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Thursday, September 22, 2011
'Emerging contaminants of concern' detected throughout Narragansett Bay watershed
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Chemicals found at low levels at all sites tested
URI researcher: 'Emerging contaminants of concern' detected throughout Narragansett Bay watershed
NARRAGANSETT, R.I. September 21, 2011 A group of hazardous chemical compounds that are common in industrial processes and personal care products but which are not typically monitored by the Environmental Protection Agency have been detected throughout the Narragansett Bay watershed, according to a URI researcher.
Rainer Lohmann, associate professor of chemical oceanography, and graduate student Victoria Sacks, with the help of 40 volunteers, tested for the presence of the chemicals in 27 locations. The compounds were found at every site.
"Being exposed to these compounds is the hidden cost of our lifestyle," said Lohmann. "It's frustrating that as we ban the use of some chemical compounds, industry is adding new ones that we don't know are any better."
Lohmann said the good news is that the chemicals were detected at extremely low levels.
"By themselves, none of these results makes me think that we shouldn't be swimming in the bay or eating fish caught there," he said. "But we only tested for three compounds that might be of concern, and we know there are hundreds more out there. The totality of all those compounds together is what may be worrisome."
The three compounds the researchers measured, which scientists refer to as "emerging contaminants of concern," are: triclosans, antibacterial agents found in many personal care products and which have been identified as posing risks to humans and the environment; alkylphenols, widely used as detergents and known to disrupt the reproductive system; and PBDEs, industrial products used as flame retardants on a wide variety of consumer products. PBDEs have been banned because they cause long-term adverse effects in humans and wildlife.
PBDEs, methyltriclosan and triclosan were found in highest concentrations in the Blackstone River, Woonasquatucket River and in upper Narragansett Bay, while some detergents were detected at similar levels at nearly every site.
"Many of the trends in society from early puberty changes to some diseases may be caused by chemical exposures," said Lohmann. "They trigger hormones and disrupt the normal functioning of the body. We have no resistance against them."
The chemical compounds were detected using polyethelene passive samplers, thin pieces of plastic that absorb chemicals that are dissolved in water. The volunteers placed the samplers in various rivers and coves in the Narragansett Bay watershed in the fall of 2009 and retrieved them two to three weeks later. The chemical compounds were then extracted from the samplers in a lab at the URI Graduate School of Oceanography.
"We couldn't have done this work without the volunteers," Lohmann said. "They have helped us find potential sources for some of these chemicals."
"Unfortunately, no matter how you choose your lifestyle, you can't avoid exposure to these compounds," he added. "You just can't escape."
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Chemicals found at low levels at all sites tested
URI researcher: 'Emerging contaminants of concern' detected throughout Narragansett Bay watershed
NARRAGANSETT, R.I. September 21, 2011 A group of hazardous chemical compounds that are common in industrial processes and personal care products but which are not typically monitored by the Environmental Protection Agency have been detected throughout the Narragansett Bay watershed, according to a URI researcher.
Rainer Lohmann, associate professor of chemical oceanography, and graduate student Victoria Sacks, with the help of 40 volunteers, tested for the presence of the chemicals in 27 locations. The compounds were found at every site.
"Being exposed to these compounds is the hidden cost of our lifestyle," said Lohmann. "It's frustrating that as we ban the use of some chemical compounds, industry is adding new ones that we don't know are any better."
Lohmann said the good news is that the chemicals were detected at extremely low levels.
"By themselves, none of these results makes me think that we shouldn't be swimming in the bay or eating fish caught there," he said. "But we only tested for three compounds that might be of concern, and we know there are hundreds more out there. The totality of all those compounds together is what may be worrisome."
The three compounds the researchers measured, which scientists refer to as "emerging contaminants of concern," are: triclosans, antibacterial agents found in many personal care products and which have been identified as posing risks to humans and the environment; alkylphenols, widely used as detergents and known to disrupt the reproductive system; and PBDEs, industrial products used as flame retardants on a wide variety of consumer products. PBDEs have been banned because they cause long-term adverse effects in humans and wildlife.
