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Report NEP-RMG-2006-12-04This is the archive for NEP-RMG, a report on new working papers in the area of Risk Management. Stan Miles issued this report. It is usually issued weekly.
Subscribe to this report: email or RSS.
Other reports in NEP-RMG
The following items were announced in this report:
- Jesus, Saurina & Gabriel, Jimenez, 2006. "Credit Cycles, Credit Risk, and Prudential Regulation," MPRA Paper 718, University Library of Munich, Germany.
- Antonella Campana & Paola Ferretti, 2006. "On Bounds for Concave Distortion Risk Measures for Sums of Risks," Working Papers 146, Department of Applied Mathematics, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia.
- Item repec:pra:mprapa:759 is not listed on IDEAS anymore
- Hałaj, Grzegorz, 2006. "Contagion effect in banking system - measures based on randomised loss scenarios," MPRA Paper 525, University Library of Munich, Germany.
- Hałaj, Grzegorz, 2006. "Risk-based decisions on assets structure of a bank — partially observed economic conditions," MPRA Paper 523, University Library of Munich, Germany.
- Bond, Derek & Dyson, Kenneth, 2006. "Long memory and non-linearity in Stock Markets," MPRA Paper 252, University Library of Munich, Germany.
- Bohl, Martin T. & Gottschalk, Katrin & Pál, Rozália, 2006. "Institutional investors and stock market efficiency: The case of the January anomaly," MPRA Paper 677, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised Nov 2006.

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The Meals & More holiday clubs not only provide children and their families with nutritious meals but also education on healthy eating, recipes, activities and day trips.
Brakes recently announced a new partnership with Gary Maclean and the company is keen to utilise his skills as a chef and father of five in supporting the holiday club programme.
Gary Maclean, commented: "It's great to come along to the school to meet with families who are eager to improve their understanding of nutrition and skills in the kitchen.
"I have five children so I know preparing healthy meals can be a struggle, and expensive – but it doesn't have to be. My goal here today is to demonstrate that nutritious meals can be simple, affordable to make and delicious for all the family to enjoy."
John McLintock, Director of Operations, Brakes Scotland, added: "Meals & More is a fantastic community programme that we're extremely proud of and will continue to fund to help children and their families get great tasting, healthy meals during the school holidays. It's not just about providing meals, it's also about sharing skills and knowledge so families can replicate these practices at home in a simple and affordable way."


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I LOVE water play! It's messy, it's noisy, the teacher will get drenched, but to me, that just means it's going well!!
I think a lot of us shy away from water and use the 'It's too cold yet' excuse, but honestly, water can fit into any theme, at any time of the year.
|"Let them play with water, she said! It'll be fine, she said!"
The best thing to do is stop making those excuses, you don't need a wealth of resources to do water play!
For example:
*If you don't have a water tray, why not use an old baby bath? Or even just a plastic box?
*If you don't have plastic aprons, bin bags will do!
*Don't have buckets and watering cans? Who needs them?! Empty plastic bottles, tubes and tubs work just as well, if not better!
Convinced yet?
Now experiment!
Water play doesn't have to be all about pouring and filling and emptying! Make it interesting, give the children a task.
These are some ideas I LOVE:
(Did I mention yet that I love water play? #OverExcitedMuch)
1. Spray tops :
Get your hands on some *clean* bottle spray tops (or recycled – saves a lot of sterilising!) The children will have to learn about pumping the water and pointing the nozzle! They just love the idea of cleaning toys / boats or even having races by squirting the water at objects! Endless fun.
2. Fine Motor Fun :
Collect plastic bottle caps. Fill your water tub with lots of them and give each child at the water station a pair of those lovely plastic tweezers! While racing to pick up as many bottle caps as possible they are having a real fine-motor-finger-workout!
3. Magnets :
Enter Science! Make use of that jar of coins we all have! Tip it into your sandpit and get the children to fish them out with your magnets (the waterproof ones!!). The opportunities with this activity are endless – depending on what class you have! Counting, adding, sorting etc.
4. Laundrette :
Wash some baby clothes for the dolls! Squeeze, rinse, spin, hang on the line. It's a lovely activity. Also, don't forget to spend a day or two washing the dolls…they have to learn about the body parts sometime!
5. Ping Pong Phonics :
Dealz sells packets of ping pong balls for next to nothing! Write sounds / sight words on ping pong balls and have the children fish them out of the water tank with nets or ladles.
6. Ice Ice Baby :
Freeze some objects from the classroom; anything will do, magnetic letters, animals, counters etc. This activity speaks for itself. Let the children find ways to melt the ice using the water! It's amazing how much enjoyment they take from a few ice cubes! If you're feeling extra enthusiastic, make slabs of ice, throw in your polar bears and penguins and hey presto, it's a polar region!
7. Spice it up :
Add glitter, bubbles, leaves or even a few drops of food colouring to your water! The smallest change makes such a different and increases excitement levels even more!
I could be here all night if I keep going, I'll keep some ideas for another post soon!
I cannot express how wonderful www.recreate.ie is for recycled materials, and the things I picked up for water play are super! I'll post some pictures of them soon!
My advice:
*Embrace the mess, trust me, water play is worth it for the enjoyment the children get out of it – what we often don't realise, is that many children don't have baths in their homes anymore and are missing out on a whole lot of splashing and water fun!! It's something worth thinking about!*
Over & out!


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- 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/4 tsp kosher salt
- 2 tsp sugar
- 7 tbsp (105g) cold unsalted butter, cut into pieces
- 5 tbsp ice water, plus more if needed
- 4 cups pitted cherries
- 3 tbsp sugar
- 1 1/2 tsp cornstarch
- 1 egg beaten
[Dough] In a bowl, combine the flour, salt, and sugar and whisk lightly with a fork to blend. Sprinkle the butter over the top and start rubbing the mixture with your hands until all the butter has been combined and you get a crumbly texture. Evenly sprinkle the water over the flour mixture, and keep working it with your hands until it comes together into a ball. Wrap the dough in plastic wrap and leave it to cool in the refrigerator for at least 30 minutes or up to 1 day before using. (you can freeze the dough for up to a month).
[Filling] Preheat your oven to 200°C, take out your chilled dough and let it rest at room temperature for 15 minutes. Mix the cherries with the sugar and cornstarch. Divide your dough into fourths and roll out each bit into a circle.
Spoon some cherries into the middle of each circle, leaving about 3 cm of crust around the edges. Gently fold the edge of the crust over the cherries, pleating as you go. Brush the crust with a beaten egg.
