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| Technical Services: Experts in the technologies that deliver the power of PENTA to you and your organization.Learn About the Team PENTA Difference...Pinpoint the Differences with the free Comparison Scorecard.Get the Scorecard PENTA Business Analytics Application Bridges the Gap Between Enterprise Data and Business Results Program Delivers Flexible, Graphical Analytics and Reporting across the Contracting Enterprise.Read the Press Release Penta Announces Five Simultaneous Construction Enterprise Software Implementations Solidifies software leadership position for large contractors with five new customers representing over half a billion in combined construction revenues and more than 5,000 employees.Penta and Dexterra to provide flexible Mobile Construction Workforce Software Solutions Via this partnership, Penta and Dexterra will deliver complete mobile enterprise solutions to construction firms seeking to improve communication, reduce paperwork and increase efficiency and accuracy by automating field tasks.Providing construction services and high technology
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Middle Eastern, African and Asian markets.European and North African markets.Penta Custom Coatings Inc.Browse the products we offer in Alberta.Read articles about our products and our processes.Learn about Penta, our history and our staff.Penta Protective Coatings Ltd.Penta Protective Coatings Ltd.Since 1988 Penta Coatings has been servicing the Manitoba and Northwest Ontario markets, providing innovative solutions for all types of problems.Our comprehensive line of guaranteed products and services range from those designed to provide architectural beauty to those providing protection from the most aggressive environments.Servicing your needs safely and effectively means employing leading edge materials and techniques to ensure our jobsites are safe for our skilled employees and your staff.Wherever possible, the systems used to complete your project are designed to have the least effect upon our environment.This may mean using low or no VOC (volatile organic compounds) coating systems or environmentally friendly surface preparation methods.Whatever your project Penta Coatings' commitment to excellence ensures you the performance you need, when you need it, at the price you can afford.Penta Protective Coatings Inc.Please feel free to contact us regarding any of our products and services.We look forward to hearing from you.Nikita Tselovalnikov, the producer behind Penta, started to make music when he was twelve years old.In 1991 he relocated to the California, and currently lives in San Jose.The Penta project initially started as an amusement for friends in December 2000, but quickly grew into a serious act on the San Francisco trance scene.His sound since has ignited dance floors across the globe, with its intense, powerful and innovative motifs.His music can be found in sets by top trance DJs all over the world, and has repeatedly appeared in Goa Gil's "Divine Dozen".Deja Vu Records, Inpsyde Media, Ketuh, King Records in Japan and has an album "Pentafiles" released on Spectral Concepts.The Little Europe party, Saturday,...The tone or style of this article or section may not be appropriate for Wikipedia.Specific concerns may be found on the talk page.Water) is a commercially sold brand of bottled water that is claimed by its manufacturer to be structurally different from 'normal' water.It is advertised as the 'ultimate bottled water' on Penta's official website.It is manufactured and distributed by sister companies Bio Hydration Research Lab and AquaPhotonics.In particular, Bio Hydration Research Labs states that their 'Penta process' of subjecting water to high energy sound waves, creating sonoluminescence, reduces the average size of the water clusters present in liquid water.This supposedly makes it easier for water molecules to pass through cell membranes.It is further claimed that water so treated improves the 'survivability' of cells.In 2003, Penta became the best selling bottled water in American health food stores.These studies also suffer from major experimental design flaws.Penta is a registered trademark of Aquaphotonics, Inc.Claims made by Penta
2 Reliability of claims
3 Mainstream science
4 Response to criticism
5 No longer sold in the United Kingdom
6 Criticism of specific claims
