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ROCHESTER — The U.S. Marshals Office is asking for the public's assistance in locating a fugitive with ties to the Dover and Rochester area who is said to be a known gang member with violent tendencies.
According to a press release, Paul Michael Skaltsis, 22, born in Dover, is wanted on an outstanding warrant for a parole violation stemming from an original conviction and sentence for second-degree assault.
Skaltsis is described as 5 feet 7 inches tall, weighing approximately 230 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes. He has a tattoo of a face with the symbol "4:20" on his upper left arm and a tattoo of a dragon on his upper right arm.
According to the state Department of Corrections Parole Board, Skaltsis was charged with two counts of second-degree assault in Rochester in September 2008, as well as one count for rioting almost a year later, in 2009.
Skaltsis was reportedly sentenced to two to five years in prison and let out on parole in September 2011. A warrant was issued for his arrest in early July of this year when he failed to comply with the board's regulations.
Deputy U.S. Marshal Jeffrey White said Skaltsis has ties to local gang associations as well and is likely to still be in the Rochester area.
"We believe he lives in the Rochester area," White said, adding the fugitive's last known address was in the Lilac City. "He has gang contacts in the Rochester area and given his criminal history and his history of violence, we consider him armed and dangerous."
The U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force urges anyone with information regarding the whereabouts of Skaltsis, or who has observed a person resembling him, to call 1-877-WANTED-2 or their local police department. A press release from the U.S. Marshals office warns people: "Do not attempt to apprehend this person yourself."
U. S. Marshals seek public's help in locating fugitive gang member with local ties
ROCHESTER — The U.S. Marshals Office is asking for the public's assistance in locating a fugitive with ties to the Dover and Rochester area who is said to be a known gang member with violent tendencies.


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jesu - 'Sundown / Sunrise' EP Digital version
Available for the first time digitally, the 'Sundown / Sunrise EP' from 2007, a LTD 12" vinyl only release on Aurora Borealis UK. The EP was only available on CD on the domestic Japanese 2xCD version of 'Conqueror'. Available in nearly every digital format imaginable from the bandcamp link above, the songs can be heard there in their entirety, also on iTunes now too -
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China's Xi courts Malaysia; Obama stays home
China's president is offering a friendly face to Southeast Asia in a trip to several countries that President Obama canceled because he said he needed to remain in Washington over budget talks.
BEIJING — Chinese President Xi Jinping courted Malaysia on Friday with a huge trade pact, closer military ties and simple flattery — telling the Malaysian prime minister he felt they were old friends even on their first acquaintance.
President Obama, pursuing his administration's so-called "Asia pivot," planned to follow in Xi's footsteps next week, visiting Malaysia and the Philippines after regional summits in Indonesia and Brunei. The cancellation Thursday of Obama's entire Asia trip, blamed on the U.S. government budget battle, instead leaves the diplomatic floor to Xi and China.
Southeast Asia carries global weight as a major part of Asia's growing economy but also bears strategic significance as a potential flashpoint, given China's assertive claims to many remote, South China Sea islands belonging to Southeast Asian nations including Malaysia.
"Our two countries have proven to be good neighbors, good friends and good partners who go through thick and thin together," Xi told the business community Friday in the capital Kuala Lumpur, reported The Star, a Malaysian newspaper.
His trip is business-focused as China and Malaysia agreed on ways to deepen already extensive economic ties that saw China recently overtake the USA as Malaysia's biggest trading partner. On Friday, Xi and Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak signed a pact to almost triple two-way trade to $160 billion by 2017, and agreed to elevate bilateral ties into a formal "comprehensive strategic partnership."
Relations are boosted by demography: One-quarter of Malaysia's population is ethnic Chinese. The nation will host the first Chinese university outside of China, the Xiamen University Malaysia Campus, Najib said Friday. Malaysia hopes to lure more Chinese tourists and secure 5% of China's expected $500 billion of outbound investment over the next five years, said International Trade and Industry Minister Datuk Seri Mustapa Mohamed, reported The Star.
"For a long time, Malaysia is not as hard-line as Vietnam and the Philippines, so China is trying to win Malaysia over softly," said Li Jinming, a South China Sea expert at Xiamen University, in southeastern China. "Most Asean countries also realized they must keep good relations with China as a priority," he said of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean).
Xi launched his charm offensive Wednesday in Indonesia, the largest nation in Southeast Asia, and will return there Saturday for a meeting next week of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum on the island of Bali.
Premier Li Keqiang will represent China at the later East Asia Summit in Brunei. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will stand in for Obama throughout the trip the U.S. President planned to take.
At both summits, Chinese officials may seek progress on Beijing's multinational trade agreement: the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership. The USA is pushing a separate free-trade deal, Trans-Pacific Partnership.


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- Premier League
Allardyce to sort out Diarra issues
West Ham United manager Sam Allardyce insists he has no problem with Alou Diarra and is happy to sort out any issues he has.
Diarra told L'Equipe on Tuesday that he was desperate to leave West Ham. He believes he will not get a chance to play under Allardyce and is "not part of his plans", and that he had "wasted my time" at Upton Park.
But Allardyce questioned the 31-year-old's claim that he has not been given a fair chance, pointing out that he spent three months unavailable due to injury.
"Wasted four months of what? My time or his? He has been injured for three months," Allardyce said. "He has let his frustrations out in his home country, which often happens.
"Someone has got hold of him and asked to do an article. He has done the article and has aired some of the frustrations of not playing on a regular basis.
"When he knocks on the door and comes to see me, we'll sort him out as quickly as we can. I haven't got a problem with it."
Meanwhile, Allardyce has spoken of his frustration at being unable to bring in defensive reinforcements. He has been linked with moves for Dnipro's Samuel Inkoom and Nancy defender Massadio Haidara this week but both those lines of enquiry are now dead.
The Hammers have gone seven games without keeping a clean sheet, and have just one in the last 13 games, and Allardyce knows he must bring in new faces to both combat that poor form and cover for injuries.
"We're not making as good progress as I would have liked," Allardyce said. "It has been hugely frustrating. We've been trying in the whole of the window to try and bring in a defender, but not been able to clinch a deal yet.
"That is probably because we have been looking for a short-term deal in loans, as in terms of not permanent deals. I think at this stage of the window everybody wants to, if they are going to release a player, let him go on a permanent basis, not on a short-term loan basis.
"I think that will probably change as the window gets closer to closing and hopefully we will be more successful in our plight to get a defender in at that stage."


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(1 cr.) This course covers basic elements of statistics, technology (including Excel), financial accounting, managerial accounting, finance and economics as well as other fundamental business concepts. The course must be taken during a student's first semester in the MBA program, but can be completed concurrently with MBA 615. The course is graded on a pass/fail basis. Every Year, All


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2) The best info I got from googling for the wireless chipset was that it is using the AzureWave AW-NE785H from http://blog.gambliser.com/2012/05/ee...ndows-7-32bit/, and that it is using the atheros chipset from wikidevi.com/wiki/AzureWave_AW-NE785H, can anyone confirm the chipset and if packet injection is working on the machine?
Pardon me for being a noob, any help would be very appreciated.
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Kentucky State Police conducted a new search in Berea on Tuesday.
Several canine teams were brought in to search a wooded area on Horse Cove Road. Police say it's the first time searching there but it is down the road from where Brookelyn was last seen. The Madison County teen disappeared on June 22nd.
"Our previous search was just down the road. We are just broadening it out just to cover our bases," says Sgt. Dustin Hon, with Kentucky State Police.
Crews began the search at 7 a.m. Tuesday and stayed until 2 p.m.
They covered somewhere between 5 and 6 square miles.
They brought in dogs from Kentucky Search Dog Association and Southeast Canine from Tennessee.
"I don't know specifically if there is a time limit on scent on the ground and all that but I think if there is something there, I think the dogs will probably hit on it," adds Hon.
They've not said what they're looking for, or why they're searching again.
"Really not anything we are going to release as far as specifics but it's part of the investigation," says Hon.
Some neighbors watched as police searched for signs of Farthing.
"I hope for the best and I would just love to have closure for her family. I have a 15-year-old and I can't imagine the heart ache," says Jessica Rose, a resident on Horse Cove Road.
"Maybe not today, they may not find her but one day we will know," says Judy Rose, a resident on Horse Cove Road.
Kentucky State Police say the dogs did not find anything to change their investigation from a missing persons case to something else.
Police don't believe they will be back to search this specific area. As of now, police say they do not have any additional searches planned.
Kentucky State Police continue to ask anyone with information on Farthing's disappearance to contact them.


