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Hydraulic Storage using Coastal Salt Domes
Ocean and wind power technologies can generate power during the off-peak periods and large-scale thermal power stations operate most reliably when boilers, steam lines and turbines remain at constant temperature and constant pressure. The combination of electric railways and thermal power stations serve many cities around the world. The massive and instantaneous fluctuations in power demand for power from such transportation systems create difficulties at thermal power stations. Hydraulic and air-pressure based power stations respond more easily to sudden and extreme fluctuations in demand for power.
Coastal Salt Domes:
There are coastal mountains where evidence exists of sections of emptied salt domes that had been pushed up to elevations above sea level. Some caves that were easily accessible were vertical-circular in shaped while other caves had large domed roofs. Salt domes usually occur in groups and the existence of these caves suggested the possible presence of many other larger phenomena hidden within the coastal mountains or below them along the oceanic coast. Some still intact salt domes may lie hidden below sea level near the coast.
Modern seismic techniques can accurately pinpoint the locations, approximate dimensions and elevations of salt domes or sections of salt domes as well as the presence or absence of rock salt. Salt domes that are located very deep in the earth's bedrock and that measure several miles in vertical height by up to a mile in diameter would be suitable to store pressurized natural gas or compressed air. A dome of perhaps 3000-feet in diameter by 3500-feet in vertical height that lies within less than 2000-feet below maritime sea level would be suitable for underground pumped hydraulic storage.
Seawater under Salt Domes:
Voith-Hydro has developed high-capacity turbine pumps that can pump massive volumes of water uphill over elevations of 2000-feet or 600-metres. The corrosion-resistant version of that technology would be suitable for operation is a seawater environment and could pump water from a subterranean chamber of 3000-feet in diameter. The water volume within the chamber may only need to fluctuate over a height of 100-feet to serve 6-hours of peak hour needs of most coastal cities and their electric rail transportation systems.
The water flow rate would exceed 32,000-ft3/sec or 925m3/sec and deliver over 2400MW of power at 89% overall efficiency over an average vertical height of 1000-feet. The power output could exceed 4500MW over a vertical height of 2000-feet, the apparent design limit of the Voith-Hydro pumping technology. A compound pumping and generation system may be applicable where the vertical-circular section of a low-height salt dome is located at some 3500-feet depth below sea level.
An airshaft may connect the atmosphere to the top of the storage dome to allow air to move in and out of the cavity in response to changing water volume within the cavity. Incoming and outgoing air would pass through a bi-directional impulse-style air turbine that drives electrical generation equipment. The output could sustain a portion of the local overnight off-peak power demand and provide additional power during peak periods.
Excavated Cavities:
The Riverbank Power Company of Toronto, Canada is pioneering a technique of excavating cavities into the bedrock next to large rivers at depths of 2000-feet or 600-metres below river surface level. Their technology could also be adapted to excavating such cavities into the interior of coastal mountains at elevations of 2000-feet above sea level. Such excavation is unlikely to attract opposition from environmentalists if there is no seepage of ocean water into the surrounding water that may be at a great distance from the excavation site. The excavated cavity is an option where no suitable remnants of salt domes may exist either within a coastal mountain or below the coastline in the general vicinity of where remnants of salt domes exist. There are plans to introduce excavated subterranean cavities into the State of Maine, USA to convert wind energy and ocean energy to stored pumped hydraulic energy.
Relocating Salt from Salt Domes:
While salt domes in coastal mountains may have long been flushed of rock salt, several deep level coastal salt domes that lie below sea level may still contain rock salt. There would be potential to make productive use of that salt in tropical and sub-tropical locations where seawater desalination may prevail. It may be possible to excavate large circular cavities near the ocean coast into which to place excess salt and brine from thermal desalination plants.
While potable water would reflect the infrared spectrum of solar light, the salt in a brine pond would capture that spectrum. The temperature at the bottom of a brine pond may reach 95-deg C or 200-deg F while ocean temperature may be considerably cooler. Cold northbound ocean currents flow along the western coasts of South America as well as Southern Africa, southbound along the coast of northwestern Africa and eastbound along the southern Australian coast. Water temperature may often be below 25-deg C or 77-deg F and often much cooler.
