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Immigration Debate Gears UpBy Laura Meckler, Wall Street Journal
Millions of illegal immigrants would be given a path to citizenship under provisions of an immigration overhaul fashioned by a bipartisan group of senators, an opening shot in what promises to be a fight in Congress this year.Read more
The Fed's Profits: The Other Side of QEBy Greg Ip, Economist
Ever since the Federal Reserve first started buying up financial assets back in 2008, some have fretted about taxpayer exposure. The private debt purchased by the Fed to prop up the financial system might sour. The government bonds it has bought with newly created money, a strategy dubbed "quantitative easing" (QE), could fall in value if interest rates rose.Read more
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Obama Shakes Up White House as He Names Chief of StaffBy Peter Baker, The New York Times
President Obama plans to shake up his White House staff on Friday, installing a new team largely made up of familiar faces moved to different positions as he gears up for an intense push on sweeping legislation early in his second term.Read more
U.S. Senate OKs Tweak to Filibuster RulesBy Susan Davis, USA Today
The Senate voted Thursday to alter its parliamentary rules to make it easier to move legislation and judicial nominations through the chamber.Read more
One Tough-Talking Nerd: Bobby Jindal Brands Himself as Republican ReformerBy Beth Reinhard, National Journal
The speech Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal gave Thursday to a gathering of Republican party leaders, released in advance by his office, was organized by Roman numerals. I. America is not Washington. II. How we win the argument. III. How we win the election. IV. Conclusion. Jindal's delivery resembled that of a nervous student rushing through an oral recitation of a term paper. The audience was as distracted as a room of high school classmates.Read more
G.O.P. Mulls a Strategy From Obama's PlaybookBy Jeff Zeleny, The New York Times
As Republican leaders gathered here on Thursday to consider how to rebuild their party, President Obama was at the center of the conversation. But the sharp criticism directed at him was replaced by something new: envy over his campaign.Read more
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Jan 24, 2013
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Benghazi Hearing: A Rollout for 2016 Contenders?By Alexis Simendinger, Real Clear Politics
It only took 48 hours after a presidential inauguration for the political discourse to shift into animated chatter about the next president, or at least conjecture about the candidates who might want the job.Read more
House Passes Short-Term Debt-Limit ExtensionBy Susan Davis, USA Today
The U.S. House approved, 285-144, a bill to suspend the nation's $16.4 trillion debt ceiling through May 18 to avert a U.S. default on its legal obligations and buy Washington more time to negotiate budget priorities.Read more
Ryan Says GOP Won't Back Down on Spending CutsBy Lori Montgomery, Washington Post
As House Republicans prepared to vote Wednesday on a plan to suspend the debt limit, Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan made clear that the party is in no way abandoning its uncompromising approach to the budget battle with President Obama.Read more
GOP Plots Path Back to PowerBy Beth Reinhard, National Journal
With President Obama's second inauguration still ringing in their ears, Republican national party leaders are hunkering down for three days of soul-searching.
