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Halloween Costume DIY
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DIY Halloween Costume Ideas You Can Whip Up Last Minute
Halloween is coming up fast and you would be in a dire need to fix your own costumes and get working on them to look the spookiest of all the characters in the party.
If you are going for the hand made route, it is time to get your creative costume ideas together to work on these easy to handle DIY costume ideas. Some would take quite some time, while others are just more than perfect for the last minute preparations; in any case, we've got you covered:
Pumpkin Pi Hack off the stem off an artificial pumpkin and attach it to a headband (super glue or hot glue should do the trick!). Print out the Greek letter pi or cut one out of felt with a pair of scissors, and glue to an orange T-shirt. Now you're nerdy and delicious!
Toffee Pants You'll look sweet enough to eat if you stick up a few good, tasty and chocolaty toffees on your jeans and pair them up with some nerdy looking spectacles and some contrast accessories.
Spook Fairy Freak everyone out by wearing a dark outfit and pinning it up with slips with synonyms of fear and ghosts written all over it.
Rotten Pineapple Just give your face the worst and scariest of wrong make-up styling and pair it with a yellow top with a pair of sunglasses while sporting some green coloured jeans
It's Raining Men This tongue-in-cheek costume gives a nod to the ubiquitous '80s song.
Bubble Bath Bubble Inflate some white balloons and pin them on a white tshirt, wear a shower cap and take hold of a lofah. Voila! You're now a bubble bath bubble!
Movie Theater Floor Dress in all black and attach popcorn, old movie tickets, and empty candy wrappers all over your outfit to complete this theatrical look. (Bonus: If you spill something on yourself at the party, it won't matter!)
White Rabbit You better not be late to your Halloween party while wearing this cute costume!
Minnie Mouse You'll have so much fun dressing up as everyone's favorite mouse for Halloween.
Deviled Egg Dress in all white and attach a yellow circle of felt to your stomach. Add devil horns and a tail to turn yourself into a "deviled" egg.
Sweet Strawberry Adorable and easy-to-make, put this fruit-tastic look at the top of your list.
Classic Scarecrow This creative ensemble features several simple pieces you probably already have at home.
And if you could pair up any of the looks you fancy with some added accessories or surprises and take its spookiness to the next-level, don't hesitate, after all, it may help you end up with the title for the best make-up and costume. Yes, that's also on stake in the Halloween Party being organized by Body Zone Gym N' Spa, Chandigarh. Don't forget to collect your passes for the spine-chilling and hair-raising party in town, since there is only handful of them left. And guess what, double up your chances to win the prizes by teaming up with a guest ghost whom you might want to take along at the party.
So, now you don't have a reason to miss the most excitingly horrifying Halloween Party in Chandigarh on Monday, 30th October at 8PM.


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Please note: This year, runner t-shirts are only guaranteed if you register by April 15.
Registration Fee Schedule:
Individual Half Marathon:
Through 2/28/19 $59
Through 4/14/19 $69
Through 5/5/19 $79
Through 5/11/19 $89
2-Person Relay:
Through 2/28/19 $109
Through 4/14/19 $129
Through 5/5/19 $149
Through 5/11/19 $169
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Through 2/28/19 $209
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Through 5/5/19 $269
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Team Registration: IMPORTANT: Each member of a team must complete a registration form and team forms must be submitted together. This allows each person to sign a waiver as well as select the t-shirt choice and size. There is a spot on the registration form for other team members name. This is for our information only and to ensure we have the correct teams grouped together. Teams must register together. For online registration, each team member must register and will be able to pay individually.
Please read carefully before registering for any event(s).
- No refunds or transfers.
- Participants unable to pick up their own race packet may have someone else pick up their packet for them.
- Participants may switch races. They must notify the race committee of their request with the Relay Transfer by April 15th. There is a $10 fee to do so, along with any applicable entry fee difference.
- Substituting Relay Team Member. If you need to substitute a participant on your relay team, have the substitute complete Relay Transfer by April 15th. There is a $10 fee to make the substitution.
- Participants must be at least 13 years of age on race day to participate in the half marathon or relay.
- Relay teams must submit registration forms and payment together. Each member of the relay team will complete a registration form.
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Islanders look to make the most of Game 3 at home
The Islanders have set themselves up for success as the series shifts back to Charlottetown for the first time in Round two.
Charlottetown came out victorious in the first two games, winning Game 1 in overtime and Game 2 in a high-scoring affair.
For the Mooseheads, their special teams have been admirable throughout the series, owning a power play percentage of 22.2 and a penalty killing rate of 81 per cent.
As for the Islanders, after finishing the regular season with the one of the QMJHL's worst power play rates they seemed to have turned their fortunes around when it matters the most. Charlottetown currently owns the second best power play in the playoffs, capitalizing on 34.6 per cent of their opportunities.
Their penalty killing has been just as efficient, as the short-handed unit has killed off 85.7 per cent of all opportunities throughout the playoffs, good for 5th best in the league.
Pascal Aquin plays major minutes on both units, and has been the Islanders biggest contributor as of late, even earning this week's Ultramar Play of the Week honours from the QMJHL. Aquin came up big for his team in Game 7 of round one, scoring four goals, and he has carried that success into the second round, even scoring the overtime winner in Game 1, before adding a two point performance in Game 2 at the Scotiabank Centre in Halifax.
Aquin is now tied with Mooseheads leading scorer Filip Zadina for third in the league in playoff scoring with 11 points, trailing only Blainville's Alexandre Alain and Victoriaville's Vitalli Abramov.
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The Chalice Well Pendant
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The cover of Glastonbury's Chalice Well in the mystical Isle of Avalon fuses symbols of the three worlds of Celtic mythology, and is a gateway to the Otherworld of enchanted beings.
Approximate size: 2 inches.
The Chalice Well is from the Symbol Magic Collection of Jewelry. Ancient symbols represent eternal truths and, when worn, endow the wearer with their sacred wisdom and magical qualities. This talismanic collection is crafted in lead-free pewter to capture the original purpose of each piece, releasing the timeless power of the ancient world into the new millenium. Each pendant is crafted in lead-free pewter with hanging thong cord.
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WSMV News 4NASHVILLE, TN (WSMV) - The parents of a disabled woman may be subpoenaed to tell the court where their daughter is, and if she is safe.
Alicia Waters, a 43-year-old woman with cerebral palsy, is the
subject of a mysterious conservatorship case in Rutherford County.
Court officials said the last time they saw Alicia was two years ago, before she and her parents left Murfreesboro suddenly.
parents left an address in a suburb of Atlanta as their forwarding
address. A reporter with News 4's Atlanta affiliate talked to Alicia's
father Charles Waters in October, but received conflicting answers about
Charles Waters: "Well, the last I've heard, she's OK. My wife is OK, she's doing fine."
Reporter Jonathan Carlson: "So where is your daughter? She's not in your care?"
Waters: "No, she's in my wife's care."
Carlson: "She's in your wife's care?"
Waters: "That's correct."
Carlson: "And your wife lives here?"
Waters: "Tennessee."
Carlson: "Your wife lives in Tennessee?"
Waters: "We all lived in Tennessee."
Carlson: "OK, but can I tell the authorities where your daughter is?"
Waters: At this moment, I'll have to find out. Then I'll let you know."
has profound disabilities. She's got a $1 million bank account set up
for her care; it was a settlement from a malpractice suit. That $1
million is under the control of the Rutherford County court system.
LaRoche is Alicia's conservator. He's in charge of making sure the
money is used for her care. LaRoche said he could be paying Alicia
$9,000 a month, but he can't find her.
"We can't think of a valid
reason why Alicia's family would ignore all these resources that could
be used to care for Alicia. So we're very concerned about her safety,"
LaRoche told News 4.
