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| + | == Chris Canty on Suh- It’s dirty, but offensive linemen == | ||
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| + | == US suspect can be extradited to Czech Republic == | ||
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| + | == SLIDESHOW- Duwamish River's beauty belies the Superfund == | ||
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| + | <html>Over the past 100 years, the Duwamish River near Elliot Bay has transformed from its natural state as a massive estuary with tidal marshes, mud flats, riparian habitat and forested wetland into an industrial row that has become home to boat building, timber and pulp mills,[http://discuz.ucatv.com.cn/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=8144041 The oil fields of rebel], shipping and more. | ||
| + | With that change came the residuals of industry, making the Duwamish one of the nation’s most polluted rivers. However, the beauty of the Duwamish - from its shimmering surface blue to the abundant wildlife still living and playing there – sometimes obscures the real dangers that lurk below in the riverbed. | ||
| + | Earlier this year, the Herald toured the river with Port of Seattle employees and Patrick Robinson took these photos we share with you now.<br> | ||
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| + | Background<br> | ||
| + | The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has deemed the five mile stretch reaching from the mouth at Elliot Bay on south the “Lower Duwamish Waterway Superfund Site.” The EPA explains: “A century of heavy industrial use has left the toxic waterway contaminated with toxic chemicals from many sources – industries along its banks, stormwater pipes, and runoff from upland activities, streets and roads.” | ||
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| + | The EPA has a in place that will cost around $305 million and could stretch well beyond 15 years as they cap sources of pollution and dredge the soil to remove contaminants all along the five mile stretch. | ||
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| + | In what the EPA calls “Early Action Areas,” cleanup efforts are already underway, and most are being performed and paid for by the big four polluters, known as the Lower Duwamish Waterway Group (LDWG)comprised of the City of Seattle, King County, Port of Seattle and Boeing. | ||
| + | While the LDWG is supportive of much of the overall cleanup plan, they’ve said the EPA’s goals for reducing PCBs in sediment and fish tissues will be hard, if not impossible, to meet. | ||
| + | BJ Cummings with the non-profit Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition, while saying the EPA’s plan “is going in the right direction … the problem all along has been that it does not proved adequate health protection for some of our most resource-dependent, vulnerable communities, particularly those who have any kind of cultural or subsistence relationship to the river.” | ||
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| + | == Carbon Inequality- Just One Percent Of U.S. Power Plants Pro == | ||
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| + | Inequality isn t just a matter of income: it plays out in carbon pollution as well. It turns out a mere one percent of U.S. power plants account for over 12 percent of all U.S. carbon emissions and for about 30 percent of U.S. power sector emissions. That s from by Environment America,[http://www.wikifx.ru/index.php/%D0%A3%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA:Etlzmsay7#Jets_place_Mark_Sanchez_injured_reserve.2C_designated_to_retur Jets place Mark Sanchez injured reserve, designated to retur], which highlights just how much sheer age and inertia have added to U.S. carbon pollution. | ||
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| + | And the disproportionate contribution of the dirtiest plants to greenhouse gas emissions continues on down the scale: in 2011, half of all the power sector s carbon emissions came from the 100 dirtiest plants (98 of which are coal-fired). And 90 percent of all those emissions came from just the 500 dirtiest power plants. That s out of almost 6,000 electricity generating facilities renewable and fossil-fuel-powered alike in the country. | ||
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| + | The reasons these plants produce such an outsized share of the greenhouse gas problem boil down to age and inefficiency. Three-fourths of U.S. coal plants in 2012 the designed lifetime limit for most coal plants. But in many instances, coal companies have chosen to retrofit the plants to keep them going. About half the plants range from 40 to 60 years old, making them horribly inefficient and prone to the dirtiest levels of carbon pollution. | ||
