Adventures in Autism: Discover: Mercury
Array Common methods included maintaining control of the election machinery, intimidating an disenfranchising opposition voters, destroying or disallowing legal votes, and, as a last resort, turning to a judiciary beholden to the power elite.Twenty Amazing Facts About Voting in the USAOriginally published at nightweed.comDid you know….1. The chairman and CEO of Diebold is a major Bush campaign organizer and donor who wrote in 2003 that he was committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year. (link) (link) (link)7. ES&S is the largest voting machine manufacturer in the U.S. and counts almost 60% of all U.S. votes. Diebold’s new touch screen voting machines have no paper trail of any votes. (link) (link) (link)14. 30% of all U.S. votes are carried out on unverifiable touch screen voting machines with no paper trail. (link) (link) (link)19. (link) (link) (link) (link) (link)Powerful Government Accountability Office report confirms key 2004 stolen election findings at FreePress.Org——-
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-ne Egypt, the U.S. and RenditionsThis being the fourth anniversary of the detention of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, it’s appropriate to mention the network of renditions and secret detentions, its role in affecting U.S.-Egyptian relations and what it means for human rights in Egypt.Let’s start with two cases. Although released in 2004 he was rearrested and remains held in an unknown place of detention, although it has been suggested that he may again be detained in Damanhour prison, Egypt, where he may be at risk of torture or ill-treatment. I believe this effort is a significant obstacle to the stated U.S. effort to bring more democracy and human rights to the Middle East, Egypt specifically. And yet, I continue to believe that what little progress we have seen deserves to be credited to the work of Egyptian human rights activists, far more than the efforts of the U.S. government. You can not ask Egypt to bring an end to torture on one hand, and on the other hand be directly complicit in the use of torture, both in Egypt and of Egyptians in foreign detention centers.
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Of course, the past, present and future are all interconnected, and a paradox-or series of temporal mishaps-could change the very fabric of time and space.Back to the Future II trading cardsCards 1-19, Cards 20-39, Cards 40-59, Cards 60-79 and Cards 80-88.
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-ne So I know I am doing a lot of Mercury blogging these days, but there is just so much out there on in these days. If you want a broad view of mercury in your world, take some time and read the whole thing.Our Preferred PoisonA little mercury is all that humans need to do away with themselves quietly, slowly, and surelyBy Karen WrightIllustration by Don FoleyDISCOVER Vol. 03 March 2005 Biology & MedicineLet’s start with a straightforward fact:Mercury is unimaginably toxic and dangerous.A single drop on a human hand can be irreversibly fatal.A single drop in a large lake can make allthe fish in it unsafe to eat.Often referred to as quicksilver, mercury is the only common metal that is liquid at room temperature. Some studies show that children who were exposed to tiny amounts of mercury in utero have slower reflexes, language deficits, and shortened attention spans. In adults, recent studies show a possible link between heart disease and mercury ingested from eating fish. The Environmental Protection Agency plans to finalize its controversial first rule on reducing mercury emissions from power plants this month, and delegates from the United Nations Environment Programme met in late February to discuss an international convention limiting mercury use and emissions.A decade ago researchers and lawmakers agreed that lead, another heavy metal, was harmful to children at levels one-sixth as high as previously recognized. A broken thermometer can release enough mercury vapor to poison the air in a room—one reason why some cities and several states discourage the sale of mercury fever thermometers.Mercury also binds with other elements in salts and organic compounds of varying toxicity. Dimethyl mercury, the substance that poisoned the Dartmouth chemist, is a synthetic form of organic mercury rarely found outside a lab. A simpler organic compound called methylmercury is of greater concern because methyl- mercury is the form found in the flesh of fish.Seafood is one of the two most common sources of mercury exposure in adults. The species singled out by the recent FDA advisory—big predators such as albacore tuna, shark, and swordfish—can have 100 times more mercury in their tissues than smaller fish do.The methylmercury in fish passes readily from the human gut to the bloodstream and on into all organs and tissues. says Boyd Haley, a biochemist at the University of Kentucky.Researchers learned how much mercury the body can tolerate from studies of victims of catastrophic poisoning, such as the Japanese sickened by eating fish from Minamata Bay and the Iraqis who ate grain treated with a methylmercury-based preservative in the early 1970s. Elemental mercury, which makes up half of silver fillings, releases mercury vapor, just as liquid mercury does. No human studies have assessed prolonged exposure to low levels of mercury vapor. One study hints at subtle neural and behavioral anomalies in dentists, who collectively use 300 metric tons of mercury in amalgams each year and who often have two to five times the typical concentration of mercury in their urine.