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Road and street crews are still out trying to clear the way for motorists following several days of snow and ice. About 10 inches of snow has fallen on Daviess County in the past week putting road clearing crews to the test.
Gas explosion near Odon sends man to hospital
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Three Washington teenagers were charged in the shooting death of Devan Burris, 17, on Friday. Logan Dale Evans, 18, 312 Cable Ave., was arrested by city police as he and friend Heaven Berry, 18, turned themselves in on Sunday evening at Berry's apart
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- Daviess County athletic events postponed Friday All athletic events in Daviess County for Friday have been postponed due to inclement weather. The Evansville Central-Washington, Northeast Dubois-Washington Catholic, Barr-Reeve-Pike Central, Wood Memorial-Loogootee and Shoals-North Daviess boys bas
- Saturday's Police Report CITY REPORT Friday 2:47 a.m. - Police received a report from a resident at 312 N. State Road 57 that an apartment had been broken into and ransacked. Thursday 5:07 p.m. - An employee at Chuckles at 201 N.E. Fifth St. that someone had just pumped $20
- Book fairs help raise literacy rates across the land At Lena Dunn Elementary the annual winter book fair is big deal for more reasons than one. The timing is perfect for families with Christmas just around the corner and getting books into the hands of children is the key to improving literacy not just
- CSX retirees meet at Ponderosa Thirty-two CSX retirees met Dec. 2 at a local restaurant. Mike Cook gave the blessing. Mike Cook, Charles Tomey, Ray Catterton and Howard Detty each won a plate of pumpkin bread baked by Joyce Lee. Sam Myers won a pie from the Ponderosa. Also attendi
- Saturday's Area Briefs Survivor group to meet The Breast Cancer Sharing and Surviving support group will meet from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Specialty Clinic Room 254 at Daviess Community Hospital. Neat Feet clinic next Friday Daviess Community Hospital's Neat F
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Scrapping Over Seaweed
Harvesters of periwinkles and rockweed are crossing paths in eastern Maine.
- By: Colin Woodard
It's low tide in easternmost Maine, and Julie Keene is scampering along the rocky, seaweed-covered shore of one of Cobscook Bay's many inlets. The tides in these parts are the largest in the state, falling by twenty feet to expose vast stretches of the bottom, where local folks like Keene often go to make their living. At one point or another this Lubec native has done it all: dug clams, foraged for mussels, or picked periwinkles, which are sought after by Asian consumers.
"There are so many of us on this bay, from Lubec all around to Eastport, who have been in the fishery our whole lives, people who used to pack sardines, people who have no other education — we are so economically dependent on this bay," says Keene. Her father and grandfather were light keepers at West Quoddy Head — a peninsula other ancestors once owned — and her first job was at one of Lubec's long-defunct sardine canneries, where her mother and grandmother also worked.
Indeed, much of eastern Washington County's economy revolves around multi-chambered Cobscook Bay, from scallop and urchin dragging to salmon aquaculture and ongoing experiments with tidal energy generation. But in this, the poorest county in Maine, many turn to picking periwinkles — "wrinkles" in local parlance — to make ends meet when other fisheries are closed, or to buy groceries when they've got no other source of income.
"There's women on welfare, you see them in the wintertime soaking wet, covered in mud, tired, cold, and they're in the store cashing a thirty-dollar wrinkle check to buy diapers or a five-gallon can of heating fuel," Keene says as she lifts thick mats of rockweed to reveal the periwinkles nestled underneath. "It's what gets people through the winter or through red tides" when clam flats are closed.
But Keene fears the common periwinkle — and indeed the entire ecological balance of Cobscook Bay — is under threat from the bay's newest industry: commercial seaweed harvesting. Operating from small boats, the harvesters have been taking thousands of tons of rockweed out of the bay for the past two years, an activity Keene fears is destroying the habitat for periwinkles, clam spat, juvenile fish, and a host of other organisms. She's been doing all she can to put a stop to it.
"When the tide rises up and lifts the rockweed, it's basically like an old-growth forest because it had never been cut," says Robin Hadlock Seeley, a researcher at Cornell University's Shoals Marine Laboratory who teamed up with Keene to try and stop the brown seaweed from being harvested. "It provides so many ecological services. If you're going to leave one thing alone in the bay, it seems like this is it."
Their protests — and the scientific and public relations battle that's followed — put the hardscrabble communities of eastern Maine in an uproar, and again raised questions about who really owns Maine's seaweed: the state or the adjacent landowner. And with demand for rockweed growing, large-scale harvesters will continue spreading down Maine's coast, which is the southernmost region where the brown algae can be profitably mowed. Any such expansion may well bring similar concerns in its wake.