The presidential election was the toughest, but not the last indignity. Congressional Republicans were backed into a corner during the negotiations to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff and forced to accept tax hikes on the wealthiest Americans. Still seeking leverage, GOP leaders are backing off a showdown over the debt ceiling. At Monday's swearing-in, President Obama stuck it to the opposition party by laying out an unapologetically liberal agenda for the next four years.Read more
After Investigation Clears Allen, White House to Proceed with NATO NominationBy Peter Baker, The New York Times
The White House said Wednesday that it would move forward with the nomination of Gen. John R. Allen as the top NATO commander now that he has been cleared of wrongdoing in connection with a series of e-mails with a Florida socialite.Read more
Jan 23, 2013
House Gears Up to Vote on Temporary Debt Ceiling HikeBy Susan Davis, USA Today
House Republicans are scheduled to vote Wednesday to extend the nation's $16.4 trillion debt limit as the opening salvo in a renewed battle this year to pass a federal budget and reduce the debt.Read more
In New Term, First Year Is Crucial for Obama AgendaBy Jeff Zeleny, The New York Times
The Constitution may promise President Obama another four years in the White House, but political reality calls for a far shorter time frame: he has perhaps as little as a year to accomplish his big-ticket goals for a second term.Read more
Democrats Grumbling About Obama Lobbying ShopBy Beth Reinhard, National Journal
Even as Democrats relish President Obama' second inauguration, some party leaders are worried about whether the campaign's decision to form its own advocacy group will hamstring future generations of Democratic candidates.Read more
House to Vote Wednesday on Plan to Suspend Debt Limit Until MayBy Lori Montgomery and Rosalind S. Helderman, The Washington Post
House Republicans are advancing a novel plan to suspend enforcement of the federal debt limit through May 18, a move that would lift the threat of a government default and relieve the air of crisis that has surrounded their budget battle with President Obama.Read more
Obama's Big Risk: The Words He Didn't SayBy John F. Harris and Alexander Burns, Politico
Barack Obama's foes, in candid moments, will often acknowledge that his most impressive trait is self-confidence. He has a sense of his own destiny, and an inner poise to keep focused on it even amid setback and distraction.Read more
Jan 22, 2013
Obama's Political SpeechBy John Dickerson, Slate Magazine
In 2009, Barack Obama's inauguration was a civil rights turning point. In his 2013 inaugural address, he sang the song of America's civil rights progress. He talked about how the growing support for the rights of women, African-Americans, and gays affirmed the essential promise in the Declaration of Independence. At a time when Washington seems so tiny you could fit it into your pocket, he asked everyone to look up from their Twitter feed to see how much had changed around them.Read more
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MC 00349 Guide to the Alan Pritsker Professional Library, 1985-1992
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I was diagnosed with ADHD late in life, while struggling through and trying to fight it just can''t afford to quit or lose another job. I am very open minded and wish to learn as much as I can about everything but this memory of mine and lack of focus won't allow it. Please at least. point me in the right direction.
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Dec 29 2012: Maybe self-hypnosis would help,but if not it's medicate or don't Unless you can anchor the work the meds do some early NLP books also talk about ADHD.Of course,your choice of jobs could be a problem too. Talk about wieners and losers has become very popular - I've seen lots of alleged losers,but I've seen few wieners. Be realistic. Godspeed.
Dec 29 2012: I've been looking into NLP I understand all of the views and strategies, my lack of focus and memory seems to keep me from retaining the good stuff. And I've seen a lot of losers as well I'm not letting my loss's get in the way I'm way stronger then ever. If I can just find a way to erase and restore the hard drive and wipe the memory in my mind. Or upgrade the software I wouldn't need to worry about losing. I know that I can find another job that's not hard at all. I'm tired of it though and my mind really doesn't kick in when I need it to. Don't get me wrong I have know problem being a loser or a wiener I just want to retain everything about both so I can choose one and stick to it.....
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Friday, trial information was filed charging Alexander Pothast with Homicide by Vehicle, a Class B Felony. Subsequent to the filing an arrest warrant was issued with a bond of $25,000.
Pothast voluntarily presented himself to the Bremer County Sheriff's Office on the arrest warrant. The Defendant was released after posting $25,000 bond and under the condition of supervision by the Second Judicial Department of Corrections pending trial.
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According to court documents, a Bremer County sheriff's deputy testified Pothast told him he had been drinking before the March 21st crash. A blood sample taken after the crash found Pothast's blood alcohol level at .158, court records said.
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Thorne Research - Basic B Complex - 60 Vegetarian Capsules
Basic B Complex consists of a group of eight water-soluble compounds: thiamine (vitamin B1), riboflavin (vitamin B2), niacin (vitamin B3), pantothenic acid (vitamin B5), pyridoxine (vitamin B6), cobalamin (vitamin B12), folate, and biotin. Although each B vitamin is chemically distinct, they often work together in various biochemical functions throughout the body - from cellular energy production, to healthy red-blood-cell formation, to healthy neurological function. Most B vitamins, with the exception of vitamin B12, are not stored in the body; consequently, they must be acquired daily from the diet in order to maintain optimal health.