After News 4 aired the interview with
Alicia's father, LaRoche filed a motion asking a judge to expand his
investigative powers. He wants to subpoena Alicia's parents, Charles and
Florence Waters.
LaRoche also wants to subpoena documents including, the Waters' bank and phone records.
parent have not only walked away from $1 million trust, LaRoche said he
learned they have not collected Alicia's Social Security disability
check since 2006.
LaRoche says Social Security officials told him
they stopped Alicia's checks because her mother wouldn't answer
questions they had about how the money was being used.
LaRoche said this new revelation deepens the mystery about how Alicia is being financially supported, and where she is.
A Facebook page has been established to help find Alicia Waters. Click here for more information.
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Description of Problem:
artsbuilder renders machine useless after a few minutes up and running.
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
How Reproducible:
Steps to Reproduce:
1. /usr/bin/artsbuilder
2. start 'top' so you can see what it is doing to your system
3. open artsbuilder manual, follow instructions for tutorial
4. hear mega-swapping start to happen at about the second step of tutorial.
5. flip power switch, since nothing else is possible.
I'll try to provide some more useful information....
Works for me.
What soundcard are you using?
I've reproduced this on 2 different systems:
from lspci -v:
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM AC'97 Audio (rev 04)
Subsystem: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 4732
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 10
I/O ports at e800 [size=256]
I/O ports at ef00 [size=64]
00:08.0 Multimedia audio controller: S3 Inc. SonicVibes
Subsystem: Unknown device bfbf:bfbf
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 5
I/O ports at 9c00 [size=16]
I/O ports at a000 [size=16]
I/O ports at a400 [size=4]
I/O ports at a800 [size=4]
I/O ports at ac00 [size=8]
here are the steps I used to reproduce it on the 2nd system:
1- install, start KDE
2- choose the maximum setting on "Eye-candy-o-meter"
3- open artsbuilder
4- open artsbuilder handbook
5- select and place Modules->Synthesis->SoundIO->Synth_AMAN_PLAY
6- double click on 'title' parameter; select constant value and type tutorial
7- listen to hard disk spin madly, artsbuilder crashes.
Still can't reproduce this, it does just what I'd expect. Are you using the current
Assigning to Than, it seems to happen on his machine as well while it works here.
please try kdemultimedia-arts-3.0.2-1 again. i cannot reproduce it in this release.
benl, will you try to replicate this with the latest packages, as it appears you
have systems which were experiencing the problems. Please close out the issue
if you no longer are seeing problems.
I got a little further this time. It didn't render my machine useless, but I
did get a traceback (attached).
Created attachment 75144 [details]
traceback after selecting "Execute structure"
Fixed in rawhide in rpm arts-1.1-5 or newer.
All kde packages, which are using libmcop (provided by arts) have to be upgraded
to the latest version. These packages are: kdelibs, kdebase, kdemultimedia,
kdeaddons, kdegames and koffice.


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Job training that allows parents to do
their most important job:
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How doth the little crocodile
Improve his shining tail,
And pour the waters of the Nile
On every golden scale!
How cheerfully he seems to grin,
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Your years spent in active retirement are supposed to be the best years your livef. You are alleviated from the burdens and responsibilities of working every day, and your family is most likely grown. You finally have the time to be a little bit selfish - and you probably have dreams of travel, volunteering, relaxing and pursuing new hobbies. All of this might be shoved to the side, however, if you are dealing with a mountain of debt.
It's a common misconception that the majority of senior citizens are financially stable. In fact, an article published by USA Today reports that an increased number of people over the age of 65 are seeking bankruptcy protection.


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December 13 News
December 13, 2009 by admin · Leave a Comment
Merry Christmas!
I hope that you are having a joyous Christmas season. I want to remind you that we are celebrating the birth of Jesus (duh), but also remind you that we are celebrating that Christ is IN YOU as a believer. He is being born in the lives of those who place their trust (faith, belief) IN HIM.
That concept has me pumped up. This Sunday we will be looking at another traditional Christmas passage. It is found in Luke 2:8-18 and we see how some shepherds respond to a divine proclamation (last week we saw Mary's response). There is something in there that is incredible to me– and I think it may be to you as well.
If you attend g2f, check the important announcements below…
Looking forward to Sunday!
Grace and peace,
THIS WEEK: Sunday, 11/22
**** Remember that our official starting time is now 10:00am****
9:30am in the Horizon's Room (where we have service)
Worship Service
10:00—Service—Shepherds(Luke 2:8-18)
Our Christmas Eve Swervice will be at 5:00pm at the Virginia Beach Resort Hotel (we we always meet). It should run about 1 hour and will be absolutely fantastic! (Oh yeah, it will take place on December 24th)
This is the last weekend we will be collecting toys for Christmas gifts for kids at Saint Mary's Home for Disabled Children.
Another cool thing is that we are joining with the kids who go to Young Life Capurnaum in this project. In fact, it was their idea. Disabled folks giving to disabled children who are orphans.
If you are interested in participating with us, it is best to go to www.saintmaryshome.org and scroll down to look at "Children's Wish List" on the right-hand side (there are some restrictions on what kinds of gifts the children can receive– no stuffed animals, no clothes with sequins or studs, etc.).
I am hoping to have our kids pitch in and all go together to get some things.
Finally, we will take any donated items to the Capurmaum Christmas party on Monday Dec. 14 at Holy Family Catholic Church– and from there they we be given to Saint Mary's.
If you have any questions about this project, the Capurnaum Christmas party of motorcycles contact Jim Howley
630-5597 cel
e-mail would be best
PIN MINISTRY Pancake Breakfast
This Sunday (12/12), g2f will be preparing and serving breakfast for the homeless outreach of PIN Ministry. What a great way to express God's divine love to a world that needs to experience it!
TIME: 7:00am
PLACE: Beach Pentecostal (Baltic and 15th)
Please let Tim Adams know you will be able to help out:
cell: 753-5351
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I write this disclaimer because I have seen too many people libeled and slandered on the Internet. Vigilant Citizen does it. Alex Jones does it. I don't like it. The Internet loves to run wild with rumors. To head slanderers off at the pass I have posted this disclaimer so that IF there is any confusion... this is where it ends. Hopefully, this page will result in fewer to no rumors and keep LAWSUITS to a minimum. So before running your mouth on the Internet consult the following and get it right the first time.
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FURTHER... let it be known that because of my upbringing I am EXTREMELY Anti-Suicide! You will NEVER see my name in the news as a victim of suicide. I DO NOT SUPPORT SUICIDE!
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Acute effects of sleep deprivation
Most of us have experienced the symptoms of sleep deprivation. Having a poor quality sleep or sleeping a few hours can make decentralized us, be sleepy, tired and with a look that clearly indicates that we have not slept well.
However, what most people know are not serious long-term consequences that can be generated by lack of sleep. According to the World Health Organization, a person should sleep on average 7-8 hours a day to stay in good physical, emotional and mental state. However, multiple occupations, lifestyle and technology are factors that cause sleeps fewer hours and, therefore, more and more people suffer a misfit dream.
A recent study by the University of Texas has determined that people who sleep little present, after seven nights, genetic alterations that could cause serious health problems such as obesity, heart disease and memory loss, among others. If you one of these people who sleep six hours or less, is important information to know what the risks are of a bad dream.
A study by the Mayo Clinic in the United States, has determined that people who do not sleep well have a higher risk of suffering a stroke. Adults who sleep six hours or less have up to four times more likely to show symptoms of stroke.
Obesity risk
People who have difficulty sleeping or who sleep less than 6 hours tend to have greater appetite and little quirks that increase your calorie intake. This is because they do not get back to sleep, undergo hormonal changes that engender appetite disorders. In the long term, the fact of not sleeping well can lead to obesity. According to studies, this significantly changes the levels of ghrelin and leptin, which are two hormones that regulate appetite.
