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The U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, and National Park Service will waive entrance and usage fees at most of their day-use recreation sites over the Veterans Day holiday weekend, Nov. 10-12. Many public lands in Colorado have some fee areas. More information on locations to visit can be found on websites for each agency. All military men and women will receive free admission at each of Colorado's 42 state parks on Monday, Nov. 12, in honor of Veterans Day a day earlier.To obtain free admission to a state park, veterans, active duty military personnel and their families must show:• A valid active, reserve or retired military identification card, • An identification card from the Veterans' Administration, Veterans of Foreign Wars or the American Legion, • Discharge papers or a DD214, • Other proof of service. The identification should be presented at the park gate. All other passengers in the vehicle will be admitted for free. This offer applies only to free entrance; other fees, rules and regulations will apply. For more information, visit www.cpw.state.co.us.
Online hiring is taking place for grocery store chain with numerous holiday seasonal job openings at stores in Pitkin, Routt, Garfield, Eagle and Summit counties.Workforce Centers in Frisco, Glenwood Springs, Rifle and Steamboat Springs will offer the event today and tomorrow, Thursday, Nov. 8, and Friday, Nov. 9, at www.connectingcolorado.com. The grocery chain has openings in Aspen, Steamboat Springs, Glenwood Springs, New Castle, El Jebel, Carbondale, Dillon, Breckenridge, Eagle and Avon. For more information, contact the Rifle Workforce Center, 310 W. Third St., 625-5627.
Volunteers with Operation Christmas Child - the world's largest Christmas project of its kind - are filling shoe box gifts with toys, school supplies and hygiene items for needy children overseas.This year-round project of the international Christian relief and evangelism organization "Samaritan's Purse," hopes to collect 300 gift-filled shoe boxes during National Collection Week (Nov. 12 - 19). Drop off a packed shoe box at Superwash of Rifle, 181 E. 26th St., on Monday- Saturday, Nov. 12-17; Monday, Nov. 19, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and Sunday, Nov. 18, between 8 and 9 a.m. Operation Christmas Child uses tracking technology to allow participants to "follow" their box to the destination country where it will be given to a child in need. Use the "Follow Your Box" donation form found at www.samaritanspurse.org/occ. For more information, call (970) 858-9873.
Officials of a public-private partnership gathered on Oct. 31 at the site of the new I-70 West Parachute interchange to cut the ribbon in anticipation of a Nov. 12 completion date.The Colorado Department of Transportation and its contractor, SEMA Construction, began work on March 19 on the $12 million project. Money came from the Colorado Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, Town of Parachute, Garfield County, Battlement Mesa Co., the Colorado Department of Local Affairs, Encana Oil & Gas (USA), Inc., and WPX Energy. The project includes on- and off-ramps, two roundabouts on the north and south sides of the existing U.S. Highway 6 overpass bridge and an asphalt overlay on Highway 6. Safety improvements include new guardrail and wildlife fencing on the north side of the interchange.
Colorado Parks and Wildlife workers will be stocking a large number of 10-inch rainbow trout in lakes and reservoirs in the Rifle and Silt areas over the next several weeks, as the agency wraps up its fall stocking schedule.The lakes include Parachute Pond, Rifle Pond South, Rifle Gap and Harvey Gap Reservoirs, plus many lakes in the Grand Junction, Palisade and Mesa County areas. Most of these waters will be stocked with cacheable trout again in the spring.Fishing licenses can be purchased from your local Colorado Parks and Wildlife office, license agents, and online at cpw.state.co.us. For more information, go to http://wildlife.state.co.us/fishing.
The Changing Lifestyles department at the Grand River Hospital District will host the "Step by Step: The Road to Health" diabetes health fair on Saturday, Nov. 10 from 7 to 10 a.m. at St. Mary's Catholic Church, located on the corner of Seventh Street and Birch Avenue in Rifle.This health fair is designed for those who have been diagnosed with, or are at risk for, diabetes. Participants will receive low-cost blood screenings, such as A1C, lipid panels and urine micro-albumin. Flu shots will be available for $15.Free screenings including foot, eye, meter checks, blood pressure, blood glucose finger sticks and information on diabetes prevention, nutrition and exercise. For more information, visit grhd.org or call 625-6200.
Nightfall comes early after the annual change from daylight savings time to standard time, and that means chances increase for motorists to hit a deer on the road. Besides reduced visibility for drivers, deer are more likely to get hit because November is the peak of their mating season, according to Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials. While some collisions may be unavoidable, motorists can reduce the likelihood of an accident by slowing down, staying alert while driving at dusk and dawn, scanning ahead and watching for movement along roadsides, obeying traffic and wildlife warning signs.Drivers should be especially cautious when traveling through forests and agricultural land, as well as Colorado Highway 13 between Rifle and Meeker, one of many "high-risk" areas in the state.If an animal is hit, wildlife officials advise drivers to immediately report the incident to law enforcement agencies and call 911 if there are any human injuries. Colorado Parks and Wildlife requires that people who wish to salvage road kill apply for a permit within 48 hours.
The Veteran's Administration's medical foster home program is looking for caregivers in the Rifle, Parachute and Battlement Mesa areas willing to take a veteran into their home and provide room and board in a home environment, appropriate supervision, and assistance with daily personal and medical care. Qualified caregivers may receive financial reimbursement of $1,500 to $3,000 a month per veteran. The program is limited to within 60 miles of the Grand Junction VA Medical Center. For more information, call (970) 263-2854.
The Rifle Workforce Center plans to increase outreach efforts to notify employers about available on-the-job training programs, before funding ends.Grant money from the U.S. Department of Labor is designed to help workers update their job skills and acquire new skills so they can return to the job market. Those grant dollars also benefit Garfield County employers who find a lack of potential employees with required skills.The money can help get dislocated workers back to work and reduce turnover and training costs for businesses. Participating employers receive free screening, assessment and referrals. The Rifle Workforce Center is at 310 W. Third St. Call 625-5627.
Winter is on its way, and there's no better time to get your home ready for the coming cold. One of the best ways to improve home comfort is through energy efficiency upgrades. Recently, Garfield Clean Energy received a U.S. Department of Energy Better Buildings Neighborhood grant for rebates. Those funds are now available to the public for energy assessments and energy efficiency upgrades in homes via the Garfield Clean Energy Challenge. The funds can be used for insulation and air sealing and energy-efficient equipment, which will save you money and make your home more comfortable this winter.Sign up for the Garfield Clean Energy Challenge by calling CLEER at (970) 704-9200.