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Thorne's Basic B Complex contains the entire B-complex, including the activated forms of vitamin B2 (riboflavin 5'-phosphate), vitamin B6 (pyridoxal 5'-phosphate), folic acid (folinic acid and L-5-methyltetrahydrofolate), and vitamin B12 (adenosylcobalamin and methylcobalamin), as well as 80 mg choline citrate. Although choline is often grouped with the B vitamin family, it is not officially a B vitamin.
Dr. Michael Lebowitz D.C. Recommends:Due to the intake of processed foods, dysbiosis, internalizes stress, hypoadrenia, etc., many patients are deficient in the B vitamins. In addition, factors such as genetics, environmental exposures, or insufficient dietary intake may cause certain B vitamins to be lower than others in a particular patient. Thorne Research has six different B complexes. Basic B is a balanced B mixture, while their B complexes 1, 3, 5, 6, and 12 have higher amounts of one particular B (for example, B Complex #1 is higher in vitamin B1). Dr. Michael Lebowitz has found in many cases, that giving the appropriate B complex works better clinically than giving an isolated nutrient (although exceptions are P-5-P, Folacal, Cobamamide, and R-5-P). For the most part with muscle testing, a patient will test for only one product due to its particular ratio of nutrients. Dr. Michael Lebowitz has gotten wonderful clinical results with these products and tests each one on a G-2 muscle for strength training. Dr. Michael Lebowitz has also found Basic B Complex very useful in women who appear to have too much estrogen because it helps in hormone degradation and hormone and neurotransmitter production.
Thorne Research's MissionAt Thorne Research, their mission is to enhance the health and well-being of people by providing superior dietary supplements that have the highest level of quality and purity – thereby creating the most respected and valued company in the dietary supplement industry.
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Thorne's Commitment to PurityPractitioners have become accustomed to seeing the vague "We use only the purest ingredients" in the promotional materials of almost every dietary supplement company. Perhaps these companies truly believe that. Perhaps they don't know any better. Nevertheless, Thorne Research, for more than 25 years, has been the standard by which companies in the industry are judged for product purity. Practitioners rely on Thorne as the company they trust for their extremely allergic, chemically sensitive, and immune-compromised patients.
Purity Takes Extra EffortFor example, instead of purchasing prediluted vitamin D, as other companies do, Thorne performs its own dilution to avoid detrimental ingredients, such as the preservatives or lactose that are found in many commercially available dilutions. Why must vitamin D be diluted? Because in its pure form, it is too concentrated to safely blend into a vitamin product. Pure vitamin D is 40 MILLION International Units (IU) per gram. The RDA for adults is 600-800 IU per day. To ensure proper mixing, it must be made into a dilute powder that flows and does not lose potency. So, unlike companies that use prediluted vitamin D that contains unacceptable excipients and preservatives, at Thorne, pure pharmaceutical vitamin D is first blended with pure mixed tocopherol vitamin E, and the resultant stable vitamin D is then blended with hypoallergenic cellulose powder. The final powder is blended in a large tumble blender and subsequently analyzed. Not only is the final product stable; it is also hypoallergenic and can be mixed homogeneously and at a safe level with other powders. Just as with vitamin D, Thorne utilizes similar processes for other raw materials, such as vitamin K, leaving it to other companies to purchase commercially available raw materials filled with unacceptable ingredients and preservatives.
Ingredients You Don't WantMagnesium Stearate: Good for speed-hungry encapsulating machines. Not necessarily good for you. Manufacturing encapsulated dietary supplements isn't easy. Pure powdered ingredients are difficult to mix because they are either extremely dry, sticky with botanical oils, or attract unwanted moisture. So most manufacturers add magnesium stearate and other agents such as lactose and dextrose to make the powder flow quickly and easily through their high-volume machines. Problem is, these additives may compromise the bioavailability of the nutrients in the supplement, and might cause allergenic problems. At Thorne, they take a different approach.