Energy from the Salt:
The thermal energy in coastal brine ponds in tropical and sub-tropical regions can help desalinate ocean water or it can be used to energize engines that are designed to operate on low-grade thermal energy. In either case, a large sealed and corrosion-resistant spiral pipe may be installed at the bottom of the brine pond to collect and transfer heat to either a desalination plant or low-grade heat engine that may operate at about 9% thermal efficiency. Many commercially available solar photovoltaic panels operate similar efficiency.
A transparent cover that is immune to the UV spectrum would allow the infrared spectrum to enter the brine pond, minimize evaporation and provide insulation during the cooler overnight hours. Ocean water may be used to regulate and optimize the concentration of salinity as well as provide the heat sink for either the desalination plant or the heat engine. In terms of long-term costs and operational longevity, the brine pond may have an advantage over photovoltaic technology.
A company called ElectraTherm offers low-grade heat engines of up to 1MW output each that can generate electric power at up to 10% efficiency from the temperature difference between coastal brine ponds and cold-current ocean water. That efficiency is higher than the 2% efficiency of air-based solar-thermal chimneys. Suitable Pacific Coast locations are available in northern Chile and along the desert region of Peru. Suitable Atlantic Coast locations occur along the desert region of Morocco, northwestern South Africa, Namibia and Angola.
There are many parts of the world where pumped hydraulic storage may involve the use of sections of subterranean salt domes located either below sea level near an ocean coast or within a coastal mountain. An optional technology would involve excavating cavities either inside coastal mountains or into the coastal bedrock located below sea level. Such pumped hydraulic storage operation could enhance the operation of other power generation technologies, improve their cost effectiveness and even extend their longevity. Whatever salt is flushed from coastal salt domes can be transferred to coastal brine ponds to generate electric power or to desalinate seawater.
First, though I haven't done the calculations to prove it, I'm pretty certain that 3000 feet in diameter for an excabated dome at 2000 foot depth is at least an order of magnitude larger than anything that could exist without collapsing.
Second, unless one were able to remove all of the salt from a salt dome formation (leaving a large cavity in the sedimentary rock into which the salt had intruded), then pumping sea water in and out of the cavity would continue to enlarge it until it collapsed. Sea water is far from saturated in salt, and would dissolve salt from the cavity almost as effectively as fresh water. The water pumped out would be far saltier than the sea water let in, and could be toxic to sea life in the vicinity of the outlet.
Third, if one has a handy salt dome and can excavate a good sized cavity by hydraulic flushing, then far more energy can be stored by using it for CAES (compressed air energy storage) than for pumped hydro. I won't try to go into the details here, but it's something that I've looked into. I haven't written about it yet, as there are some patent possibilities that I'm considering. But the energy storage ratio is about 10:1 (advanced CAES to pumped hydro).
As to salt ponds, they are indeed a very economical means to capture low-grade solar heat in places where surface area is cheap. They depend on a salt concentration gradient -- concentrated near the pond bottom, fresh near the top -- to maintain stratification and block convective mixing despite higher temperatures at depth. The hot, salt-laden lower layers of the pond are insulated by the stratified layers of less salty water above them. The surface layer is ambient, and doesn't require any covering. That's a major consideration for the low cost.
For the solar thermal pond, besides ElectraTherm, United Technologies also has a commercialized heat-to-electricy system called PureCycle200. It has operated with inlet tempertures as low as 165 deg-F.


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Tampa, FL -- The driver of a semi that ended up with its wheels hanging over the edge of the Selmon Expressway says he thought he was going to die in Tuesday's accident.
Mark Pickard tells 10 News that as his truck was sliding along the outside concrete barrier of the Expressway with his vehicle's passenger side wheels hanging over the edge, "I thought that was it."
The Seffner man says he lost control of his semi after he blew out a tire, but the Florida Highway Patrol still cited the 45-year-old with Careless Driving.
The single-vehicle accident just past the downtown Kennedy exit closed the westbound lanes of the Expressway during morning rush hour, backing up traffic for miles.
"I thought I was going over and I turned it as hard as I could to the left," Pickard recalled.
Officials say the semi traveled about 600 feet along the outside barrier, taking out three light poles before it came to a stop.
Pickard suffered only minor injures.

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I work in an upper east side boutique that she frequents. She was as sweet as can be and bought a pair of vintage red Stuart Weisman pumps recently that matched perfectly with her red Chanel suit... she is fabulous!
- March 26, 2009 at 2:25 PM
- Lilly said...