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| + | As this latest report makes obvious, there s a lot of low hanging fruit to pick here. | ||
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| + | == Benghazi Accountability Review Board comes under renewed cri == | ||
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| + | <html>165 Comments trout-fish says: this probably explains why morty hero worships McCarthy:<br><br><br> "McCarthy was a pathological liar, an uninformed and obscure politician with certain demagogic gifts"<br>Michael Barone Mortar29Inf_1SG replies: Actually, I am no McCarthy fan! I thought he was a drunken buffoon.<br><br>Doesnt change when someone is correct about something.<br><br>Again, please try to post something correct today! Mortar29Inf_1SG says: Okay...I'm going to give Trout and Roll just a taste of what FACTS are, just to slam them down yet again!<br><br>Here is but a small fraction of the list that McCarthy was correct about, as proven through the decrypted Venona files, as well as infromation coming out after the fall of the USSR and the Eastern Bloc:<br><br>Mary Jane Keeney, a United Nations employee, and her husband Philip Keeney, who worked in the Office of Strategic Services<br><br>Lauchlin Currie, a special assistant to President Roosevelt<br><br>Virginius Frank Coe, Director of Division of Monetary Research, U.S. Treasury; Technical Secretary at the Bretton Woods Conference; International Monetary Fund<br><br>William Ludwig Ullman, delegate to the United Nations Charter Conference and Bretton Woods Conference<br><br>Nathan Gregory Silvermaster, Chief Planning Technician, Procurement Division, United States Department of the Treasury and head of the Silvermaster network of spies<br><br>Harold Glasser, U.S. Treasury Representative to the Allied High Commission in Italy;<br><br>Four staff members of the LaFollette Civil Liberties Committee,[http://www.hackp.info/bbs/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=214254 Framed Scorecards from his first appearance at Comiskey Park and first game afte], a Senate subcommittee on labor rights<br><br>Allan Rosenberg, Chief of the Economic Institution Staff, Foreign Economic Administration; Counsel to the National Labor Relations Board<br><br>Solomon Adler, U.S. Treasury Dept., went to China and joined government of Mao Zedong<br><br>Robert T. Miller, Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs; Near Eastern Division United States Department of State; also identified in the Gorsky Memo from Soviet Archives; McCarthy's Case #16 and Lee list #12<br><br>Franz Leopold Neumann,[http://demo.nvbing5.net/nvbing5_x3cheng5/home.php?mod=space&uid=70266&do=blog&quickforward=1&id=288028 Raiders notes- Young leads the sack attack], consultant at Board of Economic Warfare; Deputy Chief of the Central European Section of Office of Strategic Services; First Chief of Research of the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal; also identified in the Gorsky Memo from Soviet Archives<br><br>Laurence Duggan, head of United States Department of State Division of American Republics<br><br>Leonard Mins, Russian Section of the Research and Analysis Division of the Office of Strategic Services<br><br>Cedric Belfrage, British Security Coordination; founder the National Guardian<br><br>Gerald Graze, U.S. State Department; Lee List #29, confirmed in the Gorsky Memo from Soviet Archives, brother of Stanley Graze<br><br>Sergey Nikolaevich Kurnakov, Daily Worker<br><br>David Karr, Office of War Information; chief aide to journalist Drew Pearson trout-fish replies: Were any of these people convicted of anything?<br><br>If not, why do you accuse them of being guilty? Rafterman11 replies: None of which what those people did was illegal, per the US Constitution. McCarthy's committee was illegal. Being a communist or having communist sympathies was not illegal. trout-fish says: poor mort<br><br>It must be lonely being the only "Real American" left. Mortar29Inf_1SG replies: Trout lies yet again. RetiredArmy_Nurse says: Well, this is the radical fringe teabag portion of congress making these false accusations. Their MO is pretty simple, accuse the Prez of everything, make all kinds of noise about it,[http://www.sangna0591.com/home.php?mod=space&uid=9135&do=blog&quickforward=1&id=87382 Could Fox Sports block a 2022 Winter World Cup-], then when they are discredited, just go to something else. I really have to feel sorry for our Prez as he has to endure all this baseless criticism. Most of it comes from the fact that it is a competent black man leading our nation, who climbed the ladder the hard way from humble beginnings, not one of their rich, white, chosen ones. Mortar29Inf_1SG replies: Wow, the antiAmerican nurse is here. I almost have all of the people who hate America that are usually on here, on one thread. Amazing! trout-fish says: RollotheNorman replies:<br><br> You are amazing,[http://hauza.prati.pl/index.php/U%C5%BCytkownik:Mkjzrnxz1#4_shot.2C_3_fatally.2C_in_Gwinnett_County 4 shot, 3 fatally, in Gwinnett County], guard boy! I was a unix wizard before DOS was stolen from Tim Paterson by Steve Jobs. Anyway, be that as it may, you're the guy relying on the files as "proof" of you lying crapoloa. So pony up with a link, or shut up and sit down.