PBDEs, methyltriclosan and triclosan were found in highest concentrations in the Blackstone River, Woonasquatucket River and in upper Narragansett Bay, while some detergents were detected at similar levels at nearly every site.
"Many of the trends in society from early puberty changes to some diseases may be caused by chemical exposures," said Lohmann. "They trigger hormones and disrupt the normal functioning of the body. We have no resistance against them."
The chemical compounds were detected using polyethelene passive samplers, thin pieces of plastic that absorb chemicals that are dissolved in water. The volunteers placed the samplers in various rivers and coves in the Narragansett Bay watershed in the fall of 2009 and retrieved them two to three weeks later. The chemical compounds were then extracted from the samplers in a lab at the URI Graduate School of Oceanography.
"We couldn't have done this work without the volunteers," Lohmann said. "They have helped us find potential sources for some of these chemicals."
"Unfortunately, no matter how you choose your lifestyle, you can't avoid exposure to these compounds," he added. "You just can't escape."
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Fla. church shooting suspect killed another wife (AP)
LAKELAND, Fla. ? In the years before he was accused of killing his wife and wounding two pastors, Jeremiah Fogle's zigzagging lovelife spanned at least six other marriages and another violent death: A previous wife died at his hands more than two decades ago.
Fogle, now 57, managed to get only probation in 1987 after pleading guilty to manslaughter for shooting the woman he was married to back then. The slain woman's daughter says she's shocked he never went to prison.
"If you already killed one person and got away with it, why would you do it again? It's disturbing," said 31-year-old Shekema Clark of Tampa.
The outrage is shared by Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd, who's investigating the latest shootings.
"Of the seven, he's managed to kill two of them," Judd told reporters. "I wouldn't want to marry him if he gets out again."
Fogle was charged with murder and attempted murder after Sunday's shootings and was ordered held without bail at a hearing Monday. He appeared stoic and did not speak at the hearing, where he appeared via video conference. Fogle was assigned a public defender.
Authorities said he killed his 56-year-old wife, Theresa, with three shots at their home and then wounded a pastor and associate pastor at the nearby Greater Faith Christian Center Church ? where Fogle had once been a deacon. The Fogles were married there in 2002.
The congregation was bowing their heads in prayer when Fogle burst inside. Church members were able to tackle him, take away the gun and hold him until deputies arrived.
Callers to a 911 dispatcher described a chaotic scene with people running and screaming from the church, where four or five shots were heard. One call came from one of the victims, although the man did not give his name.
"There's a man that just shot us," the caller says. "Please help us, ma'am. Please. I been shot."
Authorities and relatives said the Fogles had been members of the church before starting their own ministry out of their home. Judd said Fogle had a falling out six years ago with one of the wounded pastors, William Boss, after Boss asked Fogle to take a sabbatical "because some women in the church complained about the way he hugged them."
Judd said investigators found a journal, three letters and a note in the Fogles' home that appeared to be in Theresa Fogle's handwriting. The contents appeared to involve Theresa Fogle's confessions to infidelity and contained names of 25 men, the sheriff said, but it was not clear if the writings were done voluntarily.
Investigators also found a Bible open to a passage in Matthew, quoting Jesus as saying: "Think not that I have come to destroy the law, or the prophets; I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill." Judd said it was not clear what the passage, part of the Sermon on the Mount, might have had to do with Sunday's events.
Years earlier, Fogle was originally charged with murder in the death of his then-wife, Diane, but the charge was reduced to manslaughter.
An affidavit from the earlier killing states Fogle answered the door holding a rifle and showed an Avon Park police officer Diane Fogle's body. His 10-year-old stepson told investigators he heard Fogle call an ambulance and say he shot someone and wanted to kill himself.
Prosecutors recommended probation instead of prison, saying that Fogle had handled the rifle in a "negligent, careless and reckless manner," according to court documents. The documents do not explain why the charge was reduced or why prosecutors recommended probation.
Clark, the slain woman's daughter, said Monday the couple had been married only about five months when her mother was shot on the bedroom floor. Clark, who was 6 at the time, said that her stepfather was an argumentative husband, and that her mother refrained from arguing back.
Clark said she didn't know Fogle never went to prison until she heard of Sunday's shootings.
