In early October, representatives from seven European countries went to Koszalin and Slupsk, Poland to exchange knowledge on biosolids composting and visit some of the 50 operational sites. At the Koszalin facility, biosolids are …
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Bush calls stricken Mukasey at hospital to chat
The White House says President Bush has called stricken Attorney General Michael Mukasey to see how he was feeling after his collapse during a speech Thursday night.
White House press secretary Dana Perino sent word to reporters Friday morning that Bush telephoned Mukasey just before 7 a.m. EST. She said Bush reported that the attorney general "sounded well and is getting excellent care."
Mukasey, 67, was rushed to George Washington University Hospital late Thursday after he collapsed while giving a speech at a black-tie dinner at a Washington hotel.
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Cheated by a lawyer, she finds aid at Bar
Maria A. Perez never had any reason to dislike the legalprofession until she was convinced her Chicago lawyer cheated her outof $2,269 two years ago.
"For some people it would be peanuts, but for me it was a lot ofmoney," said the $15,500-a-year credit representative for Xerox Corp.
The Mundelein resident said the loss proved to be a "horrendousheadache," hurting her credit and creating a financial hardship forher and her 7-year-old daughter.
"I was counting on that money, so my financial problemssnowballed when my lawyer's check bounced on me," said the30-year-old Perez.
Perez's attorney, Edward Willens, was accused of pocketing thewoman's …
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Nuke Dump Structures Moved After Study
LAS VEGAS - Engineers moved some planned structures at the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump after rock samples indicated a fault line unexpectedly ran beneath their original location, an Energy Department official said Monday.
Allen Benson, a spokesman for the U.S. Department of Energy in Las Vegas, said adjustments to the project were made in June.
"That's why we do studies, to come up with information to make the repositories safer," Benson said.
The department responded to a published report that cited a May 21 letter in which U.S. Geological Survey maps showed the Bow Ridge fault "may be farther east than projected." The Las Vegas Review-Journal said it …
American Express Profit Falls in 4Q
American Express Co. said Monday its profit slumped nearly 10 percent in the fourth quarter as it set aside more money to prepare for cardholder defaults.
American Express' customers tend to spend more and have stronger credit histories than the average cardholder, so the company looks better shielded against a tough 2008 than many other lenders. Still, investors appeared concerned that AmEx is girding for deteriorating credit conditions and slower U.S. spending.
American Express shares fell 2.7 percent in after-market trading, having risen $1.96, or 4.3 percent, to close at $47.40 Monday. Last week, its shares hit a four-year low.
The …
Ballack's agent threatened with ban by Leverkusen
LEVERKUSEN, Germany (AP) — Bayer Leverkusen sporting director Rudi Voeller is threatening to ban Michael Ballack's agent from the Bundesliga club's stadium as relations between the two sides reached a new low.
Agent Michael Becker said his client is being made "a scapegoat" to mask problems within the club "because it's clearly not possible to fire (coach) Robin Dutt at this time."
Voeller, a former Germany player and coach, responded furiously to those claims on Thursday.
"He says he knows it all," Voeller said. "He can't attack the club that way. He's got a dark yellow card. Or he was in this stadium for the last time!"
The director suggests Ballack, a former …
NEWS BRIEFS
Suicide bombers will target Paul McCartney unless he cancels his concert in Tel Aviv, a Muslim cleric said. Omar Bakri said the ex-Beatles' decision to perform in Israel "is creating more enemies than friends," London's Sunday Express reported. "If he values his life Mr. McCartney must not come to Israel. He will not be safe there," Bakri said. "The sacrifice operatives will be waiting for him." Bakri made the comments on his weekly Internet broadcast from his home-in-exile in Lebanon after being banned from returning to Britain, according to the Express. McCartney is scheduled to perform for thousands of Israelis in HaYarkon Park on Sept. 25 as part of a world tour (JEWISH STAR, Aug. …
Copa Libertadores: Lanus beats Danubio 2-1 and advances to second round
Argentine club Lanus beat Uruguay host Danubio 2-1 and reached the second round of the Copa Libertadores on Tuesday.
Sebastian Blanco opened the scoring in the 53rd minute and Lanus teammate Jose San followed with another 10 minutes later before 4,000 fans at Parque Central Stadium.
Cristian …
Afghans wary on Independence Day Kandahar believed to be possible target of Taliban terrorists
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan--Giant tents rose from dusty lots andcolored lights were hung across busy intersections Sunday in a flurryof last-minute preparations for Independence Day that has the city'spolice on alert.
Monday marks Afghanistan's 83rd anniversary of the end of Britishcolonial rule. It will be the first time Kandahar, the former Talibanstronghold and the country's second largest city, has celebratedIndependence Day in more than two decades. In Kabul, the Talibanrevived Independence Day celebrations in 2000.
"We are organizing the celebration to show people that we havesucceeded in our goal. This is a sign that there is no al-Qaida, noTaliban in Kandahar," …
Effect of Na/Ca exchange on plateau fraction and [Ca]i in models for bursting in pancreatic (beta-cells)
ABSTRACT In the presence of an insulinotropic glucose concentration, beta-cells, in intact pancreatic islets, exhibit periodic bursting electrical activity consisting of an alternation of active and silent phases. The fraction of time spent in the active phase over a period is called the plateau fraction and is correlated with the rate of insulin release. However, the mechanisms that regulate the plateau fraction remain unclear. In this paper we investigate the possible role of the plasma membrane Na+/Ca^sup 2+^ exchange of the beta-cell in controlling the plateau fraction. We have extended different single-cell models to incorporate this Ca2+-activated electrogenic Ca^sup 2+^ …
Sommeil improves after mild heart attack
Valenciennes defender David Sommeil was emerging from sedation after a heart attack following a training session.
The 34-year-old player's heart condition was stable, according to a hospital statement carried on the club's Web site.
Sommeil was also undergoing a full neurological exam at the …
Branch shuts down despite local residents' offer to run it
Residents and businesses in Stoke Bishop have lost a battle tokeep their post office open.
Customers turned up at the branch in Stoke Hill to find a noticeon the door saying it was closing after 66 years.
The move comes despite an offer from a group of residents to buythe business.
Residents had approached Tory leader Councillor Peter Abrahamsaying they wanted to buy the business and run it themselves.
Mr Abraham said that as far as he was concerned the offer wasstill open but he had heard nothing from Post Office Ltd, despiteapproaching them.
He said: "They refuse to enter into any negotiations. It showsthem for what they are. There is a need …
Ventricular myxoma
It is unusual for a surgeon to have the opportunity to operate on a patient with a primary tumour of the heart, especially when that tumour is located entirely within the left ventricle. We recently encountered such a case and wish to report it to readers of the Jurnal.
CASE REPORT
A 67-year-old woman presented to her cardiologist with symptoms of malaise, fatigue and dyspnea on exertion. Two years before she had been seen for atrial fibrillation. The results of all investigations at that time, including echocardiography, were normal. However, her condition worsened and she was suffering from chronic atrial fibrillation.
An echocardiogram was again obtained. It revealed a mobile, round mass, 1 cm in dimension, in the posterior portion of the left ventricle (Fig. 1). No mitral valve abnormality or left atrial abnormality was demonstrated. The cardiologist, internist and cardiothoracic surgeon, after consultation, believed that surgical excision of the tumour was the best course.
One month later, through a standard left atrial incision and with cardiopulmonary bypass, the mass was visualized beneath the posterior leaflet of the mitral valve. The mass was contained entirely within the papillary muscle and closely associated with the muscle head, so complete excision of the mass rendered the mitral valve incompetent. The valve was replaced with a St. Jude mechanical prosthesis.
Postoperatively, the woman did well. Echocardiography demonstrated normal left ventricular action and normal function of the mitral valve prosthesis. No residual mass or abnormality was seen within the left ventricle.
Histologic examination of the excised tumour revealed a myxoma.
DISCUSSION
Myxoma is the most common primary cardiac tumour.1 Most myxomas are benign and arise from the left heart. Fewer than 5% of myxomas arise from within the left ventricular cavity, and this is the first report, to our knowledge, of a myxoma originating from papillary muscle z3 The most feared complication of myxoma is embolism, which is usually what prompts surgical intervention.4 Although recurrence is rare, complete resection is essential to prevent any recurrence. In our patient, the tumour base was intimately associated with the papillary muscle head and complete excision rendered the mitral valve incompetent, necessitating replacement of the valve with a prosthesis. A mitral valvesparing technique should be considered if technically feasible since it avoids the problems associated with prosthetic valves, such as infection and the lifelong need for anticoagulation.
Reconstruction of the valve or valvular apparatus will improve function and increase survival and should be considered if the valve can be spared after complete tumour excision. However, incomplete resection in order to spare the mitral valve is not recommended.
Mary Maish, MD
Terrill Theman, MD
Department of Surgery
St. Lukes Hospital
Bethlehem, Penn.