Bake for 25-30 minutes or until the crust is golden brown and the cherries are tender. Serve with a scoop of ice cream


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My guests today are Merinne Mesku and Melissa Mesku, sisters and co-founders of Pure Cure Dental Technology, LLC, the first company to address the toxins and allergens in dentures. Their flagship product, Pure Cure Denture Detox, reduces the residual toxic and allergenic substances that have been shown to leach from dentures and into the mouth. Merinne Mesku, CEO, graduated summa cum laude from Loma Linda University School of Dentistry and is a practicing Registered Dental Hygienist. Melissa Mesku is a writer, editor and designer with a degree in Environmental Science from UC Berkeley. The two sisters founded the small family company after their father, an award winning dental technician, was diagnosed with demyelinating toxic neuropathy from working with denture chemicals. In 2010, the company became the first to offer denture detoxification as a dental lab service. Since then, they've become the leading provider of information for the general public on denture toxicity and offer their research findings via their Free Report on Denture Toxicity. www.purecuretechnology.com | www.denturedetox.com
Detox Your Dentures
Host: Debra Lynn Dadd
Guest: Merinne and Melissa Mesku
Date of Broadcast: September 17, 2015
DEBRA: Hi, I'm Debra Lynn Dadd, and this is Toxic Free Talk Radio, where we talk about how to thrive in a toxic world and live toxic free.
It's Thursday, September 17, 2015. And today, we're going to talk about something we haven't talked about before.
But before I introduce my guests, I just want to say that I've been researching all these subjects about what are the toxic chemicals in products for more than 30 years. And one of the things that I run into sometimes is that there are products where I just can't get the information, that it's not available in public sources.
Some products like food products are required to list their ingredients on the label. But there are a lot of products that aren't required to be labeled. Some of them, like cleaning products, for example, are extremely toxic, yet they're not required to be labeled by law. So you can't even look on the label and find out what the toxic chemicals are.
So today, we're going to be talking about a product where I'm so happy to have these guests on among other reasons. They're going to be telling us about some toxic chemicals in a product that many, many, probably millions of people use on a daily basis. And there's just not a place to find out what is toxic about them and we get to learn about that today.
So the product that we're talking about today is dentures. My guests probably know how many people use dentures. They are Merinne Mesku and Melissa Mesku. They're sisters and co-founders of Pure Cure Dental Technology. Hello!
MERINNE MESKU: Hi, nice to be with you.
MELISSA MESKU: Hi, there.
DEBRA: Thank you. And did I say your name right, Merinne?
MERINNE MESKU: I'm Merinne.
DEBRA: Marin County, California.
MERINNE MESKU: Exactly like that just spelled differently.
DEBRA: These two sisters are actually on two different phones in two different places. One is in New York and one in California. Is that right?
MERINNE MESKU: Yes.
DEBRA: Okay, good. So why don't you start by telling us your story about how you became interested in toxic chemicals in dentures.
MERINNE MESKU: Well, the story of our family company really starts with our dad, Mark Mesku. And it really starts back in the 1990s.
This is when we were kids.
My dad had been working for the California state's largest dental HMO for about seven years. He was in a really high production environment where he was making as many as 20 dentures a day just by himself.
And after about seven years working with these chemicals day in and day out, he started developing these strange symptoms we couldn't really explain, things like panic attacks, irritability, mood swings, things that were very uncharacteristic for him. We didn't really know what to chalk it up to until he started developing numbness and tingling in his hands. And that's when he started seeing the doctors.
Eventually, he was diagnosed with toxic demyelinating neuropathy, essentially nerve damage. He was blindsided by this. And so his doctors helped him figure out what was the cause of it. And it turns out, it was the chemicals that he was working with.
Now, he had never heard any warning signs like, "Watch out for these chemicals." And he had gone through the training program himself.
He was even an instructor teaching people how to make dentures. And he'd never come across this information. So he started to do the research himself.
Now, at the time, he wasn't able to work. That was really devastating for our family. It plunged us into poverty and we had a really hard time.
Fortunately, my mom was able to make ends meet. But it really had a huge impact on the whole family.
While he was out of work and trying to recover, he started doing an incredible amount of research. What he found was really shocking. The fact that there was a growing body of research devoted to these denture-making chemicals and that these pieces of research were showing that not only are the people who are making the dentures affected, but the people who are wearing the dentures as well, that really shocked him. Here he thought he was making a product that people were wearing that was improving their quality of life and it turns out, it might be harming them.
So he wanted to try to get the word out. And this is back in the '90s before social media, so it was hard to get the word out about these things.
DEBRA: I remember that.
MERINNE MESKU: I think we all do here.
And what really bothered him deep down was that he was used telling people, "Hey, watch out." There's a problem, but he didn't have a solution. So people were getting scared, but he didn't have a place he could tell them to turn to.
Flash forward about 10 years, he had built his own laboratory up here in Northern California. He started to spend a lot of side time working on ways to fix the problem.
Now, at this time, I was finishing up my Bachelor's Degree in Dental Hygiene and my sister had already been out of UC Berkeley and she had been involved in environmental policy. And we started to jump in with him and work on this problem together.
Now, he was able to develop a way to take toxins and allergens out of existing dentures without changing the way they fit and can make dentures that were safer for the people wearing them than what was on the market currently.
That was great. We were happy to help people. But that was just in our small community. We wanted to help more people. We were starting to get requests from all over the country like, "Hey, can you help me? I have these dentures. It's causing problems."
And there were a lot of laws especially in California that say, we, as a laboratory, can't directly help patients. We have to go to a middle man, the dentist. And so we couldn't have people just send us their dentures. We had to jump through a lot of hoops. And that adds up a lot of dollars and cents for people.
So we wanted to find a way to make this more available to people, so that for one, it's not breaking the bank. Two, they don't have to be away from their dentures for weeks at a time. And three, we can help more people faster.
So we all put our heads together and developed a way to do that so the people can take care of this problem at home.
DEBRA: Good! So you're providing something that people can do themselves at home instead of sending their dentures to you.
MERINNE MESKU: Exactly!
MELISSA MESKU: Yes.
DEBRA: I am so interested in hearing about this. Let me ask you a question first because I have my attention on this. How many people wear dentures?
MERINNE MESKU: About [inaudible 00:08:11].
MELISSA MESKU: I'm not sure how many here.
