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Not sure if this helps (from someones webpage): ... Recently deposited material, such as the deposition from a flood, exhibits no features from soil development activities. The previous soil surface and underlying horizons become buried. The time clock resets for these soils. Terraces above the active floodplain, while genetically similar to the floodplain, are older land surfaces and exhibit more development features. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedogenesis soil horizon is another keyword search. There is some debate as to whether human activity on soils should be given a horizon name. So yes, experts in soils have noticed changes.

Its been a long time since I played with JavaScript, but I think you have to have a mouse off / out part too. http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_onmouseover.asp Heres a tool tip that can be adapted for images using dhtml: http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex5/dhtmltooltip.htm The alt tag is a compliance issue. Some verifiers require images to carry that tag for people who dont have pics load on page open. This gives them that text caption in the empty image box.

Yes, but for me it works best to call the style sheet from my html doc. <link rel="stylesheet" href="looks.css" type="text/css"> But I like to use absolute path so if I move stuff, I dont have to change the stylesheet links. <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://www.mySite.com/xtras/looks.css" type="text/css" >

Try adding an alt="img desc" for each image. This just adds the text you see when an image doesnt open or if setting on the browser dont allow images to be displayed. so it would be <img src="serotonin.png" width="80" height="60" alt="serotonin"> Some of the validators insist on this now. I would also recommend learning css after you get a handle on the basics of html. It will make your formatting all pages so much easier and give you much more freedom to create.

The illegality of tire dumping is mostly due to the space they take up and the difficulty of extinguishing fire, plus they tend to drift back up to the surface. In many US states tires are ground up and then placed into landfills legally. There is some concern with heavy metal leaching because of the steel belts in tires, but this is varied by PH levels of water and moisture content of soil. Define adversely affects. Can it be measured as x-parts per million on the surface layer of the road/nearby areas? Probably. Have we seen a direct impact (positive or negative) on the environment due to rubber dust. Not that I am aware of.

"The world's largest retailer said Tuesday in a letter to the family of Deborah Shank it will not seek to collect money the Shanks won in an injury lawsuit against a trucking company for the accident. Wal-Mart has been roundly criticized in newspaper editorials, on cable news shows and by its union foes for its claim to the funds, which it made in a lawsuit upheld by a federal appeals court." Story here: http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/newstex/AFX-0013-24188519.htm

Yes. Human travel, living, medical, political, and cultural changes have had the greatest impact on increasing (or decreasing) malaria transmission rates. Interesting article about Canadian malaria outbreaks: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol10no7/03-0826.htm The above points out the methods of tracking travelers has a hole in the monitoring system, but makes good points about particular outbreaks in India and their connection to N. American outbreaks. Heres a 1948 article about US Malaria: http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/pagerender.fcgi?artid=1624804&pageindex=1#page Related to a microbe (in this case virus) ability to adapt to a new environment, Saskatchewan: "West Nile virus (WN) is a virus of wild birds, transmitted from bird to bird primarily by mosquitoes. Native to southern Europe, the Middle East and Africa, the virus arrived in North America in 1999 and spread quickly across the continent." http://wildlife1.usask.ca/wildlife_health_topics/arbovirus/WNV%20and%20mosquitoes%20in%20SK%20P%20Curry%20Blue%20Jay%20June%2004.pdf

I think it would be different if this woman was able to work again. The injuries she suffered place her beyond this and into permanently disabled. " 2) They didn't get what they asked for because the company's liability insurance only went up to $1 million. The award was based on percentages...i.e. a percentage of her past medical care was reimbursed. The rest of the money was designated as a percentage of her future care. The lawyer's argument is that Walmart should be fair by taking the percentage that was designated as covering her past medical care rather than taking everything including her future care." More info here: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/3/29/114727/472/212/485916 So now shes in a nursing home, on medicade and chances are pretty good her ex-husband will lose the home to pay future nursing care. Then it will be the taxpayers who fund her care. The amount of money Walmart recouped is less than 3 weeks worth of CEO pay and options (2006). http://www.forbes.com/lists/2007/12/lead_07ceos_H-Lee-Scott-Jr_TWC3.html The other part of this is this particular family may have been better off being uninsured. Does anyone really think that is good for America as a whole?

