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May 16, 2012 - Staff Sergeant Rodney Koscielny in-troduced Sergeant Rick Bidaisee to Town Council, who has recently joined the Whitecourt RCMP detachment, and will be focusing on drug enforcement. Sergeant Bidaisee is also a D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) instructor and will be providing education to our school children about the harmful effects of drugs and the life skills they need to avoid involvement with drugs.

Community Police Offi cer Constable Heather Cosenzo greeted Council and provided an overview of her duties and future plans. This new RCMP Member position was created through a partnership between the Town of Whitecourt and Woodlands County, to focus on promoting a safe community, by working with Crime Prevention staff, the Youth Advisory Committee, and other community organizations and schools. Since Con-stable Cosenzo started in her new position on April 1, she has been busy with a variety of police duties, and has visited the schools with the Police service dogs. She will be conducting fraud awareness for seniors in June, taking D.A.R.E. training and a bike course, and will be preparing to work with school and community groups in the fall. Aside from her busy work schedule, Con-stable Cosenzo has also been involved with Brownies and coaching soccer in our community.

Whitecourt Enhancement Grant spring funding has been awarded to the following local groups, to assist with the development of community events or enhance-ments:• Habitat for Humanity - Volunteer Appreciation and Project Manager: $1,740• Whitecourt Seniors Circle – Bingo Machine and Pat-tern Board: $6,411• A.C.E. Arts & Culture Committee – World in Whitecourt Cultural Festival: $3,195• The Whitecourt Baptist Church – Community Play-ground Replacement: $8,300

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Community Bingo at the Seniors Circle happens every Tuesday from 7:00 - 9:30 p.m. Everyone wel-come. Doors open at 6:00 p.m. Minors 12 and over are welcome if accompanied by a parent or guardian.

The Municipal Planning Commission deals with land use planning matters, with particular emphasis on the Land Use Bylaw. The Commission meets in the boardroom at the Town Administration Offi ce at 4:00PM. The public is welcome to attend.

Relay for Life June 23, 2012 - Start time: 7:00 p.m. Rotary Park, Whitecourt Teams walk overnight in a non-competitive event to raise funds for the Canadian Can-cer Society. For more information, please go to www.cancer.ca/relay Contact: Cheryl Duncan-Molloy Phone: 780.778.2619 whitecourt.rfl [email protected]

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21. Dental fl uorosis may be an indicator of wider systemic damage. There have been many suggestions as to the possible biochemical mechanisms underlying the development of dental fl uorosis (Matsuo 1998; Den Besten 1999; Sharma 2008; Duan 2011; Tye 2011) and they are complicated for a lay reader. While promoters of fl uoridation are content to dismiss dental fl uorosis (in its milder forms) as merely a cosmetic effect, it is rash to assume that fl uoride is not impacting other developing tissues when it is visibly damaging the teeth by some biochemical mechanism (Groth 1973; Colquhoun 1997). Moreover, ingested fl uoride can only cause dental fl uo-rosis during the period before the permanent teeth have erupted (6-8 years), other tissues are potentially suscep-tible to damage throughout life. For example, in areas of naturally high levels of fl uoride the fi rst indicator of harm is dental fl uorosis in children. In the same commu-nities many older people develop skeletal fl uorosis.

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Last week, the city of Philadelphia's school system announced that it expects to close 40 public schools next year, and 64 schools by 2017. The school district expects to lose 40% of its current enrollment, and thousands of experienced, qualifi ed teachers.

But corporate media in other cities made no mention of these massive school closings -- nor of those in Chi-cago, Atlanta, or New York City. Even in the Philadelphia media, the voices of the parents, students and teachers who will suffer were omitted from most accounts.

It’s all about balancing the budgets of cities that have lost revenues from the economic downturn. Supposedly, there is simply no money for the luxury of providing an education for the people.