There's a lot of estimates but the most consistent one that's been given is that there are 35 million people in the United States alone who wear some type of denture. And that estimate goes as high as 45 and as high 55 million. So we're not entirely sure. But that's just in the US and dentures are quite common abroad all of over world too.
So it's a pretty decent segment of the population who may be exposed to chemicals that can be [inaudible 00:08:44] with dentures.
DEBRA: Well, let me just ask you about that sentence that you just said because I was about to say, "And they're all being poisoned by these toxic chemicals." I guess we could say there may be a question as to whether or not these chemicals are leeching out of these dentures. But virtually, all dentures have these chemicals in them, right? There isn't a non-toxic denture you can buy. Is there? Can I ask a dentist for a non-toxic denture?
MELISSA MESKU: True. The phrase 'non-toxic' (and I'm sure you've come up against this in your show a number of times), the phrase 'non-toxic' is bandied about quite regularly. It's a great marketing term.
DEBRA: Again, it's not always. Things labeled non-toxic are not always non-toxic.
MELISSA MESKU: Yes, exactly, because something might not going to give you cancer if you use it, but it doesn't mean that it doesn't have toxic chemicals in it that can somehow get into your system depending on what the product is.
And so the thing with dentures is dentures are essentially a form of plastic. So we know that plastics have the ability to leech.
For example, BPA is a really common thing that leeches out of water bottles, children's toys, et cetera. And a couple of years ago, there was a big hubbub about it in the media. And now, products are being made that don't contain BPA, but they contain some other ingredient that serves the same purpose in the product. But it hasn't yet reached the point where people have figured out that it is also a toxin or an allergen.
DEBRA: I want to hear all about this, but…
MELISSA MESKU: And so, a product can come out and say that it's – oh, go ahead.
DEBRA: We need to go to break in about two seconds. So let's go to break and then come back. We'll have plenty of time. I want to hear all about the toxic chemicals that are in dentures.
You're listening to Toxic Free Talk Radio. I'm Debra Lynn Dadd. My guests today are Merinne and Melissa Mesku. I'm looking at the wrong line here. They are from Pure Cure Dental Technology. They co-founded this company to help people get the toxic chemicals out of their dentures. We'll be right back to hear about what the toxic chemicals are that are in dentures that you want to remove. We'll be right back.
DEBRA: You're listening to Toxic Free Talk Radio. I'm Debra Lynn Dadd. My guests today are Merinne and Melissa Mesku, co-founders of Pure Cure Dental Technology. You can go to their website at DentureDetox.com.
Okay, tell us about those toxic chemicals in dentures.
MELISSA MESKU: Sure. Earlier, we were talking about how my sister and I founded this company because my father, who was a denture technician, developed demyelinating toxic neuropathy because he was exposed to the chemicals in making dentures.
So that caused us to do a lot of research. And it turns out, there is quite a bit of information out there scientifically, it's just not the in the hands of the general public. And to the best of our knowledge, it's not really being acted upon.
So what we found, in a nutshell, is that dentures have the ability to leech toxic and allergenic substances. There are residual chemicals that can seep out of the denture. And if these substances are coming out of the denture, where are they going? You wear your denture in your mouth. So these are substances that have the ability to reach into your system through the dentures that you're wearing.
Well, in all of this, it's important to remember that what we're talking about is your typical, hard, resin-based denture. So if you're not very familiar with dentures, when you think of a denture, the little pink piece of plastic with some teeth in it, that's what we're talking about.
DEBRA: Are there more than one type of denture?
MELISSA MESKU: Sure, there are other kinds. No, there are flexible partials. There are other types of dentures. But those are less common and they're made from different materials.
So we focus on the most common type of denture, which is just your garden variety pink, half or full denture that's made of the most common materials used to make dentures, which is called methyl methacrylate or MMA.
So methyl methacrylate is also the primary substance that's shown to leech from dentures. It's the pink base of the denture. It's essentially the gums of the denture.
Now, numerous studies agree that methyl methacrylate is the most significant allergen for denture-wearing patients. In this context of dentures, methyl methacrylate is also referred to as residual monomer because it's an un-polymerized substance that is residual in the denture. It doesn't get converted into the hard plastic. It's what's left over that doesn't get converted.
DEBRA: It doesn't bond with everything else.
I was going to say when you're making a plastic, they bring together these different chemicals and they bond together with little molecules that get all bonded together. And so then, this residual is the stuff that didn't get bonded, but it's still there.
MELISSA MESKU: Exactly! And there are different types of denture materials. There are different types of denture acrylic.
The process to make a denture, you have to start off soft so that it can be sculpted to shape to fit the mouth. And then it has to become hard so that you can actually do it. And the process of going from a soft to hard, that's called polymerization.
Ideally, for your health, you would want to make sure that the denture had been polymerized surely as early as possible. Unfortunately, that's not something that a patient can know just by looking at the denture. And often times, dentists have no way of knowing either. You'd have to submit your denture for chemical analysis to even find out. So that's a huge problem.
There's a big question that a lot of people have. "Was my denture made properly? Is it surely polymerized?" These are not questions that people generally think of, but as we'll see, it's definitely something that every denture-wearer should be concerned about.
So the main substance that leeches out of dentures is methyl methacrylate. It's considered cytotoxic, meaning toxic to cells. So in this case, cells in the mouth, cells that the denture is in contact with. And it can cause irritation, sensitization and a number of other things. And there are a lot of other chemicals that have been found to leech from dentures as well.
By the way, all of this information can be found in our free report on denture toxicity, which is on our website at DentureDetox.com. We're really excited to share this information with the public because everybody should know. This should be common knowledge.
DEBRA: This should be common knowledge. Right before the show, I just downloaded it, so I'll have my own copy. I would recommend everybody else do that too.
MELISSA MESKU: So we can look at what some of the chemicals are that are –
DEBRA: Tell us some of the chemicals, yeah.
MELISSA MESKU: – known to leech from dentures, sure.
Some of the substances that have been shown to leech from the conventional acrylic resin dentures include formaldehyde and hydrophenol, methacrylic acid, benzilic acid and phthlates. Phthlates are really a big deal and you start to hear more about phthlates right now. And what we're finding out is that pthalates are not just in the dentures, but they're actually able to come out of the dentures too.
That's really serious.
Now, we do want to say that, yes, these things are coming out in small amounts, but some of the substances, even at very small, small concentrations, are known to cause problems. They're known to be toxic to cells even at small concentrations.
