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DPU Cuts Rate Requests from State's Two Largest Electric Utilities
DPU cuts National Grid's proposed rate hike by 60 percent, keeping Grid's rates lowest in the state
BOSTON - The Department of Public Utilities (DPU) issued an order late yesterday (11/30) that ensures that National Grid's electricity distribution rates will continue to be the lowest charged by any of the Commonwealth's four investor-owned public utilities. The DPU's National Grid order ( click here file size 2MB) cuts the company's proposed rate increase by $67 million, or 60 percent, while approving a new mechanism that encourages company investment in energy efficiency by "decoupling" electric rates from sales.
In a separate order yesterday affecting NSTAR ( click here ), the DPU disallowed that utility's petition to collect approximately $33 million from electric service customers, which the company claimed was its share of benefits associated with customer savings initiatives. Because NSTAR has already collected a portion of these estimated savings, the department's order means that the company must return approximately $20 million to its customers. The DPU order allows a measure of relief for NSTAR's approximately one million electric customers, whose electric rates are among the highest in the state, second only to Unitil.
National Grid Order
On May 15, Massachusetts Electric Company and Nantucket Electric Company - together doing business as National Grid - petitioned to increase electric rates by approximately $111.3 million. By denying 60 percent of that amount, the DPU order reduces the average impact on a residential customer's bill by $3.80 monthly. While Grid's proposal would have increased the monthly bill for a typical Massachusetts Electric or Nantucket Electric residential customer by $4.25, the department's order sets electric rates that will decrease the typical monthly bill by 36 cents. For low-income Massachusetts Electric customers, the DPU order means a typical monthly increase of 24 cents versus $3.70 under the company's proposal. The typical low-income Nantucket Electric company customer will see monthly bills increase by 89 cents under the DPU order, as opposed to the $1.50 per month increase that the company's rate request would have meant.
Following the DPU's decision, National Grid's distribution rates remain the lowest in the state. The next largest utility in the state, NSTAR, has distribution rates almost 70 percent higher than National Grid's even after the new adjustment.
The DPU order also reduced National Grid's return on equity in recognition that decoupling electric rates from sales lowers company risk, and increased that return on equity to reflect better company management, particularly with respect to restoration efforts after last winter's ice storm when Grid helped restore service to customers of a neighboring utility - Unitil - as well as its own. Overall, the 10.35 percent return on equity allowed in yesterday's order is more than a full percentage point lower than what the company sought in its proposal last May.
"The DPU's actions will result in multiple benefits for National Grid customers - improved reliability, containment of electric costs, and effective expansion of critical energy saving efficiency programs," DPU Chairman Paul Hibbard said.
In approving National Grid's proposed decoupling mechanism, the DPU order will spur the company's efforts to promote large-scale energy efficiency programs. Mandated by the Green Communities Act signed by Governor Patrick in 2008, decoupling eliminates the link between company sales for electric distribution service and company earnings. A July 2008 DPU order required the state's investor-owned distribution utilities to submit decoupled rate structures for department approval and National Grid's is the second decoupling proposal to win DPU approval (Bay State Gas Company's was approved last month).
Also reflecting the Commonwealth's push for greater energy efficiency, the DPU approved National Grid's proposed "inclining block rates," which reward customers who conserve energy. The DPU also approved National Grid's plan for funding infrastructure upgrades, designed to improve reliability in the company's service territory.
The department's order ends a long and intensely debated evidentiary process that involved thousands of documents and other evidence, a month of evidentiary hearings, and five public hearings in National Grid's territory last July. Seven parties intervened in the investigation including Attorney General Martha Coakley, the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources, the Conservation Law Foundation, Environment Northeast, The Energy Network, the Low Income Weatherization and Fuel Assistance Program Network and Massachusetts Energy Directors Association, and Western Massachusetts Industrial Group. Eight other parties intervened as limited participants.
National Grid serves more than 1.2 million electric customers in Massachusetts, including (as of December 31, 2008) 1,195,767 Massachusetts Electric and 12,419 Nantucket Electric customers.
NSTAR Order
In a separate order yesterday, the DPU denied NSTAR's petition to collect approximately $33 million from electric customers, an amount the company claimed was its share of benefits associated with Customer Savings Initiatives (CSI) under a rate settlement approved by the then-Department of Telecommunications and Energy in 2005. Under yesterday's order, NSTAR must return to its customers the portion of these estimated savings - approximately $20 million - already collected from ratepayers.
CSI were intended to allow NSTAR to collect revenues from customers if the company could demonstrate that it saved ratepayers money by reducing wholesale electric costs. To qualify for these revenues, the company must demonstrate that its initiatives are eligible under the 2005 settlement and that the savings are real. Yesterday's DPU order concluded that NSTAR could demonstrate neither of these criteria, ruling that the savings estimates were not specific and measurable, that they were ineligible because they predated approval of the 2005 rate settlement, and that the savings stemmed from routine company activities rather than special initiatives.
"NSTAR already charges is customers some of the highest electric rates of any distribution utility in the Commonwealth. I am pleased to announce that NSTAR ratepayers will be spared these additional charges, which the DPU has determined are not warranted," DPU Chairman Hibbard said.
In the petition denied yesterday, NSTAR claimed that two Federal Energy Regulatory Commission decisions involving Fore River Development, LLC and Braintree Light Department resulted in customer savings across Massachusetts of over $362 million. Of this total, the company contended that NSTAR's approximately one million customers would save approximately $134 million and that, under terms of the CSI provision of the rate settlement, the company should receive 25 percent of those savings - or $33.5 million - over three years.
Yesterday's department order is consistent with the DPU's previous rejection, in 2007, of a settlement that would have allowed NSTAR to collect $20 million from its customers under the CSI arrangement, rather than $33 million. Submitted while the case was being adjudicated, the settlement was denied by the DPU and the investigation continued, leading to yesterday's action by the DPU.
Four parties intervened in this investigation, including Attorney General Coakley; the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 103; ISO New England Inc.; and the Cape Light Company. The Retail Energy Supply Association was a limited participant.
NSTAR serves approximately 1.1 million electric customers in Eastern Massachusetts.


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New York, NY (June 2011) – Founded in 1820, The New York Eye and Ear Infirmary continues a great educational tradition with a Commencement Ceremony for residents and fellows on Thursday, June 23. In saying goodbye to the residents who have been with NYEE over the past three or four years, we want to celebrate their accomplishments by highlighting their future plans.