When Keene and Seeley started raising questions about the Cobscook harvest in the summer of 2008, they found plenty of allies. Fishermen, lobstermen, and wrinklers — all concerned that unusually large quantities of free-floating seaweed were choking the waterways — joined a protest they organized in Lubec that July. The Cobscook Bay Fishermen's Association, Passamaquoddy Tribal Council, and the town of Pembroke called for a moratorium. The Quoddy Regional Land Trust began collecting a long list of property owners who didn't want the rockweed on their shoreline harvested.
"If I went to fill up my car with gas or went to the post office or the grocery store, I ran into someone who was concerned about it," recalls Kevin Raye, of Perry, who represents the region in the Maine Senate and prompted legislators to review the situation. "People were concerned across the board."
It didn't help that the company that organized the harvest, Acadian Seaplants, is based in far-off Nova Scotia, and that many of its harvesters were inexperienced. Going out in open skiffs with handheld cutting rakes, some of them may have cut rockweed shorter than sixteen inches, one of the few regulations imposed by Maine law and intended to ensure the plant can regrow. "They were pretty much cutting anywhere in the bay they wanted, and in some cases cutting very badly," says Alan Brooks, executive director of the Quoddy Regional Land Trust, which has since merged with the Great Auk Land Trust to become the Downeast Coastal Conservancy. "Acadian Seaplants learned a number of lessons from a very bad experiment."
Changes came down from on high, thanks in no small part to Keene and Seeley's efforts. This past spring, the legislature passed an emergency measure that imposed tough new rules for Cobscook Bay rockweed harvesters. The bay would be divided up into harvest sectors, and harvesters couldn't take more than 17 percent of the available rockweed in a given year. An effort had to be made to return periwinkles and other bycatch to the water. Large parts of the bay were declared no-harvest zones, including areas adjacent to state parks, and harvesters were strongly advised to respect the wishes of private landowners, even though it's unclear if they own the rockweed under Maine law.
So how did the 2009 season turn out, and is everyone happy now? The short answers: pretty good and no.
By all accounts, the harvest went much smoother than last year, even though a second harvester — Butch Harris, of Eastport — has joined in with a mechanical rockweed cutter. Senator Raye says nobody has complained to him this year, and Seeley, who has been monitoring the harvest under a grant from the Maine Coast Heritage Trust, says the regulations have led to a considerable improvement.
Acadian Seaplants Vice President Rex Hunter thinks the company, and seaweed harvesting in general, have gotten a bad rap. "I don't think we did things horribly at all in 2008," he says, seated at a table in the company's Pembroke office on the last day of the season this past October. If any short-cutting happened, it was limited and accidental, and all that rockweed in the water wasn't their doing, he says.
Acadian — which employs one full-time and up to twenty-five part-time and contract workers in Maine — ships all its Maine rockweed to a World War II-era military airfield in Pennfield, New Brunswick. From the Trans-Canada Highway you can glimpse hundreds of tons of rockweed laid out on the runways to dry. Much of it will be turned into fertilizer or animal feed, for which there is a growing global demand.
Hunter, whose firm also harvests off Jonesport, says it's in the company's interest not to over-harvest the resource, and that its long track record demonstrates its practices are benign. "Seaweed recovers quickly," he points out. "It's like mowing your lawn: it grows right back."
Indeed, the best available science supports him. Two scientists with decades of experience in Cobscook Bay — Peter Larsen of the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences and Tom Trott of Suffolk University — conducted an experiment for the Maine Department of Marine Resources (DMR) involving two plots of Cobscook shoreline. After an initial census of organisms and rockweed abundance in July 2008, Acadian was asked to harvest 17 percent of the biomass from one of the plots. In September, the researchers returned for a side-by-side comparison of the harvested and unharvested plots.
"There was no significant difference between the plots in the abundance of animals either on the substrate or on the rockweed between July and September," says Mr. Larsen, adding that most animals were found on the substrate, not on the plants, and that there was no statistical difference in the numbers of periwinkles. As for the rockweed itself, by September there was actually slightly more biomass in the harvested patch than in the unharvested one. "This is a common occurrence," he says. "It seems harvesting stimulates growth."
Acadian Seaplants also has a quarter-century track record in the Maritimes, including fifteen years harvesting seaweed just across the border in New Brunswick, where it also harvests only up to 17 percent of biomass but is allowed to cut even shorter on the plants than it is in Maine. Back in 1995, that province was also up in arms, with fishermen and conservationists opposing the harvest over fears of adverse ecosystem and fisheries effects. But those fears never materialized, says Tom McEachreon, a rockweed specialist at the provincial fisheries department. "We haven't had any negative feedback from stakeholder groups, and no evidence of adverse effects," he says.
