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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Harvest North Florida and Publix Supermarkets, Inc., announced today the roll-out of a store donation program that will generate thousands of pounds of important food resources annually for families experiencing need in northeast Florida.
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The Biblical Basis for Missions
from R.C. Sproul Aug 31, 2015 Category: ArticlesWhat is mission, and what is the principal foundation for the mission of the church? The word mission itself comes from the Latin verb missio, which means "to send." So, literally, missions has to do with sending. In the Scriptures, we see the verb to send being used over and... Keep Reading
Treasures on Earth
from John Piper Sep 29, 2009 Category: ArticlesThe inner essence of worship is treasuring Jesus as infinitely valuable above everything. The outer forms of worship are the acts that show how much we treasure God. Therefore, all of life is meant to be worship because God said whether you eat or drink or whatever you do--all of life--do it all to show how valuable the glory of God is to you (1 Cor. 10:31). Money and possessions are a big part of life, and therefore God intends them to be a big part of worship. So the way we worship with our money and our possessions is to get them and use them and lose them in a way that shows how much we treasure Jesus, not money. Keep Reading
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The Gain of Godliness
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from Alex Chediak Sep 26, 2009 Category: EventsDr. Sproul brought the conference to a close with a message entitled He Is Risen! -- The Resurrection and Worship. Dr. Sproul read from Exodus 19, the preamble to the giving of the Decalogue. Imagine that you were there: "On the morning of the third day there were thunders and lightnings and a thick cloud on the mountain and a very loud trumpet blast." And Moses was told to warn the people, "lest they break through to the Lord to look and many of them perish." Keep Reading
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from Alex Chediak Sep 26, 2009 Category: EventsDr. Begg returned to the pulpit to bring a message entitled In the Likeness of His Resurrection -- The Bodily Resurrection of the Believer, taking his text from 2 Corinthians 5. He then read a portion of a message that a pastor might deliver at a funeral. A text that affirms not just the continuity of life, but the resurrection of the physical body. The Christian's view of death and resurrection ought to be a great apologetic in our day. There is a reason why graveyards used to be near churches. It makes sense. We have the anticipation of a new heavens and a new earth to look forward to. Keep Reading
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from Alex Chediak Sep 26, 2009 Category: EventsMichael Horton began his message reading Paul's Mars Hill sermon from Acts 17. He then cited a recent Newsweek article from Lisa Miller. Ms. Miller opined "we're all Hindus now" and her reasoning was (in part) that we all believe in the continuity of life (into an afterlife stage where we play on harps in the clouds, and that sort of thing). Keep Reading
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from John Petersen Sep 26, 2009 Category: ArticlesAs we look around America today, we see what our forefathers envisioned -- a land of freedom and opportunity. Even households at the "poverty level" in this country today have a much better standard of living than those in third world countries. Yet, the resounding theme throughout America today is to get richer. Because we live in a privileged society, most of us enjoy some degree of wealth. God has entrusted His people with varying degrees of riches. As Christians living in this country, the biggest challenges to managing our money are: How are we going to glorify God with what He has provided? How are we to live up to God's charges through Paul as described in 1 Timothy 6:17-18? Keep Reading
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from Alex Chediak Sep 25, 2009 Category: EventsIn 1965 we had our first son (our daughter was three years old). My mother was very happy. She had just received the dress she would be wearing to my ordination ceremony (scheduled to occur 10 days later). We talked that night, and then she went to sleep. That night she died in her sleep. I had spoken to her within 8 hours of the moment that I discovered her dead. Keep Reading
2009 West Coast Conference - Session 3 - Q&A - Begg, Horton, Sproul
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As a Sophomore in 2012-13: Made six starts and appeared in seven games for the Bobcats…Posted a record of 2-2-1 with a 2.97 goals-against-average, .885 save percentage and 139 saves in over 363 minutes…Suffered a tough luck defeat in her first start of the season on 10/6 against Mercyhurst as she posted a career-high 35 saves on 39 shots…Earned her first victory of the season on 10/13 in a matchup against Maine as she made 19 saves and allowed just two goals…Finished with her third career 30-save game on 10/20 against Syracuse despite taking the loss...Made a crucial save on a potential game-winner with less than 10 seconds remaining in a tense 11/9 matchup with Union as she helped earn her team a 2-2 tie with 16 saves…Allowed two goals in two periods of action entering in relief of starting netminder Victoria Vigilanti, making 14 saves in her outing…Posted one of her best games of the season on 1/19 in a road matchup against Robert Morris as she made 22 saves on 24 shots to pick up the victory…Started on 2/2 against Yale and posted three saves on five shots in the first period.
As a Freshman in 2011-12: Made nine starts and appeared in 11 games for the Bobcats…Was named ECAC Hockey Rookie of the Week on 11/29…Finished the season with a 5-5 record, 2.32 goals-against average, and 240 saves in 568 minutes…Led the team with a .916 save percentage, which was good for 10th among ECAC goaltenders with at least 500 minutes of ice time…Posted 32 saves in her first career start on 10/15 against Northeastern…Was the team's winning goaltender as she denied a season high 33-of-34 shots (.971 save percentage) against No. 4 Boston College in a 2-1 overtime victory…The win against Boston College kicked off a streak of four consecutive wins for Laden…She recorded another overtime victory on 12/3 against Yale as she held the Bulldogs to two goals while denying 19 shots…Recorded 32 saves in a 4-1 win over Colgate on 1/14…Posted her first career shutout, recording 19 saves in a 3-0 win over Syracuse on 1/27…Held Syracuse to one goal in 42 minutes on 1/28, tallying 17 saves in defeat…Reeled off 28 saves on 31 shots against Clarkson on 2/11…Finished the year with one goal allowed in 52 minutes, posting 12 saves for her fifth victory with a 6-2 win over Union on 2/17.