Brian David Gibson, MD
Medical School: Florida State College of Medicine
Future Plans: Private practice in Panama City, FL
Paul S. Lee, MD
Medical School: St. George's University
Future Plans: Fellowship in Rhinology at University of Texas, Houston
Uchechukwu Chukwudozie Megwalu, MD
Medical School: Washington University School of Medicine
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Vikas Mehta, MD
Medical School: University of California at Irvine
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Ian Hing-Yeung Chan, MD
Medical School: University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine
Future Plans: Fellowship in Vitreo Retinal Disease, University of California, Irvine
Syril K. Dorairaj, MD
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Future Plans: Fellowship in Glaucoma, Shiley Eye Center, University of California, San Diego
Jasmine H. Francis, MD
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Robert H. McGlynn, MD
Medical School: Yale School of Medicine
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Sri Krishna Mukkamala, MD
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Future Plans: Fellowship in Vitreo Retinal Disease, Harkness Eye Institute, Columbia University, New York
Joseph F. Panarelli, MD
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Valerie Trubnik, MD
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As a general matter, this new value is used when an order is originated in a firm's error account. Typically, the Account Type Code of "X" would be used in situations where a firm must liquidate or accumulate a position through a firm account to rectify an error made in a customer's account.
The guidance contained in this OATS Report assumes that the member has met all criteria required by any SEC or SRO rules for a transaction to qualify as a bona fide error. Nothing in this guidance is intended to suggest what is or is not considered to be a bona fide error under SEC, NASD or other SRO rules.
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For Immediate Release Wednesday, August 20, 2008 Contact: Tiffany Champion, (210) 733-6604
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Dear Friend,
I hope this e-news finds you doing well. Included in this issue is important information on back to school, the new identity theft scam targeting parents, and how you can help to protect our natural resources through community gardens.
Back to School As summer winds down and summer vacations come to an end, it is a sure sign the new school year is about to start. It is a time for students to catch up with old friends, make new friends, meet teachers, and settle into a daily routine of school work and learning. As you prepare your child for the new school year, here are some helpful health and safety information tips.
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EPPICard users nationwide have reported receiving e-mail, voice and text messages falsely indicating problems with their accounts and then being asked to update their information by clicking on the web link included in the message. The link directs people to a fraudulent website where their personal information is compromised. Others have reported receiving an e-mail message offering payments upon completion of an online survey. At the end of the survey, they are being asked for their account information. By providing the requested information, users put their financial information at risk.
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The Behavior Problem Checklist was completed by the teachers of 192 deaf students who attended a special day school for the deaf. Three separate factor analyses were performed. Four factors that correspond to the dimensions found in earlier research and previously labeled conduct disorder, personality problems, immaturity inadequacy, and socialized delinquency were found. An additional factor labeled passive inferiority was also extracted.
We wish to acknowledge the cooperation of Mr. Richard Dirst and his excellent faculty at the Atlanta Area School for the Deaf.
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- Levine, E. S. Psychological tests and practices with the deaf: A survey of the state of the art.Volta Review, 1974,76, 298–318.
- Nie, N. H., Hull, C. H., Jenkins, J. G., Steinbrenner, K., & Bent, D. H.Statistical package for the social sciences (2nd ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill, 1975.
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This little gem from Japan is from 1995 but just now making the rounds of art houses in the U.S. It's not unlike David Lynch directing John Waters script to "The Wild Bunch", and if that ain't a date movie, I don't know what is.
Set during the collapse of Japan's bubble economy, Bandai (Koichi Sato) is a former pop star, now owner of a disco and deeply in debt the local Yakuza. Without any possiblilty left of paying his loans, he decides upon the crazy scheme of gathering a bunch of misfits he meets at random; a disgraced ex-cop, a rent boy Bandai obsesses over, a bleached blonde pimp, and a laid-off salaryman (the craziest of the group); to rob the Yakuza headquarters. Hilarity ensues.
Former manga artist Takashi Ishii wrote and directed this film and it is GORGEOUS. It also has the most disturbing images of violence this side of Wes Craven (and I mean "Last House on the Left"-era Craven).
This film is probably getting a push because it features Japanese icon "Beat" Takeshi, but his role is minor as one of the gay hit men sent after the "Gonin", meaning "five men".
The one draw-back is that I would have liked more character scenes. Even then, every character feels fully thought out with their own back story. The two things likely to stay with you, though, are the sound of an aluminum baseball bat repeatedly striking someone's head, and the salaryman's return home to his family. If this is playing near you, SEE IT NOW.
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Fluorine is an element. It is a gas, never occurring in its free state. In microscopic amounts complexed with other minerals, it is often listed as a trace mineral, a nutrient for human nutrition.
The fluoride added to 90% of drinking water is hydrofluoric acid which is a compound of fluorine that is a chemical byproduct of aluminum, steel, cement, phosphate, and nuclear weapons manufacturing.
Such fluoride is manmade. In this form, fluoride has no nutrient value whatsoever. It is one of the most caustic of industrial chemicals. Fluoride is the active toxin in rat poisons and cockroach powder.
Hydrofluoric acid is used to refine high octane gasoline, to make fluorocarbons and chlorofluorocarbons for freezers and air conditioners, and to manufacture computer screens, fluorescent light bulbs, semiconductors, plastics, herbicides, — and toothpaste.
It also has the ability to burn flesh to the bone, destroy eyes, and sear lungs so that victims drown in their own body fluid."
Once in the body, fluoride is a destroyer of human enzymes. It does this by changing their shapes. In human biochemistry, thousands of enzymes are necessary for various essential cell reactions that take place every second we're alive. Without enzymes, we'd die instantaneously.
The History of Fluoride
Some fifty years after governments began adding fluoride to public water supplies to reduce cavities in children's teeth, declassified documents are shedding new light on the roots of that still-controversial public health measure, revealing a surprising connection between fluoride and the dawning of the nuclear age.
Today, a large percentage of public drinking water in the western world is fluoridated. Many municipalities still resist the practice, disbelieving the government's assurances of safety.
Since the days of World War II, when the U.S. prevailed by building the world's first atomic bomb, public health leaders have maintained that low doses of fluoride are safe for people, and good for children's teeth.
That safety verdict should now be re-examined in the light of hundreds of once-secret WWII documents obtained by Joel Griffiths and Chris Bryson – including declassified papers of the Manhattan Project, the U.S. military group that built the atomic bomb.
Fluoride was the key chemical in atomic bomb production, according to the documents. Massive quantities of fluoride – millions of tons – were essential for the manufacture of bomb-grade uranium and plutonium for nuclear weapons throughout the Cold War. One of the most toxic chemicals known, fluoride rapidly emerged as the leading chemical health hazard of the U.S atomic bomb program–both for workers and for nearby communities, the documents reveal.
Other revelations include:
Much of the original proof that fluoride is safe for humans in low doses was generated by A-bomb program scientists, who had been secretly ordered to provide "evidence useful in litigation" against defense contractors for fluoride injury to citizens. The first lawsuits against the U.S. A-bomb program were not over radiation, but over fluoride damage, the documents show.
Human studies were required. Bomb program researchers played a leading role in the design and implementation of the most extensive U.S. study of the health effects of fluoridating public drinking water–conducted in Newburgh, New York from 1945 to 1956. Then, in a classified operation code-named "Program F," they secretly gathered and analyzed blood and tissue samples from Newburgh citizens, with the cooperation of State Health Department personnel.