Risk of diabetes
A study by the Center for Disease Control and Disease Prevention has found that the poor quality of sleep is associated with increased risk of chronic diseases such as type 2 diabetes, which has a lower sensitivity to insulin.
Memory loss
Clearly, when not being sufficiently rested, forget things and have trouble concentrating. What few people know is that in the long run, quite serious cognitive problems may develop as a consequence of the disorders of sleep.
Only a sleepless night can cause loss of brain tissue, leading to increased blood levels of brain molecules, due to brain problems. A study by the University of California has been determined that lack of sleep leads to brain damage.
And you, do you usually give importance to your hours of rest? Now that you know the serious effects of sleep deprivation, I hope you have in mind. To the bed!


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~ Burning Heart / Love you to death ~
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OneDice Supers is Cakebread & Walton's Superhero themed RPG published for their popular OneDice system. Simple. Easy. And though not aimed at youth or people who've never played an RPG before, it should certainly be up to the task. Rare, but I got to run a handful of sessions with this RPG, before I wrote the review. The review on EN World is here.
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Last month was pretty much a total time suck. I made the choice to change how reviews appear on this site, reformatting and editing nearly all of them. I changed some labels, which had me delving into old posts... Finished and published Map! Fief Bend (actually that is a +); and was rather shamelessly promoting it. Added a google search tool, a disclaimer and privacy policy. I'm also taking my second shot as an Amazon affiliate, but nothing to report there. While changing the blog is not exactly a sexy endeavor it might help a bit with SEO (search engine optimization)... Time will tell.


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State's Plan For Exide Cleanup Continues to Draw Protests
September 21, 2017 by admin · Leave a Comment
The plan developed by state regulators to clean up the massive contamination left behind by a now defunct battery recycler in Vernon will leave too many people in danger, environmental justice advocates, elected officials and residents of neighborhoods and cities found to have unsafe levels of lead and other toxic pollutants said at a press conference in Commerce Monday.
The danger and health risks from lead don't stop at the front door or property line, and neither should its removal, speakers said about the California's Department of Toxic Substances Control's (DTSC) plan to clean properties contaminated with lead from the now closed Exide Technologies plant.
About 200 people attended Monday's press conference organized by "Lead-Free Communities Coalition," a community-based advocacy group representing residents of Boyle Heights, East Los Angeles, Commerce, Bell, Huntington Park Maywood and Vernon, neighborhoods and cities in the 1.7-mile zone targeted for cleanup. Following the press conference, protesters marched to DTSC's offices in Commerce where they shouted and chanted for DTSC to do more and to do it faster.
The agency's plan released in July calls for removing lead-contaminated soil from the yards of about 2,500 properties, with the priority being homes tested to have the highest levels of lead and where children and pregnant women are at highest risk.
Los Angeles County Supervisor Hilda Solis, who represents all the neighborhoods and cities in the impacted zone, said a canvass of 20,000 homes in the area earlier this summer found that 50% of the homes have children under the age of 6.
Lead is a dangerous toxin known to cause neurological disorders, learning and cognitive disabilities and lower IQ's even at low levels of exposure. While the federal government and state health officials have set acceptable rates of exposure, health experts say there is no safe level.
Residents and activists have blasted the plan as insufficient and too slow to deal with the ongoing health hazard. On Monday, they said they want DTSC to add parkways and home interiors to the plan, and to expand the area targeted for remediation. Parkways are the area between a yard or property and the street, which many residents treat as an extension of their homes.
They said it's time for state lawmakers to do what's right and fully fund the the cleanup of their neighborhoods.
"They wouldn't stand for their (DTSC) actions in Porter Ranch or Beverly Hills," said Monsignor John Moretta of Resurrection Church in Boyle Heights, a lead organizer in the fight to rectify the damage caused by Exide.
Moretta was referring to the quick and well-funded cleanup effort that took place in Porter Ranch, where residents demanded the closure of a Southern California Gas Co. facility in Aliso Canyon after a leak was discovered in October 2015. It took less than three months to relocate more than 2,000 residents, shut down schools and move students to other campuses, while residents living for decades in Exide's toxic shadow are still waiting for their homes to be cleaned.
"It's all about politics and money," Moretta said. "Our government officials need to implement a plan that's 100 percent funded."
According to air quality regulators, as many as 110,000 people were exposed to cancer-causing emissions from the plant and upwards of 10,000 properties may have some level of lead contamination. Environmental experts say the contamination is the largest in state history.
Los Angeles Councilman Jose Huizar represents one of the most heavily contaminated neighborhoods, Boyle Heights. The community has been "screaming for help" for more than 30 years, while DTSC allowed Exide to continue to pollute, he told EGP. "All the while our children have been exposed to lead pollution, in the air and in the soil.
"And now, the DTSC is ignoring the need for a full cleanup plan that reaches all of the places our children live and play," Huizar said. "The lead is everywhere, including parkways … This is literally a matter of life and death," he said. "Where is the urgency and why aren't we doing a thorough cleanup?" He called anything less than a full cleanup unacceptable.
EGP reached out to DTSC for comment but had not heard back as of press time, but the agency has previously said it does not have enough money to do the full cleanup – which public health and environmental experts have put at $400 million or more.
As part of its deal with federal authorities to permanently close and avoid criminal prosecution, Exide agreed to pay $50 million for the removal of its hazardous waste; of that, $26 million was to go toward cleaning the surrounding neighborhoods. After a great deal of pressure from the community, Gov. Jerry Brown agreed to loan DTSC 176.6 million for environmental testing and cleanup work in the neighborhoods surrounding the closed plant.
State officials have said they will go after Exide to recoup the money, but no one seems clear on how or when that will happen.
Solis points out that this is not the first time the community has come together to demand a swift and thorough cleanup.
"This week's rally was months in the making because DTSC is not listening to our communities who are buried in pollution and lead," she said in an email to EGP. "DTSC's methodology has limited ability to identify 'hot spots,' including parkways in front of homes," said Solis, who has repeatedly criticized state regulators for not being aggressive enough and for ignoring recommendations from the county and residents.
She said the state is offering vouchers to residents to pay companies to go and "vacuum their carpets and wipe down walls," and that's not good enough.
The interiors should be decontaminated by hazardous waste experts at the same time that they remove lead from the exterior, she said.
Like Moretta, Solis believes that if the predominately Latino working class communities were more affluent and white, the state would be doing more.
"Residents have every right to be angry with the slow pace of the cleanup," Assemblyman Miguel Santiago told EGP. He said he attended the rally because he has a responsibility to his constituents to keep the pressure on state regulators, something he's made his "top priority" since first being elected. Santiago sent a letter to DTSC asking the agency to look into including parkways in its plan.
An informal survey of more than 4,000 residents conducted a few weeks before DTSC released its plan revealed that many residents in the impacted area live in fear that they or someone in their home may get lead poisoning or cancer due to their exposure.
There's tremendous interest in how Exide has affected them, Solis said..
The chants and shouts Monday were much the same as those heard at hundreds of rallies, protests and public hearings over the last five years.
Moretta said it's a shame the community has to resort to drastic measures like protests to make a statement. Residents in east and southeast communities are being treated like second-class citizens, the Catholic priest said.
He noted that Sam Atwood, a spokesman for the South Coast Air Quality District Management District had labeled the contaminated areas the worst he has ever seen,
"We have children and families on [those] streets," Moretta said, referring to additional areas that should be cleaned.
"They're [DTSC] suppose to protect people and our environment from toxic substances," Moretta said. "It's time they start doing that."
EGP Staff Writer Carlos Alvarez contributed to this story.
