all want: a future that is marked with love, truth, mercy, and forgiveness? A future that we can be proud of? If so, then it is up to us to show our children the way.
"For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you" (Matthew 7:2, Jesus speaking).
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- support: indicate the source of support for this project (either from the local center, CLT, CDL, or professional reassignment, etc.);
- access to appropriate computer equipment and to the WWW; and access to WWW; and
- outcomes: indicate the manner in which the project will be assessed.
The feasibility of proposed projects will be reviewed in light of the Statement on Supported Technology Platforms at SUNY Empire.
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For general use software and email, the College licenses and supports Lotus Notes groupware. Supported office suite products are Microsoft Office and Lotus Smartsuite. The operating environment of the college is Windows NT. To maintain consistency across the college, workstations should be loaded with the currently supported versions of these products:
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- Windows NT v. 4.0
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The university seeks to maintain a single interface for students in online courses. All online course developers use Lotus Note 4.6. For courses on the SUNY Learning Network, developers use the Lotus Notes course management template maintained by SLN. For other SUNY Empire online study groups, developers use an SUNY Empire adapted version of the same template.
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BLM plans for the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska
On a chilly June afternoon several years ago, I sat for hours on a muddy sandbar, entranced as a seemingly endless procession of migrating caribou swam across a northwestern Alaska river. The air was filled with splashing, the grunting of cows, the answering calls of their calves. Perhaps some 2,000 animals passed by.
You might think this occurred in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the state's most famous caribou habitat. But it was actually about 200 miles to the west, in a remote, roughly 23-million-acre chunk of federal land known as the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A). Set aside in 1923 to provide fuel to the military, it has yet to produce any energy for commercial use. It's rich with wildlife, though -- some 400,000 caribou, plus grizzlies, polar bears, wolves, wolverines, peregrine falcons, brant geese, spectacled eiders and more. Many Inupiaq villages rely on subsistence hunting here.
Now, the Bureau of Land Management is about to issue the final version of its first-ever comprehensive plan for the NPR-A. Surprisingly enough, the agency intends to put about half of the "petroleum" reserve off-limits to drilling. Conservationists are cheering, while energy developers and pro-industry Alaskan officials seethe.
Although the BLM has taken a lot of heat from environmentalists for cozying up to oil and gas, its NPR-A plan is an earnest attempt to strike a reasonable balance between natural resources preservation and energy extraction. "NPR-A has important (wildlife and subsistence) values that Interior and BLM wanted to protect," says Jim Ducker, the environmental program analyst who coordinated the plan. "This is what management feels is the appropriate balance right now."
The BLM took over NPR-A's management from the Navy in 1976. Congress directed it to set aside "special areas" of critical wildlife habitat, and a few years later instructed the agency to begin leasing lands for oil and gas. Given the region's ruggedness and lack of roads and bridges, plus uncertainty about federal intentions, it's not surprising that industry interest has been low. So far, about 6 percent of the reserve (about 1.5 million acres) has been leased. The most recent sale, in November, offered 4.5 million acres, but only two companies bid, on a total of 160,000 acres.
According to a 2010 U.S. Geological Survey estimate, the reserve theoretically holds about 53 trillion cubic feet of natural gas and 900 million barrels of oil -- enough oil to supply the U.S. for 47 days. That's just a fraction of the agency's 2002 estimate, though, and the reassessment, along with new information about climate change's impacts on wildlife, prompted the BLM to write a reserve-wide plan, replacing existing piecemeal plans.
The agency's "preferred alternative" in that plan allows access to about 549 million barrels of oil and 8.7 trillion cubic feet of gas considered economically feasible to extract, and allows for construction of pipelines and other infrastructure after further study. It also protects coastal areas vital to marine mammals, raptor nesting areas, and crucial calving, waterfowl and subsistence-hunting regions. "The Obama administration picked the most restrictive management plan possible," said Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, in a critical statement.