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Following EA Sports MMA into mobile gaming, THQ's mixed martial arts franchise UFC Undisputed will hit the iPhone and iPad this week, a company executive says.
Via Twitter, THQ's Danny Bilson says the game hits the two devices via the iTunes App Store tomorrow. "Gives Tap Out new meaning," Bilson, THQ's president for core gaming, said over Twitter.
UFC's move to the iPhone and iPad was revealed back in mid-October, when the publisher announced it had secured an eight year extension to its exclusive pact with the parent company of Ultimate Fighting Championship. Motion-enabled MMA games are also expected on Kinect, PlayStation Move and PS3 sometime next year.


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EPTglenn necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 327 diseños de 48 diseñadores freelance.
ChargeMYseat.com is a website that allows customers to pre-register for poker tournaments with a credit card. It allows people to register hours, days or weeks ahead of time on a secure and trusted website.
Identity should be perceived as a sturdy, reliable, easy way to register without any hassle.
Gamblers, poker players, mainly male.
1) people who need a trusted place to register ahead of time for their poker tournaments
2) Poker Players
3) AVG AGE 42, range 21 - 60
4) 90% Male audience
What we need:
We need a captivating logo that appeals to the target audience. A logo that is classy, simple, and easy to remember and will stand out at the casino floor.
Design Elements:
Words can be mixed case, all lower case, or all upper. You decide what works best and when i start seeing some examples this might change, so make sure to take a look at the comments as well.
.COM must be in the logo as we are purely a web-based company
A combination of graphic icon/symbol that portrays our service is helpful along with the text.
Clean, minimal designs in vector format only. This logo should look fantastic in color and in black and white. Do not use raster images at all and at the most 3 colors is acceptable for the logo.
Stay with the target demographic... typical logos for this demo include ESPN, UFC, NFL... anything cute, silly, or "fun" will be disregarded immediately.
people who go with clipart images will score very low! make the image more "iconic" instead of plopping some poker images from istockphoto. use some creativity and art!
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Rueben George, Sundance Chief and Member of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation, expresses his concerns to the Vancouver City Council about the crude oil tankers now passing through Burrard Inlet at the rate of 2 per week, with plans by pipeline company Kinder-Morgan to expand that traffic to 288/year, including dredging Burrard Inlet. George points out that those waters are traditional Tsleil-Waututh territory. In response Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson acknowledges that the Council shares George's concerns about the effect an oil spill would have on the region, and about questionable decisions being made at the Federal level.
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This gentleman is doing good work.
One thing that gave me pause for concern was one of the mayor's comments. The mayor as I understood it is the guy in the light blue. He spoke of having the Tsleil-Waututh people as "partners."
Partnership could be a dangerous thing, something that results in the co-optation of the Tsleil-Waututh and other First Nations people as these things move throught the 'mill.'
I offer this as a cautionary note with the hopes that Chief George's position prevails. I wish him and his good luck and best wishes.
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Prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVDs)
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These pocket guidelines provide evidence-based guidance on how to reduce the incidence of first and recurrent clinical events due to coronary heart disease (CHD), cerebrovascular disease (CeVD) and peripheral vascular disease in two categories of people. They include; 1. People with risk factors who have not yet developed clinically manifest cardiovascular disease (primary prevention). 2. People with established CHD, CeVD or peripheral vascular disease (secondary prevention).
The accompanying World Health Organization/International Society of Hypertension (WHO/ISH) risk prediction charts enable the estimation of total cardiovascular risk of people in the first category. The evidence-based recommendations given in Part 1 of these guidelines, provide guidance on which specific preventive actions to initiate, and with what degree of intensity. People in the second category have high cardiovascular risk and need intensive lifestyle interventions and appropriate drug therapy as elaborated in Part II of these guidelines. Risk stratification using risk charts is not required for making treatment decisions in them.


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The Voice 2012 Season 3 Recap: The Final 3 Perform! (VIDEO)
The Voice 2012 finals for season 3 are here at last and the jury is still out on who will win The Voice season 3. While Cassadee Pope of Team Blake Shelton seems to have heavy odds in her favor, fans of reality TV talent shows should know by now the perceived favorite often does not end up winning. Will Nicholas David of Team Cee Lo Green or Terry McDermott of Team Blake manage to pull off the performance of a lifetime tonight and steal the win? Join us for our live The Voice season 3 recap of the final performance show and watch the drama unfold!Read More..>>


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NBC says "Saturday Night Live" cast members Jay Pharoah and Taran Killam are leaving the show.
Pharoah and Killam won't be back when "SNL" returns this fall for its 42nd season, the network said Monday. The comedians have been on the show for six seasons.
Both are known for their celebrity impressions on "SNL," including Pharoah's Barack Obama and Kanye West, and Killam's Brad Pitt and Donald Trump — although the Trump role went to "SNL" announcer and former star Darrel Hammond during the past season.
"SNL" is known for its revolving-door cast, with Tina Fey, Jimmy Fallon and Eddie Murphy among its successful alumni.