Hi! What a great idea for a fashion blog! I had no clue that something like this existed... Often I see pretty dressed old ladys in the city and think: 'I would still like to dress fashionable like them when I am at their age!' You are doing great work^^
Lilly :)
- March 26, 2009 at 5:12 PM
- Eva said...
I used to help her at Bergdorf's, the late 80s. She's very nice and of course - gorgeous!
- March 31, 2009 at 11:38 AM
I am not really into blogs! But I like this blog. Love looking at how the older chic ladies are dressing! Old shcool I love it! They can teach us young gals A LOT!
- April 3, 2009 at 9:55 PM
- victoria said...
Is Anne Slater the mom of Elise Holloway?
- April 11, 2009 at 1:23 AM
Yes, she has two daughters...Dita
Emmet is the other daughter
- May 10, 2009 at 7:16 PM
Oh, that's JUST how I want to wear my hair when I get old, it's super-stylish (I plan to pair it up with wellington boots and slacks). Fingers crossed my hair turns all white like that! I especially like the picture at the bottom, she's so gorgeous.
- May 14, 2009 at 1:34 PM
Dorothy Dare?
- August 30, 2011 at 5:15 PM
They don't come like this anymore. A much younger Christine Schwarzman is the closest to that aristocratic element today.
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Las Vegas, NV (Sports Network) - Bradley Randle recorded 130 total yards and
scored three touchdowns as the UNLV Rebels made easy work of the New Mexico
Lobos, 35-7, in Mountain West Conference action at Sam Boyd Stadium.
Randle rushed for 113 yards and a pair of scores on just 12 carries and added
a 17-yard touchdown reception for UNLV (2-8, 1-3 MWC), which snapped a five-
game losing streak. Nick Sherry completed 17-of-27 passes for 289 yards with
two touchdowns and two interceptions, with the majority of that production
going to Devante Davis (seven reception, 145 yards, TD). Tim Cornett also
topped the century mark on the ground, carrying the ball nine times for 107
yards and a score.
New Mexico (4-5, 1-3) rushed the ball 65 times for 307 yards, led by Chase
Clayton with a career-high 75 yards. It was the eighth time this season it has
rushed for at least 300 yards in a game. Cole Gautsche threw the ball just six
times, completing three of those attempts for 43 yards while also throwing a
pick. The Lobos are now losers of three in a row.
The only score of the first quarter came on a 17-yard rushing touchdown from
Cornett to give UNLV an early lead.
The Rebels padded their advantage in the second quarter. First, Sherry hooked
up with Randle on a 17-yard touchdown pass, then Randle got into the act on
the ground later in the quarter with a nine-yard rushing score. UNLV held New
Mexico to just 110 yards of offense in the first half, and it took a 21-0 lead
into intermission.
New Mexico finally found the scoreboard midway through the third quarter on a
five-yard touchdown run from Carlos Wiggins, but UNLV answered later in the
quarter as Sherry connected on a 75-yard scoring strike to Davis.
The Rebels continued to show big-play ability in the fourth quarter as Randle
ripped off a 58-yard scoring rush to put the game out of reach.
UNLV won despite having a big disadvantage in terms of time of possession. The
Rebels controlled the ball for less than 19 minutes.
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Goldsmith died at a hospital in D.C. over the weekend. Her father says she was at a club with friends before she collapsed.
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Moderate. These medicines may cause some risk when taken together. Contact your healthcare professional (e.g. doctor or pharmacist) for more information.
How the interaction occurs:
Carbamazepine, mitotane, phenobarbital, phenytoin, rifabutin, rifampin and St. John's Wort may speed up how quickly your liver processes ponatinib.
What might happen:
Your ponatinib may not work as well while you are taking, and for 2 to 4 weeks after you stop taking, these other medicines.
What you should do about this interaction:
Let your healthcare professionals (e.g. doctor or pharmacist) know that you are taking these medicines together or if you have been taking carbamazepine, mitotane, phenobarbital, phenytoin, rifabutin, rifampin or St. John's Wort within 4 weeks of starting ponatinib therapy.Your healthcare professionals may already be aware of this interaction and may be monitoring you for it. Do not start, stop, or change the dosage of any medicine before checking with them first.
1.Iclusig (ponatinib) US prescribing information. ARIAD Pharmaceuticals Inc. December, 2013.
2.US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Drug Development and Drug Interactions: Table of Substrates, Inhibitors and Inducers. Available at: http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DevelopmentApprovalProcess/DevelopmentResources/D rugInteractionsLabeling/ucm093664.htm. Updated 08/05/2011.