Updated 9/22/17 : Adds information from Sup. Hilda Solis about the availability and effectiveness of vouchers for interior cleaning of homes.
Exide: After Long Delay, State Moves to Speed Cleaning of Homes With Highest Levels of Lead
January 13, 2017 by Editor · Leave a Comment
State environmental regulators issued guidelines Thursday that will allow expedited cleanups of high-risk homes near the shuttered Exide Technologies battery-recycling plant in Vernon even before a full mitigation plan and environmental review are completed.
The Department of Toxic Substances Control released a draft cleanup plan and environmental impact report for public review in December, with cleanup operations to mitigate lead-contaminated soil and properties near the plant anticipated to begin this summer.
That schedule, however, sparked criticism from some residents and area officials who said some properties near the plant are at particularly high risk.
DTSC officials said Thursday they will move forward with cleanups on a "case-by-case basis" at a limited number of properties "with high levels of lead in the soil and the greatest exposures to sensitive populations."
"We are utilizing all of the resources at our disposal to ensure that we are able to take action to protect the most sensitive populations impacted by the presence of lead in the soil from the Exide operations," DTSC Director Barbara Lee said.
The agency plans to consider for expedited cleanup properties that have soil with lead levels of 1,000 parts per million or more. The agency will also consider cleanups at properties were a resident
"has a blood-lead level at or above five micrograms per deciliter, which is the level used by the U.S.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to identify children with elevated blood-lead levels."
The Exide plant permanently closed in March 2015. When Exide agreed to close the lead-acid battery recycling plant, it committed to pay $50 million for cleanup of the site and surrounding neighborhoods. Of that amount, $26 million is meant to be set aside for residential cleanup.
Gov. Jerry Brown earlier this year signed legislation providing $176.6 million in funding for environmental testing and cleanup work in neighborhoods surrounding the now-shuttered plant.
State officials said the funding would pay for testing of residential properties, schools, day care centers and parks within a 1.7-mile radius of the plant, and fund cleaning of as many as 2,500 properties with the highest lead levels.
Lead Found at LAUSD Schools
August 25, 2016 by admin · Leave a Comment
After learning lead had been found at Lorena Street Elementary where her two grandchildren attend school, Rosalia Valle wanted reassurance that they would be safe and that the cleanup would begin immediately.
"I'm really worried," the Boyle Heights resident said in Spanish. "All I can do now is tell them to stay off the dirt."
Last week the Department of Toxic Substances Control reviewed the results of recent soil samples conducted at Lorena Street Elementary in Boyle Heights and Rowan Elementary School in East Los Angeles and determined that levels of lead at both schools were higher than the 80 parts per million the state considers safe.
DTSC recommended that the Los Angeles Unified School District temporarily fence off the areas where lead was found.
Cleanup at both schools will begin as soon as this weekend for contaminated tree wells and could continue through the end of Thanksgiving break for the grassy areas, according to LAUSD officials.
Carlos Torres, deputy director of LAUSD's Office of Environmental Health and Safety, told EGP the school district plans to go beyond just covering the bare dirt and tree wells as recommended, and will instead remove and replace all the contaminated soil.
"We don't want to worry about this in the future," he said. "We want to make sure the campuses are safe in the long run."
Norma Servin grew concerned about the danger to her 7-year-old when she noticed the fencing erected near the entrance to Lorena Street Elementary on Friday, and realized it was meant to keep children away from lead-contaminated soil.
"I just found out there's lead where my daughter has attended school for years, where I dropped her off while I was pregnant," she said, holding her baby.
Exposure to lead can lead to neurological damages in children and premature births in expectant mothers. Even low levels of lead can result in behavior and learning problem and lower IQs in children, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
Lorena, Rowan and nine other schools were originally tested by contractors hired by Exide Technologies during the summer of 2015, under orders from DTSC as part of the Exide-related cleanup. The Exide plant recycled hundreds of used lead-acid car batteries daily before it was permanently closed in March 2015, following years of illegal emissions and toxic waste violations.
At that time, levels of lead above the federal threshold of 400ppm were discovered at Eastman Elementary in East L.A., prompting the school district to quickly decontaminate the site.
"We didn't want to wait around, we just removed the soil," Torres told EGP this week.
DTSC has since tested an additional 11 schools within the 1.7-mile radius surrounding the Vernon plant, but no further action was required at those schools. However, before DTSC would clear the 11 schools tested by Exide contractors, they decided to re-test all the school sites, including Fishburn Elementary in Maywood, which was later cleared from requiring any soil removal.
Test conducted at Lorena and Rowan showed lead levels high enough to require intervention at those sites.
Parents, in the meantime, say they were in dark about potential lead problems at their children's schools.
According to Torres, LAUSD sent its first notice informing parents of the test results in March. A second notice with the most recent results was sent out last week, and those results have also been posted on LAUSD's website.
Unlike Eastman, Torres says Rowan and Lorena's lower lead levels of about 100ppm were just slightly above the state's hazardous threshold of 80ppm. He also noted that because the school district is conducting the cleanup instead of state regulators, a full CEQA (California Environmental Quality Act) review is not required.
"If we waited for that we would be looking at this being done next summer," Torres explained.
DTSC's Assistant Director for Environmental Justice Ana Mascarenas told EGP the levels of lead found at schools were very low overall.
In comparison, "The 50 homes we have cleaned since then had the highest levels of lead, some above 1,000ppm," she pointed out, explaining the urgency for remediating those sites first.
Assemblymember Miguel Santiago represents the area where the two impacted schools are located. He met with LAUSD and DTSC officials last week and says he received assurances that the campuses are safe at this time.
"Blocking off the areas has made the campuses safer than they were two or three weeks ago," he told EGP. "But clean up is the long term goal."
LAUSD estimates removing tainted soil at Eastman cost the school district thousands of dollars. It is not yet clear what the cost to clean Rowan and Lorena will come in at, however DTSC told EGP the agency fully expects the school district will seek reimbursement from the state.
"The most important priority is not who is going to pay or who is responsible, it's the safety of the community," said Santiago.
Watching her three children line up for class, Romero looks at her youngest child seated in a stroller and can't help but again express her frustration and disbelief that the cleanup has not yet gotten underway.
"If lead affects children, you would think they would start the cleanup at schools" right away.
Locals Train for Jobs In Exide Cleanup
Rogelio Alvarez of Commerce could soon be part of the team working to decontaminate his neighborhood if hired by state regulators charged with cleaning up lead and other chemicals from the now shuttered Exide plant in Vernon.
The Department of Toxic Substances Control is providing free training to local residents and hopes they will be hired to perform sampling and assessment fieldwork during the cleanup and testing of approximately 10,000 properties in Boyle Heights, Commerce, East Los Angeles, Huntington Park, Maywood and Vernon.
The Los Angeles Times reported last week that soil samples at some homes, schools and day care centers were contaminated with levels of "brain-damaging lead higher than previously disclosed," with one property as much as 100 times higher than state health standards.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency considers lead levels of 400 parts per million or higher a health hazard. Last week DTSC released a summary of results for 1,190 homes, which showed that more than half of those properties had lead levels above 400ppm, including 36 properties with lead readings above 1,000ppm. Of the 36 properties with lead levels classified as hazardous waste, one third are located in East Los Angeles, according to The Times.
Under a local hiring requirement, state regulators could soon start employing residents from those same neighborhoods to do some of the cleanup work.
Gov. Brown and state lawmakers earlier this year approved a $176.6 million loan to DTSC to help expedite and expand the cleanup process, including a $1.2 million set aside to train local groups and residents in the decontamination process.
