Crystal City’s Restaurant Mez at the Crystal Gateway Marriott has abutting with a Co-Op of fishermen with the Honolulu Fish Company, to present guests with a appropriate seafood banquet card of anew bent Hawaiian fish, beginning off the straights of Maui. All of the sashimi brand angle are bent by angle or line, acceptable and eco-friendly, instead of nets and trawls, which can be adverse to the environment.
Now through October, Restaurant Mez will be alms a sashimi seafood bolt of the day appropriate that includes: Opaka paka, Opah, Uku, Kea kea, Monchong, Mero filet, Ono and Mahi Mahi.
The alternative of angle at this Arlington seafood restaurant changes circadian depending on what is caught; anniversary day three or four types of angle are featured. Customers will accept a best of preparation: grilled, pan-seared, oven roasted, agilely breaded pan-fried and poached; and a best of acidity profiles of papaya-mango relish, Asian slaw, Fuji apple-ginger chutney, chipotle-lime honey adulate and lemongrass begrimed seasonings. The entrees are offered at a promotional amount from $26 - $29 and cover a best of two ancillary dishes. To acclaim these aberrant seafood dishes, Restaurant Mez offers wine pairings and flights of red and white wines.
“We are featuring a different banquet card to acquaintance Hawaiian angle with an arrangement of beginning flavors,” said David Creamer, chef de cuisine, Restaurant Mez. “Brought to the dock, off the hook, and alien via air anon to our auberge aural hours, anniversary day brings a new bolt and altered fish.”
For the alternative of sashimi angle for the evening, amuse alarm Restaurant Mez at (703) 271-5216.
Restaurant Mez is amid aural the Crystal Gateway Marriott and is opened for breakfast, cafeteria and dinner. Crystal Gateway Marriott is amid in Arlington, Va. At 1700 Jefferson Davis Highway off of Route 1 and is Metro accessible at the Crystal City stop on the Yellow/Blue lines. For added advice amuse appointment www.crystalgatewaymarriott.com or alarm 703-920-3230.
About Honolulu Fish Company
Founded by Wayne Samiere, a accomplished abyssal biologist, the Honolulu Fish Company is committed to announcement amenable fishing practices to advice bottle and advance Pacific waters. Honolulu Fish Company is the alone eco-friendly absolute benefactor in the United States that offers added than 14 breed of sashimi brand angle to restaurants about the world. Each angle is called with abundant care, ability and acuteness for attention the ecology ancestry of the world’s a lot of coveted seafood. (www.honolulufish.com.) For added information, amuse appointment www.honolulufish.com or alarm (808) 833-1123.
About Crystal Gateway Marriott
Surrounded by arcade and dining destinations at the Crystal City shops and the Fashion Centre at Pentagon City, the 697-room Arlington, VA hotel, has just completed a $15,000,000 redesign of all of its sleeping rooms, including installing the industry’s newest “technology panel” bond your Ipod, camcorders, video cameras or laptops to 37inch HD collapsed screens in anniversary room. The auberge calmly amid abreast Reagan National, Airport and is ideal for conferences, affairs and added amusing events.
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Monday, December 21, 2009
New Study Links PCBs From Alcoa With Those Found In Badin Lake Fish
John H. Rodgers, Jr., Ph.D., a acclaimed baptize above able with Clemson University, has appear a new abstraction that indicates there is a accord amid the polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) acclimated at Alcoa’s Badin Works ability on the Yadkin River and the PCBs begin in the angle and sediments in Badin Lake, a 5,300-acre backlog that empties into the Yadkin through the Narrows Dam. This cessation adds added affirmation that Alcoa is the antecedent of the PCB contagion begin in the basin beforehand this year. It is aswell yet addition archetype of how Alcoa has been a poor abettor of the Yadkin Hydroelectric Project, which includes four dams and powerhouses alternating a 38-mile amplitude of the Yadkin River at High Rock, Tuckertown, Narrows and Falls Reservoirs in Davie, Davidson, Rowan, Montgomery and Stanly counties.
Alcoa, a bunch firm, has activated for a new 50-year authorization from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to control, administer and sustain buying of baptize abounding from the Yadkin River and abide administering its cartel of hydropower generated by the Project. Opponents of Alcoa’s administration of the Project, including the Stanly County Board of Commissioners, accept cited the firm’s poor ecology almanac as a key acumen for abstinent the relicensing. As Badin Lake serves as the primary antecedent of bubbler baptize for Stanly County, a area for fishing and swimming, and an bread-and-butter disciplinarian for the absolute Uwharrie Lakes Region/N.C. Central Park and the State of North Carolina, this new hotlink attached the PCBs in angle and debris in the basin with Alcoa’s own operations strengthens that concern.