The Junior Ranger program at the Rifle Gap State Park complex had record participation this past summer. The program offered a self-directed booklet for park visitors to pick up at the Rifle Gap visitor's center or the Rifle Falls campground entrance station. The booklet was available for youngsters from 6 to 12 years of age who want to discover the park's wildlife, geology, ecosystems, history and environment through the eyes of a ranger. The youths complete their activity booklet and return it to the visitor's center or campground entrance station. One component of the program is for the youth to share something they have learned by doing the activities in the booklet. Participants earn a Junior Ranger badge by helping lead hikes, staff the interpretive table, and assist with the "Wild About Bats" interpretive program.
The Rifle Area Chamber of Commerce would like to thank the following businesses and individuals for making the 33rd annual Chili Cook-Off and Jalapeno Eating Contest another success.The event was held on Thursday, Oct. 11, at the Garfield County Fairgrounds Indoor Arena, where more than 350 guests tasted chili, salsa, and jerky at 26 booths. Special event sponsors included Bill Barrett Corp., ANB Bank, and Mac5 Mortgage. The winners included: Red chili: 1st place, Centennial Suites; 2nd place, WingNutz Bar & Grill; 3rd place, Mountain Pest Control; Green chili: 1st place, Rib City Grill; 2nd place, Micro Plastics; 3rd place, IOOF Bookcliff #45; Salsa: 1st place, Mountain Air Mechanical; 2nd place, Basecamp Caf; 3rd place, ANB Bank; Jerky: 1st place, WingNutz Bar & Grill; 2nd place, Mountain Air Mechanical; 3rd place, Cowboy Joe's Catering; People's Choice Awards: Red chili, Basecamp Caf; Green chili, Mountain Air Mechanical; Salsa, Mountain Air Mechanical; Jerky, Cowboy Joe's Catering; Showmanship Award: Mountain Air Mechanical Super Heroes; Jalapeno Eating Contest: Ted Richards.Thanks to our Cornerstone Members: Encana Oil and Gas (USA) Inc., Alpine Bank, KMTS, Western Slope Communications, Grand River Hospital District, Walmart, Mountain Air Mechanical, Rain for Rent, Williams Midstream, Kuersten Construction, Bayou Well Services, Citizen Telegram, Bill Barrett Corp., WPX Energy, KREX TV Channel 5 Grand Junction, and Wells Fargo Bank. Other contributors: Garfield County Corrections, WingNutz Bar & Grill, Summit Sun Shirts, City Market, and ANB Bank. Committee members and volunteers: Nita Smith with NLS Business Solutions, Blair Bracken with Rifle Parks & Recreation, Susan Nichols-Alvis with White River Trail Runners ATV Club, Nathan Lindquist with the City of Rifle, Shannon Smith with It Works Global, Joy Wentzel with Alpine Bank, Carol Mozingo with the Hampton Inn & Suites, Kathi Clark, Vern Smith with It Works Global, Dylan & Lindsey Lewis with Lewis Marketing, Deb Street with A Stitch In Time, and Tony Morehouse and Brittany Neuroth with RHS. Judges: Gary Miller, Millers Dry Goods; Cheryl Minter, Western Slope Communications; Jesse Merry, Bess Wynn and Kortnie Valencia, Bill Barrett Corp.; Lori Cartright, Well Master; Cheryl Chandler, Cheryl and Co. Real Estate; Nathan Lindquist, City of Rifle; Sher Long, Sher Long Communications; Theresa Hamilton, Garfield School District Re-2;, Jim Voorheis, RREDC; Tami Sours: Community Banks of Colorado. Sample runners: Makenna and Dalton Pruett, Kyle and Rachel Fero, Chelsey Smith and Zoe Reece. The chamber board of directors thank the community for attending: Board chair, Nita Smith with NLS Business Solutions; vice-chair, Kasey Nispel with Jim Lord Agency/ American Family Insurance; treasurer, Karrie Fletcher with Alpine Bank; Jay Barner with Jean's Printing; Chris Manera with Colorado River Engineering; Dylan Lewis with Lewis Marketing; Susan Nichols-Alvis with White River Trail Runners ATV Club; Heidi Schaefer with Centennial Suites and Lori Cartright with Well Master. Frank LaddKacey BeresGina Reece-LongChamber staff
White River National Forest Supervisor Scott Fitzwilliams has extended the public comment period for the draft environmental impact statement (DEIS) for oil and gas leasing from 60 days to 90 days. The DEIS identifies lands available for oil and gas leasing across the entire forest, which includes stipulations to protect surface resources.The document updates the existing 1993 oil and gas leasing decision, and responds to changing conditions, such as technological advances in oil and gas exploration and development.This DEIS should not be confused with recent news about drilling and unitization proposals in the Thompson Divide area. This DEIS should also not be confused with the release of the BLM's White River Field Office Oil and Gas Development Resource Management Plan Amendment in Northwest Colorado.Public comments must be received by Nov. 30, and can be addressed to Scott Fitzwilliams, Forest Supervisor, White River National Forest, P.O. Box 1919, Sacramento, CA 95812; e-mail comments to email@example.com; or fax comments to (916) 456-6742. The DEIS and other material is available on the White River National Forest web site, www.fs.usda.gov/whiteriver.


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NNSA Defense Programs today presented hundreds of toys to the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve as part of their Toys for Tots Program. The unwrapped toys were donated by employees throughout Forrestal Building. Don Cook, Deputy Administrator for NNSA's Defense Programs, presented the toys to the Marines at the annual DP holiday party. Dr. Cook thanked everyone who participated in the program and commended the Marines for their commitment to the country and for spearheading the toy drive each year.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory employees, along with Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (LLNS), have raised $3.3 million to give to charities within their surrounding communities.
Laboratory employees pledged $2.3 million to the HOME (Helping Others More Effectively) Campaign - an annual charitable drive that benefits community/nonprofit agencies in the Tri Valley, San Joaquin Valley, Greater Bay Area and beyond. In addition, Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC, which manages the Lab for the U.S. Department of Energy, announced it would donate $1 million in matching funds.