The original secret version–obtained by these reporters–of a 1948 study published by Program F scientists in the Journal of the American Dental Association shows that evidence of adverse health effects from fluoride was censored by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) – considered the most powerful of Cold War agencies – for reasons of national security.
The bomb program's fluoride safety studies were conducted at the University of Rochester, site of one of the most notorious human radiation experiments of the Cold War, in which unsuspecting hospital patients were injected with toxic doses of radioactive plutonium. The fluoride studies were conducted with the same ethical mind-set, in which "national security" was paramount.
The U.S. government's conflict of interest–and its motive to prove fluoride "safe" – has not until now been made clear to the general public in the furious debate over water fluoridation since the 1950's, nor to civilian researchers and health professionals, or journalists.
The declassified documents resonate with growing body of scientific evidence, and a chorus of questions, about the health effects of fluoride in the environment.
Human exposure to fluoride has mushroomed since World War II, due not only to fluoridated water and toothpaste, but to environmental pollution by major industries from aluminum to pesticides: fluoride is a critical industrial chemical.
The impact can be seen, literally, in the smiles of our children. Large numbers of U.S. young people–up to 80 percent in some cities–now have dental fluorosis, the first visible sign of excessive fluoride exposure, according to the U.S. National Research Council. (The signs are whitish flecks or spots, particularly on the front teeth, or dark spots or stripes in more severe cases.)
Less-known to the public is that fluoride also accumulates in bones – "The teeth are windows to what's happening in the bones," explains Paul Connett, Professor of Chemistry at St. Lawrence University (N.Y.). In recent years, pediatric bone specialists have expressed alarm about an increase in stress fractures among U.S. young people. Connett and other scientists are concerned that fluoride – linked to bone damage by studies since the 1930's – may be a contributing factor. The declassified documents add urgency: much of the original proof that low-dose fluoride is safe for children's bones came from U.S. bomb program scientists, according to this investigation.
Now, researchers who have reviewed these declassified documents fear that Cold War national security considerations may have prevented objective scientific evaluation of vital public health questions concerning fluoride.
"Information was buried," concludes Dr. Phyllis Mullenix, former head of toxicology at Forsyth Dental Center in Boston, and now a critic of fluoridation. Animal studies Mullenix and co-workers conducted at Forsyth in the early 1990's indicated that fluoride was a powerful central nervous system (CNS) toxin, and might adversely affect human brain functioning, even at low doses. (New epidemiological evidence from China adds support, showing a correlation between low-dose fluoride exposure and diminished I.Q. in children.) Mullenix's results were published in 1995, in a reputable peer-reviewed scientific journal.
Fluoride Causes Disease
Austrian researchers proved in the 1970s that as little as 1 ppm fluoride concentration can disrupt DNA repair enzymes by 50%. When DNA can't repair damaged cells, we get old fast.
Fluoride prematurely ages the body, mainly by distortion of enzyme shape. Again, when enzymes get twisted out of shape, they can't do their jobs. This results in collagen breakdown, eczema, tissue damage, skin wrinkling, genetic damage, and immune suppression. Practically any disease you can name may then be caused.
All systems of the body are dependent upon enzymes. When fluoride changes the enzymes, this can damage:
- immune system
– digestive system
– respiratory system
– blood circulation
– kidney function
– liver function
– brain function
– thyroid function
The distorted enzymes are proteins, but now they have become foreign protein, which we know is the exact cause of autoimmune diseases, such as lupus, arthritis, asthma, and arteriosclerosis.
Fluoride And Osteoporosis
Dr. Yiamouyiannis (former science director of the National Health Federation) cited a 1990 study of 541,000 cases of osteoporosis that found a definite connection between hip fractures in women over 65 and fluoride levels. The study was written up in JAMA. Several other major studies are cited, massive amounts of research, again all reaching the same conclusion – the undeniable correlation of fluoridation with osteoporosis and hip fracture in the elderly.
Bone Is Living Tissue.
Bone building is a finely balanced, complicated process. Fluoride has been known to disrupt this process since the 1930s. Dr. Alesen, who was the president of the California Medical Association, clearly explains what fluoride does to bone formation.
He cites dozens of international scientific studies proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that fluoride has caused thousands of cases of osteoporosis, skeletal thinning, fractures, "rubber bones," anemia, and rickets.
Fluoride also causes osteoporosis by creating a calcium deficiency situation. Fluoride precipitates calcium out of solution, causing low blood calcium, as well as the buildup of calcium stones and crystals in the joints and organs.
So Why Do We Continue Fluoridating In Present Day?
One word…money!
Toxic disposal. The rise of the EPA since the 1970s. The increase in environmental consciousness as a political tool for creating the illusion of safety in recent decades.
Fluoride is a toxic byproduct in the manufacturing process of manmade chemicals.
Millions of tons of this poison are produced every year. Imagine the cost of containing and disposing of those mountains of waste every year. It's in the billions.
Lobbyists from these industries have presented "scientific studies" paid for by the industries, and provided for a continual stream of media presentations about the health benefits of fluoride. They have created unimaginably lucrative positions for "research" and "education" within the Medical Conglomerates and Associations that are systematically destroying our health.
What are the economic advantages of that? Instead of paying money to dispose of toxic waste, money could now be made by selling fluoride to the water companies of the nation.
They basically use the public water supply as a sewer for industrial wastes and since there is money to be made, the vicious cycle has continued for decades.
What Do The Real Experts Say?
"When historians come to write about this period, they will single out fluoridation as the single biggest mistake in public policy that we've ever had."
- Paul Connett, PhD, Biochemistry
"Water fluoridation is the single largest case of scientific fraud, promoted by the government, supported by taxpayer dollars, aided and abetted by the ADA and the AMA, in the history of the planet."
- David Kennedy, DDS President International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology
"Sodium fluoride is a registered rat poison and roach poison. It has been a protected pollutant for a very long time."
- William Hirzy, PhD President of the Union of Professional Employees of the EPA
"sodium fluoride is a very toxic chemical, acting as an enzyme poison, direct irritant and calcium inactivator … .It reacts with growing tooth enamel and with bones to produce irreversible damage."
- Granville Knight, MD president of the American Academy of Nutrition
Congressional Record, 31 July 56
"I am appalled at the prospect of using water as a vehicle for drugs. Fluoride is a corrosive poison that will produce serious effects on a long range basis. Any attempt to use water this way is deplorable."
- Charles Gordon Heyd, MD, president, AMA
"no physician in his right mind would hand to his patient a bottled filled with a dangerous drug with instructions to take as much or as little of it as he wished … And yet, the Public Health Service is engaged upon a widespread propaganda program to insist that communities do exactly that … The purpose of administering fluoride is not to render the water supply pure and potable but to contaminate it with a dangerous, toxic drug for the purpose of administering mass medication to the consumer, without regard to age or physical condition."