Using 30 angle samples calm Feb. 11 and seven debris samples calm April 2, Dr. Rodgers compared samples with advice on the PCBs acclimated at the Alcoa Badin Works Facility provided by the N.C. Division of Waste Management this year. As PCBs are a ancestors of automated chlorinated actinic compounds that cover 209 accessible forms, or “congeners,” he and Dr. Matt Huddleston analyzed the PCB congeners and concentrations in the angle tissue with those in debris samples from the southwest arm of Badin Lake (near the Alcoa facility), the northwest arm and the northeast arm. Based on their analysis, they accomplished the afterward conclusions:
-There is a accord amid PCB congeners in sediments from the southwest arm of Badin Lake and PCBs in angle from the lake.
-Congeners detected in the angle tissue provided added affirmation of sediments as a antecedent of PCBs.
-PCB congeners detected in sediments from the southwest arm of the basin (near the Alcoa facility) accept concentrations decidedly greater (on the adjustment of 10 to 100 times greater) than sediments from added locations of the lake.
-PCBS congeners in sediments from the southwest arm co-occur added frequently with congeners detected in angle samples throughout the basin than do congeners in sediments from added locations of the lake.
-Fish sampled from the southwest arm of the basin were consistently added attenuated by PCBs than angle calm from added locations of the lake.
The doctors again compared the absolute PCB congeners in the debris and the angle with the congeners present in the Alcoa-related PCB and detected a lot of of the closing in the angle tissue and debris samples from the lake. Of the 76 PCB congeners associated with Alcoa operations, 18 either were not analyzed in angle tissues or were accumulated with added congeners for appraisal of sediments. Of the actual 58 Alcoa-related PCB congeners that were analyzed individually, 57 occurred in angle tissue, 55 occurred in sentiments, and 54 occurred in both angle tissue and sediments for a greater than 93 percent match.
Earlier this year, the accompaniment abstraction begin animated levels of PCBs in Badin Lake fish, so on Feb. 11, the NC Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) issued a angle burning advising for Badin Lake advising that abundant women, nursing women and accouchement beneath age 15 should not eat any largemouth bass or catfish from Badin Lake and that added humans should not eat added than one meal a anniversary of catfish or ample aperture bass from Badin Lake. Alcoa filed a contested case arduous the announcement of the PCB angle burning advisory.
Fish burning advisories action if the DHHS finds angle in and about the accompaniment with animated levels of contaminants that may affectation a accident to animal health. Unborn accouchement and adolescent accouchement can be added affected to developing problems as a aftereffect of acquaintance with contaminants, which is why advisories are generally added acrimonious for them. According to the DHHS advisory, PCBs can could cause anemia; acne-like derma conditions; accident to the liver, abdomen or thyroid gland; changes in the allowed arrangement or changeable system; and behavioral problems.
The Stanly County Board of Commissioners maintains that Alcoa has bootless to apple-pie up its accomplished operations in the canton that absolved chancy pollutants into North Carolina air and waterways for decades and afflicted bulb and abominable ecosystems and afflicted bodies due to acknowledgment or ingestion. It favors enactment of the Yadkin River Trust, now beneath analysis by the General Assembly, to ensure bigger baptize above for the Project than what Alcoa provides.
Quotes:
“Once afresh Dr. Rodgers has appear advice that is damaging to Alcoa’s claims about accepting environmentally amenable for the decades it has maintained ascendancy of the Yadkin Hydroelectric Project,” said Stanly County Commissioner Lindsey Dunevant. “On account of the board, we appetite accompaniment legislators, the DWQ and added anxious leaders to analysis this abstraction actively and explain why Alcoa’s almanac of abuse at Badin Lake, accumulated with its abnegation to say how and if it will apple-pie up its absolute contamination, accomplish it aces of accepting 50 added years to accomplishment and absorb baptize rights for our state’s second-largest river at the bread-and-butter and ecology amount of North Carolina citizens.”
Related Links:
www.co.stanly.nc.us
www.ncwaterrights.org
www.mmimarketing.com/podcast/North+Carolina+Water+Policy www.mmimarketing.com/podcast/North+Carolina+Water+Policy+part+II
About John H. Rodgers, Jr., Ph.D.:
A accustomed able in baptize quality, Dr. Rodgers is a assistant and administrator of the ecotoxicology affairs with the Department of Forestry and Natural Resources at Clemson University in South Carolina, as able-bodied as co-director of the Clemson Environmental Institute. He has formed professionally as a researcher, consultant, teacher, columnist and actor in anatomy and ecology studies for added than 35 years on hundreds of projects. His all-encompassing account of ceremoniousness and awards cover a advertisement in International Who’s Who and a affidavit of acknowledgment from the Environmental Protection Agency. A affiliate of the American Water Resources Association and the Water Pollution Control Federation, a allotment of added organizations, Dr. Rodgers becoming his Ph.D. in amphibian anatomy and botany at Virginia Tech in 1977.