In southern and midcoast Maine, smaller-scale operators have been harvesting rockweed for years. (Their combined take — 7 million pounds — is about the same as Acadian's 2008 harvest.) In recent years there have been no complaints about them having caused ecological or fisheries effects, according to David Etnier, DMR's deputy commissioner.
Paul Molyneaux of Trescott, a former wrinkler and scalloper, thinks there's a double standard at work. "The draggers in that bay have removed tons and tons of seaweed, because the standard procedure is to make one tow to clear the seaweed off the rocks and then go back to make another for scallops and urchins," says Molyneaux, adding he's witnessed the practice. "So if those wrinklers are all freaking out about the loss of seaweed, why aren't they attacking the draggers? Because it's their neighbors, not some foreign company."
Now the Cobscook fight is one for hearts and minds, as the commercial harvesters' production targets can't be met if large numbers of shorefront landowners join the no-harvest list. Hunter's team invites anybody to come out and see their harvest in action, and has convinced a few owners to take themselves off the list. Meanwhile Seeley and Keene fight to expand the list, convinced that harvesting seaweed is ecologically unwise, and that harvesters will cheat by cutting plants too close to the rocks, working in areas where they don't belong, or by under-reporting their take.
"There's so much power in these tides, it can kill you in an instant, but it can also help you survive if you respect it," says Keene, standing on a patch of rockweed that's been damaged (in this case, Seeley's inspection concludes, by herbivorous snails). "I've been a lot of places, but nowhere do I love as much as I love this place, and to see it looking like that. It's just not right."
- By: Colin Woodard
Paul Molyneaux has missed something
Paul Molyneaux commented that the draggers also take up seaweed and it is true but they do it in deeper water which is not where the wrinkles are. The wrinkles use the seaweed cover of shallow water wherein lies the problem.


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History education in Manatee County Public Schools received a substantial boost through a nearly $1.7 million grant from the federal government to fund a "Teaching American History Grant."
This grant program, to be spread over five years, is designed to raise student achievement by improving teachers' knowledge, understanding and appreciation for teaching traditional U.S. History to elementary students in Manatee County.
According to Dr. Ron Hirst, the district's grant tesource specialist who helped author the application for this grant, 40 elementary history teachers will receive training that will include seminars and field trips to historical locales including Kennedy Space Center, St. Augustine and Key West. Professional development opportunities provided through the grant will be performed in cooperation with major grant partners including the American Institute of History Education, the University of South Florida's History Department in Tampa, the University of South Florida's College of Education at its Sarasota/Manatee campus and the Looking for Angola Project taking place along the Manatee River here in Southwest Florida.
"The teachers who take part in this professional development will share their knowledge and expertise with other teachers so this grant should have a district-wide impact," said Hirst, who has accepted a new position as the principal at Bashaw Elementary. "In addition, this grant brings valuable online resources that will be available to all teachers even after the five-year grant program expires."
This marks the second-straight year that the Manatee District has been the recipient of a federal Teaching American History Grant. Last year, the district received a grant of about $1 million to fund a three-year program to form a cohort of 25 American History teachers from grades five, eight and 11 to foster cooperation regarding subject matter, resources, best practices and to provide support for educators to strengthen their abilities. Additional funding of more than $700,000 can be acquired for another two years through that grant based on the success of the first three years.
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In the following excerpt adapted from an article featured on the Chemist's Corner, Tony O'Lenick looks to Perry Romanowski of Brains Publishing to describe the process of listing the ingredients on a cosmetic product label, for the benefit of novice formulators. The present article builts upon a previous discussion of naming conventions for ingredients themselves.
My first experience with cosmetic labeling occurred in college when I turned over the bottle of a shampoo and looked at the ingredient list. This was right around the time when I was learning how to name chemicals, and I was confused as to why I did not recognize almost any of the ingredients. As it turned out, the cosmetic industry does not follow the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) system, which is what is taught to chemists in college. As previously mention, it instead follows a system set up by the Personal Care Products Council (PCPC), as described in the International Nomenclature Cosmetic Ingredient (INCI) Dictionary.
The ingredient names in a personal care formula are only part of the labeling process. A personal care product formulator must also follow the labeling rules laid out by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that affect ingredient order, placement on the label, text size, language and more. Here are the relevant facts.
Cosmetic Ingredient List
In the United States, it is a requirement that all cosmetics be labeled to indicate what ingredients they contain. The list of ingredients (LOI) should be printed on the container following some specific rules.
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A good friend of mine had a baby boy last week. As soon as I heard the news, I went online and ordered her a nice flower arrangement. When she received her flowers, she was ecstatic. Me being in a different country and her getting the flowers was a complete shocker (which was my intention ). Did you know GiftTree can send gifts nation wide as well as internationally?