The agency's Workforce Development and Job Training program is currently collaborating with Los Angeles Trade Technical College (LA Trade Tech) and the UCLA Labor Occupational Safety and Health Program (UCLA-LOSH) to provide environmental, health and safety and pre-employment life skills training to about 40 students interested in becoming lead sampling technicians.
"This is the beginning of a new model," acknowledged Roger Kintz, program manager of the workforce development program.
At the insistence of community members, DTSC is requiring contractors to reserve 40 percent of all work hours for people hired from the six impacted communities.
"This is the first time DTSC has done this, it's not a guideline, it's required," explains Kintz.
While there is no guarantee of employment, successfully completing the course will give the students the training and certifications they will need to apply for the 35 are so positions expected to become available by mid-August, and other job openings down the line.
The jobs will be for one year and pay $17 to $20 an hour, according to Kintz.
Asked Tuesday why he decided to take part in the 14-day training program, Alvarez told EGP his reasoning could be summarized in three letters: " J-O-B."
Alvarez says he's been aware for sometime that homes in Commerce could be contaminated with lead, and sees the training as an opportunity to gain new skills that could lead to employment in the environmental industry.
This training will also help beef up his resume, adding to the other areas of environmental training he already has, including hazardous waste operations and emergency response (HAZWOPER), CPR, first aid and lead removal.
"This is a good way to receive more training, keep certifications current at no cost and hopefully land a job," the Commerce resident told EGP.
According to Alvarez, he has spent hundreds of dollars on training courses and certifications, but has not had any luck finding a job because they are usually only open to union workers.
Also receiving training Tuesday were students from LA CAUSA-Youthbuild (Los Angeles Communities Advocating for Unity, Social Justice and Action, Inc.), an East Los Angeles-based continuation charter school. The training they received focused on the proper way to collect soil and other samples from homes, which like Alvarez, could be in their own neighborhoods.
Johan Lopez, 19, of Boyle Heights told EGP he had heard about the elevated cancer risk his community faces due to the toxic air pollutants spewing from Exide's Vernon plant. His classmates Ricardo Trujillo, 19 and Valente Pereyda, 20, do not live in the impacted area, but because they attend school in East L.A., they too see the workforce program as a way to improve their job prospects.
All three are already certified in CPR, first aid and Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) safety compliance regulations, but hope to gain much-needed work experience by taking part in the workforce development program.
"By testing our community we are also helping our community," points out Pereyda, calling it a
win-win situation.
Correction July 29, 2016 An earlier version of this story mistakenly stated that over 10,000 properties will be tested instead of approximately 10,000. The article also inaccurately stated that the pay scale of the jobs listed, will range between $17 to $28 when in fact they will range between $17 and $20 .
El Público Arremete Contra DTSC en una Reunión del Comité del Estado
June 16, 2016 by admin · Leave a Comment
Cuando el Comité de la Asamblea sobre Seguridad Medioambiental y Materiales Tóxicos realizó por primera vez una audiencia sobre la descontaminación de la instalación Exide Technologies ahora cerrada, los residentes del Este se volcaron hacía el Capitolio donde exigieron a los legisladores del estado avancen y exijan los fondos necesarios para hacer frente a la limpieza.
Cinco meses después, con $ 176,6 millones apartados por el gobernador Brown para el esfuerzo de limpieza, fue el turno del comité para pagar a los residentes, lo cual hicieron la semana pasada, llevando a cabo su reunión no muy lejos de la planta de Vernon.
Read this article in English: Public Blasts DTSC at State Committee Hearing
Como es habitual, los funcionarios del estado, condado y ciudad de Los Ángeles actualizaron al comité sobre sus respectivos trabajos de limpieza y alcance a la comunidad. Pero los residentes que viven en el Este de Los Ángeles, Boyle Heights, Commerce, Maywood, Vernon y Huntington Park—áreas que se cree están contaminados con plomo y arsénico—dijeron al comité que esos informes no estaban dando a los legisladores una imagen completa de lo que realmente está pasando.
Vera Del Pozo, presidenta de la Junta de Vecinos de Boyle Heights, dijo que estaba cansada de escuchar a los funcionarios y el DTSC ir a hablar acerca de las cosas que la comunidad ha escuchado en repetidas ocasiones.
"Ya dejen de decirnos lo que han hecho y solo limpien esto ahora", dijo, lo que provocó los aplausos del público.
Uno tras otro, los residentes renovaron sus llamados para un proceso de remediación más rápido, más eficiente, comenzando con un plan de limpieza que dijeron ya debería haber sido completado.
"Están pasando muchos problemas graves que necesitan ser abordados", dijo Gladys Limón, abogada de Comunidades para un Mejor Ambiente en la reunión del comité de la asamblea en la preparatoria Roosevelt.
Bajo la Ley de Calidad Ambiental de California (CEQA), el Departamento de Control de Sustancias Tóxicas (DTSC) debe preparar un Informe de Impacto Ambiental (EIR) para la aprobación del plan de limpieza. La agencia encargada de supervisar la investigación y remediación del área de investigación preliminar de 1.7 millas, está solicitando la opinión del público antes de elaborar el plan de limpieza.
El período de comentarios públicos comienza hoy 16 de junio y continuará durante 30 días, terminando el 18 de julio. Una vez que el proyecto de informe de impacto esté completado el público tendrá 45 días para revisar el documento y formular observaciones que se utilizarán para preparar el informe final. Se prevén dos reuniones de alcance para recopilar comentarios públicos para el 25 de junio en el Parque Pérez en Huntington Park y el 30 de junio en el ayuntamiento de Commerce.
La directora de DTSC Barbara Lee explicó que bajo la línea de tiempo actual de la CEQA, la limpieza que podría llegar a ser la más grande en la historia del estado, no comenzaría hasta junio de 2017.
Jane Williams, directora ejecutiva de Comunidades de California contra Tóxicos, instó a los legisladores para obligar a DTSC para ampliar el área de investigación a 4,5 millas, una demanda repetida por las docenas de residentes que viven fuera de la zona.
"Estamos dejando a gente atrás", destacó Williams.
El Dr. Brian Johnston, presidente de medicina de emergencia en el White Memorial, pidió a la agencia que haga muestras de suelo más allá de las 1,7 millas. Él citó un estudio de 2010 realizado por el Distrito de Administración de la Calidad del Aire que declaró que la nube de toxinas de Exide podría llegar tan lejos como Altadena y Palos Verdes.
Lee explicó que los resultados de muestras de suelo recogidas hasta 4.5 millas de distancia de la planta de Vernon llevaron a la conclusión que las emisiones de plomo podrían haber viajado a 1,7 millas de la instalación. Ella le recordó al comité de préstamo de varios millones del estado sólo puede ser utilizado para abordar la reparación en esa zona.
Muchos residentes, sin embargo, se quejaron de que el informe de la agencia fue una repetición de un "anuncio informativo" que han escuchado muchas veces antes, e incluso argumentaron que DTSC carece de la experiencia necesaria para llevar a cabo la limpieza.
"[El problema] es más grande que lo que están tratando de pintar" dijo frustrado Joe González.
La asambleísta Cristina García, que estaba representando a los miembros del comité que no pudieron asistir, dijo que muchas de las quejas de la comunidad son válidas.
"Tenemos que ampliar la zona", dijo a EGP. "Definitivamente necesitamos hacer eso".
García le dijo a EGP que planea usar el testimonio público para hacer mejores preguntas a la agencia.
"Recibimos actualizaciones regulares de DTSC pero es a través de sus ojos y su perspectiva", dijo.
La supervisora del Condado de Los Ángeles Hilda Solís recordó a los legisladores que se necesitarían más fondos, no sólo para la descontaminación de la zona, pero también para educar a la comunidad sobre los peligros de la exposición al plomo, que se sabe causan enfermedades neurológicas, discapacidad, cáncer y otros problemas de salud graves de aprendizaje.