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Four scientists have been inducted into the Los Alamos National Laboratory Fellows, a distinguished organization that honors outstanding contributions to science and technology. Today, Laboratory Director Charles McMillan appoints new Fellows Mark Chadwick, Cheryl Kuske, Geoff Reeves and Frank Pabian.
The fellows are lauded for their sustained, high-level achievements and exceptional promise. Fewer than two percent of the Lab's technical staff attain fellow status, and for 30 years the fellows' organization has helped guide the laboratory's scientific direction. The fellows also organize symposia and public lectures and administer prizes for outstanding research and leadership in science and engineering.
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Clockwise from top left: Chadwick, Pabian, Kuske, and Reeves.
Continuing with this week's coverage of nonproliferation programs that supported President Obama's Four-Year Effort, NNSA's Global Threat Reduction Initiative (GTRI) describes the various challenges they faced during operations to remove and secure vulnerable nuclear material around the world. GTRI was at the forefront of implementing the President's Four-Year Effort, and completion required the hard work and dedication of hundreds of individuals from DOE, the national laboratories, the U.S. federal government and international partners in 27 countries.
The completion of a typical nuclear material removal or elimination project includes a variety of political, technical, and regulatory activities. Throughout this effort, GTRI and its partners overcame several significant technical obstacles. The program's noteworthy technical achievements included several firsts, including:
These achievements allowed GTRI to address additional forms of nuclear material and accelerate activities to remove material more quickly to achieve the goals laid out in the Four-Year Effort.
In addition, the program had to overcome numerous bureaucratic obstacles (often before or during a shipment), including having a shipment canceled by the foreign government after the spent fuel had been packaged and was ready for transport, having overflight permits canceled at the last minute, and having a transit permit canceled while a shipment was ongoing. In each case, GTRI and its partners were able to quickly implement contingency plans to ensure shipments were completed successfully.
Finally, GTRI and its partners overcame environmental impediments, such as an earthquake in Chile three days before a shipment, a blizzard in Russia that closed airports, and a typhoon that jeopardized a shipment from Vietnam.
In all cases, to make the President's words reality, the task required the technical expertise, creativity, flexibility, perseverance, teamwork, and dedication of the hundreds of people who worked across the globe on the Four-Year Effort. The world now is a safer place because of their contributions.
Click here to read highlights of GTRI's contributions to President Obama's Four-Year Effort to secure vulnerable nuclear material around the world. See which countries and areas have had HEU or plutonium removed and secured by GTRI with this interactive map.
The United States and Russia are today commemorating the completion of the 1993 U.S.-Russia HEU Purchase Agreement, commonly known as the Megatons to Megawatts Program. Under this agreement, more than 500 metric tons of weapons-origin highly enriched uranium from Russian nuclear warheads was downblended and shipped to the U.S. to fuel nuclear reactors. Over the past fifteen years, ten percent of all U.S. electricity has been supplied by fuel containing material from former Russian nuclear weapons. The final shipment of low enriched uranium under the agreement arrived in Baltimore this week, signaling the start of a new era of collaborative work between the U.S. and Russia.
Read more here. See additional photos of yesterday's shipment here.
Pantex scientists Barry Hill, left, and Matt Reyes demonstrate the properties of matter to a group of fifth graders at a recent Windows on a Wider World event at the Don Harrington Discover Center in Amarillo. Hill and Reyes, who both work in the Explosives Technology Division at Pantex, put on the "What's the Matter" demonstration using liquid nitrogen to freeze a variety of items – including balloons, a banana and a racquetball – to demonstrate the different properties of matter and how they can be changed.
B&W Pantex supports a variety of educational outreach events throughout the year in an effort to foster an interest in science and math among students in the Texas Panhandle.
"Today I am announcing a new international effort to secure all vulnerable nuclear material around the world within four years. We will set new standards, expand our cooperation with Russia, pursue new partnerships to lock down these sensitive materials."
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As President Obama's Four-Year Effort comes to a close this month, NNSA is highlighting the work carried out by its nonproliferation programs to reduce the threat of vulnerable nuclear material around the world. In support of the Four-Year Effort, NNSA's Global Threat Reduction Initiative (GTRI) led the effort to secure and, when possible, eliminate these dangerous materials. Working at civilian sites in more than 100 countries, GTRI executes its mission by converting research reactors and isotope production facilities from using HEU to using low-enriched uranium (LEU) fuel/targets, removing and/ or dispositioning excess nuclear and radiological materials, and protecting nuclear and radiological materials from theft. As such, GTRI was at the forefront of implementing the Four-Year Effort.
Under the effort, GTRI accomplished the following major tasks:
Click here to read highlights of GTRI's contributions to President Obama's Four-Year Effort to secure vulnerable nuclear material around the world. See which countries and areas have had HEU or plutonium removed and secured by GTRI with this interactive map.
By Ben Dotson, Project Coordinator for Digital Reform, DOE Public Affairs
For more than 60 years, the Energy Department's National Labs have played a crucial role in the national security of the United States. Founded during the immense investment in scientific research and technical innovation in the period preceding World War II, the National Labs conduct cutting edge research in a diverse variety of fields, advancing the safety and security of the American public. This month on energy.gov, we're highlighting that great work -- from cybersecurity to robotics and beyond.
One of the key missions of the Energy Department is guaranteeing the safety, security and effectiveness of the U.S. nuclear stockpile. At Los Alamos National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories, scientists develop and employ the tools, technologies and high performance computing resources necessary to support the stockpile stewardship program.
The National Labs also support U.S. national security in other equally important ways. Argonne National Lab has helped local and state governments develop emergency plans, run drills for pandemic outbreaks, and analyzed ways to enhance security at plants and factories across the country. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory researchers study counterterrorism and the non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. They have developed a first-of-its-kind framework for major metropolitan areas that covers natural threats and the long term complications arising from biological, chemical and radiological incidents. Scientists and researchers at Idaho National Laboratory have developed a new flash x-ray system that can reveal how a projectile or weapon interacts with armor at the moment of impact.
The national security and public safety work performed at the labs has been recognized with a number of R&D 100 awards, the "Oscars of Innovation." Throughout the month of December, keep checking energy.gov as we feature the National Labs and their innovative work supporting U.S. national security and public safety. To learn more about the National Labs, visit energy.gov/labs.