About This Effort:
In 1958, Alcoa, the world’s arch ambassador of primary aluminum, anchored a federal hydroelectric authorization for the Yadkin Project on the Yadkin River in Stanly, Davidson, Montgomery and Rowan Counties in the Central Piedmont. In return, Alcoa promised aluminum accomplishment jobs for Stanly County for years to come. Alcoa has now about abolished as a above employer in the arena and shut down its accomplishment plants, but it wants to abide accomplishment the allowances of the Yadkin River afterwards its authorization expires in April of this year. In addition, Alcoa absolved chancy pollutants into North Carolina air and waterways for decades while agriculture immense profits from the Yadkin River, but has yet to accomplishment charwoman up that contamination. It has filed an appliance with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to access addition 50-year license. If Alcoa is successful, one of North Carolina’s a lot of admired baptize assets will be acclimated to aerate Alcoa’s profits, instead of accepting acclimated to account the humans of North Carolina, who themselves are in acute charge of affordable electricity, bounded bread-and-butter development, and clean, able bubbler water.
Patty Briguglio
MMI Associates, Inc.
(919) 233-6600
patty@mmimarketing.com
PR Firms Raleigh, NC
Alcoa, a bunch firm, has activated for a new 50-year authorization from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to control, administer and sustain buying of baptize abounding from the Yadkin River and abide administering its cartel of hydropower generated by the Project. Opponents of Alcoa’s administration of the Project, including the Stanly County Board of Commissioners, accept cited the firm’s poor ecology almanac as a key acumen for abstinent the relicensing. As Badin Lake serves as the primary antecedent of bubbler baptize for Stanly County, a area for fishing and swimming, and an bread-and-butter disciplinarian for the absolute Uwharrie Lakes Region/N.C. Central Park and the State of North Carolina, this new hotlink attached the PCBs in angle and debris in the basin with Alcoa’s own operations strengthens that concern.
Using 30 angle samples calm Feb. 11 and seven debris samples calm April 2, Dr. Rodgers compared samples with advice on the PCBs acclimated at the Alcoa Badin Works Facility provided by the N.C. Division of Waste Management this year. As PCBs are a ancestors of automated chlorinated actinic compounds that cover 209 accessible forms, or “congeners,” he and Dr. Matt Huddleston analyzed the PCB congeners and concentrations in the angle tissue with those in debris samples from the southwest arm of Badin Lake (near the Alcoa facility), the northwest arm and the northeast arm. Based on their analysis, they accomplished the afterward conclusions:
-There is a accord amid PCB congeners in sediments from the southwest arm of Badin Lake and PCBs in angle from the lake.
-Congeners detected in the angle tissue provided added affirmation of sediments as a antecedent of PCBs.
-PCB congeners detected in sediments from the southwest arm of the basin (near the Alcoa facility) accept concentrations decidedly greater (on the adjustment of 10 to 100 times greater) than sediments from added locations of the lake.
-PCBS congeners in sediments from the southwest arm co-occur added frequently with congeners detected in angle samples throughout the basin than do congeners in sediments from added locations of the lake.
-Fish sampled from the southwest arm of the basin were consistently added attenuated by PCBs than angle calm from added locations of the lake.
The doctors again compared the absolute PCB congeners in the debris and the angle with the congeners present in the Alcoa-related PCB and detected a lot of of the closing in the angle tissue and debris samples from the lake. Of the 76 PCB congeners associated with Alcoa operations, 18 either were not analyzed in angle tissues or were accumulated with added congeners for appraisal of sediments. Of the actual 58 Alcoa-related PCB congeners that were analyzed individually, 57 occurred in angle tissue, 55 occurred in sentiments, and 54 occurred in both angle tissue and sediments for a greater than 93 percent match.
Earlier this year, the accompaniment abstraction begin animated levels of PCBs in Badin Lake fish, so on Feb. 11, the NC Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) issued a angle burning advising for Badin Lake advising that abundant women, nursing women and accouchement beneath age 15 should not eat any largemouth bass or catfish from Badin Lake and that added humans should not eat added than one meal a anniversary of catfish or ample aperture bass from Badin Lake. Alcoa filed a contested case arduous the announcement of the PCB angle burning advisory.