Another of Fogle's former wives, 54-year-old Dovie Sanders of Sebring, said they were married for only about six months at a young age and divorced. Sanders said Fogle once showed up at her house and asked her to marry him again, but never threatened her.
"He was OK with me, but I just couldn't stay with him," said Sanders, who was Fogle's first wife. "He couldn't ever tell me he loved me."
At Sunday's service, Derrick Foster, a teacher at Greater Faith, told The Associated Press he heard gunfire and screams before he and another man tackled Fogle.
"The first thing in my mind was, `I have to take this gun away,'" said Foster, who was among the 20 or so people at the service.
Foster saw the man near the pulpit, turning around with the gun in his hand. He said it took three or four minutes of struggling before he finally wrested the weapon away.
"What's amazing is, he was laughing. Not audibly, but he had this sinister look on his face. He looked like he was happy for doing it," Foster said. "I don't think I'm a hero, but at that time it was fight or flight."
The gunman had six additional rounds in his pocket. "He was prepared to shoot even more," Judd said.
Boss and associate pastor Carl Stewart were shot from behind, authorities said. Boss was shot in the head, and Stewart was shot three times in the back and ear. They remained hospitalized Monday but were able to see visitors. No one else at the church was hurt.
"Quite frankly, it is by the grace of God that they are alive today," Judd said. "They should be dead."
Eva Henderson was talking on the phone in her driveway when she heard gunshots across the street and watched panicked parishioners run out of the church. Boss came around from the back before collapsing out front. Church members rushed to his aid, she said.
A church member asked deputies to check on Fogle's wife, who lived with him a block away in a neighborhood of mobile homes, humble houses and industrial shops. She was found slain inside.
Theresa Fogle's sister, Maria Beauford, said she had never known Jeremiah Fogle to be violent toward her sister. He had been sick over the past year and had back surgery, and Theresa Fogle nursed him back to health, Beauford said.
Beauford said Monday that her family knew nothing about Jeremiah Fogle's past marriages or criminal record, and that her sister probably didn't know, either.
"She did not know everything, and if she did, she didn't tell anyone about it," Beauford said. "He always gave us the impression that he was jovial, happy, glad to see us. That's why we're still in shock."
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Associated Press writers Mike Schneider, Jennifer Kay, Christine Armario and Curt Anderson contributed to this report.
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Wednesday, September 21, 2011
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Critical fretboard ... - HEALTH AND FITNESS ARTICLES DIRECOTRY
Critical fretboard ache with suffering radiation into your hand and arm is often the result of a herniated cd or even a upsetting pain causing the sensors depart to get lost, compressing the lack of feeling. In most cases impacted are classified as the C6 sensors in 25Per cent of scenarios and also the C7 lack of feeling in 60Pct. About 25% of left arm discomfort come from a severe prolapsed disk. In older people what causes it is more prone to be narrowing of your exit sales channel from bony outgrowths, cd stuffed, soft tissue infolding and arthritis growth with the factor joints. Physiotherapists typically analyse and handle these kinds of guitar neck discomfort.
Variables making neurological basic suffering more often than not are schedule training of weight loads earlier mentioned 25 pounds (12 kilo), driving or running vibrating systems and smoking cigarettes. Cervical radiculopathy will not be frequent and occurs much less typically than lumbar actual lesions on the skin including sciatic nerve pain.
There is many reasons to the onset of nerve main guitar neck pain or it may possibly think about it little by little with out obvious explanation. When the throat is moved backwards, likely to just one section and spun for the identical facet this will deliberately limit the neurological exit living space and hurt the sensation problems, taking place inside of a upsetting automobile accident or even a donning pain. The other can take place by using a easy facet bend over, put together with flexion or extension, tractioning the neural and producing personal injury. Rapid filling of the neck in every position might cause disk prolapse. There will probably be degenerative adjustments to an old team and with duplicated or suffered throat poses an osteophyte can impinge the sensors and allow a reduced growth and development of provide ache.