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What a pleasant suprise that I found Starling Backpackers in Plettenberg Bay, They have a very unike hike of the wildside along with an experienced fishing guide. Sundowners in Kranshoek are amazing and exploring the little town is very interesting with very friendly people. Sky diving is just across the road. I really enjoyed Hiking the Roberg Penninsula, it was... More
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"Okay, okay, don't panic. Marge, stop panicking!! So we need a replacement skeleton and we need it now! Bart! Strip down to your skeleton!"
"Okay, okay, don't panic. Marge, stop panicking!! So we need a replacement skeleton and we need it now! Bart! Strip down to your skeleton!"
"Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it."-Elvis Presley
"Neddy doesn't believe in insurance, he considers it a form of gambling".
[SIZE=1] Check out my South Park episode ideas in my user notes (Note: It's the fifth and last note): http://www.nohomers.net/usernote.php...ewuser&u=41294
"I got blisters on me fingers!" ~ Ringo Starr (Helter Skelter)
Led Zeppelin IV > Houses of the Holy > Physical Graffiti > Led Zeppelin II > Led Zeppelin I > Led Zeppelin III > Presence > In Through the Out Door > Coda
Malk: Now with vitamin R
"You folks are free to roam the grounds. Uh, just remember, one of our patients is a cannibal. Try to guess which one. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised."
To view various lists about my Simpsons opinions, click the link below.
ned's last line in the same episode, about when people make him really angry, he's going to run them down with his car.
i don't know if that line is underrated, but it's pretty uncharacteristic for ned to say something like that, but to me it's hilarious
Bart: Boys and girls, Mrs. Krabappel, I come before you today to solve a riddle that has plagued mankind for centuries: What has four legs and ticks?
Milhouse: A walking clock?
Nelson: A walking clock!
Martin: I'd wager he has some variety of walking clock in that box!
Edna: Bart, is it a walking clock?
Aww, no, the corn! Paul Newman's gonna have my legs broke.
Marge: Come on Homer, you liked Rashomon.
Homer: That's not how I remember it.
"Did you exchange, a walk on part in a war, for a lead role in a cage?"
I'm just re-watching season 9 for the first time in a couple years and man the Twin Peaks parody in Lisa's Sax really cracked me up.
"Brilliant! I have absolutely no idea what's going on"
Milhouse: Bart, can we pick up that hitchhiker?
Bart: I don't see why not.
Hitchhiker: Bart, can we stop for ice cream?
Bart: Yes.
[a little later, they all have cones again]
Hitchhiker: Well, I don't think I was rehabilitated, but I guess they needed the extra bed.
The voice-acting on the hitchhiker is subtle yet hilarious.
Wiggum: Hey, where is Sideshow Bob and that guy who, uh, eats people and takes their faces?
Prisoner: I'm right here, chief!
Wiggum: Oh. Then where's Sideshow Bob?
speaking of hilarious voice acting
We got no food, we got no jobs, our PETS HEADS ARE FALLING OFF!
Gin and... tonic? Do they mix?
"Oh, I'll stay away from him. Stay away...FOREVER!"
"It sure was nice for Mr. Burns to invite us to his mansion in... PENNSYLVANIA."
"I'll die before I surrender,Tim."
i love when bart wrecks the school gym in i think season 11 or 12
and it cuts from bart laughing about it to skinners office where he's punching the hell out of a clown balloon thing in front of marge and homer
or when in the mansion family when burns is giving the news hes seriously ill and when the news is broken to him he says to his doctor " are you sure you havent just made thousands of mistakes"
"I can't believe we escaped those vampires."
"Yeah, but it was worth it to get back our Sugar Crisp Cereal!"
Obviously, I like THOH jokes.
Ned: My name is Ned.
All: Hello, Ned!
Ned: It's been 4,000 days since my last drink. It was my first -- and last -- blackberry schnapps.
[flashback of Ned and Maude in bed]
Maude: Ned, did you clip Ann Landers today?
Ned: [climbing into bed] Ann Landers is a boring old biddy!
Maude: [gasps] Ned!
[back to reality]
Ned: [sobbing] I was more animal than man!
I don't know if it's underrated, but... When Lisa does gymnastics and that Russian guy teaches her, Lugash I think:
Lugash: You all did great, cats back for everyone.
Girl: But I had a dog
Lugash: HE'S CAT NOW!