Before Quinnipiac: Attended Lakeville South High School…Was a four-time all-state mvp and an Athena award winner…Was a four-time all-conference skater and a member of the all-tournament team (NAHA)…As a goalie, was runner up in the state of Minnesota for Defensive Player of the Year…Was a four-time All-Lake Conference honoree…Was the captain of her team during her junior and seniors seasons…Was a two-time State Participant…Played for the Icecats U-18 club hockey squad and won an NAHA Championship…Won student of the month for science.
Personal: A native of Lakeville, Minnesota…Daughter of Rob and Polly Laden…Has younger brothers Dakota, Tavian and a younger sister Isabella, as well as an older sister Mykenna…Plans to major in health science.
2012-13 Season Highs Career Highs
Saves: 35, 10/6/12 vs. Mercyhurst Saves: 35, 10/6/12 vs. Mercyhurst
Least Goals Allowed: 2, three times Least Goals Allowed: 0, 1/27/12 vs. Syracuse
Unbeaten Streak: 2 games (twice) Unbeaten Streak: 2 games (three times)


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Originally published on Mon August 19, 2013 5:44 pm
Scientists have just solved a case of mistaken identity. It involves a creature that looks like a cross between a house cat and a teddy bear, and it lives high up in the cloud forests of the Andes.
For over 100 years, scientists thought this animal was a well-known member of the raccoon family. Specifically, they thought it was a critter called the "olingo." But one scientist recently took another look and realized he had an entirely new species on his hands.
That scientist is Kristofer Helgen, a curator at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. He stumbled upon the animal while visiting The Field Museum in Chicago and sifting through dead specimens of the olingo.
"I pulled out a drawer. It was not anything I'd ever seen before. This was not any member of the raccoon family that anyone was familiar with," he says.
He started comparing the bodies and skulls of this animal with the olingos it was stored with.
At a storage room in the Smithsonian, Helgen shows off a lineup of dead specimens: On the left are two raccoons and on the right, two smaller animals — lighter brown in color, with tails lacking the characteristic raccoon bands. Their fur is softer, longer, thicker, because as Helgen discovered, this new cousin lives up high in the Andes Mountains in Colombia and Ecuador.
In fact, in every aspect he looked at, it looked unmistakably like a novel species — right down to the teeth.
"Look at those molars there, those big chunky teeth in the mouth," he says, as he pulls out a skull from a cardboard box.
Helgen has named the new species "olinguito," which means "little olingo," because of its striking resemblance to the animal it was long confused with.
All of the museum specimens of the olinguito that Helgen looked at came from the cloud forests in Ecuador and Colombia. So, he and his colleagues went looking for the animal in Ecuador.
"The very first evening, the very first night that we were there, there in the trees, maybe about 10 meters up, was the first olinguito that we were able to see," says Helgen.
He says the animal is shy and rarely comes down from trees.
He and his team have published their findings in the journal Zoo Keys.
Esteban Payan, of the nonprofit organization Panthera, says he is thrilled at this discovery. He is an expert on mammals in the Andes and is based in Bogota.
Payan says he spent his childhood summers on a farmhouse right in the middle of the olinguito's habitat and had no clue about the animal's existence.
"I'm surprised," he says. "I'm flabbergasted to have that species right there, under our nose and no one knows that!"
Payan says he now plans to set up video cameras around his farm house in the hopes of catching a glimpse of this shy, elusive animal.
And now a case of mistaken identity. It involves a creature that looks like a cross between a house cat and a teddy bear. It lives high in the cloud forests of the Andes. For more than a hundred years, scientists thought it was a cousin of the raccoon called the Olingo. But recently, they took another look and realized it was really an entirely new species. They're now calling it the Olinguito or Little Olingo.
NPR's Rhitu Chatterjee explains how its true identity to came to light.
RHITU CHATTERJEE, BYLINE: Kristofer Helgen is a curator of mammals at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. He discovered this new cousin of the raccoon while sifting through dead specimens.
KRISTOFER HELGEN: I pulled out a drawer. It was not anything I'd ever seen before. This was not any member of the raccoon family that anyone was familiar with.
CHATTERJEE: He started comparing the bodies and skulls of this animal with those of the animal it was stored with. He takes me to a storage room in the Smithsonian, where he's lined up a range of dead specimens.
HELGEN: Come in close. I want to introduce you to the members of the raccoon family here.
CHATTERJEE: On the left are two very dead, flattened raccoons. On the far right are two much smaller animals, lighter in color than the raccoons. Their tails are lacking the characteristic raccoon bands and their fur is softer, longer, thicker because, as Helgen later discovered, this new cousin lives up high in the Andes Mountains in Colombia and Ecuador. In fact, every aspect he looked at, this looked like a novel species right down to the teeth.
CHATTERJEE: He pulls a skull out of a box.
HELGEN: Look at those molars there, those big chunky teeth in the mouth.
CHATTERJEE: Helgen has named the new species Olinguito, which means Little Olingo. That's because of the striking resemblance to another member of the raccoon family, the Olingo. He eventually went looking for the Olinguito in the cloud forests of Ecuador, because that's where the museum specimens came from, and found that its alive and well, although shy and elusive.