Thorne will never utilize large fatty acid excipients in its manufacturing processes – ingredients such as magnesium stearate or stearic acid. These excipients are utilized as flowing agents to ensure that maximum productivity is obtained from capsuling and tableting machines. There are documented detrimental effects directly attributed to long chain fatty acids utilized as manufacturing flowing agents. Every qualified pharmaceutical compounder recognizes that large fatty acids, such as magnesium stearate, can interfere with product dissolution and influence absorption. Virtually all companies, because of the economic impact, ignore this data. As with most industries, the bottom line dictates the level of quality. The dietary supplement industry has one exception: Thorne Research, the company that does not compromise. Nevertheless, if a company cannot manufacture products without using detrimental excipients, they should not allude to being either "hypoallergenic" or "pure."
The Bottom Line?Thorne is the only hypoallergenic dietary supplement manufacturer with the highest degree of purity that you – and your most severely allergic, chemically sensitive, and immune-compromised patients – can truly trust.
Quality Ingredients: A Higher StandardAt Thorne, they are committed to setting a higher standard of quality when it comes to ingredients. To produce their truly hypoallergenic encapsulated supplements, Thorne uses only the purest and finest ingredients available.
Every manufacturer has two basic options when purchasing raw materials: purchase either truly pure raw materials, or purchase raw materials to which substances have been added to facilitate manufacturing. This fundamental dilemma translates to these very typical questions: "Do I purchase pure vitamin C or vitamin C with additives?" "Do I purchase pure B vitamins or coated B vitamins for taste masking?" "Do I purchase pure enzymes such as pancreatin, pepsin, and bromelain or enzymes diluted with lactose?"
There are few commercial sources for vitamins B12, D, K, or biotin that are not diluted with substances such as lactose, cornstarch, and preservatives such as BHT. That's why Thorne developed methods that allow them to use pure, undiluted sources of these nutrients – and many others. It's just one more example that when it comes to quality, what everyone else accepts as an industry standard isn't good enough. While some companies say they are raising their standards....at Thorne they set them.
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ALLERGY WARNINGThis product is contraindicated in an individual with a history of hypersensitivity to any of its ingredients.
EXCIPIENT FREEThis product does not contain wheat, gluten, corn, yeast, soy, egg, dairy products, or artificial colors, sweeteners, or flavors. This product also does not contain lactose, palmitic acid, or magnesium, calcium, or vegetable stearates.
PREGNANCY WARNINGIf pregnant, consult your health-care practitioner before using this product.
INTERACTIONS/CONTRAINDICATIONSFolinic acid and 5-methyl-tetrahydrofolate supplementation is not recommended concurrently with methotrexate cancer therapy, as they can interfere with methotrexate's anti-neoplastic activity; however, these folate sources have not been shown to interfere with the anti-inflammatory activity of methotrexate. An individual taking methotrexate for psoriasis or rheumatoid arthritis can safely take a supplement containing folate.
Other Ingredients: Hypromellose (derived from cellulose) capsule, MagnesiumCitrateLaurate, Silicon Dioxide.
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In the times that are past of those that remember the emerald isle. It is a blessing peace to sit and chat for a while. Memory is good when it is passed from one to another don't you agree. When the memory can be carried by all and you can see what i see. Pour a pint and sit a spell and tell me me of you, We will pass tails back and forth and make memories anew.
Conall's family stared on the western shores of Ireland, A line of four generations of arch druids from the island. After the exodus found his family welcomed in the celtic tribe Bituriges, what the the romans would call the Gauls.
Conall regails in the stories passed on from grandfather to father to him and so forth, as well as the lessons taugh by his father in regards to archery, storytelling, and in knowing that the druid arts that are now passed on in secret from mentor to student as the new religions are pushing out the old.
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Toxic Chemicals and the Ramsar Convention
by Barbara Rutherford, WWF International
This paper was first presented as one of the Themes for the Future special interventions at the 6th Meeting of the Conference of the Contracting Parties in Brisbane, in March 1996, and was published in volume 9 of the Proceedings of that COP. It provides an eloquent statement of the problems and threats presented by the growing prevalence of toxic substances and makes some concrete suggestions as to how the Ramsar Convention can respond. More recently, Ms Rutherford and her colleague Peter Hurst discussed these issues with the Ramsar Scientific and Technical Review Panel in April 1997 and agreed upon a joint programme for building these concerns into the work of the Convention and possibly providing guidance for the Contracting Parties, to be discussed at the 7th COP in Costa Rica.