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Indoor Air
An Introduction to Indoor Air Quality (IAQ)
Biological Pollutants
Basic Information on Pollutants and Sources of Indoor Air Pollution
- Asbestos
- Biological Pollutants
- Carbon Monoxide (CO)
- Formaldehyde/Pressed Wood Products
- Lead (Pb)
- Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2)
- Pesticides
- Radon (Rn)
- Respirable Particles
- Secondhand Smoke/ Environmental Tobacco Smoke
- Stoves, Heaters, Fireplaces, and Chimneys
- Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs)
Read "Care for Your Air: A Guide to Indoor Air Quality"
Biological contaminants include bacteria, molds, mildew, viruses, animal dander and cat saliva, house dust, mites, cockroaches, and pollen (see more about Asthma triggers at www.epa.gov/asthma). There are many sources of these pollutants. Pollens originate from plants; viruses are transmitted by people and animals; bacteria are carried by people, animals, and soil and plant debris; and household pets are sources of saliva and animal dander. The protein in urine from rats and mice is a potent allergen. When it dries, it can become airborne. Contaminated central air handling systems can become breeding grounds for mold, mildew, and other sources of biological contaminants and can then distribute these contaminants through the home.
By controlling the relative humidity level in a home, the growth of some sources of biologicals can be minimized. A relative humidity of 30-50 percent is generally recommended for homes. Standing water, water-damaged materials, or wet surfaces also serve as a breeding ground for molds, mildews, bacteria, and insects. House dust mites, the source of one of the most powerful biological allergens, grow in damp, warm environments.
- Sources
- Health Effects from Biological Contaminants
- Reducing Exposure to Biological Contaminants
- Standards or Guidelines
- Additional Resources
- Publications/Fact Sheets
Common biological contaminants include mold, dust mites, pet dander (skin flakes), droppings and body parts from cockroaches, rodents and other pests or insects, viruses, and bacteria. Many of these biological contaminants are small enough to be inhaled.
Biological contaminants are, or are produced by, living things. Biological contaminants are often found in areas that provide food and moisture or water. For example, damp or wet areas such as cooling coils, humidifiers, condensate pans, or unvented bathrooms can be moldy. Draperies, bedding, carpet, and other areas where dust collects may accumulate biological contaminants.
Health Effects From Biological Contaminants
Some biological contaminants trigger allergic reactions, including hypersensitivity pneumonitis, allergic rhinitis, and some types of asthma. Infectious illnesses, such as influenza, measles, and chicken pox are transmitted through the air. Molds and mildews release disease-causing toxins. Symptoms of health problems caused by biological pollutants include sneezing, watery eyes, coughing, shortness of breath, dizziness, lethargy, fever, and digestive problems.
Allergic reactions occur only after repeated exposure to a specific biological allergen. However, that reaction may occur immediately upon re-exposure or after multiple exposures over time. As a result, people who have noticed only mild allergic reactions, or no reactions at all, may suddenly find themselves very sensitive to particular allergens.
Some diseases, like humidifier fever, are associated with exposure to toxins from microorganisms that can grow in large building ventilation systems. However, these diseases can also be traced to microorganisms that grow in home heating and cooling systems and humidifiers. Children, elderly people, and people with breathing problems, allergies, and lung diseases are particularly susceptible to disease-causing biological agents in the indoor air.
Mold, dust mites, pet dander, and pest droppings or body parts can trigger asthma. Biological contaminants, including molds and pollens can cause allergic reactions for a significant portion of the population. Tuberculosis, measles, staphylococcus infections, Legionella and influenza are known to be transmitted by air.
Reducing Exposure to Biological Contaminants
General good housekeeping, and maintenance of heating and air conditioning equipment, are very important. Adequate ventilation and good air distribution also help. The key to mold control is moisture control. If mold is a problem, clean up the mold and get rid of excess water or moisture. Maintaining the relative humidity between 30% - 60% will help control mold, dust mites, and cockroaches. Employ integrated pest management to control insect and animal allergens. Cooling tower treatment procedures exist to reduce levels of Legionella and other organisms.
- Install and use exhaust fans that are vented to the outdoors in kitchens and bathrooms and vent clothes dryers outdoors.
These actions can eliminate much of the moisture that builds up from everyday activities. There are exhaust fans on the market that produce little noise, an important consideration for some people. Another benefit to using kitchen and bathroom exhaust fans is that they can reduce levels of organic pollutants that vaporize from hot water used in showers and dishwashers.
- Ventilate the attic and crawl spaces to prevent moisture build-up.
Keeping humidity levels in these areas below 50 percent can prevent water condensation on building materials.
- If using cool mist or ultrasonic humidifiers, clean appliances according to manufacturer's instructions and refill with fresh water daily.
Because these humidifiers can become breeding grounds for biological contaminants, they have the potential for causing diseases such as hypersensitivity pneumonitis and humidifier fever. Evaporation trays in air conditioners, dehumidifiers, and refrigerators should also be cleaned frequently.
- Thoroughly clean and dry water-damaged carpets and building materials (within 24 hours if possible) or consider removal and replacement.
Water-damaged carpets and building materials can harbor mold and bacteria. It is very difficult to completely rid such materials of biological contaminants.