"Esto no puede volver a pasar", dijo Solís de la contaminación. "Es necesario que haya una investigación".
Lee se defendió y defendió a la agencia recordando a la comisión y al público que en abril de 2013 Exide recibió la orden para suspender las operaciones y en marzo de 2015, meses después de que ella se hizo cargo como directora, la planta se vio obligada a cerrar de forma permanente.
Desde entonces, 1.800 casas han sido examinadas, se han firmado 3.400 acuerdos de acceso y más de 200 casas han sido descontaminadas, dijo, añadiendo que DTSC actualmente examina 135 propiedades a la semana, pero espera que aumente a 200 por semana el próximo mes.
"Tenemos mucho que hacer, pero hemos avanzado", dijo Lee.
En la minoría, un residente agradeció a la agencia para la limpieza de su casa en el Este de Los Ángeles. Pero la mayoría de los residentes sentían que sus demandas y frustración estaban justificadas.
Mark López, director ejecutivo de East Yard Communities para la Justicia Ambiental, dijo a EGP que el grupo tuvo problemas al trabajar con la agencia para reunir los acuerdos de acceso, un esfuerzo que no planean continuar.
"Hemos tenido que empujar a cada paso del camino para llegar al punto en que nos encontramos ahora", dijo. "Es hora de que el DTSC de la cara y acepte el reto de hacerlo mejor".
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March 14, 2006
Utopias by design?
Doors of Perception Report
Quick scan of design and social innovation
March 2006
By John Thackara
This international seminar on design, welfare and local development takes place in Milan on 23 March. The event concludes the two year Emude project (in which Doors is a partner) that explored social innovation in 10 European countries. The research suggests possible links between the creative communities phenomenon and new ideas on welfare - active welfare. The seminar will present the main findings of the research plus a discussion of enabling platforms for active welfare, and their implications for European R&D policies. An online book about the 56 cases at the centre of Emude will be published in April. Milan, 23 March, 09.30-13.00h. Politecnico di Milano, Campus Bovisa, Via Durando 10, Aula CT46.
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The paperback edition of "In The Bubble: Designing In A Complex World†is published next week. As an artefact, it uses fewer resources than the hardback - so this is the environmentally correct version to buy. Some fine people found the hardback "enriching" (Paola Antonelli) "excellent" (Nancy Levinson) "brilliant" (Paul Hawken) "a revelation" (J C Herz) "important" (Don Norman) "captivating" (Bruce Sterling) "insightful" (Nathan Shedroff) "surprising" (San Francisco Chronicle) "visionary†(Paul Makovsky) "alive†(Jamer Hunt) and "one of my best of the year†(Howard Rheingold). Read extracts and other reviews at:
Buy copies for yourself, friends, family, clients and total strangers at:
If Emude is too bottom-up for your taste, check out this event. CustomerMade explores the "phenomenon of user-driven innovation that goes beyond do-it-your-selfing, customization, and personalization. It's no longer a matter of choosing between models – consumers are designing the very models they chooseâ€. The speakers include Teo Härén who is "Sweden's most popular lecturer on creativity'. You have been warned. The conference combines a topical subject with the opportunity to visit the new, beautifully designed IT-University by the famous Danish architect Henning Larsen. Copenhagen, 20 April. http://www.innovationlab.dk/sw13480.asp
The growth in carsharing is accelerating: Up to 600 cities now have carsharing schemes. But because most of these schemes have emerged bottom-up, few cities have thought strategically about their city's relationship with this new resource-efficient mode of transportation. They help in a piecemeal way with parking, or sometimes subsidy; sometimes they help link carsharing to other transport systems. But it's not systematic, and it's not integrated. This is where the forthcoming Monaco Cities Carsharing Implementation Workshops come in. Organised by New Mobility, they will connect officials from cities and public agencies with the best car sharing schemes in Europe. Your help is requested in identifying the people in your country who might wish to attend. In France, for example, a group called GART brings together all the city officials responsible for transport matters across the country. There is also a national mayors association. Are there similar networks where you live? Please find out, and let them know about the event. 31 March to 2 April, Grimaldi Forum, Monaco.
We tend to blame venal housebuilders, but suburbia has deep cultural roots. These are brilliantly explained by the author of Bolo Bolo, "P.Mâ€, in a recent posting. First of all, writes P.M., the suburban plot offers a piece of individually owned land, a garden, or old Persian "pariwaiza" (hence: Greek "paradisos"). "The suburban lot is the shrunken version of what free farmland in the west used to be and it takes all its architectural and ideological connotations from that period of colonial expansion: the white man's home at the frontier. It's not communal land, with all its hassles of sharing, dividing and the necessary communication. It's land with no strings attached, free land for free owners. Wherever the idea of the 'free man' versus clans, communities, nations or society as a whole takes root, the immediate desire for individual enclosures, be they as small and dysfunctional as suburban lawns, arisesâ€. Read the whole piece at:
Whatever its origins, sprawl is a Bad Thing. Isn't it? After all, eminent urbanists such as Jane Jacobs predict an imminent "Dark Age Ahead'†in which urban sprawl "murders communities and wastes land, time, and energy". Sprawl is frequently blamed for environmentally-damaging transport intensity, the collapse of communities, even obesity. But Wayne A. Lemmon, a planner and real estate economist, argues that sprawl, or more precisely, low density suburban development, might not be such a bad thing after all. "A dispersed development pattern can spread out trip origins and destinations reducing the frequency of traffic jams. Dispersion can avoid hot spots and spikes which can violate federal air quality standards. Concentration of development may be causing more environmental problems than a marginal increase in transit usage can solveâ€.
Car-free mobility sounds necessary but tiring. But news reaches me of a sublime event called The Walking Project. It's an exploration, on foot, of "desire lines†- the paths made by people who walk across fields in South Africa, and across vacant lots in Detroit. Collaboratively developed with US and South Africa-based artists in Detroit and KwaZulu-Natal, participants created poems, stories and renditions of walking songs. The project "examines how changing patterns of movement can alter attitudes and perceptions; how people make their own paths; and the influences of culture, geography, language, economics and love". http://walksquawk.blogs.com/thewalkingproject/
To a car company, replacing the chrome wing mirror on an SUV with a carbon fibre one is a step towards sustainable transportation. To a radical ecologist, all motorised movement is unsustainable. So when is transportation sustainable, and when is it not? Chris Bradshaw emphasizes that "light" transport systems are not, per se, sustainable - only less unsustainable than commuting by car. "Light rail supports far-flung suburbs; street cars support, well, street-car suburbs" says Bradshaw. He goes on, " a smaller, more efficient, or alternative-fuel vehicle is only less unsustainable than another private vehicle. It will still take up space on the road and in parking lots, it will still threaten the life and limb of others, it will still create noise, and it still will require lots of energy and resources to manufacture, transport to a dealer, and dispose of when its life ends". Bradshaw wants planners and designers to respect what he calls the scalar hierarchy. This is when trips taken most frequently are short enough to be made by walking (even if pulling a small cart), while the next more frequent trips require a bike or street car, and so on. "If one adheres to this then there are so few trips to be made by car that owning one is foolish". Eric Britton, another expert on the subject, had the good idea of posting a text on wikipedia which will evolve as a shared description, if not definition, of what sustainable transport means.