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A new planning tool that minimizes required on-hand inventory, while ensuring that the right product with the right quality is delivered at the right time, has been implemented at Pantex. The NNSA Integrated Production Planning and Execution System (IPRO) was delivered seven months ahead of schedule and approximately $8 million below projected cost.
Pantex developed and deployed IPRO to modernize its Enterprise Resource Planning tool system and reduce cost while improving operational visibility and inventory accuracy. IPRO provides a major hardware and software system upgrade that integrates management of mission critical functions.
The program not only replaces software management systems dating back nearly 25 years, it provides a portable, customizable and flexible ERP solution to sustain the ever-evolving electronic workplace.
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Dr. Kevin Greenaugh, Deputy Assistant Deputy Administrator for NNSA's Office of Stockpile Management, recently received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Mercer University.
The award is presented to an alum who has served his/her profession in an outstanding manner, serving as an excellent representative of Mercer University in the process. Recipients are recognized for their exceptional service to humanity and dedication, ideals fostered at Mercer University.
Last year's recipient was Nancy Grace of CNN's Nancy Grace Show.
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29 U.S. Code § 49d - Appropriations; certification for payment to States
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(a) Authorization of appropriations
There is authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such amounts from time to time as the Congress may deem necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter.
(b) Certification for payment to States
The Secretary shall from time to time certify to the Secretary of the Treasury for payment to each State which—
(1) except in the case of Guam, has an unemployment compensation law approved by the Secretary under the Federal Unemployment Tax Act [26 U.S.C. 3301 et seq.] and is found to be in compliance with section 503 of title 42,
(2) is found to have coordinated the public employment services with the provision of unemployment insurance claimant services, and
such amounts as the Secretary determines to be necessary for allotment in accordance with section 49e of this title.
(c) Availability of appropriations
(1) Beginning with fiscal year 1985 and thereafter appropriations for any fiscal year for programs and activities assisted or conducted under this chapter shall be available for obligation only on the basis of a program year. The program year shall begin on July 1 in the fiscal year for which the appropriation is made.
Source(June 6, 1933, ch. 49, § 5,48 Stat. 114; May 10, 1935, ch. 102, 49 Stat. 216; June 29, 1938, ch. 816, 52 Stat. 1244; Sept. 8, 1950, ch. 933, § 2,64 Stat. 822; Aug. 1, 1956, ch. 852, § 17(b),70 Stat. 910; Pub. L. 86–778, title V, § 543(c),Sept. 13, 1960, 74 Stat. 987; Pub. L. 94–566, title I, § 116(c),Oct. 20, 1976, 90 Stat. 2672; Pub. L. 97–35, title VII, § 702,Aug. 13, 1981, 95 Stat. 521; Pub. L. 97–300, title VI, § 601(b), formerly title V, § 501(b),Oct. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 1392; renumbered title VI, § 601(b),Pub. L. 100–628, title VII, § 712(a)(1), (2),Nov. 7, 1988, 102 Stat. 3248; Pub. L. 105–220, title III, § 304,Aug. 7, 1998, 112 Stat. 1081.)
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The Federal Unemployment Tax Act, referred to in subsec. (b)(1), is act Aug. 16, 1954, ch. 736, §§ 3301 to 3311, 68A Stat. 454, as amended, which is classified generally to chapter 23 (§ 3301 et seq.) of Title 26, Internal Revenue Code. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see section 3311 of Title 26 and Tables.
1998—Subsec. (c)(3). Pub. L. 105–220struck out par. (3) which read as follows:
"(3)(A) Appropriations for fiscal year 1984 shall be available both to fund activities for the period between October 1, 1983, and July 1, 1984, and for the program year beginning July 1, 1984.
"(B) There are authorized to be appropriated such additional sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this paragraph for the transition to program year funding."
1982—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 97–300added subsec. (b). Former subsec. (b), which related to certification of compliance by the Secretary to the Secretary of the Treasury with regard to the Federal Unemployment Tax Act by State programs and payment of monies for the operation of the State systems, was struck out.
Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 97–300added subsec. (c).
1981—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 97–35inserted provisions authorizing appropriations for fiscal year beginning Oct. 1, 1981, and definition of "proper and efficient administration of its public employment offices".
1976—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 94–566substituted "Guam" for "Guam and the Virgin Islands".
1960—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 86–778substituted "Guam and the Virgin Islands" for "Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands".
1956—Subsec. (b). Act Aug. 1, 1956, inserted "Guam" after "Puerto Rico".
1950—Subsec. (a). Act, Sept. 8, 1950, struck out apportionment formula and requirement that States match the funds granted them.
1938—Subsec. (a). Act June 29, 1938, substituted "The annual appropriation under this chapter shall designate the amount to" for "Seventy-five per centum of the amounts appropriated under this chapter shall", at beginning of second sentence, and "the said amount among the several States" for "said 75 per centum of amounts appropriated after January 1, 1935, under this chapter" in proviso.
1935—Subsec. (a). Act May 10, 1935, inserted proviso.
Effective Date of 1998 Amendment
Amendment by Pub. L. 105–220effective July 1, 1999, see section 311 ofPub. L. 105–220, set out as a note under section 49a of this title.
Effective Date of 1982 Amendment
Amendment by Pub. L. 97–300effective Oct. 1, 1983, but with Secretary authorized to use funds appropriated for fiscal 1983 to plan for orderly implementation of amendment, see section 181(i) ofPub. L. 97–300, which was formerly classified to section 1591 (i) of this title.
Effective Date of 1976 Amendment
Amendment by Pub. L. 94–566effective on later of Oct. 1, 1976, or day after day on which Secretary of Labor approves under section 3304 (a) of Title 26, Internal Revenue Code, an unemployment compensation law submitted to him by Virgin Islands for approval, see section 116(f)(1) ofPub. L. 94–566, set out as a note under section 3304 of Title 26.
Effective Date of 1960 Amendment
Pub. L. 86–778, title V, § 543(c),Sept. 13, 1960, 74 Stat. 987, provided that the amendment made by that section is effective on and after Jan. 1, 1961.
