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Show T &mrn jft jSiSw idKTjrti Scott Borgioli Chief Emergency Communication Center Officer!Incident CommanderChief Radio Officer US Department of Commerce National Weather Service you. Also consider that if fhmily members work or frequently travel to another city, roads may be blocked or unsafe to travel. Thus, arrange for those members away from the general home area to divert to a close friends house in the city they frequent. Have them stay there until the ail clear" is given. You (and they) will be more assured of their safety. Have backup friends, too. Consider you will not be able to communicate with them for at least four to 24 hours again, at least Ensure that you frequently refuel your vehicles and that the tanks are always fill. Those of you who frequently let your car go below a half a tank may not get home if youre stuck in local traffic. The last thing you want is to run out of gas. Remember, gas stations need electricity to run and in a terrorist situation, they may be ordered to shut down even if there is electricity available. Always cany cash and lower dollar bills. In a situation with communications failure, no store can process credit cardATM transactions because these require phone lines. If you frequently forget to keep cash on you, have $40 in loose bills stored in a secret spot in the car you use the most. This way, if you get caught on As an Emergency Manager with the US Government, I have privileged information to the current event and those event that may happen in the near fliture. At this time, I want to take this opportunity to give you some general advice for survival if a terrorist act hits veiy close to home that could potentially incapacitate you. Heres some suggestions to be prepared: Treat this situation as if it were a major earthquake. If terrorism strikes in your state or even region, cellular phone systems will go out due to overloading of the system and the resultant crash of the network. Also your regular phones may be disrupted and the state of emergency of your may result in regions lines being turned off for periods of time so that the system doesnt overload. This is similar to rotatingblackouts, only on the phone lines. Thus, develop a plan for you and your family members so that you can either meet or be assured they one-thir- d will know how to regain contact with the road without cash, you have that aecret stash. Keep enough water on hand for one week. Also keep fresh water in your cars. Purified water is best. Our municipal water systems are at risk. One week will be sufficient for trucked water to make it in. The traditional three days is too short. Have your pantries stocked with food for one week too. This should be food that is very simple to make. You should also have enough packaged food for a few days that require no cooking; should the electric systems be taken out It is a good idea to have a portable emergency kit in a large duffel bag containing the above items, should you (heaven forbid) ever need to be evacuated. This way, you can grab the bag and go. Essential items should include medicines (for one weeks supply), toilet paper, toothbrushes and paste, band aanitiser, waterfood, flashlights, portable radios with plenty of batteries, pen and paper, whistle, rope, duct tape, blankets, general toiletries, and anything else you feel to sustain you for one week. Believe it or not, this can all fit into one large duffel bag for a regular sized famity. Pets. Make sure you have the appropriate carriers for your pets and plan for extra water and food for them. It is a good idea to buy a small bag of food for them and store it with that emergency duffel bag. Store leasheocollan, and extra water. Do NOT leave pets unattended. In emergency situations, they know something is wrong and are scared easily theymay eventry torunaway. Be mindfol of this. In extreme cases, the Red Cross and local governments utilise Amateur Radio as a way to pass welfare traffic. The terrorist acta in NYC left Amateur Radio as the ONLY means of communications in or out of the dispatch center city. The cities wee on the 12th floor of one of the Towers. That went down and so did their system for the whole . -1 city. Ifyou evacuate, it is best to go to the Red Cross and have HAM radio pass welfare traffic to your loved one across the country. If you are home when situation occurs, stay there. Do not go out and drive around or wander. Subsequent events can immobilise you away from home end create undue worry in your family. Doing this also hampers emergency efforts end obefforts. structs Stay olf the phone. Calling everyone in the world ties up the phone system and obstructs emergency services. It is best to cell one party out of state and have them contact everyone else to let them know you are okay. The notion that this cant