But no plan lasts forever, says Ducker, and the balance could shift, especially if energy companies discover substantial oil in the waters adjoining the reserve. Offshore development could spur the construction of a pipeline across NPR-A to carry oil to the existing Trans-Alaska pipeline. "If the infrastructure is right there, the economics change," he says, "and that could tip the balance toward offering more (land) in the future."
While drafting the plan, the BLM held public meetings and took more than 400,000 comments from tribes, businesses, conservation groups, and state, local and federal agencies. But Alaska walked out of the planning process in September. State officials had long been pushing for large-scale development, and were outraged by the BLM's intention to withhold so much land. Gov. Sean Parnell, R, wrote to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar stating that the federal agency "shows a complete lack of respect for the views of the state."
That's a sharp contrast to how the BLM often operates. Although the agency has made a top-down effort to restore the balance between resource development, conservation and recreation, energy production still frequently takes priority. Elsewhere in Alaska, for instance, management plans for the Kobuk-Seward Peninsula, Ring of Fire, and Eastern Interior (in draft stage) regions opened the vast majority of lands to energy companies.
And in the Lower 48, the Vernal, Utah, field office has been roundly criticized for its close ties to industry -- allowing gas exploration that threatened Indian rock art and ruins, rarely prosecuting violations, and weakening wildlife and air-quality protections. In October, Stan Olmstead, a retiring natural resources specialist from that office, sent his colleagues a scathing three-page letter: "At the Vernal Office … we promote energy development without stop and continue to measure natural resources by dollar value. …"
Former BLM head Bob Abbey, who retired in May, recently told High Country News why he left the agency for the first time in 2005: "One of the reasons was my frustration with how the BLM was being managed. The primary emphasis was to make as many acres as possible available for oil and gas leasing and production, and that overtook other important programs."
"The BLM is (still) in the back pocket of industry," says Ken Rait of Pew Trust's Western Lands Project, a conservation initiative focused on public land. "But there's real interest in figuring out a better balance." Under Abbey and Salazar, significant reforms have occurred, and some sensitive parcels have been pulled from auctions. But in the BLM's decentralized, slow-to-evolve culture, a push toward conservation from the top doesn't always get translated into action on the ground.
Nonetheless, observers expect the BLM's final decision, due soon, to uphold the preferred alternative for this globally significant area. And if it does, says Rait, "we will look at this as the crowning conservation accomplishment of the Obama administration's first term. Yes, they've established four national monuments --but this is a whole lot more land."


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At Ocean and Earth Science at the University of Southampton we offer a BSc Geophysical Sciences geophysics degree that ranks highly in both student satisfaction and career prospects.
Indeed, students on geophysics degrees at the University of Southampton recently reported an incredible 100% satisfaction rate in a national survey.
But it is the strength and prestige of this geophysics degree that will open doors to a wide range of employment opportunities. That is because potential employers view graduates of our Ocean and Earth Science programmes as superbly qualified scientists, with excellent personal and transferable skills in numeracy, communication and team working, according to feedback.
If you have the drive and ambition, and a love for geophysical sciences, the career opportunities once you graduate with your BSc Geophysical Sciences geophysics degree are enormous. For example, among our geophysics degree graduates is James Adcock, now senior geophysicist for a company specialising in shallow and archaeological geophysics.
James now works behind the scenes on the Channel 4 programme Time Team. He said: I have specialised in one area, called GPR (ground penetrating radar), but use all of the techniques initially learnt at Southampton in the work I undertake.
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Twenty-four exchange students from Germany, along with their American counterparts, met with members of the Northampton Area School Board at their meeting Monday night. They were introduced by Ms. April Krempasky, who is leading the German American Partnership Program on this side of the Atlantic for the Northampton Area School District.
The German students arrived this past Friday for a 12-day stay in the U.S., studying at the high school and living with families in this area. The American students will visit Germany in June and July, when they will attend school for 12 days at Freiherrvom Stein Schule in Gladenbuch.
The students are scheduled to visit Washington, D.C. and Philadelphia as part of their trip here. After they were introduced, all of the students shook hands with the school directors, who welcomed them to America.