DEBRA: And another thing about that too is that we're not just being exposed to this small list of chemicals that you've just read or other ones you might tell us about. We're being exposed to all kinds of chemicals all day long and from all kinds of different things.
And so these small amounts of chemicals are combining with other chemicals that we're being exposed to. And there's a lot of literature about how chemicals combine with other chemicals can get even more toxic. You're putting all these substances in your body like making soup. They all mix together. And then you end up with something else at the end. These chemicals are reacting with each other.
Chemists know that if you put chemical A and chemical B together, they might react. We're being exposed to all those chemicals. We're being exposed to all those chemicals that the chemists are being exposed to in a chemistry lab without all the lab coats and the ventilation and all those things. It's all outgassing in our mouths if we're wearing dentures and breathing regular, ordinary consumer products.
Let's talk more about this. We need to go to break again, but we'll be right back and we'll learn more about dentures and the toxic chemicals and what you can do about it. My guests are Merinne Mesku and Melissa Mesku. Their business is Pure Cure Dental Technology at DentureDetox.com.
I'm Debra Lynn Dadd and you're listening to Toxic Free Talk Radio. We'll be right back.
DEBRA: You're listening to Toxic Free Talk Radio. I'm Debra Lynn Dadd, and my guests today are Merinne Mesku and Melissa Mesku, co-founders of Pure Cure Dental Technology. And their website is DentureDetox.com.
Just during the break, I was looking through your report. Let me just say that if any of you listening are finding this very interesting and think that it applies to you, just go the website, DentureDetox.com, and download the free report because there is so much detail and information in this report about the toxic chemicals that it's something that you really need to know.
Great job. Great job, ladies.
MERINNE MESKU: Thank you.
MELISSA MESKU: Thank you. That's a lot of work.
DEBRA: It was a lot of work. I can totally tell that having spent all these years doing this kind of research myself. I know. I can tell that you did a really great job.
MELISSA MESKU: Thank you. We appreciate it. It's the product of over a decade of research, heartaches and a lot of figuring out how to convey these things to the non-scientific public.
So we tried to make it friendly and easy to read, but also pretty hard-hitting because it's the product of a lot of research and a lot of scientific studies.
Some of what you'd find in the free report is a list of the substances that we found to leech from typical dentures. And this is – again, I'll just say. It's so hard to find this information. There are essentially no sources that just give you a nice, clean list of what could be in your denture.
So we have done a lot of cross-checking and we cite all of the things that we found so that people continue to do their own research if they're interested.
As for the chemicals that have been shown to be able to leech from typical dentures, we've talked about methyl methacrylate. Merinne mentioned formaldehyde.
Also something just to color the denture to make it pink, we found that sometimes just may contain forms of cadmium, like cadmium sulfide or cadmium selenide. That's generally not done anymore. However, an old denture could have that.
Our denture is made in – not in the United States, which could even be a denture that you buy in the United States but it could have been made elsewhere.
There's no testing done on dentures, so there's no way to know what's inside, but there have been dentures found to have cadmium, dentures found to have copper.
Also, as Merinne has mentioned, phthlates. Common phthlates are bisphenol A, DDT, pesticides. Now, those things aren't in dentures, but certain phthlates are found in dentures.
Interestingly, one of them, which is dibutyl phthalate, the National Toxicology Program concluded that phthalate, specifically, may adversely affect human reproduction or development. That substance is actually banned from children's toys that are imported to the United States.
DEBRA: But they're still allowed in dentures.
MELISSA MESKU: Yes. The ban is specifically for children's toys that might be put in the mouth. And so, these dentures that go in the mouth –
DEBRA: And so it's okay for adults and elderly people to put them in their mouth, but not children. This is something –
MELISSA MESKU: Well, not necessarily that it's okay. It's just something that there hasn't been a lot of backlash about because people don't know about it.
DEBRA: Well, I think that there are a lot more people who are concerned about children being exposed to toxics than are concerned about adults being exposed to toxics. Not that there aren't, but this is a very specific thing, dentures. It's for a very specific population. It's a very specific product.
There are groups. There are whole organizations about getting children to not have so many toxic exposures, but there's not a lot of organizations about denture wearers not being exposed.
One of the things that I found in looking across the board, at products, and even labeling is not consistent from product type to product type. And so you can have something like formaldehyde that requires warning label on a piece of particle boarding. Then you cut that piece of particle board and make a table, and the warning label is no longer required.
And this is how erratic our labeling system is in the world today. And so you can have something that's banned in children's products and that very same chemical be in another product like dentures.
MERINNE MESKU: Right. [cross-talking 00:31:41] in dentistry, specifically in dentistry.
Now, in California, we have Proposition 65, which states that in every dental office, you have to have a warning sign that says we use products know to the State of California to cause cancer or other reproductive harm.
Now, that's the case in other states. You don't have to tell people that. But all they're saying – in the dental office, tell people before they get a filling, "This contains chemicals that are known to the State of California to cause cancer or reproductive harm."
And we don't tell people that when they get dentures either.
Now, most of the time, dentists aren't even aware of this.
I've mentioned that my dad, going through his training program, wasn't made aware. If the people who are making the dentures aren't even being told that these chemicals cause problems, then dentists certainly aren't being told that. And I know that from experience having gone through dental hygiene school.
We were in a clinic. There were tons and tons of dental students at the same school. I worked in tandem with them. They didn't get any information on this. I didn't get any information on this. Nobody in the dental field is really even being taught about this.
So we can't expect to be going to our dentist and saying, "Tell me about this problem" because they don't even know it exists.
DEBRA: There's a special field called biologic dentistry. I think that probably some of those dentists. Well, they certainly know a lot about mercury in fillings. I don't know how much they know about dentures.
MERINNE MESKU: [cross-talking 00:33:14]
MELISSA MESKU: Mercury and fillings seem to be the most popular topic that I've noticed that people may be generally aware of that relates to dentures.
That relates to oral care. It is important but there's also this other thing.
DEBRA: Yes, which I'm so glad that you discovered.
MELISSA MESKU: Definitely. And as you were saying, Debra, with the labeling, how that would correlate to dentures, we have to remember that when you buy a product, it's in a package. It's mass-produced.
When you buy a denture, it's something that's handcrafted. It's made by an individual who's custom-making it to fit your mouth. It is a unique product that has everything to do with the particular materials and expertise that the craftsman is using on your particular denture.
So the quality can vary widely. You're getting a custom made item from materials that you may not know anything about, and the dentists may not know anything about. The unfortunate fact is that there is no way for a patient or a dentist, in many cases, to ascertain the quality and safety of a particular denture.