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Tuesday, March 13, 2012
UAW Locals Picket 5 GM Plants
DETROIT - Workers began picketing outside five General Motors Corp. plants after the late morning United Auto Workers strike deadline passed Monday, but the union's national leadership hadn't publicly announced whether a strike had begun.
The UAW had extended its contract for nine days after it expired on Sept. 14, but the negotiations became bogged down Sunday, apparently over the union's quest to protect jobs by getting the company to guarantee that new vehicles would be built in U.S. factories.
The UAW hasn't called a nationwide strike during contract negotiations since 1976, when Ford Motor Co. plants were shut down. There were strikes at two GM plants during contract negotiations in 1996.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.
DETROIT (AP) - The signs were ready and picket assignments handed out as thousands of United Auto Workers at General Motors Corp. factories nationwide prepared to walk off their jobs Monday morning if no contract deal was reached.
Negotiators worked all night and still were at the bargaining table 20 minutes ahead of the 11 a.m. EDT deadline, trying to avert a strike. The UAW set the strike deadline Sunday night.
"We're getting activated right now," Mike O'Rourke, president of Local 1853 at a GM plant in Spring Hill, Tenn., said Monday morning.
If no agreement was reached, bargaining committee members would clear the plant of unionized workers at 11 a.m., and many would head to the picket lines, O'Rourke said.
"We'll have pickets out there," said Chris "Tiny" Sherwood, president of Local 652 in Lansing. "Some will come out of work and grab a sign with us."
The UAW hasn't called a nationwide strike during contract negotiations since 1976, when Ford Motor Co. plants were shut down. There were strikes at two GM plants during contract negotiations in 1996.
Despite the strike talk, GM stock rose $1.06, or 3.03 percent, to $36 in morning trading.
The UAW, in a statement setting the deadline, cited the automaker's failure to address job security and other concerns. But it said negotiators would remain at the table until the deadline.
"We're shocked and disappointed that General Motors has failed to recognize and appreciate what our membership has contributed during the past four years," UAW President Ron Gettelfinger said in a statement early Monday.
Gettelfinger didn't offer specifics, but the UAW had been expected to ask GM for guarantees of future production at U.S. plants as part of the negotiations.
"We got to stand strong. I'll do what I have to do to have a good contract," said Barbara O'Leary, a GM worker at the Willow Run transmission plant in Ypsilanti. "This is what it comes down to to being a UAW member. If the boss says go, we go."
"We don't want to strike, but we want a fair contract," the 43-year-old Wayne resident said before loading strike signs into the back of a pickup truck.
JPMorgan analyst Himanshu Patel, in a note to investors Monday, said the strike deadline may be a signal that an agreement was close.
"A token strike is possible, but we suspect the primary motivation of the strike announcement, coming nine days after contract expiration, may be to pressure GM to finalize lingering issues," Patel wrote.
UAW Chief GM negotiator Cal Rapson said in a statement that GM has failed to meet the needs and concerns of the UAW's members.
"Instead, in 2007 company executives continued to award themselves bonuses while demanding that our members accept a reduced standard of living," Rapson said in a statement. "The company's disregard for our members has forced our bargaining committee to take this course of action."
But GM spokesman Dan Flores said the automaker is working with the union to resolve issues.
"The contract talks involve complex, difficult issues that affect the job security of our U.S. work force and the long term viability of the company," Flores said. "We are fully committed to working with the UAW to develop solutions together to address the competitive challenges facing General Motors. We will continue focusing our efforts on reaching an agreement as soon as possible."
Harley Shaiken, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley who specializes in labor issues and has closely followed the talks, said the strike threat was a tool to speed the talks.
"I have a feeling it is meant to resolve the issues as quickly as possible," Shaiken said.
He said the union wouldn't have set a deadline if it thought there was no possibility of a strike.
The UAW currently represents 73,000 GM workers at 82 U.S. facilities nationwide, including assembly and parts plants and warehouses. If workers go on strike, they will be paid $200 a week plus medical benefits from the UAW's strike fund. The union had more than $800 million in that fund as of last November, according to the UAW's Web site.
The UAW's original deadline for an agreement with GM was Sept. 14, but the union decided to extend that contract on an hour-by-hour basis and keep talking. Throughout the week, local union officials were told to keep workers ready to strike if necessary, but it was widely believed that the negotiators were making progress and a strike wouldn't be called.
A local UAW official said Sunday that negotiators had wrapped up work on most issues and were determining how much money GM must put into a trust fund for retiree health care that will be managed by the UAW. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity because the talks are private.
The health care fund - known as a Voluntary Employees Beneficiary Association, or VEBA - would be a groundbreaking change for the auto industry and has been the major issue in this year's negotiations. GM has around $51 billion in unfunded retiree health care costs but the company isn't required to put the full amount into the VEBA. The UAW and GM have been wrangling over how much GM should put in and how much can be paid in cash or in stock.
GM, which has about 339,000 UAW retirees and spouses, badly wants to pay the union to form the VEBA to get the health care liabilities off its books. In exchange, the UAW was expected to ask for future work guarantees at its U.S. plants.
The UAW picked GM as the lead company and potential strike target in the negotiations, which began in July. Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler LLC have indefinitely extended their contracts with the union. They are expected to match many of the terms of GM's agreement once it's reached. The three automakers have a total of $90 billion in unfunded retiree health care costs.
If an agreement is reached, it would be subject to ratification by a majority of GM's UAW members.
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Associated Press Writer Ron Vample contributed to this report from Ypsilanti.
Van Noten starts with couture, mixes it up
Who else but Dries Van Noten could take a long, lean skirt in sumptuous floral-print duchesse silk, pair it with an oversized, sleeveless sweatshirt and make the mismatched ensemble the height of chic?
With his fall-winter 2010-11 collection, the critically acclaimed Belgian designer played the magpie, weaving disparate elements _ from rough canvas fabrics in military drab to fancy, matador-style silver embroidery _ into a gorgeous, toned-down collection.
"We started with '50s and '60s couture, the beautiful shapes, and also looked at other garments, menswear, military uniforms and mixed them together in a rebellious way," the genial designer told The Associated Press in a backstage interview. "You get the same elegance, but in a really different way."
Models with deliberately unkempt hair wore drab pants cut wide through the hips and pulled tight through the calf with a row of straps. Trench coats were shorn of their sleeves and smart camel blazers looked as if they'd borrowed their sleeves from a toreador jacket, sparkling with silver sequins.
An indigo stain spread down one bottle-shaped cocktail dress with a nipped waist, making the floral silk look as if it had been on the receiving end of a bottle of India ink. In fact, it had. Van Noten said his team brushed on layer after layer of indigo paint onto the silk.
Gray sweatshirts topped off the silken skirts.
"I wanted to show, 'look it's only a sweatshirt with a pair of gloves, but it looks so chic and beautiful,'" Van Noten said.
Leopard-print scarves, chunky crocodile heels and gloves in butterscotch leather added an extra touch of ladylike class to the looks.
LaHood: Distracted driving a 'menace to society'
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood called distracted driving a "menace to society" Wednesday, kicking off a two-day meeting on preventing drivers from using mobile devices behind the wheel.
The Obama administration reported that nearly 6,000 people were killed and a half-million injured last year in vehicle crashes connected to driver distraction, including drivers talking on cell phones and texting.
"To put it plainly, distracted driving is a menace to society," LaHood told more than 300 participants at the government's 'distracted driving summit.' "Distracted driving is an epidemic and it seems to be getting worse every year."
The Transportation Department brought together experts to take a hard look at the highway hazards caused by drivers talking on cell phones or texting from behind the wheel. LaHood said he would offer recommendations Thursday that could lead to new restrictions on using the devices while driving.
Congress is watching closely. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., who will address the gathering, and other Democrats introduced legislation in July that would require states to ban texting or e-mailing while operating a moving vehicle or lose 25 percent of their annual federal highway funding. The Obama administration has not taken a position on the bill.
Prior to the meeting, LaHood said the administration would "work with Congress" to develop ways of curbing distracted driving. Ultimately, LaHood said, he wanted the meeting to set "the stage for finding ways to eliminate texting while driving."
Previous efforts to reduce drunken driving and encourage motorists to wear seat belts taught the government a "valuable lesson," LaHood said. "We need a combination of strong laws, tough enforcement and ongoing public education to make a difference."
Transportation officials said in a research report that 5,870 people were killed and 515,000 were injured last year in crashes where at least one form of driver distraction was reported. Driver distraction was involved in 16 percent of all fatal crashes in 2008.
LaHood said on any given day last year, more than 800,000 vehicles were driven by someone using a hand-held cell phone during the day.
The panel of government officials, safety advocates, researchers and lawmakers discussed ways of developing a consensus on the roadway hazards. Speakers showed images of pulverized sport utility vehicles and sawed off commercial buses that had been driven by people using mobile devices before the crash.
Others noted the problem wasn't limited to cars and cited a commuter train engineer in Chatsworth, Calif., who texted a friend and failed to stop at a red signal. Twenty-five people were killed in the September 2008 passenger rail crash.