6.Aquaphotonics and targeting the U.Current claims are solely for "higher purity".Penta Water contains water clusters of fewer molecules than normal water.Athletic performance measurably improves after consumption of Penta Water.Penta Water has a higher boiling point than normal water and this is not due to dissolved impurities.Penta is easier to drink than normal water.Penta aids in weight loss.Penta is the purest bottled water on the market.In vitro, Penta dissolves kidney stones faster than lab water.Bill Holloway, Penta CEO.Penta has helped clear up skin problems.Protein crystals grown in Penta have a different structure.Featured testimonial on Penta website claims Penta can help with fibromyalgia, lupus, arthritis, or chronic fatigue syndrome.Featured testimonial on Penta website claims Penta can help with diabetes.Penta acts like an energy drink.Adding Penta to Pap smear test samples increases the accuracy of cervical cancer screenings.Enhances absorption of moisturiser cream onto skin.All of the entries marked by an asterisk (*) were found on the UK Penta web pages which have now been taken offline due to Penta being forced to cease trading in Britain.Ben Goldacre's Bad Science column in The Guardian.Study of cluster molecular structures in various types of liquid water by using spontaneous Raman Spectroscopy, A.Pershin, Physics of Vibrations, Volume 10 Number 2, 2002.The paper in question discusses differences in the Raman Spectra between Penta water and normal lab water.There is no discussion of any possible health benefits.In fact, the Penta Water web site makes several claims from studies that "are pending publication".Other such claims, from other "pending publications" have disappeared from their site.The claim that smaller water clusters are present in Penta Water appears to mean that there are fewer molecules in each cluster, not that the actual physical size of a particular molecule is smaller.This point was made by Oxford University professor Robert Williams in an article by Mark Henderson in The Times on 7th February 2004)
Bob Williams, Emeritus Professor in Oxford University's Inorganic Chemistry department, said: "There is no need to worry about clusters, as the cell channels allow molecules in only one at a time.There is a danger that people are being duped into buying something that has no value."Bio Hydration Research Labs.If Penta's claims were found to be true, then noted skeptic James Randi has stated that they would be eligible for the Randi Prize of one million dollars for "anyone who is able to show evidence of any paranormal, supernatural, or occult power or event under test conditions agreed to by both parties".In July 2001, Penta agreed to submit to the Randi Prize, but later withdrew."Who knows, perhaps we're edging closer to taking James' challenge up!"However, the onus of proof is generally agreed to be upon the people or company making extraordinary claims and not the skeptics to try and duplicate every experiment.In 2001, the James Randi Educational Foundation offered to arrange for independent tests of Penta's claims with protocols to be agreed upon by the foundation and Penta.It is a matter of record that Penta have yet to accept the challenge.Again, there is no evidence of a partnership between Penta and Johns Hopkins.Note, as of March 23rd 2005 these links have been removed from their website, though it is still possible to view an archived copy of the links page.Penta sister company AquaPhotonics claimed in a May 2005 Press release that Dr.Gamble spokesperson replied:
"We are unaware of any advisory board Dr.AquaPhotonics from their news page.Don MacLaren from the Research Institute for Sport and Exercise Sciences in Liverpool John Moores University have also carried out research for Penta.Their unpublished paper, Simulated soccer study is available from the AquaPhotonics website.Sleep well tonight and think about how and why you tried to fuck us over and practice keeping one eye open."An apology, on behalf of Penta, from publicist Max Clifford followed.Goldacre contacted the British police in response to the threat.Injustice is to make libelous charges without any investigation on your part.Our product is real do your own testing before you shoot off your big mouth.Penta Water IS different, is merely not up to date with the latest science.On this page Penta also states
"We DO create water with smaller average cluster sizes, and in 2004, we will have new studies proving the benefits drinking Penta has on the human body.Among their findings the ASA wrote that
"The Authority took expert advice and understood that the scientific evidence submitted did not prove that Penta had health benefits over and above those of ordinary water or had been restructured to form stable smaller clusters.The Authority concluded that the information submitted was not sufficient to prove Penta water had health benefits over and above those of ordinary water or was structured differently from ordinary water."As a result of these findings, the ASA ruled that
"The Authority told the advertisers not to repeat claims that implied the product was chemically unique, had been restructured or molecularly redesigned, or hydrated cells and improved physical performance better than tap water."Penta has now been forced to cease trading in the United Kingdom.Surrey Trading Standards Authority sent Mark Fairhead and Debbie Flint, Directors of Govannon Ltd a final ruling from the Food Standards Agency (FSA) stating that Penta contravenes the UK Bottled Water Regulations 1999 and should therefore cease to be sold.As a result, Penta USA confirmed they would no longer send shipments of Penta Water to the UK.Boiling point