- Keep the house clean. House dust mites, pollens, animal dander, and other allergy-causing agents can be reduced, although not eliminated, through regular cleaning.
People who are allergic to these pollutants should use allergen-proof mattress encasements, wash bedding in hot (130° F) water, and avoid room furnishings that accumulate dust, especially if they cannot be washed in hot water. Allergic individuals should also leave the house while it is being vacuumed because vacuuming can actually increase airborne levels of mite allergens and other biological contaminants. Using central vacuum systems that are vented to the outdoors or vacuums with high efficiency filters may also be of help.
- Take steps to minimize biological pollutants in basements.
Clean and disinfect the basement floor drain regularly. Do not finish a basement below ground level unless all water leaks are patched and outdoor ventilation and adequate heat to prevent condensation are provided. Operate a dehumidifier in the basement if needed to keep relative humidity levels between 30 - 50 percent.
Standards or Guidelines
There are currently no federal government standards for biologicals in school indoor air environments (as of 1999).
Additional Resources
Asthma Website - www.epa.gov/asthma
Mold Website - www.epa.gov/mold
Publications/Fact Sheets
Biological Pollutants in Your Home CPSC Document #425
Explains indoor biological pollution, health effects of biological pollutants, and how to control their growth and buildup. One third of all structures have damp conditions that may encourage development of pollutants such as mold and bacteria, which can cause allergic reactions - including asthma - and spread infectious diseases. Describes corrective measures for achieving moisture control and cleanliness. This brochure was prepared by the American Lung Association and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.
Fact Sheet - Flood Cleanup: Avoiding Indoor Air Quality Problems (PDF) (2 pp., 35 K,
about PDF)
Discusses steps to take when cleaning and repairing a home after flooding. Excess moisture in the home is cause for concern about indoor air quality primarily because it provides breeding conditions for microorganisms. This fact sheet provides tips to avoid creating indoor air quality problems during cleanup. EPA 402-F-93-005, Revised October 2003
Indoor Allergens: Assessing and Controlling Adverse Health Effects, Andrew M. Pope, Roy Patterson, and Harriet Burge, editors; Committee on the Health Effects of Indoor Allergens, Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Institute of Medicine. National Academy Press, 1993. 308 pages. ISBN 0-309-04831-1.
This project was supported by funds from the Environmental Protection Agency, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, and Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. Copies of this book are available from the National Academy Press, call 1-800-624-6242 or 202-334-3313 (in the Washington DC metro area).
Indoor Air Fact Sheet No. 8 - Use and Care of Home Humidifiers (PDF) (3 pp., 33 K)
Explains that some types of home humidifiers can disperse microorganisms from their water tanks into the indoor air. Describes the different types of humidifiers and provides recommendations for their use and maintenance.


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SYRACUSE -- Syracuse Police say neighboring apartments on Putnam Street were robbed on Sunday evening.
Police say at 6:25 Sunday evening three to four black male suspects forced their way into Apartment 1 at 102 Putnam Street and demanded the resident for money. The resident, a 27 year old woman, told the suspects she did not have any money, so they proceeded to ransack her apartment, taking her phone and assorted jewelry.
Then, the suspects forced the woman at gunpoint upstairs to Apartment 2 of the building. The resident of Apartment 2, a 41 year old man, said he was struck in the head with a gun several times by one of the suspects, while another suspect held the woman at gunpoint in the doorway. The man said he laid down on the ground and pretended to be knocked out while the suspects ransacked his apartment, and it is unknown what was taken. The man suffered minor lacerations and contusions from the assault.
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Sunset Estate- 5bd/4ba Private Home w/ Pool, Dock, & Jacuzzi in Marathon
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Spectacular Sunsets Over the Gulf of Mexico from your Large Upper and Lower Sundecks!
Enjoy this spacious home and guest cottage located on two large, waterfront lots. Sunset home has four bedroom and four baths. The two upper level king bedrooms each have their own bath and each has a door that opens out to the upper level sundeck. The main floor king bedroom and twin bedroom, both have new master baths. There is a den, very large living and dining area, and kitchen, all with gulf views. Just a few steps from your living area, there is a large pool and Jacuzzi with full gulf views. On the upper level sundeck, there is a one bedroom guest cottage with king bedroom and bath, full kitchen and living area, and water views.
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I'm planning the first new box in 4 years. I can easily reuse the Antec Solo currently in use for the new build and move the guts to another case. But I'd like to have USB 3.0 outlets on the front of the case - which the Solo II features. I'm surprised to see Antec won't update the USB 2 front outlets on the Solo to v.3. I'd consider the Sonatas but at least 3 versions of this venerable franchise also are stuck in the past with usb 2.
I'd also like the use a 3.5" external bay for a card-reader. The Solo II would require an adapter from the 5.25 bay to 3.5" since it has no native port.