Where will those children fi nd an education? Where will the teachers fi nd work? Almost certainly in an explo-sion of private sector “charter schools,” where the quality of education — from the curriculum to books to the food served at lunch — will be sacrifi ced to the lowest bidder, and teachers’ salaries and benefi ts will be sacrifi ced to the profi ts of the new private owners, who will also eat up many millions of dollars of taxpayer subsidies.

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To summarize: there is already congestion starting to build at the existing two crossings into lower Whitecourt, with the intersection at Walmart promising to become even busier as Staples and other businesses fl ock to this power center. Letting gridlock happen before bringing in a third crossing to the downtown would show the town's planning department was asleep at the wheel. What is more, the new crossing will tie the old and new down-town together, which helps in keeping the downtown vi-tal. A previous attempt to extend mainstreet into the new


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The ‘Wave’ machine is superior because of its verti-cal vibration, which does not encourage lateral forces to put undue stress on joints. Ten minutes on this machine increases proprioception and enhances all other aspects of exercising because the brain gets more information from more sources.

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Not all health solutions come in a bottle. In fact, what benefi t you get from what you take can only be determined by the integrity of your nervous system, as explained above. The beauty is, choices you make can have an impact on this communication network. It’s never too late for improvement!

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Notes:“Restoration of Atlas alignment is associated with marked

and sustained reductions in blood pressure similar to the use of two-drug combination therapy.”

Journal of Human Hypertension, March 2, 2007“Mechanical forces are critical regulators of cellular

biochemistry and gene expression as well as tissue develop-ment.”

“Many unrelated diseases share the common feature that their etiology or clinical presentation results from abnormal mechano-transduction”

“Mechanical forces are critical regulators in biology.” Annals of Medicine, 2003;35(8), pp.564-77P.S. This should be taught in grade school! But, instead

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Chestnut, James L., B.Ed., MSc., D.C., Innate Physical Fitness & Spinal Hygiene, The Wellness Practice, Victoria, B.C., 2004

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In an article reprinted on Truthout on May 10th titled “Why Isn't Closing 40 Philadelphia Public Schools Na-tional News?,” Bruce Dixon posed this answer:

"The city has a lot of poor and black children. Our rul-ing classes don't want to invest in educating these young people, preferring instead to track them into lifetimes of insecure, low-wage labor and/or prison. Our elites don't need a populace educated in critical thinking. So low-cost holding tanks that deliver standardized lessons and tests, via computer if possible, operated by profi t-making "educational entrepreneurs" are the way to go."

“Lifetimes of insecure, low-wage labor or prison”—this is very close to the “indentured servitude” that was abolished along with slavery by the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, ratifi ed in 1865. The freed slaves are be-ing recaptured by debt, beginning with the debt of school loans, followed by credit card debt, mortgage debt, and healthcare costs.

Meanwhile, in Other Unreported News . . .

That alternative vision was put before a conference in Philadelphia in late April that drew delegates from all over the United States. The theme of the fi rst Pub-lic Banking in America conference, held at the Quaker Friends Center on April 28-29th, was that to fi x the econ-omy, we fi rst need to take back the “money power”—the power to create currency and credit.

Led by keynote speakers Gar Alperovitz and Ha-zel Henderson and highlighted in an electric speech by twelve-year-old Victoria Grant, the conference was all about solutions. As summarized by OpEdNews editor Josh Mitteldorf:

There were two visions expressed . . . . The fi rst is the very practical idea that states and cities around America could be rescued from insolvency if they had their own banks, instead of relying on commercial banks to borrow money through bonds. Tax-exempt bond issues supply money to states and municipal governments typically at 5 or 6% interest, while banks these days are able to bor-row from the Fed at 1/4% per year.

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section was a no go with CN, with the reason cited that it was too close to an existing crossing. However, the 47 Street crossing does eliminate the scenario where it would be necessary to travel to the periphery of the new part of downtown and use one of two increasingly con-gested intersections to access the original downtown. It is not unreasonable to believe that many shoppers might stop at the malls at either intersection, rather than con-tinue to the old part of downtown.