One participant asked whether using a handsfree device was safer than a handheld phone. A researcher cautioned that handsfree devices could still cause distractions if the driver needed to dial the phone or handle the device.
"I think it's important that we recognize that handsfree is not risk free," said Dr. John Lee, a University of Wisconsin researcher.
A group of young adults who caused car accidents because they were texting while driving also attended the conference.
The new data showed the greatest proportion of distracted drivers were those age 20 and under. Sixteen percent of all under-20 drivers involved in fatal crashes were reported to have been distracted while driving, the government said.
Eighteen states and the District of Columbia have passed laws making texting while driving illegal and seven states and the District have banned driving while talking on a handheld cell phone, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. Many safety groups have urged a nationwide ban on texting and on using handheld mobile devices while behind the wheel.
In July, the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute found that when drivers of heavy trucks texted, their collision risk was 23 times greater. Dialing a cell phone and using or reaching for an electronic device increased risk of collision about six times in cars and trucks.
The Virginia Tech researchers found the risks of texting generally applied to all drivers, not just truckers. A separate report by Car and Driver magazine found that texting and driving is more dangerous than drunken driving.
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On the Net:
Distracted Driving Summit: http://tinyurl.com/ncozgx
State laws on cell phones, driving: http://tinyurl.com/5k5bwy
Staying Tuned
A VERY DIFFERENT KIND OF influence belongs to journalist Daniel Schorr, whose commentaries, delivered these days on NPR, provide reasoned, thoughtful analysis on events abroad and at home.
With a career of over six decades as a broadcast journalist, many of those as a foreign correspondent, it's tempting to say that Schorr has seen - and covered -- it all. In the post-World-War-II years, it is almost true.
Staying Tuned is an engaging account of a long career, which spanned the world, witnessing monumental changes that the decades brought. The journalism profession has also drastically changed in 60 years, and Schorr has thoughtful insights and musings on that topic as well.
Stationed in the Netherlands, he covered post-war Europe, including the implementation of the Marshall Plan, the beginnings of the Cold War and the erection of the Berlin Wall, Indonesian independence, the creation of NATO.
From Moscow, he found it a challenge to get around Soviet censorship and KGB surveillance.
In 1953, Edward R. Murrow offered Schorr a position with CBS News. After some 20 years with CBS, in what itself became a news story, he was fired -- a journalist both making and breaking news.
Daniel Schorr was born in America, the son of poor immigrant parents who had come to this country from a shtetl near Pinsk. It was hardly an auspicious beginning for this man who would come to investigate, report on, interpret and analyze events and trends for his countrymen.
But it may have helped give him some of his tenacity in pursuing a story, his fairness and his commitment to investigating and reporting in full on what he discovered.
One country Schorr did not report from was Israel. "I have always tried to separate my Jewish heritage from my reporting," he writes in connection with a report he did at Auschwitz.
One wonders if that approach kept him away from Israel, or if his assignments just took him elsewhere.
Photograph (Cover of the book "Staying Tuned")
The Nation's Weather
Rain clouds stretched from North Dakota to Texas early Monday, while storms also made for a wet commute in the Northwest. The Northeast was to stay cool.
Low pressure will sweep through the central portion of the country and toward the Mississippi Valley, pulling a tremendous amount of Gulf of Mexico moisture northward into the eastern Plains and eventually into the Southeast.
This moisture could produce areas of heavy rain along with thunderstorms from the Gulf Coast through the Upper Midwest.
A large high pressure system will move from eastern Canada and into the Northeast. This feature will continue to bring dry and cool conditions to the Great Lakes, mid-Atlantic and Northeast.
Another strong Pacific Ocean storm will race into the Northwest late Monday and into Tuesday, triggering rain in Washington and Oregon.
The Northeast will see a range of temperatures from the 40s to the 60s, while the Southeast will rise into the 70s and 80s. The Northwest will rise into the 60s, while the Southwest will see temperatures in the 80s and some 90s.
Temperatures in the Lower 48 states on Sunday ranged from a low of 23 degrees at Mount Washington, N.H., to a high of 91 degrees at Cotulla, Texas.
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On the Net:
Weather Underground: http://www.wunderground.com
National Weather Service: http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov
Intellicast: http://www.intellicast.com
Big 3 Execs to Talk Trade With Bush
DETROIT - Leaders of the Big Three domestic automakers will bring up currency exchange rates and health care costs when they speak with President Bush on Tuesday, Ford's top executive said Friday.
"Clearly, having a level playing field is very important," Ford Chief Executive Alan Mulally said in an interview with the editorial board of the Detroit Free Press.
The leaders of Ford Motor Co., General Motors Corp. and DaimlerChrysler AG's Chrysler Group tentatively were scheduled to meet with Bush in May, but the meeting was pushed back until after the election. The White House set the date this week.
Mulally, hired recently from Boeing Co., also said he will talk to the president about other free-trade issues that give foreign products advantages over U.S.-made ones.
"It's all of them. It's steel. It's tariffs. There's all kinds of elements to competitiveness. Exchange rates are important, commodity prices," he said.
American manufacturers, including the Big Three, say China is keeping its currency artificially low against the dollar to make Chinese goods cheaper in the U.S. and American-made products more expensive in China.
"It's just so important that the governments around the world ensure that the market sets exchange rates," Mulally said.
He also said his new company is not competitive in the auto business.
"It's been getting worse year after year," Mulally said. "The most important thing we can do is recognize our reality and deal with it."
Last month, Ford posted a $5.8 billion third-quarter loss due to sagging North American sales and huge costs associated with a massive restructuring plan. It was the largest quarterly loss in more than 14 years for the nation's second-biggest automaker. The company lost $7.24 billion in the first nine months of this year, although it has said it will restate five years of recent results because of accounting errors that involved interest-rate hedging at its financial arm.
Mulally said his biggest surprise since taking the job in September was the opportunity to make improvements. He plans to improve the company by making it more efficient through use of its worldwide resources.
Ford must have a "more robust plan across the product line," to reduce its dependence on sales of big pickups and sport utility vehicles, Mulally said.
The company's top priority is to reduce its production capacity to match lower sales numbers, he said.
Ford already has offered buyouts and early retirement packages to all 75,000 U.S. production workers, with a goal of reducing its hourly work force by 25,000 to 30,000. The deadline for them to decide whether to take the packages is Nov. 27.
Ford has said it will shutter 16 plants, but it has yet to identify nine of them.
Ford shares rose 2 cents Friday to close at $8.58 on the New York Stock Exchange.
9 killed in attack on US convoy in Afghanistan
A suicide car bomber attacked a U.S. military convoy passing through a crowded livestock market in eastern Afghanistan, killing at least eight civilians and an American soldier and wounding 74 people, Afghan officials said.
The American patrol was hit Thursday in the Bati Kot district of Nangarhar province, said Lt. Cmdr. Walter Matthews, a U.S. military spokesman. The convoy was about 90 miles (140 kilometers) east of Kabul on the main road linking the capital to the Pakistan border at Torkham.
Hours after the attack, the charred and twisted remains of cars still smoldered on the tree-lined street.
No one took responsibility, but the attack bore the hallmarks of those conducted by Taliban militants, who regularly use suicide attackers and car bombs.
Violence by the Taliban and other insurgent groups has spiked this year to record levels. Attacks are up 30 percent from 2007, military officials say. U.S. officials have said they will send additional troops to Afghanistan starting in January to reinforce about 65,000 U.S. and NATO soldiers already in the country.
Nearly 1,000 civilians are among the approximately 5,400 people killed in insurgency-related violence this year, according to a tally by The Associated Press of figures provided by Afghan and international officials. Most of the reported dead have been militants.
The bomber in Nangarhar struck the convoy near a crowded livestock market where people were trading sheep, cows, goats and other animals, said Ghafoor Khan, spokesman for the provincial police chief.
An Associated Press photographer said an American military vehicle, two civilian vehicles and two rickshaws were destroyed.
At least eight civilians were killed and 74 were wounded, Khan said. An American soldier was also killed, the U.S. military said.
The wounded civilians were transported to at least three hospitals in the provincial capital of Jalalabad, Khan said. American soldiers were sifting through the wreckage for clues.
The soldier's death brought the number of U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan this year to at least 148, the highest annual number since the U.S.-led invasion in 2001. There were 111 military deaths in Afghanistan in all of 2007.
The number of civilians killed in Thursday's attack reported by Khan and other Afghan officials was significantly lower than an earlier report by the U.S. military, which said 20 civilians had died. Later, the military declined to put a number on the dead civilians and referred calls to Afghan authorities.
The United Nations condemned the bombing, which it said "inflicted enormous suffering in an otherwise peaceful community."
Separately, the British Ministry of Defense reported that two of its soldiers serving with NATO-led force in southern Afghanistan were killed Wednesday, when their vehicle was hit by an explosive device in Helmand province's Garmser district.
