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Volume XII, Issue 4

We are at it Again...

Sean Cononie

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he time has come for us to remodel our shelter. Most shelters have to deal with bed bugs as an ongoing issue and treat them year after year. We have been pretty lucky as far as those nasty bed bugs are concerned.

For some reason we were left alone. We had started getting some complaints and soon found out we had a small problem but then it got a little worse so we started a “Bed Bug Team”, this meant nightly inspections looking at mattresses and other areas. A few months later we had decided to treat the entire building and that meant every room and every bed and figure out a way to get rid of the bed bugs from hiding out in those seams that all mattresses have. You see at the ends of mattresses there is a little ruffled seam that those little pest like to hide out during the day time because it is dark.

So what do you do to get rid of those seams? You buy very expensive Bed Bug Resistance Mattresses with no seams. The next step is that you tear apart the rooms, walls, light sockets, and get rid of all the furniture. After that you call ORKIN and they send in their own BED BUG TEAM and then the scene looks like something out of the movies with men in suits and masks treating each and every part of the building.

This also mean washing all the clients clothes, linens, and throwing away lots and lots of stuff and some cases even TV’s.

Then of course where do the clients go while this is going on? We essentially had to play a game of checkers and use other properties that we had as well as the open air shelter we have in the parking lot. This is a covered portion of the parking lot with some walls that we use as an over flow area and then we placed the clients in those areas while the building was being treated.

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“Where do the clients go while this is going on? We essentially had to play a game of checkers...”

•Standard room after remodel

Administration broadens effort to fight homelessness

several smaller projects intended to spur collaboration among federal agencies and The Obama administration released a with local and state governments. strategy Tuesday to end homelessness by One project combines Section 8 housing expanding programs to secure housing for vouchers with other anti-poverty assisveterans and families with young children tance to help 6,000 families in communiand by building on efforts to help chronities with high concentrations of homeless cally homeless people. families.

With the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq Another project couples vouchers with highlighting the needs of veterans and the health and social sereconomic crisis strainvices funded by Meding more families, the No one should be without a icaid and the Substance administration’s plan safe, stable place to call home Abuse and Mental widens the role enviHealth Services Adsioned for the federal ministration to assist 4,000 chronically government in curbing and ending homehomeless people move off the streets and lessness. out of shelters. Another initiative, similar It does not commit additional federal to a program underway in the District, money on top of the billions of dollars helps vulnerable veterans move swiftly already budgeted by the various ageninto housing by linking local housing and cies involved in reducing and preventing social services with the Supportive Houshomelessness. ing program of the departments of HousInstead, the 67-page strategy, drafted by ing and Urban Development and Veterans the U.S. Interagency Council on HomeAffairs. lessness and unveiled Tuesday, details Henri E. Cauvin

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Families and children can become homeless for many reasons. Maybe mom or dad lost their job because of the economy. Maybe mom or dad

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Our Homeless Voice readers: THANK YOU AGAIN LORD FOR SUCH A WEAK FLU!

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know we have emergency plans were thrown down and some people were for all kinds of disasters, such as killed. hurricanes, tornados, fires, floods The next tremor to be felt by Floridians and even lately for pandemics such also centered outside the State. It was the as a Bird Flu plan. But, do you have famous Charleston, South Carolina, shock a plan at your home or work place in August 1886. The shock was felt throughfor an earthquake? I know some out northern Florida, ringing church bells of you may be saying, “we don’t at St. Augustine and severely jolting other have earthquakes in Florida.” So I towns along that section of Florida’s east thought I would start off by giving coast. Jacksonville residents felt many of you a little summary of Florida’s the strong aftershocks that occurred in Sepearthquake history. Hold on for tember, October, and November 1886. a bumpy ride because I think you On June 20, 1893, Jacksonville experiwill be shocked and then after the enced another slight shock, apparently local, initial shock we will give you the that lasted about 10 seconds. Another minor latest shock that just occurred just earthquake shook Jacksonville at 11:15 a.m., a few years ago. In fact there was October 31, 1900. It caused no damage. concern if they needed to raise the A sudden jar caused doors and windows “tsunami alert” from that Earthto rattle at Captiva in November 1948. The quake. apparent earthquake was accompanied by Florida Earthquake History: sounds like distant heavy explosions. CapUSGS Science for a changing tiva is located on Captiva Island, in the Gulf World west of Fort Myers.

Although Florida is not usually On November 18, 1952, a slight tremor considered to be a state subject to was felt by many at Quincy, a small town earthquakes, several minor shocks about 20 miles northwest have occurred of Tallahassee. Windows there. Only one of and doors rattled, but no “three Florida shocks serious effects were noted. these caused damage. Additional One source notes, “The of doubtful seismic shocks of doubtorigin rumbled through shock interfered with writful seismic origin ing of a parking ticket.” It the Everglades” also are listed in didn’t say in what way. earthquake docuThe three Florida shocks ments. of doubtful seismic origin A shock occurred near St. Aurumbled through the Everglades - La Belle gustine, in the northeast part of the Fort Myers area in July 1930, Tampa in DeState, in January 1879. The Nacember 1940, and the Miami - Everglades tion’s oldest permanent settlement, - Fort Myers area in January 1942. Most aufounded by Spain in 1565, reported thorities attribute these incidents to blasting, that heavy shaking knocked plasbut a few contend they were seismic. ter from walls and articles from Then the September 10, 2006 quake ocshelves. Similar effects were noted curred. The quake was powerful but did not at Daytona Beach, 50 miles south. trigger a tsunami warning. People from as At Tampa, the southernmost point far away as Atlanta, 530 miles, felt some of the felt area, the trembling was of the tremors. As soon as an hour after the preceded by a rumbling sound at quake, people from 904 different zip codes 11:30 p.m. Two shocks were rehad filed reports of feeling the quake with ported in other areas, at 11:45 p.m. the United States Geological Survey, USGS. and 11:55 p.m. The tremor was felt So while many may not think of Florida and through north and central Florida, earthquakes going hand-in-hand, history and in Savannah, Georgia. does show the area has had a few tremors.

In January 1880, Cuba was the So with all this info would it be wise for center of two strong earthquakes you today to develop a family or work site that sent severe shock waves plan to cover earthquakes? through the town of Key West, Please go to our web site for a link for Florida. The tremors occurred at 11 earthquake evacuation. p.m. on January 22 and at 4 a.m. on

-Sean Anthony Cononie the 23rd. At Buelta Abajo and San Christobal, Cuba, many buildings

Publisher (middle) Sean Cononie meeting with Rain Wilson and his wife discussing poverty in America and the continued world hunger problems and the efforts the Homeless Voice is making in Haiti.