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Tech trade group whose members include Eric Schmidt and Marissa Mayer sends letter to House Intelligence panel commending its work on the controversial bill and expressing interest in added privacy protections.
Google says immediate compliance with Chevron's request is "simply unreasonable." Oil company says e-mail data will show plaintiff's attorneys in environmental case were "falsifying evidence."
The three companies will cross-sell each other's ads, supposedly to "reduce friction in the marketplace."
Redmond's AdCenter is now powering paid search results for Yahoo and its partners in the U.S. and Canada. Next up, the shift for mobile and international sites.
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It's not over until the U.S. government says so, but Yahoo and Microsoft have finalized their agreement to install Microsoft as the search provider on Yahoo's network of sites.
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Systemic corruption has flourished in South Africa's asylum system due to large backlogs and rising demand. Though apartheid's end ushered in a progressive refugee law, inefficiency, administrative justice violations, and corruption have narrowed the humanitarian protection channel. Asylum seekers and refugees often face the stark choice of paying bribes to access services or risking deportation.
The emigration of health-care professionals from Malawi led to drastic labor shortages in the impoverished nation in the early 2000s. To combat this brain drain, the government launched an action plan that has largely stabilized the outflow. However, human resource challenges to Malawi's health-care system remain acute and complex, as discussed in this feature article.
Migration has begun to follow the flow of capital after years of Chinese investment in major infrastructure projects in Zambia. This feature article, based on original research including the coding of 25,000 Zambian entry permits, examines the emerging migration pattern from China to Zambia, as Chinese migration to the country has increased 60 percent since 2009.
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This edited volume develops a pragmatic approach to the engagement of highly skilled members of the diaspora for the benefit of their countries of origin. The book, edited by a World Bank senior economist, is based on empirical work in middle-income and high-income economies.
This interdisciplinary volume examines the health, well-being, school readiness, and academic achievement of children in Black immigrant families (most with parents from Africa and the Caribbean)—a population that has had little academic attention even as it represents an increasing share of the U.S. Black child population.
Using a nationally representative U.S. birth-cohort study, this report examines levels of school readiness among young children by race/ethnicity and nativity. The authors identify the contextual factors — such as family circumstances, parenting practices, and enrollment in center-based child care — that encourage early school success.
This report draws on a six-year longitudinal study of Palm Beach County, FL, examining parenting, child care enrollment, and other factors that encourage early school success. The authors find kindergarten-age children of Black immigrants have significantly higher odds of being ready for school than children of Latina immigrant or Black U.S.-born mothers.
This report focuses on the development of children of Black immigrants in the United States, comparing against the outcomes for their peers in native-born and other immigrant families. It also compares these U.S. children to those in the United Kingdom, where there is a large Black immigrant population but a notably different policy context of reception.


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The holidays have me craving Gingerbread. So I thought I would tryout my new holiday recipe for Bud Light Chocolate Gingerbread Cake. It's got the best of all in one. :)
Bud Light Chocolate Gingerbread Cake
Ingredients for the cake:
-2 1/2 cups flour
-1/3 c cocoa powder- unsweetened
-1 TB ginger
-2 tsps baking powder
-1 tsp baking soda
-1 tsp cinnamon
-1/2 cup/1 stick of butter/margarine softened
-1/2 cup of packed brown sugar
-1 cup of molasses
-1 tsp vanilla
-1 egg
-1/4 cup of Bud Light
-3/4 cup of boling water
Ingredients frosting/topping
- 1 container of Buttercream Frosting ( I haven't discovered a recipe that tastes better to me yet)
- 1cup of mini chocolate chips
- 1/2 -1 cup of dark chocolate chips
- 2 -4TB Bud Light
- 2-4 TB sugar cookie coffee creamer
Cake Directions:
-Preheat oven to 350.
- Mix the flour, cocoa powder, ginger, baking powder, baking soda and cinnamon in a medium bowl. Set aside.
-Beat the softened butter/margarine, brown sugar, molasses and vanilla in a large box w/ electric mixer on medium speed until well blended.
-Mix the egg and then add the flour mixture alternately with the boiled water, constantly stirring, until well mixed. Add the 1/4 cup of Bud Light to the mix, and stir until well blended.