I like the 4 harddrive cage on the Solo a lot. It makes for easier disk management than the 3-bay Solo II. The Solo II however accomodates SSD's with a dedicated space. Which seems to be on my horizon sooner than later.
So I'm curious if the hive has any opinions betwixt the Solo and the Solo II. I'm also wondering if Antec has just stopped caring and placed their products on autopilot.
Solo II
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4730/ante ... ta-evolved
It's pretty decent but not for hot systems. And no, the Solo is not going to get updated-- that's exactly what the Solo II is. Anandtech likes the Fractal Design Define R3 in that type of chassis size, too, for low-ish noise. http://www.anandtech.com/show/5084/frac ... noise-down |
The Solo is a great case and one of my all-time favourites, I still have one. But the Solo II looks like a worthy successor, if I needed another case I would probably choose it. Card reader, really? What device do you need to remove a card from and plug in rather than attaching directly via USB?
Reading cards via dedicated reader is usually a lot faster than plugging in the device they belong to, IME.
I still can't stand the multicard readers that default to assigning a drive letter for every slot on the reader even if there's no card in it. If would be nice to have just an integrated SDHC compatible slot reader built in like my X200 does, but what all the case vendors seem to offer is those 99% useless 53 in 1 readers. For the case, I was considering the Solo II, but it's still overpriced. I have spare Solos, so what I plan to do is just drill the rivets out of the lower drive cage and remove it altogether. The systems I'd put in a Solo today are at most a dual SSD + 1 HD setup, and the unused 5.25" bays will handle that and an Optical drive easily. Without the lower cage, you get room for a long GPU and unrestricted flow from the dual 92mm's up front, which are quiet enough with PWM. |
The anandtech review that continuum pointed to really underscores my doubts about Antec and the Solo II.
This new Corsair is pricey - but definately on the short list when it becomes avaialble: http://www.amazon.com/Corsair-Obsidian-Quiet-Mid-Tower-CC-9011015-WW/dp/B006L6ZSWC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1331081090&sr=8-1 |
I have the original Solo. I love it and will recommend it to anybody looking for that style of case.
The only issues I've had is cable management isn't great (but mostly because I'm not good/creative at it), and my reset button broke some time last year I think. |
hinduclient wrote: This new Corsair is pricey - but definately on the short list when it becomes avaialble: http://www.amazon.com/Corsair-Obsidian-Quiet-Mid-Tower-CC-9011015-WW/dp/B006L6ZSWC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1331081090&sr=8-1 I am a big fan of Corsair cases, but I absolutely do not like the look of that case. The thing that ruins it for me is the uncovered front I/O panel. For my purposes, the Obsidian 800D (which I own), 700D (unfortunate this is no longer produced), and 650D (next case, if I never need one) are perfect. |
I'm going to stick with the original Solo. I need 4 HDD bays. I'll add this 3.5" front panel to implement USB 3.0 & create space for the new SSD:
http://www.frozencpu.com/products/14862/hdc-92/Akasa_35_Bay_to_Dual_25_SSD_HDD_Adapter_w_Dual_USB_30_AK-HDA-06BK.html#blank Quote: and my reset button broke Yeah, I've glued the power button twice already. It's gotta hold sooner or later. |


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Talking to people around the area, I encounter so many who vehemently oppose the policies of the president and the current administration, even to the point of profanity. Yet, when I mention attending a meeting or a rally, or displaying a bumper sticker or spreading the message, some of the most vocal withdraw and make excuses about having to consider their businesses or their liberal customers, etc. Many, however, agree that unless we stand together and speak out, there will be no businesses and no country as we know it.
It's heartening to see letters to the editor from citizens who openly weigh in on the current situation our nation faces. More people need to come out and express their views; you'll be surprised how many others share your feelings. Don't be a "closet" conservative!
Samuel Adams, my favorite founding father, chastened some of his fellow patriots thus: "If you love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your consul nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you, may your chains set lightly upon you and may prosperity forget that ye were our countrymen!"
Obama is the first president in history to campaign against capitalism, believing success should be punished by taxes, regulation and redistribution of wealth. He consistently has worked to build a coalition of radical elements to insure his re-election instead of working to restore the economy. He touts the bailout of the auto industry when it was simply a bailout of the union (for their political donations) and a (cheating) of the shareholders. His "universal health care" is only for the little people; all government workers and favored unions and industries are granted waivers and exemptions. His "green energy" has gone overseas or bankrupt. The oil we could have had from the Keystone pipeline is going to China and our electric bills have doubled from his shutdown of coal-fired power plants to appease environmentalists, and our coal is being shipped to China, also. With corn more than $8 per bushel, ethanol is still required by law in our gas, which is driving up our food prices, as well as the cost of fuel. How much more "change" can we take?