Helgen and his team have introduced Olinguito to the world in a new study published in the journal Zoo Keys.
Rhitu Chatterjee, NPR News.
CORNISH: To see how the Olinguito stacks up against other members of the raccoon family, go to NPR.org. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Taking Toxics Out of the Air
Part 1 - Main Body of Brochure
The technology- and performance-based standards issued by EPA over the past 10 years have proven extremely successful. Once fully implemented, these standards will cut emissions of toxic air pollutants by nearly 1.5 million tons per year-almost 15 times greater reductions than EPA was able to achieve in 20 years prior to 1990.
The air we breathe can be contaminated with pollutants from factories, vehicles, power plants, and many other sources. These pollutants have long been a major concern because of the harmful effects they sometimes have on peoples health and the environment. Their impact depends on many factors, including the quantity of air pollution to which people are exposed, the duration of the exposures, and the potency of the pollutants. The effects of air pollutants can be minor and reversible (such as eye irritation) or debilitating (such as aggravation of asthma) and even fatal (such as cancer).
Since 1970, the Clean Air Act has provided the primary framework for protecting people and the environment from the harmful effects of air pollution. A key component of the Clean Air Act is a requirement that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) significantly reduce daily, so-called "routine" emissions of the most potent air pollutants: those that are known or suspected to cause serious health problems such as cancer or birth defects. The Clean Air Act refers to these pollutants as "hazardous air pollutants," but they are also commonly known as toxic air pollutants or, simply, air toxics.
Prior to 1990, the Clean Air Act required EPA to set standards for each toxic air pollutant individually, based on its particular health risks. This approach proved difficult and minimally effective at reducing emissions. As a result, when amending the Clean Air Act in 1990, Congress directed EPA to use a "technology-based" and performance-based approach to significantly reduce emissions of air toxics from major sources of air pollution, followed by a risk-based approach to address any remaining, or residual, risks.
Under the "technology-based" approach, EPA develops standards for controlling the "routine" emissions of air toxics from each major type of facility within an industry group (or "source category"). These standardsknown as "maximum achievable control technology (MACT) standards"are based on emissions levels that are already being achieved by the better-controlled and lower-emitting sources in an industry. This approach assures citizens nationwide that each major source of toxic air pollution will be required to employ effective measures to limit its emissions. Also, this approach provides a level economic playing field by ensuring that facilities that employ cleaner processes and good emission controls are not disadvantaged relative to competitors with poorer controls.
In setting MACT standards, EPA does not generally prescribe a specific control technology. Instead, whenever feasible, the Agency sets a performance level based on technology or other practices already used by the industry. Facilities are free to achieve these performance levels in whatever way is most cost-effective for them. The MACT standards issued by EPA over the past 10 years have proven extremely successful. Once fully implemented, these standards will cut emissions of toxic air pollutants by nearly 1.5 million tons per year.
Eight years after each MACT standard is issued, EPA must assess the remaining health risks from source categories. If necessary, EPA may implement additional standards that address any significant remaining risk.
What Are Toxic Air Pollutants?
Toxic (also called hazardous) air pollutants are those pollutants that are known or suspected to cause cancer or other serious health effects, such as reproductive effects or birth defects, or to cause adverse environmental effects. The degree to which a toxic air pollutant affects a persons health depends on many factors, including the quantity of pollutant the person is exposed to, the duration and frequency of exposures, the toxicity of the chemical, and the persons state of health and susceptibility.
The 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments list 188 toxic air pollutants that EPA is required to control. (The list originally included 189 chemicals. Based on new scientific information, EPA removed caprolactam from the list in 1996; thus, the current list includes 188 pollutants.) Examples of toxic air pollutants include benzene, which is found in gasoline; perchloroethylene, which is emitted from some dry cleaning facilities; and methylene chloride, which is used as a solvent and paint stripper by a number of industries. Examples of other listed air toxics include dioxin, asbestos, toluene, and metals such as cadmium, mercury, chromium, and lead compounds.
Where Do Air Toxics Come From?
Scientists estimate that millions of tons of toxic pollutants are released into the air each year. Most air toxics originate from manmade sources, including both mobile sources (e.g., cars, buses, trucks) and stationary sources (e.g., factories, refineries, power plants). However, some are released in major amounts from natural sources such as forest fires. This document focuses on EPA's efforts, as of August 2000, to reduce routine (as opposed to accidental) emissions of toxic air pollutants from stationary sources. Routine emissions from stationary sources constitute almost one-half of all manmade air toxics emissions.
There are two types of stationary sources that generate routine emissions of air toxics:
- "Major" sources are defined as sources
that emit 10 tons per year of any of the listed toxic air pollutants,
or 25 tons per year of a mixture of air toxics. Examples include
chemical plants, steel mills, oil refineries, and hazardous waste
incinerators. These sources may release air toxics from equipment
leaks, when materials are transferred from one location to another,
or during discharge through emissions stacks or vents. One key
public health concern regarding major sources is the health effects
on populations located downwind from them.
- "Area" sources consist of smaller sources, each releasing smaller amounts of toxic pollutants into the air. Area sources are defined as sources that emit less than 10 tons per year of a single air toxic, or less than 25 tons per year of a mixture of air toxics. Examples include neighborhood dry cleaners and gas stations. Though emissions from individual area sources are often relatively small, collectively their emissions can be of concernparticularly where large numbers of sources are located in heavily populated areas.