<br><br>======================================================<br><br><br>Old mortard has a long and colorful history here of telling lies, and getting caught. He has provided many hours of entertainment in the process, no doubt about it. Mortar29Inf_1SG replies: Hey Mortard, the chief liar on here Trout is saying you are lying. Is that true? trout-fish replies: If you are going to talk to yourself, might as well bring in "Founder" too. <br><br>mooooooroooooon tepeterso says: Figures, Hillary has been in the news again so the GOP in Congress drag out Benghazi. And Sharyl Attkisson is a right wing hack anyway. trout-fish says: Mortar29Inf_1SG replies:<br> <br> Trout, a few? LOL!!<br><br> Dude, get educated. You are looking like a fool!<br><br>================================================<br><br><br>Post your list or shut up. Mortar29Inf_1SG replies: I dont take orders from people who hate America.<br><br>Learn to use the computer...or keep showing yourself a fool! trout-fish replies: That is what I thought.<br><br>You are dismissed, liar. 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| + | <html>By Jessica Derschowitz / CBS News/ September 16, 2013, 8:20 AM Bill Nye "in it to win it" on "Dancing with the Stars" "Science Guy" Bill Nye and partner Tyne Stecklein on "Dancing with the Stars." / ABC Bill Nye is ready to bust a move on "Dancing with the Stars." The "Science Guy" is of competitors on ABC dancing competition, facing off against the likes of Valerie Harper,[http://42.121.124.237/wiki/index.php/%E7%94%A8%E6%88%B7:Eipaddbb2#Reaction_to_Arlington_bus Reaction to Arlington bus], Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi, Keyshawn Johnson and Leah Remini. So, is he nervous about putting on his dancing shoes on live TV? "There's nervous, and then there's this other level,[http://www.chihuoms.com/plus/view.php?aid=189775 Abidal- Barcelona’s Dani Alves offered to d], which, I think we would go with terrified," he told CBSNews.com. | ||
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| + | Top 100 problems: Ranking Omer Asik versus Monta Ellis is no easy task. (Gary Dineen/Getty Images) | ||
| + | The impulse of comparison is encouraged by the very nature of sports. One team bests its opponent. One player dominates a matchup. One teammate overtakes another on the depth chart. Games and leagues are built on that engine of relativity, and the NBA is no exception. | ||
| + | It s in that spirit that The Point Forward offered an endeavor to identify and order the best players in basketball this coming season. The scope of our ranking is relatively simple (no weight is given to long-term development,[http://o0mcz0o.summerhost.info/forum/showthread.php?p=12495#post12495 Gunman kills ‘several’ at US navy yard in Washington], and as little emphasis as possible was placed on team context), but there is nonetheless a daunting complication inherent to the exercise itself. Put simply: While we made a considered effort to somehow compare an incredible assortment of NBA talent,[http://zhhwdx.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=19930 MIAMI- Ingrid makes landfall on Mexico's coast, weakens], there s little grounds to suggest that players can be assigned any kind of absolute basketball value. | ||
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| + | On the one hand, the decision to divorce players from their real-life team settings is essential in a project of this nature. No player ought be penalized for landing on the wrong team, just as no lesser contributor should be promoted merely for filling an ideal role. Players need to be evaluated individually to whatever extent such a thing is possible, and to that end the disregard of team factors helps us inch closer to some measure of objective quality. | ||
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| + | Yet at the same time, basketball players are almost unavoidably subject to context. There are certain luminaries for which being a fit is a non-issue an elite class of flexible superstars that would work in most every system and would mesh with most any roster. They are the extreme minority and run maybe three deep. The overwhelming majority, meanwhile, need specific factors in place in order to maximize their on-court value: a particular number of touches, a certain magnitude of a role, a customized set of responsibilities. Some players are inevitably more pliable than others when it comes to compromising on those needs, but that in itself creates problems for defining player value across the board. How does one accurately measure player worth when every individual s value is so deeply conditional? | ||