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November 2007 | Vol. VI - No. 11
Brown Sues Toy Companies For Lead
November 19, 2007
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LOS ANGELES—California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. and Los Angeles City Attorney Rockard J. Delgadillo today sued twenty companies for manufacturing or selling toys with "unlawful quantities of lead."
Commenting on the lawsuit which was filed today in Alameda County Superior Court, Attorney General Brown said, "Companies must take every reasonable step to assure that the products they handle are safe for children and their families and fully comply with the laws of California. Despite the lengthening global supply chain, every company that does business in this state must follow the law and protect consumers from lead and other toxic materials."
"Lead in toys poses a significant threat to the health and well being of our children," said Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo. "This lawsuit is intended to ensure that these companies eliminate lead and other harmful substances from children's toys, once and for all."
The state's lawsuit alleges that companies knowingly exposed individuals to lead—a chemical known to the State of California to cause cancer and reproductive harm—and failed to provide any warning about this risk. Under the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, known as Proposition 65, businesses cannot expose individuals to hazardous chemicals without posting a clear warning.
Proposition 65 is enforced through lawsuits brought by the attorney general, district attorneys and city attorneys in cities with a population exceeding 750,000. Lawsuits may also be brought by private parties, but only after these parties notify the attorney general of the alleged violation.
The California Attorney General—who successfully negotiated settlements in the past to remove lead in candy, soda bottles, jewelry and other consumer products—launched an investigation into toy manufacturers and retailers after the federal Consumer Product Safety Commission began issuing recall notices for toys that exceeded federal lead limits. Beginning with the recall of 1.5 million Thomas the Tank Engine toys in June, 46 toy products have been recalled for excessive levels of lead—totaling approximately 6 million toys this year.
Following the national recall, the attorney general received notices of impending lawsuits against toy companies from the Center for Environmental Health, Environmental Law Foundation, and As You Sow. Under Prop 65, private parties must notify the attorney general of the allegations before bringing a lawsuit. The attorney general then has the option to take over these lawsuits or allow the complaints to proceed independently.
Although Proposition 65 only requires companies to post hazard warnings, many businesses choose to eliminate the toxic chemicals altogether. Last year, the attorney general prompted over 70 retailers and distributors to meet tougher lead standards for jewelry. Many companies subject to today's lawsuit have indicated they are also committed to taking measures to ensure that lawful standards are met in the future.
Businesses that violate Proposition 65 are subject to civil penalties of up to $2,500 per day for each violation. In addition, courts may order businesses to stop committing the violation. Today's lawsuit seeks to remedy past violations and prompt manufacturers and retailers to establish processes that prevent toys with lead from being sold in the future.
Proposition 65 requires the Governor to publish a list of chemicals that are known to the State of California to cause cancer, birth defects or other reproductive harm. Lead has been listed since 1987 as a chemical that can cause reproductive harm and birth defects, and has been on the list of chemicals known to cause cancer since 1992.
Lead is a toxic metal that damages the nervous system and other organs. Children are particularly susceptible to the risks of lead exposure. Children can ingest the lead in toys when they place the toys in their mouths, handle the toys and then touch their mouths, or transfer the lead from the toys to other items such as food.
Companies subject to today's lawsuit include: Mattel, Fisher-Price, Michaels Stores, Toys R Us, Wal-Mart, Target, Sears, KB Toys, Costco Wholesale, A&A Global Industries, RC2 Corporation, Eveready Battery Company, Kids II, Kmart, Marvel Entertainment, Toy Investments.
For more information about Prop 65 and to view the private party notices please visit: http://ag.ca.gov/prop65/index.php. For more information about the national toy recall, please visit the Consumer Product Safety Commission at: http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prerel.html
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In this activity, you will develop a parent-teacher conference guide for one of your students.
Parent-teacher conferences allow parents and teachers to exchange information about student achievement, interests, and progress. Careful planning will ensure that both teachers and parents are informed about how to support children's literacy learning.
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The Third Age: Episode Seven - 'The Tree of Life'
If you watch one episode of The Third Age, make it this one! This week, Holly leads a ritual to find out the truth about Morning, and is shocked by what she discovers! It's a more experimental episode than usual, and is my personal favorite of the series to date. I'd love to hear what you think.
In other news, after the epic posting frenzy of best of time, things will probably slow up for a bit. In the next couple of days, I'll be posting my most anticipated movies list for 2010, and in the next couple of weeks, Caprica, Lost and Big Love will start up, all shows I'll surely be writing about.