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Kids Without a Place to Live

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had to go away for a while. Maybe mom or dad got sick and could not work for a while. These are good kids who have just lost their place to live. Kids without a place to live are called “Homeless”.

In America one in one hundred children are homeless and three in one hundred are at risk of not having a place to live.

This means that there might be a child in your school who stays at a homeless shelter. Sometimes kids are embarrassed that they don’t have a place to live so they won’t tell anyone. They should not feel bad though because this can happen to anyone and it doesn’t last long.

Kids without a place to live sometimes have more problems at school. To help these children the United States created “The Homeless Education Program.”

This program helps homeless children to attend school even when they don’t have an address. This program helped about one million kids last year. The government helps provide after school and summer programs for kids without an address.

Don’t be scared! Just because some kids don’t have a place to live does not mean that will happen to you. Also when families become homeless there are a lot of programs to help them until they find a place to live. What you can do is help some of those children who are homeless.

Talk to your parents to see if they want to help. Maybe your family could buy some school supplies for homeless children. Maybe your family could buy a holiday gift for a kid who needs one.

If your family belongs to a Church find out if your Church can help. Not having a place to live is scary for a kid, but you can help.

The most important thing you should know is that having a place to live is really important. Even if your home is not perfect, be happy that you have one.

If you know any kids that don’t have a home go out of your way to help them.

Kids who don’t have a place to live are just like you. They are good kids, fun kids, just having a bad time.

Life-extending Drug May Also Combat Obesity Rachel Rettner The compound resveratrol, which is present in red wine and gained fame for its supposed life-extending properties, might also help combat obesity, a new study in animals suggests.

The results show lemurs, members of the primate family, gained less weight during their seasonal fattening period when they consumed daily resveratrol supplements.

The drug also boosted the primates’ metabolism and appeared to cause the animals to cut back their food at mealtime, factors that could have contributed to the anti-obesity effects.

Primates are considered a better model for what might happen in people than more distantly related animals, such as rats or mice. However, much more research is needed to determine whether such diet-inducing effects hold true for humans, the researchers say.

“The overall goal would be to develop some dietary supplementation or nutrient strategies that could interfere and decrease body mass gain and obesity,” said study researcher Fabienne Aujard, of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris, France. Also, understanding how resveratrol acts to prevent weight gain might shed light on general risk factors for obesity, Aujard said.

Previous studies suggest resveratrol

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Solution to Coffee Cup Waste Is Elementary The more people who bring mugs Reduce coffee cup waste using from home, the more people who only a chalkboard and chalk. Go! win free coffee while reducing waste.

MacGyver could do it. The winner of the Betacup Challenge thinks The environmental cost of the Starbucks can do it, too. paper cup is huge. Twenty million The competition, sponsored by trees and 12 billion gallons of water Starbucks, asked contestants to ofare used to make paper cups every year; 58 billion of those cups are fer novel solutions to paper coffee cup waste. More than 430 groups then thrown away (not recycled).

The energy ementered to win $10,000.

Karma Twenty million trees and ployed could powCup took home the er 53,000 homes.

12 billion gallons of prize last week.

In contrast, the fiwater are used to make nancial cost of KarKarma’s plan is paper cups every year simple: Each Starma’s plan is small. bucks displays a One chalkboard chalkboard with a chart. Every time costs Starbucks the equivalent of someone fills up a reusable mug, an five tall mocha lattes.

X is added to the board. The person Betacup Challenge runners-up who fills up on the 10th X gets a were Band of Honor, rewarding free drink. mug users with bands to be placed Susanna Baird

around their mugs; Beta Cup, proposing a biodegradable, reusable cup made out of corn husks; and the Champion Cup, offering mug users an online tool to chart their mug usage and see examples of the good they’re doing by avoiding paper.

The world’s largest coffee chain has not announced whether it will implement the winning proposal; however, it has pledged to make 100 percent of its coffee cups reusable or recyclable by 2015.

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Norovirus

On Spirituality

As the oil and gas continue to gush from the oceans’ depths and spread around the Gulf of Mexico, and then to points beyond, I am again reminded of the family that we all are. The oil is for now only affecting the United States, but that is sure to change. We as a global family will be impacted by this disaster. May all of us continue to pray for all those who have lost so much, especially the eleven who have died, as a result of the initial explosion.

Tragedies, natural and manmade disasters occur in our world on a fairly regular basis. One such tragedy is the literal translation of the bible where scripture passages have been used to promote one’s own agenda. The greatest example of that today is the passage of Sodom and Gomorrah in the attempt to make homosexuality a sin- and then to become the heroes by ridding the world of this sin. I am very grateful of the progress that has been made in the scientific, so that the whole world can better understand the truth about homosexuality. It is linked to hormones and genetics. It is not a choice and never was. If it is an abomination, it is so because we as people have made it such, not our loving God. As a minister and preacher I am very aware of the power of the word. The bible is a great source, the first source, to come to know God better. It should never be used as the excuse to do someone harm.

For every example of a sin in the bible there are examples of exceptions. How

could we think we are so in tune to the mind of God that we could take a story like Sodom and Gomorrah, and condemn gay and lesbians? What are we so afraid of? What about the scripture passage that says, “Judge not lest ye be judged”? My dear friends, with all the real fears in our world, I suggest we go to work toward healing, and live and let live. May true peace be with you. DEACON BOB thatbrotherbob@aol.com

Military suicides remain high, especially among reservists Andrew Seidman younger soldiers prefer this sort of online Although the suicide rate has climbed counseling to face-to-face encounters. measurably across all sectors of the mili“This gets at stigma issues,” Chiarelli tary over the past few years, top Army said. “I really think this is something that and Marine Corps officials on Tuesday will fix this now.” proposed several solutions to erase the Chiarelli added that the Web service social stigma associated with mental also would help address the high rate of health illnesses and to combat the less suicides among reservists, who are frevisible wounds of war. quently off on their own in rural commuResponding to a congressional comnities without the help of health profesmittee’s concerns about an NPR report, sionals, within five to seven days of their which identified various deficiencies in departure from service, he said. the Army’s mental health program, Peter This attempt to monitor reservists after W. Chiarelli, the Army vice chief of staff, discharge may prove too ambitious, howdefended the Army’s current policies and ever, as the military has struggled to keep promised to engage the military’s vulnertrack of its veterans for years. able youth.

The Department of Veterans Affairs and While the Army is reporting a decline various National Guard units around the in suicides among active duty soldiers, country face the difficult task of checking suicides among reon potentially warservists who have torn veterans who We understand that this returned home and scatter across rural aren’t on active duty stigma is real and we have communities and totaled 53 this year can be hard to track to set the conditions to get down. through mid-June, up 26 percent from Hundreds of thouaround it the comparable pesands of troops have riod last year. Suideployed to Afghancides among active duty Army dropped istan and Iraq during the past nine years.