Other Matters
• Two other presentations were made on Monday – one, the 2012-2013 Northampton Community College budget given by Dr. Arthur Scott and two, the PFM middle school financial picture, given by Ms. Jamie Doyle.
• That was followed by a construction discussion on the middle school project by KCBA architects and a discussion of the 2012-13 NASD budget.
• In personnel matters, the board approved:
– A full-year sabbatical for Kristen Sevinsky for professional development.
– A half-year sabbatical for Rebecca Philbin and Linda Kney, also for professional development.
– Resignations of Susan Baird, ESL teacher; Richard Baran, guidance counselor; Thomas Keim, biology teacher; Jodie Laury, elementary teacher; Judith Luckenbach, elementary teacher; Richard Silvius, mathematics teacher; Wendy Lyons, elementary teacher; Brenda Rose, librarian; Martha Fenningham, kindergarten teacher; Nancy Wilkin, chemistry teacher, and Kathryn Chartier, English teacher, all for super-annuated retirement.
– Resignations of Barbara Carrigan, speech and language pathologist; Mary Dawn Ditty, librarian; Donna Feldman, elementary teacher; Diane Wakeman, English teacher; Gwen Whilden, health and physical education teacher; Pamela Pope, social studies teacher; Alice Keim, family and consumer science teacher, and William Gowdy, social studies teacher, all for retirement.
– Alana Heller, paid child-bearing leave of absence starting in May.
– Dale Danner, extension of medical leave.
• The board also approved the Bethlehem Area Vo-Tech School general fund budget of $9,892,650, with the NASD portion of $2,267,440.


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3K federal inmates released under criminal justice overhaul
First Step Act gives judges more sentencing discretion, eases mandatory minimum sentences and aims at reducing recidivism
By Michael Balsamo
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WASHINGTON — More than 3,100 federal inmates were being released Friday by the Bureau of Prisons as part of a criminal justice overhaul signed into law last year.
The First Step Act gives judges more discretion in sentencing, eases mandatory minimum sentences and encourages inmates to participate in programs aimed at reducing recidivism. The Trump administration has promoted the overhaul as a rare bipartisan effort to address concerns that too many Americans were imprisoned for nonviolent crimes as a result of the drug war.
The inmates were walking out of federal prisons and halfway houses across the country. The releases are part of an increase for "good conduct time" under the law. More than 1,600 other inmates have qualified for reduced sentences under a separate provision of the law that allows some prisoners locked up for crack cocaine charges to ask for sentencing reduction.
The Bureau of Prisons declined to provide specific details about the inmates being released, citing privacy concerns. Nearly 900 were to be turned over to other law enforcement agencies because of detainers filed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and local authorities, according to Hugh Hurwitz, the acting director of the Bureau of Prisons.
"The timely, efficient and effective implementation of the First Step Act is a priority for the Department of Justice and this administration," Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen said at a news conference. "Using top-of-the-line research, people and technology, the department intends to implement this law fully and on time, with the goal of reducing crime, enhancing public safety, and strengthening the rule of law."
Officials also released a risk and needs assessment tool, which is meant to measure a prisoner's likelihood of committing new crimes. The tool expands on a security assessment tool already in place within the Bureau of Prisons that helps to predict inmate misconduct, Hurwitz said.
There will also be a public comment period and several "listening sessions" in the coming months for advocates and others to share thoughts about the tool.
"While we believe this tool to predict recidivism is an improvement over the existing system, we also recognize that there is room for additional change as we continue through the implementation process and gather more data," Rosen said.
The Justice Department is diverting about $75 million from within the Bureau of Prisons' budget, which was used for care, programming and administrative tasks, in order to put in place the First Step Act. Officials would not provide more specific information and it wasn't immediately clear whether that would cause any disruption to other federal prison programs.
Federal officials say they were working with Congress to ensure additional funding for the coming years.