- L. Alesen, MD, president of the California Medical Association
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"Fluoridation is the greatest fraud that has ever been perpetrated and it has been perpetrated on more people than any other fraud has."
- Albert Schatz, PhD Nobel Laureate for discovering streptomycin
quoted in Sutton's Fluoridation:The Greatest Fraud
"More people have died in the last 30 years from cancer connected with fluoridation than all the military deaths in the entire history of the United States."
- Dean Burk, PhD National Cancer Institute — Fluoridation:A Burning Controversy
"Fluoridation is the greatest case of scientific fraud of this century, if not of all time."
– EPA scientist, Dr. Robert Carton (Downey, 2 May 99)
What Kind Of Water Should You Drink?
Today there is enough grassroots consciousness about the dangers of tap water that cheap carbon filters are now available in any hardware store which attach easily to the kitchen faucet. It is likely that such filters get rid of most of the chlorine – for awhile.
But to really get the resistant biologicals, the fluoride, heavy metals, and other contaminants, the customer may consider one of the high-end drinking water filters. These cost between two and four hundred dollars and come in models for both over and under the sink.
Names like Alpine, MultiPure, and Spectrapure are among the dozens of brand names that have come along during the past 20 years. Everyone claims to be the best, of course, but we can find some important similarities in their advertising. When you begin to compare the better water filters, you notice common concerns:
- chlorine
– THMs
– chloriform
– chloramines
– cryptosporidium and giardia lamblia cysts
– fluoride
– pesticides and toxic chemicals
– heavy metals
– minerals
– MTBEs
– nitrates
Killing microbials is not a big deal since most of that's been done by chlorine. Most contaminants are removed by the better filters. The problem when choosing a filter seems to come down to four main concerns: fluoride, minerals, THMs, and nitrates.
Difficult to find one filter that does everything: many reverse osmosis filters take out fluoride, but also the healthy minerals. Many of the high-end carbon filters will not remove fluoride or nitrates, but leave the healthy minerals.
Fluoride is obviously a biggie. Find out if the filter you are about to buy removes fluoride, and what percentage. After what we've learned about fluoride, we should expect a filter to remove it.
Due to fluoride advocate propaganda, most don't even realize fluoride is bad, and therefore don't think about it when considering a water filter.
NSF is a third-party non-profit testing agency that has been rating water filters for the past 50 years. Always ask – is it NSF-certified? Don't be fooled if they say 'NSF-tested.' Big difference.
Minerals is an area of some controversy. You've got the hard water / soft water debate. Hard water has more minerals in it, which obviously is better for the bones and teeth, and probably for the heart as well.
That makes sense, although elemental minerals are the least absorbed of all types. Elemental means from rocks, and that's the kind that would be in spring water, and therefore in filtered water, except for reverse osmosis.
Most naturopaths and holistic nutritionists don't like distilled water because they say it leaches minerals from the bones and teeth. In general, that seems logical, although it may not make any difference unless the person is extremely malnourished.
The truth is, no formal studies comparing distilled with mineral water have been done, so it's all pretty theoretical. But thinking about the Hunzas and their 120-year lifespan that was attributed to the glacial mineral waters they drank, one can see the value of minerals in drinking water.
A high-end water filter should take this discussion into consideration and give reasons about the importance or unimportance of filtering out certain minerals.
Comes down to a choice: reverse osmosis or carbon block. With reverse osmosis you've can remove fluoride but also remove many minerals, and wasting about 4-9 gallons to get one gallon of pure water. With high-end carbon mesh filters, you can get rid of everything but fluoride, and you'll still have minerals.
Bottom Line: Stay away from direct consumption of tap water and research effective filtration methods that remove fluoride, lead, arsenic, or specific contaminants. Not only will it improve the taste, it will improve your health.
The Fluoride Deception
'The Fluoride Deception' reads like a whodunit. There are conspiracies, cover-ups, human casualties, and broken careers. The prime suspects in this toxic thriller are compounds of fluoride; the coconspirators represent industry, the military, and the public health community. At the book's ending, the suspect chemicals are not proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, but we are left with compelling evidence that powerful interests with high financial stakes have colluded to prematurely close honest discussion and investigation into fluoride toxicity.
31 Responses to "How Dangerous Is Fluoride To Your Health?"
i gone through your website about Ultra high pure gases. its really amazing.
so, what now? baking soda?
Lot's of things are harmful to humans, and until our government starts doing what's right for the people and stops pandering to big business we will continue to be exposed to lot's of harmful things. To me it's common sense that the government should look out for the people, and not allow the evil's of corporate money to put the welfare of the people at risk.
I think my excema is caused by fluoride in the water. I go to a place with out fluoride, no excema.
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I have terrible excema and i've thought the same thing, youve just motivated me to buy a fluoride filter
I have to disagree. I have terrible eczema and live with well water that has no fluoride in it at all.. Stress, diet, and allergies all play a role in eczema.. Soaps, perfumes, dyes etc can irritate eczema horribly. I know for me, I have to wash brand new clothes before I wear them because clothing company's put a starch on the clothes so they stay "fresh" while on the hanger and I have a reaction to it. The problem is there is a LOT to consider when thinking about causes of eczema, and no one knows 100% exactly what causes it.
It could be exacerbated by chlorine rather than flouride. Unfortunately chlorination is essential in almost all drinking water supplies in the world to prevent cholera (see contamination often leaks into water supply systems). However, try a filter (but change it regularly!) and see if it helps.
FABULOUS compilation of info in this article. THANKS!
I stopped drinking tap water and all bottled water I drink does not have fluoride, as far as I know from the labels, and my rosacea has never been better. Rosacea like eczema causes redness of the skin and apart from being painful sometimes, it causes me a bit of embarrassment as it shows on the face. Great article.
Bit confused about "concentration" and "dose", aren't you (not even going to mention basic chemistry).
Lots of things are harmful to humans, when in the wrong concentrations or doses. DHMO (di-hydrogen-monoxide) colorless, tasteless compound, responsible for countless deaths… It's a major threat to the environment and to animals, yet it is being freely distributed and dispenses globally… yet you wouldn't think of doing anything about it.
It's just more FUD from the anti-brigade of ignorant people…
This article is not fully expressed in that is is not HF or hydrofluoric acid that is used in fluoridation but Hexafluorosilicic acid, which is the inorganic compound with the formula H2SiF6; it is commonly used as a source of fluoride for water fluoridation. It is the By Product of Hydrofluoric acid that is used.
Production and principal reactions of hydrofluoric acid
The commodity chemical hydrogen fluoride, is produced from fluorspar by treatment with sulfuric acid.[3]As a by product, approximately 50 kg of H2SiF6 is produced per tonne of HF owing to reactions involving silica-containing mineral impurities. H2SiF6 is also produced as a by-product from the production of phosphoric acid from apatite and fluorapatite.
