The Portland Cello Project’s OK Computer show was fantastic, and at long last, here’s one of the highlights: “Exit Music (For a Film),” in which the PCP was accompanied by Weinland’s Adam Shearer, wind quintet City of Tomorrow, and the (I do not like typing this name, but okay) Disassemble the Widget men’s chorus. This comes via Consequence of Sound, which notes that this video’s being released as “an early gift to Thom Yorke and Yo-Yo Ma, who both celebrate birthdays on Sunday” but that “the entire performance will be released shortly.” This is excellent news.
With honor and distinction, Erik Henriksen served as the executive editor of the Portland Mercury from 2004 to 2020. He can now be found at henriksenactual.com. More by Erik Henriksen
Hey Merc, any coverage for the benefit show this Sunday? You know, the one that has 17 local bands including the Portland Cello Project, as well as the Dandy Warhols, Y La Bamba, Builders and the Butchers, Guantanamo Baywatch…ect?
No? Oh that’s right, because it’s a benefit show for Clean Water Portland and their signature gathering effort to put the fluoride issue up for a public vote. And considering the Mercury has done nothing but write pro-fluoride articles and run giant banner ads for the lobbying group that pushed this travesty though, why am I not surprised?
http://www.cleanwaterportland.org/public-w…
The Merc may endorse fluoride because only an uninformed conspiracy theorist would oppose fluoridated water. If this goes to a vote, it will pass with about 80% in favor. Hippies and hipsters love conspiracy theory, but the grown ups who outnumber them know what is best for kids, which is fluoride in the water. Considering that so many people who live here are from states that add fluoride to the water, and who have heard from their dentists “you must be from out of state, you have great teeth,” this is a done deal whether we vote or not. Quit wasting money on dumb votes, kids.
You mean like how fluoridation has already come up for a public vote three times since 1990 and has been voted down every single time? And rest assured it will be again.
Why has it been voted down so consistently??? Because the majority of folks here in Portland have actually educated themselves about “fluoride” (hydrofluoric acid, industrial waste pollutant) added to drinking water, and the very well documented health effects it causes including: dental fluorosis, severe pitting of the enamel in children, stiff joints, bone abnormalities, bone cancer, is a potent hormone disruptor that effects the thyroid and let’s not forget it can lower the IQ in children. There’s no shortage of US studies on this, I’ll just throw down a few: National Research Council: http://www.actionpa.org/fluoride/nrc/NRC-2… , Harvard Medical: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/07/har…
as well as a ton of international studies from countries that don’t have a vested interest in fluoridating their water (the practice is banned in most countries): http://www.fluoridealert.org/studies/brain…
We’re aware of the fact that the fluoride lobbyists used manipulated data to present their case when they claimed there is a “dental health crisis” in Portland.
We’re aware they compared statewide numbers for Oregon with other states instead of using Portland metro’s readily available dental health numbers. We’re aware Portland kids actually rank as having the 15th lowest cavity rate in the US even when compared to city’s that are heavily fluoridated.
http://www.cleanwaterportland.org/wp-conte…
You “McCarthy-ism” are clearly not educated on this issue and you sound like a fool. A fool who clearly isn’t interested in that pesky little thing called democracy.
“Because fluoride is well known for its use in the prevention of dental
caries, it is important to make the distinction here that EPA’s drinking-water guidelines are not
recommendations about adding fluoride to drinking water to protect the public from dental
caries. Guidelines for that purpose (0.7 to 1.2 mg/L) were established by the U.S. Public Health
Service more than 40 years ago. Instead, EPA’s guidelines are maximum allowable
concentrations in drinking water intended to prevent toxic or other adverse effects that could
result from exposure to fluoride.”
Read your own link, dipshit. Then calm down.
Goddammit Spindles.
laughing out loud.
I’m not sure what link your referring to specifically ‘this’, or really what your point is, but you’re right. The EPA does not regulate the fluoride added to drinking water. They have enforceable guidelines for unsafe levels of sodium fluoride and fluorosilicates that occur naturally, but let me repeat they do not regulate what is artificially added to drinking water. Would you like to know who does? It’s a private organization called the National Sanitary Foundation, who is utterly un-accountable as a regulatory body and allows for numerous impurities within the fluoridation chemicals including arsenic and lead. Here is a copy of a NSF Fact Sheet admitting lead, arsenic, other impurities are routine in fluoridated water: http://www.nofluoride.com/presentations/NS…
Now, for the non chowderheads, I’ll see you at the show.
Before anyone else chimes in here, let me add the normal level in most parts of the country for artificial water fluoridation is 0.4 ppm, which is the current “maximum contaminant level” as set by the EPA. The NRC report notes the overwhelming evidence that naturally occurring levels of fluoride are damaging even at 0.4 ppm or lower.
Excerpts: http://208.109.172.241/health/epa/nrc/exce…
Sorry Erik.
I really wanted to go to that PCP performance of OK Computer, I’m sad I missed it, but I’m very happy now to learn they recorded/videotaped it and it’s likely going to be released for public consumption.