30 percent through mid-June from a year While it’s relatively easy to tally casualearlier, to 62. ties, the psychological toll on soldiers is Suicides overall increased by 26 percent harder to quantify. from 2008 to 2009, while suicides among Chiarelli acknowledged that, in addiMarines have more than doubled since tion to the emotional trauma caused by 2005. multiple tours, insufficient evaluations of The ability to properly diagnose mentalmental health during the demobilization ly ill soldiers will require a more fundaprocess and “lack of human interaction mental shift beyond mere medical pracwith other soldiers” in the days followtice, officials concluded. ing discharge have probably contributed The priority for the military, Chiarelli to suicides. and Marine Corps assistant commandant Though some doctors are currently reJames F. Amos said, is to change a milisisting this push toward a more technoltary culture that’s made soldiers and Maogy-oriented approach, Chiarelli said a rines reluctant to seek help from mental standardized program for all homewardhealth professionals for fear that doing so bound soldiers will persuade its current could damage their careers. detractors.

Chiarelli advocates the use of WebThe main obstacle to implementing onbased health care services, which would line behavioral health care right now is give every soldier a 30-to-40 day session procedural, Chiarelli later said in an inwith a behavioral health specialist using terview with McClatchy. the Internet. Behavioral health studies, “Ideally we would provide this to an inChiarelli said, have demonstrated that (Continued on pg 8)

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More Bad News About Sunscreens: Nanoparticles Andrew Schneider As millions of us who play and work under the bright sun dutifully slather our bare skin with creams, oils and sprays, consumer safety activists continue to blast the government for failing to ensure the safety of these sunscreens.

The latest target of concern is the use by sunscreen manufacturers of nanosized particles of titanium dioxide and zinc oxide.

A new report based on several preliminary studies says these atom-sized additives have the potential to cause serious harm. ten inadequate or inaccurate. And not even That follows this month’s report that the the Consumer Safety Protection CommisFood and Drug Administration has known sion, which ensures the safety of the items for a decade that almost half of the most that Americans buy, is stepping up for sunpopular sunscreens contain an ingredient screen shoppers. that may actually accelerate the growth of “It’s not our responsibility. Sunscreen skin cancer cells. safety is FDA’s job,” says Alexander France, Germany, the U.K. and the EuFilip, deputy director of public affairs ropean Parliament have moved rapidly to for the commission. But, he added: “Our require everything from safety testing and chairman has publicly addressed industry mandatory labeling of nanoparticles to groups warning them about use of nanoeven the outright ban of these engineered materials without chemical creations Nanosunscreens have the notifying us or their in many sunscreen and cosmetic prodpotential to cause serious customers.”

Studies Still Preucts. Nothing of the human and liminary kind is happening Today’s report calls in the United States, environmental harm the use of nanoparFriends of the Earth ticles of titanium dioxide and zinc oxsays in a report issued today. ide a “risk without benefit.”

It examines “Nanosunscreens have the potential to six studies on the health implications of cause serious human and environmental manufactured nanomaterials used in sunharm, but there is nothing stopping comscreens. panies from selling them,” says the report The studies, which raised some concerns by the international environmental and in the public health community, are all public health advocates. peer-reviewed and have been published And consumers are pretty much on their in international scientific journals. But the own when it comes to determining what’s (Continued on pg 8) safe to slather on their skin. Labeling is of-

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Many Four Star Hotels have continued bed bug problems and it seems the reason for this is because they spot treat, meaning spray mattress, lay some delta dust in the electric sockets or wall switches and if need be a new mattress if it is spotted by the left over blood from bed bugs.

This can only work so long. If not you will continue to have problems over and over. Hotels just do not want to spend the money or making it obvious they have bed bug issues by the kind of work the guest will see at the time of treatment in fear of getting a bad name. When in fact it is pretty hard for them not to have bed bugs. Bottom line is, if you house transient people you will have bed bugs and you must react before it gets so out of hand. Many hotels, shelters, hospitals will always have some sort of bed bug problem and if treated correctly it can be controlled.

Now the fun and expensive part starts.

As you can see by the pictures that we are remodeling and trying to make the whole building bed bug resistant and we need your help. Not only are we dealing with this, we are still installing the fire sprinkler systems costing anywhere between $60,000 to now $90,0000. The price keeps changing based on the inspectors fine tuning the work in order to pass inspection. We are also forced with still buying more property to open up new beds. This is expensive but not too expensive because houses and property are very low now. It is the proper time for

us to buy and buy a little more than what we need in order to save thousands in the future. We also are dealing with some of the cities getting rid of the street vendors.

As you can see we have lots and lots of new expenses and then the ones we have been dealing with for the last year. So of course we need your help.

We are asking for more monthly partners and also for groups of people to help raise these funds.

Also when you make your next trip to Home Depot if you can buy gift cards in any amount, even for $5 and send them to us so we can finish all the work we started. I must thank each and every one of you for all the assistance you have given us over the years. Without your support we would not have any walls in the first place to fix.

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“No one should be without a safe, stable place to call home, and today we unveil a plan that will put our nation on the path toward ending all types of homelessness,” HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan, who heads the 19-agency council, said in a statement.

Nationwide, about 1.5 million people experienced homelessness last year, according to HUD. In the Washington region, more than 12,000 people were homeless last year, including more than 6,000 in the District, according to the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments.

From adults with severe mental illness to adolescents aging out of the fostercare system, homelessness has its roots in many societal problems. But the Obama

administration’s strategy emphasizes that only The Bush administration’s strategy focused when people are back in a home can they be on the chronically homeless and as a result, expected to address underlying problems in said Mary Cunningham, a senior researcher at their lives. the Urban Institute, tens of This Housing First phithousands of people are in strategy aims to end losophy has been emsupported housing. Under homelessness among...the braced in the District and Obama, Cunningham said, elsewhere. In D.C., it has chronically homeless by 2015 that focus now includes veterans and families with helped place about 1,000 children. “They didn’t abandon the previous people in homes, said Linda Kaufman, chief administration’s initiative,” she said. “They operating officer of Pathways to Housing, expanded it.” which works with several hundred mentally ill, But even supporters of the strategy say a far chronically homeless people. “If you don’t do larger financial commitment to housing assishousing, you can’t address the issues of hometance will be needed to accomplish the objeclessness,” she said. tives.

Framed by 10 objectives, the new national “The administration does call for some addstrategy aims to end homelessness among veted vouchers, which is terrific,” said Elizabeth erans and the chronically homeless by 2015 Lower-Basch, senior policy analyst at the and among children and families by 2020.

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Center for Law and Social Policy. “But even if it’s fully funded by Congress, it still would only reach a small fraction of those who are potentially eligible for housing subsidies.”