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We need to make choices in our life and so we need to compare(=rate) things what is good what is bad. Question: are there some mathematical models which may capture features of some kind of voting/ratings systems ?
More precisely I want to have some model where there is some "ideal choice" (e.g. experts estimation of quality of question on MO) and result of real voting - which might be different. The model should help us to understand how to make ratings more close to "ideal choice". The possible application which I keep in mind is user's ratings of gadgets at amazon (or other sites), with the hope to improve it taking into account something like user's "reputation"...
Another application - current science journals play the role of "rating agencies" - papers published at "Annals" = stamp of great quality. Assume journals will disappear. Can we create a kind of crowd-sourcing rating which will be close to current journal based rating system ?
There are many votings systems - political elections, ratings of questions on stackoverflow, user's ratings of gadgets sold at amazon.com,... Of course, all of them have different features, however it might be that there are certain simple ideas which might be relevant for understanding how all these things work... To understand this: are there simple ideas or there are not? if there are - what are them ? is the gist of this question.
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Public Health Statement for Endrin
August 1996
This Public Health Statement is the summary chapter from the Toxicological Profile for endrin. It is one in a series of Public Health Statements about hazardous substances and their health effects. A shorter version, the ToxFAQsTM , is also available. This information is important because this substance may harm you. The effects of exposure to any hazardous substance depend on the dose, the duration, how you are exposed, personal traits and habits, and whether other chemicals are present. For more information, call the ATSDR Information Center at 1-888-422-8737.
This statement was prepared to give you information about endrin and to emphasize the human health effects that may result from exposure to it. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) identifies the most serious hazardous waste sites in the nation. These sites make up the National Priorities List (NPL) and are the sites targeted for long-term federal clean-up activities. Endrin has been found in at least 120 (8.4%) of the current or former NPL sites. Endrin ketone has been found in at least 37 sites of the current or former sites on the NPL. However, the number of NPL sites evaluated for endrin ketone is not known. As the EPA evaluates more sites, the number of sites at which endrin ketone is found may increase. This information is important because exposure to endrin may cause harmful health effects and because these sites are potential or actual sources of human exposure to endrin.
When a substance is released from a large area, such as an industrial plant, or from a container, such as a drum or bottle, it enters the environment. This release does not always lead to exposure. You can be exposed to a substance only when you come in contact with it. You may be exposed by breathing, eating, or drinking substances containing the substance or by skin contact with it.
If you are exposed to a substance such as endrin, many factors will determine whether harmful health effects will occur and what the type and severity of those health effects will be. These factors include the dose (how much), the duration (how long), the route or pathway by which you are exposed (breathing, eating, drinking, or skin contact), the other chemicals to which you are exposed, and your individual characteristics such as age, sex, nutritional status, family traits, lifestyle, and state of health.
1.1 What is endrin?
This toxicological profile focuses on endrin, but because of its close association to both endrin aldehyde and endrin ketone, the profile includes studies with data relevant to human exposure to these compounds when available.
Endrin is a solid, white, almost odorless substance that was used as a pesticide to control insects, rodents, and birds. Endrin has not been produced or sold for general use in the United States since 1986. Little is known about the properties of endrin aldehyde, an impurity and breakdown product of endrin, or endrin ketone, which is a product of endrin when it is exposed to light.
1.2 What happens to endrin when it enters the environment?
Endrin does not dissolve very well in water. It has been found in ground water and surface water, but only at very low levels. It is more likely to cling to the bottom sediments of rivers, lakes, and other bodies of water. Endrin is generally not found in the air except when it was applied to fields during agricultural applications.
The persistence of endrin in the environment depends highly on local conditions. Some estimates indicate that endrin can stay in soil for over 10 years. Endrin may also be broken down by exposure to high temperatures (230�C) or light to form primarily endrin ketone and endrin aldehyde.
It is not known what happens to endrin aldehyde or endrin ketone once they are released to the environment; however, the amount of endrin broken down to endrin aldehyde or endrin ketone is very small (less than 5%).
1.3 How might I be exposed to endrin?
Since endrin is no longer produced or used in the United States, you can probably be exposed to it only in areas where it is concentrated, such as a hazardous waste site. You may be exposed to endrin in air, water, or soil if you live near a hazardous waste site. Endrin has been detected at 120 (8.4%) such sites. Children living near hazardous waste sites could be exposed to endrin in contaminated soils, if they eat dirt. Detection of endrin in ground water or drinking water is rare. In the U.S. EPA 1989 National Pesticide in Groundwater Study, in which ground water was collected from areas with significant agricultural land uses as well as urban areas, only two wells were found with detectable levels of endrin. In wells drilled to access ground water near hazardous waste sites, 1.3% of 156 Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) sites and 0.9% of 178 Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA) or Superfund sites had detectable levels of endrin in the early 1980s. No information about the presence of endrin aldehyde or endrin ketone in the environment was found.
You may also be exposed to endrin by eating foods that contain endrin. Before cancellation of endrin use, reported concentrations of endrin in domestic and imported food samples ranged from 0.05 to 0.50 parts per million (ppm; where 1 ppm = 1 microgram per gram (�g/g) of food). However, no endrin was detected in food samples from a Texas survey and only 0.084% of over 13,000 food samples were found to contain endrin in 1989 after cancellation of endrin use. Endrin was found in less than 1% of all food sampled by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1991. Because endrin is no longer used in the United States, residues on imported foods are the main source of potential human exposure in food. The levels of endrin aldehyde or endrin ketone in foods are not known.
Endrin levels can build up (bioaccumulate) in the tissues of organisms that live in water. In the 1986 EPA National Study of Chemical Residues in Fish, concentrations of endrin were found in fish at 11% of 362 sites surveyed (average 1.69 parts per billion [ppb; where 1 ppb = 1 nanogram per gram (ng/g) of food]; maximum 162 ppb). Endrin was also detected in 21 of 31 samples of 2 commercial shrimp species from a Gulf Coast estuary receiving both industrial discharges, and urban and agricultural runoff. The average concentration was 1,070 and the maximum concentration was 9,470 ppb. Levels of endrin have probably declined, even in such polluted areas, since using endrin was banned.
Endrin has been detected in human breast milk (0.02-6.24 milligrams endrin in each kilogram milk fat [mg/kg]); this may be a route of exposure for nursing infants. However, no studies of endrin in breast milk in United States or Canadian populations have been conducted.
1.4 How can endrin enter and leave my body?
Endrin and endrin aldehyde can enter your body when you eat foods or drink beverages or breathe air that contain this substance, or when it comes in contact with your skin. When endrin enters your body in any of these ways, it is rapidly changed into other substances. Endrin and its metabolic breakdown products are rapidly removed from the body, usually within a few days, through the urine and feces. There is some evidence that small amounts of endrin may remain in the fatty tissue of your body when you are exposed to high levels. No information is known about how endrin aldehyde or endrin ketone leaves the body.
1.5 How can endrin affect my health?
Exposure to endrin can cause various harmful effects including death and severe central nervous system (brain and spinal cord) injury. Swallowing large amounts of endrin (more than 0.2 mg/kg of body weight) may cause convulsions and kill you in a few minutes or hours.
Symptoms that may result from endrin poisoning are headache, dizziness, nervousness, confusion, nausea, vomiting, and convulsions. Some of these symptoms may continue for weeks after exposure to high doses of endrin.
No long-term health effects have been noted in workers, either in factories or during field applications, who have been exposed to endrin by breathing or touching it.
Studies in animals confirm that endrin's main target is the nervous system, probably because the brain and other parts of the nervous system contain much fatty tissue, and endrin tends to stay in those tissues. Birth defects, especially abnormal bone formation, have been seen in some animal studies. While there are no human data on birth defects, evidence in rodents suggests that exposure to high doses of endrin during pregnancy could be a health risk to developing fetuses.
In studies using rats, mice, and dogs, endrin did not produce cancer. However, most of these studies did not accurately evaluate the ability of endrin to cause cancer. No significant excess of cancer has been found in exposed factory workers, although endrin metabolites have been detected in their urine. The EPA has determined that endrin is not classifiable as to its human carcinogenicity because there is not enough information to allow classification. Endrin has also not been classified for carcinogenic effects by the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) or the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC).
One study in rodents suggests that exposure to endrin aldehyde or endrin ketone may cause liver disease. No other studies were found on how endrin aldehyde or endrin ketone can affect your health.
1.6 Is there a medical test to determine whether I have been exposed to endrin?
If you are exposed to endrin, the chemical can be detected in your blood, breast milk, or fatty tissue. Tests can measure endrin in the blood or fat of people recently exposed. Endrin is cleared from the blood rapidly, so samples should be taken within 1- 2 weeks of exposure. Since special analytical equipment is needed, these tests are not routinely performed in doctors' offices. Although these tests can be used to confirm that a person has been exposed to endrin, it is not yet possible to use those tests to predict the type or severity of any health effects that might occur. Endrin metabolites have been found in urine (0.001-0.14 micrograms per milliliter [�g/mL]; where 1 �g/mL = 1 ppm) and feces of workers exposed to endrin.
No information is available on tests for exposure to endrin aldehyde or endrin ketone.
1.7 What recommendations has the federal government made to protect human health?
In order to protect people from potential health effects, the EPA banned the production and use of endrin in the United States in 1986. The EPA's proposed maximum contaminant level (MCL) in drinking water is 0.0002 milligrams per liter (mg/L; 1 mg/L = 1 ppm). The EPA has also set health advisories which are levels of a chemical in water that are safe. The 1-day and 10-day health advisories for endrin are 0.02 mg endrin per liter of water for both children and adults. The longer-term health advisories for children and adults are 0.003 mg/L and 0.01 mg/L, respectively. The lifetime health advisory for children and adults is 0.002 mg/L. The EPA recommends an ambient water quality criteria level of 0.001 mg/L to protect human health.
The National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) have established a limit of 0.1 mg endrin per cubic meter of air (0.1 mg/m�) averaged over an 8-hour day in an occupational setting for a 40-hour work week. In addition, NIOSH considers that a person could escape within 30 minutes from a concentration of 2,000 mg/m� without respiratory protection and without experiencing any escape-impairing or irreversible health effects.
No information can be found on government regulations for endrin aldehyde or endrin ketone.
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR). 1996. Toxicological profile for endrin. Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service.
Where can I get more information?
If you have questions or concerns, please contact your community or state health or environmental quality department or:
For more information, contact:
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
Division of Toxicology and Human Health Sciences
1600 Clifton Road NE, Mailstop S102-1
Atlanta, GA 30333
Phone: 1-800-CDC-INFO · 888-232-6348 (TTY)
Email: Contact CDC-INFO
ATSDR can also tell you the location of occupational and environmental health clinics. These clinics specialize in recognizing, evaluating, and treating illnesses resulting from exposure to hazardous substances.
- Page last reviewed: January 21, 2015
- Page last updated: January 21, 2015
- Content source: Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry


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Mobile Device Flexibility More Important Than Salary [INFOGRAPHIC]
At Interop New York last month, Cisco's Sujai Hajela, VP/GM of Wireless Networking Business Unit, said "people are falling in love with their mobile devices," during his keynote. He was right. People are so in love with their mobile devices that they'll choose mobile device flexibility over salary.
Consider this. According to the second chapter of the 2011 Cisco Connected World Technology Report, one in three college students and young employees under the age of 30 would prioritize device flexibility and social media freedom over salary in accepting a job offer. In fact, 40 percent of college students and 45 percent of young employees said they would accept a lower-paying job that had more device flexibility and social media access, than a higher-paying job with less flexibility. Wow!
People are so in love and attached to their mobile devices that half of college students and young employees said they would rather lose their wallet or purse than their mobile device, according to the study. And their mobile devices are multiplying – 77 percent of employees have multiple devices and one in three employees globally uses at least three devices for work.
Their attachment to their mobile devices goes a step further. More than half of college students and young employees want to use their own devices to access corporate networks, and two in five consider it a critical function of their job to be able to connect to the network from any location at any time.
So, what does this mean for businesses? People will want to continue their love affair with their mobile devices at work, so it's better to be prepared to support employee-owned devices as the "bring your own device" trend is only becoming more prevalent.
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Rey Utrera
Loved the infographic posted above. How I wish our company implements the access of social media at work. I and my officemates are also having our affair with our mobile devices and social media accounts. 😀