“I think the methylmercury in fish is probably our least toxic exposure,” To see if mercury has comparable effects, Grandjean, along with Pál Weihe at the University of Southern Denmark, is conducting the largest study to date of children’s cognition and behavior in a population routinely exposed to low levels of mercury. An earlier study of shark eaters in New Zealand suggested that relatively high levels of mercury in a mother’s hair during pregnancy correlated with a loss of three IQ points in her child. “It’s not a huge loss, but it’s certainly not negligible.”Yet in another large, long-term epidemiological study conducted on the Seychelles Islands in the Indian Ocean, Clarkson has so far found no effect on neurological development from prenatal exposure to low levels of mercury in seafood. Although the 1999 FDA action minimized such exposure, some infant flu vaccines still contain 12.5 micrograms of mercury per dose—more than 10 times the daily EPA safety level for a 20-pound baby.Circumstantial evidence also implicates mercury in autism. Some of the symptoms of autism and mercury poisoning are similar, and Haley has garnered evidence from hair samples that autistic children do not clear mercury from their bodies as efficiently as most kids do. And Grandjean’s Faeroe Islands study found that prenatal exposure to mercury caused significant increases in blood pressure among 7-year-olds.The most troubling aspect of this controversial heart-disease data is that deleterious effects occur at mercury-exposure levels equal to or lower than for any other toxicological outcome, including the subtle neurological symptoms in the Faeroe Islands study. In the Finnish study, the men with the doubled risk of heart attack had hair samples with only two parts per million of mercury. Stern speculates that 10 percent of American men may already eat enough fish to raise their risk of heart attack.“There’s this interaction between mercury and fish oils that makes it very complicated because they both come from the same place,” It stands to reason that mercury has been accumulating in the flesh of fish, shellfish, and marine mammals since humankind began eating them—which is most likely why humans have a protein called metallothione to help detoxify mercury and other heavy metals.But human activities have caused the mercury content of the atmosphere to rise by 1.5 percent a year, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, and the problem is global. Due to heightened concern, advisories for mercury are increasing faster than for any other pollutant.The EPA is in the final stages of formalizing a rule that would limit emissions from coal-fired utilities, which produce 42 percent of the nation’s domestic mercury pollution. An EPA study reported the median amount of mercury, measured in parts per million, in the following varieties of canned tuna: chunk light: .08 parts per million; A 2004 EPA advisory mentions five types of fish and shellfish that are low in mercury: shrimp, canned light tuna, salmon, pollack, and catfish. The advisory also warns consumers not to eat shark, swordfish, king mackerel, and tilefish because they all contain high levels of mercury.Mercury FillingsDental amalgams, known as silver fillings, are composed of roughly 50 percent mercury. Studies of people with mercury-containing dental fillings show a correlation between the number and size of the fillings and the amount of mercury excreted in their urine. The relationship suggests that the mercury is derived from mercury vapor released from the fillings.
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Array Common methods included maintaining control of the election machinery, intimidating an disenfranchising opposition voters, destroying or disallowing legal votes, and, as a last resort, turning to a judiciary beholden to the power elite.Twenty Amazing Facts About Voting in the USAOriginally published at nightweed.comDid you know….1. The chairman and CEO of Diebold is a major Bush campaign organizer and donor who wrote in 2003 that he was committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year. (link) (link) (link)7. ES&S is the largest voting machine manufacturer in the U.S. and counts almost 60% of all U.S. votes. Diebold’s new touch screen voting machines have no paper trail of any votes. (link) (link) (link)14. 30% of all U.S. votes are carried out on unverifiable touch screen voting machines with no paper trail. (link) (link) (link)19. (link) (link) (link) (link) (link)Powerful Government Accountability Office report confirms key 2004 stolen election findings at FreePress.Org——-
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-ne Egypt, the U.S. and RenditionsThis being the fourth anniversary of the detention of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, it’s appropriate to mention the network of renditions and secret detentions, its role in affecting U.S.-Egyptian relations and what it means for human rights in Egypt.Let’s start with two cases. Although released in 2004 he was rearrested and remains held in an unknown place of detention, although it has been suggested that he may again be detained in Damanhour prison, Egypt, where he may be at risk of torture or ill-treatment. I believe this effort is a significant obstacle to the stated U.S. effort to bring more democracy and human rights to the Middle East, Egypt specifically. And yet, I continue to believe that what little progress we have seen deserves to be credited to the work of Egyptian human rights activists, far more than the efforts of the U.S. government. You can not ask Egypt to bring an end to torture on one hand, and on the other hand be directly complicit in the use of torture, both in Egypt and of Egyptians in foreign detention centers.
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Of course, the past, present and future are all interconnected, and a paradox-or series of temporal mishaps-could change the very fabric of time and space.Back to the Future II trading cardsCards 1-19, Cards 20-39, Cards 40-59, Cards 60-79 and Cards 80-88.