Maria Foscarinis, executive director of the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty, said the plan offers a compelling portrait of the causes of homelessness and ways to end it. But that’s not enough, she said.

“Where it is short in my view,” Foscarinis said, “is it does not make specific commitments with resources that the administration will pursue to actually fund the plan.”

Homeless cat to save lives by donating blood

By Suzanne Le Breton A cat that someone abandoned outside the Humane Society earlier this year will now save countless other cats’ lives.

Peony, named after the Indiana state flower by the intake manager at the shelter who hails from the state, was found in May left outside the Humane Society in a cardboard box.

They thought the 2-year-old tortoiseformer neighbors at the Humane Socishell cat would spend sometime at the ety need blood transfusions for differshelter with the other cats waiting a ent types of veterinary procedures. A new home, but this cat was meant for transfusion is a clinical necessity and more. The Louisiana Veterinary Rewithout animal blood donors, surgeons ferral and Emergency would not be able to Center in Mandeville Peony’s full responsibility perform life-saving contacted one of the operations. board members at the in life will be to save the For the next year, Humane Society and lives of other cats Peony’s full responsiwas looking for a cat or bility in life will be to two to serve as a blood donor for other save the lives of other cats by providing sick cats. her own precious blood.

But, not just any cat would do. The cat After her year of service is up, she will had to be of a certain size and age; and return to the St. Tammany Humane Soit had to be used to being handled daily ciety, where hopefully her service will by people. be rewarded with a new and permanent Peony meets all of the requirements. home with a loving family.

Every day cats just like Peony and her

Jobless claims drop but remain at elevated levels Christopher S Rugaber ally adjusted 457,000. That’s slightly below Initial claims for jobless benefits fell economists’ forecasts of 460,000, according to by the largest amount in two months last Thomson Reuters. week, but remain above levels consistent First-time requests for unemployment insurwith healthy job growth. ance have been stuck at about 450,000 since the Despite the drop of of this year. New New home sales dropped in beginning 19,000, claims are at claims dropped steadily about the same level May to their lowest level on last year after reaching a they were at the bepeak of 651,000 in March records since 1963 ginning of the year.

2009. Claims need to The stubbornly high level of requests for fall closer to 425,000 to signal sustained job jobless aid is a sign hiring remains weak growth, many economists say. even as the economy recovers.

The four-week average dipped by 1,500 to The Labor Department said Thursday 462,750, the first drop in six weeks. that new claims dropped to a seasonSeparately, the Commerce Department said

Thursday that orders for big-ticket manufacfell last month, as tax credits for hometured goods fell by 1.1 percent last month as buyers expired April 30. demand for commercial aircraft declined. But The Federal Reserve on Wednesday excluding the volatile transportation sector, provided a more cautious outlook as it orders rose 0.9 percent, suggesting that the kept a key interest rate it controls near remanufacturing sector remains a key driver of cord lows. The Fed said the economic recovery is “proceeding,” a more reserved the economic recovery. judgment than in April, The reports come as worries grow about the health of big-ticket manufactured when it said economic the economic recovery. New goods fell by 1.1 percent activity continued to home sales dropped in May “strengthen.” The Fed last month as demand to their lowest level on realso said the labor marfor commercial aircraft ket is “improving gradcords dating from 1963, the Commerce Department said ually.” declined Wednesday. That followed a Claims could be elreport earlier in the week that sales evated for several reasons. Many econoof previously-owned homes also mists say laid-off workers are more likely

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Judy Pasternak WASHINGTON (June 16) -- With the school year ending in communities across America, more than 16 million children face a summer of hunger.

While classes were in session, they relied on free or discount cafeteria meals subsidized by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. But they will not be reached by the patchwork summer food programs financed by the USDA, which feed fewer fed fewer than one in 10 eligible children, than one in five of the total number of the AOL News analysis shows. Only kids poor enough to qualify.

New Mexico, New York and the District The children caught in the gap will of Columbia managed to feed more than likely spend the next few months cadging one-third of the children who had releftovers from neighbors, chowing down ceived lunches at school. on cheap junk, lining up with their famiConsequently, USDA is having trouble lies at food banks that are already overbridging the chasm between the number matched or simply learning to live with of children across the country who need a constant headache, growling stomach help and the number of children who get and chronic fatigue. When school rolls it.

The department has set aside enough around again in the fall, they will be less money to pay for 5 percent more meals healthy and less ready to learn than their served this year, but there is no guarantee peers. that the jerry-rigged network will be able The problem is not new, of course, but to deliver them. indicators for a crisis “The demand durare lining up. Fedmore than 16 million children ing the [past] school eral studies show that year has increased at a “food insecurity” for face a summer of hunger much faster rate than children peaks durthe summer food proing summer, said gram can pick up,” said Crystal FitzSiUSDA spokeswoman Jean Daniel, addmons, a program director at the Food Reing, “That’s a cutting-edge research term search and Action Center in Washington. for hunger.” Demand for food stamps is And given the state of the economy, the already up. Demand at food banks is algrowing demand couldn’t have come at a ready way up. Donations, however, are worse time.

“We’re worried about the imdown. pact of budget cuts all over the country,” With the national economy limping and FitzSimons told AOL News. joblessness still high, a record 20.5 milEligible students enrolled in summer lion students needed federally subsidized school are fed through a continuation school lunches in 2010, up from 19.4 milof the regular lunch service, but only lion in 2009, according to an AOL News 1.1 million children got free or discount analysis of federal statistics. meals that way in 2009, records show.

How much those children depend on That number is not likely to grow: In that help is evident during the academic many districts facing huge budget shortyear: Teachers in many poor communities falls, summer school itself is a tempting note that students are apprehensive every target. The vast majority of last season’s Friday about how they’ll face bare larders federally subsidized meals were served at over the weekend, and they are ravenous parks, rec centers, churches and commuwhen they return on Monday morning. nity charities, and those too are caught in And that’s after just two days off. the recession’s pinch.

Once classes end, they are less visible Even in good times, building a food netbut no less needy. work from scratch every summer is a garNational Crisis, Local Burden gantuan task. Officials from USDA, food The USDA paid for meals for 3.3 milbanks and local school systems all say lion children over the summer break it’s difficult to recruit local feeding sponlast year, through programs cobbled tosors willing and able to abide by federal gether by local governments and nonregulations.

USDA rules require children profit groups. Money flows through an to eat their meals together on site. They ungainly system: The local organizations require a trained monitor.

The meals need provide meals and get reimbursed by the to meet nutrition standards. state government, which in turn receives With the exception of a few summer federal payments. camps, the food sites also must be in tate by state, the ability to get meals to neighborhoods where at least half the poor children varied wildly during last children are poor enough to qualify for year’s school vacation. Twelve states, school-time aid.