Suspension of State Appropriation Requirements Until July 1, 1952
Act Sept. 6, 1950, ch. 896, Ch. V, title I, 64 Stat. 643, provided in part that: "No State shall be required to make any appropriation as provided in section 5(a) of said Act of June 6, 1933 [subsec. (a) of this section], prior to July 1, 1952."
Similar provisions suspending the requirement until July 1, 1950 were contained in acts June 16, 1948, ch. 472, title I, 62 Stat. 445; June 29, 1949, ch. 275, title II, 63 Stat. 284.
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GGBL has announced an Interim Dividend of GH¢0.0113 per share for the half year ending December 31, 2008.
Qualifying date
All shareholders registered in the books of GGBL at the close of business on Wednesday, April 15, 2009 will qualify for the interim dividend of GH¢0.0113 per share.
Closure of Register
The Register of shareholders will be closed from Thursday, April 16 to Friday, April 17, 2009 (both dates inclusive).
Ex-Dividend Date
The ex-dividend date has been set as Monday, April 13, 2009. Consequently, an investor purchasing GGBL shares before this date will be entitled to the Interim Dividend. However, an investor buying GGBL shares on or after Monday, April 13, 2009 will not be entitled to the Interim Dividend.
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Jim Jeffords died Tuesday at age 80 after a lifetime of public service. He was a Republican until the party moved away from his core Vermont values. In 2001 he became an Independent. His decision shifted the power in the U.S. Senate to Democrats when much of the Republican Party had veered off into extremism.
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In the symphony of life, there is one certain outcome – and while you never know when it will occur, you can now take certain steps to assure the costs associated with this life event will be taken care of when it does.
National Catholic Society of Foresters (NCSF) was founded in 1891. As a non-profit fraternal benefit society we offer life insurance and annuities to Catholics and their families. The NCSF motto - love, benevolence and charity has encouraged members to perform charitable, patriotic and religious activities with and for members and non-members alike. Our mission statement attests to our combination of life insurance, service, and fraternalism:
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NewsThu Aug 16, 2012 - 4:12 pm EST
Emmy-Award winning pro-life leader new president of International Right to Life
August 16, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Brad Mattes, Executive Director and cofounder of Life Issues Institute, a two-time Regional Emmy Award winner and a board member of LifeSiteNews has been selected to take over as President of the International Right to Life Federation. Dr. Jack Wilke, regarded as one of the founding leaders of the pro-life movement in the United States, has retired from the position and will remain on the board of the organization as President Emeritus.
International Right to Life is a worldwide federation of pro-life groups dedicated to achieving legal protection for all human life from conception to natural death. They represent groups in over 170 countries.
Mattes told LifeSiteNews, "I feel immensely honored that the board has chosen me to lead this organization into the future. It is not done by one individual. I'm confident that the whole team will work together to protect innocent life from womb to tomb."
Mattes is a two-time Regional Emmy® award winning host and executive producer of a weekly, pro-life television program called Facing Life Head-On, which is available to over 100 million households throughout America and Canada. He also hosts Life Issues, a daily radio commentary, as well as occasional half-hour radio programs on abortion and related issues.
John-Henry Westen, Co-Founder and Editor in Chief at LifeSiteNews congratulated Mattes on the new appointment. "Brad is a man of deep faith whose commitment to life and passion for defending the defenceless is second to none," said Westen. "We know he will be a worthy successor to the great Dr. Wilke."
Mattes also serves on the Board of Directors of the Terri Schiavo Life and Hope Network. He is a veteran of the pro-life cause, with over 37 years of educational, political and humanitarian experience.
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NewsCatholic Church, Family Thu Apr 28, 2016 - 7:14 pm EST
Pope's exhortation is a 'breach' with Catholic Tradition: leading German philosopher
April 28, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) – A prominent Catholic philosopher and close friend of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI said Thursday that Pope Francis's exhortation Amoris Laetitia is a "breach" with Catholic tradition and directly contradicts the teachings of Pope St. John Paul II in his exhortation Familiaris Consortio.
"If the pope is not willing to make a correction, it is up to another pontificate to officially put things back into order."
Professor Robert Spaemann told the Catholic News Agency's German branch that changing the Church's sacramental practice would be "a breach with its essential anthropological and theological teaching on human marriage and sexuality."
"It is clear to every thinking person who knows the texts that are important in this context that [with Amoris Laetitia] there is a breach" with the Church's Tradition, Spaemann said.
The professor's remarks were translated by Dr. Maike Hickson in an article at OnePeterFive.
In Familiaris Consortio, Pope St. John Paul II upheld the Church's longstanding approach to the question of admitting to the Sacraments remarried divorcees, by writing:
…the Church reaffirms her practice, which is based upon Sacred Scripture, of not admitting to Eucharistic Communion divorced persons who have remarried. They are unable to be admitted thereto from the fact that their state and condition of life objectively contradict that union of love between Christ and the Church which is signified and effected by the Eucharist. Besides this, there is another special pastoral reason: if these people were admitted to the Eucharist, the faithful would be led into error and confusion regarding the Church's teaching about the indissolubility of marriage.
Footnote 351 of Amoris Laetitia seemingly contradicts the above passage by asserting that in certain cases, integrating back into the Church the divorced and remarried and others in "irregular" situations "can include the help of the sacraments." The footnote then mentions both Confession and the Eucharist.
Bishop Athanasius Schneider, Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Maria Santissima in Astana, Kazakhstan criticized Amoris Laetitia for its lack of clarity on the subject. "Analyzing some of the affirmations of AL with an honest understanding, as they are in their own context, one finds that there is a difficulty in interpreting them according to the traditional doctrine of the Church," wrote Schneider.
Spaemann also condemned the exhortation's seeming embrace of "situation ethics" as opposed to universal norms and its call to not judge people's actions that directly contradict the Church's sexual ethics.
"When it comes to sexual relations which are in objective contradiction to the Christian order of life, I would like to know from the pope after which time period and under which conditions such an objectively sinful behavior becomes a conduct which is pleasing to God," said Spaemann.
By turning "chaos into principle" with "one stroke of a pen," Pope Francis is leading the Church "into the direction of schism," Spaemann said—and he warned that such a schism would not be "at the periphery, but in the middle of the Church."