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Associated Press writer Rahim Faiez contributed to this report.
Pray for mission workers
Pray for Cari Friesen, Witness worker in China, in her teaching ministry. She has added a class in a school where they haven't had a foreign teacher before. The new students are excited about learning English. Pray for good connections with her students, both inside and outside of the classroom.
Continue to give thanks and pray for Witness workers in Burkina Faso: for Lillian Haas in the intricate details of translation work, and for Donna and Loren Entz as they work among the Samogho people. Praise God for continuing interest in the Bible story cassettes. Pray also that the new Partnership Council (replacing Africa InterMennonite Mission) will strengthen church leadership and ownership.
Pray for Jack Suderman, Executive secretary of Mennonite Church Canada Witness, who will be leading a one-week course for church leaders in Cuba in late January.-From MC Canada release
Monday, March 12, 2012
MUTE MATH, SEPT. 19, THE BIG EASY
MUTE MATH, SEPT. 19, THE BIG EASY
I just can't shut up about Mute Math. I've been listening to their self-titled CD and watching the live DVD that accompanied it repeatedly since the beginning of the year. I missed the band's show in April, but snagged a posse of my peeps - who, other than hearing me wax endlessly on the merits of Mute Math, weren't familiar with the band - to see them at the Big Easy on Wednesday.
Band members Paul Meany (vocals, keyboard, keytar), guitarist Greg Hill, drummer Darren King and bassist Roy Mitchell-Cardenas looked weary when they came on stage. The first song they performed seemed a bit lackluster, but I told myself it didn't matter if their hearts weren't in the show; I loved the music anyway (OK, it did matter a little). I needn't have worried. The band must have drawn some energy from the packed house, and in the short time they were on stage they pounded, beat and even stood on their instruments; danced; knocked stuff over, and Meany sang his ass off. Video ran on screens behind them; lights flickered, flashed and strobed. It was chaotic, gorgeous and over too soon. That show is now in my top five favorite shows ever (sorry, Styx) and my pals are fighting over who gets to borrow the CD next.
- Amy Atkins
Hinrich's 27 Lead Bulls Past T-Wolves
Kirk Hinrich finished with 27 points after a rough start, and the Chicago Bulls beat the Minnesota Timberwolves 96-85, spoiling Randy Foye's return from a knee injury Tuesday night.
Although they began the night with the NBA's worst record, the Timberwolves were showing signs of progress. They had won three of four, beating Phoenix along the way, and the lone loss during that stretch was by one to Boston.
Foye scored 11 points in 17 minutes in his first appearance of the season, but the good news ended there for the Timberwolves.
Hinrich hit a jumper midway through the third quarter to break a 49-49 tie after missing 11 of his first 12 shots, and the Bulls started to pull away. He scored 12 points in the period as Chicago built a 71-62 lead.
Andres Nocioni added 18 points for Chicago, which had lost three of four, and the Bulls got a solid outing from Joakim Noah (10 points, 13 rebounds).
The Timberwolves never challenged in the fourth.
Al Jefferson scored 13 of his 20 points in the first half and grabbed 12 rebounds, after delivering a career-high 40 and grabbing 19 rebounds against New Jersey on Sunday. Rashad McCants got going in the second half, scoring all but two of his 16 points, and Marko Jaric scored 14.
Israel allies reportedly help arm Palestinian guerrillas
NAHARIYA, Israel The Palestinian guerrillas fighting LebaneseAmal militiamen in Beirut and southern Lebanon have received Israeliarms from Israel's Christian Lebanese allies, well-informed sourceshere said.
Reportedly included in the transfers from the LebanesePhalangists to the Palestinian fighters were armored personnelcarriers, artillery shells and light weapons.
In private conversation, Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabinhas expressed strong misgivings about the Christians' supplyingIsraeli gear to the Palestinians, and several Israeli politicalcommentators termed it an act of "perfidy."
But the Christians, acting on the Arab dictum that "the enemy ofmy enemy is my friend," insist their arms pipeline to thePalestinians is warranted. Lebanese Christian spokesmen, whoseorganizations were the beneficiaries of large quantities of Israelimilitary hardware before and after Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon,contend that the Syrian-sponsored Moslem militias seeking to destroythe Palestine Liberation Organization presence in Lebanon is thegreater danger to them and to Israel.
PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat recently made an unprecedentedappearance on Beirut's Christian-controlled television station tothank his erstwhile enemies, the Phalangists, for having allowed thePalestinians to take refuge in Lebanon.
He also thanked President Amin Gemayel, a Christian, for havingissued Lebanese travel documents to 70,000 Palestinians who live andwork in the various Persian Gulf emirates.
Arafat made his TV statement from Baghdad, Iraq, one of hisregional headquarters. He paid an "astronomical" sum to theChristians to be seen on their TV station, well-informed sourcessaid.
Despite its misgivings, Israel has not suspended its contactswith the Phalangists over their tactical rapprochement with Arafat'smainstream PLO. At least two prominent Christian militia leaderswere in this country this week for secret talks with senior officialswithin the Israeli defense establishment.
The Lebanese visitors were quoted by one of their Israeliinterlocutors as saying the Shiite Hezbollah terrorists pose theultimate threat to Israeli as well as Christian security.
On the other hand, the relatively moderate Amal militia, whoseforces have made a poor showing against the Palestinians in thestruggle for refugee camps in Beirut and south Lebanon in recentweeks, were dismissed as a front for the Syrians.
Syria's hostility toward Arafat and his PLO followers was citedby the Lebanese Christians as a good reason to come to thePalestinians' aid, if only because it challenges Syria's bid forhegemony over Lebanon.
Fans Target Ballparks And Jordan Innuendo
My column is your column . . .
Mr. Mariotti:
The media should be ashamed for some of their initial judgmentsand reports in the James Jordan murder case. The day Mr. Jordan wasreported missing, I turned on the radio to hear a talk-show hostmaking all sorts of screaming accusations. The media are becomingless credible by the day.
Roger Paste
Chicago
Don't know who you're tuned to, Roger, but most local mediahandled the story sensitively and responsibly. Michael Jordan shouldknow that, too.
Mr. Mariotti:
The reason people choose Wrigley over Comiskey is because theyare not interested in baseball. They are mainly interested indrinking beer, finding a partner for a one-night stand and listeningto a has-been announcer slur the names of the players and forget whatinning it is.
Marge Allese
Lake Bluff
A frat house, you're saying. Phi Harry Caray.
Jay:
I wish someone would take on and tell off the Jerry Reinsdorfbackers who serve as apologists for the new Comiskey Park. The upperdeck begins 60 feet behind where the original Comiskey upper deckbegan, and it ends 106 feet behind where the original ended. Andit's as high as the top of the light standards that were on the roofof the real Comiskey Park.
The place is a shopping mall, sky deck, air drome andobservatory wrapped around a playing field. Reinsdorf and EddieEinhorn have embittered me and made it impossible to ever enjoyanything at the new park.
John E. Aranza
Chicago
A left hook.
Mr. Mariotti: I attend approximately 20 games a year at Comiskey Park and alwayssit in the lower deck because seats in the upper deck of theReinsdorf Amusement Palace are generally worthless for watchingbaseball. When I attended a game recently, I was told all lower-deckseating was gone and was offered an upper-deck box seat. Naturally,I assumed a box seat meant a very good seat, and I paid the $12 basedon that assumption.
The so-called box seat was a big joke. I was so far away,following the ball was impossible. I might as well have been sittingin a lawn chair outside the park. I have been a lifelong Sox fan, asmy father was before me. But now I understand that under the presentmanagement, the game and the Sox fans are secondary. Greed is thename of the new game at Comiskey. From now on, I will use my $12 toattend games at Wrigley and in Milwaukee.
Peter J. Kane
South Bend,Ind.
A right uppercut.
Mr. Mariotti:
Your column on Comiskey Park was great. No other sportswriterhas the guts to ridicule how bad the place was built. Last year, theSkokie Park District had White Sox tickets for seniors. We sat inthe last row of the top tier. Some seniors couldn't make it all theway up. We were so high up, the ballplayers looked like LittleLeaguers.
Alvin Lee
Skokie
Reinsdorf down for the count.
Dear Mr. Mariotti:
Once upon a time, there were two little boys playing together.Nolan hit Robin with his ball. Robin got very angry and chased afterhim. Nolan, instead of trying to apologize and calm Robin down, hithim again and again. Before you knew it, a fight broke out involvingall the other little children.
It's unfortunate that the violence present in our society isexhibited on the back page of this newspaper.
Roxanne Engel
Orland Park
Which one got a spanking?
Jay Mariotti:
Chicago radio listeners are being subjected to a misfit whoseems to be solely dedicated to irritating listeners to the point ofswitching stations - one Mike North. Why would (WSCR-AM) viciouslyfoster this self-serving, arrogant, egotistical, overbearing, pseudo-omnipotentstudy on us? Perhaps if he learned to breath properly, giving hismouth a rest on the upswing, he'd be able to hear and understand acaller's point of view. I thought that's what talk shows were for.