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kiizerdrigs (Lurker) Wed Feb 15, 2012 11:30 pm day 1 of converting my 2004 to a streetfighter!
today i took off the upper and lower fairings and re-ran the turning signal lights up thru the empty pods. i was able to salvage the original bulbs and wires from the original turning signals. i cleaned up the wires with a couple of zip ties and flush cut the fender. im thinking about useing the scraps left over from the fender to mak the license plate holder tm. now i just need to get the front turning signals and ill be street legal again. ill get some daytime pics up soon:D
day 1 of converting my 2004 to a streetfighter! — kiizerdrigs, Wed Feb 15, 2012 11:30 pm
A few daytime photos — kiizerdrigs, Thu Feb 16, 2012 2:50 pm
Use IMG Code instead — Bokonon, Thu Feb 16, 2012 9:16 pm
I definitely do need tires... — kiizerdrigs, Fri Feb 17, 2012 12:15 am
Which kind are you using and how are you trying to mount them? — Bokonon, Fri Feb 17, 2012 12:35 am
Front of the bike — kiizerdrigs, Fri Feb 17, 2012 6:58 pm
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Multiple images — BrianM, Thu Feb 16, 2012 3:13 pm
some more progress pics — kiizerdrigs, Sat Feb 18, 2012 4:13 pm
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- Same-day pay with FlexiPay: get instant access to up to 50% of the value of your completed shifts, even on weekends and bank holidays
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"I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list." - Susan Sontag
You know who I am referring to. This is the guy at a party who proudly boasts how many places he's been to or that couple who just returned from a trip and boldly announced that they had now been to 50 countries. It's the person who would rather touch down in a different city for 1 hour in transit than miss the opportunity to add another country to their bucket list. What are we to make of these types? Are they guilty of not traveling in a proper fashion? And what truly constitutes having been to a country? Is visiting the capital city enough or do we suggest that there be a minimum percentage of territory covered to qualify as having visited somewhere new? I was in Yugoslavia back when it was one country. Does that mean I can add 6 more countries to my list now that the original Yugoslavia has dissolved? What about autonomous territories and disputed zones? Do they count too? At the end of the day who's to say what is right or wrong. Each of us travels for our own personal reasons. I once met up with a guy in Vietnam who told me that he had spent 3 weeks in a town in the Mekong Delta in order to try and 'experience' what their life-style was like. He looked down his nose at me when I told him I was trying to see the highlights of the entire country in 3 weeks! For each of us it is a matter of trying to find that perfect 'balance' between seeing and experiencing a place. For some, 2 days in Istanbul is enough. For others a month would be too short. For many of us we only have one chance at visiting a particular place. Could it be intent that counts? When you have a genuine interest in seeing a country and learning about its culture, history, people etc.(and would explore further if given the opportunity and time) that perhaps should be more of a determining factor rather than touching down in a country for 24 hours without a care of where you are. In the end I suppose what is right is what works for you. So go on people, keep counting. And for those who are keeping score, I have been to over 100 countries myself!


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Last week I was gifted with a 'plein air' watercolor workshop given by Lynn Onley. Plein air painting is a familiar concept today, but in the late 1800s when the Impressionists ventured out of their studios into nature to investigate and capture the effects of sunlight and different times of days on a subject, it was quite revolutionary. We met at Porteau Cove, which is situated overlooking Howe Sound, 38 km north of Vancouver on the Sea-to-Sky Highway on the way to Whistler. Interestingly, I learnt that an old ship has been sunk in the bay, so as well as attracting outdoor enthusiasts, scuba divers and marine biologists come here to explore the depths of the ocean. A pebble beach slopes gently into Howe Sound in Porteau Cove. On summer days when the tide is low and the sun high, the warm rocks heat the incoming waters, making swimming here a pleasure. Lynn Onley who gave the workshop, is the daughter of Toni Onley, one of Canada's most celebrated artists. His landscapes have always provided a special significance for Canadians in reviving an appreciation for our surroundings. Lynn Onley following in her father's footsteps is an accomplished artist herself. I felt very privileged, and excited to have the opportunity to learn the art of watercolor from Lynn Onley as passed down to her from her celebrated father Toni Onley.