We use hydrofluorosilicic acid, which is commonly called hydrofluoric acid.
Fantastic article, would you be able to provide a list of references? As they say "question everything". TIA!
It's a load of bull.. http://www.ilikemyteeth.org/fluoridation/myths-facts/#6
Look through those pages..they even offer PDFs with the research on the papers. Anyone who thinks that the fluoridation of water is somehow affecting us in a negative is an ill informed individual.
If in doubt, leave it for what you're sure about.
This is very interesting since our pediatrician wants to prescribe floride for my kids since we drink bottled water instead of tap water.
Most of the food you buy at the store was prepared using fluoridated water. The fact that you take your children to the dentist regularly and if they brush their teeth with fluoride toothpaste, there should be no need for additional fluoride. Consult your dentist first.
I agree with Rodger, in that if they brush their teeth regularly there is no need for additional flouride. However, adding it to water supplies in general greatly reduces cavities within a population. It is very difficult to get an over-dose of flouride unless you are really eating it solid. These scare tactics are pretty insane because they don't benefit anyone (companies don't want flouride added because it costs them money). So, personally, I support flouridation (we had it when we were young, but it was stopped due to cost), however if you ensure your children brush their teeth regularly there is no need for you to have extra suppliments. (PS. food supplies are only made with flouridated water if their water supply is flouridated. In the UK this is rarely the case now).
That's because fluoride isn't actually bad. It's naturally occurring in water and since your kid isn't getting it he probably wants to supplement it. Kind of silly though unless you're using non fluoride toothpaste (natural stuff doesn't have it). Believe it or not you ACTUALLY NEED THIS STUFF in your system. You just shouldn't go doing vast amounts of it. Most of these conspiracy theorists blow stuff out of proportion and think of things on this grand scale. It's not. It's .7 parts per MILLION when it comes to water. Also European countries HAVE taken on fluoridation of water and even SALT in the countries where they don't do it to the water. I honestly have no clue why this crap is still grounds for debate. I blame Dr. Strangelove and all the idiots that took that movie for more than an ything but satire.
If it is so harmful why would this be so regulated? Even the people make this happen and their dear ones are subjected to the same harmful effects, aren't they?
I think chlorine is a problem too – surely it must also kill beneficial intestinal flora. Maybe that's why so many people have digestive problems.
Countries that have stopped using chlorine have tended to have huge cholera epidemics that have killed thousands. I'm not saying it's great, but it is better than dying. One method is to leave the water standing (or uncovered) in the fridge for example. Much of the chlorine will evaporate (as chloride). Filters can help as well (the chlorine treatment is mainly to kill bacteria in the water distribution system, so its ok not to have it once it has left the tap)


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Arcadia 42, Muir 7 — Myles Carr completed 14 of 20 passes for 185 yards and touchdown passes to Robby Haines (2), Taylor Lagace and Brian Ponce. Sheldon McKinely left in the second quarter with an ankle injury. There was a scary moment prior to McKinley's injury when Tairen Owens was knocked out after a tackle on Lagace. Owens appeared to lead with his head and suffered a stinger. He lay motionless for several minutes before her rolled over and eventually slowly walked off the field. Haines also recorded 2.5 sacks, applied relentless pressure on Muir's Kevon Seymour and Josh Washington. Lagace returned a punt 72 yards and Seymour returned a kickoff 97 yards for the Mustangs' lone score. Alex McElwee recorded an interception and recovered a Muir fumble, setting up two scoring drives. Muir finished with a meager 35 yards on the ground and no success through the air. Seymour started at quarterback but later gave way to Washington, who also found little to no rhythm.
South Hills 34, Monrovia 30– With Vincent Hernandez not able to go with an injured shoulder, Jamel Hart rushed for 155 yards and three touchdowns to lead the Huskies to a come-from-behind victory. Wildcats RB De'Shawn Ramirez had just four carries for -2 yards.
South Pasadena 6, Alhambra 5 — Bizarre, I know. At least the score makes it seem that way. The defense was superb for each team, as South Pasadena was limited to two field goals from Dominic Frescura. He kicked a 25-yard field goal with seven seconds left in the second quarter to tie the game 3-3. He squibbed the kickoff, hitting Alhambra before the Tigers recovered. With one second left on the clock, Frescura converted a 30-yard field goal to take a 6-3 lead heading into the half. South Pasadena mishandled a snap that went into the end zone to give the Moors a safety. Alhambra QB Josh Mendoza went 12 of 25 for 139 yards, but his final pass attempt went through the hands of Demeitrias Russell and into the hands of Bryan Bednarski to seal the win for the Tigers.
Maranatha 41, La Canada 10 — Maranatha's Defense hdl La Canada to 22 first-half yards, giving up only 63 on the night. Andrew Elffers completed 16 of 21 passes for 217 yards and three touchdowns and Darien McGee caught two touchdowns, ran for another and returned a kickoff for 100 yards. Beast. Troy French also had three catches for 63 yards. La Canada's Franklin Cervenka nailed a 36-yard field goal with 5:13 left in the third quarter for the Spartans first points. Kyle Herron's 3-yard touchdown run with 8:30 left in the game capped the Spartans' scoring.
Burroughs 49, Pasadena 34 — Zander Anding had a killer game with 27 carries for 312 yards and two touchdowns to lead Burroughs. He also returned a kickoff 99 yards for a score. The Indians were leading 28-13 at the half. Pasadena played well, but was playing catch-up the entire game. Brandon Cox carried the Bulldogs the entire game, completing 16 of 23 passes for 300 yards and three touchdowns. He also rushed for 113 yards and two touchdowns on 11 carries. Defense, however, didn't play to par for the Bulldogs. Too many missed tackles and penalties.
South El Monte 41, Temple City 27 — South El Monte scored 27 unanswered points in the fourth quarter to overcome a 13-point deficit after the Rams scored 20 unanswered points in the third quarter. Temple City led 27-14 in the third quarter. Temple City's Mikal Quintanilla passed for 300 yards and three touchdowns. Anthony Valencia was Quintanilla's favorite targert with 13 catches for 241 yards and two touchdowns.
Rosemead 31, San Gabriel 21 — After a lackluster first-half for Matt Eddy, who had only 34 yards on 15 carries, he woke up and ended up with 35 carries for 183 yards and four touchdowns. San Gabriel's Andy Guerrero and Alex Villalobos connected for two touchdowns and Guerrero threw for 192 yards. Villalobos recorded 145 yards catching. There were almost 40, COUNT THEM, 40 penalties in the game. Our Guillermo Tovar said he stopped counting after 35 penalties.
Bosco Tech 27, La Salle 24 — Bosco Tech mounted a comeback to beat the Lancers in the Del Rey League opener. La Salle squandered an early 14-0 lead in the first quarter.