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This paper concerns taking toxics out of wetlands as an emerging issue for the Contracting Parties to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands to be considering in their future work to conserve wetlands and water resources. Pollution is not really an emerging issue, as many Contracting Parties are already experiencing degradation of their water resources, and of their Ramsar and other wetland sites due to agricultural run-off and industrial discharges.
What is perhaps emerging, however, is a new understanding of how toxic pollution damages nature, including humans. What follows from this new understanding is an imperative to prevent pollution from occurring in the first place, as many of the impacts we are now beginning to understand are long term and irreversible in nature.
It is becoming increasingly clear that the world's biodiversity cannot be conserved in a world filled with harmful chemicals. Toxic chemicals move through air and water, into earth and plants and animals, and have been detected in wildlife from the Arctic to Antarctica - in alligators, bald eagles, bottle-nosed dolphins, beluga whales, great blue heron, common seals, polar bears, sea turtles, and humans, among many other species.
For decades, wildlife have sent warning signs about the dangers of chemical pollution. These dangers first caught widespread attention in 1962 with Rachel Carson's book, Silent Spring, which focused mainly on older generation organochlorine chemicals, many of which are still in commerce, and their ability to kill wildlife and have serious sub-lethal impacts, such as on reproduction and immune system functioning.
Today, many scientists agree that many synthetic chemicals are capable of tampering with the fundamental endocrine systems of humans and wildlife, which control development and reproduction through chemical messengers called hormones. Such impacts may have profound effects at the population level of many species. WWF US Senior Scientist, Dr Theo Colborn, tells the fascinating endocrine disruptor story in her new book, Our Stolen Future, coauthored with Dr. Meyers and Dianne Dumanoski. This chilling tale was published last week in the US and will be available in the UK, France, Germany, Australia, and Japan before the year is out.
And yet synthetic chemical use continues to increase worldwide. From 1940 to 1982, production of synthetic materials increased roughly 350 times. US production of synthetic organic compounds was approximately 435 billion pounds, or 200 billion kilograms, in 1992. Global production is estimated to be four times greater - about 1700 billion pounds, or about 800 billion kilograms, per year. While pesticide use is highest in North America and Europe today, pesticide use is expected to increase at a greater rate in developing countries in the near future.
Many of these compounds are persistent and bioaccumulative, magnifying up the food chain - often absorbed in body fat - where they can wreak havoc for a long time, through multiple generations passed down from mother to offspring.
Wildlife - and humans - are daily being exposed to a multitude of synthetic chemical compounds that disrupt development of the reproductive, immune, nervous, and endocrine systems by mimicking hormones, blocking the action of hormones, or by other unknown interference with the endocrine system. Hormones play a key role in development, and especially sexual differentiation.
In mice, elephants, whales, humans, and in all other mammals, as well as in birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish, the process that creates two sexes from initially unisex embryos is guided by these chemical messengers. They are the conductors that give the cues at the right moment as tissues and organs make now-or-never choices about the direction of development. In this central drama in which boys become boys and girls become girls, hormones have the starring role.
Consequently, endocrine disruption may endanger populations because their immune systems are not functioning well and they cannot recover from infections. Or their ability to obtain sufficient food or avoid predators could be affected. There is also evidence that endocrine disruptors cause the loss of parenting instinct in some bird species. Abnormal sexual development of anatomy or behaviour because of endocrine disruption can also put populations at risk of not being able to reproduce in sufficient numbers.
Glaring examples include:
Alligators exposed to a pesticide spill in Florida have suffered severe reproductive impairment: male alligators have significantly smaller penises (one third to one half the normal size) compared to males hatched on a relatively cleaner lake.
This contamination has also decimated the local red-eared turtle population. Reproductive difficulties are showing up by an absence of males and the presence of many specimens that are neither male nor female - so-called "intersex." Although sex differentiation in turtles is determined by temperature, research has shown that something more than temperature fluctuation is needed to produce sexually confused animals. In laboratory experiments it has been demonstrated that intersex animals can be produced by exposing them to estrogen or estrogen-mimics such as PCBs.