With Congress considalong with Guam and Puerto Rico, each

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Life-extending Drug May Also Combat Obesity (Continued from pg 4)

could have health benefits, acting as an antioxidant that protects against cell damage. The compound has also been shown to increase the life spans of yeast, worms and flies.

And work in mice suggests it can ward off health problems that often come along with a high fat diet, including high blood sugar levels, and heart and liver problems.

To investigate resveratrol’s impact on weight gain, Aujard and her colleagues fed six gray mouse lemurs daily doses of the compound. These animals, which weigh about 0.3 pounds (133 grams) on average, naturally put on grams in the winter time. In this way, lemurs more closely mimic what happens during real weight gain than would many rat and mice models, which have to be genetically altered to get fat.

After four weeks, the lemurs showed a significant reduction in their weight gain.

They initially gained 1.2 grams per day, but dropped to around 0.5 grams per day by the end of the experiment.

In an obese person, this might translate to a 10 to 15 percent reduction in the amount of weight they put on, Aujard told LiveScience.

The lemurs also had a 29-percent increase in their resting metabolic rate, meaning they burned more energy without increasing their activity. They also had a 13-percent decrease in how much they ate, suggesting the compound could

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authors of almost all the work stress that their studies are preliminary and that more research is needed.

Friends of the Earth says the studies indicate that: •Zinc oxide nanoparticles can kill important brain stem cells in mice and that nano-titanium dioxide injected into pregnant mice produced gene changes.

•Nanosized zinc oxide is toxic to colon cells even in small amounts.

•Autistic disorders, epilepsy and AlCenters for Disease Control and Prevenzheimer’s disease have been linked to tion, chose titanium dioxide as the first nano-titanium dioxide. nanoparticles on which it issued safety •The zinc used in nano-sunscreens can recommendations because of the large penetrate healthy human skin and potennumber of workers potentially exposed to tially reach the blood stream and urine of it. humans.

Yet the FDA, which has regulatory re•Nanoparticles also can cross into human sponsibility for the sunscreen products, placentas from mothers to unborn fetuses. still hasn’t weighed in on nanochemicals “Consumers need to know that manufacin those heavily used products. tured nanoscale zinc and titanium oxides FDA told AOL News that “FDA compoare not the only choice and are not necesnents are conducting research that focuses sarily the most effective or safest choice on nanomaterials such as titanium dioxide for sun protection,” the report cautions. in the nanoscale.”

A nanometer is roughly 100,000 times To determine the risk, the agency said it smaller than the width of a human hair, uses information from its own research, and scientists assemble them by rearrangpeer-reviewed published literature and ing atoms. When it comes to sunscreen, other sources such as adverse event remanufacturers add nanomaterials ostensiports to identify safety concerns with bly to make sun-blocking ingredients rub products they regulate. on “cosmetically clear” instead of white, And then the FDA added this confusthe report says. ing statement that frustrates many public “These nanomaterials are being added health experts: “If information were to without appropriate labeling or reliable indicate that additional safety safety information, so the public has no way of mak- “the public has no way evaluation or other regulatory action is warranted, we ing informed purchasing of making informed would work with all parties choices,” said Ian Illuminato, a senior health researcher for purchasing choices,” to take the steps appropriate to ensure the safety of marthe group. keted products.”

He said the group has written to all the FDA Still Awaiting Final Review major manufacturers of sunscreen to The agency was criticized in another “voice concerns” about these potentially sunscreen study issued last week by Endangerous sunscreen ingredients. The vironmental Working Group. It said that group urged those using the nanoparticles FDA scientists had conducted a study a to “refrain from doing so and consider our decade ago which showed that a compohealth, the health of workers at your firm, nent in 41 percent of all sunscreens did far and the environment, all of which could be more harm than good. harmed by this risky practice.”

The study, done at the FDA’s major Not Much From FDA Yet toxicology research laboratory, had deterThere are few reliable U.S. government mined that retinyl palmitate, a vitamin A studies of the health effects of nanoparderivative and common ingredient in sunticles. As AOL News reported in March in screen products, not only failed to protect an eight-part investigation of nanomaterithe users from skin cancer, but actually als, health and government regulations, increased the speed and growth in which the Environmental Protection Agency and cancer occurred, the Environmental Workthe National Institute for Occupational ing Group said.

Safety and Health lead the way in governThe FDA said it is awaiting a final review ment research, especially with nanosized of the 10-year-old findings. titanium dioxide.

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interfere with appetite. However, more research is needed to determine exactly how the drug might manipulate appetite, Aujard said.

The results will be published in an upcoming issue of the journal BMC Physiology.

Lisa Flam San Francisco is poised to adopt what is believed to be the first law in the nation requiring stores to display the amount of radiation emitted by each cell phone they sell.

The idea isn’t to discourage cell phone use, say backers of the measure, but to help people buying them make informed choices. Opponents, though, say it will only cause confusion.

The city’s Board of Supervisors voted 10-1 in favor of the measure Tuesday night. Final approval is expected next week, and Mayor Gavin Newsom plans to sign it into law, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

The law would require stores to post a phone’s specific absorption rate, or amount of radio waves absorbed into the body. All phones sold in the U.S. already must have an SAR of no more than 1.6 watts per kilogram, a standard set by the Federal Communications Commission, The New York Times said.

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dividual in their home, and tap into someone who could provide psychotherapy, if you believe in it,” he said. “The problem you have doing it online is: you cannot be in your home in North Dakota and necessarily be treated by a doctor in California online, because that individual is not credentialed or privileged to do that in North Dakota.”

Even if perfected, however, the technosavvy approach to mental health still does not entirely overcome long-lasting problems of combat, Amos said.

“We understand that this stigma is real and we have to set the conditions to get around it,” he said. “I’m not convinced that our middle-grade staff NCOs and our young officers have the same appreciation. I think it’s because they’re younger, they’ve been exposed to it less. But this is a leadership problem we’re working on.”

Even as military leadership attempts to stir change in a culture that has priori-

tized visible, physical wounds ahead of less easily detectable psychological trauma, its ability to initiate effective preventive reform remains uncertain.

“Bottom line ... there is a confluence of stressors that cause suicides, but no single panacea to prevent them,” Chiarelli said. “There is no one solution to the problem.”

Professional Baseball Faces Loaded Issue: Mental Health Shirley Wang

Three professional baseball players have landed on the disabled list this season for a problem they can’t ice, bandage or have surgically repaired: anxiety.

Acknowledging debilitating psychological issues represents a significant shift for a sport that historically has according to the MLB’s Web site. emphasized “gutting it out” rather And Mr. Votto said recently his stress than admitting to injury. The probstemmed from overwhelming anxiety lem may be as old as the pastime, but and sadness over his father’s death. acceptance of mental-health issues All three players declined through in Major League Baseball has only their agents to comment for this aremerged in the last few years. ticle.