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Dear Abby
DEAR ABBY: My fiance and I plan to be married in the coming year. It will be the second marriage for both of us. My intended has an "adult" son I'll call "Jeff," who graduated from college last year and makes good money. His father has helped him out by paying his tuition, car loan, rent, a generous allowance and various other loans that have never been repaid.
Jeff comes up short almost every month because he blows his money on vacations, clothing, electronic gadgets, etc., so he needs $500 to $1,000 to "get on his feet." If his father refuses, Jeff resorts to name-calling and emotional blackmail.
I earn a good living and have a tidy nest egg, and I'm concerned that Jeff's irresponsibility and his father's enabling will put a comfortable retirement for us in jeopardy. I feel like this is my business, too -- but I don't want to come between father and son. What's your advice? -- THRIFTY IN WYOMING
DEAR THRIFTY: Your concerns are legitimate. Your fiance is doing his son no favors by footing the bills for his irresponsible behavior. But on some level he already knows that and may be doing it because he feels guilty about the divorce from Jeff's mother.
Before marrying your fiance, discuss this with an attorney to be sure your interests will be protected. The assets you accumulated before the marriage should be kept separate, and there should be a clear understanding that any monies you earn will not benefit his son, who appears to be a bottomless pit.
DEAR ABBY: My husband and I divorced several years ago because of his cocaine habit. He had been taking money from our accounts, etc.
After our divorce I met someone. It was several months before I agreed to a date. He's honest, fun, good-looking, hardworking and helps my family when he can. My problem is on our first date he told me he'd been a drug user and had spent time in prison. He said that was in the past. He got counseling, loves his new life and would not break the law again.
My children know about his past and say, "It's no big deal; it's the 21st century." We date, nothing more, but he alludes to wanting to propose. I'm afraid that when my parents and people in my small town find out about his past, they'll be shocked and I'll be shunned. I can't believe this is an issue in my life again.
Is it OK to date an ex-drug addict? Do some people beat the odds and stay clean? I'm scared that maybe I should have run away after that first date. Please advise. -- WAITING FOR THE OTHER SHOE TO DROP
DEAR WAITING: What did this man go to prison for? Was he selling drugs to support his habit? Stealing? Did he commit a violent crime?
While your children may think his past is "no big deal," it IS a big deal. However, whether it's a deal-breaker is up to you. If you had thought so, it would have been over after he mentioned he'd had the same problem as your ex-husband.
Some former addicts stay clean. Others have been known to backslide. If you love this man and he maintains his sobriety, consider his proposal sometime in the future. But I see no reason for you to rush into anything -- do you?
Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Write Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.


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Journal Review Profiles Phillips' Bird-Watching Hobbyby Sam King • August 1, 2007 Share:
Wrestling weeds up to his shoulders in a northern Montgomery County wetland, J.D. Phillips is grief stricken when he discovers a flock of swallows perched on a powerline.
Though he brought his 20D Canon camera, he's left it in his truck, several hundred yards behind. A pair of binoculars strapped to his shoulder are whipped quickly into his hands, much like a shooter drawing a gun in a shoot-out, when spotting the flock. Moving closer, he's amazed at how calm the birds are because they've yet to take flight, almost daring him to get as close as he can.
He calls out names of other species in the area, sometimes without even seeing them. Hearing a chirp, he stops and recognizes it as that of a bobwhite, then points to a dickcissel, blind to the non-birder.
Without ever seeing the feathered creatures, Phillips can identify them by sound after 20 years as an avid birder. The Wabash College math and computer science professor spends an ample amount of time weaving through bushes and swamps to spot birds, sometimes even the rarest in Indiana.
While a trip down Montgomery County Road 650 N is just that for most people, Phillips champs at the bit after spotting mallard ducks in a pond 300 yards from the driver's seat of his truck. Wielding camera equipment worth well above $1,000 (Phillips' lens alone was $1,300), such is the life of birders, known to some as birdwatchers. And the best place to find some of the most rare species may be in your own back yard.
"For serious birders, the best area to bird and know extremely well is your own county,' Phillips explains, binoculars in hand waiting for the next bird to take flight.
In fact, Phillips has spotted 99 different species in his yard on West Main Street, including the seventh ever recorded white-winged dove in Indiana two springs ago.
"It makes you realize how often birds end up where they are not supposed to be," he said.
He's spotted short-eared owl in north central Crawfordsville and calls the wetland he's tracking — known as The Burn — "one of four or five spectacular places to bird in the county" and "one of the best places in the state for sparrow."
Learning Phillips enjoys the sport doesn't take long. Moments after turning onto a gravel road, he points out numerous different species.
Though it's the worst time of year for birdwatching, Phillips is antsy to continue and spot more, creeping down a bank to a creek where a turtle pokes its head out of water. Like a kid at Christmas, Phillips is gung-ho about each bird and is quick to differentiate males from females.
"There is sexual dimorphism," he said. "The females are much bigger than the males."
Aside from size, males tend to be more colorful because they have to be attractive for mating, he said. While circling the 88 acres of The Burn, so titled because a 1936 soil fire torched the area, Phillips' knowledge is put to the test, identifying some birds simply by mannerisms before being able to make out their color. Despite his birding wisdom, there's room for more.
"The better you get at birding, the more you realize you don't know," Phillips said.
Though his love of birding has stemmed from 20 years of seeking certain species, his love for the outdoors traces back to his childhood on his father's farm in Plymouth County, Iowa, just north of Sioux City. Seeing the Loess Hills there got him interested in the outdoors.
"This (birding) is an outgrowth of that," said Phillips. "It occurred to me, 'Wow,' this is a whole new dimension.'"
Birds are harder to spot in the summer because leaves fill the trees and migration takes place during the fall and spring, but Phillips has no trouble pointing out the birds that spend summers here. More than 400 species of birds have been spotted in Indiana and more than 200 have been seen in The Burn alone, many of them threatened species because of loss of habitat.
Phillips, however, has taken his hobby elsewhere, including Ecuador and north of Seattle, where he spotted all five North American falcons in the same day — a feat he is proud of because of the rarity of doing so.
Soon he'll get the chance to bird in Prague — capital of the Czech Republic. Phillips will take a sabbatical leave for a year and use grant money to research group theory at Charles University. His wife and children will make the move, too.
He'll make sure not to leave his camera behind this time.
King is a reporter for the Crawfordsville Journal Review.


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So you bought that snazzy stainless firearm because the guy behind the counter told you it'd shed the elements like water off a duck's back. Yeah, right.
"The trend in firearms clearly seems to be away from the classic blued ones and in favor of those being marketed as stainless. But a big misconception comes into play, when a person thinks these stainless in appearance firearms are impervious to rust. In reality, they are every bit as susceptible to rusting as a blued gun—it may take a little longer for the rust to take hold, but rust they will … . The reason this happens is based on the fact that, while the gun metal may look like stainless steel, it really isn't stainless at all."—Tom Tabor, "10 Shooting Myths Exposed," Gun Digest 2013, 67th Edition
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A Boy Scout troop organization chart is a diagram that shows the basic leadership structure of Boy Scout and adult Scouter leaders. A large troop may fill all positions whereas a small troop may only fill the most critical positions of responsibilities.
The following chart shows the organization of a large troop.