DEBRA: We need to go to break, but I want to ask you when we come back – I'll ask you the question now and then you can answer it when we come back.
So if these are custom-made, then can somebody who needs a denture – I don't have dentures, but if I needed one, could I be in communication with that person who's making it to find out what is in my denture? And you can answer that when we come back.
You're listening to Toxic Free Talk Radio. I'm Debra Lynn Dadd, and my guests today are Merinne Mesku and Melissa Mesku, sisters and co-founders of Pure Cure Dental Technology. Go to their website, DentureDetox.com, and download the free report that has a lot more information than what we're going to have time to cover today.
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DEBRA: You're listening to Toxic Free Talk Radio. I'm Debra Lynn Dadd, and my guests today are Merinne and Melissa Mesku.
I'll get both of your names pronounced –
MERINNE MESKU: No worries.
DEBRA: Merinne and Melissa Mesku. I can say it.
I don't know how old you are. I think you're probably much younger than I. But there used to be this show on TV called the Mary Tyler Moore Show. There were a lot of reruns (but it's not being rerun right now). And it had a news broadcaster on. He was always mispronouncing everything. And some days, I feel that way.
Merinne Mesku and Melissa Mesku from Pure Cure Dental Technology, DentureDetox.com. There!
MERINNE MESKU: Woo-hoo!
DEBRA: So tell us about your product now.
MERINNE MESKU: Sure. When people get dentures, they're concerned about how they look, and how they fit. But when you consider that dentures have the ability to leech residual chemicals, you need to add in a third metrics so the denture needs to look natural and fit right, but it needs to be biocompatible so it's safe to wear.
So the two things that we found that could be done about it is to remove residual chemicals from the denture, and also to prevent the denture from continuing to leech. And that's what our product is for.
So originally, we developed a way to detoxify dentures as a laboratory service. We started that in 2010. We had a network of participating dentists and a lot of happy patients. But we also had a lot of people who were interested in getting the product, who needed the service performed on their denture, but they couldn't afford trips to the dentist that it takes to get the service.
Or they lived in an area where there wasn't a participating dentist near them.
So we decided to – we researched and we figured out another way of performing denture detoxification that didn't require the lab but was rather something that people can do at home, and something they can do affordably. So it was within reach of any denture wearer if they'd like to use it.
DEBRA: I think that's so great.
MERINNE MESKU: When we first came out with this, and we have the lab service, it was wonderful that all these people just found us because they were researching their own denture problems. And then our site pops up, and there's nobody else talking about these issues.
They found that what we're saying is resonating with them, describing problems that they were having. And so they're like, "Okay. I want this done to my denture."
We're like, "Sorry. We can't help you. You're in a region that's too far away." Or, "You're around the world or whatever, and we can't get this service to you."
So we were really keen to come up with something that people could use at home.
DEBRA: So how would somebody know if they were having a problem? What will the problem look like that would then motivate them to be looking for you?
MERINNE MESKU: There are all sorts of – you name it really. A lot of people suffer from what they think might be allergic reactions to their denture. There's burning mouth syndrome, just sensation of your mouth burning. There's a lot of reasons that could happen, but one of them is that it could be your mouth reacting to the substances that are leeching from your denture.
There's denture-related stomatitis.
You could be suffering from inflammation. You could be suffering from irritation. Cheilitis, which is acute inflammation of the lips.
There are all sorts of problems, and a lot of times, people could just get a new denture and then be uncomfortable, or have irritation, or feel like something is wrong.
And a lot of people have described a weird taste in their mouth.
We've heard everything. But the research we've stuck with – instead of just anecdotal evidence, but we've stuck with what scientific studies have shown that a lot of these problems go away when the exposure to the substance stops.
If we can create something that stops those substances from getting in your mouth, then we are actually able to handle this issue instead of having dentures be something that harms people. It can actually improve their quality of life, which is what they're supposed to be.
DEBRA: In addition to those kinds of symptoms being caused, those chemicals that you've listed can easily go through the skin, in your mouth, in the mucus membrane, and then get into your bloodstream pretty quickly.
And so it could be causing all kinds of illnesses that are associated with the [inaudible 00:43:36] chemicals.
So we only have a few minutes left, about six minutes left. So I want to make sure that you have time to describe to us your product. If the box were to arrive at my house, what would I find, and what would I do?
MERINNE MESKU: Sure. So it's called Pure Care Denture Detox, available at DentureDetox.com. Right now, that's the only place that you can get it.
You order it and we ship a little box to you. What you get in the mail is seven packets. Each packet contains our patent-pending purifiers. It's all natural.
Every night you take some warm water, and you put the packet in, and that's the solution that you soak your denture in overnight.
It does two things. It helps remove the residual substances that exist in the resin denture base. And it renders the denture less able to leech.
DEBRA: How does it do that?
MERINNE MESKU: It's called a post-polymerization process, something that's recommended in a lot of studies, but we have seen no evidence of anybody actually practicing this.
Again, the denture is essentially a plastic product, and the process is when it is polymerized from a soft material to a hard material, the material gets reacted so that they don't react with your body. They're finished reacting.
What's residual that doesn't – and every denture has some degree or residual chemicals. Every denture has them. You don't know how many. You don't know exactly what chemicals, but every denture has residual chemicals.
So at post-polymerization process is another process to help remove toxins and allergens from the denture. And hopefully, to make it less able to continue to leech at all, to finish the polymerization process much early.
DEBRA: I'm starting to understand this because in other types of plastic – I know things that leech like other plastics that would leech into the air, outgas is the term for that or leech is the word they use for a plastic leeching from a water bottle into the water. We're talking about the same thing.
MERINNE MESKU: It's the same idea.
DEBRA: It's almost the same idea. So if you had something like a house full of particle board and you wanted to remove all the formaldehyde from it so that it didn't out gas, then what you would do is you would apply heat. And what that would do is finish the curing process and all those chemicals would come out, and then you would have it there, and it wouldn't be leeching anymore.
So I can understand it.
MERINNE MESKU: The best thing that can be done. It doesn't make it non-toxic necessarily but it makes it far less toxic.
DEBRA: Far less, yes.
MERINNE MESKU: The ideal is the materials in the world couldn't contain these things but in a world of plastics, that's what we've got.
So we do the best we can.
DEBRA: There are so many questions I want to ask you. You couldn't possibly answer them all in the next three minutes. But the things that I'm thinking are, well – I hope I never need to wear dentures. But if I did, I wouldn't want to put those plastics in my mouth. I would say what other materials could we use? What did people use before plastics were invented? All these different questions.