happen here was proved wrong. It can and will happen anywhere. Report suspicious circumstances to law enforcement immediately. Let them determine the severity of the situation. If government soya get out or to watch out for certain places, don't take it lightly. This ia real. life-savi- If you cant ever get your fill a Fudd, or are just daffy over a certain "little black duck, a new, interactive Web site may fit very well with your Tasmanian attitude. The aits for all thing Looney Tunes may have its share of Bugs, but theres plenty to do for both children and older fans of the classic cartoon characters, lb learn more, visit Devil-may-ca- re www.looneytunes.cain. -1 I The Internet: A taxing problem By Edwin Feulner Hey...tHeyVe only my leaves if they Um d on my side or the fence UTAHS ONLY COMPLETEHAIR RESTORATION CBiTBt Men & Women It. Stop toIt. 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So Im not surprised to learn that 40 ofthe nations governors are urging Congress to allowthem to taxlntemet purchases. With the federal moratorium on Internet taxes slated to end Oct. 21, states facing higher budgets are looking&t Internet taxes the way a fiat man on a diet looks at an icecream sundae. And if they can pull it off, the states could net an extra $30 billion hy2003,Gov.JimGeringer,R-Wyo.- , recently told the National Governors Association. Of course, theyre all eyeing the same sundae- - and they all want it made differently. There ere about 30,000 taxjurisdictions in the United States, and 7,600 of them levy sales taxes. Few, if any, impose those taxes the same way on the same things. Washington, D.C., once hada popcorn tax that applied to popped popcorn but not to unpopped kernels. Florida taxes charcoal if its used for cookouta, but not if its used for gardening. You can imaging how the hair splitting nuances of tax polity could create a mess for Internet businesses, which offer everything from pants to peacocks to Porsches. Another problem with an Internet tax is the question ofwho can be taxed in the first place. Both the Supreme Court and the Constitution say that states can impose Bales taxes onoorn-panie- a and people within their borders. But with the Internet, itspos-aibl-e to buy something from a loudness in Hawaii without leaving your home in Maine.Sowho pays the Bales tax? The company in Hawaii? The buyer in Maine? Neither? Unfortunately, many governors think the answer should bis "both. Theyve already proposed something called the Streamlined Sales Tax Prqjent, which they say would simplify state and local tax definitions, exemptions and rates. But its realty a step toward a national sales tax, which ia hardly something Americans need, considering the numberof taxes they already pay, from sales tax, income taxes and property taxes to death taxes, payroll taxes and socalled sin taxes. If states must impose an Internet sales tax, they should follow the example of catalog companies, which tax onty people who live in the same state as the businesses they're buying from. After all, the Internet ia essentially a catalog that moves at the speed of a mouse click. But the best solution would be to make the moratorium permanent. would spoil perhaps the greatest business development since the creation of money. Thanks to the Internet, you can buy anything, anytime, anywhere in a marketplace bigger than anything even the greatest economist Adam Smith could have dreamed of. Now 40 governors want to spoil es this great $4,495 55,950 56.995 512,575 WISs wDect r Ballard-Ro4sevl- $48,995 Plus ddivtfy setup. FEATURING a Home.' Wholesale Prices Direct to the Public SINRlFsrfrnniS16!99SD0UBlES?fc6nf$2495L summer vacation increase your credit card debt? Answer hy: Bariaru Rowe, UtahState University Extension Resource Management Specialist with information from Stephen Advokai, managing editor of www.directadvice.com Approximately 80 percent of summer vacations were charged to credit cards this year. That figure ia up from last years 74 percent. The cost of flin in the sun is also higher, averaging $3,156 per household. That is 40 percent more then last years $2,274 vacation, according to a survey of 1,000 households. Ifyou charged your vacation and paid it off within a month, youre in good financial shape. But of those surveyed, approximately half said they expected to pay for their vacation over time. This turns a getaway into an expensive financial commitment. If you charged a vacation that coat $3,155 on a credit card with an annual rate of 17 percent and made the minimum 2.5 percent payment (about $79 each month), it would take 250 months or 20 years to pay for the vacation. You would pay more than the $3,797 in interest original coat of the vacation. If your credit card balance ia high, try these strategies to more Wholesale Homes Quality Toll T.Pifis 1 -6- 00-242-0060 -- Free quickly reduce