Stuart L. Rudy
Niles
Stu, you need to upgrade your quality of life.
Dear Mr. Mariotti:
I am a 68-year-old retired person who does unusual and difficulttricks. I have done 1,000 one-armed situps in one hour, 30 minutes.This is not a world record, but it may be for a person my age. Ican do 70 two-armed pushups on the back of my hands - not on thepalm, which is the natural way.
I would be willing to perform anywhere. Right now, I have donethese tricks at many different bars in my neighborhood when someonechallenges me. About the only thing I get now is a few drinks. Iwould be willing to do these tricks at halftime shows or for anyonewho wants. I practice every morning at Calumet Park.
Frank Bryak
Chicago
Book him at Soldier Field and make the Bears the halftime show.
Visit with Jay Mariotti and seven other Chicago Sun-Timescolumnists from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. today on the Sun-Times Plaza,401 N. Wabash. Comments and questions welcome. No reservationsnecessary.
Winfrey, Johnson: No Truth To Tryst
An Oprah Winfrey-Don Johnson romance story is the hot read in thesupermarket checkout lines this week. Don't believe it.
The sleazoids are having a field day hyping an alleged trystreportedly ignited at a party on the French Riviera. The Star andthe Globe have them dining, dancing and even smooching.
Johnson's publicist, Elliot Mintz, laughs about the whole crazystory. The actor and Winfrey have been friends since he appeared onher talk show years ago with Melanie Griffith. While he has "muchaffection for Oprah, it was nothing more than merely asking her todance at a lovely party." In fact, Mintz reports, Johnson left theevent with another woman whom he met there. Griffith, meanwhile, is in the news, too. She's been sued forallegedly causing $33,000 in damage to a house she rented last summerin East Hampton on Long Island, N.Y. Among damage claimed by Grahamand Maura Clark: Griffith's dog chewed eight valuable antique chairsand defecated on expensive silk rugs. Griffith's business manager,Susan Keenberg, says she believes the suit might have something to dowith the actress' request for a return of her security deposit. "Allwe ever said to them is, `If you have damages, show them to us' . . .but they haven't."
Griffith paid $85,000 to rent the $3.5 million house for eightweeks, beginning last July.
Crackdown on barbers brings Latino backlash
WATERBURY, Connecticut (AP) — A crackdown on unlicensed barbers in a Connecticut city is stirring a backlash among Latinos, who represent most of the violators.
More established barbers are cheering the hard line taken by Waterbury Mayor Neil O'Leary, a former police chief, who announced this week that unlicensed shops in the may be forced to close. Some of the veterans pushed for the city to enforce the regulations, saying anything less would be a disservice to their profession.
In shops catering to the fast-growing Latino population, some unlicensed barbers say they feel they are being made into scapegoats for business slowing down in other shops.
"It's not our fault that they don't have any customers," said Carlos Bermudez, 23. He said he is trying to come up with $2,000 to obtain a barber's license, although he feels he learned to handle clippers just fine growing up in Puerto Rico. "There it's in the blood. It just comes naturally."
Of the 120 barber shops in Waterbury, the mayor says 20 are unlicensed or employ unlicensed barbers, and 16 of those are run by Latinos. Officials say they directed those barbers more than a year ago to secure state-mandated licenses, and barbers who are not at least in the process of obtaining certification will be asked to leave the city.
O'Leary said it is a matter of public health — like other cities, Waterbury is not immune to outbreaks of head lice — but he is also sympathetic to the complaints of established barbers. The mayor, who took office in December, said some of them first approached him with concerns during his election campaign.
"I feel very strongly that the people who spent the time and the money and effort to get licenses have a legitimate issue here," O'Leary said in an interview.
The city was prepared for controversy. The health department was ready to start enforcing the requirements before the election, but O'Leary said his predecessor held off because officials knew it might not sit well with Hispanic voters.
As expected, the crackdown has drawn criticism from advocacy groups, who say the licensing system is unnecessarily complex and biased against Hispanics because the exam is not available in Spanish, as it is in surrounding states. In meetings with the mayor, the state's Latino and Puerto Rican Affairs Commission has urged him to give barbers more time to secure licenses.
"You've got a lot of people working, not on the street, not on welfare," community advocate Juan Marrero said. "They are working as barbers, and they are making money for their families, so don't push them out, or you're going to create a worse problem."
A cultural divide between the two camps of barbers falls along Waterbury's East Main Street, where Bermudez and his colleagues were tending to a roomful of young men waiting for trims Wednesday at the Rey de la Tijera (King of the Scissors) barbershop. Across the street, 69-year-old Vin Ippolito waited for business in his one-man barber shop.
For Ippolito, a barber's license separates a professional from an impostor. He pointed to his combs soaking in glass jar of blue disinfectant and said not all barbers sterilize their equipment. And if they don't have a license, he said, you have to wonder what they might be hiding.
"You know where a lot of people learn how to cut hair?" he asked. "Jail."
Waterbury, a former brass-making hub still known as the Brass City, saw the largest increase in Hispanic residents of any Connecticut city in the decade leading up to 2010, according to U.S. Census Bureau figures. The Hispanic population grew 47 percent to roughly 34,500 of the city's 110,000 people.
One of the seven barbers at Rey de la Tijera, 19-year-old Waterbury native Carmelo Feliciano, said he learned to cut hair from an older brother and has no intention of seeking a license. While he earns about $450 a week by providing $13 haircuts, the course required for a license costs between $2,000 and $3,000.
"It's a lot of money to be spending," he said.
Waterbury's public health director, Roseann Wright, said the city has helped some unlicensed barbers find money to pursue licenses and cosmetology schools offering reduced tuition. At a certain point, however, she said state requirements have to be fulfilled for the sake of public safety.
"If you were in a hospital would you want a nurse without a license treating you?" she said. "Let's not belittle licensure. Let's not belittle what the state has required of individuals."
Connecticut is starting to make some concessions. The education requirement for a barber's license was recently reduced from 1,500 hours to 1,000 hours, and the department of public health is working on a separate course just for barbers that would spare them from having to master hairdressing and cosmetology, too.
Department spokesman William Gerrish said the state is also working on a Spanish-language examination.
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Lakers' Bryant still mulling playing abroad
SINGAPORE (AP) — Kobe Bryant says he's still considering playing overseas as an owners' lockout of players threatens to sabotage the upcoming NBA season.
The Los Angeles Lakers superstar told The Associated Press on the sidelines of a youth basketball clinic in Singapore on Saturday that he didn't know if there will be a 2011-2012 season and hasn't ruled out playing abroad.
Bryant said he may join informal workouts with Lakers teammates in the future, but that no such sessions have been scheduled yet.
Turkish club Besiktas said in July it was in talks with Bryant's representatives about possibly playing for the team. Other NBA players have already committed to playing next season in leagues in China, Turkey and Lithuania.
Bargain bins prove no rubbish deal.
KEEN Mail readers came out in force when we highlighted how free bins were up for grabs.
Middleton Grange Shopping Centre, in Hartlepool, put out an appeal through the paper for people to take bins off their hands because they had taken a delivery of new ones.
Seven organisations came forward to snap up the 22 bargains.
Applicants included sport venues Seaton Carew Cricket Club, Hartlepool Rovers Club and Hartlepool Cricket Club.
Care homes also showed an interest and so did a number of individuals.
Mark Rycraft, the manager of Middleton Grange Shopping Centre, said: "The Mail really came up trumps as the photograph helped people to see what the bins looked like and we were inundated with calls."
The new bins are now stainless steel and more suited to the appearance of the shopping centre, Mr Rycraft added.
Bargain bins prove no rubbish deal.KEEN Mail readers came out in force when we highlighted how free bins were up for grabs.
Middleton Grange Shopping Centre, in Hartlepool, put out an appeal through the paper for people to take bins off their hands because they had taken a delivery of new ones.
Seven organisations came forward to snap up the 22 bargains.
Applicants included sport venues Seaton Carew Cricket Club, Hartlepool Rovers Club and Hartlepool Cricket Club.
Care homes also showed an interest and so did a number of individuals.
Mark Rycraft, the manager of Middleton Grange Shopping Centre, said: "The Mail really came up trumps as the photograph helped people to see what the bins looked like and we were inundated with calls."
The new bins are now stainless steel and more suited to the appearance of the shopping centre, Mr Rycraft added.
Monday, March 5, 2012
Overseas surgeons considered to cut waiting lists
PATIENTS waiting for hip and knee replacement operations atSouthmead Hospital could be transferred to Weston-super-Mare forsurgery.
Officials at Weston Area Health Trust were today deciding if theyshould bring in medical teams from abroad to carry out theoperations.