Spaemann also warned that Amoris Laetitia may be used to bully faithful priests. He wrote:
Each individual cardinal, as well as each bishop and each priest is now called to preserve in his field of authority the Catholic Sacramental Order and to confess it publicly. If the pope is not willing to make a correction, it is up to another pontificate to officially put things back into order.
Famed German Catholic philosopher makes waves for criticizing Pope Francis' 'autocratic' style
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NewsAbortion Thu Apr 28, 2016 - 5:12 pm EST
Federally funded community health center may have illegally performed abortions: Report
WASHINGTON, D.C., April 28, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) – A federally qualified health center (FQHC) apparently performed abortions, although nearly all federal funds are forbidden from being used for that purpose, sources tell LifeSiteNews. Now, pro-life congressmen are demanding further investigations into the use of U.S. taxpayer funds to promote abortion-on-demand.
The issue came to light when a federal inspector general's report found that six Americorps volunteers had been acting as "abortion doulas," giving emotional support to women who chose to have abortions.
The National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) allowed the volunteers – who received tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars – to support abortions that took place inside a New York abortion facility run by the Institute for Family Health (IFH).
Americorps "volunteers" illegally supporting abortion at taxpayer expense is an ongoing problem. But there's more to the story.
The IFH proudly advertises itself as a federally qualified health center (FQHC). Federal dollars are restricted from underwriting most abortion at FQHCs, in line with the Hyde Amendment. This does not hold true for the Affordable Care Act, conventionally known as ObamaCare.
To ease qualms raised by pro-life Democrat Bart Stupak and others, on March 24, 2010, Barack Obama signed Executive Order 13535. It states that "the Hyde [Amendment] language shall apply to the authorization and appropriations of funds for Community Health Centers...I hereby direct the Secretary of HHS to ensure that program administrators and recipients of federal funds are aware of and comply with the limitations on abortion services imposed on CHCs by existing law."
Pro-life groups warned at the time that an executive order was insufficient to prevent taxpayer funding of abortion, and the law itself had to be amended – or defeated.
Stupak, who voted for ObamaCare before retiring from Congress, later said he was "perplexed and disappointed" by President Obama's "double cross" during the law's implementation.
Pro-life experts today say Congress must investigate whether the law is being violated and, if so, if the offense is isolated to IFH.
"For years the Obama administration has claimed that the Affordable Care Act and federally-funded health centers do not subsidize abortion, and the president finally signed additional provisions, passed last year by Congress, to ensure that community health centers do not use federal funds to support abortion," said Arina Grossu, the director of the Center for Human Dignity at the Family Research Council. "Now we learn that CNCS is violating the law by helping women obtain abortions."
"This blatant violation of federal law by CNCS and AmeriCorps demands that Congress investigate government-funded community health centers," Grossu said. "It's time for this administration to stop foisting its radical abortion agenda on the American people and using their tax dollars to do so."
Pro-life advocates have long said that there is no need to fund Planned Parenthood, because federal women's health dollars could be reappropriated to FQHCs, which do not perform abortion.
There are 9,170 federally qualified health centers compared to about 700 Planned Parenthood facilities, according to the Charlotte Lozier Institute. FQHCs see 21.1 million patients a year, while Planned Parenthood saw 2.8 million people, the institute reported.
The latest example of federal dollars being channeled to support abortion, the law notwithstanding, has undermined some confidence in the FQHCs.
Rep. Diane Black, a pro-life Republican from Tennessee, said, "NACHC didn't just break the rules; they broke trust with the American people. My constituents expect that federal funding given to our community health centers will be used to protect and enhance people's lives, not to be a willing partner in their destruction."
At least two Congressional leaders – the chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and the chair of the House Health Subcommittee – have promised they will take action immediately.
"Federal law demands that taxpayer dollars are never to be spent on abortion activities. Not one penny. Period. But a disturbing report from an independent watchdog reveals that was not the case with brazen pursuits by the National Association of Community Health Centers," said Congressmen Fred Upton and Joseph Pitts of Pennsylvania, both Republicans. "The law was violated and this shameful failure of trust will not be tolerated."
NewsAbortion, Politics - U.S. Thu Apr 28, 2016 - 3:17 pm EST
Abortion lobbyists demand Ted Cruz renounce pro-life leader Troy Newman
WICHITA, Kansas, April 28, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) – The nation's largest abortion providers, an abortion lobbying group, and an ultra-liberal political organization are demanding that Senator Ted Cruz cut ties with Operation Rescue President Troy Newman – something that only proves how effective he has been, Newman's organization says.
Planned Parenthood, NARAL Pro-Choice America, and People for the American Way are asking Cruz to fire Newman as national co-chair of the "Pro-Lifers for Cruz" coalition, claiming that Newman supports violence.
"Troy Newman's history of violent rhetoric and harassment toward women's health providers is truly beyond the pale," the three say in a letter to Sen. Cruz, linking to quotations from his 2000 book, Their Blood Cries Out.
"What Planned Parenthood and their cohorts call 'violent rhetoric' is really a discussion of Old Testament Bible verses taken out of context," said Cheryl Sullenger of Operation Rescue and co-author of the book Their Blood Cries Out. The work establishes the sinful guilt of abortion before highlighting the mercy available in the New Testament for those who accept Jesus Christ, Sullenger said.
The letter also cites a report from the National Abortion Federation stating that abortionists have experienced an increase in "hate speech and internet harassment" since the release of CMP's undercover videos of Planned Parenthood, "which Newman was a driving force behind."
"What they call 'harassment' is peaceful activism that is completely protected by the First Amendment," Sullenger responded.
Newman has consistently denounced criminal action and violence of any kind during his decades in the pro-life movement, Operation Rescue said of the allegations – many of which were circulated to prevent Newman from entering Australia last year.
"Newman's position on abortion-related violence is clear. He denounces violence against abortion providers as well as the violence perpetrated by the abortion cartel against innocent babies in the womb and their mothers," Sullenger said.
"Attacking the messenger is the only way they have to try to discredit the hefty volume of evidence against them. This most recent attack is all about manipulating the public's perception against those who exposed Planned Parenthood in order to deflect attention from their own crimes."
But the three groups poured vitriolic scorn on Newman. Michael Keegan, president of People for the American Way, called Newman's role "completely unacceptable...No politician should be allowed to pander to violent anti-choice extremists without being called out."
