More on nuclear plant

http://digg.com/news/politics/us_orders_news_blackout_over_crippled_nebraska_nuclear_plant_report

more proof of nuclear plant. Always need proof.

Petroleum products in so much!!

http://www.sixwise.com/newsletters/05/03/08/petroleum-distillate-in-your-lip-gloss-and-furniture-polish-shown-to-cause-tissue-disease.htm 

Petroleum Distillate in Your Lip Gloss and Furniture Polish Shown to Cause Tissue Disease!
by SixWise.com

Perhaps you have never heard of petroleum distillates before, or given them much thought if you have, but it is almost certain you've used products that contain them - perhaps daily. These compounds, which are also called hydrocarbons or petrochemicals, are extracted by distillation during the refining of crude oil, and they're used as heating agents, propellants (gasoline) and solvents.
A study in the American Journal of Epidemiology found that being exposed to petroleum distillates increases the risk of developing undifferentiated connective tissue disease (UCTD), a chronic inflammatory autoimmune disease that involves a disorder of the body's connective tissues.
UCTD could include symptoms from, or evolve into any combination of, connective tissue diseases like lupus, scleroderma, polymyositis, vasculitis, rheumatoid arthritis, Sjogren's syndrome or fibromyalgia, yet has not met the official diagnostic criteria to be diagnosed as such.
Where are Petroleum Distillates Found?
Petroleum distillates are in hundreds of consumer products including:

Hair conditioner Sunblock Nail polish Deodorant Mineral oil Lip gloss Gasoline Fertilizer Furniture polish Pesticides Plastics

Paint thinners Solvents Motor oil Fuels (propane, butane, diesel) Petroleum jelly Art supplies (oil painting medium) Paste and liquid car waxes and polishes Kerosene Paraffin wax Tar Adhesives

According to the EPA, "Products that contain petroleum distillates should be used carefully. Wear gloves to avoid skin contact and avoid breathing vapors of volatile compounds."

Hundreds of products, including lip gloss, nail polish and hair conditioner, contain petroleum distillates that the EPA says should be used with caution.

That's because, in addition to raising the risk of UCTD, petroleum distillates can cause chemical pneumonia and can interfere with the lungs' functions-even resulting in death-if inhaled or swallowed. They can also irritate the skin and cause sensitivity to light.
Can Petroleum Distillates be Avoided?
As it stands, the average household contains, in the form of chemical products, about 10 gallons of potentially hazardous petrochemicals. Many, many household cleaners are based on petrochemicals, and while manufacturers are required to include warning labels on products that contain them, a New York Poison Control Center study found that 85 percent of product warning labels are inadequate.
So, when you clean, always seek out natural cleaners and use PerfectClean's ultramicrofiber cloths, which require the use of no cleaners at all yet clean down to a microscopic level-something ordinary cloth wipes can't do.
Further, petroleum distillates pose the greatest risk when they're breathed in. According to the EPA, even small amounts can cause harm. That's why ensuring that the air you breathe in your home is clean and free from toxins has become as important and necessary as locking your doors at night. Unfortunately, with all of the chemical products our society has come to rely on, indoor air can be two to 100 times more polluted than outdoor air, says the EPA!
When it comes to reducing your exposure to petroleum distillates, avoiding noxious chemical cleaners and other chemical products and purifying the air you and your family breathe while indoors are two of the best steps you can take.
Recommended Reading
The Health Dangers of Phenols Found in Common Household Cleaners
Exposure to Air Pollution Linked to Genetic Abnormalities
Dust Dangers: What Exactly is Dust, and Why Can it be so Dangerous

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Environmental Protection Agency: Petroleum
Household Products Database
American Journal of Epidemiology
Express Newsline January 16, 2005
Household Products Database