First, I would point out my first link directly addressed the OP query "What's the story here? Are malaria-carrying mossies temperature controlled?". I am just guessing here, but would say your response directed to me indicates you did not bother to read the first link, as it addresses malaria outbreaks in non-tropical (and pretty darn cold) regions. Now to address your contention that warming increases malaria events I would point you to these two abstracts (and there are others out there you can search for yourself) which state "These findings are most relevant to regions near the altitude or latitude limits of the disease, where several epidemics have lately been reported." http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7907685?dopt=Abstract The above link does not claim the ranges of malaria laden mosquitos has increased in altitude, only that more incidence is occuring at the higher end of their known range. Its too bad that so many of these reports are hidden from view behind pay-per-view accounts. What we do not know is whether the number of people has increased in these higher altitudes, what deforestation has occured and the other factors which lead to higher transmission rates regardless of temperatures. Therefore, the temperature increase of 0.5 degree C during the last 2 decades cannot be incriminated as a major cause for these malaria changes, which are mainly due to the combination of climatic, human, and operational factors. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9673911?dopt=Abstract The second link I posted introduced the viability of micro-organisms to adapt to their environments and are complimented by human travel, proximity and a host of other factors that increase the chances of a microbe advancing its pool of hosts. The third link I posted presented the exotic introduction of a known transmitter of a host of human diseases, the tiger mosquito, a particular favorite of mine after a friends kid became infected with encephalitis. He survived as do the tiger mosquitos with their inherent capability to transmit a multitude of diseases to humans and animals. http://www.vet.uga.edu/vpp/clerk/jennings/index.php

From the conclusion: "This rapid recrudescence has been attributed to population increase, forest clearance, irrigation and other agricultural activities, ecologic change, movement of people, urbanization, deterioration of public health services, resistance to insecticides and antimalarial drugs, deterioration of vector control operations, and disruptions from war, civil strife, and natural disasters. Claims that malaria resurgence is due to climate change ignore these realities and disregard history. For example, the many statements that recent climate change has caused malaria to ascend to new altitudes (10,31,32) are contradicted by records of its distribution in 1880 to 1945" http://www.cdc.gov/Ncidod/eid/vol6no1/reiter.htm Another expert commentary on 'increased disease': http://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/rise-of-deadly-disease-is-a-cultural-thing/2005/10/16/1129401141539.html "Microbes, like us, are evolutionarily programmed to survive, and they have had long practice. If, in today's increasingly interconnected world with its many vulnerable populations, we further disturb natural environmental systems and distort long-established cultural constraints, then the procession of new infectious diseases will continue." Tiger mosquitos (I think thats the one) which carry a type of encephilitis, were imported to the USA from Japan (or somewhere nearby) in cargo containers. The specie has flourished and spread. http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/2000/2148.html So anyways, the point being one cannot assign blame to warming alone, and its is just as likely warming has limited, and possibly no impact on the incidence of malaria.

Is wal-mart self-insured? If so, one would think they should sue the trucking company to recoup losses. Insurance companies sue each other for losses all the time. There are so many other legal options for walmart to handle this rather than take the settlement.

I am not sure where you are going with this, so if my response is off base, let me know. I know when I visited Mexico years ago I was totally overwhelmed by the taste of the fresh fruits compared to what I grew up with from grocery stores. There was no comparison to the papayas and limes I knew from home compared to joy it was to eat these items grown locally. Processed foods tend to taste different than processed organics due to the restrictions on additives. An example would be Calcium chloride. Its in most (if not all) jars of processed pickles to help keep them from getting mushy. When we canned our own pickles, we used a grape leaf to help keep them crisp. It took me several years to adjust to the taste of store bought pickles after having 20 years of the home canned variety. This is not to say all home recipes are equal. Water run-off has some balancing factors. This has more to do with how many animals are running on how many acres and what type of wetland/flowage surrounds the area. I've seen (in the past) fenced walkways leading directly to a pond/waterway where the cattle had little option to relieve themselves where it would not impact the water and I have seen other examples where given the room to roam the cattle stayed away from the wetlands as much as possible. Their interests were in grazing. Hogs are a problem because they enjoy wallowing so much. I dont know how sheep are. As far as mechanical weeding, that happens on all farms to some degree, conventional or organic. Plowing is the first step in weed management for most farms, and there are various methods of this. Heres a page that gives some idea of the variety of tillages used and some analysis of desired outcomes: http://www.montana.edu/wwwpb/tillage.html The above gives some good keywords for further searching. You neglected to include some of the other weed control methods used in organics, such as mulching, multi-crop plantings (a layering of the field so to speak), organic weed controls etc. Now dont get me wrong on this. I do not think we can sustain the number of people who need to be fed worldwide with organic farms. The combination of pesticide, ferts, and herbicides used increase production with minimal labor investment. I also think neighborhood gardens in the inner cities would be very beneficial to the peoples who live there for multiple reasons. Getting kids off their video games and weeding, the taste of fresh foods, the sense of accomplishment, and an appreciation for how much work is involved in putting food on the table could only be a positive effect long-term.

I think supporting organic foods is beneficial for ecological reasons. I havent spent time looking up whether there is a significant nutritional reason. As far as animal welfare, feed lots are, for the most part, a pretty horrible existence for the animals confined there.

3 feet of snow = approx 3 inches of water when melted. Theres alot of air in snow. Also snow evaporates some even when temps are very cold. I havent read the whole article but has more details here: http://bgs.ucalgary.ca/files/bgs/valeo_skone_ho_poon_srestha_2005.pdf