To specifi cally address the critics letter, the fi rst point made was that the new crossing was not an improvement because it is in between the two existing accesses that get “blocked to traffi c because of the train”. However, I’d es-timate that for every 100 times I cross the tracks, I might get blocked twice on average, at most. This is a worst case scenario. In other words, upwards of 98% of the time, trains are not an issue in regards to this improve-ment. As a small business person, I might say I reject a capital improvement out of hand because it is useful just 98% of time; but only if I was joking.

The next criticism refers to the fact that “emergency vehicles have to make it through as well”. The prob-lem with the trains blocking emergency vehicles is well known and will eventually have to be addressed. Howev-er, an additional route over the tracks can only improve response times for certain areas, even if it only diverts some of the traffi c from the busy existing crossings. If I asked the fi re chief why they were hurting response times by putting in the third track crossing he would likely think I was making a bad joke.

Next the critic gave a detailed account how they “waited in a long line up of cars waiting to access the downtown area” once a train had passed. Again this would seem to be an argument in favour of a third cross-ing, rather than against it. If the logic is diffi cult to fol-low, simply remember what happens at the grocery store when there are two long line-ups and a third checkout opens. Someone in the existing long line-ups might ask the store manager why they were opening the third checkout; but they would be joking.

The contentious traffi c circle on the hill is then brought into the debate. There is of course no logical connection between road circles and train crossings. I could have said the 47 Street crossing is a good idea be-cause the town plan for a second road into Rotary Park is a good idea; but I wouldn’t be seriously connecting the two projects. The train of logic has jumped the tracks in this criticism also.

The critic then wants to know “[w]hy was a vehicle overpass not considered as an alternative” for the crossing



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question. You don’t need an engineering degree to fi gure this one out. Go look at an existing overpass over train tracks and then go look at the 47 Street crossing. Cars turning right on 50th Street to go north would be spinning out in inclement winter weather, as would those going south trying to make the steep grade that would be neces-sary with such an overpass. The joke might be that cars would not be allowed on this part of a main Whitecourt street in winter, only snowmobiles and ATVs.

Without researching the matter, I would guess that Dahl drive might be the logical place for an overpass. The time to construct such a major, expensive project could be during the next downturn in the economy, to take advantage of a ready labour pool and less expensive material costs. The town did consider an underpass for pedestrians at 47 Street with a view to giving the disabled access and improving the appearance but balked at the doubling of costs.

The letter writer then asks where is the Millar West-ern cost share? I don’t know what Millar Western and their employees pay in taxes to the town, but it is diffi cult to see how our market economy could function if costs could be arbitrarily imposed on third parties that have no control over the land in question. Where does this stop? A trucking company sets up off a dirt road, and now they

have to cost share the maintenance of that road? Even trying to administer such a set up would be a joke. There are gas, business, property etc. taxes a plenty already to cover such costs (the moreso with an honest money sys-tem but that is a story for another column).

I would have to also disagree when the letter writer purports to inform this writer that “those who criticize are aware that CN Railway insisted on a safe pedestrian crossing.” The very reason I wrote the article was because three out of three people who criticized the crossing to me blamed the town, rather than CN, for the pedway. This is to be expected and is a natural assumption to make. One can’t fault the average citizen for not keeping up with all the details on a relatively low-key controversy in their busy lives. However, I was aware of how vigorously the town had opposed the pedway, and felt it grossly unfair that the structure should be considered something they wanted to spend money on.

I am not a cheerleader for everything the town does, as those who have been following the water fl uoridation issue in the Advisor would know. However, I think if one is to take a serious approach to town politics, issues should be debated on their merits, not on whether you happen to be at loggerheads with the powers that be over other matters. Even here, it is one thing to only focus on




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the mistakes your opponents make, rather than taking a balanced approach; but quite another to try to shoehorn everything the other side does into something deleteri-ous, regardless of accuracy. The fi rst outlook is merely juvenile, while the second is to become that which you are ostensibly criticizing.