- Pour the batter in a 9 inch square/greased baking dish or a greased bundt cake pan (I used butter flavored pam to grease the bundt pan)
-Bake around 40 minutes until a toothpick comes out clean from the center. If you have a wire rack to put the pan on to cool, use that. Once it's completely cooled you can get it on the dish to decorate it.
Topping Directions:
- MIX together the container of Buttercream Frosting with the cup of mini chocolate chips and spread on the cake evenly.
-The chocolate swirl topping is made by putting 1/2 to 1 cup of dark chocolate chips (depending how much you want on the cake) in a microwave safe bowl with 1-2 TBS sugar cookie coffee creamer and 1-2 TBS Bud Light.. melt together in microwave about :30..then stir- may need to add more chips and/or 1-2 more TBS of the liquids and heat again...then stir.. keep doing this process until the chocolate is thin enough to swirl/splash on the cake..not runny, but not to thick either.
Put the cake in the refrigerator to set for about 1 hour, then set it out to reach room temp. It's ready to eat.
My honey Ted isn't a fan of Gingerbread, but he said this one was surprisingly good. :) I agree, but of course I love gingerbread, chocolate and Bud Light..can't go wrong! :) Give it a try! You may find you'll LIKE/LOVE IT!
I think next time I'll add a packet of chocolate instant pudding to make it even more moist, but it was a pretty good turn out for the 1st try with this new recipe. :)


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For the purposes of this subchapter:
(1) The term "enhanced-use lease" means a written lease entered into by the Secretary under this subchapter.
(2) The term "congressional veterans' affairs committees" means the Committees on Veterans' Affairs of the Senate and the House of Representatives.
(3) The term "supportive housing" means housing that engages tenants in on-site and community-based support services for veterans or their families that are at risk of homelessness or are homeless. Such term may include the following:
Source(Added Pub. L. 102–86, title IV, § 401(a),Aug. 14, 1991, 105 Stat. 417; amended Pub. L. 112—154, title II, § 211(a),Aug. 6, 2012, 126 Stat. 1179.)
2012—Par. (3). Pub. L. 112–154added par. (3).
Effective Date of 2012 Amendment
Pub. L. 112—154, title II, § 211(k),Aug. 6, 2012, 126 Stat. 1182, provided that "Except as otherwise provided in this section [enacting section 8168 of this title, amending this section and sections 8162, 8164 to 8167, and 8169 of this title, and enacting provisions set out as notes under sections 8162 and 8168 of this title], the amendments made by this section shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act [Aug. 6, 2012].
Training and Outreach Regarding Authority
Pub. L. 106–117, title II, § 208(f),Nov. 30, 1999, 113 Stat. 1568, provided that: "The Secretary [of Veterans Affairs] shall take appropriate actions to provide training and outreach to personnel at Department [of Veterans Affairs] medical centers regarding the enhanced-use lease authority under subchapter V of chapter 81 of title 38, United States Code. The training and outreach shall address methods of approaching potential lessees in the medical or commercial sectors regarding the possibility of entering into leases under that authority and other appropriate matters."
Independent Analysis of Opportunities for Use of Authority
Pub. L. 106–117, title II, § 208(g),Nov. 30, 1999, 113 Stat. 1568, provided that:
"(1) The Secretary [of Veterans Affairs] shall take appropriate actions to secure from an appropriate entity (or entities) independent of the Department [of Veterans Affairs] an analysis (or analyses) of opportunities for the use of the enhanced-use lease authority under subchapter V of chapter 81 of title 38, United States Code.
"(2) An analysis under paragraph (1) shall include—
"(A) a survey of facilities of the Department for purposes of identifying Department property that presents an opportunity for lease under the enhanced-use lease authority;
"(B) an assessment of the feasibility of entering into enhanced-use leases under that authority in the case of any property identified under subparagraph (A) as presenting an opportunity for such lease; and
"(C) an assessment of the resources required at the Department facilities concerned, and at the Department Central Office, in order to facilitate the entering into of enhanced-used leases in the case of property so identified.
"(3) If as a result of a survey under paragraph (2)(A) an entity carrying out an analysis under this subsection determines that a particular Department property presents no opportunities for lease under the enhanced-use lease authority, the analysis shall include the entity's explanation of that determination.
"(4) If as a result of such a survey an entity carrying out an analysis under this subsection determines that certain Department property presents an opportunity for lease under the enhanced-use lease authority, the analysis shall include a single integrated business plan, developed by the entity, that addresses the strategy and resources necessary to implement the plan for all property determined to present an opportunity for such lease."
