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Maryland health officials issued a warning to consumers Thursday, advising them not to eat any fresh or frozen molluscan shellfish that come from South Korea because they are considered potentially unsafe for consumption.
Crabs and shrimp are not considered molluscan shellfish.
Shellfish grown and produced in Maryland are not affected.
Oil and gas companies will have until June 19 to file their bids for the government’s upcoming auction of drilling leases in the central Gulf of Mexico, the Interior Department announced today.
As many as 7,276 blocks covering about 38.6 million acres will be up for grabs in the sale to be conducted at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans on June 20. The auction will mark the final sale in an existing five-year Bush-era plan for leasing the outer continental shelf that ends on June 30.
One day, you’ll gather the grandchildren around you and tell them wondrous tales of life before cloud computing: how you used to put information, photos and music on a floppy disk, a memory card or a USB fob to carry it from one device to another. You’ll tell them how it was called sneakernet because you had to physically move the data.
They will look at you funny, pat your hand and continue to take personal cloud storage for granted.
An effort to legislatively overturn a recent Maryland Court of Appeals decision labeling pit bulls as dangerous failed in the special session just ended. Bills were introduced in both the Senate and House of Delegates but they never made it out of committee. But the issue may not be dead, according to a report by the Baltimore Sun.
There is a possibility of a second special session this summer. And Senate President Thomas V. “Mike” Miller (D: Calvert) is holding out the possibility of the issue being raised if that session is convened, reportedly to deal with gambling issues.
According to the newspaper, Miller has asked the Judicial Proceedings Committee to hear the issue this summer. Sen. Lisa Gladden, vice-chair of the committee, said the panel would hear from experts in the field but not the general public
The nearly bankrupt U.S. Postal Service is moving ahead with plans to close dozens of mail processing centers, saying on Thursday it can no longer wait as Congress remains deadlocked over how to help.
At a news briefing, Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe said the agency’s mail processing network had simply become too big, given declining mail volume and its mounting debt. It will now consolidate nearly 250 plants as originally planned, including 48 this summer, but will stretch out the remainder over a longer time frame in 2013 and 2014.
Comcast, the country’s largest Internet service provider, is going to start charging extra when customers go over a certain monthly data limit.
That limit, however, is very high, starting at 300 gigabytes for basic Internet plans. Only a tiny fraction of Internet users use that much data in a month.
Comcast Corp., based in Philadelphia, said Thursday that it might charge $10 for every 50 gigabytes over that limit.
A water snake slides into the reeds under the hanging branches of a sweetgum tree. Rotting logs lie half submerged in Blackwalnut Creek, a Chesapeake Bay tributary south of Annapolis. And in the water around the logs dart little fish.
The striped Atlantic killifish –- also known as mummichogs—swarm in brackish water up and down the East Coast. They are as common as pebbles, but also extraordinary.
Scientific research, explained in toxicologist Dr. Emily Monosson’s fascinating and meticulous new book, Evolution in a Toxic World, suggests that toxic chemicals like PCB’s and dioxins that poison other species do not kill killifish, which have developed resistances to these deadly chemicals. Killifish are an example of how pollution is driving evolution.
Maryland recycled more than 40 percent of its waste in 2010, when the state exceeded its voluntary waste diversion goal for the sixth straight year.
Maryland’s overall rate for waste diversion – the recycling rate plus source reduction credits – was 44.6 percent for 2010, the calendar year for which the most recent figures are available. The state’s voluntary waste diversion goal is 40 percent.
The waste diversion rate for 2010 is made up of a recycling rate of 41 percent plus a 3.6 percent source reduction credit.
Date: 05/16/2012
Facebook isn’t the only Internet behemoth with big news this week.
Google on Wednesday ratcheted up its search service as Facebook steamrolls to its gargantuan IPO on Friday.
Google’s next generation of search, called Knowledge Graph, has been anticipated within high-tech circles for months. The search options, which will be rolled out this week, are somewhat similar to Facebook’s Timeline feature.
Up to 365,000 more children across the USA will be considered at risk of lead poisoning under new guidelines released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In an important shift, the CDC cut in half the amount of lead that will trigger medical monitoring and other actions in children ages 1 to 5. It’s the first time in more than 20 years that the CDC has revised its action level on lead poisoning.
Verizon Wireless plans to begin eliminating the unlimited data plan it has provided customers who had it before the carrier introduced tiered pricing and dropped the unlimited plan for new buyers last year.
Fran Shammo, CFO of Verizon Communications, which owns a controlling share of Verizon Wireless, first revealed the change Wednesday at an industry conference and it was first reported by Fierce Wireless, an online publication.
On any given day, about 90% of USA students come to school — pretty good as attendance goes. But scratch beneath the surface and you may find less flattering figures.
New research suggests that as many as 7.5 million students miss a month of school each year, raising the likelihood that they’ll fail academically and eventually drop out of high school.
The findings, from education researcher Robert Balfanz of Johns Hopkins University, estimate that 10% to 15% of students nationwide are “chronically absent” from school, missing enough class time to be at “severe risk” of dropping out.
Army leaders said today they are launching a sweeping, independent review of how the service evaluates soldiers with possible post-traumatic stress disorder following recent complaints that some PTSD diagnoses were improperly overturned.
The Army said it will review the diagnoses at all of its medical facilities going back to October 2001. And top Army leaders said they will develop a plan to correct any decisions or policies necessary to make sure that soldiers are receiving the care and treatment they deserve.
The latest reviews were triggered by revelations that the forensic psychiatry unit at Madigan Army Medical Center at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state may have reversed diagnoses based on the expense of providing care and benefits to members of the military.
Deceptive health claims lead to $45 million settlement
Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler announced today that his Consumer Protection Division, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and 43 other states and the District of Columbia filed consent decrees totaling $45 million concerning Skechers USA, Inc., the makers of Shape-Ups, Tone-Ups, and the Skechers Resistance Runner athletic shoes. The lawsuit alleged that Skechers advertised their rocker-bottom shoes helped consumers lose weight, burn calories, improve circulation, fight cellulite, and firm, tone or strengthen thigh, buttock, and back muscles without having adequate support for such claims.
“Maryland consumers deserve to know that a product’s health-related claims have been substantiated,” said Attorney General Gansler. “If you’ve purchased these shoes, I urge you to take just a little time and file your claim for a partial refund.”
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