The view of the scene I painted with instruction from Lynn Onley
Lynn Onley painting Plein Air in Porteau Cove using her father, Toni Onley's paint box
Lynn Onley painting Plein Air in Porteau Cove using her father, Toni Onley's paint box and his wood and canvas folding chair. The first step is to lay in the color washes for the sky, and while still wet take tissue and blot to make the clouds. The next step is to paint in the mountains, using the 'soup' as Lynn calls it, which is the remaining mixture from the sky as the base to add the next colors to. Lynn showed us how to mix Alizarin Crimson with Sepia, to tone it down, to paint in the slab-like chunks of red granite showing in the mountains.
Lynn Onley demonstrates watercolors techniques
Then Lynn added in the ocean, and next the shore, and then trees. At this point you can continue to add more detail, or take the painting home to finish. I had to leave at this point with my water color still needing more work. I took it with me on my trip to Desolation sound and added in more detail, working from memory and being further inspired by the colors and light in the more northern atmosphere of Desolation Sound – Desolation Sound is at the 52nd Parallel, while Porteau Cove is at the 49th Parallel. Thanks Lynn for the inspiring day!!
My finished watercolor of Porteau Cove after a morning of instruction from Lynn Onley.
11" x 15" on 140 lb watercolor paper , Windsor Newton paints
A pebble beach slopes gently into Howe Sound. It was low tide so the green moss on the rocks usually below the water line was showing. We started painting at 10:00 AM, and the sky, cloud formations, and shadows on the water were constantly changing as the sun and tide line changed.
The dock at Porteau Cove.
The granite mountains above Porteau Cove on the highway to Whistler.
These pictures are of the beautiful tree I sat under while painting at Porteau Cove. I took these pictures as inspiration – possibly for my next water color.
Van Gogh, in a letter to his brother, claims to
"devour nature ceaselessly,"
and finds himself
"in surroundings which entirely engross me,
which so order, fix, regulate, renew and enlarge my thoughts
that I am quite wrapped up in them."
Toni Onley 1928 – 2004, one of Canada's most celebrated artists, painting Plein Air.
Patricia Gray Inc is an award winning Interior Design firm in Vancouver, Canada who blogs about Lifestyle and WHAT'S HOT in the world of Interior Design.
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After shutting down major highways and key trucking routes for nearly two weeks, two million farmers and workers brought the Colombian government to the negotiating table to reform trade policy.
Didn't know about that? Well, few in the United States are taking note and it's hardly making our headlines. Yet this may be just the opening salvo in a full-frontal attack on the recently enacted U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement.
While peace negotiations between the Colombian government and FARC rebels continue in an effort to end a brutal, five-decade-long war, a less-publicized problem — a harsh, unbridled free-trade economic system that is devastating farmers — has reached a boiling point.
As many as 2 million Colombians took their protest to the highways of the country in August, met by tens of thousands of members of their nation's security forces and brutal repression.
Based on reports from the Red Cross and human rights organizations, security forces cracked down on protesters with accounts of forces breaking into farmers' homes, shooting tear gas from helicopters, firing weapons indiscriminately, and even sexual abuse.
Because of the impact of the protests, which paralyzed the capital of Bogotá, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos was forced to acknowledge the lack of effective agricultural policy, equating the mass unrest to a "storm" caused by the "absence of agricultural policies for a long time."
For the protestors, however, it's not the absence of agricultural policies, but one menacing policy in particular that has them up in arms: the U.S. free trade agreement, implemented last May. The U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement prohibits the very policies the United States uses to prop up Big Ag, such as subsidies. In this unequal playing field, what can Santos do to support Colombian growers and workers?