In any case, the proof being in the pudding, I'll wa-ger the 47 street crossing will start attracting a steady stream of traffi c upon its opening, with much more to come as the downtown closer to the highway contin-ues to develop and the town continues to grow. Coming down Dahl Drive to go to the old downtown, I would consider turning left and using the 47 Street crossing into the old downtown, rather than go through the Wal-mart intersection.

As a fi nal thought on the pedway, perhaps some lemonade could be made out of the lemon force-fed to the town so it could open a much needed road. It would seem to be one of the requirements that signal the com-ing of age of a city that it have at least one really ugly piece of modern art in a prominent location downtown. Quite often such a monstrosity is made out of metal. Per-haps with a bit of reconfi guration and additions (maybe covered by donations in this case) the town could help the pedway do double duty to serve this cause. Or single duty actually, in that it will not likely be used for its stat-ed purpose. Some on town council who fought CN on the pedway might want a clenched fi st atop the structure, with the perhaps the middle fi nger extended to welcome the CN trains. However cooler heads should prevail and maybe open up this idea to Whitecourt Arts Council and/or a public competition. Please note that here I am joking about the ugly part, and that there are a lot of caveats in this proposal in that I believe one shouldn't forcefully advocate ideas that one hasn't really researched. Public input to elected offi cials is important, but attacking poli-cies with off-the-cuff information can detract from more serious public input into Town policies.


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When the location was fi rst used as a supply and transportation point, it was known as Athabasca Riv-er House. Not until the H. B.C. era was it named Fort Assiniboine, presumably after the Assiniboine Indians. Incidentally, Assiniboine in native language means "cooking with hot stones".

Fairly well documented information about early Fort Assiniboine is mainly from H.B.C. records. Prior to that time the information is sketchy. In 1975 Richard McCarty, then a history student at the U of A, completed an Honours Bachelor Degree paper entitled "H.B.C. Fort Assiniboine 1823-1860." In 1976 he completed his Mas-ter's Thesis at the same University entitled "Fort Assini-boine 1823-1914".

The late W. G. P. Alien wrote "Fort Assiniboine 1781-1900" based on the limited documented informa-tion available.

The early N.W. Company records were said to have been destroyed in a fi re in Montreal.

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(Continued from page 20)The Freeman River is said to be named after the

Freemen who frequented this area about 1800. Accord-ing to Mr. Alien there was a location south of the Atha-basca River called "Pemican Post" or "Hunters Lodge". The late George Glew and Ray Olson often spoke of an early N.W. Company site south of Holmes Crossing, the remains of which are obscured today.

The period 1800-1820 is diffi cult due to the lack of N.W. Company records. However, we do know that competing fur traders used the Athabasca River and Athabasca River House as a transportation and supply center.

The 1820s were most active at Fort Assiniboine which was built as a fort after the H.B.C. took over Ru-pert's Land and offi cially opened in 1824. In order to facilitate the use of this fort, Sir George Simpson, in the


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winter of 1824-25, hired Jacques Cardinal, a Metis free-man from Lac La Biche to cut a road from Edmonton to Fort Assiniboine. As an Indian trail this route was previ-ously ridden by John Rowand, Factor at Fort Edmonton, when he went to meet Sir George.

This trail was used as a distribution route to Slave Lake and to Jasper House. In the spring, the fur came along these routes to Fort Assiniboine and then to Ed-monton and on to York Factory. The trail was used in this manner until about 1877 and was re-opened for use again during and after the Klondyke Gold Rush period, and was called the Klondyke Trail.

When the location was Athabasca River House and the fort was under construction, it was supervised by Ronald McDonald — that was in 1823.