And I would assume that probably the ultimate solution for those of us who don't yet have dentures would be to do everything that we can to preserve our teeth so that we don't have to put this plastic in our mouth.
But for people who are past that point and have dentures, and need the convenience and comfort of having dentures, being able to look better cosmetically and chew your food and all those things, that if you're going to use a denture that this is an excellent thing to do.
I would say that – I don't even know how much it costs, but whatever it costs, it costs less than the health effects that you could have from being exposed to those chemicals.
MERINNE MESKU: Definitely. And even without using our product, our free report has lots of tips of what people can do, people who wear dentures, what they can do to help safeguard their health.
DEBRA: This is great. I'm so glad I found you. Actually, I didn't find out. One of my readers found you. And when I went through your site, I thought, "This is missing data."
This is data that is needed about toxics that hasn't been available before. You've have it when it hasn't been as widely available as it probably needs to be.
So I'm so happy that you are on the show today, and then I can help you spread the word.
MERINNE MESKU: I'm very honored to be on the show. Thank you, Debra.
MELISSA MESKU: Thank you very much.
DEBRA: Thank you. So we only have about a minute left. Any final words?
MERINNE MESKU:We're just happy we could bring this to the public. This is a lifelong endeavor. It's something that affected our whole family at our core. And it's just such an honor to be able to spread what we've learned and to actually have a solution that can help make people's lives better.
And at least it brings peace of mind even if they're not having any problems with their denture that they're aware of. Just to bring the peace of mind that they've done everything they can to improve their chances, to improve their health, and just to be a part of that is just amazing.
DEBRA: I understand. I feel that way about my work as well. It's so great.
Well again, thank you so much. And again, we've been talking with Merinne Mesku and Melissa Mesku. Pure Cure Dental Technology, and go to DentureDetox.com. Get their free report. Get their kit if that's something that you think would be helpful to you.
You can also go to ToxicFreeTalkRadio.com and listen to this show again if you want to. You can tell your friends to listen to this show if they wear dentures. All the shows are recorded and by the following Tuesday of most shows, there's also a transcript.
You can also go and listen to any of the past shows in the archives.
So tell your friends. And you can also leave comments on the shows because each one has its own little blogpost.
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On his birthday, Grateful Dead co-founder Bob Weir along with the so-called Wolf Brothers set the foundation for what's in store on their inaugural cross-country tour. And while the songs performed in Reno, Nevada's, Grand Sierra Resort's Grand Theatre on Oct. 16 were quite familiar to those with an affinity to Grateful Dead music, the new touring outfit brought together a refreshing new trio that includes longtime collaborator Jay Lane on drums, and acclaimed record executive Don Was on stand-up bass.
Weir deserves big-time kudos for continuing to work hard, improving still on his guitar astuteness, and reinterpreting songs in the Grateful Dead songbook in interesting and high-quality ways – rather than just chucking up the same old stuff done in the same old manner. Well-rehearsed and cohesive throughout the night, the band ran through two sets of mostly mid-tempo offerings along with a few ballads and a few others that broke through to fast-paced psychedelic rockers. Another admirable facet to the new band is that the trio's second show of the tour, in Los Angeles, offered a completely different setlist, with nary one repeated song.
There were a few little opening-night imperfections along the way, like Weir stopping and restarting "China Cat" after about 30 seconds upon realizing he wasn't playing the right guitar for the job. In all though, the trio was great, and Weir was the consummate player in terms of effort and wide-ranging output of voice, guitars, and spirit. Weir played all four guitars he had laid out for himself, coaxing fine tones out of one acoustic and three electric guitars. He sometimes even changed from acoustic to electric during the same song. The sound quality was great, though a little less prominent in the upper rows of the 3,000-capacity venue. The theater was about three-quarters full, but Reno is not known as a Deadhead hot spot, and it was a Tuesday night. The audience reacted most robustly to big Grateful Dead Weir-sung staples as "Me & My Uncle," "Me and Bobby McGee," and "Music Never Stopped."
All business onstage, Weir did not react to the dozen or so fans up front and center who wore tall birthday hats at the start of the show, nor did he react to several lusty cries of "Happy birthday," from all over the room. At the conclusion of the first set though, Weir did smile while taking in the commemoration of his birthday, as his wife, Natasha, brought out a cake that brought a wry smile from the now-71-year-old musical icon as the crowd sang, "Happy birthday, dear Bobby."
Fronting a trio in which the other two members' duties are all on the rhythm and bottom end is a big job, and Weir excelled in his role, providing all lead guitar and rhythm guitar work as well as all the vocals. Lane did offer a few backup vocal bits, including "I just jumped the watchman…" and the "Gotta get to Tulsa…" passages on show-opener "Jack Straw."
Don Was' presence in this trio is a big deal. Perhaps many Deadheads aren't aware, but the man is a pillar of accomplishment in the world of record production over the past 30 years, on projects by such artists as Bonnie Raitt, Bob Dylan, Rob Wasserman, The Rolling Stones, Willie Nelson, Ringo Starr, B.B, King, Roy Orbison, John Mayer, Elton John, etc. He has been nominated for 11 Grammy Awards, winning four, including Producer of the Year in 1994. All this comes on top of his activities as co-founder of the Detroit-based Was (Not Was) rock/fund band that scored hits with "Walk the Dinosaur" and "Spy in the House of Love," both Billboard Top 20 pop singles in the late 1980s. Weir and the Wolf Brothers' show included no such revival of those songs. But Was excelled in delivering intricate, dynamic, but never overpowering funky, jazzy accompaniments on the stand-up bass. There was a voice mic set up for him though he did not use it on this night.
Lane was in-step on drums all night, alternating between delivering soft and bold work, depending on the mood of the song. His and Weir's synchronicity was not a surprise, as the two have played together for more than 20 years, most notably with Furthur & RatDog.
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Set I Jack Straw, Cassidy, Me and My Uncle, Only a River, She Belongs To Me, Ashes and Glass -> Don't Let Go -> Ashes and Glass.
Set II Peggy-O, Me and Bobby McGee, Bird Song >Corrina, The Music Never Stopped > Shakey Ground (The Temptations song) > The Music Never Stopped, A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall, China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider. E – Touch Of Grey


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Tool star Danny Carey has signed up to replace ailing Primus drummer Tim Alexander as he recovers from open heart surgery.