Take the crisis of the Colombian dairy industry, for example. Faced with a saturation of U.S. dairy products in the Colombian market, farmers gave away or dumped milk in the months leading up to the strike, claiming that production costs were too high to compete with U.S subsidized products. Before the agreement was signed in 2011, Oxfam reported that 1.8 million farmers would see a significant drop in their income in the wake of a free trade agreement with the United States, with 400,000 of the poorest farmers set to lose up to 70 percent of their income.
Now, rice, potato, sugarcane, onion, coffee, cocoa, and livestock farmers joined by miners, truck drivers, health care workers, and students are protesting to demand an end to free trade policies that enrich U.S. corporations at the expense of small-scale farmers and workers.
The sheer desperation of poverty in Colombia's breadbasket has spurred the mass protest on the commercial byways of Colombia, and neither brutal repression nor offers of band-aid solutions will solve the structural problem. The farmers demanding an end to free-trade policies that failed in their promise to increase prosperity for Colombians are screaming at the top of their lungs that the emperor has no clothes.
Can you hear them now?


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One of the current obsessions is how much debris from the tsunami in Japan last year—some of it possibly radioactive!!!—will be washing ashore in North America. Usha Lee McFarling writes in the Los Angeles Times that we should all calm down:
First, there is no giant carpet of items making its way across the ocean. Immediately after the disaster, there were large rafts of debris — roofs and lumber and upturned boats clustered together — but these rapidly broke up. . .
How much debris is still out there? Headlines about the "staggering mess" reported that 20 million tons of flotsam — a "garbage wave" — could wash up on Hawaii's beaches. Other reports claimed 100 million tons of tsunami debris is on its way to the West Coast.
These numbers are vastly inflated. The Japanese government estimates that nearly 5 million tons of debris washed into the ocean during the tsunami. About 70% of that sank, according to NOAA. That left 1.5 million tons of floating items such as buoys, oil drums, lumber and boats. More than a year later, some of that debris has sunk or degraded.
But regardless of how much debris there is, I'm still confused. I thought every man-made thing that got into the ocean ended up swirling around in the middle of the Pacific, in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (or gyre). McFarling points out:
It's clear that the vast amount of debris generated by the Japanese tsunami is just a small fraction of the human detritus that already fouls the oceans. Our seas already hold more trash than would be produced by dozens, if not hundreds, of tsunamis. And more is added each day.


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Paulina Gretzky hasn't met a social networking site she can't scandalize.
It wasn't so long ago that the daughter of hockey legend Wayne Gretzky was getting all kinds of flak for photos she had posted to Twitter -- not the least of it may have been from dear old dad.
The Twitter tempest still hasn't cooled completely -- in fact, tributes to her now-deleted photo blast are still going strong.
But the 23-year-old is already off to racier things, this time stirring up all kinds of scandal on Instagram.
The reviews are already in.
"Shocking" and "dirty" declares the Vancouver Sun.
"This gal tumbled down the hotness tree and hit every branch on the way down," rave-- err reports MTV.
And the Toronto Sun strikes a more solemn tone with, "The Great One's daughter appears to be moving in the direction of bad habits while providing a more than attentive audience a behind the scenes look at her party lifestyle."
Much ado about nothing?
Check out the slideshow below. But be warned, these images contain seriously adult content.
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It's the holiday season, that magical time of year when Canadians come together to ask: Why are we still paying more for everything than Americans?
Amazon launched its Canadian Kindle store a few weeks ago, and it took little time before consumers began to notice, much to their chagrin, that e-book prices in the Canadian store were consistently higher than they were in the U.S. online store.
We did our own comparison shopping on Amazon.com and Amazon.ca, and consistently found e-book price differences of at least 10 per cent on most items we looked at, with a few items carrying a markup of much more than that (and a rare few with no markup at all.)
Yann Martel's Life of Pi, for instance, is $4.99 in the U.S. store and $13.99 in Canada. Granted, it's a different publisher in the U.S., but this is a Canadian writer we're talking about...
It was just the latest annoying chapter in the long-running saga of Canadians paying higher prices than Americans for just about everything. It's been five years since the loonie first came within parity range of the U.S. dollar, and we still have price gaps of up to 40 per cent on some items.