Some of the better known men who served at Fort Assiniboine are:

Jacques Arionaise — 1833 and 1836Asstin Aposis — 1826Antoine Auger Sr. — 1832Charles Beauchamp— 1825, 1826, 1828Olivier Bellerose — 1859-1860, 1861Joseph Brazeau— 1848, 1849, 1850William A. Calder — 1826-1872 inclusiveJacques Cardinal — 1824, 1826, 1828, 1829John Cunningham —1836-1837Pierre Delorme — 1824, 1825, 1826, 1828, 1830,1833,1836George Deschambeault — 1824-1826 inclusiveColin Fraser — 1834, 1850-1853 inclusivePierre Gerard —1833Richard Grant — 1829-1833 inclusiveJohn Harriott — 1826-1828 inclusiveMichel Klyne — 1827Francoise LaFrance — 1826-1827George Linton— 1826-1830 inclusiveLouis Loyes — 1836-1837John McAulay — 1862William Mclntosh — 1824-1825James McMillan — 1825-1826Jean Baptiste Parisien — 1823-1833 inclusiveAntoine Remey —1874-1875Antoine Rennier — 1854-1860 inclusiveJohn Rowand Jr. — 1836-1841In addition to these men there were many others in-

cluding family members, who worked at the fort. Check back next month for the continuation of Fort

Assiniboine - Early History.These stories were reproduced from Echoes of Fort

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Legislation for public banks has now been introduced in 18 U.S. states, on the model of the highly success-ful Bank of North Dakota (BND). Elaborated on at the Public Banking conference by Ed Sather and Rozanne Junker, the BND is currently the country’s only state-owned bank and has been a major factor in allowing the state to escape the recent credit crisis. North Dakota is the only state to boast a signifi cant budget surplus every year since the economic downturn of 2008.

Ellen Brown noted that 40% of banks globally are also publicly-owned. These are largely in the BRIC

countries (Brazil, Russia, India, and China), which also escaped the credit crisis, largely because their public banks did not rely on derivatives and, unlike private banks, lent counter-cyclically to cushion their economies from the downturn.

Conference speaker Samuel Giles proposed that even public universities could set up their own banks, which could then leverage university monies for the university’s own use, rather than giving those assets away to Wall Street to be speculated with and lent back at much higher interest rates.

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(Mullenix 1995). In total, there have now been over 100 animal experiments showing that fl uoride can damage the brain and impact learning and behavior. According to fl u-oridation proponents, these animal studies can be ignored because high doses were used. However, it is important to note that it takes 5-20 times more fl uoride to reach the same plasma levels in rats as reached in humans (Sawan 2010). In fact, one animal experiment found effects at re-markably low doses (Varner 1998). In this study, rats fed for one year with 1 ppm fl uoride in their water (the same level used in fl uoridation programs), using either sodium fl uoride or aluminum fl uoride, had morphological chang-es to their kidneys and brains, an increased uptake of alu-minum in the brain, and the formation of beta-amyloid deposits which are associated with Alzheimer's disease. Other animal studies have found effects on the brain at water fl uoride levels as low as 5 ppm (Liu 2010for a complete listing of these studies.).

23. Fluoride may lower IQ. There have now been 24 studies from China, Iran, India and Mexico that have reported an association between fl uoride exposure and reduced IQ. One of these studies (Lin Fa-Fu 1991) indi-cates that even just moderate levels of fl uoride exposure (e.g., 0.9 ppm in the water) can exacerbate the neurologi-cal defects of iodine defi ciency. In the absence of iodine defi ciency, another research team (Xiang 2003a,b) esti-mated that fl uoride may lower IQ at 1.9 ppm, while a recent preliminary study (Ding 2011) found a lowering of IQ in children drinking water at levels ranging from 0.3 to 3 ppm. The authors of this latter study reported that for each increase of 1 ppm fl uoride measured in the urine there was a loss of 0.59 IQ points. None of these studies indicates an adequate margin of safety to protect all chil-dren drinking artifi cially fl uoridated water from this af-fect. According to the National Research Council (2006), "the consistency of the results [in fl uoride/IQ studies] ap-pears signifi cant enough to warrant additional research on the effects of fl uoride on intelligence." Except for an early and small IQ study from New Zealand (Shannon et al., 1986) no fl uoridating country has investigated the matter for themselves.