EPAs published list of "source categories" now contains 175 categories of industrial and commercial sources that emit one or more toxic air pollutants. For each of these source categories, EPA indicated whether the sources are considered to be "major" sources or "area" sources. The 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments direct EPA to set standards requiring all major sources of air toxics (and some area sources that are of particular concern) to significantly reduce their air toxics emissions.
|Based on 1996 National Toxics Inventory data, major sources account for about 26 percent of air toxics emissions, smaller area sources and other sources (such as forest fires) for 24 percent, and mobile sources for 50 percent. Accidental releases, which also contribute air toxics to the atmosphere, are not included in these estimates.
Once released, toxic pollutants can be carried by the wind, away from their sources, to other locations. Factors such as weather, the terrain (i.e., mountains, plains, valleys), and the chemical and physical properties of a pollutant determine how far it is transported, its concentration at various distances from the source, what kind of physical and chemical changes it undergoes, and whether it will degrade, remain airborne, or deposit to land or water.
Some pollutants remain airborne and contribute to air pollution problems far from the pollution source. Other pollutants released into the air can be deposited to land and water bodies through precipitation, or by settling directly out of the air onto land or water. Eventually, a large portion of those pollutants deposited near water bodies or small tributaries will reach the water bodies via stormwater runoff or inflow from the tributary streams.
Some toxic air pollutants are of particular concern because they degrade very slowly or not at all, as in the case of metals such as mercury or lead. These persistent air toxics (as they are called) can remain in the environment for a long time (or forever, in the case of metals) and can be transported great distances.
Often, persistent air toxics reach the ground, evaporate back into the atmosphere, and are then transported further until they are deposited on the ground again. Repeated cycles of transport, deposition, and evaporation can move toxic air pollutants very long distances. For example, toxic pollutants such as toxaphene, a pesticide used primarily in the cotton belt, have been found in the Antarctic, thousands of miles from their likely emissions sources.
How Are People Exposed to Air Toxics?
People are exposed to toxic air pollutants in many ways that can pose health risks, such as by:
- Breathing contaminated air.
- Eating contaminated food products, such as fish from contaminated
waters; meat, milk, or eggs from animals that fed on contaminated
plants; and fruits and vegetables grown in contaminated soil on
which air toxics have been deposited.
- Drinking water contaminated by toxic air pollutants.
- Eating contaminated soil. Young children are especially vulnerable
because they may ingest contaminated soil from their hands or
from objects they place in their mouths.
- Touching (skin contact) contaminated soil, dust, or water (for example, during recreational use of contaminated water bodies).
Once toxic air pollutants enter the body, some persistent toxic air pollutants accumulate in body tissues. Also, through a phenomenon called biomagnification, predators typically accumulate even greater pollutant concentrations than their contaminated prey. As a result, people and other animals at the "top" of the food chain who eat contaminated fish or meat are exposed to concentrations that are much higher than the concentrations in the water, air, or soil.
Fish consumption advisories have been issued for thousands of water bodies nationwide, including over 52,000 lakes and over 238,000 miles of rivers. As of December 1999, 40 states have consumption advisories about mercury-contaminated fish for specific water bodies. Eleven of those states have issued state-wide advisories for freshwater lakes and rivers. Many of these water bodies were once thought to be relatively pristine. However, EPA is now finding that deposition from the air may be a major source of the pollution in these water bodies.
People who are exposed to toxic air pollutants at sufficient concentrations and for sufficient durations may increase their chances of getting cancer or experiencing other serious health effects. Depending on which air toxics an individual is exposed to, these health effects can include damage to the immune system, as well as neurological, reproductive (e.g., reduced fertility), developmental, and respiratory problems. A growing body of evidence indicates that some air toxics (e.g., DDT, dioxins, and mercury) may disturb hormonal (or endocrine) systems. In some cases this happens by pollutants either mimicking or blocking the action of natural hormones. Health effects associated with endocrine disruption include reduced male fertility, birth defects, and breast cancer.
How Do Air Toxics Affect the Environment?
Toxic pollutants in the air, or deposited on soils or surface waters, can have a number of environmental impacts. Like humans, animals can experience health problems if they are exposed to sufficient concentrations of air toxics over time. Numerous studies conclude that deposited air toxics are contributing to birth defects, reproductive failure, and disease in animals. Persistent toxic air pollutants are of particular concern in aquatic ecosystems because the pollutants accumulate in sediments and may biomagnify in tissues of animals at the top of the food chain to concentrations many times higher than in the water or air.
Toxic pollutants that mimic hormones also pose a threat to the environment. In some wildlife (e.g., birds, shellfish, fish, and mammals), exposures to pollutants such as DDT, dioxins, and mercury have been associated with decreased fertility, decreased hatching success, damaged reproductive organs, and altered immune systems.
What Has EPA Done to Reduce Air Toxics?
The Pre-1990 "Risk-Only" Approach
Prior to 1990, the Clean Air Act directed EPA to regulate toxic air pollutants based on the risks each pollutant posed to human health. Specifically, the Act directed EPA to:
- Identify all pollutants that caused "serious and irreversible
illness or death."
- Develop standards to reduce emissions of these pollutants to levels that provided an "ample margin of safety" for the public.