the balance. Before you take your next vacation, switch to a credit card with a lower interest rate. If your annual percentage rate ia 8.9 and you make the minimum monthly payment, you will be debt free in about 165 months, or a little under 14 years. You will pay about $1,250 in interest, which is less than halftheamountyou would pay with your old card. Pay more than the minimum monthly requirement. If you charge card your vacation on a and add $50 to your payment each month, you will cut this time it takes to retire the debt to about 105 months or nine years. With this strategy, you will pay $698 in interest as opposed to $1,250. Once you pay off your credit card, avoid interest by charging only what canbe paid in one month. If litis is not possible, make the monthly payment promptly to decrease the average daily balance. Plan and save for vacations and unexpected emergencies. Make regular deposits to a savings low-intere- st account credit For a list of cards, visit the Web sites at http www.bankrate.com and http low-intere- st www.cardweb.com Fall gardening requires faith; but rewards come By Dennis Hinkamp Mutual Binds, religion and fall gardening all require exceptional faith and abstract thought. The work you put into the garden now will not show much immediate profit. Your reward will come, maybe not in heaven, but in spring. One of my favorite foil garden- ingbulbe, says Jerry Goods peed, Utah State University Extension horticulturist. It ia sort of like playing Santa Claus. You hide the bulbs in the ground, then all winter long anticipate the bulbs emerging in the spring to bring exciting colors never Been before in the landscape. To add even more surprise to ng, I just throw the bulbs out and at them where they fall. I normally select a color scheme, but I do not believe in planting bulbs in rows or patterns. I like the way Mother Nature plants bulbs, and she seldom ... uses row and symmetry. Another productive fall activity ia putting organic matter on the garden and flower beds, Goods peed says. A thick blanket of good organic matter covering the area eliminates weed problems, so you can forget about them until spring. Second, the soil improvement from adding organic matter promotes healthier plants the next year. The process of mixing in the organic matter also helps control tome weeds and insects by bringing them to the surface where they are exposed to the harsh winter elements and, hopefully, destroyed. One thing to remember when adding organic matter to the soil ia to apply a little nitrogen to fuel the microbes that break down the material into a nice humus, he adds. Microbes are the good guys and need all the help they can get. As they eat and break down the rough organic matter, they use lots of nitrogen, often robbing it from our beautiful and productive gardens. It is critical to add nitrogen to the soil when working in raw organic matter such aa saw dust, dry manure, leaves and other dead plant materials, Goodspeed says. The amount of nitrogen required depends on the type of organic matter used. As a general rule, apply about one quart of 0 fertiliser per 100 square feet of ground. This should break down inch layer of brown organic matter. Another important fall activity ia dead heading and cutting back all the perennials, he says. This prepares them for spring and makes the garden look nicer and cleaner through the rest of the fall and winter. Make sure you throw the spent seed heads away or into a good compost pile. J ust throwing them back into the bed can cause some serious weed problems the next year. Dead leaves and stems removed from perennials can all be worked back into the soil, Goodspeed says. I also throw it out on the grass, then run over it a time or two with the lawn mower to shred it and throw the contents of the bag back onto the garden to compost during the winter. This improves the soil and reduces the waste sent to the land fill. Fall is also an excellent time to control broadleaf weeds in the garden and the lawn, he says. This time of year moat perennial plants take energy down to their roots to store for the winter. Applyinga good herbicide now will more likely kill the entire plant as it is also taken down to the roots Some chemicals take longer to work in the fall but are actually 21-0-- . more effective. This is especially true for lawn weeds such as dandelions and knot weed, he explains. A good broadleaf weed killer is probably most effective this time of year and can eliminate worry about thoee nasty yellow flowers spotting the lawn coinc spring. Annual weeds such as spurge and crabgrass die with the first good frost, so don't worry about treating them right now. If they have been a mqjor problem in the past, remember to use a next spring. Normally you dont need to prune rosea in the fall, he says. 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