Andrew Curry led a team that has explored scenarios concerning intelligent infrastructure systems. Andrew describes as a "Doors palimpsest†the Tribal Trading scenario. "This is effectively a version of 'overshoot and collapse'; we had much discussion of how the technology deitritus of the present day would be re-usedâ€. www.foresight.gov.uk
Pixelache is emerging as the one of the best new media art events, certainly in Europe. This year's programme in Helsinki includes MiniMovies, 'a collection of mini-lives in an urban and political context', and a Dot Org Tournament in which local teams compete to design an innovative community concept within a 24-hour timeframe. Also featured is the open product code initiative ThingLinks (Jyri Engeström & Ulla-Maaria Mutanen) and a presentation of Orgsmobile - a project to build an 'open source vehicle' . 30 March - 2 April, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki. www.pixelache.ac www.thinglinks.com
A new book explores mapping that connects people and places, data and organizations, physical and virtual spaces. Edited by Janet Abrams and Peter Hall, and designed by Deborah Littlejohn, its 320 pages feature 40 essays, nearly 300 images, and several specially commissioned projects at the forefront of locative media art and technology. It's published by the Design Institute, and distributed by the University of Minnesota Press.
In June, design-minded innovators from around the world will gather in Aspen, Colorado to "make positive, measurable impacts on the social and cultural concerns of todayâ€. (I'm moderating the event). The Aspen Design Summit, a partnership of IDCA and AIGA, is a multi-disciplinary retreat where design thinking and the design process will be used to "craft solutions and commit participants to actions that improve the quality of lifeâ€. http://www.aspendesignsummit.org/content.cfm?Alias=ads_speakers
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Although the concept of death isn't a funny thing, somehow the Youtube channel (@pipocaVFX) just made me smile at these pixelated Star Wars light sabre fights. This isn't just another Youtube Star Wars video. Just see for yourself.
Now I want to play this game. I feel like it's a proper pixelated game. If you ever find a Star Wars game similar to this, please let me know in the comments or in any of the social networks that I'm in!
So far after the work on The Force Awakens begun, the internet flourished with the Star Wars themed content, thanks to the loyal community of the SW universe fans, and GIFs are main part of it.
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Summer is all about the dresses, and I've finally weaned myself off of black for the time being, onto blue which is a bit more colorful and summery. I love the open back of this dress, its a daytime sexy that's easy to cover up, as opposed to a mini skirt or a deep plunging top. However, the dress is a bit too big as you might be able to tell from the photos, but I just love this so much, I will try to make it work! Hopefully something in the Victoria's Secret department will help me out! I just paired this with my go-to bag this summer, which is my gold dome Coach purse that carries all of my essentials. I topped it off with my trusty Cinderella shoes, which I will discuss in a later blog post for that particular nomenclature.
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The reissue of Edith Baer's classic poem is a celebration of the power of kind words.
Brian Wildsmith's wonderful illustrations create a stunning backdrop to this beloved collection of classic poems. In print for over 100 years, there is hardly an adult who does not remember these poems from their own childhood.
Ninny Nanny and Gram decide to catch a leprechaun and use his pot of gold to solve their problems. But finding the fortune is a lot of work! Told in a sweet lilting Irish brogue.
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Last week, the Sunday New York Times ran an article titled, "Surprising Jump in Tax Revenues is Curbing Deficit." The subheadline, though, countered the good news with a warning that the long term outlook was not any better. The article itself spent a lot of effort detailing the grim outlook for the federal budget.
Now there are a lot of issues with the future, but my own view is not nearly as bleak as those who seem to constantly view the world through a pessimistic lens and, of course, cast as much aspersion as possible on President Bush and the Republicans. Perhaps in another post I will look at the future deficit issue, with some sensitivity analysis on some common sense changes, such as a little increase in retirement age; some means-testing for Social Security and/or Medicare; and some enhanced growth through immigration.
But for now, I just want to point out the obvious reasons for the latest reduction in the deficit, and highlight a major error in the NYT's thinking.
The reduction in the deficit is about $100 billion, with the new deficit forecast for this fiscal year being about $300 billion, down from a forecast of over $400 billion just several months ago. By the way, with GDP running at $13 trillion, this means the deficit is 2.3% of GDP, lower than for France, Germany, Italy, and Japan (Japan is at an amazing 5.8%).
The simple reason for the improvement is that nominal and real GDP have been increasing much faster than expected. Here is some simple math. Let's assume that for a one dollar increase in GDP, federal tax revenues increase by 20 cents (20%). This is a bit above the average Federal tax rate for the US, but it could well be an underestimate of the marginal effect on tax revenues from GDP (see my post below on marginal tax rates). Much of the unexpected GDP increase came from incomes of wealthy individuals, and they face higher tax rates than the average person.
Anyway, now we can do a simple calculation. To get an additional $100 billion in tax revenues, with the marginal tax take at 20%, you need another $500 billion in GDP. With total GDP at $13 trillion, that is a 3.8% increase. So have we seen an unexpected increase in GDP of around 3.8%? If you use nominal GDP, which you should because tax revenues are based on nominal GDP, the answer is yes. The last GDP figures gave a real increase of 5.6% for the first quarter and 8.9% in nominal terms. So the increase in tax revenues is simply coming from faster than expected GDP growth.
Now for the NYT's error in logic. The subheadline and much of the article tries to make us think that the reduction in the deficit does nothing for the long term outlook. It is as if a person found $100 on the road; a nice windfall, but don't let yourself get accustomed to it. But this is not the case with the US economy. Growth was several percentage points higher than expected, and this puts us on a new, permanently higher path -- for both GDP and taxes. From finance theory, we know that stock prices are a random walk, so if the price of a stock goes up, you should assume that is now the new level from which the random walk continues. GDP and taxes are the same. My best estimate at this time is that tax revenues are $100 billion higher than before, permanently, because we had a permanent increase in GDP. This means that the budget deficit is permanently lower by $100 billion.
Another proper analogy is with our own yearly salary increases. A bonus of $100 may be a temporary thing, but when your annual salary goes up by, say, 5% on a base of $100,000, that is $5,000 extra per year that you can take to the bank.
One last calculation. With a nominal interest rate of 6%, the $100 billion per year is worth, in present value, $1.7 trillion. With total US federal debt at $8.4 trillion, I would say that the news is indeed quite good.
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I imagine when most people picture an apostle, they don't picture them causing trouble. I wouldn't say Apostle Paul caused me trouble, but the pictures in his story made me draw more than a few drafts.
Causing Trouble – What?!
I would like to think that helping and teaching people wouldn't be considered causing trouble. It all depends on perspective, I suppose.
Costing someone money was a dangerous proposition in Biblical days, just as it can be now. Apostle Paul and his companion Silas learned that lesson.
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And a vision appeared to Paul in the night; there stood a man of Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help us. (10) And after he had seen the vision, immediately we endeavoured to go into Macedonia, assuredly gathering that the Lord had called us for to preach the gospel unto them. (Acts 16: 9-10)


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The Merits of Getting Strippers for Your Party.
Currently, jobs are more technical than in the past and there is also the issue of putting in a lot of working hours. You can forget about this if you can find a means to unwind and relax after a long working day. Partying is something that is loved by many people in the modern day world. The source of entertainment will determine the kind of an event you will have. There is an increase in the number of party organizers who are hiring strippers compared to the past. Do not take this to mean that it is only the stripper who will have a great time but even you who is watching will have a great time.
There are parties which are expected to have strippers by those who are attending. Do not be the person who is known for throwing that most boring parties and this means getting strippers when the event calls for some. Every party has a purpose and if you want to push your agenda, you need to know how to go about it. The success of your organization will be determined by how many people you can get to attend the event. Nothing will get people flocking at your party as being known to always have strippers in the list. However, you need to choose the right stripper for the occasion. Expect to come across strippers from either gender. Let the purpose of your party lead you in choosing the right gender in your strippers. If you are throwing a bachelor party for your best friend who is getting married, be sure to get female strippers.