Fish burning advisories action if the DHHS finds angle in and about the accompaniment with animated levels of contaminants that may affectation a accident to animal health. Unborn accouchement and adolescent accouchement can be added affected to developing problems as a aftereffect of acquaintance with contaminants, which is why advisories are generally added acrimonious for them. According to the DHHS advisory, PCBs can could cause anemia; acne-like derma conditions; accident to the liver, abdomen or thyroid gland; changes in the allowed arrangement or changeable system; and behavioral problems.
The Stanly County Board of Commissioners maintains that Alcoa has bootless to apple-pie up its accomplished operations in the canton that absolved chancy pollutants into North Carolina air and waterways for decades and afflicted bulb and abominable ecosystems and afflicted bodies due to acknowledgment or ingestion. It favors enactment of the Yadkin River Trust, now beneath analysis by the General Assembly, to ensure bigger baptize above for the Project than what Alcoa provides.
Quotes:
“Once afresh Dr. Rodgers has appear advice that is damaging to Alcoa’s claims about accepting environmentally amenable for the decades it has maintained ascendancy of the Yadkin Hydroelectric Project,” said Stanly County Commissioner Lindsey Dunevant. “On account of the board, we appetite accompaniment legislators, the DWQ and added anxious leaders to analysis this abstraction actively and explain why Alcoa’s almanac of abuse at Badin Lake, accumulated with its abnegation to say how and if it will apple-pie up its absolute contamination, accomplish it aces of accepting 50 added years to accomplishment and absorb baptize rights for our state’s second-largest river at the bread-and-butter and ecology amount of North Carolina citizens.”
Related Links:
www.co.stanly.nc.us
www.ncwaterrights.org
www.mmimarketing.com/podcast/North+Carolina+Water+Policy www.mmimarketing.com/podcast/North+Carolina+Water+Policy+part+II
About John H. Rodgers, Jr., Ph.D.:
A accustomed able in baptize quality, Dr. Rodgers is a assistant and administrator of the ecotoxicology affairs with the Department of Forestry and Natural Resources at Clemson University in South Carolina, as able-bodied as co-director of the Clemson Environmental Institute. He has formed professionally as a researcher, consultant, teacher, columnist and actor in anatomy and ecology studies for added than 35 years on hundreds of projects. His all-encompassing account of ceremoniousness and awards cover a advertisement in International Who’s Who and a affidavit of acknowledgment from the Environmental Protection Agency. A affiliate of the American Water Resources Association and the Water Pollution Control Federation, a allotment of added organizations, Dr. Rodgers becoming his Ph.D. in amphibian anatomy and botany at Virginia Tech in 1977.
About This Effort:
In 1958, Alcoa, the world’s arch ambassador of primary aluminum, anchored a federal hydroelectric authorization for the Yadkin Project on the Yadkin River in Stanly, Davidson, Montgomery and Rowan Counties in the Central Piedmont. In return, Alcoa promised aluminum accomplishment jobs for Stanly County for years to come. Alcoa has now about abolished as a above employer in the arena and shut down its accomplishment plants, but it wants to abide accomplishment the allowances of the Yadkin River afterwards its authorization expires in April of this year. In addition, Alcoa absolved chancy pollutants into North Carolina air and waterways for decades while agriculture immense profits from the Yadkin River, but has yet to accomplishment charwoman up that contamination. It has filed an appliance with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to access addition 50-year license. If Alcoa is successful, one of North Carolina’s a lot of admired baptize assets will be acclimated to aerate Alcoa’s profits, instead of accepting acclimated to account the humans of North Carolina, who themselves are in acute charge of affordable electricity, bounded bread-and-butter development, and clean, able bubbler water.
Patty Briguglio
MMI Associates, Inc.
(919) 233-6600
patty@mmimarketing.com
PR Firms Raleigh, NC
EasyDisplays “Easy Y Band” Newly Constructed for Windy Outdoor Environments
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The capital advantage of alfresco banderole angle is their climate-resistance characteristics which makes them a reliable and trusted antecedent for alfresco event. Outdoor banderole angle is accessible for product/brand affectation in arcade malls, retail stores, exhibition, barter promotions and events.
Easydisplay International Co. Ltd., the all-around above in affectation solutions accept acclimated their artistic abstraction to accord their alfresco banderole angle called Easy Y casting an bend over others. The aggregate of strength, ablaze weight and adept makes it a characteristic amateur in alfresco banderole angle category.
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The prime advantage of this alfresco banderole angle is it’s simple to install process, i.e. it can be installed or captivated up calmly makes it absolute for altercation chargeless relocation. The clear can aswell be afflicted effortlessly.
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Giant Pole the Big Outdoor Flag Advertising Solution for Events and Promotions
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