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It is WINTER
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Hormone-disrupting chemicals linked to cancer, infertility and a slew
of other health problems have been found in water samples collected at
and near hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," sites in Colorado,
according to a new study
published in the journal Endocrinology this week.
Researchers say they found elevated levels of these chemicals -- known as endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs)
-- in surface water and groundwater samples collected in the state's
Garfield County, a fracking hotspot with more than 10,000 natural gas
wells.
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One
woman has died and another man was injured after trees fell on their
cars as storms battered Britain and Ireland on Wednesday night.
Forecasters said that winds of up to 90mph and flooding were forecast
overnight and into Thursday.
Coastguards and an RAF helicopter
were unable to find a 45-year-old missing sailor in weather conditions
described as "very poor". The man fell overboard from a cargo ship
moored on the River Trent in Lincolnshire.
Flood warnings were
issued across Wales and in parts of Scotland and western England and
thousands of homes after were left without power on Wednesday night.
People living in parts of western Scotland and Northern Ireland were
told to be prepared for high winds.
The 23-year-old woman died from her injuries after paramedics cut her
free from the wreckage, near Mullingar in County Westmeath, Ireland. She
was trapped inside the vehicle after a tree fell on it. The woman was
cut free but died around an hour and a half later
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Target has confirmed
that it is investigating unauthorized access to 40 million debit and
credit cards used to pay for purchases at stores across the country.
The company said in a statement released Thursday morning that it has
partnered with a third party forensics firm to conduct a thorough
investigation of the incident.
"Target’s first priority is preserving the trust of our guests and we
have moved swiftly to address this issue, so guests can shop with
confidence. We regret any inconvenience this may cause,” said president,
chairman and CEO Gregg Steinhafel. “We take this matter very seriously
and are working with law enforcement to bring those responsible to
justice.
© Copyright 2013 RonRattray
Target has confirmed
that it is investigating unauthorized access to 40 million debit and
credit cards used to pay for purchases at stores across the country.
The company said in a statement released Thursday morning that it has
partnered with a third party forensics firm to conduct a thorough
investigation of the incident.
"Target’s first priority is preserving the trust of our guests and we
have moved swiftly to address this issue, so guests can shop with
confidence. We regret any inconvenience this may cause,” said president,
chairman and CEO Gregg Steinhafel. “We take this matter very seriously
and are working with law enforcement to bring those responsible to
justice.”
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I
would like to report something more local. Americans on USDA food
stamps were shocked this month t see their food stamps cut by 62
percent. Now I am just fine, but I do live in HUD and it happens to be
one of the nicer HUD's in Washington partly because it is run by the
"Sisters of Mercy" out of Denver Colorado. There are some unwed mothers
here who I know were taken advantage of by scavenging young men with
overstressed hormones. They make a young of age person pregnant with
lots of talk about their great jobs and how they will marry them...then
they disappear completely.
This problem is the direct cause of
the hippie movement of the 1960's and 1970's when philosophies spelled
"free love" and "sex, drugs and rock and roll" were almost anthems.
Those hippies had children. Then their children had children and so on
as we all know it goes. Here in this nice looking complex are a few
young undereducated ladies, 3rd generation from the hippie generation,
getting pregnant with no husband. What I care about is that the mothers
and children eat right and that the deadbeat dads are found and made
responsible.
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The fracking industry’s latest environmental bugbear is earthquakes, which can be caused by
injecting a briney cocktail of wastewater produced in the fracking
process deep into disposal wells. And a paper making the rounds this
week, by a researcher from Columbia University, clarifies just how
drastically a single wastewater injection well can rattle its surroundings.
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Robert
Malsam nearly went broke in the 1980s when corn was cheap. So now that
prices are high and he can finally make a profit, he's not about to
apologize for ripping up prairie to plant corn.
Across the
Dakotas and Nebraska, more than 1 million acres of the Great Plains are
giving way to cornfields as farmers transform the wild expanse that once
served as the backdrop for American pioneers.
This expansion
of the Corn Belt is fueled in part by America's green energy policy,
which requires oil companies to blend billions of gallons of corn
ethanol into their gasoline. In 2010, fuel became the No. 1 use for corn
in America, a title it held in 2011 and 2012 and narrowly lost this
year. That helps keep prices high.
"It's not hard to do the
math there as to what's profitable to have," Malsam said. "I think an
ethanol plant is a farmer's friend."
What the green-energy
program has made profitable, however, is far from green. A policy
intended to reduce global warming is encouraging a farming practice that
actually could worsen it.
That's because plowing into
untouched grassland releases carbon dioxide that has been naturally
locked in the soil. It also increases erosion and requires farmers to
use fertilizers and other industrial chemicals. In turn, that destroys
native plants and wipes out wildlife habitats.
It appeared so
damaging that scientists warned that America's corn-for-ethanol policy
would fail as an anti-global warming strategy if too many farmers plowed
over virgin land.The Obama administration argued that would
not happen. But the administration didn't set up a way to monitor
whether it actually happened. It did.
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Rob Fry
I there was another tog as good as Rick Price, it just may be Rob Fry. Rob is like a miracle worker. He is a animal speaker. I know my own Kathy Meader is good but I am most certain she would give a tip of the hat to Rob. Everyone loves Robs pictures. I have always thought his wolves were his best . Truth is that Rob, like Rick Price doesn't take bad pictures...he loves his children. I think there is something there. I''m sure he would love to pass along his love to them in photography. Maybe some day one of them will also be a tog.
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