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End HIV Transmission by 2030? Daunting but Doable
Noting that science has "brought a once-distant dream within reach," President Donald Trump on Tuesday night pledged to eliminate HIV transmission within 10 years.
"We have made incredible strides, incredible," Trump said in the annual State of the Union address. "Together, we will defeat AIDS in America and beyond."
It's a goal long sought by public health advocates. But even given the vital gains made in drug therapies and understanding of the disease over nearly 40 years, it is not an easy undertaking.
"The reason we have an AIDS epidemic is not just for a lack of the medication," said Dr. Kenneth Mayer, medical research director at the Boston LGBT health center Fenway Institute. "There are a lot of social, structural, individual behavioral factors that may impact why people become infected, may impact if people who are infected engage in care and may impact or affect people who are at high risk of HIV."
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, who provided details of the initiative after Trump's announcement, said the administration will target viral hot spots by providing local groups more resources, using data to track the spread of the disease and creating local task forces to bolster prevention and treatment.
Neither Azar nor other federal officials who briefed reporters offered cost estimates for the program.
Azar said the plan seeks to reduce new infections by 75 percent in the next five years and 90 percent in the next decade.
That goal is predicated on growing use of current medications that suppress the virus to such low levels that it is not transmitted during sexual intercourse. PrEP, a drug combination available to individuals with a negative HIV status but may become infected, can reduce their risk of getting the virus by 97 percent, Azar said."
"This is not the HIV epidemic of the 1990s," said Terrance Moore, acting executive director of NASTAD, a nonprofit organization that represents officials who administer HIV and hepatitis programs. "We have the tools to end this epidemic."
Gay and bisexual men made up two-thirds of the nearly 40,000 new HIV cases in 2017, but one clear signal of that difference in the epidemic today is the geography. The nation's HIV hotbeds are no longer located just in coastal metropolitan areas. In 2017, more than half of the new cases were diagnosed in Southern states.
HHS said it will focus its efforts on the heart of the epidemic: 48 counties across 19 states; the District of Columbia; San Juan, Puerto Rico; and rural areas in seven states, many of which are in the South.
The new federal initiative would expand PrEP access in community health clinics for low-income patients and quickly refer any new clinic patients with HIV to specialized care.
Medications alone are not the answer. Lawmakers must have the political will to move forward with policies based in science, said Moore. Existing programs do not provide enough infrastructure to achieve this goal, he added.
"You can't be simultaneously attacking and undermining the needs of these communities, while claiming that you want to support them and end the AIDS epidemic," said Scott Schoettes, HIV project director for the LGBT advocacy group Lambda Legal.
The Trump administration has pursued policies that may hinder the president's goal. And efforts in the South face additional challenges, like higher levels of poverty, difficulty providing health care in rural areas and historical racial tension.
"I don't think that these things are things that we cannot overcome," said Greg Millett, vice president and director of public policy at the HIV research foundation amfAR. "But I also think that we need to be very clear about what the obstacles are and to start thinking now innovatively about how we're going to be able to obviate them."
Health Insurance
Insurance coverage plays a crucial role in keeping HIV patients healthy.
Comprehensive insurance helps patients access the expensive medications needed to keep the virus under control and vital tests to check on virus levels and white blood cell counts — key health indicators. HIV patients are also often susceptible to infections because the virus compromises the immune system. And they tend to have higher rates of mental health conditions, which could affect their ability to adhere to HIV medication if left untreated.
The Affordable Care Act opened up coverage for thousands of HIV patients with its guarantee of insurance for people with preexisting conditions, but many Republican officials are still calling for the law's repeal.
In addition, the ACA's Medicaid expansion led to a substantial jump in the number of people with AIDS who got that coverage, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. But many states, especially in the South, have not expanded Medicaid. (Kaiser Health News is an editorially independent program of the foundation.)
A federal judge in Texas in December ruled the ACA unconstitutional in a lawsuit waged by a faction of conservative states and supported by the president.
"If you're not going to provide it through the Affordable Care Act," Schoettes said, "then there needs to be something that's as comprehensive in terms of getting people care.
Although the federal government provides some housing assistance for people with HIV, it does not fill the need.
Those who are homeless or have unstable housing have lower access to HIV medications and poorer treatment outcomes.
A study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that among individuals living with HIV in certain impoverished urban areas across the country, the lower the household income, the higher the rate of HIV in the area.
The federal government provides assistance through a program called Housing Opportunities for Persons With AIDS, known as HOPWA. In 2016, HOPWA changed its funding formula to better allocate its resources to Southern areas hardest hit by HIV.
However, some of these HOPWA programs have waiting lists that can extend years. The nation is also experiencing an affordable housing shortage, which further limits options for low-income individuals living with HIV and their families.
Stigma And Mistrust
Experts continue to cite stigma as a key obstacle for treatment. Twenty-six states have laws that penalize an HIV patient for exposing someone to the virus, including 19 that require people who are aware they are infected to notify sexual partners and 12 that mandate disclosure to needle-sharing partners, according to the CDC.
The problems extend to doctors and medical staff. One study, published in 2016, found widespread stigma against HIV patients among health care staff in Alabama and Mississippi, especially among whites and men.
Gina Brown, a community engagement manager for the Southern AIDS Coalition, in part blames the culture of the South, where religious beliefs often clash with gay culture, for perpetuating these problems. "We are still in Bible Belt country, where religion plays a huge part in how we talk about sex or not talk about sex," she said.
But federal policies, such as the Trump administration's ban on transgender men and women serving in the military, also play a role.
Federal officials acknowledged these difficulties and affirmed the program would not discriminate against transgender patients.
In addition, minority communities hard hit by the HIV epidemic harbor lingering distrust toward the medical system due to historical abuses such as the Tuskegee syphilis trials, said Mayer.
Injection Drug Use
The scourge of addiction has killed tens of thousands across the nation, spread hepatitis C and is now leading to spikes in HIV transmission, as drug users share needles. In 2015, Scott County, Ind., sought to combat an HIV outbreak fueled by injected opioid use that infected 215 people. Drug use has also been connected to multiple HIV clusters in Massachusetts and Kentucky.
HHS reported that injection drug users accounted for 1 in 10 new HIV cases in 2016.
Expanding syringe exchange programs across the country could minimize this problem, experts said.
"Unfortunately, in the United States we haven't done as good a job as other Western countries in making sure that those programs are widely available for those Americans who need them," said Millett.
The CDC and HHS consider syringe exchange programs effective interventions, but some cities, such as Charleston, W.Va., that implemented the programs have now shut them down because of neighborhood complaints, funding concerns and opposition from citizens who object to providing injection equipment.
Federal funds can be used to support this intervention, but these dollars cannot go directly toward purchasing needles.