Surveys of the critically endangered Florida panther have found similar effects. The panthers' range in southern Florida - including the Everglades National Park and the Big Cypress Swamp - is downstream from major agricultural areas. A significant number of the male animals have some form of reproductive abnormality, including undescended testicles, and over-production of estrogen. Both males and females have problems of sterility, evidence of impaired immune response, and malfunctioning of thyroid glands.
Marine mammals may be most at risk. There has been a series of mass die-offs of marine mammals in many different regions since the 1980s, including bottlenose dolphins along the Atlantic coast of the US, striped dolphins in the Mediterranean, harbour porpoises in the Black Sea, humpback whales in the western North Atlantic, and dolphins on the Texas coast. Most of these die-offs have been linked to high levels of PCBs found in the dead animals, although it is difficult to determine whether other synthetic chemicals were a cause as well. The endangered beluga whales of the St. Lawrence estuary are now among the most contaminated animals on earth, with tumours, reproductive problems, and heavy metal poisoning.
Experiments conducted in the Wadden Sea, where there are declining numbers of harbour seals, demonstrate that impaired reproduction is strongly related to levels of PCBs in seal tissue and strongly correlated to consumption of contaminated fish.
Adverse impacts have been recorded in populations of herring gulls, birds of prey and shorebirds. In 1970, in Ontario, Canada, it was discovered that 80% of the herring gull chick population died before they were hatched and had evidence of gross deformities, such as having adult feathers instead of down, club feet, missing eyes and twisted bills.
Also in the early 1970s in Southern California, researchers discovered that the female gulls were pairing up to nest together.
Even though DDT and dieldrin use was restricted in the USA in the early 1970s, poor reproduction continues to plague eagles in many areas of the USA. In 1993, bald eagles nesting along the Great Lakes produced deformed chicks with crossed bills and malformed feet. Similar defects have been found among other bird species in Oregon. Pesticide residues found in birds of prey in Africa and South America, where DDT is still widely used, indicate that this pesticide is taking a similar toll on wildlife in other parts of the world.
Plummeting numbers of shorebirds, including such species as sandpipers, including such species as sandpipers and plovers, in the mid-80s have also rung alarm bells. Shorebirds can travel well over 15,000 miles in a single year, from breeding sites in the Arctic to wintering grounds in South America. US data suggests that the population of sanderlings moving south along the East Coast of the US has declined approximately 80% over the past 15 years. Much of this population winters in Peru and Chile. Scientists surveying this population in Peru noted that the birds congregated every day to feed and bathe at the mouths of the rivers and streams that empty intensely cultivated river valleys in the otherwise harsh Peruvian desert. Almost all of the streams reeked of pesticides used in the cotton and rice fields nearby.
Fish species are also sensitive to endocrine disruption. For example, the lake trout, which became extinct in the Great Lakes in the 1950s, has been shown to be very sensitive to dioxins and PCBs when exposed as an embryo.
Several species of salmon introduced into the Great Lakes all have severely enlarged thyroid glands, which is strong evidence of hormone disruption. Salmon in Lake Erie show a variety of reproductive and developmental problems, for example, early sexual development and a loss of the typical male secondary sex characteristics, such as heavy protruding jaws and red coloration on the flanks.
Leading amphibian experts strongly suspect endocrine disruption as a cause for the frog declines which do not have an obvious explanation, such as habitat disruption or drought. Wind contaminants are suspected in high altitude declines, especially as many persistent organic pollutants leap-frog across the globe, recondensing in cooler spots and coming to rest until disturbed and sent on their journey again towards colder climates.
All of these warning signs from wildlife show us that appearances can be deceiving. The abnormalities in the alligator populations were only discovered because of a survey to consider the impacts of supplying wild alligator eggs for ranching. The pesticide spill which caused the contamination occurred in 1980, 14 years before the discovery of the defects. By this time, the water appeared to be clean according to ordinary water quality standards. Although toxics may be absent from the water, they are still present circulating through the food chain and causing severe problems. Other alligators which immigrated from outside the lake were giving the impression that all was well.