The start of cervical radiculopathy may be menacing with no evident induce or following an automobile accident. In the course of game or injury being a autumn the neck is usually extended back, bias to 1 part and revolving, suddenly thinning the departure to the sensors and contracting it, leading to an automobile accident. Or simply a rapid extend to lack of with either cervical flexion or expansion can footing the neurological about the either side with accompanying harm again. When there is intense load on the cervical vertebrae, in every posture, it?s possible for a blank disc prolapse to happen. If you will discover osteophytes seen in an older human being, supporting or saying off shoot with revolving could cause sensors discomfort that has a sluggish attack.
Those that have origin discomfort appear drained due to weak sleeping, don?t come across anything humorous and guard their supply within a safety stance from the mid-section or hold versus eachother sideways utilizing their palm on the rear of their throat or lack of in the go. This could decrease the forces from the infected nerve basic therefore cut down discomfort.
A postural problem can often be found using the neck organised side flexed or spun outside the painful aspect. Test through the physio comes with creating any lean muscle spasm, reviewing reflexes, feeling and muscle mass electrical power, any combined moves which may magnify the agony and any easing aspects such as guide book extender. Naturopathy and cervical epidural proceedures of steroid drugs may be practical if physical rehabilitation can not decrease the discomfort completely.
Stance is frequently irregular while using the scalp moved out from the distressing area and also the neck used stiffly with diminished runs of movement. The physio paperwork the posterior tibial muscle spasm and lab tests the muscles energy to find out which sensors main is damaged, seeks sensory and reflex loss and notices which blend of moves are inciteful of course, if information extender lessens indicators.
Lessening the pain and inflammation may be the primary purpose of treatment method along with the physiotherapist can utilize analgesics including NSAIDs, cryotherapy, technical or manual traction force and deterrence of frustrating exercises and postures. Restraining the makes transported in the nerve main is an entire target of administration, by using a receiver to reduce throat action, a cervical bed sheets or receiver collar during the night time and manual grip from your physiotherapist to draw attention away from the joint parts. Following the extreme period has wrapped up physio is targeted on recovering the neck and throat movement and lean muscle electrical power, beginning from isometric workout routines and being sold to isotonic and work outs for many muscle tissues. Long term adherence to a program of aerobic fitness exercise, muscle defining and elongating could be helpful.
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Tuesday, September 20, 2011
The Downside to Real Estate Investment - Wholesale Real Estate ...
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What could be negative about that? Not much if you do everything exactly the way it should be done. The trick for new investors is knowing everything there is to know about buying, repairing, renting, and selling a house. It takes years and lots of experience to get all of that figured out. One of the worst parts of this equation is picking tenants that will ruin your perfect plan in a heartbeat. When tenants are either picked without proper screening or are simply rented to because you need to start getting a return on your investment so you can pay the mortgage, there will be trouble at some point in the game. A stroke of luck in this case would be the only thing protecting you from a bad tenant experience.
?It takes years and lots of experience to get all of that figured out. One of the worst parts of this equation is picking tenants that will ruin your perfect plan in a heartbeat.?
A tenant that doesn?t pay the rent on time and every month can throw a monkey wrench into the works. The idea of renting the property out is to help you pay the mortgage on the investment property until you can sell for a decent profit. If you?ve decided to use rental properties for monthly cash flow income, you also need good tenants. Other problems with tenants can be even worse than nonpayment of rent. If your tenant causes police to be called to the property, annoys the neighbors or worse, or does things to get you sued, this investment will become a burden and an expense instead of a profit machine.
Carefully and lawfully evicting a tenant is your only choice in most cases. Don?t skip the lawfully part by any means and no matter what the situation. You could be sued by the tenant that didn?t pay rent, damaged your property, and caused nightmares for the neighbors if you don?t follow the letter of the law in the eviction process. Each area has its own specific rules so be sure you know what those laws are before you choose your tenants.
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prior to now, spas were primarily frequented by wealthy ladies searching for a week?s worth of pampering. almost all of the services provided included facials, deep massages and the body remedies. But these days a brand new trend is being observed during the actual spa venture. It?s a trend of wellness.
Today?s health and wellbeing spa has become a middle associated with medical insurance and revitalization. A trip to any adverse health and wellbeing spa can not only pay for you the chance to get pampered, it assists to a person recuperate following an illness. allow me to share just a couple with the solutions offered by well being spas:
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