Baseball’s anxious include Detroit Some fans might not feel much pitcher Dontrelle Wilsympathy for the lis, St. Louis Cardi- acceptance of mental-health psychological burnals shortstop Khalil issues in MLB has only emerged dens of professional in the last few years Greene and Cincinnabaseball players -ti first baseman Joey athletes who typiVotto, who all spent weeks on the cally earn huge salaries to do what disabled list spring for mental-health many people would consider a dream issues. Mr. Willis, who returned to the job. lineup in May, was placed on disabled Baseball’s history is full of stories status again in mid-June for anxiety. of players suddenly struck by condiMr. Willis has said publicly that he tions, often thought to be psychologihad been diagnosed with an anxiety cal, that became nightmares for their disorder. Mr. Greene has acknowlcareers: Steve Blass, a Pittsburgh edged a history of anxiety going back Pirates pitcher who won two 1971 to childhood, which he describes as World Series games, suddenly bean extreme case of the “butterflies,” (Continued on pg 10)

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ering child nutrition bills, several hunger policy groups have called for a lower threshold of 40 percent, which would allow more communities with significant pockets of poverty to get federal money for meals.

Even if hunger advocates get their way, reaching large numbers of children will require more local sponsors. Oklahoma, for instance, fed summer meals to just 5.3 percent of the eligible youngsters last year. “It’s not nearly enough,” Paula Clayton, programs director for the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma, told AOL News. “We’d like to grow. It’s just finding the staff, getting the trucks out there.”

New Ideas to Bridge the Gap To get more people involved, USDA has been trying to encourage innovative thinking. It is funding demonstration projects, for instance, in Mississippi and Arkansas, to try to improve last year’s low participation rates (7.9 and 10.6 percent, respectively) in those two states.

“I went to a conference in D.C. and listened to all these amazing, creative things that people are doing to create these programs,” said Sherrie Tussler, executive director of the Hunger Task Force, which is based in Milwaukee.

At the same time, she understands why so few step forward: “Look at all the manpower that goes into putting this together just to break it all down 12 weeks later.”

In Milwaukee, Tussler’s organization has linked up with private partners like the Salvation Army and the Wisconsinbased motorcycle company HarleyDavidson to pick up some of the slack: allowing a van, for instance, to travel to neighborhoods where there is no summer meal program. These streets are quiet, Tussler said. “There’s no sound of excited play. The kids are flattened.” Children line up in a scene reminiscent of refugees seeking help from foreign aid workers in a far-off land. Handing out bags of food from coolers in the back of the van does not qualify for federal reimbursement, so the donors cover the cost.

The Hunger Task Force reached just 17 percent of Milwaukee’s eligible children when it began its summer food program in 2003 and has increased that figure to 25 percent, Tussler said, well above the

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statewide rate of 18.8 percent.

But that still means thousands of the city’s children don’t get enough food.

In Milwaukee, summer school will be in session for just four weeks, down from eight, and will only operate Mondays through Thursdays. The rest of the time, “the culture is that they don’t want kids in the building while they are trying to clean it up,” so local elementary schools are not available for nonprofits to use as meal sites, Tussler said.

In rural areas, the obstacles are even greater. The food bank where Clayton works in Oklahoma has to find nonperishable food for meal sites in the southwest part of the state, because the central operation in Oklahoma City can deliver only twice a month. It’s a three-hour drive each way.

Transportation in the countryside is also a big issue for the kids. No school bus is operating and their parents are likely working, but the distances are too far to walk.

Even the lucky few who find a way to a meal site may face periods when they must go without. Clayton still thinks often of her encounter with a boy who looked to be about 10 years old in Lawton, near Fort Sill, where one out of five children lives in poverty. The youngster rode his bike each day to a park where lunch was served and had just heard on a mid-August day that the program was finished for the season.

“What will I do for the next two weeks before school starts?” he asked.

“I just looked at him,” Clayton recalled.

“And I worried about it a lot.”

To learn more about the summer meals program and to find out where the feeding sites are located, call the National Hunger Clearinghouse and Hunger Hotline toll-free at 866-348-6479 (866-3-HUNGRY), 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays EST.

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to seek benefits in a weak economy than in a strong one, because they have less hope of finding work. That would keep claims high even if layoffs aren’t increasing.

Other analysts note that home construction has fallen sharply in recent months.

That could cause higher claims by construction workers.

The total number of people receiving benefits, meanwhile, dropped 45,000 to store the 73 extra weeks but the Senate is 4.5 million, the department said. But that still debating the bill. doesn’t include about 5.3 million people In one positive sign, more CEOs of who received extended large companies say they benefits paid for by the Congress added up plan to increase hiring. A federal government in the survey by the Business week ended June 5, the to 73 weeks of extra Roundtable, a group of latest data available. benefits on top of the chief executives, found During the recession, 39 percent expect to 26 weeks typically that Congress added up to 73 add jobs in the second weeks of extra benefits on provided by states half of this year. That’s top of the 26 weeks typithe highest percentage cally provided by states. planning to add jobs since mid-2007.

But those extensions expired earlier this One company that’s hiring is software month, leaving about 900,000 people maker Adobe Systems Inc. In the three without unemployment insurance, acmonths through May, it added 190 pocording to the Labor Department. That sitions as revenue rose 34 percent. The figure is expected to grow to 1.25 million company said Tuesday it plans to keep by the end of this week. hiring.

The House approved legislation to re-

1. Your thumb is nearest you. So begin your prayers by praying for those closest to you. They are the easiest to remember. To pray for our loved ones is, as C. S. Lewis once said, a “sweet duty.” 2. The next finger is the pointing finger. Pray for those who teach, instruct and heal. This includes teachers, doctors, and ministers. They need support and wisdom in pointing others in the right direction. Keep them in your prayers. 3. The next finger is the tallest finger. It reminds us of our leaders. Pray for the president, leaders in business and industry, and administrators. These people shape our nation and guide public opinion.

They need God’s guidance. 4. The fourth finger is our ring finger. Surprising to many is the fact that this is our weakest finger, as any piano teacher will testify. It should remind us to pray for those who are weak, in trouble or in pain. They need your prayers day and night. You cannot pray too much for them. 5. And lastly comes our

little finger - the smallest finger of all which is where we should place ourselves in relation to God and others.

As the Bible says, “The least shall be the greatest among you.” Your pinkie should remind you to pray for yourself. By the time you have prayed for the other four groups, your own needs will be put into proper perspective and you will be able to pray for yourself more effectively.