Scientists agree that human beings are being affected by compounds of this nature, too. Evidence of a 50% reduction in sperm counts during the past 50 years around the world and significant increases in sperm deformity, testicular cancer, breast cancer, as well as of cases of undescended testes, and endometriosis, are particularly worrisome. We are after all at the top of the food chain.
This new evidence demonstrating that even low doses of toxic chemicals - even the newer non-persistent chemicals - can permanently alter the neurological, immune and reproductive systems of wildlife and humans, calls for a renewed vigilance about keeping toxics out of wetlands, which ultimately means keeping toxics out of the environment.
The Ramsar Convention provides a framework within which the toxic threats to wetlands should be addressed. Many of the principles articulated in the Convention, such as wise use, environmental impact assessment, and ecological character, should include recognition of the harmful impacts of toxics. A WWF Discussion Paper for the Brisbane COP identified three specific recommendations concerning the implementation of these concepts. We encourage the Contracting Parties to resolve that toxics use in and around wetlands is incompatible with wise use and is a significant threat to the maintenance of their ecological character.
Current testing of synthetic chemicals is clearly inadequate, and our focus on cancer has led us to miss more subtle, sub-lethal effects. Although better testing protocols are urgently needed, more innovative approaches are required which recognize that the surest way to reduce risk is to reduce use.
Contracting Parties should therefore take note of global, regional and national initiatives, based on the Precautionary Principle, on the phasing-out of persistent organic pollutants and on toxics use reduction, including pesticide reduction and cleaner production. They should consider the use of publicly accessible toxic chemical inventories known as "pollutant release and transfer registers" (PRTRs) to track chemical use and release and endeavour to incorporate this work into their chemicals management programmes and integrate it with their conservation of wetlands and water generally.
WWF is continuing to work to strengthen corporate environmental reporting requirements by promoting the introduction of publicly-accessible chemical inventories worldwide and by supporting research and pilot projects in developed and developing countries to assess the potential for chemical inventories to stimulate reduced toxics use, to ensure that community groups will have the capacity to use this information when it becomes available, and to assist communities in obtaining this information where it is not yet available. For example, one promising WWF community right-to-know initiative is linked to a Ramsar wetland site - Lake Nakuru, Kenya - where there is evidence of toxic contamination.
Although there is a clear need to phase out the production and use of many of the persistent organic pollutants as soon as possible, the publicly accessible toxic chemical inventory tool holds so much promise for tracking toxic pollution and encouraging toxics use reduction precisely because it is a community tool. Everyone has the right to know about toxics use in their communities and everyone has a vested interest in ensuring the safest management and use of those toxic chemicals. Other promising initiatives, such as government and community partnership initiatives in the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark and the Great Lakes to reduce pesticide use by measurable targets of at least 50%, demonstrate that much pesticide use is simply unnecessary.
The main message for those working in the field of protecting the environment and biodiversity is that it is no longer sufficient to approach population and species revitalization passively by providing appropriate habitat and expect threatened or extirpated populations to recover. Contamination of habitat is not always visible and may not cause immediate death of organisms that live in that habitat. Instead, contaminants may cause population-threatening changes in the way an organism functions in its environment. Animals that may appear to be healthy may be suffering from invisible damage which impairs their ability to withstand otherwise tolerable stresses or to rebound after natural disasters. For no apparent reason, they may suddenly disappear or slowly, imperceptibly slip into extinction. Toxic chemicals are thus a major long-term threat to biodiversity and may be an immediate threat to endangered species. WWF hopes that the Ramsar Convention will take this message seriously and that the Contracting Parties will find concrete ways to weave pollution prevention into their workplans for wetlands protection in the future.


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J.J. Redick will almost certainly not return to the Milwaukee Bucks next season.
Since free agency tipped off at midnight on July 1, Redick has become a target for multiple teams, most notably the Los Angeles Clippers and Minnesota Timberwolves. Quite a buzz was generated among Bucks fans yesterday when it was reported that the Clippers may be amenable to a sign-and-trade deal centering around Redick and Eric Bledsoe. The prevailing thought at the time was that the Clippers were ready to part with Bledsoe after locking Chris Paul into a franchise player, long term deal.
