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Recent reports surrounding high levels of lead in artificial turf may, on the surface, be alarming. However, simply put, FieldTurf is safe and the science is there to prove it. Let's review some of the extensive toxicology reports, testing, studies and supporting research.

1 - Background

Synthetic turf is, and has always been safe. In over 40 years of EPA oversight and OSHA-regulated manufacturing, there is no scientific or medical evidence that synthetic turf poses a human health or environmental risk from lead (or from any other material used in our products). While there were over 40,000 cases of elevated lead blood levels reported in children in 2006, there was not one case caused by synthetic turf and there has not been one single case reported since synthetic turf was introduced in the US marketplace over 40 years ago.

Lead chromate is a stable compound that was widely used by yarn manufacturers until around 2002 in the form of Chrome Yellow to create colorfast yarns that would not leach or "bleed."

Dr. Davis Lee, Ph.D, Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Executive in Residence at the Georgia, Institute of Technology Avenue south residence brochure  School of Polymer, Textile, and Fiber Engineering, said, "If a green synthetic turf field containing lead chromate is still green, then the lead chromate is still in the yarn. If the Yellow Chromate had leached out, the field would likely be blue."

Yarns containing lead chromate were used (and are still found in) household and commercial carpet as well as in synthetic turf. The chemistry of lead chromate is completely different than lead carbonate that was previously used in household paint.

"Lead chromate is stable when encapsulated in the fiber into which it is extruded. Being encapsulated in the fiber, the lead in the lead chromate is not readily bio-available - meaning that even if the yarn breaks down, the lead in the complex compound which is lead chromate is not readily absorbed by the body," states clinical and forensic toxicologist, Dr. David Black, Ph.D., of Aegis Sciences Corporation.

Lead chromate was chosen for use in the carpet industry because chemists and toxicologists consider it a safe compound when encapsulated in extruded yarn.

Yarn manufacturers began moving to alternative pigments in the late 1990's due to new European waste management regulations regarding disposing of heavy metals. According to Dr. Lee, "If synthetic yarns containing lead chromate are burned, the lead in the lead chromate can be released into the atmosphere."

Even though there are no similar regulations regarding the disposal of carpet containing lead chromate in the US, nearly all synthetic turf became virtually lead-free by around 2003. Importantly, there were never any health concerns over lead chromate in synthetic turf either in the US or in Europe.

Until very recently, lead chromate has been used in bright yellows and reds in some FieldTurf logo applications and in some cases, in the pigment used in yellow yarn that makes up the lines on some FieldTurf soccer fields. Even though the use of lead chromate in these applications is completely safe, we have moved away from the use of any lead chromate to eliminate any confusion with our consumers over product safety.

2 - Key Findings

Lead chromate has been used in a number of synthetic turf fields to extend the life of its colorfastness. Testing three fields in New Jersey with elevated lead levels, the NJDHSS focused on the bioaccessibility of synthetic turf, which it defines as "the fraction of a substance in a material that is soluble and made available for absorption" by the body. Findings validated the Synthetic Turf Council's position, based on science and expert opinion, that lead chromate's extremely low bioavailability prevents it from being readily absorbed by the human body.

From its tests, the NJDHSS reported that the amount of lead chromate contained in fibers from the three fields available for absorption in the intestine, which is where food altered by stomach acid is absorbed by the blood and lymphatic systems, ranged from 2.5% to 11%. We used the most extreme scenario, 11%, to calculate the amount of turf that would have to be ingested to equal the federal standard of 600 parts per million. In practical terms, it is virtually impossible for a child to be at risk from synthetic turf:

According to calculations made by forensic toxicologist Dr. David Black, a 50 lb. child would have to ingest over 100 lbs. of synthetic turf to be at risk of absorbing enough lead to equal the minimum threshold of elevated blood lead.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission's guidance states that young children "should not chronically ingest more than 15 micrograms of lead per day from consumer products." Putting these test results in perspective, polymer and fiber engineering specialist Dr. Davis Lee calculated that a child playing on the three New Jersey fields would have to wipe his fingers on the turf and put them in his mouth 750 times in a day to receive enough lead to equal the CPSC threshold level.

Dr. David Black performed the same tests as the NJDHSS, using the same protocol during late May, which showed an average bioaccessibility of 4%. The results of the two tests are similar and validate the safety of synthetic turf, including the synthetic turf NJDHSS reported to contain concentrations of lead chromate of between 3,400 and 4,700 part per million

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Do thoughts about the need for a website keep drifting across your mind? Are you just not sure what your business strategy or internet technology should be? To help you make a valid decision, on building or improving your website, consider the following components.