Scared but have to be prepared

Yes, another break from Emilys, thought important.......
I've been sitting here looking at these maps...I know my daughter will probably be ok in NC and me and joe are in trouble in the upper part of the lower part of michigan and my son and his family may be ok towards the middle of the state.  I just think my sister and her family will be gone and my step mother is right on the edge. I have no idea where my brothers are but I wish I hadn't seen these maps.  But, we have to be prepared (as psa commercials on main stream media is telling us. If they are running commercials on being prepared for disasters something must be amiss) If the fault lines go as the seismo guys think there will be major change in this country.  My heart aches when I know my family in St. Louis MO will be in harms way also.  
I'm not a "doomer" but these maps make me scared and sad because my family is fractured, as will be all those gas and oil wells will be when these earthquakes happen.  
PSA's are telling us to be prepared and know where to go?  
Do you? Would you be prepared if something bizarre were to happen as these maps show?  Enough food for months, water also.  This is what these commercials are trying to tell us.  
Sad.....
Look at where the majority of wells are and think of what one of these maps will do to the infrastructure of the oil and gas industry.  I hope never in my lifetime or my children's...I fear that is not the saying people will be saying anymore...in our lifetime........jaime

Another map fyi, haven't done world wide

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_R_TzdFhcMRE/SGFKQlJ2cuI/AAAAAAAAC20/H0BBCslDTEY/100_7385.JPG

What To Say Today Hmmm.....

     Woke up to snow coming down.  It was winter, what were we expecting?  Oh I hate the cold LOL.  All wrapped up in my blanket, sitting at the computer and smiling because the heat just came on and a heat vent was right at my feet.  AHHHHH.
     I felt the need to expand on our "Wednesdays".  We joke that if the neighbors didn't see Ex's #3 car at our house it would throw off their week.  Yeah, he's my ex husband, yeah, there were problems-that is an understatement-but as I got older I realized my family was gone (except my children of course) and my friends were my family.  Ex-husband #3 was kind of in the same position.  After everything we had gone through we finally realised we needed each other.  
     My joe was ok with that.  Joe knows how much I love him. 
        I just thought of a reason for writing today, not that I needed one, today would have been our (Ex husband #3) 8 year wedding anniversary.  I'm sure there had to be a card for that.
     I felt a bit melancholy about it.  So much hurt and laughter. I choose to remember the good things from any relationship I had been in when some are stuck on the negative.  
     The relationships I had been in over my life had impacted me in a different way every time. Joe got what resulted from the other men, some good, some not so good.  Each in their own way gave me the tools to be the strong, surviving, woman I am today.  I was proud to having known each of them.  
     One has part of my heart forever.  That heart had been healing more over the years which was good for Joe. 
       Another thought running through that head of mine. 

Thank you

     My husband and I discussed this a few days ago and I have been tossing this around in my head since then.  With the findings in the Utica and Collingwood shales and already the Niagaran  and Antrim shales, there is a lot of work to be done.  
    Joe asked me what would I have to do to be at the fighting level Me and De were at before. I told him this would consume me.  12 hours a day, maybe 7 days a week, lots of phone calls and having to act in a way that is not me.  Being forceful and argumentative is not my general nature.  Though persistence is. LOL Our lives being threatened, monitored....all that goes with this industry.
    I told joe it would destroy our marriage.  I lost my family and friends for their ignorance or judgment or just not understanding. Or they died.  My heart can't lose anymore right now.  I am fighting for my life, literally.
The wells are coming and  by the hundreds at least.  I'm still fighting somewhat all the wells in my hometown of Lewiston and Gaylord Michigan.  
    Someone told me yesterday that I should be proud of what I have done.  Some of you in your infancy received my information to help you.  How can I be proud when so many people are sick and/or dying and you can't get the industry to do what safely needs to be done to their wells. 
    De is exhausted after all these years and so am I.  I want to fight what is coming my way but I can find no one to help.  No one to lift up their heads or their phones and say you can do it, let me help. 
    So, for now, I can't do it anymore.  I want to enjoy my new husband and get through each day one at a time.  I will keep monitoring what is going on but
I have to concentrate on keeping healthy.   I have lots of information so feel free to contact me.  
Good luck and Keep fighting! Thanks to all who have helped me in our fight.
Jaime Long Chimner
Northern Michigan