St. Francis 35, West Ranch 0 — St. Francis was lights out. The defense limited West Ranch to just 44 yards on the ground and 64 total yards. West Ranch never passed midfield. Ouch.
Keppel 40, Fulton Prep 0 — Fulton Prep forfeited in the fourth quarter because of injuries and lack of players. Esequiel Jimenez had 22 carries for 186 yards and two touchdowns. Tyler Takashita completed 7 of 13 passes for 123 yards and two touchdowns and one on the ground. Nathan May and Julio Tinajero caught both touchdown passes. May also recorded an interception and the Keppel defense held Fulton to 28 total yards.
Gabrielino 20, Pasadena Poly 13
Bell Gardens 35, San Marino 23
Duarte 52, Basset 6
Paraclete 86, Marshall 0
St. Monica 33, Blair 7
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BREAKING NEWS: Muir football coach Ken Howard placed on administrative leave for altercation with a student, Dave Mitchell to coach tonight vs. Arcadia.
By Brian Charles and Frank Girardot, Staff Writer
PASADENA – John Muir High School head football coach Ken Howard Friday was placed on administrative leave after a scuffle with a student.
The scuffle, which occurred Wednesday, happened after Howard and other school personnel searched the Northwest Pasadena high school campus for a student reportedly in possession of a weapon, Howard said.
"The kid was resisting," Howard said. "I told him to sit in his seat and it got physical. I wrapped the kid up and escorted him from the classroom."
During the struggle, the unidentified student was injured, according to Randy Ertll, a community activist. Ertll said the student was choked and slammed onto a desk.
The student received medical care, and was bruised on his back and there was blood on his neck, Ertll said.
Howard, a former school security guard, said in 17 years on the Muir campus he's never had a similar altercation.
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Football: St. Francis seeks vengeance vs. West Ranch.
NBA players confirmed for Sunday's basketball benefit: Ryan Hollins, Trevor Ariza, Aaron Afflalo, Nick Young , Jarron and Jason Collins and Josh Childress; Also, former UCLA stars Ed'Obannon and Toby Bailey.
Muir and Pasadena high schools will take part in a basketball charity tournament Sunday at Calabasas High that will benefit former Muir star Joe Frazier, the victim of a recent hit-and-run motorcycle accident who has slipped into a coma.
Muir boys basketball coach Gamal Smalley said what started out as a small basketball game between the Mustangs and Calabasas, where Frazier is an assistant boys basketball coach, evolved into an outpouring of support from surrounding communities.
The event was spearheaded by former Muir teammate and Cleveland Cavaliers center Ryan Hollins, Calabasas basketball coach Jon Palarz and Muir's Smalley. Proceeds will go to help Frazier's medical expenses. Event organizers are asking for $10 donations.
The event, initially a one-game showcase, now is an eight-game tournament beginning with Calabasas' junior varsity team taking on Campbell Hall at 10:45. Pasadena will take on Oaks Christian at 6:15 p.m. followed by the final game of Muir-Calabasas at 7:30.
Frazier was a standout at Muir before earning Big West Conference All-Freshman team honors at Cal State Northridge, where he still holds the school record for most steals (10) in a game.
"Joseph is such a special young man and has touched the lives of so many people that we definitely wanted to help him and his family in any way we could," Smalley said. "In doing this event we also hope to bring awareness to such dangers as texting while driving, helmets for cyclists, as well as a sense of overall community that Joseph has made happen, even through this tragedy."
The game initially was scheduled to be held at Cal State Northridge where Frazier played for Bobby Braswell, but Smalley said the NCAA did not approve the venue. He also said Braswell stated his players will be at Calabasas on Sunday to support the cause because they were touched and inspired.
Football: Super Bowl XXXIV MVP Kurt Warner gives Maranatha a pep talk after practice Tuesday evening.
Photos courtesy of Maranatha AD Brian DeHaan
Two-time NFL MVP and Super Bowl XXXIV MVP Kurt Warner paid a visit to Maranatha High on Tuesday evening. Warner gave the Minutemen a 10-minute pep talk after practice concluded, and he brushed on several subjects. To be clear, I totally would have gone and shot video of this, but, like Maranatha, I found out last minute and I was in West Covina working on PrepXtra Live when all this came about.
Warner was next door shooting a Christian-based movie. Maranatha athletic director Brian DeHaan said Warner met the kids in between takes and mainly talked about "pursuing excellence in everything you do, leadership and respect."
"It was really an inspirational talk," DeHaan said. "It was great for our kids to meet him."
Warner, whose 12-year career is considered one of the greatest stories in NFL history, was selected MVP in 1999 and 2001 with the St. Louis Rams. He also led the Arizona Cardinals to Super Bowl XLII. His story is well documented. Undrafted in 1994, Warner bagged groceries in Cedar Falls, Iowa before a stint in Arena Football League. He finally signed with the St. Louis Rams in 1998 before a history-making season in 1999 when he threw for 4,353 yards and 41 touchdowns.
During the Q&A session, Maranatha's Matt Hall asked to shake Warner's hand and a fellow teammate asked if Warner ever thought about giving up while bagging groceries.
"He said no," DeHaan recalled. "That that was never a thought that crossed his mind. He just believes in whatever you're doing, whether you're bagging groceries or playing in the NFL, you have to pursue it with excellence."
Warner talked about maintaining relationships with college teammates while bagging groceries and working out his schedule so that he can continue working out in the mornings and preparing for a football career while also making a living in the meantime.
"There are a lot of books that have been written by him, for him and with him," DeHaan said. "It was great for the kids to hear about him persevering."
Football: Yom Kippur starts on Friday, Oct. 7. Any teams moving their games to Thursday, Oct. 6? If so, please e-mail me ASAP so we can make proper arrangements.
Here are the games scheduled for Thursday, Oct. 6. Please let me know if this is what your school has scheduled as well and if any other teams are making changes.
Paso Robles at St. Francis, 7:30 p.m.
Sage Hill at Pasadena Poly, 3:30 p.m.
Blair vs. View Park at Rancho Cienega, 7 p.m.
San Marino vs. Golden Valley at Canyon Country, 7 p.m
2-Minute Drill: South Hills at Monrovia, Friday at 7 p.m.
Maranatha's Darin Smith is a defensive specialist.
Above: Darin Smith (14) after a big play against La Salle.
We know about Andrew Elffers, Omar Younger and Darien McGee, all standout players who have led the charge offensively for Maranatha this season. But one guy who seems to fly under the radar and hasn't gotten the attention he deserves is senior Darin Smith. The 6-fooot, 185-pound outside linebacker in four games this season has 36 tackles and four sacks. Against Salesian last week, Smith recorded 13 tackles and had a momentum-swinging sack in Salesian's final drive of the game. And if you remember, Justin Coats recorded an interception in the waning seconds to seal Maranatha's 38-35 win over Salesian, but it was Smith whose pressure on blitzes and eye for the ball in the secondary that also had a big impact.