Kids Without a Place to Live

By Laura Hansen, C.E.O. Coalition to End Homelessness

about one million kids last year. The government helps provide after school Believe it or not, some kids don’t have and summer programs for kids without a place to live. These kids may live in an address. homeless shelters. Homeless shelters are Don’t be scared! Just because some places people can go when they don’t kids don’t have a place to live does not have a home. Families and children mean that will happen to you. Also when can become homeless for many reasons. families become homeless there are a lot Maybe mom or dad lost their job because of programs to help them until they find of the economy. Maybe mom or dad had a place to live. What you can do is help to go away for a while. Maybe mom some of those children who are homeless. or dad got sick and could not work for Talk to your parents to see if they want a while. These to help. Maybe are good kids your family In America one in one hundred could buy some who have just lost their place children are homeless and three school supplies to live.

Kids for homeless without a place in one hundred are at risk of not children. Maybe to live are called your family could having a place to live “Homeless”. buy a holiday In America one gift for a kid who in one hundred children are homeless and needs one. If your family belongs to a three in one hundred are at risk of not Church find out if your Church can help. having a place to live. This means that Not having a place to live is scary for a there might be a child in your school who kid, but you can help. stays at a homeless shelter. Sometimes The most important thing you should kids are embarrassed that they don’t have know is that having a place to live is a place to live so they won’t tell anyone. really important. Even if your home is They should not feel bad though because not perfect, be happy that you have one. this can happen to anyone and it doesn’t If you know any kids that don’t have a last long. home go out of your way to help them.

Kids without a place to live sometimes Kids who don’t have a place to live are have more problems at school. To help just like you. They are good kids, fun these children the United States created kids, just having a bad time.

“The Homeless Education Program.”

This program helps homeless children to attend school even when they don’t have an address. This program helped

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More Bad News About Sunscreens: Nanoparticles publishes Consumers Report, has been “It is premature to draw conclusions from studying the sunscreen issue for years and the study at this time,” Shelly L. Burgess, worries about the lack of labeling and apan FDA spokeswoman, told AOL News, propriate action by FDA. adding, “FDA will always take the necesThe group said that its testing showed sary action to ensure consumers have acthat 80 percent of the sunscreens that cess only to safe and effective sun protecclaimed not to contain nanoparticles action products.” tually did. This is just one of the reasons In a subsequent letter to the governthat it wants the FDA to become more inment agencies involved in volved. the studies, Environmental “Healthy skin, even “Three summers ago, a law Working Group President if less tan, is far was passed requiring the Ken Cook urged haste in tellto develop new sunsexier than fatal FDA ing the public what the report screen guidelines for safety found. skin cancer,” and labeling. Here we are “The dramatically accelerat the start of another summer season and ated development of tumors and lesions still no word from the FDA, leaving conin retinyl palmitate-treated animals, comsumers in the dark about the safety and pared to untreated animals, has potentially efficacy of the sunscreens they use,” said significant implications for public health,” Michael Hansen, senior scientist for Conhe said, and he urged both the FDA and sumers Union. the National Toxicology Program to reMeanwhile, Friends of the Earth says it’s lease and act upon the final version of the time to change the culture of “tanning is study. sexy.”

Lack of Labeling “Healthy skin, even if less tan, is far sexThe nonprofit Consumers Union, which ier than fatal skin cancer,” the report says.

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cell phones pose a health risk, the proposal is moving forward in progressive San Francisco, where residents already face mandatory composting and a plastic bag ban.

“It’s information that’s out there if you’re willing to look hard enough,” mayoral spokesman Tony Winnicker told the Times. “And we think that for the consumer for whom this is an area of concern, it ought to be easier to find.”

The National Cancer Institute and the FCC say they are monitoring ongoing medical studies on the issue but say there is no scientific evidence that phones are hazardous, the Times said.

A trade group representing the cell informed choices,” Supervisor Sophie phone industry opposes the measure.

Maxwell, the chief sponsor of the meaThe information retailers must post sure, told the Chronicle. “will potentially mislead consumers with The Environmental Working Group point-of-sale requirements suggesting praised the vote, with Renee Sharp, dithat some phones are ‘safer’ than others, rector of the group’s California office, based on radio frequency emissions,” telling the Chronicle: “We hope it’s the John Walls, a spokesman for CTIA - The beginning of a movement that won’t stop Wireless Association, told the Chronicle. until everybody shopping for a phone has “We believe there is an overwhelming easy access to this information.” consensus of scienThe labeling retific belief that there quirement would be is no adverse health “This is about helping people phased in, starting effect by using wiremake informed choices,” in February, and the less devices,” Walls hundreds of outlets told the Times, “and that sell cell phones this kind of labeling gets away from what in the city could face fines of up to $300 the FCC’s standard actually represents.” for noncompliance, the Chronicle said.

Small businesses also have been fightSimilar proposals have failed, the Times ing the bill, saying they don’t want more said, noting that earlier this month, the government mandates while the economy California Senate rejected a more wideis suffering. ranging labeling bill. A cell phone warnBut others see the measure as a pro-coning label requirement -- like those for sumer issue. cigarette packages -- was voted down in “This is about helping people make Maine in March.

Professional Baseball Faces Loaded Issue: Mental Health

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came unable to throw strikes just two seasons later. Mets catcher Mackey Sasser, after a 1990 collision at home plate, began to struggle with the mundane task of throwing the ball back to the pitcher.

Other sports have their well-studied illnesses. Golfers have the “yips,” a nervousness that leads to flubbed putts. Archers have target panic, a psychological condition which leads program, which is monitored reguthem to release an arrow too soon. larly by the commissioner’s office, Professional athletes in other sports according to Rob Manfred, executive have acknowledged debilitating anxivice president of labor relations in the ety, though often the disclosures have baseball commissioner’s office. Mencome after retirement. National Foottal illness is treated “no differently” ball League running back Ricky Wilthan physical injury, he said. liams suffered severe social anxiety.

And the same drive that successfully Another onetime NFL star, Herschel propels athletes to the professional Walker, disclosed in a 2008 book that level can then exacerbate failures by he suffers from dissociative identity making ballplayers become excesdisorder, formerly called sively hard on themSlips in performance selves, multiple personality dispsychologists don’t go unnoticed by say. order.

Boxer Mike Tyson 50,000 people in a Marc Strickland, a psyhas said he experiences chologist in Phoenix stadium chronic depression, as who works with a major has National Basketball Association league team, says he educates coachplayer Vin Baker. Olympic roades and trainers about signs of significycling champion Tyler Hamilton cant anxiety, including sudden and revealed he suffered from clinical desweating or shallow or rapid breathpression shortly before being banned ing beyond what is normal in a game. from the sport this spring for eight Players who are struggling might also years, effectively ending his career. complain about having trouble focusThe public’s perception that profesing, or, for pitchers, being unable to sional athletes are impervious to the “feel the ball” in their hand, he says. challenges afflicting mere mortals To treat anxiety, psychologists use makes it harder for athletes to admit many of the same approaches as they their struggles. And people who work would for the general population, with top athletes say their high public such as teaching coping skills like reprofile leaves them especially vulnerlaxation or breathing exercises. able to anxiety. The stakes are high.