While attempting to control air toxics during the 1970s and 1980s, EPA became involved in many legal, scientific, and policy debates over which pollutants to regulate and how stringently to regulate them. Debates focused on risk assessment methods and assumptions, the amount of health risk data needed to justify regulation, analyses of the costs to industry and benefits to human health and the environment, and decisions about "how safe is safe."
During this time, EPA was still developing methods to assess risk. These methods were essential tools that would be needed to establish the scientific basis for making risk-based decisions about air toxics. While EPA and the scientific community gained valuable knowledge about risk assessment methods through this work, the chemical-by-chemical regulatory approachan approach based solely on riskproved difficult. In fact, in 20 years, EPA regulated only seven pollutants (asbestos, benzene, beryllium, inorganic arsenic, mercury, radionuclides, and vinyl chloride). Collectively, these standards cut annual air toxics emissions by an estimated 125,000 tons.
The 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments:
A "Technology First, Then Risk" Approach
Realizing the limitations of a chemical-by-chemical decision framework based solely on risk, and acknowledging the gaps in scientific and analytical information, Congress adopted a new strategy in 1990, when the Clean Air Act was amended. Specifically, Congress revised Section 112 of the Clean Air Act to mandate a more practical approach to reducing emissions of toxic air pollutants.
This approach has two components. In the first phase, EPA develops regulationsMACT standardsrequiring sources to meet specific emissions limits that are based on emissions levels already being achieved by many similar sources in the country. Even in its earliest stages, this new "technology-based" approach clearly produced real, measurable reductions. In the second phase, EPA applies a risk-based approach to assess how these technology-based emissions limits are reducing health and environmental risks. Based on this assessment, EPA may implement additional standards to address any significant remaining, or residual, health or environmental risks. EPA completed development of its strategy for addressing residual risks from air toxics in March of 1999.
What Progress Has Been Made in Reducing Toxic Air Pollution?
As of August 2000, EPA has issued 45 air toxics MACT standards under Section 112 of the Clean Air Act Amendments. These standards affect 82 categories of major industrial sources, such as chemical plants, oil refineries, aerospace manufacturers, and steel mills, as well as eight categories of smaller sources, such as dry cleaners, commercial sterilizers, secondary lead smelters, and chromium electroplating facilities. EPA has also issued two standards under Section 129 of the Clean Air Act to control emissions, including certain toxic pollutants, from solid waste combustion facilities (one standard for municipal waste combustors and the other for medical waste incinerators). Together, these standards reduce emissions of over 100 different air toxics. When fully implemented, all of these standards will reduce air toxics emissions by about 1.5 million tons per yearalmost 15 times the reductions achieved prior to 1990. Each of the final rules developed since 1990 is summarized in an appendix to this document. These summaries describe the sources for which final rules have been issued as of August 2000, the types of pollutants the sources emit, and how EPAs rules are reducing their emissions.
Some of these air toxics rules have the added benefit of reducing ground-level ozone (urban smog) and particulate matter. This occurs because some air toxics are also smog-causing volatile organic compounds (VOCs) (e.g., toluene) or particulate matter (e.g., chromium). In addition, some of the technologies and practices designed to control air toxics also reduce VOCs or types of particulate matter that are not currently among the 188 listed air toxics. Reductions of smog-causing pollutants and particulate matter are important because of the health and environmental problems they can cause. Most notably, urban smog can cause respiratory problems and can damage vegetation, and particulate matter can cause many detrimental impacts on human health, such as bronchitis, lung damage, increased infection, aggravation of asthma, and premature death. In addition many of these pollutants can contribute significantly to impaired visibility in places, such as national parks, that are valued for their scenic views and recreational opportunities.
EPA has consistently worked to develop air toxics standards that achieve the required reductions in air pollution while providing regulated communities with as much flexibility as possible in deciding how to comply with the standards. For example, under a flexible regulation, industries may reduce their emissions by redesigning their processes, capturing and recycling emissions, changing work practices, or installing any of a variety of control technologies. Flexibility helps industries minimize the cost of compliance and encourages pollution prevention. To provide flexibility, EPA makes every effort to develop standards that are based on performance measures rather than specific control devices, and that allow for equivalent alternative control measures.
To date, EPA has primarily focused efforts to reduce emissions of toxic air pollutants on technology-based or MACT emission standards. Over the next few years, EPA will continue to work with industry; environmental groups; state, local, and tribal agencies; and other interested groups to develop standards for the remaining source categories that will reduce air toxics emissions even further. By 2002, EPA is scheduled to issue 62 technology-based standards covering 96 remaining source categories.
EPA anticipates that its technology-based approach will continue to prove successful at reducing air toxics. Additional air toxics reductions are also expected to indirectly reduce toxics. To identify additional measures beyond the technology standards that may be needed to protect the public health and the environment from toxic air pollutants, EPA will use a more risk-based focus. EPAs efforts underway include national air toxics assessment activities, residual risk standards, evaluation of the impacts of air toxics deposition, data-gathering on mercury emissions from coal-fired electric utilities, and implementation of an urban air toxics strategy. These efforts are explained below.
National Air Toxics Assessment
The National Air Toxics Assessment is an ongoing comprehensive evaluation by EPA of air toxics in the United States. EPA, states, and others are working to improve the national toxics inventory of emissions and to expand air toxics monitoring networks to obtain more air toxics data. This work is expected to help focus future efforts to reduce air toxics and resultant health effects.