The use of surgeons and anaesthetists from across Europe is seenas a short term way of meeting the growing demand for orthopaedicservices at the Avon Orthopaedic Centre in Southmead. The NorthBristol Health Trust has to carry out 5,221 operations to meet its 12-month target for 2003-4. But it is likely to have a shortfall of1,417 inpatient cases.
Weston Area Health Trust hopes to perform an …
Modeling cadmium accumulation in indigenous yellow perch (Perca flavescens).(Report)
Abstract: We used field data from transplantation and caging studies with juvenile yellow perch (Perca flavescens) to test a kinetic bioaccumulation model for cadmium (Cd). The model, which considers both dietary and aqueous sources of Cd, was first used to predict the dynamics of Cd accumulation in perch exposed to high ambient Cd for 70 days. Model simulations for hepatic Cd agreed well with the observed time course of Cd accumulation in the liver, but for the gills and gut, the predicted accumulations after 70 days were about three times higher than the observed values, suggesting that these latter organs can alter their ability to take up and (or) eliminate Cd. The model was also used to predict steady-state Cd concentrations in the gills, gut, and liver of perch living in lakes along a Cd gradient. Agreement between predicted and observed steady-state Cd concentrations was reasonable in lakes with low to moderate Cd concentrations, but in lakes with high dissolved Cd (>1.5 nmol x [L.sup.-1]), the model overestimated Cd accumulation, particularly in the gills and gut. These results suggest that kinetic bioaccumulation models may better apply to some organs than to others. Because metal-induced toxicity is normally organ-specific, their application in a risk assessment context should be undertaken with caution.
Resume : Nous avons teste un modele cinetique de bioaccumulation du cadmium (Cd) chez la perchaude juvenile (Perca flavescens; branchies, intestin et foie) en nous servant de donnees obtenues dans le cadre d'experiences anterieures menees sur le terrain (transplantation; manipulation du regime alimentaire). Ce modele biodynamique tient compte de l'accumulation du Cd a partir de l'eau et de la nourriture et il a d'abord ete utilise pour predire l'accumulation du Cd chez des poissons exposes a des concentrations elevees en Cd pendant 70 jours. Les simulations pour le Cd hepatique se conformaient bien aux valeurs observees, mais pour les branchies et l'intestin, les valeurs predites a la fin de la periode de 70 jours etaient environ trois fois superieures a celles observees, ce qui suggere que ces organes peuvent changer leur capacite de prendre en charge ou d'eliminer le Cd. Le modele a egalement ete utilise pour predire les concentrations en Cd a l'etat stationnaire dans les branchies, l'intestin et le foie de perchaudes indigenes vivant dans des lacs situes le long d'un gradient en Cd. L'accord entre les simulations et les concentrations en Cd observees a l'etat stationnaire etait acceptable dans des lacs ayant des concentrations en Cd faibles ou moderees, mais dans les lacs les plus contamines en Cd ([Cd] > 1,5 nmol x [L.sup.-1]), le modele a de nouveau surestime l'accumulation, surtout dans les branchies et l'intestin. Ces resultats suggerent que les modeles cinetiques de bioaccumulation s'appliquent mieux a certains organes qu'a d'autres. Puisque la toxicite induite par les metaux varie generalement d'un organe cible a un autre, l'application de ces modeles dans l'evaluation des risques poses par les metaux dans l'environnement doit etre faite avec prudence.
Introduction
Kinetic bioaccumulation models have become powerful tools for explaining and predicting metal accumulation by aquatic animals (Blust 2001; Borgmann et al. 2005; Luoma and Rainbow 2005). Their strength comes from the fact that they are simple and thus practical to use and yet include enough mechanistic information to allow predictions of metal concentrations in animals living in the field (Luoma et al. 1992; Fisher et al. 2000; Croteau et al. 2002x). One reason for their success is that they explicitly consider metal uptake from water (e.g., via the gills) and from food (i.e., via the gut). For fish, it is particularly important to include both vectors for metal uptake, rather than assume that all of the metal is taken up from solution; metal bioaccumulation by many fish species is known to be influenced by dietborne metals (Harrison and Klaverkamp 1989; Mount et al. 1994; Kraemer et al. 2006).
One of the potential extensions to kinetic bioaccumulation models would be to use them to predict metal toxicity. However, to do so would require certain refinements, notably with respect to metal dynamics within the animal. Metal toxicity in animals is normally an organ-specific phenomenon, yet the current generation of field-tested metal bio-accumulation models does not consider metal distributions among various target organs (Luoma and Rainbow 2005).
In the present study, we used field data (Kraemer et al. 2005x, 2005b, 2006) describing Cd dynamics in yellow perch (Perca flavescens) to test the ability of a kinetic bio-accumulation model to predict Cd concentrations in individual organs. Data were available for Cd uptake from both food and water and for Cd loss. We chose Cd because of the toxic effects that it can exert on animals in mining areas (Campbell et al. 2003; Borgmann et al. 2004) and yellow perch because they are present in lakes covering a wide range of metal concentrations (Sherwood et al. 2000; Couture and Rajotte 2003; Giguere et al. 2004) and thus have great potential as a metal biomonitor. Recent work within our group (Giguere et al. 2005, 2006) and by others (Couture and Rajotte 2003; Levesque et al. 2003; Gravel et al. 2005) has demonstrated that although yellow perch can survive and reproduce in lakes with high ambient metal concentrations, they nevertheless manifest clear symptoms of metal-induced stress in a dose-dependent manner. We modeled Cd concentrations in several of its organs: the gills and gut, as they are important for Cd exchange with the external environment, and the liver, as it is an organ important for Cd storage (Giguere et al. 2004). We first tested the ability of a kinetic model to describe Cd dynamics in these three organs and then used the model to predict steady-state Cd concentrations in perch collected from lakes located along a Cd concentration gradient.
Our results demonstrate that the ability of metal accumulation and elimination experiments to predict steady-state concentrations in various organs of indigenous fish was dependent on the organ examined. Organs in contact with the external environment (i.e., the gills and gut) responded very differently than did the liver, presumably because of the ability of these "interface" organs to adjust their rates of metal uptake and (or) loss.
Materials and methods
The study lakes
The lakes that we studied are located in the Abitibi region near the city of Rouyn-Noranda, approximately 600 km northwest of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. A copper smelter has been in operation since 1927 in the city of Rouyn-Noranda, and although emissions are now largely controlled (Croteau et al. 2002b), lakes located downwind from this smelter are contaminated with metals such as Cd as a result of historical atmospheric deposition. In addition to these direct inputs from the smelter, some lakes in this region are also contaminated by runoff from mine tailings and mineralized outcrops. For model development, we chose two lakes: Lake Opasatica (OP, reference lake) and Lake Dufault (DU, metal-contaminated lake). For the subsequent testing of the model, in addition to these two lakes, we added one reference lake (OL, Ollier), one moderately contaminated lake (VA, Vaudray), and another highly contaminated lake (OS, Osisko). We also considered previously published data from six additional sites: Lakes Bousquet, Dasserat, and Heva from the Rouyn-Noranda area (gill, gut and liver data; Giguere et al. 2004) and Lakes Raft, Laurentian, Hannah, and Wavy from the Sudbury region (liver data only; Giguere et al. 2005).
Relative importance of dietary and aqueous Cd as metal sources for juvenile yellow perch
A detailed description of this experiment can be found in Kraemer et al. (2006). Briefly, juvenile yellow perch (1.5 [+ or -] 0.1 g dry weight, mean [+ or -] standard error (SE)) were collected from Lake Opasatica and held in cages located in both Lake Opasatica (two cages per treatment) and Lake Dufault (two cages per treatment). Each cylindrical cage (height 1.2 m, diameter 0.5 m) was made of Nitex netting (64 [micro]m mesh aperture) topped by Styrofoam floats and was anchored to the lake bottom (Munger et al. 1999). The floats held the cage opening well above the surface to prevent zooplankton from entering by wave action. Each cage initially contained 10 fish.
The cages were filled by passive entry of lake water through the netting, which prevented the entry of macrozooplankton. Yellow perch were allowed to acclimate to their cages for 24 h and were not fed during this time period. The caged fish in both lakes were then fed daily with macrozooplankton collected from either the reference lake (OP) or the Cd-contaminated lake (DU), creating four treatment regimes: reference lake water and reference diet (REF); reference lake water and contaminated food (FO); contaminated lake water and reference food (WO); and contaminated lake water and contaminated food (WF). Fish were sampled after 15 and 30 days of exposure, and the gills, gut, and liver were analyzed for Cd (see description of the analytical protocol below).
Cd uptake and efflux in juvenile yellow perch
Details of the Cd uptake and efflux experiments are outlined in Kraemer et al. (2005x) and Kraemer et al. (2005b), respectively. For the Cd-uptake experiments, juvenile yellow perch (<5 g fresh weight) were collected from a reference lake (OP) and held in cages in a metal-contaminated lake (DU) for up to 70 days. For the Cd-efflux experiments, juvenile yellow perch were collected from the contaminated lake (DU) and kept within cages in the reference lake (OP) for up to 75 days to measure Cd loss. Because this size class of perch feeds …
2-DRUG THERAPY REDUCES HEART ATTACK RISK, STUDY SAYS.(MAIN)
Byline: JUDY FOREMAN Boston Globe
A new study shows for the first time that low doses of two drugs -- aspirin and a blood thinner called Coumadin -- reduce the risk of a first heart attack by one-third in middle-aged, high-risk men.