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I plan to brew my first homebrew this weekend. From the experts, should I consider using a keg or bottle for my first batch? I've read all the advantages that kegging has and would like to hear from others as to what is the best method to start out with. Any suggestions are appreciated. Scott
Well if you bottle, it's one less thing to have to figure out, for now. On the other hand it isn't rocket science. It'll cost you more to start off but you'll be able to relax later, enjoying your kegged beer wondering why people take the time to bottle. I have yet to keg, but plan to get a few kegs in the spring. One downside though is if you make a lot of batches, you need a lot of kegs. And bottles are cheap.
I may not be an expert, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express........ 6 months ago.http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f39/denn...9/#post1766281http://groups.homebrewtalk.com/Tapro...ook_Repository
Im sure everyone started with bottles such as me! I eventually went to corney kegs and a nice kegerator from best buy for 550,bucks.I still love to bottle.I thought that when I got my kegerator I would never have to wash a bottle again.Not true.Your gonna want all your friends to sample your beer.Take some here,and there.I always take a few bottles to a buddys house for sampling.Another good thing is you can always taste a single bottle to see if your beer is aged right untill your ready to tap.I usually keg 5 gal and bottle 5. Good luck and remember,CLEAN.CLEAN,CLEAN...........
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I went straight to kegs and only bottle for parties or sending samples out. You can keg with nothing more than the keg, a small CO2 pressurizer and a party tap. Just store it in a cool place. Bottles are more portable, cheaper and a lot more work.
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Ya! I thought about bringing a corny keg to party but was worried about shaking up the yeast on the bottom.Doesnt look good in the glass.Bottles sure are alot of work too!Still looking for some more corny kegs.Too many bottles in my house.


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Diagnostic and therapeutic strategies [for heart disease], which had been developed in men, by men, for men weren't working so well for women.
C. Noel Bairey Merz is director of the Women's Heart Center at the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, where she is a professor of medicine.
Why you should listen
C. Noel Bairey Merz, MD, holds the Women's Guild Endowed Chair in Women's Health, and is Director of the Women's Heart Center and the Preventive and Rehabilitative Cardiac Center in the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, where she is a Professor of Medicine.
Dr. Bairey Merz's research interests include women and heart disease, mental stress and heart disease, the role of exercise and stress management in reversing disease, and the role of nutrition in heart disease. Currently, she is chair of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)-sponsored WISE (Women's Ischemic Syndrome Evaluation) initiative.
Her work is supported by the Streisand Foundation.
Watch Barbra Streisand's passionate introduction of Dr. Bairey Merz at TEDxWomen >>
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Because women don't look like men, they don't look like that male-pattern heart disease that we've spent the last 50 years understanding … they're not recognized for their heart disease.
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Coverage of Suffrage Wagon News Channel partnering with Turning Point Suffragist Memorial for the first annual "Night of Terror" observance: (1.) "'Night of Terror' for White House Picketers," October 31, 2014. PDF. (2.) Coverage on New York History blog.
New York History blog highlights "Spirit of 1776″ music video. PDF.
Suffrage Wagon, the "Spirit of 1776″ highlighted in August 26, 2014 feature article (PDF). "Spirit of 1776″ wagon featured in episode of "Feminism 101." Edna Kearns featured nominee for 2014 Women's History publication. Overview of the blogging tour of LetsRockTheCradle. Articles by Marguerite Kearns are also found on New York History. See #1. #2. #3. #4. See also. Edna Kearns mention in Newsday article (March 2014) about Long Island women and the vote.
Media about "Spirit of 1776″ resolution in NYS Legislature: Ms. Magazine blog: #1. #2. Newsday coverage. #1. Legislative Gazette. #1. #2. Article from Women's eNews. #1. #2. Albany TV coverage. #1. #2. State Senator Little's web page about resolution. #1. #2. Transcript of June 18, 2013 of the New York State Senate introduction of the Wagon Day (July 1, 2013) resolution. #1. #2. New York History blog. #1.
Fall 2013 issue of "New York Archives" magazine features an overview of the "Spirit of 1776″ suffrage wagon and the exclusive story of the confrontation in Huntington, NY after the wagon left New York City on its 1913 journey for a month-long organizing trip through Long Island. See article. Edna Kearns: Her life story. PDF. The story of Edna's 1913 "Better Babies" campaign in 1913 and how this influenced her granddaughter and great granddaughter 100 years later. Link. Marguerite's Musings: "Suffrage Stories Rise from the Shadows." Questions and Answers –Marguerite Kearns speaks about how having a suffragist grandmother has affected her life. A series featuring suffrage stories. Question #1: "What suffrage stories did you hear when you were young? Question #2: "How did these stories make you who you are today?" Edna Buckman Kearns information. About Wilmer Kearns, Edna's husband. About Marguerite Kearns. Bibliography and Resources for Edna Kearns and "Spirit of 1776″ wagon, including Suffrage Wagon Cooking School.
Antonia Petrash's book on the Long Island suffrage movement has an entire chapter about Edna Kearns. Order your copy from the publisher or online. There's a great photograph in the book of the "Spirit of 1776″ wagon when it was exhibited in Albany, NY in 2012 as part of the Governor's exhibit, "From Seneca Falls to the Supreme Court: New York's Women Leading the Way." Suffrage work of Edna Kearns noted in Rockville Centre, NY history. Edna Kearns included in book about Long Island women by Natalie Naylor. Highlights of Suffrage Wagon during 2012. Storytelling about Grandmother Edna and Grandfather Wilmer: Blog of the Sewall-Belmont House and Museum. Washington, DC. National Women's History Project blog article on Suffrage Wagon.A Virtual Birthday Party celebrating the 19th Amendment. Worldfootprints- Radio/TV/Web. Op-Ed by Olivia Twine about suffrage wagon on exhibit at New York State Capitol Building. Audio interview with Marguerite Kearns about Edna Buckman Kearns in Chick History series. Suffrage Wagon highlighted in ElectWomen magazine Grandmother Edna makes "New York History". Article about Serena Kearns by Tara Bloyd. "A Girl and Her Kindle." "American Women Celebrate the Freedom to Vote." "News and Stories about the Suffrage Movement." Art work of the "Spirit of 1776″ wagon by Peter Sinclair, "Suffrage Buffs of America" –who's behind it? Spice Cake for High Tea from a Suffragist Cookbook Radio Interview, May 6, 2011.


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I am stressed with the situation I am in these days. I am not very regular on my periods, I had my last period in January (12-15), was supposed to have periods in feb (dint happen), march has also crossed and no periods yet. I had protected sex with my bf on 2nd feb and on 24th feb and we always try to ensure we keep it safe. I did almost 5 Home pregnancy test and all came negative so yesterday went for BETA HCG and the result came out to be <1.20, I understand that this means negative pregnancy. I want to know is it early for the test? or i am safe? I dont want to get prego as of now. PLZZZZZZZ help...