Residual Risk Standards
After EPA develops technology-based standards, the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments require EPA to assess their effectiveness at reducing the health and environmental risks posed by air toxics. Based on this assessment, the Agency may implement additional standards that address any significant remaining, or "residual," risk. After setting a MACT standard, EPA has 8 years (9 years for the earliest standards) to examine the risk posed by continued emissions from regulated facilities and issue requirements for additional controls if necessary to reduce unacceptable residual risk. EPA has begun to assess residual risk for several source categories, including coke ovens, dry cleaning, gasoline distribution, commercial ethylene oxide sterilizers, halogenated solvent cleaning, industrial cooling towers, and magnetic tape manufacturing. The first residual risk evaluation is scheduled to be completed by EPA in 2001 for the coke oven industry.
Air Toxics Deposition to the Great Waters
Since 1990, EPA has issued three reports to Congress on the deposition of air toxics and their detrimental effects on the Great Waters (i.e., the Great Lakes, Chesapeake Bay, Lake Champlain, and coastal waters). In these reports, EPA lists 15 pollutants of greatest concern, most of which have a tendency to persist in the environment and accumulate in organisms such as fish. The pollutants of concern are: metals (mercury, cadmium, lead), dioxins, furans, polycyclic organic matter, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), pesticides (such as chlordane and DDT/DDE), and nitrogen compounds. Nitrogen compounds from the deposition of air toxics can intensify nutrient enrichment (or eutrophication) of coastal waterbodies. EPA's most recent report, issued in 2000, provides an update on atmospheric deposition of pollutants to the Great Waters and identifies activities that will reduce these pollutants. Several of the MACT standards described in the appendix to this document are expected to substantially cut emissions of mercury, dioxins, and other pollutants of concern to the Great Waters from sources such as municipal waste combustors and medical waste incinerators, which alone account for almost 30 percent of the mercury emissions and over 70 percent of the dioxin emissions nationwide (1990 baselines).
Mercury Emissions from Coal-Fired Electric Utilities
Mercury is one of the 188 listed toxic air pollutants. It is of concern because it does not degrade but persists in the environment. The largest emitter of mercury is electric utility plants (primarily coal-fired plants), which are estimated to emit approximately one-third of all manmade mercury in the United States. EPA is currently gathering monitoring data on mercury emissions from coal-fired electric utility plants and expects to complete its evaluation no later than December 2000 on the need to reduce mercury from electric utilities.
Integrated Urban Air Toxics Strategy
A key component of future efforts to reduce air toxics is the Integrated Urban Air Toxics Strategy released by EPA in July 1999. The Strategy presents a framework to address air toxics in urban areas and builds on the substantial emission reductions already achieved from cars, trucks, fuels, and industries such as chemical plants and oil refineries. The Strategy outlines actions to further reduce emissions of air toxics and to improve EPA's understanding of the health risks posed by air toxics in urban areas. The goals of the Strategy are to reduce the risk of cancer by 75 percent and to substantially reduce non-cancer risks associated with air toxics from commercial and industrial sources. The Strategy also reflects the need to address any disproportionate impacts on sensitive populations including children, the elderly, and minority and low-income communities.
EPA Air Toxics Website:
EPA Office of Air and Radiation:
EPA Office of Transportation
EPA Office of Chemical Emergency
Summaries of EPA's Final Air Toxics MACT Rules
Summaries of Related Solid Waste Incineration Rules


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About the third day into my sons school holidays he asked me if I would help him make a anime sword. The sword is only for display so we decided to make it out of aluminium.
We came up with a design, made a pattern and started in.
A few hours later we had something that looked pretty good.
It was great to have a project with my son. He is already a qualified welder and very handy around the workshop but is off to university next year to become an accountant.
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Very cool project man, the best part is you made a project turn into some good father son time that is priceless regardless of what the project is. I have a daughter (5 yr. old) a little young to introduce her to tig, i let her look through another hood when i tig she thinks it neat. However im about to let squeeze the trigger on the mig so she can what all them sparks are from when dad is welding.
Hi Three Turbos,
Yes I agree, great to involve your children.
I booked in to do a Tig welding course at TAFE when my son was 14. I told him that I would drop him off somewhere while I was doing the night course. He asked if he could come too. I was pretty happy to hear that so I booked him in as well. To date he is the youngest person to do a welding course in Australia. Our teachers told me that he would not be able to pass the hard stuff but at least he would get some experience. He passed it all. I knew back then that he was going to become an accountant but this welding experience will help one day when something breaks down out west and all they have to fix it is a farm stick welder.
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Radford University students took their futures in hand on Wednesday, Feb. 26, at the Spring Career and Internship Fair, sponsored by Career Services.
More than 40 employers set up shop in the COBE Multipurpose room to educate students about jobs and internships available to them beyond campus. Students from all majors across campus stopped by to learn about careers in a wide variety of industries.