24. Fluoride may cause non-IQ neurotoxic effects. Reduced IQ is not the only neurotoxic effect that may re-sult from fl uoride exposure. At least three human studies have reported an association between fl uoride exposure and impaired visual-spatial organization (Calderon 2000; Li 2004; Rocha-Amador 2009); while three other stud-ies have found an association between prenatal fl uoride



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25.Fluoride affects the pineal gland. Studies by Jen-nifer Luke (2001) show that fl uoride accumulates in the human pineal gland to very high levels. In her Ph.D. the-sis, Luke has also shown in animal studies that fl uoride reduces melatonin production and leads to an earlier onset of puberty (Luke 1997). Consistent with Luke's fi ndings, one of the earliest fl uoridation trials in the U.S. (Schle-singer 1956) reported that on average young girls in the fl uoridated community reached menstruation 5 months earlier than girls in the non-fl uoridated community. Inex-plicably, no fl uoridating country has attempted to repro-duce either Luke's or Schlesinger's fi ndings or examine the issue any further.

26.Fluoride affects thyroid function. According to the U.S. National Research Council (2006), "several lines of information indicate an effect of fl uoride exposure on thyroid function." In the Ukraine, Bachinskii (1985) found a lowering of thyroid function, among otherwise healthy people, at 2.3 ppm fl uoride in water. In the middle of the 20th century, fl uoride was prescribed by a number of European doctors to reduce the activity of the thyroid gland for those suffering from hyperthyroidism (over-active thyroid) (Stecher 1960; Waldbott 1978). Accord-ing to a clinical study by Galletti and Joyet (1958), the thyroid function of hyperthyroid patients was effectively reduced at just 2.3 to 4.5 mg/day of fl uoride ion. To put this fi nding in perspective, the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS, 1991) has estimated that total fl uoride exposure in fl uoridated communities ranges from 1.6 to 6.6 mg/day. This is a remarkable fact, particularly considering the rampant and increasing problem of hypo-thyroidism (underactive thyroid) in the United States and other fl uoridated countries. Symptoms of hypothyroidism include depression, fatigue, weight gain, muscle and joint

pains, increased cholesterol levels, and heart disease. In 2010, the second most prescribed drug of the year was Synthroid (sodium levothyroxine) which is a hormone re-placement drug used to treat an underactive thyroid.

27.Fluoride causes arthritic symptoms. Some of the early symptoms of skeletal fl uorosis (a fl uoride-induced bone and joint disease that impacts millions of people in India, China, and Africa), mimic the symptoms of arthri-tis (Singh 1963; Franke 1975; Teotia 1976; Carnow 1981; Czerwinski 1988; DHHS 1991). According to a review on fl uoridation published in Chemical & Engineering News, "Because some of the clinical symptoms mimic arthritis, the fi rst two clinical phases of skeletal fl uorosis could be easily misdiagnosed" (Hileman 1988). Few, if any, stud-ies have been done to determine the extent of this misdi-agnosis, and whether the high prevalence of arthritis in America (1 in 3 Americans have some form of arthritis - CDC, 2002) and other fl uoridated countries is related to growing fl uoride exposure, which is highly plausible. Even when individuals in the U.S. suffer advanced forms of skeletal fl uorosis (from drinking large amounts of tea), it has taken years of misdiagnoses before doctors fi nally correctly diagnosed the condition as fl uorosis.

28.Fluoride damages bone. An early fl uoridation trial (Newburgh-Kingston 1945-55) found a signifi cant two-fold increase in cortical bone defects among children in the fl uoridated community (Schlesinger 1956). The cortical bone is the outside layer of the bone and is im-portant to protect against fracture. While this result was not considered important at the time with respect to bone fractures, it did prompt questions about a possible link to osteosarcoma (Caffey, 1955; NAS, 1977). In 2001, Alar-con-Herrera and co-workers reported a linear correlation between the severity of dental fl uorosis and the frequency of bone fractures in both children and adults in a high fl uoride area in Mexico.