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Berlin conference on marine protected areas in European waters and high seas calls for better management of the world's oceans
Europe should lead worldwide efforts to protect the oceans to prevent collapse of commercial fisheries by 2050. With three-quarters of the world's fish stocks already fully exploited or depleted, the oceans urgently need better regulation of fishing and other commercial activities. This was the main message of the conference "Countdown 2010 for Marine Ecosystems", closing today in Berlin.
Around 100 high-level experts from European member states, UN organizations and regional conventions agreed on the message "Countdown 2010 for Marine Ecosystems", emphasizing the importance of the European Union in improving the conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity.
"We can learn a lot from lessons of landscape management," says Carl Gustaf Lundin, Head of the IUCN Global Marine Programme. "If we restrict trawling and other destructive activities to certain areas, this will give marine habitats a chance to recover."
Marine protected areas, currently covering less than 1% of the world's oceans, have been proven to boost fish stocks; five years after the creation of marine reserves in the Egyptian Red Sea, fish catches in neighbouring areas increased by 66%.
"In the coming year, the EU Maritime Policy will determine the future of our oceans," explains Tamás Marghescu, IUCN Regional Director for Europe. "We need to put the environment at the centre to safeguard our marine resources and their major contribution to people's income and national economies."
On a European level, Natura 2000 sites provide an effective mechanism to create marine protected areas. In the high seas, the Berlin conference recommends a UN-based implementing agreement to protect vulnerable ecosystems.
The conference was organized by the World Conservation Union (IUCN) and the German EU Presidency. It built on the IUCN Marine Protected Areas Summit in Washington D.C. earlier this month in which experts called for 30% of marine areas to be protected.
European governments have promised to halt the loss of biological diversity on land and in the seas by 2010. Governments worldwide have committed to create a global network of marine protected areas by 2012. The initiative Countdown 2010 - hosted by the World Conservation Union (IUCN) - supports these and other ambitious conservation targets in collaboration with governments and civil society.
Notes to Editors
The conference website:
IUCN website on marine issues:
Countdown 2010 is a powerful network of active partners working together towards the 2010 biodiversity target. Each partner commits additional efforts to tackle the causes of biodiversity loss.
Countdown 2010 website:
German Federal Ministry for the Environment:
German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation:
http://www.bfn.de/ and
EU Marine Policies:
http://ec.europa.eu/environment/water/marine/index_en.htm and http://ec.europa.eu/maritimeaffairs/policy_en.htm
For more information in German and English or to set up interviews, please contact:
Wiebke Herding, Communications Officer, Countdown 2010, IUCN Europe Office
Tel: +32 2 739 0321, mobile: +49 177 2409042, [email protected]
Tim Christophersen, European Programme Coordinator, IUCN Europe Office
Tel: +32 2 739 3007, mobile: +32 473 863 608, [email protected]
Marine Policies
"High Seas" or oceans beyond national jurisdiction are usually defined by what they are not. The high seas are all parts of the sea that are not included in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ). Generally a state's EEZ extends to a distance of 200 nautical miles (370 km) out from its coast.
Facts about Marine Biodiversity
Oceans cover about 70% of the planet's surface and hold an abundance of biodiversity with marine and coastal environments being home to 97% of all species on earth. Oceans, marine ecosystems and their biodiversity are vital for life on earth. They play a key role in global nutrient recycling and climate regulation and provide humans with a wide range of resources and services.
Globally, life in our seas produces one third of the oxygen we breathe and human consumption of fish makes up 16% of our animal protein supply and is particularly important as a protein source for populations in developing countries. In 2002, the global fish catch reached about 90 million tonnes and aquaculture contributed with another 40 million tonnes. Three quarters of this production were used for human consumption, the rest for animal feed and thus, to a large extent, ultimately for human consumption.
The World Conservation Union (IUCN)
Created in 1948, the World Conservation Union (IUCN) brings together 83 States, 110 government agencies, 800 plus NGOs, and some 10,000 scientists and experts from 181 countries in a unique worldwide partnership. The Union's mission is to influence, encourage and assist societies throughout the world to conserve the integrity and diversity of nature and to ensure that any use of natural resources is equitable and ecologically sustainable.
The Union is the world's largest environmental knowledge network and has helped over 75 countries to prepare and implement national conservation and biodiversity strategies. The Union is a multicultural, multilingual organization with 1,000 staff located in 62 countries. Its headquarters are in Gland, Switzerland.
More information can be found at www.iucn.org


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March 10, 2012
Coffee & Clicks | March 10, 2012 {Edition #30: Ditch Your Cable Bill, Earn More, and Pin FTW @ Mommin' It Up!}
If you find a few minutes to click around this weekend while you sip your coffee (or whatever fills your mug), wander through these posts and enjoy reading, reflecting, and relaxing.
:: I love this detailed post from Amy @ Mom Advice about How to Ditch Your Cable Bill. If you are trying to find ways to cut your cable bill/bundled service bill cost or want to ditch cable altogether but still want access to TV shows, read this post. Genius!
:: Great money earning and portfolio buidling advice from the guest poster at Money Saving Mom about When You Can't Save More, Make More! If you're looking for some ideas for side gigs or need to create a portfolio of the work you've done (a-hem, like yours truly), this post is a must read.
:: Total #bigdealmoms shoutout here: my friends Emily & Jenny at Mommin It Up! have a great new weekly feature with linky, Pin for the Wednesdays (if you say it slowly, it sounds like "Pin for the Win...nesday" thus the shorthand Pin FTW) for any and all bloggers who are just a *wee* bit obsessed with Pinterest. If you're a pinning fool, hop over and check out the links and add your own fave Pinterest inspired ideas. I still have my Pinterest invite sitting in my inbox, totally unopened because I know once I'm in, I'm gonna be totally pinned. ;-)
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In case you're wondering, the materials used were: dark brown cotton twill for the outer layers, linen for the inner layers and for the lining, white cotton twill tape for binding and 5 mm cable ties for boning. Also, there are four 7mm metal bones altogether, two in the front and two in the back.
By the way, these tabs were actually much more easier to bind than the more rounded ones, at least to me. I used twill tape for my stays for the first time and the binding part wasn't as hard as it has been before.
The edges of the back panels won't close as closely as they used to. After adding the lining the stays wouldn't stretch as much as before. Or then I just gained a little weight during the summer, which is very probable as well. Anyhow, I'm just happy the gap is even.
As you can see in the photo below, the stays won't lie completely flat on the floor.
I'm so relieved to have finished these stays, even if stays in general are lot of fun for me. It's just that I haven't had much time to sew anything else than stays this year. So I'm very excited to finally get started with some dresses very soon!


text: The Lakatnik Rocks are located in Bulgaria on the Iskar Gorge passing though the Balkan Mountains. At some places they reach heights of 250 m. The rocks consist of limestones and sandstones with many karst formations. There are many caves in the area. Tehe Lakatnik Rocks are also one of the most popular places for rock climbing in Bulgaria.