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Primus frontman Les Claypool tells RollingStone.com, "The mighty Tim 'Herb' Alexander is a polyrhythmic Viking of extreme and unique talent so the one person that we thought could step into his shoes and do it justice is the one and only Mr. Danny Carey. Whereas Herb is the stocky, Easter Island-faced, boulder of a drumming human, at nearer to seven feet, Danny Carey is the mighty redwood tree of percussion; towering over his kit like a golden-haired noble sequoia (tree).
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Modern graphics hardware is often capable of much higher quality rendering than what it commonly runs at, as gaming usually involves a compromise between image fidelity and rendering cost. Various tricks such as "anti-aliasing" can help hide jagged, step-like boundaries at the edges of polygons, but at the expense of lowering the framerate on less expensive hardware. However, taking screenshots is not about performance. Instead of rendering images perhaps thirty or forty times a second, our aim is to render a single image which is to be displayed for perhaps minutes at a time - so the aim is to jack your graphics card's settings up as far as they'll go.
NVIDIA graphics cards command around half of the market, up against arch-rival ATI. On an NVIDIA GeForce 6600, for example, there are graphics settings which are not directly accessible through Half-Life 2's in-game configuration screens - there is an additional "8xS" anti-aliasing setting which is definitely worth pursuing for taking screenshots, due to the significantly improved image quality when rendering masked textures such as foliage, fences and gratings. Examples of some of the anti-aliasing levels available are shown below:
First of all, start up Half-Life 2 with the mod of your choice and set everything except anti-aliasing to as high as it will possibly go; Model detail, Texture detail and Filtering mode will make the most visible differences. An example screenshot is shown below:
Next, quit the game, right-click on the desktop and bring up your Display Properties settings window, then click on the Settings tab. Now click on the Advanced button near the bottom, then on the GeForce tab. We now want to select the highest anti-aliasing mode available, so click on Performance & Quality Settings to the left, uncheck Application-controlled then drag the slider as far right as it will possibly go. In the author's case, this is to "8xS". Another example screenshot is shown below:
Click on various OK buttons, and restart the game. In the author's case, bringing up the console and typing
"mat_antialias 8" appears to be necessary to enable the "8xS" anti-aliasing. Once this is done, there should be precipitous drop in framerates, so type in
"sv_cheats 1" and load your map - the game is now ready for screenshots!
ATI's Adaptive Anti-Aliasing performs a similar function to NVIDIA's "8XS", smoothing transparent edges of textures. It can be enabled through the Catalyst Control Center in the usual manner. All ATI cards above the X800 Pro range support AAA; however, X800 Pro cards have the feature locked by default. Following this guide will help you enable the option. Note that the level of Adaptive AA is taken from the level of regular AA.
With the Catalyst 6.2 drivers, "High-Quality AF" is also an option, again accessible from the Control Center. This will improve texture filtering, making textures at long distances and high angles appear sharper.
Targa (TGA) screenshots
The standard screenshot function in Source compresses the output to lossy JPEG images, which while great for quickly uploading to the web do result in a loss of quality for any subsequent editing.
To save screenshots in an uncompressed Truevision TGA format which can easily be opened by most, decent image-editing software, it is recommended that you type something like following into the console:
"bind f4 screenshot", which will save a TGA screenshot every time you press the F4 key.
Removing the crosshair and HUD
Sometimes when taking screenshots, the aim is to give a visual, near-photographic impression of the map without the presence of any game interface elements. In single-player Half-Life 2 (and most other games and mods), the primary elements are the HUD (head-up display), the crosshair and the weapon model. Fortunately, there are console commands to remove all of these -
"cl_drawhud 0",
"crosshair 0",
"r_drawviewmodel 0" and
"impulse 200".
Environmental shots
For this, enable the
"notarget", and
"noclip" commands at the console - the player character will then effectively become an invisible, free-floating camera. Try to find interesting angles which give a flavor of some of the more interesting sections of your map. Treat it as if you are using a real camera and you are visiting a real place, with the aim of taking aesthetically pleasing photographs rather than merely documenting what is there - with the advantage of effectively infinite film, no need to focus or choose exposure settings and the ability to float the camera absolutely anywhere in the world in order to get the best shot.
Countless millions of pages have been written on real-world photographic techniques, so it is impossible to condense it all into a paragraph here - perhaps the best approach is to experiment, and most importantly, to expect to throw many of your shots away in the pursuit of getting that one, "perfect" image.
Action shots
For screenshots which illustrate gameplay and other dynamic aspects of a map, it can be advantageous to record a "demo" of normal gameplay (essentially a film of everything which happens) and then to take screenshots during its playback - it is much easier to capture fleeting details such as gun muzzle-flashes, explosions and other events this way.
More information is available on the Demo Recording Tools page, which documents Source's highly versatile demo playback facilities.
Another technique is to actually slow down game time by typing
"host_timescale x" into the console, x being the desired time scale (i.e. 0.5 scales time speed by half). With this technique, it is possible to orchestrate brilliant battle scenes.
Going beyond the monitor's resolution
Using this method, you can ignore your monitors resolution and instead hit the limits of your graphics card's maximum resolution, which is 4096x4096 in most cases.
Using the Nvidia Control Panel to create custom resolutions, you can force these a new desktop resolution and then start the Source Engine in window mode with the resolution settings in the command line. If there is a similar method for ATI/AMD graphics cards is yet to be discovered.
Open up the NVIDIA Control Panel and navigate to Display -> Change Resolution -> Customise... -> Create Custom Resolution
Here, you can set your resolution of choice, but keep in mind that not every resolution will work (such as 1920x1). Also, lowering the refresh rate will enable you to achieve even higher resolutions. With a recent graphics model, for example, 4096x4096 is possible at 30Hz.
Only few resolutions will be supported, so it will fail with the error message "Custom resolution xxxx x yyyy at 60Hz (32-bit) is not supported by your display." Nevertheless, the custom resolution will remain until you click OK. At this point, you will most likely end up with black screen, unable to see your desktop. Using remote control tools such as TeamViewer or similar VNC tools, you can stream the video to another display or computer.
Once you can see your high resolution desktop again, boot up your Source game with the new resolution in the command line: hl2.exe -width xxxx -height -yyyy -windowed
After starting the game, it is often possible to revert to your old resolution with the game still running at a higher resolution.
Uploading an otherwise unmodified JPEG version of a screenshot will result in a dark, impenetrable mess. There are, however, some simple tasks you can perform in post-processing which will make the screenshot appear more as it did in-game.