The 13-year study of more than 5,000 men, published in the current Lancet, a British medical journal, used an average of 4.1 milligrams a day of Coumadin and 75 milligrams a day of aspirin.
Coumadin is believed to reduce fatal heart attacks and aspirin to reduce nonfatal attacks, said Dr. Thomas Meade, director of the Medical Research Council in Britain and lead author.
But other heart and stroke specialists …
`Idol' saluting Frank Sinatra a ratings dud
Memo to "American Idol" producers: In 2010, Lady Gaga beats Frank Sinatra.
`Ol Blue Eyes was another generation's idol, certainly bigger than Gaga in his day. But last Tuesday's "American Idol" devoted to his songs was seen by 17.5 million viewers, the least-watched regularly scheduled episode of the competition since 2003, the Nielsen Co. said.
The next night when Lady Gaga was the featured performer, the audience size increased by 2.1 million people, Nielsen said.
Generally this season, Tuesday "Idol" shows have outdrawn Wednesday ones, so it seems a clear indication that Sinatra's songs, even as arranged by Harry …
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Fax: 01980 654326
Email: hassett@globalnet.co.uk
4623, 5390, 5410, 5420
Hawco Ltd
Cathedral Hill Industrial Estate, Guildford, Surrey GU2 7YB
01483 887048
Fax: 01483 883888
Email: sales@hawco.co.uk
Web site: www.hawco.co.uk
4623, 4640, 5370, 5380, 5390, 5410, 5420, 5440, 5470, 5430, 4670, 4690, 4730, 4710, 9475, 9480
HEAT Technology
Horsebridge Mill, King's Somborne, Stockbridge, Hampshire SO20 6PX
01794 388382
Fax: 01794 388129
Email: heatt@pa-hilton.co.uk
5663
Heater Bands Ltd
Bott Lane, Walsall, West Midlands WS1 2JQ
01922 636888
Fax: 01922 722360
Web site: www.heaterbands.ltd.uk
5370, 5380, 5390, 5410, 5420, 5470, 4050, 4690, 9480
Heaven Dowsett & Co Ltd
197 Shady Lane, Great Barr, Birmingham B44 9ES
0121 360 0345
Fax: 0121 360 7328
Email: heavendowsett@compuserve.com
7710, 7725, 7730, 7735, 7740, 7755, 7765, 7775, 7780, 7785, 7790, 7800, 7805, 7820, 7825, 7830, 7845, 7850, 7855, 7860, 7870, 7875, 7920, 7925, 7930, 7940, 7950, 7965, 7970, 7975, 7980, 7990, 7995, 8010, 8015, 8020, 8025, 8030, 8035, 8050, 8060, 8065, 8070, 8075, 8080, 8100, 8120, 8155, 8160, 8170, 8200, 8205, 9610, 9630
Hedinair Ltd
PO Box 71, Chadwell Heath, Romford, Essex RM6 6QW
020 8590 2090
Fax: 020 8590 0262
Email: sales@hedinair.co.uk
Web site: www.hedinair.co.uk
1930, 1960, 4345, 6045
Hedley Walker Ltd
Drakes Industrial Estate, Shay Lane, Ovenden, Halifax HX3 6RL
01422 320548
Fax: 01422 320903
Email: geoff@hedleywalker.co.uk
Web site: www.hedleywalker.com
3890
Helbar Automation
Automation House, 478 Reyleigh Road Eastwood, Leigh-on-Sea, Essex SS9 5HZ
31702 522425
Fax: 01702 421256
Email: helbar.auto@virgin.net
Web site: www.helbarautomation.co.uk
9580
Hellyar Plastics
Tyler Way Industrial Estate, Swalecliffe, Whitstable, Kent CT5 2RX
01227 813201
Fax: 01227 813213
Email: sales@hellyar.co.uk
Web site: www.hellyar.co.uk
6460, 8335, 8419, 8434, 8519, 8528, 8531, 8576, 8582 8585, 8630, 9440
Heraeus Noblelight
8 Caldbeck Road, Croft Business Park, Bromborough, Merseyside L62 3PL
0151 343 0545
Fax: 0151 343 9883
Email: hnl-bromborough@heraeus.com
Web site: www.heraeusnoblelight.com
1960, 3490, 4345, 5410, 6045
Herbertson Industrial Company
Aldermoor, South Weirs, Brockenhurst, Hampshire
01590 623527
Fax: 01590 623511
Email: jhe@aldermoor.demon.co.uk
Web site: www.kaseeuropa.com
1980, 3565, 3585, 3590
Herbertson Marking
Aldermoor, South Weirs, Brockenhurst, Hampshire SO42 7UQ
01590 623527
Fax: 01590 623511
Email: herb@aldermoor.demon.co.uk
Web site: www.kaseeurope.com
3555, 3560, 3565
Herfurth Laser Technologies
Barclays Venture Centre, University of Warwick Science Park, Sir William
Lyons Road, Coventry CV4 7EZ
024 7632 3088
Fax: 024 7632 3087
Email: enquiries@herfurthlaser.com
Web site: www.herfurthlaser.com
3447
Hexcel Composites Ltd
Duxford, Cambridge CB2 4QD
01223 833141
Email: communications@hexceleu.com
Web site: www.hexcelcomposites.com
6630, 6640, 6660, 6700, 6710, 6720, 6730, 6740, 6750, 6760, 7875, 9032
Hi-Class Machinery Ltd
Unit 2220 Parkway, Kettering Venture Park, Kettering, Northants NN15 6XR
01536 517557
Fax: 01536 524499
Email: sales@hiclassmachinery.co.uk
Web site: www.hiclassmachinery.co.uk
3670, 3680, 3880, 4245, 4255, 4270, 4275, 4280, 4285, 4290, 4295, 4300, 4305, 4315, 4325, 4360, 4375, 4820, 4830, 4840, 4850, 4860, 4910, 5150, 5170, 5320, 5420, 5430, 5450, 5460, 5470, 6150, 9500, 9505
Hi-Heat International Ltd
Larkhill Road, Durrington, Salisbury, Wilts SP4 8DS
01980 654333
Tx: 449703
Fax: 01980 654326
Email: hassett@globalnet.co.uk
4690, 5380, 5410, 5420, 5440, 5470
Hi-Tech Automation Ltd
37 Charter Gate, Quarry Park Close, Moulton Park Industrial Estate, Northampton NN3 6QB
01604 496964
Fax: 01604 496963
Email: sales@hitechautomation.com
Web site: www.hitechautomation.com
3975, 4245, 4255, 4275, 4285, 4300, 4305, 4315, 4325, 4820, 4860, 4890, 4900, 4910, 5150
HiFi Industrial Film
Wedgwood Way, Stevenage, Hertfordshire SG1 4SX
01438 314354
Fax: 01438 743183
Email: sales@hififilm.com
Web site: www.hififilm.com
7820
High Frequency Services
Lomax Street, Rochdale, Lancs OL12 0JR
01706 648568
Fax: 01706 355900
3430, 3460, 4335, 4345, 4350, 6180
Highwood Consultants Ltd
Park Road, Ryde, Isle of Wight PO33 1HH
01983 568154
Fax: 01983 568146
Email: info@highwood.uk.com
Web site: www.highwood.uk.com
1650, 6140, 6200, 9440, 9515
Hitroute Ltd
PO Box 2283, West Mersea, Essex CO5 8DF
01206 384532
Fax: 01206 386741
Email: hitroutel@btinternet.com
Web site: www.hitroute.com
9221, 9230, 9239, 9245, 9248, 9251
Holscot Industrial Linings Ltd
Alma Park Road, Alma Park Industrial Estate, Grantham, Lincs NG31 9SE
01476 574771
Fax: 01476 563542
Email: sales@holscot.com
Web site: www.holscot.com/main.htm
8404, 8627, 7965, 7765
Holt & Macintosh (Waste Plastics) Ltd
Rockliffe Works, Paterson Street, Blackburn BB2 3SP
01254 680384
Fax: 01254 674933
6220, 8332, 8335, 8498, 8519, 8531, 8576, 8582, 8585
Homag UK
Willow Farm Business Park, Castle Donington, Derby DE74
01332 856500
Fax: 01332 856400
Email: info@homaguk.co.uk
Web site: www.homaguk.co.uk
1840, 1870, 3285, 3940, 4035, 4820, 4850, 4910, 6160, 9505, 9820
Honeywell
Lovelace Road, Southern Industrial Area, Bracknell, Berks RG12 8WD
01344 655204