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Let φ(n) denote Euler's totient function and k $\perp$ n denote that k, n are integers and relatively prime. Let N = φ(n) + 1. If n is not a prime power $$ \prod_{\substack{0 < k < n, \\ k \perp n }} \Gamma \left(\frac{k}{n}\right) = \sqrt{N}\prod_{ 0 < k < N}\Gamma \left(\frac{k}{N}\right) \quad (n \neq p^a) . $$ This identity was proved here as a corollary to some other identities, but the authors asked: ``is there some natural direct proof of this formula?´´
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Denote $$f(n)=\prod_{k=1}^{n-1}\Gamma \left(\frac{k}{n}\right)$$ and $$ F(n)=\prod_{1\le k\le n-1, k\perp n}\Gamma \left(\frac{k}{n}\right)$$ We have $f(n)=\prod_{d|n}F(n)$ and therefore by Mobius inversion $F(n)=\prod_{d|n}f(d)^{\mu(n/d)}$
By the multiplication theorem we have $f(n)=\frac{1}{\sqrt{n}}(2\pi)^{\frac{n-1}{2}}$, so if $n$ is not a prime power $$F(n)=\prod_{d|n}\left(\frac{1}{\sqrt{d}}(2\pi)^{\frac{d-1}{2}}\right)^{\mu(n/d)}=(2\pi)^{\frac{1}{2}\varphi (n)}$$ The formula $F(n)=\sqrt{\varphi(n)+1}f(\varphi(n)+1)$ follows.


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SF Hound visiting Boston, lunch recommendations for Memorial Day?
I will be visiting Boston over Memorial Day weekend and hope to have a nice lunch on Monday, Memorial Day with some friends. The fact that it's a lunch, a Monday, *and* a holiday has taken a lot of restaurants off the list, to my dismay. I'm not very familiar with Boston and would greatly appreciate any tips.
I will be staying near Lechmere Square. Is that East Cambridge? I tried searching but as I don't know the neighborhoods it was hard to know which areas to search under for nearby recommendations. I've already read through these links:
Any cuisine or most price points are fine. I'm comfortable dropping up to $75/pp (excluding drinks) on lunch if the food warrants it. Fancy tasting menus would be fun. But family diner and hole in the wall places are totally fine too. My friends will be driving in from outside of Boston so they will have a car, but I don't want to travel too far as I have to be back at my hotel after lunch. But if it's worth a drive, I'll happily consider it.
If it helps, I will be dining at TW Food later that night. Catalyst looked great but they are closed that Mon.
Area 4 and Abigail's are open for lunch on Memorial Day, would you recommend either of them?
Thanks in advance!
East Cambridge up through Kendall and Inman Square offer a lot of good choices from "hole in the wall" to very good. Both Area Four and Abigails are fine for lunch. WestBridge is very good. Casa Portugal serves lunch (check about Monday though - not sure if that's a "closed" day) and will give you a nice introduction to Portuguese food. Court House is probably closed on memorial day but you can't beat it for fish you pick out at the fish market next door and have cooked for you at the restaurant. If you're staying in the Lechmere area, do try it some other day. If I want a fancy lunch I go to l'espalier. If I want a great burger and fun lunch, if the Sox aren't playing I go to Eastern Standard Kitchen. Have fun.
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While perusing all these wonderful restaurants' menus, I saw that L'Espalier has an absolutely amazing-sounding afternoon tea. Have you tried it? I may have to plan my next trip to Boston around a weekend just so I can try it.
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Thank you for the beautiful write-up! A quick comment on tea at L'Espalier. It is amazing, including a tea sommelier who can give you recommendations and make you tea-cocktails. The teas are prettily displayed in glass teapots (I suspect Jaener teapots) with tea warmers underneath. Tea is not over-steeped, yet warmed to the right temperature for consumption. Though the last time I was there, I had the tea sandwiches and sweets, it was the cheese course that was simply spectacular. If you do come back and plan to have tea, I do think that you will not be disappointed with L'Espalier.
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Sounds wonderful! I adore cheese. I will definitely have to put L'Espalier's tea on the schedule the next time I'm in Boston.
Not too far from where you are is the Druid in Inman Sq. Not quite a hole in the wall, but it is a no-frills Irish pub with a friendly staff. Burgers and fish and chips are notable there for me, but overall their food is very good for a pub.
On this board, Area 4 gets much more consistent love than Abigail's. You might also consider EVOO near you and Scampo in the Liberty Hotel (a historic jail) just across the river .Both get mostly positive CH recs .
But for a really great , eccentric and famous Boston experience, I would send you on a 10 minute cab ride to Regina's Pizzeria in the North End. Nothing like it in SF.
But you'd need to get there EARLY to avoid the line i think.
Also near you is muqueca (Cambridge street near Inman square). For Brazilian style seafood stews. Perhaps something you don't get in SF and moderately priced.
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Let us know, OK? Great to get feedback on all these recommendations. I was going to suggest WestBridge.


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Article 1: Name and Mission Statement
The Atlanta Disc Golf Organization (ADGO) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the advancement of Disc Golf in the Metro Atlanta area and the surrounding communities by providing leadership, communication, and support in all aspects of Disc Golf and the best practices of sportsmanship, ethics, and standards of competition as established by the Professional Disc Golf Association (PDGA).
Article 2: Purpose
The purposes of the ADGO are:
• Provide and promote a better understanding of the sport of disc golf to the general public.
• Provide an opportunity for local disc golfers to develop their skills through organized competition.
• Maintain an organized framework for representative government by the members of the organization.
• Maintain high standards of excellence in promoting and managing competitive disc golf events.
• Establish additional disc golf courses in the area.
• Help manage, maintain and improve the existing disc golf courses in the area.
• Cooperate with other organizations having common or related objectives for the good of the sport.
• Establish working relations with local parks & recreation personnel to assist with the promotion and growth of disc golf.
Article 3: Membership, Eligibility, Dues & Benefits
Membership in the ADGO is attainable by any person who is interested in the sport of disc golf. All applications for membership shall be accompanied by remittance of annual dues. Initial membership fee and annual dues will be determined by the Board of Directors during the 4th quarter of the calendar year for the next year's fees. Dues are subject to change, however changes can only take place after (30) days of posted notification.