It is often mentioned that Penta has a higher boiling point than liquid water.In the study, which was not double blinded, the researchers found a 0.Penta Water samples (relative to deionized water) and wrote
"The two waters are thus not identical in their boiling point.It is not possible from this single experiment to understand just why this is.Type I reagent grade water) is simply due to the presence of dissolved impurities."C, which the researchers attributed to a probable error in the calibration of the thermometer.Thus, the experiment was only able to measure the relative boiling points of the two waters.Structure
The consensus in mainstream science (arrived at through numerous experiments and accumulated knowledge) is that water does not have a structural memory of the sort claimed by Penta or in homeopathy.However this structure might occur around a positively charged ion such as Na+.Note that this structure contains five hydrogen bonds (dashed red lines), whilst the Pentamer logo on the Penta bottle contains no hydrogen bonds.Supporters of Penta have claimed that the structure depicted on the Penta water labels should be regarded as only a convenient logo and not a scientific claim.Hydration
It is difficult to determine whether Penta is consistently claiming that their product offers improved hydration.In the past, the official Penta website made specific claims on its What makes Penta unique?Proven More Effective Hydration, that the altered structure speeded cell hydration via aquaporin transport.H2O molecules have been proven by scientists at major universities to be able to more effectively hydrate cells, which is why so many people report that Penta helps them feel great!"Currently on the same page, this is apparently contradicted by the text
"Please note that having smaller molecular clusters is scientific proof of our restructured water, and may NOT contribute to faster hydration.These channels only allow one molecule to pass at a time, therefore, as far as we know, the cluster size doesn't have any direct correlation to improved hydration."Confusingly, the (now defunct) equivalent page of the British Penta website features the diagram and the earlier more explicit claims
"High energy sound waves are used to restructure the molecules in Penta water into small, stable clusters.Associated organizations
Bio Hydration Research Labs manufactures Penta water.They are located in Carlsbad California.Tankovich and David Cheatham.AquaPhotonics is a biotechnology company in Carlsbad California that makes extensive use of Penta in their products and appears to be a sister company to Bio Hydration Research Labs.Tankovich is the CEO and David Cheatham is the president.Holloway and Tommy Thompson (who was the Secretary for Health and Human Services for President George W.Bush) sit on the board of directors.Diamics is a company dealing in medical diagnostics technology that has distribution rights for AquaRX (or Penta) water in diagnostic markets, claiming that its properties give cell samples "longer shelf life, better maintenance of cellular structure and improved performance in molecular assays".Positive reviews
Penta Water has received positive publicity from compukiss.There are also testimonials from the public and endorsements from celebrities such as Sting, Olympic contestants, Olympic medalists and Farrah Fawcett on Pentawater's website.Donald MacLaren, in the physiology department of Liverpool John Moores University in Britain is doing research for Penta and was quoted on their now defunct website as stating
"Having looked at Penta from a sceptical point of view, our studies show that Penta has an effective hydration effect compared to bottled mineral water."Chemical Process, Metals, and General Manufacturing Industries.PENTA offers technical, design, engineering, operational, and construction contract administration services with a staff composed of experienced professionals, many of whom have over 20 years of industrial experience.Our highly skilled engineering staff has a reputation for providing innovative solutions that help reduce overall project and operational costs.Each of our employees has a vested interest in performing quality work and satisfying our clients.Images, all rights reserved.And welcome to the psychedelic trance project Penta's Website.The album is a celebration of our move to Portugal and it is available at many stores mentioned in the left column of this page.This CD, executed in the style of a Mumbai taxi, is a dedication to the crazy party life in the form of a collection of morning and night psytrance tracks, sometimes written in headphones in different parts of the globe, and already successfully tested on the biggest dance floors of the planet.Anybody with a credit card or PayPal account can now own a piece of Penta.Penta tracks on it.Look for these and other releases in an online trance store near you! |
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