But with e-books the price differential seemed especially unjustified: There are no physical books to be shipped to small Canadian bookstores thousands of kilometres from the nearest distribution centre, no import tariffs or higher rental rates on store locations to be paid. E-books are just data, in many cases less actual bits of data than the page you're reading right now.
Amazon E-Book Prices US Vs. Canada
So what gives?
We called Amazon Canada and the Canadian Booksellers' Association, and they both said the same thing: Talk to the publishers, they set prices for books.
So we called a few publishers. We're still waiting to hear back from them, but in the meantime Karen Proud at the Retail Council of Canada did offer some interesting — and perhaps depressing — insight as to why prices would be higher in Canada than in the U.S., even for something like an e-book, and why things may not change even after years of loonie-greenback parity.
It's called "country pricing" — the practice by some manufacturers and brand owners of charging different prices in different countries for otherwise identical items.
In our case, Proud said, they do it because they believe Canadians will pay a higher price.
"It's a huge area of contention for our members," she said, referring to the thousands of retailers who are part of the Retail Council.
Mark Lefebvre, president of the Canadian Booksellers Association, had a similar take. He said publishers have it "entrenched" in their minds that Canada is a higher price market.
"It's ingrained in everybody's head that things are always more expensive in Canada," he said, adding that he can see "no logistical reason" for higher e-book prices north of the border.
But Lefebvre points out that not all publishers charge more in Canada than in the U.S. In fact, many small Canadian publishing houses charge the same here as south of the border — and sometimes even less.
Lefebvre pointed out ECW Press and Edge Publishing as two houses that charge the same prices here and in the U.S. In fact, Clockwork Angels, a novel tie-in with the Rush album of the same name, published by ECW, costs $15.99 in Canada — and $16.18 in the U.S. That's a 19-cent discount for being Canadian — not all that much, but hey, it's something.
Publishers like this, who treat their readers "with respect … should be applauded loudly and proudly," says Lefebvre, who admittedly has a personal stake in supporting indie publishers — he's been published by a few of them, including Edge.
Jim Saunders, a consultant at market research firm Pricing Solutions, says the price gap ultimately is about "willingness to pay," and sellers simply believe Canadians will pay what they charge.
He suggests that Canada's "larger and more affluent middle class" makes it easier for manufacturers to charge more.
But from his experience as a pricing consultant, Saunders also found there is a different culture among Canadian retailers than there is among American ones.
U.S. retail culture "seems to be much more about winning" than Canadian retail culture. Saunders finds American retailers are generally quicker to drop prices when competition appears.
And Canadian consumers are also different, Saunders told HuffPost. Canadians don't shop as "aggressively" as Americans, and aren't as quick to seek out deals. So Canadian retailers and consumers are failing to put the sort of pressure on manufacturers needed to bring prices down.
The whole issue is now being given some sober second thought in the Senate, where hearings began this fall on the causes of the price gap. Finance Minister Jim Flaherty told the Senate Canadians are "rightly annoyed and perplexed" at the fact that the higher loonie hasn't translated into lower prices.
Flaherty focused on import tariffs as one cause of the price gap. That's something that also concerns the Retail Council. The organization's Karen Proud told HuffPost that there are import tariffs in Canada on goods that are barely produced in the country anymore, such as shoes.
But Saunders argues change will come when consumers put pressure on sellers to lower their prices — or when new retailers enter the market, as will be the case this spring when Target comes to Canada.
"When they feel they're being outmaneuvered, they'll respond quickly," he said of retailers.
But if Saunders' take on the situation is accurate, then Canadian shoppers have the opportunity to be the agents of change in closing the price gap.
And one thing Canadians could do this season (other than the usual cross-border shopping routine) is to buy a book from a Canadian indie publisher.
You might get a better price for it than any American could.