Members of the ADGO shall receive:
• Membership in the Atlanta Disc Golf Organization.
• Eligible to run and serve as an ADGO Board Member (must be a current member).
• Compete in all ADGO tournaments & events.
• ADGO membership card (bag tag) with lifetime number.
• The ADGO Constitution will be available online and can be mailed to a member if requested.
• ADGO member directory will be available at the club website in a read only thread, with members having the right to "opt-out" of all information except member number and member name.
• The right to represent their affiliate club in ADGO team competitions
Membership classes are as follows:
• Active: All members whose dues are current (voting rights).
• Non-Active: All members whose dues are not current (non-voting rights).
• Honorary: Those selected to receive memberships at no charge as a gesture of goodwill or for promotional purposes, who are considered "active" members, without voting rights or privileges.
Voting rights for active membership includes:
1) Electing officers and 2) Amending the Constitution.
Article 4: Ethical Standards
ADGO members agree to adhere to the following club ethics:
• Play within the rules of the sport as set forth by the PDGA.
• Reasonable, ordinary and prudent behavior on the golf course.
• Proper disposal of trash on the course and observation of all park rules.
• Inappropriate actions on the ADGO website may result in suspension/ loss of privileges.
The ADGO Board of Directors may suspend any member from the club and/or club event for conduct detrimental to the image of the organization or the sport, with a 3/4 affirmative vote.
Article 5: Board of Directors
The management of the affairs of the club shall be vested in the ADGO Board of Directors (BOD) which shall consist of:
• President
• Vice-President
• Secretary
• Treasurer
• Membership/Public Relations Director
• Communications Director
• Events Director
• Course Liaison Director
There shall be a majority(at least 5) of bod members present to have a quorum to conduct official ADGO BOD business.
Nominations for elected positions will occur during November, with elections taking place in December, and newly elected BOD members taking office in January.
The positions of President, Secretary, Events Director and Course Liaison Director will be elected in ODD calendar years; the positions of Vice President, Treasurer, Membership/ Public Relations Director and Communication Director will be elected in EVEN calendar years.
Elected BOD members shall serve a term of 2 years.
In the event of a resignation or that a BOD member cannot continue to perform his/her duties, the remaining BOD members shall appoint a successor to take office immediately and serve until the next position election.
Article 6: Duties of the Club Officers
• The President shall be responsible for the day-to-day business of the club and will be responsible for organizing the club meeting agendas and presiding over the meetings. It shall be his/her duty to oversee that the other BOD members are performing their assigned duties and to assist them in whatever way possible.
• The Vice-President shall assist the club president and will take on the responsibilities of the president in the event of his/her absence. The vice-president shall be responsible for coordinating with the various club committees and for giving a report on the progress or status of these committees at the club meetings.
• The Secretary shall be responsible for all written communication, taking of minutes at meetings.
The secretary will also publish all APPROVED minutes to the website in a timely manner after approval from BOD
• The Treasurer shall receive, deposit, and make authorized disbursements in the name of the ADGO for all club money.
The Treasurer shall maintain a simple yet thorough system of accounting and provide financial updates at least monthly and at all BOD meetings and at each annual meeting (January).
• The Membership Director shall be responsible for all ADGO membership issues, motivate members to get involved in order to breed leaders, and work with local Tournament Directors (TD's) to resolve any PDGA membership issues prior to a tournament.
• The Communications Director shall assign a Webmaster (WM) and Assistant Webmaster (AWM) responsible for website currency, growth, and all duties related to website management. All website information, changes, and ideas will be submitted to the WM & AWM by the Communications Director.
• The Events Director shall be responsible for gathering all information on upcoming events by working with local TD's, scanning the PDGA Tour Events website, passing this information by means of a press release to the local media outlets, attempt to securing on site reporters for these events, and plan annual ADGO events
• The Course Liaison Director shall chair a committee of local Course Managers to assist and or guide them with the growth of disc golf in their communities. Items will include working with local Recreation & Parks Authority, enhancing current courses, and development of new courses.
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Comic 132
Title: nuts to you - part 2
Date: November 22, 2005
Summary: Steve cunningly avoids his untimely demise.
Onomatopoeias used: "FLING!", "POK!", "BLAM!", "SWELL!", "BLOAT!", "FLOMP!", "CHEW!"
"Fin" style: Made out of acorns
Number of panels: 5
Panel 1
Squirrel: "Any last requests...?"
Steve: "Can I just slowly reach down here and pick up a handful of these convenient projectiles..?"
Squirrel: "I don't see why not... as long as you don't suddenly spin round and throw them in my..."
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Steve: (FLING'ing the acorns at the squirrel) "Taste acorn, tree-rat!"
Squirrel: "AKH!"
(Squirrel's gun goes off with a BLAM!)
Panel 3
Squirrel: (face SWELL!-ing and BLOAT!-ing) "My allergies!"
Panel 4
Squirrel's head FLOMP!-s down.
Panel 5
Beaver: (from the outside) "Mon dieu! Elle vole! Elle vole!"
Steve CHEW!'s on a diamond
Fun Facts
- Beaver's French isn't all that good. In the last panel, he says, "My God! She flies! She flies!". But, unlike English-speaking nations, the French don't refer to flying or sailing objects as female. The correct version would be "Il vole!" (Reference)
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