Enhanced Use Leases
Pub. L. 104–110, title II, § 202(c),Feb. 13, 1996, 110 Stat. 771, provided that: "The Secretary shall submit to Congress, not later than March 31, 1997, a report evaluating the operation of the program under subchapter V of chapter 81 of title 38, United States Code."
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Tabarrok on Debt and Imprisonment
Recorded: Friday, April 20, 2012
Alexander Tabarrok, Research Director at the Independent Institute, speaks with Alyona Minkovski of RT's "The Alyona Show" on increasing criminal justice fees applied to those convicted or charged of a crime and time served due to debt.
Experts: Alexander T. TabarrokType: TelevisionIssues: Civil Liberties/ Human Rights, Criminal Justice/ Prisons, Culture/ Society, Taxes
Is the War on Terror Creating Terrorism?
Recorded: Tuesday, April 15, 2008
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Is it possible that the U.S. governments response to the 9/11 attacks has served al-Qaeda interests? Despite the hype, U.S. law-enforcement officials have found little evidence of serious terrorist activities inside the country, compelling them to escalate their use of prosecution and entrapment to justify their enormous budgets.
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Does your favorite sitting area need more lighting? Consider one of the many attractive ELK Lighting Swing Arm fixtures. With a wide array of styles and colors available, these swing arm fixtures are an ideal choice for an area where more direct lighting is necessary. Install a fixture near your favorite chair for reading or next to your bed for a stylish lighting addition where you need it most.


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Flame retardants in California pregnant women
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Highest levels of flame retardant chemicals
reported in California pregnant women
Group finds that low-income populations are exposed to higher levels of PBDEs.
In a new study, funded in part by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), a team of scientists reported very high levels of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) and their hydroxylated metabolites (OH-PBDEs) among California pregnant women. Median levels of certain PBDEs and OH-PBDEs were the highest reported to date among pregnant women worldwide.
PBDEs are ubiquitous and persistent flame retardant chemicals found in the environment. Exposure to them during pregnancy poses a public health concern because the chemicals have been linked with neurodevelopmental defects and hormone disruption, according to the authors of the study.
The findings appeared online in Environmental Science and Technology, the result of collaboration among scientists from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and the California Department of Toxic Substances Control.
Exposure to PBDE linked with defective thyroid hormone signaling
Quoted in a UCSF press release, senior author Tracey Woodruff, Ph.D., said, "These important results, showing that pregnant women in this California population are exposed to high levels of certain flame retardants, is a key part of our work to understand and address multiple chemical exposures that occur during this sensitive time period." Woodruff is director of the UCSF Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment, part of the UCSF Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences.
According to the authors, exposure to flame retardants is a major concern, because people are continuously exposed due to bioaccumulation in the environment. In an interview with the Los Angeles Times the day the study was published, Ami R. Zota, Sc.D., a postdoctoral fellow at UCSF and primary author of the paper, stressed, "It's very hard to avoid our exposures to these products because they're so widespread. Ultimately, we need policy measures."
Health disparities of PBDE exposure
Data from this study also support previous findings that U.S.-born low-income populations are more likely to have higher levels of flame retardant chemicals. Economic disparities like this are likely due to older PDBE-treated furniture and poorer housing quality.
As furniture, carpeting, and other household items age, flame retardants are released into the air and dust. California homes have some of the highest reported levels of PBDE chemicals in their household dust. "Blood levels of flame retardant chemicals are two times higher for California residents than for people in the rest of the country," noted Zota, "likely because our state has the most restrictive flammability requirements nationally."
A cohort of women in their second trimester
The team analyzed serum samples collected between 2008 and 2009 from 25 second trimester pregnant women for concentrations of lower- and higher-brominated PDBEs, OH-PBDEs, thyroid-stimulating hormone, free thyroxine, and total thyroxine. This is one of the first studies to measure the hydroxylated metabolites in pregnant women, and also one of the first to examine associations between OH-PBDEs and thyroid hormone disruption. According to the authors, another of several strengths of the study is its focus on a vulnerable, but understudied, population of ethnically diverse and predominately low-income women.
Although the data are preliminary and the sample size limited, the researchers found that higher levels of PBDE were associated with thyroid hormone disruption in pregnant women. Because thyroid hormone is important for pregnant women's health and child development, studying this connection further will be of great importance. "This pilot study lays the basis for larger studies to examine the inter-relationships between PDBEs and OH-PDBEs, TH [thyroid hormone] signaling during pregnancy, and adverse maternal and child health outcomes," the scientists concluded.