Hi Nita,
Thank you for your question and welcome to Empowher. I think you should be safe to say that you are not pregnant as it has been several months and you have already taken tests which came back negative. You may want to follow up with your doctor as to why your period is absent though. Sometimes fear of pregnancy or stress can cause delayed periods although a follow up with your physician will be helpful. Please keep us posted and good luck.
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FRIENDSHIP ONE Struggles to Rise Above Rehash of Familar 'Star Trek' Formulae
NOTE: Sorry for downtime since late last night, but what can you do when computers won't cooperate and you don't have any money to pay someone to fix things like this?
Reviews Ex Deus"Friendship One"
Written for TrekWeb by O. Deus
Summary: A well meaning but predictable and uninspiring rehash of standard Star Trek material.
Between the Vidiians and the Maalon, the disfigured race preying on other species and using their problems as justification has become a staple of Voyager. But where the Vidiians were compelling as both monsters and victims, the alien species of Friendship One are merely a series of victims. The episode repeatedly suggests that they're our victims and that Voyager should somehow feel guilty for their conditions, but Voyager had nothing to do with the launching of the probe and all the probe did was provide them with advanced technology meant to serve beneficial purposes. Their inability to properly use that technology was their own fault and responsibility.
That leaves us with the same Star Trek setup we've seen a thousand times before. There's the bad ruthless alien, the potentially good but uncertain alien and the human interest female. Our crew attempts to convey our humanity to the aliens through personal exchanges which humanize them. The good alien helps Voyager thwart the schemes of the bad alien. There's the red shirt whose off the cuff conversations about family make it certain that he'll die before the episode is over. We've seen the same material used - more innovatively - before; and without any standout performances or dialogue, the show has little to contribute except the irony of Friendship One itself as a defense of the importance Prime Directive.
Though it doesn't really accomplish this either since the problem wasn't so much that the technology was given out but that it was given out blindly and without supervision. And they're only saved by more interference from the Federation. This isn't a very convincing criticism of Starfleet or exploration. And Janeway's final statement about exploration not being worth the lives lost sounds ridiculous and bizarre since exploration, like it or not, runs precisely on those who gave their lives to see over into the next horizon. Star Trek has always acknowledged this and paid tribute to it, as recently as the far superior Voyager episode, One Small Step. Indeed Janeway's entire policy has been to conduct exploration rather than a straight route home.
Friendship One had the potential to construct an intricate commentary on Starfleet and Voyager's own mission using the trial of Friendship One, but One Small Step did a better job of handling that material. So all that was left was a lesson about helping people, but as in Insurrection that lesson was buried by the generic undistinguished nature of the people who needed to be helped, as well as their persistent whining about "nobody understanding how hard it is for them" which was more than a little reminiscent of the Baku's touting their advanced spiritual values. Except where the Baku's sense of superiority seemed to actually come from sort of accomplishments no matter how questionable, the FO species accomplishment was to be murderous, miserable and diseased.
Janeway's initial incompetence e.g. failing to detect both an alien civilization and the people living there, even though Voyager had encountered a close cousin of this same state of affairs in Dragon's Teeth, and then attempting to push Brin into giving up the hostages instead of demonstrating their good faith first finally and unexpectedly gives way to good command skills when she actually does the sane, practical thing and shockingly enough pulls off a successful rescue mission to release the hostages. Unfortunately by this point the hostages have developed Stockholm Syndrome and demonstrating very little regard for the fact that one of their friends and crewmembers was just murdered (Paris argues that it was only one man who did it, conveniently overlooking that it was their leader and that no one else found the act objectionable in the least) jostle Janeway into risking Voyager to clean up the planet's atmosphere.
Considering that these people have anti-matter weapons and anti-matter missiles, it seems odd that Janeway doesn't just propose giving them instructions for constructing their own ships and evacuating themselves. Or for that matter since it was doubtful that they could have produced anti-matter without leaving their planetary orbit, they should have had their own starships. Not that doing so would be a very smart idea, since the last thing the Delta Quadrant needs is another set of Vidians murdering and torturing people while whining about how hard their lives are. Voyager was quite ready to accept the Vidiians justifications for their actions and certainly has no trouble accepting the Friendship One species sense of self-righteous victimization. Wonder if it'll make Lt. Carey's family feel any better that his killers had "a bad childhood" ?
But this is characteristic of Friendship One as a paint-by-the numbers episode that relies on reusing Star Trek formulas to produce a predictable episode whose values are barely skin deep. After VGR of STTMP, the Mars spacecraft of One Small Step, the old American ship of Casino Royale and now Friendship One it seems a few too many old Earth space program vehicles have gone a lot further than they were supposed to go and it really strains all credulity that two of these would have ended up in the Delta Quadrant. Reusing this notion cheapens One Small Step and has no real purpose since this episode would have worked just as well if the aliens had found any advanced technology which they misused and blame all aliens for their own foolishness.
In part it seems Friendship One is introduced as a possible buildup for Series V. The entire fairly extraneous conversation about the timetable for the probe's launch and Tuvok's comment about its launch "preceding Starfleet" seems like it might have been planted as possible background for Series V. Or at the very least it may have been informed by the Series V premise. And I suppose it is a measure of how little Friendship One has to offer that its most intriguing aspect involves sifting a minor piece of dialogue for clues to the premise of the next series. And it may well be a clue as to how little Voyager's seventh season has to offer as well.
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Australian Internet Radio Adds Aimz Tracks
Saturday, May 29th, 2010More good news – A few songs off Wildfire have been added to Australian Internet Radio
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More good news – A few songs off Wildfire have been added to Australian Internet Radio
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Just got a request from a UK music reviewer asking about "Wildfire". So will let you know when that review is up.
Last show before I head back to Australia. So do your best, to get yourself down to the Viper Room on 'the strip'. Saw steel Panther last night at House of Blues on Sunset Strip, was a lot of fun.
Only been here in LA, California, a couple of days and so far it's been great! need to announce there has been a change in show dates. I'm now playing at the Viper Room (downstairs Lounge) click here for date and details)
Playing a few small shows over here, all open mics. Just heard "Cold Man of Steel" off brand new album "Wildfire" (album 'officially released' TODAY). Got selected on internet USA4real radio California, so the single might even be getting played while over there!
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Rory Albanese is a four time Emmy-winning Executive Producer of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. He has been a key part of The Daily Show since 1999. Rory is also an accomplished stand-up comedian. In the summer of 2006 he joined Lewis Black's "Red White and Screwed" tour performing with Lewis all over the country. Most recently Rory has been seen performing with Daily Show correspondent John Oliver as well as headlining his own shows at clubs and colleges throughout the country. He will have his own half hour comedy special on Comedy Central in 2010. Albanese and John Oliver have just signed a film deal with Paramount Studios for an undisclosed sum.
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