Fax: 01344655474
Web site: www.hmx.honeywell.com
3340, 9880, 4700, 5666, 5612, 5615, 4650
Honle UV (UK) Ltd
Middlemore Lane, Aldridge, West Midlands WS9 8AN
01922 457397
Fax: 01922 457398
Email: sales@honleuv.co.uk
Web site: www.honleuv.co.uk
1980, 5675
Hosokawa Alpine
Rivington Road, Whitehouse Industrial Estate, Runcorn, Cheshire WA7 3DS
01928 755100
Fax: 01928 715591
Email: plastics@hmluk.hosokawa.com
Web site: www.hosokawamicron.com
1650, 1710, 2210, 2211, 2240, 2270, 3220, 3270, 3290, 3300, 3340, 3840, 4460, 5130, 5140, 5150, 3230, 4700
Hosokawa Mikron Ltd
Rivington Road, Whitehouse, Runcorn, Cheshire
01928 755100
Fax: 01928 714325
Email: powder@hmluk.hosokawa.com
Web site: www.hosokawa.com
1620, 1690, 1710, 1720, 1730, 4220, 5150, 5180
Hotset UK
Unit M, Bowen Industrial Estate, Aberbargoed, Mid Glamorgan CF81 9EP
01443 875581
Fax: 01443 831422
Email: sales@hotset.unet.com
4345, 5370, 5380, 5390, 5410, 5420, 5470
Hounsfield Test Equipment
6 Perrywood Business Park, Honeycrock Lane, Redhill, Surrey RH11 5DZ
01737 765001
Fax: 01737 764768
Email: sales@hounsfield.com
Web site: www.hounsfleld.com
5516, 5522, 5543, 5546, 5558, 5561, 5579, 5597, 5606, 5642, 5660
Howard Engineering Ltd
Howard Centre, Paper Mill End, Great Barr, Birmingham B44 8NH
0121 356 9833
Fax: 0121 356 0280
Email: sales@howardengineering.co.uk
Web site: www.howardengineering.co.uk
4435, 4465, 4480, 4525, 9600, 9660, 9820, 9920
HPC Engineering plc
Victoria Gardens, Burgess Hill, West Sussex RH15 9RQ
01444 462646
Fax: 01444 247304
Email: info@hpcplc.co.uk
Web site: www.hpcplc.co.uk
4300, 5925
Hubron Manufacturing Division Ltd
Albion Street, Failsworth, Manchester M35 0FP
0161 681 2691
Fax: 0161 683 4658
Email: sales@hubron.co.uk
Web site: www.hubron.co.uk
6460
Hubron Sales Ltd
Albion Street, Failsworth, Manchester M35 0FP
0161 681 2691
Fax: 0161 683 4045
Email: hubron_sales@hubron.com
Web site: www.hubron.com
6920, 6935, 7020, 7050, 7190, 7220, 7260, 7270, 7355, 7365, 7385, 7390, 7395, 7400, 7435, 7445, 7455, 7465, 7505, 8326, 8329, 8335, 8341, 8419, 8434, 8446, 8495, 8498, 8504, 8507, 8513, 8555, 8558, 8930, 8940, 8950, 8960, 9020, 9047, 9059, 9062, 9092, 9149, 9185, 9290, 9308, 9317, 9356, 9362, 9371,
The Hudson Sharp Machine Co BVBA
Binn Brow, Bins Lane, Holmfirth, West Yorkshire HD9 3BJ
01484 687811
Fax: 01484 687769
Email: tim.radcliffe@btinternet.com
3230, 3285, 3300, 3550, 5190
Hybrid Technology Services Ltd
Falcons Gate, Dean Rd, Yate, Bristol BS37 5NH
01454 324511
Fax: 01454 315126
Email: plasma@hybirdtech.co.uk
Web site: www.hybridtech.co.uk
3580, 3585, 6095, 9635, 9680
Hydramotion Ltd
1a York Road Business Park, Malton, North Yorkshire Y017 6YA
01653 600294
Fax: 01653 693446
Email: sales@hydramotion.com
Web site: www.hydramotion.com
5672
Hydratek (UK) Services
Units 20/21 Rabans Close, Rabans Lane Industrial Estate, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire HP19 3RS
01296 428082
Fax: 01296 428505
Email: hydratek@mcmail.com
Web site: www.hydratek.co.uk
3620, 3660, 3840, 3850, 3880, 3883, 3885, 3890, 3900, 3950, 3970, 3980, 4270, 4275, 4305, 4315, 4623, 4640, 4670, 4690, 5315, 5320, 5350, 5430, 5790, 6015, 6012, 6150, 6200, 9420, 9445, 9480, 9500
Hydro Polymers Ltd
Newton Aycliffe, County Durham DL5 6EA
01325 300555
Fax: 01325 300215
Web site: www.hydropolymers.com
8609, 8615, 8618
Hymmen-Miller Ltd
7 Bondor Business Centre, London Road, Baldock, Herts SG7 6HP
01462 490777
Fax: 01462 490435
Email: hymmenmiller@aol.com
Web site: www.hymmen.com
1220, 1280, 1430, 1830, 1930, 1980, 3285, 3520, 3575, 3590, 4275, 4305, 5935
I
IAC Plastics
Oak Mill, Dunnockshaw, Burnley, Lancashire BB11 5PW
01706 212225
Fax: 01706 229926
Email: sales@iacplastics.com
Web site: www.iacplastics.com
4025, 4035, 4065, 6240, 7725, 7730, 7775, 7790, 7795, 7800, 7805, 7820, 7830, 7860, 7920, 7925, 7975, 7990, 8005, 8010, 8015, 8030, 8050
ICD Controls Ltd
Unit 2, Airfield Industrial Estate, Cheddington Lane, Long Marston, Tring, Hertfordshire HP23 4QR
01296 662828
Fax: 01296 662798
Email: mail@icdcontrols.co.uk
Web site: www.icdcontrols.co.uk
3870, 3875, 9445
ICEP Portugal - Portuguese Trade Office
2nd Floor, 22 - 25A Sackville Street, London W1S 3LY
020 7494 1517
Fax: 020 7494 1508
Email: tradeinfo@portugaloffice.org.uk
Web site: www.icep.pt
9510, 9675
ICL Tech Ltd
Hopehill Road, Glasgow G20 7NF
0141 332 1331
Fax: 0141 332 3129
Email: sales@icltech.co.uk
Web site: www.icltech.co.uk
9425, 9450, 9545, 9585, 9610
Icon Northern Rubber Ltd
Retford, Nottinghamshire DN22 6HH
01777 706731
Fax: 01777 709739
Email: info@iconpolymer.com
Web site: www.iconpolymer.com
6900, 8165, 8170, 8205
Bernhard Ide (UK) Ltd
PO Box 100, Stroud, Gloucestershire GL6 8YD
01453 889507
Fax: 01453 889508
Email: ide-uk@ide-extrusionstechnik.com
Web site: www.ide-extrusionstechnik.com
2220, 2240, 2270, 2280, 2630, 2820, 2830, 2840, 2860, 2890, 3500, 3520, 3575
IH Polymeric Products Ltd
Meopham Trading Estate, Meopham, Gravesend, Kent DA13 OLT
01474 814917
Fax: 01474 813117
Email: ihpp@hydrophilic.com
Web site: www.hydrophilic.com
6310, 9056, 9155, 9170, 9299
Illig UK Ltd
Pegasus Drive, Stratton Business Park, Biggleswade, Bedfordshire SG18 8QB
01767 310555
Fax: 01767 313333
Email: sales@illig.co.uk
Web site: www.illig.co.uk
3320, 3330, 4520, 3240, 4030
Imaje UK Ltd
Imaje House, 732 Lightfoot Street, Hoole, Chester CH2 3AD
01244 404850
Fax: 01244 350737
Email: info@uk.imaje.com
Web site: www.imaje.com
3552, 3533, 3535
Imerys
John Keay House, St Austell, Cornwall PL24 4DJ
01726 818112
Fax: 01726 623019
Email: perfmins@imerys.com
Web site: www.imerys-perfmins.com
6830, 6855, 6935, 7050, 9038, 9182
Imhotep Ltd
83a Yorke Street, Mansfield Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire NG19 9NX
07957 470619
Fax: 01623 836285
Email: enquiries@imhotepcomposites.co.uk
Web site: www.imhotepcomposites.co.uk
6740, 6750, 7875, 9515, 9530, 9540, 9545, 9640
Impag (UK) Ltd
Draycott Business Park, Cam, Dursley, Gloucestershire GL11 5DQ
01453 890077
Fax: 01453 890040
Email: composites@impag.dabsol.co.uk
6760, 7850, 7860
Imtech Design
Chislehurst Business Centre, 1 Bromley Road, Chislehurst. Kent BR7 6LH
020 8285 0033
Fax: 020 8285 0066
Email: salas@imtechdesign.com
Web site: www.imtechdesign.com
9515, 9517, 9530, …
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