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-ne So I know I am doing a lot of Mercury blogging these days, but there is just so much out there on in these days. If you want a broad view of mercury in your world, take some time and read the whole thing.Our Preferred PoisonA little mercury is all that humans need to do away with themselves quietly, slowly, and surelyBy Karen WrightIllustration by Don FoleyDISCOVER Vol. 03 March 2005 Biology & MedicineLet’s start with a straightforward fact:Mercury is unimaginably toxic and dangerous.A single drop on a human hand can be irreversibly fatal.A single drop in a large lake can make allthe fish in it unsafe to eat.Often referred to as quicksilver, mercury is the only common metal that is liquid at room temperature. Some studies show that children who were exposed to tiny amounts of mercury in utero have slower reflexes, language deficits, and shortened attention spans. In adults, recent studies show a possible link between heart disease and mercury ingested from eating fish. The Environmental Protection Agency plans to finalize its controversial first rule on reducing mercury emissions from power plants this month, and delegates from the United Nations Environment Programme met in late February to discuss an international convention limiting mercury use and emissions.A decade ago researchers and lawmakers agreed that lead, another heavy metal, was harmful to children at levels one-sixth as high as previously recognized. A broken thermometer can release enough mercury vapor to poison the air in a room—one reason why some cities and several states discourage the sale of mercury fever thermometers.Mercury also binds with other elements in salts and organic compounds of varying toxicity. Dimethyl mercury, the substance that poisoned the Dartmouth chemist, is a synthetic form of organic mercury rarely found outside a lab. A simpler organic compound called methylmercury is of greater concern because methyl- mercury is the form found in the flesh of fish.Seafood is one of the two most common sources of mercury exposure in adults. The species singled out by the recent FDA advisory—big predators such as albacore tuna, shark, and swordfish—can have 100 times more mercury in their tissues than smaller fish do.The methylmercury in fish passes readily from the human gut to the bloodstream and on into all organs and tissues. says Boyd Haley, a biochemist at the University of Kentucky.Researchers learned how much mercury the body can tolerate from studies of victims of catastrophic poisoning, such as the Japanese sickened by eating fish from Minamata Bay and the Iraqis who ate grain treated with a methylmercury-based preservative in the early 1970s. Elemental mercury, which makes up half of silver fillings, releases mercury vapor, just as liquid mercury does. No human studies have assessed prolonged exposure to low levels of mercury vapor. One study hints at subtle neural and behavioral anomalies in dentists, who collectively use 300 metric tons of mercury in amalgams each year and who often have two to five times the typical concentration of mercury in their urine.“I think the methylmercury in fish is probably our least toxic exposure,” To see if mercury has comparable effects, Grandjean, along with Pál Weihe at the University of Southern Denmark, is conducting the largest study to date of children’s cognition and behavior in a population routinely exposed to low levels of mercury. An earlier study of shark eaters in New Zealand suggested that relatively high levels of mercury in a mother’s hair during pregnancy correlated with a loss of three IQ points in her child. “It’s not a huge loss, but it’s certainly not negligible.”Yet in another large, long-term epidemiological study conducted on the Seychelles Islands in the Indian Ocean, Clarkson has so far found no effect on neurological development from prenatal exposure to low levels of mercury in seafood. Although the 1999 FDA action minimized such exposure, some infant flu vaccines still contain 12.5 micrograms of mercury per dose—more than 10 times the daily EPA safety level for a 20-pound baby.Circumstantial evidence also implicates mercury in autism. Some of the symptoms of autism and mercury poisoning are similar, and Haley has garnered evidence from hair samples that autistic children do not clear mercury from their bodies as efficiently as most kids do. And Grandjean’s Faeroe Islands study found that prenatal exposure to mercury caused significant increases in blood pressure among 7-year-olds.The most troubling aspect of this controversial heart-disease data is that deleterious effects occur at mercury-exposure levels equal to or lower than for any other toxicological outcome, including the subtle neurological symptoms in the Faeroe Islands study. In the Finnish study, the men with the doubled risk of heart attack had hair samples with only two parts per million of mercury. Stern speculates that 10 percent of American men may already eat enough fish to raise their risk of heart attack.“There’s this interaction between mercury and fish oils that makes it very complicated because they both come from the same place,” It stands to reason that mercury has been accumulating in the flesh of fish, shellfish, and marine mammals since humankind began eating them—which is most likely why humans have a protein called metallothione to help detoxify mercury and other heavy metals.But human activities have caused the mercury content of the atmosphere to rise by 1.5 percent a year, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, and the problem is global. Due to heightened concern, advisories for mercury are increasing faster than for any other pollutant.The EPA is in the final stages of formalizing a rule that would limit emissions from coal-fired utilities, which produce 42 percent of the nation’s domestic mercury pollution. An EPA study reported the median amount of mercury, measured in parts per million, in the following varieties of canned tuna: chunk light: .08 parts per million; A 2004 EPA advisory mentions five types of fish and shellfish that are low in mercury: shrimp, canned light tuna, salmon, pollack, and catfish. The advisory also warns consumers not to eat shark, swordfish, king mackerel, and tilefish because they all contain high levels of mercury.Mercury FillingsDental amalgams, known as silver fillings, are composed of roughly 50 percent mercury. Studies of people with mercury-containing dental fillings show a correlation between the number and size of the fillings and the amount of mercury excreted in their urine. The relationship suggests that the mercury is derived from mercury vapor released from the fillings.
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