NARAL Pro-Choice America President Ilyse Hogue said, "Troy Newman is an anti-choice extremist and misogynist ideologue."
A Planned Parenthood executive said the choice proved Sen. Cruz and his vice presidential choice, Carly Fiorina, are unfit for office.
"It is not surprising to see Ted Cruz embrace this type of violent extremism -- after all this is the same man who has told malicious lies about Planned Parenthood, would criminalize abortion, and tried to shut down the government" to defund Planned Parenthood, said Dawn Laguens, executive vice president of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund. "This is what the Cruz-Fiorina ticket stands for."
Sullenger dismissed their rhetoric as "a feeble attempt to hurt the presidential candidacy of Sen. Ted Cruz, who they know will seek to enforce the laws against them."
Cruz has repeatedly stated that, if he is elected president, he will defund Planned Parenthood – before prosecuting them.
Their letter has led to a number of articles in the mainstream media, including Politico, the Huffington Post, and Glamour. The last publication, a feminist magazine aimed at young women, slammed Ted Cruz's choice of Carly Fiorina for vice president, telling its readers to "hold on to your uterus."
"Not one of these publications bothered to reach out to Newman or Operation Rescue's staff for their response," Sullenger said.
This morning and afternoon, both sides of the abortion debate have used the Twitter hashtag #FireTroy to get their message across.
Sen. Cruz has not responded to the call, but the letter implies that purging Newman from the campaign would not satisfy the pro-abortion coalition. "There are a number of coalition members whose records raise serious concerns," they say.


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Doesn´t look bad. What is the yellow line in the center of your continen?
Hey everyone, I'm working on a map of the continent my players will be starting on in an upcoming Pathfinder game. While I've started maps using some of the tutorials on these boards before, this is the first one I'm really putting a lot of effort into taking to completion. I used the GIMP version of Ascension's Atlas Style tutorial to get the geography together, and a combination of that and terminal's Cartographical Economics and Demographics tutorial to locate and define the cities.
I'm open to any and all suggestions about, well, anything, so go ahead and critique away!
Just as a note, I unfortunately had to scale the image down from 2000x2000 to 1600x1600 to get it to fit within the forum's size requirements. This has made some of the smaller text harder to read than I would like, but aside from that, I think it still looks fine. If anyone has any better ways to get the size down (or another place to upload), please let me know and I'll put up a full size version.
Doesn´t look bad. What is the yellow line in the center of your continen?
Hi and welcome to the guld! This seems to be a nice start.
To save you picture, I found that the best way is to use Jpeg rather than png unless you have transparent pixels. Lowering the quality of the Jpeg when saving is usually better than reducing the dimension of the map. I still don't know the limit. It's 4,67 megabytes in size but for the dimensions I think it's 5000x5000 or more.
The geographic features of the land tell "island" to me, not "continent". A big island perhaps, but not a continent.
If I just look at the climate I guess that the north would be tundra or arctic climate. There are deserts in the south wich would suggest that it is probably near the northern tropic. So it's actually pretty big according to an earth like climate but smaller than asia.
Yea it's funny, though the climate suggests a large landmass I also can get what Feanaaro is saying and maybe it has to do with the scale you feel from the way things are laid out in terms of towns and cities. I guess it depends on whether you intend for the smallest settlements to be cities or villages. To me at largest I would guess it to be the size of Great Britain (including Ireland). I find scale a bit tricky myself.
I would strongly suggest you differentiate your rivers and your roads more! It is very hard to tell what is what despite the labelling.
Replacing clumps of mountains with mountain ranges may help. Most of the mountain areas seem like individual mountains.
The square grid with no visible signs of distortion also suggest a large scale map.
There also doesn't look to be much variation in the type of coast.
Those are the things I see that may give it an "island" feel.
Putting an explicit scale on the map will tell the viewer how big things are and not require them to project their own understanding of maps onto the image to guess its scale. A border would be nice as well.


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Comments On Apr 09, 2011:I had intentions of using this kit but during my hare scramble races, no one would see my number because I always have a camel bac on my chest protector. It may work for those short 20 minute moto's but I suspect it would break off during a nasty hare scramble.
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Comments On Apr 08, 2008:This is an OK product for someone with less than 9 letters in their last name. Any more than 8 letters will not fit. The kit doesn't come with numbers, and the letters are plain. Also, the black letters will not show up very well against most protectors, I'd recommend using the white letters.
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I find the patterns and the flows of the lines on the maps to be soothing. I somehow always felt 'safe' when doodling in a topgraphical style, because you could really go 'out there' with your design, but there was always order in the chaos by way of lines that always met back with each other at the end.
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Many who know me have heard me tell this story, perhaps selfishly to reassure myself that someday my kids will change their mind about a certain food.
A fellow dietitian made a salad for the evening meal nearly every night of the week. At each meal, she put a small portion of salad on her children's plates. She continued this for years even though her children never ate the salad. When her children became teens, they began helping with dinner. And what did they make? Salad. Better yet, they ate it!
We know from researchers that repeated exposure to nutritious food can increase the quantity of fruits and vegetables children eat. However, it may take upwards of 10 to 15 exposures to a new food.
Recognizing that this may be too tough a task for even the most well-intentioned parents, researchers have looked at whether pictures of fruits and vegetables can achieve the same results. And indeed evidence suggests that exposing toddlers to picture books about fruit and vegetables can increase their willingness to accept these foods into their diet.
It seems logical when you consider the successful marketing of fast food, snack foods and sugary beverages. Do you know any parents who haven't been bombarded by requests for foods their kids have seen on TV?
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I loved your article, especially the part that emphasizes patience. It can take many, many years for certain children. All children are different, and go at their own pace. As a former elementary school teacher, I so often hear parents act like authorities on issues when their only experience is their own children. Just as children learn to read at different ages, children acquire tastes differently. Some children learn to read on their own at 2 yrs. old, and others at 7, even though their parents exposed them to the same number of books. Likewise, some children naturally have less aversions to trying new foods and textures. I think it can be discouraging to hear people make broad, unsubstantiated comments about what worked them, because it may not work for others.
Also, I hate to see parents take all the credit for their children eating vegetables simply because they used to take them to the supermarket in a sling. Give me a break! I think adding silly biased comments under your article lessens your credibility and weakens the strength of your message.