| + | Making that determination inevitably becomes a matter of taste, as we don t otherwise have the means to make sense of such disparate items. It s hard enough comparing vastly different players at entirely different positions say, Omer Asik and Monta Ellis but another matter entirely given that both players have unique prerequisites to their effectiveness. If Asik is the defensive balance to offense-first lineups as he was in Houston last season, his strengths can be accentuated while his weaknesses are disguised. If not, he s a lesser player, relatively, on the grounds that his lack of offensive skill can so severely cramp his team s scoring operations. | ||
| + | An entirely different set of concerns are in play with Ellis, who very much needs helpful defenders,[http://tribemain.tribecomics.com/ Road Warrior Travel Tips- Arrange for a Taxi Before Arriving, Jeremy Wall of JP Wall], spot shooters, and supporting playmakers in order to get the most out of his own game. When all of that is in place, Ellis can be a legitimate weapon. Without it, he can grind even a quality team into mediocrity with his inefficiency and unchecked domination of the ball. | ||
| + | Such factors define the range between a player s ceiling and floor, though without necessarily addressing the probability that either is actually met.?How does one place Tyson Chandler without knowing if he ll have a solid point guard to make use of his game-changing offensive potential? Or rank Rajon Rondo without understanding how likely he is to have the supporting scorers he so desperately needs? And in contrast, where does this line of thinking leave Kawhi Leonard an outstanding role player who could fit most any team, albeit without contributing at so lofty a level? | ||
| + | Certain players are indisputably more challenging to build around than others,[http://linux.24hr.se/w/index.php/Anv%C3%A4ndare:Mbqiigfhz1#Jets_release_Robert_Malone.2C_sign_Ryan_Quigley Jets release Robert Malone, sign Ryan Quigley], and in some way that distinction should be taken into account in a ranking like this one. There s just no clean, satisfying way to do so, and thus no perfect fashion to consider each player on his own merits. That doesn t diminish the value of these results or the process behind them. It s simply important to note that a player s worth shifts dramatically with his surroundings, and with that comes an unavoidable imbalance to any and every comparative ranking of this kind. | ||
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| + | The purchase price for the property was $16.2 million. The property remains undeveloped and was part of a larger 2,300-acre mixed-use development that failed to take off during the Great Recession. | ||
| + | The company still owns the land in York County. | ||
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| + | Now, in lieu of apologizing to the Jaguars for apologizing about the Jaguars, WKMG in Orlando claims it never apologized. | ||
| + | In a Facebook message,[http://creobbs.com/bbs/home.php?mod=space&uid=210472 ], WKMG General Manager Skip Valet says the station never issued an apology for having to show the Jaguars game. | ||
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| + | The truth (at least WKMG s current version of it) is that the station felt compelled to issue a clarification because fans were confused by the constant promotion of the Broncos-Giants game during the 1:00 p.m. ET game televised locally by CBS.? (You know, the promotion that included an express mention that some viewers would be getting Jaguars-Raiders instead.) | ||
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| + | Still, the message that was placed on the screen didn t make clear whether folks were upset because they possibly wouldn t see the Jaguars game, or because they were being led to believe they possibly wouldn t have to see the Jaguars game. | ||
| + | In accordance with NFL policy, WKMG must carry all Jacksonville Jaguars away games.? We apologize for any inconvenience, the in-game screen message stated. | ||
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| + | KDKA-AM s Larry and John talked to James Conner as well as Jason and Sarah O Neill, Alyssa s parents, about the outpouring of love and support they ve seen since their daughter s death. | ||
| + | It meant so much to our family to know that she was loved so much by us, but by the community and her fellow students, says Sarah O Neill. | ||
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