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29.Fluoride may increase hip fractures in the el-derly. When high doses of fl uoride (average 26 mg per day) were used in trials to treat patients with osteopo-rosis in an effort to harden their bones and reduce frac-ture rates, it actually led to a higher number of fractures, particularly hip fractures (Inkovaara 1975; Gerster 1983; Dambacher 1986; O'Duffy 1986; Hedlund 1989; Bayley 1990; Gutteridge 1990. 2002; Orcel 1990; Riggs 1990 and Schnitzler 1990). Hip fracture is a very serious issue for the elderly, often leading to a loss of independence or a shortened life. There have been over a dozen studies published since 1990 that have investigated a possible re-lationship between hip fractures and long term consump-tion of artifi cially fl uoridated water or water with high natural levels. The results have been mixed – some have found an association and others have not. Some have even claimed a protective effect. One very important study in China, which examined hip fractures in six Chi-nese villages, found what appears to be a dose-related in-crease in hip fracture as the concentration of fl uoride rose from 1 ppm to 8 ppm (Li 2001) offering little comfort to those who drink a lot of fl uoridated water. Moreover, in the only human epidemiological study to assess bone strength as a function of bone fl uoride concentration, re-searchers from the University of Toronto found that (as with animal studies) the strength of bone declined with increasing fl uoride content (Chachra 2010). Finally, a re-cent study from Iowa (Levy 2009), published data sug-gesting that low-level fl uoride exposure may have a det-rimental effect on cortical bone density in girls (an effect that has been repeatedly documented in clinical trials and which has been posited as an important mechanism by which fl uoride may increase bone fracture rates).

30.People with impaired kidney function are partic-ularly vulnerable to bone damage. Because of their in-ability to effectively excrete fl uoride, people with kidney disease are prone to accumulating high levels of fl uoride in their bone and blood. As a result of this high fl uoride body burden, kidney patients have an elevated risk for developing skeletal fl uorosis. In one of the few U.S. stud-ies investigating the matter, crippling skeletal fl uorosis was documented among patients with severe kidney dis-ease drinking water with just 1.7 ppm fl uoride (Johnson 1979). Since severe skeletal fl uorosis in kidney patients has been detected in small case studies, it is likely that larger, systematic studies would detect skeletal fl uorosis at even lower fl uoride levels.

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*Offer valid fromJUNE 01, 2012 until JUNE 30, 2012. bIn the event the loan goes into default, the charge for amounts past due is 24% APR. Taxes, set-up, delivery, freight, and preparation charges not included and may increase price or monthly payment(s). Additional fees may be required. Minimum purchase may be required. Valid only at participating dealers and is subject to John Deere Financial approval. See your dealer for complete details and other financing options. Program subject to change, without notice, at any time. A2For personal or commercial use. Down payment may be required. For example, on a new John Deere Model 1026R, based on a selling price of $13,099 (selling price in example is based on MSRP as of 26 September 2011 and may change at any time without notice. Dealer may sell for less) plus a $50 documentation fee, less a down payment of $2,629.80 results in a balance of $10,519.20 to be financed for a maximum of 5 years with 60 monthly payments of $175.32 totalling $10,519.20 based on 0.19% APR with a cost of borrowing of $50. Monthly payments shown, are based on a 72 month term, at 2.9% Finance rate. Illustrations are not exactly as shown. The engine horsepower and torque information are provided by the engine manufacturer to be used for comparison purposesonly. Actual operating horsepower and torque will be less. Refer to the engine manufacturer’s web site for additional information.

Sprayer 15 Gallon $499*

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CartBagger $399*

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$249*

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Aerator $479*

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*Not exactly as shown

JOHN DEERE

X Series PremiumLawn Tractor

$3,299*AVAILABLE FROM

Premium Tractor42”-54” Mowing DecksKawasaki Engine • 18.5-22 hp (13.8-16.4 kW)*

FOUR YEARWARRANTY

$84/mo.

Experience John Deere

X SERIES Garden Tractors

4 Wheel Steering and 4 Wheel Drive

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