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Since inception of Dr. Kelley's site in the year 2000, one of our focuses has been on the poisonous use of Fluoride in our drinking water. Dr. Kelley's history with (and against) fluoridation of our drinking water in America, is widely noted, and because of it, we continue to warn our readers of said dangers.
Dartmouth University wrote in 2001:
In a recent article in the journal NeuroToxicology, a research team led by Roger D. Masters, Dartmouth College Research Professor and Nelson A. Rockefeller Professor of Government Emeritus, reports evidence that public drinking water treated with sodium silicofluoride or fluosilicic acid, known as silicofluorides (SiFs), is linked to higher uptake of lead in children.
Sodium fluoride, first added to public drinking water in 1945, is now used in less than 10% of fluoridation systems nationwide, according to the Center for Disease Control's (CDC) 1992 Fluoridation Census. Instead, SiF's are now used to treat drinking water delivered to 140 million people. While sodium fluoride was tested on animals and approved for human consumption, the same cannot be said for SiFs.
Masters and his collaborator Myron J. Coplan, a consulting chemical engineer, formerly Vice President of Albany International Corporation, led the team that has now studied the blood lead levels in over 400,000 children in three different samples. In each case, they found a significant link between SiF-treated water and elevated blood lead levels.
"We should stop using silicofluorides in our public water supply until we know what they do," said Masters. Officials at the Environmental Protection Agency have told Masters and Coplan that the EPA has no information on health effects of chronic ingestion of SiF-treated water.
Also requiring further examination is German research that shows SiFs inhibit cholinesterase, an enzyme that plays an important role in regulating neurotransmitters.
"If SiFs are cholinesterase inhibitors, this means that SiFs have effects like the chemical agents linked to Gulf War Syndrome, chronic fatigue syndrome and other puzzling conditions that plague millions of Americans," said Masters. "We need a better understanding of how SiFs behave chemically and physiologically."
Here is Masters' scientific paper on SiFs (also called "fluosilicic acid" and "fluorosilicic acid").
Where does this compound come from?
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Toxicology Program, reported in 2001:
Sodium hexafluorosilicate is produced by treating fluorosilicic acid with sodium hydroxide, sodium carbonate, or sodium chloride; alkalinity is adjusted to avoid the release of the fluoride. Fluorosilicic acid is mainly produced as a byproduct of the manufacture of phosphate fertilizers where phosphate rock is treated with sulfuric acid.
The major use of sodium hexafluorosilicate and fluorosilicic acid is as fluoridation agents for drinking water.
According to the U.S. U.S. Geological Survey:
An estimated 40,000 tons of fluorosilicic acid (equivalent to about 70,000 tons of 92% fluorspar) was recovered from phosphoric acid plants processing phosphate rock. Fluorosilicic acid was used primarily in water fluoridation, either directly or after processing into sodium silicofluoride.
The USGS also noted in a 2000 report:
Fluorosilicic acid is a byproduct of the phosphate fertilizer industry and is not manufactured for itself alone …
In other words, even though neither the EPA or any other government agency has studied the effects of long-term ingestion of fluorosilicic acid, it is being used instead of sodium fluoride because it is cheaper.
As Edward Urbansky from the EPA's Office of Research and Development, National Risk management Research Laboratory, Water Supply and Water Resources Division wrote in 2002:
The most common fluoridating agents used by American waterworks are sodium fluoride (NaF), hexafluorosilicic acid (H2SiF6), and sodium hexafluorosilicate (Na2SiF6) as shown in Figure 1.14 Although 25% of the utilities reported using NaF, this corresponds to only 9.2% of the U.S. population drinking fluoride-supplemented tap water. … The cost savings in using fluorosilicates result in large systems using those additives instead.
In the United States, the primary sources of fluoridating agents are rocky mineral deposits containing mixtures of fluorite and apatite; the fluoridating agent itself is produced as a byproduct of phosphate fertilizer manufacture.
The EPA is aware of papers positing links between fluoridation agents and lead in the bloodstream or challenging the accepted chemistry. To truly investigate such hypotheses, better chemical knowledge of the speciation is required.


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