You can depend on having agencies that manage Gosford strippers in getting some because you'll be able to get a variety to choose from even if it is at the last minute. In addition, the agencies expect the strippers working for them to be professionals at what they do and you are not going to get people who do not know what they expected to do. Stripping is not something that is done by people who do not have a purpose in life but currently, it is a lucrative profession. In every town or city, you cannot lack an agency that deals with management of strippers. They are the best professionals who can make you and every other person in the party forget how demanding their lives or jobs are but you ought to ensure they are treated with utmost respect.


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Vacuum Forming Tray Wide range of applications
Although the tray is only a small piece of equipment, but because the tray has an important convergence function, a wide range of applicability and pivotal joint, in handling, storage, transportation and packaging and other logistics aspects of efficiency, are in the center Position, so the size of the tray is the size of the package, the size of the compartment, the size of the container unit size. Only to the tray size as the standard, the decision packaging, truck compartment, train cars, container boxes and other supporting specifications and specifications of the series specifications, only to best reflect the loading and unloading handling, storage, transportation and packaging operations of the rationality and efficiency. In addition, the size of the Xiamen tray also involves the size of the container unit, the container size of the unit also involves the packaging unit size, truck compartment, rail truck compartment, warehouse access and cargo size, and even related to the logistics Infrastructure, railway stations, ports, terminals and other cargo handling and handling of the structure of the structure, loading and unloading equipment, the standard size. In a sense, the standardization of the pallet is not only a prerequisite for tray leasing, pallet circulation and recycling, but also a decisive factor in the mechanization and automation of loading and unloading handling, packaging, transportation and storage operations, without the uniformity of the tray size The serialization of the related facilities, equipment, devices and tools based on the pallet can only rationalize the local logistics and make it difficult to rationalize the whole logistics. In the international standardization of pallet size, as early as 1947 Sweden took the lead in the introduction of the tray standard, in 1961 the International Organization for Standardization issued ISO / R198 tray standard, it is recommended to use 0.8m × 1.2m, 0.8m × 1m, 1m × 1.2m3 The size of the ISO / R329 pallet standard, an increase of 1.2m × 1.6m, 1.2m × 1.8m two sizes; in 1971 and promulgated the ISO / TC51 tray standard, an increase of 0.8m × 1.1m, 0.9m 1.1m, 1.1m × 1.1m 3 sizes, and later, ISO / TC51 decided to cancel ISO / R198 and ISO / 329, recommended by 0.8m × 1.2m, 1m × 1.2m, 1.016m × 1.219m three sizes Alternative. As of 1997, 1.140m × 1.140m, 0.8m × 1.2m, 1m × 1.2m, 1.1m × 1.1m, 1.016m × 1.219m, 1.140m × 1.140m size by the International Standardization Organization (ISO) Recognized. On the international standards of trays, the International Organization for Standardization is also discussing the changes.
In the use of a variety of plastic recycling methods for recycling of waste plastics, most of the need for plastic sorting. As the plastic consumption channels and more complex, and some consumption of plastic and difficult to distinguish it through the appearance of simple, therefore, it is best to identify the material on the plastic products. China has developed GB / T16288-1996 "Plastic Packaging Product Recycling Mark" with reference to the labeling of materials proposed and implemented by the American Plastics Association (SPE). Although the above-mentioned marking method can be used to facilitate sorting, there are many unmarked Of the plastic products, to the sorting difficult, for the different varieties of plastic, respectively, in order to classify the recovery, we must first master the identification of different plastic knowledge.
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My colleague and I visited a customer today and had a great test drive in the $140,000 Model X! Super cool car, if you can even classify it as a car. I think of it more as an extremely sophisticated piece of technology that you happen to be able to ride in and go places.
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Unless we are ostracized and stateless, we are members of a state. Or as they say, "No one is an island."
In a book that his translators have created, The Politics, Aristotle (384-322 BCE) began:
Observaton tells us that every state is an association, and that every association if formed with a view to some good purpose. I say 'good', because in all their actions all men do in fact aim at what they think is good.
Aristotle described the state as natural (of nature). "Man is by nature," said Aristotle ,"a political animal." Man is political "in a sense in which the bee is not, or any other gregrious animal." Because, claims Aristotle, nature has "endowed man alone among the anminals with the power of speech." Speech, he says, is something different from voice, possessed by other animals.
A society of people need to speak to one another and make an agreement that brings at least a degree of unity. Laws need to be made.
Aristotle believed in a balance between the powers of the state and the rights of individuals, and between regimentation and anarchy. He claimed that the state should not be so powerful or all encompassing that it fails to offer a good amount of liberty to its individual citizens – which put him at odds with Plato's totalitarianism.
As a man of his times (no excuse), Aristotle described slavery as natural. He saw the Greeks as naturally superior to non-Greeks. Aristotle advised Alexander the Great to turn those non-Greek he defeated into slaves. (Alexander ignored him.)
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This past weekend I had the opportunity to participate in the Southern Chesapeake Bay Leukemia Cup Regatta aboard my former racing team's new boat, s/v Bad Dog a '79 Tartan Ten owned and skippered by Brad Davis. It was very solidly in the triple digits for the entire day, and the first race was posponed due to the lack of wind. This was not he worst outcome, as it gave us all time for a swim cooling us off before racing commenced. When the wind finally did fill in out of the SSW at 5-8 kts we got down to business.
This was my first experience involved with flying a symmetrical spinnaker and I sure learned a ton very quickly. While we didn't win any of the races, we didn't receive any dreaded DFL's and I believe good times were had by all. The crew seemed to work pretty well as a team considering it was our first time out together, and it was especially nice for me to get out racing after the added experience of skippering s/v High Life for the last few years. Having a captains perspective sure helped me have a better grasp of everything going on. I had a wonderful time and look forward to the next set of races!
In other news:
I am back in Annapolis now, serving tables at a spectacular ribs joint called Adam's Ribs. It is surprising how much I am enjoying myself compared to life at a desk job. I am busy, on my feet, interacting with people, and delivering high quality, phenomenal food. I feel more satisfied personally providing something as important as a tasty meal than I ever did providing stone countertops or custom millwork. Food and dining has always been an important part of my life and it is gratifying to be making money doing something I enjoy. Its looking more and more like building a tiki bar in the Caribbean is in my future.
We experienced a land hurricane about a week ago, where 80+mph winds roared through the VA, MD and DC area. Power was cut off to more than 3 million people in the region including my girlfriends apartment (but fortunately not to my restaurant!). We had been at the beach at OBX with friends for a long weekend when the storms hit and didnt realize the power was out till our arrival back from a 7+ hour road trip. We lit some candles and tried to settle back in to a house without power. Settling in came to an abrupt halt when one of the candles set fire to the TV on Sabrina's dresser. She had fallen asleep and I was upstairs finishing up the dishes after dinner when I heard beckoning screams from the basement. Black smoke was filling her entire room and only a tall orange flame about 2 feet high and a foot wide illuminated the space. In a moment of quick thinking I grabbed a towel in a nearly successful attempt to smother the flames.
I pulled the smoldering mess off the dresser and onto the floor and ran to the bathroom for any water I could get my hands on. One 32oz gatorade bottle of water wasn't sufficient to douse the embers so I went outside to fill a 5 gallon bucket with water from the hose. While filling the bucket Sabrina informed me that there was more light coming from the room again. The burning plastic had dripped down into the second drawer of clothing and that was also now on fire, so a for a second time I grabbed a towel and reached in to the drawer to smother and pull out the smoldering mess. This time my arms and fingertips were not as lucky and I received a few minor burns from melted plastic and burned clothing embers.
Luckly no one was seriously hurt and as I write I am back in the room, a fresh coat of paint on the walls, all salvageable clothing washed and life back to whatever resmibleance to normal that we can muster.
Thanks for reading! More picture heavy posts will come shortly.