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autopilot wrote:waiting to etch the pcb to test the updated prototype, i had been slowed down (where i work/live are doing some remodelations and every day is a mess of concrete)
Chankgeez wrote:We should have a game show à la Name That Tune
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Hazle Boss Neet (1921-2008)
Many persons doing genealogical research in northeast Mississippi will recognize the name of Hazle Boss Neet who published a book of records on Pontotoc County records. She died last Saturday and will be buried this coming Sunday. Her obituary appears in the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal.
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- Nilay Patel: Twitter used to be for tech nerds, now it's for the entire world
- Patel: TV executives, celebrities, politicians, journalists all see Twitter as invaluable
- He says Twitter faces challenges ahead, like free speech and how to make money
- Patel: Sense of anarchy and openness and chaos is what makes Twitter vital
As a tech reporter, it's my job to catch trends as they're developing — to be ahead of the curve. I like to think I do a pretty good job, but I will forever have one hilarious black mark on my resume.
My first tweet.
"I am already kind of over Twitter," I wrote on April 5, 2007. Twitter was a new service back then, and I had signed up early enough to get a pretty cool username. Frankly, I didn't think much of it since it seemed like a mild update to the IM status messages I'd already been using to communicate with my friends for years.
Boy, was I ever wrong.
Twitter has grown from being an insider back channel for tech nerds into being the insider back channel for the entire world.
It is everywhere at once and everything to everyone: a public broadcast platform, a private messaging service, a way to share photos, a late-night therapy session, a journalist's best friend. We expect people to be their most honest on Twitter — and that honesty can spark firestorms of controversy.
Television executives say that Twitter has brought live TV back to life after years of wilting in the face of the DVR — we're "social watching" now, which means we all want to tweet about shows as they're happening. Celebrities use Twitter to talk to their fans without media and publicists in the way — and their platforms can be so valuable that they can earn thousands of dollars per tweet. Every journalist I know says Twitter has redefined the way news is gathered and shared — stories break on Twitter now, not on TV or in the newspaper.
I have a friend whose cell phone is set up to get a text whenever Britney Spears tweets. I worry about her, but not as much as she worries about Britney.
Since Twitter is where the people are, that's where the politicians and world leaders have gone. The pope just signed up for a personal account, and his first tweet is coming on December 12. Senators and representatives of both parties have long made use of Twitter to talk to their constituents on an unfiltered platform — sometimes with disastrous results, as Anthony Weiner found out when he accidentally posted a private message publicly.
President Obama took to Twitter during the campaign season and again on Monday to rally support for his fiscal policies. Obama's use of social media during the campaign highlighted his significant tech advantage over Mitt Romney. But the president seemed to mostly use Twitter to acknowledge that he knows Twitter exists; he said very little of substance in his eight tweets during Monday's "town hall." We'll know Twitter has truly come of age as a political medium when our presidents use it to disseminate substance, not just show off that they're in the know.
Interesting dramas regularly unfold on Twitter. Last year the terrorist group Al-Shabaab gained notoriety for setting up a Twitter account. More recently, the Twitter accounts of Israel Defense Forces and Hamas began a war of words as the two sides began fighting each other on the ground. Human tragedy turned into theater on the Internet.
The episode drew scrutiny from Congress, with seven Republican members of the House calling on the FBI to shut down Hamas' Twitter account. "Allowing foreign terrorist organizations like Hamas to operate on Twitter is enabling the enemy," said Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas. He continued, "The FBI and Twitter must recognize sooner rather than later that social media is a tool for the terrorists."
Actually, Congress can't tell Twitter what to do under the First Amendment, but the company will face increasing scrutiny as its user base grows — and for the level of control it can exert over free speech in a private platform.
Twitter faces numerous other challenges as well in the years ahead. The company might be a central part of Internet conversation, but it still has to figure out how to make money. Those struggles have led Twitter to exercise more and more control over its service as it tries to slowly transition from being just a platform to being a media company — control that's angered a developer and user community that literally made Twitter what it is today.
The @-reply, the hashtag, even the now-ubiquitous pull-to-refresh gesture: All these came from members of the Twitter community, and Twitter risks missing out on similar innovations as it imposes its own vision of the Twitter experience.
And make no mistake, the backlash against Twitter is real. Spurned developers and early Twitter adopters angry at Twitter's new policies have turned to the alternative service App.net, which promises to hold true to Twitter's own early ideals. The catch? In order to make money, App.net charges a subscription fee, a guarantee that it will never be as vibrant and free-wheeling as Twitter.
That sense of anarchy and openness and chaos is what makes Twitter important — what makes it the town square and a freshman dorm room and an international conference call all at once. The challenge for all of us is figuring out how to best turn such a tool into more than just noise — and the challenge for Twitter is figuring out how to make money without chilling the vibrant expression that makes it so vital.
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COLUMBIA -- Those who consider themselves members of the Tea Party number far fewer than in 2010, according to the latest Winthrop Poll.
The findings, released Wednesday, reflect the same downward trend of the Tea Party that was revealed in December's survey results.
Only about 10 percent of Republicans and GOP-leaning Independents who approve of the Tea Party consider themselves a member of it. That was one of the findings of a survey taken of 1,038 South Carolinians from Feb. 9-17.
Overall, only about 6 percent of all registered voters count themselves members of the Tea Party. That means membership in the Tea Party held steady from last December, however, approval of the movement continues to fade across the board, the poll found.
In Wednesday's results, a quarter of all respondents and nearly 27 percent of registered voters said they approved of the Tea Party.
But in October 2010, nearly 50 percent of likely voters said they "generally agree with the principles of the Tea Party."
Those who were not familiar enough with the movement to give their opinion made up about 35 percent in the latest poll and 33 percent in the December survey.
In the December poll, 5 percent of respondents said they were Tea Party members, a figure that jumped to 8 percent of those identified as Republicans or Republican-leaning.
In 2010, however, three times as many Republicans and those who leaned Republican said they were members of the Tea Party.


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Durham News: Community
Art you can see with your eyes closed
It's something we probably haven't considered if we have our vision.
The visually impaired have Braille for reading, but how can they "see" images?
According to the American Foundation for the Blind, more than 236,000 people in North Carolina experience visual loss. The National Federation of the Blind reports some 700,000 children nationally have a visual disability or are legally blind.
Warhol, da Vinci, Seurat, these artists told stories through art. But their masterpieces and many other iconic works of art were unknowable to the visually impaired, until Hillsborough-based artist Sally Barker – SallyB in the art world – designed a tactile color system.
When SallyB retired she thought she would learn Spanish or how to play the piano. Art never crossed her mind. Then she thought of a system that matched colors with textures – assigning the feel of satin, wool, velvet, and other textiles to respective colors on a color wheel. She mentioned her idea to quilters, but none of them wanted to do it. "They say it's 'too hard, too detailed,'" she explained.
So she took the idea in her own hands, gathering fabrics, and recreating signature works by Picasso, Matisse and other painters. The pesky swarm of bees in Seurat's "Sunday Afternoon" required her attention for two years. Most of the other pieces took six to nine months to complete.
The resulting exhibit, on display this month at the Orange County Campus of Durham Technical Community College, is different from your typical art gallery scene with clusters of hushed people standing back and admiring work. At this exhibit, visitors along a brightly lit hallways are encouraged to get close up with the art, often with eyes closed and a growing smile as their fingers gently trace the textured quilts.
Although she has displayed her work across the United States and twice in the United Kingdom, SallyB has never hung her own artwork until now. For the first time she chose exactly how she wanted her art to be showcased.
Another first for SallyB: She premieres an original piece in the Hillsborough exhibit called "Abundance." Before this show, entitled "Once More with Feeling!" her work was a collection of homages to famous works of art.
The exhibit continues to grow. She is working on Monet's "Water Lilies" and is eager to start a Renoir. Her passion for creating art can be seen, touched, and you can hear it when her voice cracks in excitement as she rattles off the art contests she is entering.
She is entering art contests now to try to raise money. She develops and displays pieces on her dime. Occasionally a site will pay shipping costs. Many times SallyB and her husband deliver the artwork themselves, driving up to Boston for an exhibition, or flying to Birmingham, England, for the National Federation for the Blind convention.
Her concept has stretched around the world. A father in Pakistan with a visually impaired son contacted SallyB through Facebook. SallyB helped bridge the geography gap. Knowing the man could not afford a trip for his son to feel the art, she sent him a kit, color wheel, and samples of each fabric. He was able to create art using similar materials in his area. He developed art for his son and other children in the community to enjoy.
Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" is 600 years old and untouchable behind bullet-proof glass in a climate-controlled space. SallyB's quilted homage is about a decade old and ready for visitors' fingertips.
Does she launder the pieces? Not once. Typically a lint remover is sufficient. She spot-cleaned Georgia O'Keeffe's "Red Poppy" to remove a stain; a laundry cycle could destroy the integrity of the fabrics.
With so many people touching each quilt to experience the textures, how long does she think it will be before she has to retire any of the pieces? She laughs.
"I'll be long gone before that happens."
Tara Lynne Groth is a full-time freelance writer based in the Triangle. Contact her at www.taralynnegroth.com


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Film or Television: Ryan Phillippe edition
It was announced a few months ago that Ryan Phillippe would be joining the cast of Damages for its fifth season. I totally missed that. So when I started scanning the photo agencies last night and came across these shots of him shooting the show in New York the other day, my reaction was delayed.
And that's what a struggle it is in the movies right now. So many actors of a certain age range, and not that much work. At least not in film.
Phillippe will never admit it, but this, television, is not the direction he would have intended for himself. It's never their intention. TV to movies and not the other way around. I'm not saying I agree with that principle - and we've already discussed it at length, most recently re: Ewan McGregor, click here for a refresher - but this is a truth they themselves have created. Whether or not this is what they've been taught, the fact is they consider film to be the ultimate achievement.
Ryan Phillippe however is not Ewan McGregor. Ewan McGregor is doing HBO equally out of creative choice than necessity. For Phillippe...well...this is pure necessity. It just wasn't really happening over in film. And I imagine the conversation with his agent must been along the lines of - do this, get their attention, make a big impression, and then we can try to move you back into more interesting work in the movies, ok? Once again, it's television as a means to an end. And a means to a means. After all, it's about the money too. To spend on the new girlfriend?
Click here if you missed photos of the new girlfriend with him in December. I'm told she's 20 and she loves talking about how "my boyfriend bought me this" and "my boyfriend took me to that". On Facebook. What's Leonardo DiCaprio's policy for his 20 year old pieces and their activity on social networks?