Unfortunately, some cold water was thrown on the idea of Redick for Bledsoe later in the evening:
Sounding more and more like Clippers might just hold on to Bledsoe.
— Ramona Shelburne (@ramonashelburne) July 2, 2013
Doc Rivers is said to still be weighing his options with Bledsoe, a young player he's said to like a great deal. Other potential candidates to work out a sign and trade for the athletic and burly young guard are the Dallas Mavericks (O.J. Mayo), Toronto Raptors (Demar Derozan) and Orlando Magic (Arron Afflalo). Of those players, Redick may be the best pure "fit" for the Clippers, given his health, ability to work off the ball and shoot threes. But he has less of an ability to create offense out of nothing than a Mayo or a Derozan.
Last night, around the time when the rumors for Bledsoe were dying down, the Redick to Minnesota rumors started heating up.
Minnesota has 4 year offers out to J.J. Redick and Chase Budinger, sources tell Y! Redick is priority, but Wolves want to sign one of them.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojYahooNBA) July 2, 2013
Milwaukee would without question prefer Redick landed with the Clippers rather than the Wolves. A package built around Bledsoe and Caron Butler (his contract would need to be included to make numbers fit) would be a fantastic coup for a free agent that's leaving Milwaukee either way. The Wolves have enough room under the cap if they renounce the right to Andrei Kirilenko to sign Redick outright for a little over $6 million annually according to Zach Harper.
At this point, it seems the Clippers or Wolves are Redick's most likely destinations, though we're still early in free agency. His asking price is likely a little steep for most teams, so it's going to take a team that thinks it is close to something – the finals for the Clippers and playoffs for the Wolves – to want to invest in him. It's clear the Bucks are out of the running, either by their choice or his.
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One thing I am reading a lot about that I don't like at all is thought of getting back Zaza Pachulia. NO THANK YOU!!!!
I think just in case Bledsoe did come our way though, why would we keep both him AND Jennings. I would think we'd sign & trade Jennings elsewhere. In fact, regardless, I wouldn't be too surprised if Jennings in signed & traded…if the price is right, the price is right. I think Hammond could have been just giving the people a little "lip service" on his devotion to keeping Jennings. I know a lot of us wouldn't mind starting fresh without Jennings, Ellis, and Redick.
Anything we can get for Redick would be great though! Even if it was a future pick or something. Something to justify the giving away of Harris.
If the Bucks receive Bledsoe, how about trading him right away to a team that wants him? Trade for Tarrence Ross or Kaldwell Pope????
Id keep bledsoe if we got him
Haha is that a joke? I thi m the Bucks would want him to be their new starting pg. Trade hike away!? Smh
Haha is that a joke? I think the Bucks would want him to be their new starting pg. Trade him away!? Smh
Freakin Rivers is ruining everything. You can't keep both long term Rivers! If you wait to the trade deadline next year, you would have probably missed out on your best shooting guard options. If they really want to win now, they would sign reddick which is what they need, three point shooting. They have enough slashers with Crawford, paul. they need shooters now
Read alot of RUMOR coverage about this possible trade deal. I believe Redick is a good fit for Clippers. Cant create much of his own offense-but,can screen/pop 3s OR screen/roll down the lane-dish to B. Griffin.
Redick can be KEY piece for Clips to take next step in playoffs. We all know Doc rivers would find ways to get MAX production out of Redick too! Redick is PURE shooter-what team couldn't use that?
I know he's gone (he showed up middle winter from Orlando-did u honestly believe he would re-sign? )-so, lets get SOMETHING for him-PLEASE! Even a ham sandwich on day old bread is better than nothing


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Web Visualization App grants mobile access to operations data.WAGO Corp. Germantown, WI 53022
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Proportional Valve Control are built for facilitated connection.WAGO Corp. Germantown, WI 53022
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I/O Module supports CAN Layer 2.WAGO Corp. Germantown, WI 53022
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Current Transformers feature continuous overload of 120%.WAGO Corp. Germantown, WI 53022
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Potentiometer Signal Conditioner offers <0.1% transmission error.WAGO Corp. Germantown, WI 53022
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