Dr. Strickland also tries to reassure Slips in performance don’t go unnoplayers that anxiety is normal and that ticed by 50,000 people in a stadium, it can be used to their benefit. “Anxisome of whom are happy to provide ety is a symptom that tells me you’re less-than-constructive feedback. ready to play,” he tells players. The For the last 20 years, MLB policy key is to “get the butterflies lined up has dictated that each club maintain in the same direction.” a confidential employee assistance

Police: Man solicited homeless to commit murder

By AP Santa Monica police say a celebrity chef on the Food Network has been arrested for allegedly trying to solicit homeless people to commit a murder.

Police Sgt. Jay Trisler says Juan-Carlos Cruz was arrested Thursday and booked on suspicion of solicitation to commit murder.

Trisler says officers were contacted on May 7 by homeless individuals who were solicited by the suspect to kill someone.

Trisler says the people who were solic-

ited agreed to help Santa Monica police in the investigation. During the investigation, detectives learned the murder-forhire method, where and when the individual was to be killed and the terms of payment.

Trisler says the intended victim has been notified.

Cruz hosts the Food Network program, “Calorie Commando.”

He’s being held on $5 million bail.

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Community Corner Crisis Core Friendship

One was named Cloud and the other named Zack Both of them became friends on a cold day They would always defend the other’s back Both hoped that it will always stay this way It was hard to always stay together One was a SOLDIER, the other a grunt But managed to remain friends forever Cloud was quiet, while Zack was loud and blunt Suddenly, they both became fugitives Cloud was torn apart by Zack’s slow, strong, death Zack was dying, yet he stayed positive He said farewell and took in his last breath The friendship was strong, they were like brothers The bond was so great, there was no other Eironea Heydrich

Remember the time when you held me close?

The time you said you would never let go The time you compared me to a red rose It feels like that time was ages ago I still remember your loving embrace Even though you miles from my side The way my heart stopped when i say your face The day our worlds decided to collide I still think of you every single day Everytime I was with you things felt right I wish the smooth breeze would drift me away and place me in your warming arms tonight As long as the moon brings light to the dark My memories will light up like a spark Gisela Jorge

True Friendship

Do you think that it’s fun to be alone?

Do you think for some it is a pleasure?

Imagine never hearing your cell phone.

Imagine not having friends to treasure.

It’s not a feeling you want to come by.

It’s not like having a day off from school.

It makes people want to sit down and cry.

It makes you feel like you’re a useless fool.

So why do people ignore each other?

They wouldn’t also want to be ignored.

Why do we abandon one another?

We wouldn’t want to feel lonely and bored.

We need to stop our horrendous hating.

Let’s all try to start appreciating.

Fernando Rabel

Can anything be compared to true friends?

We have our sweet and girly memories.

Plus a fair share of crazy, dorky trends.

In bad times we’ll comfort, in good we’ll tease.

Can the job of a true friend be busy?

Can it be made up for with all the fun?

Laughing so hard we get ourselves dizzy, with our smiles beaming as bright as the sun.

Will our fights be the thunderstorms of our lives?

When they start I think I can hear hell rejoice.

To split us up would sting worse than sharp knives.

Apologizing is the only choice.

I always feel giddy when they are around.

That’s why truer friends can never be found.

Jocelyn I am alone with no one to save me I am faced with something worse than death lone A pain in my heart that stings like a bee As I relive the memories of home My hope fades in abyss forever lost As old friends die in the midst of this war I am stained with scars the color of frost I pray to god to see the bright white door The desire to be greeted by death But to only be stopped by inner fear As I slowly counted my final breath Before I thought, I was finally here I awake from my dream, just one more day Isolated was I, from group away Nicholas

“Crashing Fairytale”

I’m living in this made up fairy tale I keep on avoiding reality These nuisances pelt down on me like hail Why is life such an abnormality?

I am a chameleon, I’m blending I have the spotlight on me, I stand out What once was lament is now self loathing Whispers suffocate me roaming about Been forced to build up this world of magic Maybe one day this vehement haze clears And maybe my life won’t be so tragic I have to cleanse myself of all my fears But Darkness smiles, says “forget tomorrow” Then haze engulfs me just like the sorrow Rachel Fernandez

Imperfect Paradise The Crystalline gems populate the sand.* That feeling, that warmth, embraces your feet.

Leaves of the tropics sway way out of hand.

An area where seagulls will soon meet.

Beholding one’s eyes, tis a sea of blue.

Cascading waves, it is such a pleasure.

This setting of mine, you haven’t a clue.

A setting so calm, tis without measure.

Yet this heaven of mine, is not complete.

Is something missing?

Why of course, tis thee.

The comfort of friends, is indeed a feat.

A feeling unmatched, as true eyes can see.

Friendship be the path to true contentment.

With it, ones life, it has no resentment.

William G. Stahovec

“Hating Homework”

My Girl

I love the way she makes me laugh all day, even when I am not in a good mood.

I love how she would sit with me and stay, as we ate our delicious food.

As I thought that this day was O so great, her boyfriend came and took her away.

My heart sunk and it filled with hate, I walked away telling myself no way.

I soon try to forget about my love, but I can’t get rid of my love for her.

My love is like the love of two white doves, I want to hit him in the jugular.

I then find her on the sidewalk crying, She tells me her boyfriend broke up with her.

I make her smile filling her with laughter, she held my hand and we walked together.

Eric

I can’t believe how much I hate homework Why is it that teachers just make me rhyme?

It’s not really my thing to do hard work Yet, I’ve been writing poems all the time.

Forgive me, because I always stutter My head has turned into a scary mess I’m trying to organize the clutter Why can’t you see I’ve been doing my best?

Teachers oh, teachers why do you hate me?

With all this work I can’t do anything Please, please take me out of my misery Assign me something more entertaining I’m hating this work; it’s a piece of crap So why don’t you all just cut me some slack Brandon Ronda

Is it Love or Addiction?

How can heaven live without its angel?

Nobody knows, yet I won’t complain Because I cannot bear to say farewell, And all addicts crave candy-coated pain.

In terms of shine, she would outlast the Sun And her eyes are deeper than the ocean, Yet I feel impaled by a harpoon gun Due to her spiritless emotion.

Should Death’s vile shadow envelop her soul I would become a mere shell of despair; Because, as hell burns its anthracite coal, I would yearn for your fatal, loving care.

The cause of my undying love for her, Is the hypnotism of her allure.

Damian Hernandez

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