In addition to a supplement to an NIEHS grant and an NIEHS career development award, this study was also supported by the Passport Foundation Science Innovation Fund and the Learning Disabilities Association of America.
By Linh Pham*
September 2011
Editor's Notes
- *Linh Pham, Ph.D. is on detail to the Program Analysis Branch of the Division of Extramural Research and Training.
- Citation: Zota AR, Park JS, Wang Y, Petreas M, Zoeller T, Woodruff TJ. 2011. Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), hydroxylated PBDEs (OH-PBDEs), and measures of thyroid function in second trimester pregnant women in California. Environ Sci Technol; doi: 10.1021/es200422b [Online 10 August 2011].
Citation(2011). Flame retardants in California pregnant women. Retrieved from http://www.eoearth.org/view/news/51cbf1f27896bb431f6a7448
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Great article Karen! My 7 yr. Old granddaughter has had the same episodes. Her Mom had them too. Both taken to their physician and were diagnosed with "growing pains". My daughter is now well into her thirties. I placed my granddaughter on a multi vitamin about 2 months ago. So far so good. Thanks again for this article. Be blessed
The association between iron deficiency and restless legs syndrome does occur in adults too. I have RLS already for more than 5 years. Some months ago I started with Ropinirole, because the RLS got unbearable. Recently they checked my iron levels,appeared that they are very low. I started to take iron supplements (Ferro-Folgamma) and the RLS was gone.
Before that I have tried everything like moving/not-moving, massages, cold-warm showers,stopped smoking, coffee, black tea, e.t.c. It worked for a while and then would come back. Having good sex also helps, but only for the same evening.
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This is interesting, because at 79 I well remember my "growing pains" as a child, and most of my adulthood I've had RLS. My father was a physician, and in my teens he found me to be anemic and had me take supplements. Since we weren't looking for a relationship, I can't now recall how the iron supplements affected my RLS, but anything I've read lately makes me think there likely was a connection.
As our daughter progressed through the preschool years, I began to notice that she was not outgrowing temper tantrums & daily melt-downs like the other children. Despite getting plenty of rest, she seemed cranky & irritable all of the time. She was no longer napping, but if she ever did fall asleep during the day, she woke up so happy and sweet... it was like having our child back! On one of her worst days I took her into our pediatrician's office "suitcase style" (under my arm)& without an appointment so that he could see the kind of behavior I'd been so concerned about. She was nearly 5 by this time. Our pediatrician agreed to order a sleep study & nothing could have prepared us for the results. She was diagnosed with Periodic Limb Movement Disorder - a.k.a. restless legs. The test showed that she had woken up 131 times in one night because of her legs! Our sleep specialist immediately recommended that we have her serum ferritin tested because low ferritin can be common in kids. As he suspected, our daughter's ferritin was extremely low. We carefully chose an iron supplement & added it to our daily routine. After about three months, we had her rechecked and her ferritin levels had increased to within normal range. Getting enough iron & rest made a huge difference in our daughter's daytime behavior & overall disposition. I sincerely hope that my post may spare some other family the same frustrations that we dealt with for so long!
I am really not surprised at this finding! I have had RLS for years, but in the last 2 years diagnosed with Celiac. I can now see the link between the two, and unfortunately, can also see my symptoms in my daughter as well. I'd love to know if there is any link with RLS and pernicious anemia, a malabsorption disorder, which has raised some questions being linked to Celiac as well.
RLS happens in 5-12% of all adults. I have online support groups for RLS with over 4,000 members from 30 different countries. Parents loking for help, average age of members in my groups is 60, but getting younger. RLS is neurological, and progressive. I am 56 and have RLS severely impact my life after breaking my back. RLS is also genetic in 60 % of the cases. Some secondary RLS can have underlying causes, and iron only helps if your body is not storing it correctly. Other poster said too much iron is not safe, and it can kill you, so if your legs are restless, get a Ferritin level done, plus iron serum. Ferritin levels show how your body stores the iron, not if you are anemic.
Yes it does occur in adults,my son is 53 and takes a script for rls,as far as lacking iron u have to be careful because it can affect ur heart if given too much, best to see ur DR.
Keri - yes, absolutely. My 'restless legs' made my life miserable until I became so anemic that I needed a transfusion, and follow up iron infusions. After that, no more restless leg. It also made a huge difference in my mental abilities, which had declined (and I blamed menopause.)