The other day I saw a picture of a billboard near Longview, Texas, that sums it all up. It said simply, vote for the American. Good advice!
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An Evening with Michael Birt
Date: 27th February 07
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Bill Brandt - one of the many portraits by Michael Birt on displayed at Fulham Palace.
The meeting, held at Fulham Palace was attended by 40 members and guests. There was an opportunity to look at the exhibition and refreshment before the formal part of the evening. Michael described how he started his photography writing to people asking for an opportunity to take their photographs. He had retained the letters, acceptances an refusals. He gave a fascintaing account of this early encounter with Bill Brandt. He described how the exhibition demonstrated his development in photography, described how the venue was chosen, the method used to select the subjects portrayed and the role Zelda Cheatle played in curating. We learnt much about his use of light, a move to plain backgrounds, location, a preference for monochrome and his relationship with "sitters". We had a lively "Qusetion and Answer" session calling the evening to a halt a few minute before 9pm.


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Salut Velu! > Hey bruce, World is small isn't it ;)) Yup. (Actually if you look back through the archives you'll find the first annoucment of smartmontools was on this list.) >> [...] >> I would appreciate advice about: >> -- how to configure these settings >> -- pointers to relevant AMD/Serverworks documentation >> -- relevant Linux kernel options/modules >> -- anything else relevant/related > You cand find some documentation on this project : > http://bluesmoke.sourceforge.net/ or the older > http://www.anime.net/~goemon/linux-ecc/ I've been corresponding off-list with Mark Langsdorf. He's an AMD employee who works on Linux tools and implementation, hangs out on the LKML, and submits kernel patches from AMD. Mark said that the 'bluesmoke' functionality is only needed with 2.4 kernels. With 2.6 kernels you just install 'mcelog' and that's everything that's needed. Mark also said that the mapping between CPUID and chipid needs to be correlated with DIMM slot on a case-by-case basis. One way (which Mark does NOT recommend!) is to heat each DIMM with a heat gun, or mask off a single bit on the connector, to generate errors from that DIMM. This makes sense for people on this list who will have dozens or hundreds of the same box and want to understand this relationship. > EDAC sounds to be on the way to be integrated upstream > (http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=806c35f5057a64d3061ee4e2b1023bf6f6d328e2). > This sounds to be some preliminary work but you may give it a try. *I > don't know your configuration but the "drivers/edac/amd76x_edac.c" may > match. I didn't had time to test EDAC but if you will, I'm interested in > your results. I'll report back to the list whether mcelog is enough, or whether we also needed to install other drivers to get ECC reporting. Mark also provided advice about the other ECC settings. I'll copy it verbatim to the list. Mark wrote: You'll want to look at chapter 3 (Memory System) of the BKDG (AMD 64 BIOS AND KERNEL DEVELOPERS GUIDE). Here's the recommended settings: ECC enable Enable MCA DRAM ECC logging Enable ECC Chip Kill Enable if using x4 DIMMs DRAM Scrub Redirect Enable DRAM BG Scrub set as high as possible (84 ms is maximum) L2 Cache BG Scrub not DRAM related Data Cache BG Scrub not DRAM related [Note from Bruce: can anyone on the list make recommendations about this last two, non-DRAM-related SCRUB settings??] I also asked Mark: > Am I correct that there is nothing in the Linux kernel which > modifies the machine registers which determine ECC behavior, > so I have to depend upon the BIOS to initialize/configure > these registers as I want? He replied: As far as I know, it's BIOS set-up only. Linux tries to avoid knowing the details of the DRAM set-up, and there's a limit to how much the OS can modify anyway. Linux can set bits to determine what MCEs cause exceptions, but it can't enable the DRAM scrubber, for example. Cheers, Bruce
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There is hope, however. The HBO series "Alzheimers Project" showcased an Alzheimers vaccine that sensitized the immune system to recognize Beta Amyloid plaques as antigens. As I recall 7 patients received it and had dramatic improvement, practically clearing all plaques. It appeared to only halt further cognitive progression, which is miraculous! Again, as I recall, 1 out of 7 had a seizure or a coma and the study was halted. They reported that the other patients were very angry that the study was halted, however, they were probably already protected from the vaccine. Lastly, they noted that companies were developing Beta-amyloid type monoclonal antibodies for periodic injections. The benefit to these being that if there is an adverse reaction, its effect will be limited, the downside is that the patient will need repeated injections for the remainder of their lives. What I would like to see is that patients with Alzheimers should be allowed to participate in a larger vaccine trial via informed consent, or, at least a trial on the monoclonal antibody to see if tolerated before going on to the vaccine for sustained action. So, in sum, there is hope :)
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