The images a typical computer game saves in a screenshot and what it actually displays on screen are usually subtly different, thanks to something called gamma. A way of describing a display's brightness response for a given input value, a game's output gamma is generally different from a typical computer desktop's gamma. A game such as Half-Life 2 will typically brighten low- to midrange-values much more than a normal computer graphics application - in Source, this is controlled using the in-game Brightness dialog box.
To make your screenshots look as they did while you were playing the game, it is thus best to use an external graphics editing program such as Photoshop or, in the case of this article, examples from the free, open source GIMP will be used.
As can be seen above, the original screenshot is far too dark. So, bring up the Levels dialog box (Layer: Colors: Levels...) and increase the applied gamma from 1.00 - around 1.30 seems to be a good number for typical screenshots:
For particularly dark images, it can be useful to apply "overbrightening" by decreasing the input level's maximum from the standard 255 to something lower - a gamma of 1.3 combined with a maximum input level of 200 can work wonders on screenshots portraying night-time or underground scenes.
Your image should now look something like the following:
If you wish to reduce your screenshot's size, it can be useful to then apply a relatively small amount of sharpening. First, scale it down to the appropriate size (Image: Scale Image...) then bring up the Sharpen dialog (Filters: Enhance: Sharpen...). A value of 10-30 is usually about right - if set too high, black and white fringes may start to appear around edges and other details.
Finally, your screenshot should look something like this 400x300 image:
Saving as JPEG
To save your masterpiece, go to File: Save as..., select the destination and type in the final filename (to save as JPEG, simply end the filename with a ".JPG") and press OK. To see what the lossy JPEG compression will do to your image, click on Show Preview in image window - increase the quality if necessary to remove compression artifacts. Advanced options include 'progressive' (image blurs in when loading, and file is often slightly smaller too) and different subsampling methods (for more accurate colors at the expense of file size).
When combined, the above techniques can be used to greatly improve the images with which you show off your latest work. While they won't cover the cracks in a poor-quality original, they can definitely help differentiate your efforts from the crowd. So have fun, and happy screenshotting!


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so the fuck what?
this is all the discussion y'all are getting out of me. thanks to this piece from the crunk feminist collective, i don't have to go too deep. i'm including links from a twitter rant i went on regarding this very subject, for good measure.
first, i wanted to know if anyone had introduced to this larger conversation the idea that monogamy is not the default setting for our lives, but a choice. as in, we choose to be monogamous, or we don't. & if you don't realize that you choose monogamy, this is where you should find another blog post of mine to read (like the one about tina knowles). we do not have to couple. some of us are polyamorous, some of us never partner — even when we decide that we wish to parent.
nobody that i know of, with the exception of the ladies at crunk feminist collective, has mentioned that queer (by queer i mean lesbians, bisexual, pan/ omnisexual, trans, intersex) self-identified black women aren't considered in this conversation. again: we are not a monolith. you can't have this conversation without considering the fact that the women being discussed are hetero, cisgender (not trans women — trans ppl are invisible in virtually every conversation about marriage, and just about everything else), & at the very least hold bachelor's degrees. because ppl who don't finish college don't matter in this conversation, no matter what they're doing w/ themselves, unless it's to count them as undesirables. further, who's to say that marriage is everyone's goal or ideal? it could be argued that "we aren't talking about those people," but if that's the case then it must be stated so from the onset of each conversation regarding unmarried black women of certain income levels and sexual orientations. period. know your audience.
if the root of the "problem" of unmarried black hetero cis women is that there aren't enough desirable black men to go around & we're looking at that strictly in terms of education, then who's to blame? parents? schools? both? neither? high school dropout rates are nothing to sneeze at. the prison industrial complex, fueled by some rather draconian laws, also removes men who might otherwise be "good catches" from the dating pool. does this mean that some of those "lost ones" were never marriageable to begin with, as their parents/ support systems failed them long before they got outta high school? okay. i'll take that. but that isn't the case w/ everyone. i feel like too much of this conversation is based on simplistic ideas of what a "good black man" is, and what a "good black woman" needs. also: folks get married later in general, because they're doing more than their parents' generations did w/ their lives. the need for a college education has increased — even to get administrative assistant gigs. so if we have to take more time between high school and college to fill up these lives of ours (with greater expectancies, even for black men & women), maybe it's not even as deep as the media panic suggests. ::gasp:: maybe we're doing so much that holding ourselves to standards based on folks who lived life differently (slower, w/ less autonomy as children/ young adults, w/ different or less education) is a waste of fucking time! i'm just sayin.
& really, if marrying someone is about loving them until your last breath exits your body, can we consider one thing: the purported crisis of unmarried black women suggests that there is not enough love for us. that we are not lovable. that there is scarcity in the black community, so we must either take what we can get from black men or marry white men if we want to be married at all. this is wrong. love is infinite. there is no reason to think, for one minute, that any one of us is not lovable. that we are not desirable — to anyone, whether they be white, asian, latino, man, woman, gender non-conforming, cisgender, transgender, disabled, blue collar, white collar, no collar, or anything fucking else. if we marry because we want to spend the rest of our lives surrounded by the love, care, and support of another person then why on earth would we let fear run us off our paths? no, i'm not saying that there aren't rough patches. heaven knows that i've lived through my shit and may continue to go through things before i find a good lover (i don't necessarily seek to marry). but under no circumstances is being single a detriment. it's never wrong. it's not a bad thing. we're not born partnered. we choose to partner — some of us because of conditioning, some of us because we find that wonderful person to be with. & it's all good. it's about intent, y'all. if your intent for seeking a mate is because that shit is on your checklist of successful shit to do w/ your life, you might be setting yourself up for what we call the okey-doke. ultimately, the lens through which our romantic situations are being examined is flawed, to say the least. & to say the most: it's fucked up, limited, & doesn't actually apply to as many folks as these "experts" (like finesse "my best jokes are about my teen mother" mitchell, jimi izrael & steve harvey) would have you believe.
this rant's over. i'm dropping the mic like randy watson. but if you wanna read more juicy commentary:
visit the sugar shack
read this op-ed via the philadelphia inquirer
& another dope post from the crunk feminist collective
this piece from the nation, featuring the words of the fabulous melissa harris-lacewell & courtney young is made of pure unadulterated win.
i'm off to go be single and cook for myself, feed myself, bathe myself, & sing my face off at karaoke. cuz that's what manless almost-30-year-olds do, apparently.


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