First, start thinking about a domain name. The domain name is equivalent to your bricks and mortar street address name. In New York, the big names are Park Ave, Madison Avenue or Fifth Avenue? On the internet, people can easily remember IBM.com or SUN.com or TechOSS.com versus WillieBusinessdomainandWebhostingFactory dot com. The longer the website name is, the harder it will be for your customer to recall your domain name.

Second, you need to think about the space that the domain name will represent. Just like you have a physical store that was either rented, leased or purchased from someone. Well in the world of the internet, your website resides somewhere so your ISP or internet service provider is the one who will host your website. Define and research who that vendor will be.

Third, what will the website and space, look and feel like to your customers? Now you will have to define what your website "store front" will look like? What will the layout of the web store or design become? On the internet you need to think about your customers and Avenue south residence price list  what they like. How will they navigate around and through your products and services? Are there absolute must have requirements for your business type? Will your customers all be local or will some of them be international? These answers drive an additional set of requirements.

Fourth, let's define what is your monetization strategy? At this step you may just be extending your offline business model and you already have a pretty well defined idea of what you will do to make money? You will learn that on the internet there are many monetization strategies available. Think about whether your website will be used as an ecommerce site, an affiliate product promotions website, a coaching website or just a place to make money from say Google ads?

Fifth define how you will get the word out and attract people to your new website storefront. There are many, many ways to attract customers to your website business. Questions to be answered are how will you communicate your benefits to your prospective customers to make sure they continually find you? You need to get your website recognized by the internet community just like the post office recognizes a street address and the phone company recognizes a telephone number. Here you need think through search engine registration, optimization, keyword selection, autoresponder and more.

Sixth -What communication vehicles best suit the way you interact with your customers? Will it be email, instant messaging, article marketing, a blogsite and one of the many others tools? Have you thought through how many email addresses you need? You need to make sure your web collaboration tools help not hinder getting your message to your customers?

Seventh - define your best use of time, money and energy? When you walk yourself through the above, make some notes because now is the time to contact your prospective web designer and get them help you clarify your thinking. That web designer can be you if you are technically proficient. You or your web designer can help you decide which type of website works best for your business model; a BLOG, an HTML website or both? You also can think through whether to have one website or many websites?

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The Exoticization of the feminine is a unique cross to bear for the non Western European Anglo-Saxon, Nordic, Celtic, or Teutonic female. For years in the West, at least in the world of Madison Avenue advertising, the revered concept for feminine beauty was the blue-eyed blonde from Southern California. The blonder the better, the bluer the eyes the better, and the more buxom the better, for it was revered as a modern version of Aphrodite, the ancient Greek goddess of Love, Sexuality, and Beauty. Many females are epitomized this quintessential gold standard of what a woman must physically look like to be worshiped .... Christie Brinkley, Bridgit Bardot, Claudia Schiffer, Farrah Fawcett, and Pamela Anderson who has personified her best in commercial history.

So what happens to the women who will never fit into that mold?

A variety of things. In my case I was the adult version of the little Asian girl in the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty Ad who seemed as if she would cry because as the caption said "Wishes she were blonde". Since my early adolescence, especially growing up in a predominantly homogenous city in the West, this was a latent wish. If only I looked like that I would be accepted, loved, adored, included, and treated as a human being. Remember that this was the late 80's/early 90's in Calgary, Alberta, a city that was the Canadian version of Houston, Texas complete with attitudes and prejudices. My looks gave me a feeling of being an alien and a Avenue south residences condo  deep rejection at the alienation of peers.

When I was barely 17 I moved to Toronto, 3000 miles east, and the most multicultural city in the world according to the United Nations. I was running away from the Rocky Mountain town of my childhood in Calgary, Alberta, Canada and my first "puppy love" who was the only safe person in my adolescent peer group. He was kind, accepting, and a friend who seem to want to make me feel better. I was also so vulnerable that I felt a reinforced romantic inferiority when he dated Miss Teen Calgary and every other Stampede Princess around. He was handsome, athletic, intelligent, popular, and came from a good family. He loved blondes but dated the occasional redhead and brunette.