Does this association between iron deficiency and restless leg syndrome occur in adults?
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- Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 322, no. 2 (Apr. 2001), pp. 257-261
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- 2001
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- globular clusters: general; galaxies: elliptical and lenticular, cD; galaxies: evolution; galaxies: interactions
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- 0035-8711
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- Copyright © 2001 The Royal Astronomical Society. Author's final draft reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher.
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- "Niko, I need you to go collect some garbage for me."
- ―Ray Boccino.
- "Garbage?"
- ―Niko Bellic.
- "Yeah, you wanted a career in waste disposal, now you got one"
- ―Ray Boccino.
Taking in the Trash is a mission in Grand Theft Auto IV, given to Niko Bellic by Pegorino Family capo Ray Boccino from Drusilla's, a restaurant located in the Little Italy district of Algonquin, Liberty City. The mission takes place immediately after the TLAD mission Diamonds in the Rough. Ray got Ashley Butler to get The Lost Brotherhood to rip some diamonds off some some club owner and hide the ice in some garbage bags to be picked up by Ray (this is shown in the TLAD mission Diamonds in the Rough and in the TBoGT mission Frosting on the Cake). He wants you to go to a guy named Luca, and you, he and Luca's partners will pick up the diamond-laced trash.
Follow the waypoint to find a Trashmaster parked in an alleyway with a group of three sanitation guys standing around. Get introduced. The objective is to drive the Trashmaster to wherever Luca tells you to go, picking up garbage bags filled with trash and "ice."
The first diamond pickup is in Chinatown. Stop at the waypoint at the side of the street. Luca's boys will get off and pick up bags and carry them to the garbage truck. Be sure to open the door to the truck's compactor by pressing the button the little tutorial tells you to press. Luca's boys will toss the bags in and get back onto the back of the truck.
The second diamond pickup is on H Street. Stop at the waypoint and wait for Luca's boys to pick up the bags full of ice and toss them into the back of the truck. After the last guy gets on the back of the truck, a cutscene is triggered.
It seems somebody has caught wind of your activity and has sent a car with armed occupants after you. Drive to Fishmarket South to drop off your load. Luca's boys will shoot back at the pursuing car once it starts shooting at you. However if you have a weapon that can be shot from a vehicle you can simply shoot the driver of the persuing car since it will not move until you do and you can lose it quickly. Don't worry about getting attention from the LCPD because when you make it to the waypoint on the map, the heat dies down anyways.
After dropping the Diamonds off, Luca and his crew -- claiming that they will take care of returning the ice to Ray -- will disappear. The result of letting Luca off with the ice forms the basis for the next mission...
Mission objectives
In order to complete the mission the player must:
- Go and pick up the Trashmaster
- Get in the truck
- Drive to the first diamond pickup
- Drive to the second diamond pickup
- Go to the drop-off in Fishmarket South
Video Walkthrough
- This mission is directly related to Diamonds in the Rough in TLAD where Johnny steals the diamonds from Luis Fernando Lopez, Gay Tony, and Evan Moss (the third of whom he kills) and hides them in two garbage cans on the orders of Ray.
- Niko receives a LSD uniform to wear during the mission, which is then stored to his wardrobe. It is exactly the same as the one worn by regular LSD workers.
- The "pursuing car" is a rare Oracle XS, which can be obtained by killing both men in the car, and driving it as close to Ray's restaurant as you can, before the mission is failed. Once failed, go to the spot that you were last in the car, and it should be there. This car can be changed to any color desired in the Pay N' Spray, without going to default color (dark green) immediately.
- The name is a play on the saying "taking out the trash".
- If Luca, Johnny, or Tuna are killed, the mission will fail, and Niko will be put in front of Drusilla's in a black Primo.
- Before, during and after this mission Ray Boccino goes to great lengths to distance himself from the diamonds. The exact reason for this is unknown, however in the cutscene for Diamonds in the Rough he says it's due to "a conflict of interests" which is some way related to them.
- Just like in It's Your Call the player doesn't have to lose his pursuers to get away, as the player gets near it's destination, they will simply drive away.
- The guys in the car attacking Niko, Luca and his crew are the member of the Messina Family


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Beaufort County Deputies say a suspect accused of having marijuana near a local Boys and Girls Club was found in a house hiding under a bed sheet.
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