Let's face it, most of our diseases we address every day come from life-style. It is easier to take a pill and eat your ice cream and candy if you are a diabetic versus exercising self control as well as taking accountability of your health. Until we develop a grass root effort in the home it will be an uphill battle trying to change the life-style of the American people. Too many people find it easier to grab a quick meal rather than eat wholesome foods that are not processed! It starts in the home!
Broccoli's noteworthy nutrients include vitamin C, vitamin A (mostly as beta-carotene), folic acid , calcium, and fiber. While the calcium content of one serving doesn't equal that of a glass of milk, broccoli is an important calcium source for those who don't consume dairy products. Calcium does more than build strong bones. Research shows that this mineral may play a role in the control of high blood pressure, and it may work to prevent colon cancer.
comment to me from my son who is now a father of a young child:
"thanks to the scarcity of sugar in my childhood diet, I still have good teeth."
I didn't so much hide vegetables as incorporate them. Kids seemed to like vegetables with cheese sauce, so I NEVER made mac and cheese without a ton of vegetables. Spaghetti? Chili? Include some corn, some French cut green beans, zucchini, whatever might be in season (or in your freezer) along with the kid favorites. Even nachos can be a healthy snack if you thin the cheese sauce with some yogurt and serve it with apple slices, baby carrots, and snap peas.
Probably most importantly, you need to be happy with vegetables yourself! If you don't have kids or if they are still infants, get started now with including as many vegetables, fruits, and plant proteins (beans, tofu, etc.) as you can. You will never sell the kids on foods that Mom and Dad are obviously not enjoying either!
Spousal inspiration is the toughest -- especially when the psychological idea of a certain food leads to refusal! My first tactic was hiding things in dips or soups or stews or sauces, but these can be unhealthy, and one can only be secret to a point -- it's really not right for marriage! So I just experiment with a given nourishing food til I find his favourite way of receiving it. Usually that means buying LITTLE veggies -- not the huge dried out, over-stored ones that are usually in the bins -- and I've discovered that if I start any dish with a truly flavourful olive oil and a little fresh garlic and pay attention to retaining a nice crispy texture -- in the traditional French or Mediterranean ways -- he'll now eat almost anything! Sometimes, I'll add a little honey or milk to tone down flavours. And I'll mix different sauted veggies into a kind of "warm salad" to keep any one flavour from boring him. It's just a matter of finding the right texture and balance of flavours.
I kept my little ones in a sling while I shopped, prepared foods, and such. So they were exposed from the start!
When I shopped, I let the children enjoy the beauty of the produce aisles -- some stores display the colours, shapes and textures of vegetables in the most beautiful ways! These evolved with age from awe & wonder to choosing and recipe invention. I have a little boy, who is known to beg (!) for salads! His favourite soups are made with celery and little turnips. Our teen turns the table into a work of art with beautiful, nourishing foods, often inspired by recipes designed at ballet schools.
Finally, I paid attention to what I seemed to most enjoy during each child's pregnancy, and continued to share those foods -- including strong spices and flavours! -- right through infancy and childhood. The hypothesis: that tastes are cultural. The result: children who love Mexican, Thai, First Nations and East Indian flavours, even when little!
Such a wonderful article about how exposure to different foods can affect what we eat. It's important to get the whole family interested in healthy foods, especially having them help make the meal!
Thanks for the great post!
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We originally we were going to just make the big haunted house on the right, but we took the kids for a Halloween Kids Meal at Arctic Circle earlier last week and I looked at the boxes and thought, "Oh my goodness, those would make the cutest little haunted houses!" So me, Andy and Luke all made our own.
I've seen several different tutorials for these houses all over the Internet, but the one I used was from Disney Famiy Fun. I used 2 empty tissue boxes for the bottom two layers and then an instant oatmeal box for the top.
We had to use 2 coats of black acrylic paint to thoroughly coat our houses and we let them dry completely before cutting out our doors and window. We then used white paint to add details to our shutters and roofs.
After all the details were finished on our houses we scrunched up a piece of orange tissue paper and put it inside. Then to make our ghosts, we used the instructions from Disney Family Fun, except instead of using Styrofoam balls for the inside, we just formed a small ball out of tissue paper for the inside.
I found this frame at the Dollar Store and thought it would be a fun alternative to what I've seen around blogland lately. Instead of putting the eyeballs on the outside frame, the boys painted the matting inside the frame purple and then glued the eyeballs to the matting. Our wiggly eyes came from Craft Project Ideas in the Rainy Day Package they sent us. We already know how much I LOVE wiggly eyes and I'm telling you, you will never go wrong buying a package of these Kids Crafts Brand wiggly eyes at your local Wal-Mart.
After assembling the frame together I put some green skull ribbon around the frame and made the "eek!" with white glitter cardboard stickers and thick metallic green paper I already had. I'm really happy with how the frame turned out because it's more like a shadow box frame with the eyeballs inside. It's pretty cool! By the way, isn't the picture inside the frame the cutest?? hahaha! It was taken 2 years ago on Halloween. I can't believe how much they've grown!
Now I can't forget to tell you about the fun book we read to go along with our Haunted House craft. We read The Haunted House by Graham Percy. I absolutely ADORE this book and let me tell you why. I have children who are very literal. They see all this Halloween scary stuff and honestly, it makes them a little scared. We have had our share of being scared of Monsters, being afraid of the Dark and being scared of toys that come alive at night when children are sleeping (Toy Story)....NOT KIDDING! hahaha!
So in this book, a group of animals decide to go on a trip but their bus breaks down when it's dark and rainy. They see a house up on the hill nearby and decide to go up to take refuge for the night. The house is empty (of course!) so they all find a place to go to sleep when suddenly, everyone is startled by different creepy things like a huge snake, a spider with 100 legs, a 2 headed man, etc. The animals are so scared that they run out of the house and take refuge in a little cave all snuggled together for the night.
Two of the animals had stayed behind to fix the bus and when they arrived in the morning they took everyone back to the house to make sense of all the scary creatures they had seen. It turns out there weren't really any scary creatures at all. The big snack was really just a vacuum hose that looked spooky in the dark, the spider with 100 legs was really just the shadow from a tree outside blowing in the breeze. You get the point!


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