Once in Toronto I was no longer odd looking but I was to experience the exoticization of my looks. People related to me as a culture, or a set of conceived notion of subservient Filipino women, and spoke to me in Tagalog, one of a thousand dialects from the Philippines which I never learned because my dialect was the very different Visayan. Men would flirt with me by using Filipino words that were more foreign to me than them. Some would sing the Philippine national anthem which they understood and yet I could not verify if it were true. Men and women assumed I was either a nanny who spoke accented English or came to Canada as a mail order bride. Even when I spoke in a Canadian accent and explained that I had grown up here since age two it seemed not to register. I was treated or expected to be the image presented on a Philippine Tourist Ad in travel agencies. When my personality was seen as opposite that anyone interested would quickly vanish because it did not fit into their mental construct of what an Asian woman was like. So the early twenties was single doom to a hilt and once again, Blondie got the invitations, dates, and love and romance galore in my eyes. Either I was a female but exotic in looks but not temperament or just "not from the background wanted". Fighting against my own cultural demands on women and the dominant Western culture was a double whammy that seared into my mind that it, love, was not for me. I invested all my energy into work and hobbies and making friends and divorced myself from the mere possibility of romance. Sure I went through a phase of dating Bay Street types but it was "just lunch dates between work".

Coinciding with this inner ethnic battle was the huge popularity of Baywatch in the early 90's and the superstardom of Pamela Anderson as the most desired lifeguard on the planet. Living in University residence had many girls adopt her look and many boys hang her picture (clothes and not all) on their walls. Being this latest variation of the blonde goddess complements of syndicated TV in her newest incarnation of busty all out sex pot worked. I just had to count the dates. So once again it was driven inside at a greater force than before. The natural female desire to be noticed and replaced by a drive to be busy and be productive like a good Protestant work ethic would entail yet never mind I was Catholic. A part of me was sad and resigned and workaholic busyness was my anesthetic of choice. It was admirable but it didn't heal my heartbreak. Why would I settle to be with someone who only liked me because of some exoticization concept in their mind that I would have to play into? In my defiance and in sour grapes I decided to be myself and really be clear I was not that. My Asian stereotype pressure was disempowering.

Throughout my twenties I deliberately dyed my hair blue-black with an indigo sheen. I wore colors that favored my coloring. I was very serious about things. Too serious.

Where did I fit in this exoticization game because dates were few and far between? Who would date a workaholic serious all the time with a chip on her shoulder? The inner rejection continued through University, work life, and as I approached my late twenties had grown into such an emotional inferno that I consulted a plastic surgeon trained in Japan and the United States to have my eyes westernized and my nose made sharper. I was only 26 years old when this fixation dawned on me and spent three years attempting to raise funds for the double procedure. It was a yearning to be seen as me and a try at evading a more personal healing process requiring an exorcism of exoticization and its emotional demons.

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If you've run up your debt to a point where you feel you can't get out, personal bankruptcy may be the way for you to get some relief. However, the decision to file bankruptcy is not a light one, and you should give some serious consideration to this before you contact an attorney. It will affect your ability to obtain credit in the future, and may keep your credit frozen for some time. It is important that you do not file bankruptcy unless you have exhausted all other options. If your debt is not too excessive and you have the means to pay it off, start with a credit counselor to see if you might qualify for some other program. If you are planning on buying a new home or vehicle in the near future, you do not want to go this route because even if you do get approved for the loan, the interest rate will be sky high.

Bankruptcy is a legal process that works one of two ways. You can either have all your debt wiped out and start all over again, or you can have an opportunity to pay your debts off in three to five years without worry of being harassed by bill collectors. Personal bankruptcy simply means that you are doing this for your own credit rather than that of a business.

The two major types of personal bankruptcy are Chapter 7 and Chapter 13. In a Chapter 7 bankruptcy, you ask the court to wipe away, or discharge, your debts. In exchange, you give up certain Avenue south residence  property to be sold and used to pay your creditors. This is the most popular type of bankruptcy, and it is the one most people file. However, this type is becoming much harder to obtain, especially in certain states since bankruptcy law has some variations from state to state, and you must file in the state in which you reside.

When you file Chapter 7, it does not apply to secured loans such as your car or mortgage, and if you are behind, you usually must pay them off immediately. This means with this type of bankruptcy you have a much better chance of losing your property or car.

With Chapter 13, you file a plan on how you will pay back some of your debt. Certain debts have priority, and usually you must use all your extra income in payments. But this can help you keep your car or home if you have fallen behind on your payments. If you don't file personal bankruptcy, the creditors have many avenues to try to reclaim their debt, including ones that may leave you without any money at all.