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6/25/07 - Some authorities plan to intensify efforts to make sure Rock River Valley residents have safe, happy and legal Fourth of July celebrations.
As Independence Day draws nearer, some Rock River Valley residents have already made their annual trek to Wisconsin, Indiana or Missouri.
There, they can purchase an array of colorful, highflying and often teeth-rattling fireworks — whether it's a brick of firecrackers, mortars that shoot bursts of sparks into the air or fountains that light up an entire backyard.
They're all illegal and not sold in Illinois.
"We have a show every year," said Steven James, 27, of Rockford. He was on his way back home after a trip to the Madison Zoo when he pulled off Interstate 90 to check out the selection at Cornellier Superstore, which advertises, among other things, fireworks and cheese on its awning.
"I like anything that shoots high and explodes," he said.
James didn't pick up anything — except for a flier listing all of Cornellier's products — but others were buying, literally, by the trunkload.
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"This is the last one of these we have," employee Tyler Nelson, 15, said, placing his hand on an assortment package of fireworks that retails for $600 but was marked down to $499.
In his best estimate, the store had sold 47 of the $600 assortment packs since the beginning of June and an untold amount of smaller fireworks collections and singles.
"Next week is when we get really busy," he said. "But we sell year-round. We sell a lot for other holidays like Memorial Day, Father's Day, Mother's Day ... (and) just for family outings like birthday parties and stuff."
It was a similar story across the street at Phantom Fireworks.
Assistant Manager Kary Singh said business has been brisk, and he expects next week to be even busier.
"First thing people have to do (to buy fireworks) is prove that they are 18," Singh said. "We also have them register, and they have to sign a form that says they will abide by the rules in their community when they use them."
One such rule that is being enforced in Beloit prohibits the sale of bottle rockets and other explosives to people who are going to use them in the city limits.
"We direct the people from Beloit to the 'safe and sane' display," Singh said. "Those are things like sparklers and fountains that are more safe."
Still, Phantom, Cornellier's and presumably other Wisconsin fireworks purveyors make a good number of sales to out-of-towners.
"We get people from Illinois, the Chicago-area and other places," Singh said.
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But firefighters and village officials want to remind Rock River Valley residents of the dangers associated with the explosive devices, which injure thousands and kill a half-dozen in the U.S. every year.
While most police and fire departments say they'll warn people and confiscate illegal items the first time, others are growing less tolerant and will often fine those setting off fireworks.
"Every situation is different," Rockton Police Chief Steve Dickson said. "If we find somebody who has a full-fledged aerial display or someone who is repeat offender, we will confiscate the items, destroy them and fine the offenders."
In Rockton, those fines can be as much as $750.
Most local firefighters or police officers have stories about a personal or property disaster caused by careless use of fireworks.
Belvidere Fire Chief Dave Worrell recalls a house set on fire after children playing with sparklers indoors ignited the carpet.
In 2005, three Rockford houses caught fire because of fireworks, Rockford fire investigator Mark Marinaro said.
And last year, 42 people were charged, given a notice to appear in court and fined up to $500. It represented a 600 percent increase over a year earlier, he said, as Rockford intensified its efforts against illegal fireworks, something it plans to do again this year.
"We've already had one grass fire that was started by illegal fireworks, and we have confiscated some illegal items from another neighborhood," Marinaro said. "We'll be doing spot checks, and this year's enforcement will probably exceed last year's."
Potential problems
In Byron, police Sgt. Jim Wilcox said his department gets calls at all hours as the Fourth approaches.
And the ones that come at 3 a.m. and involve firecrackers under someone's window are particularly aggravating. Those will immediately draw fines and can lead to an arrest if misconduct or additional safety issues are involved, Wilcox said.
Worrell said his department has seen an increase in recent years in larger displays as people seem to be able to afford more fireworks. Availability remains a key issue.
And when it's dry, which it can be around the Fourth, the colorful sparks can cause additional problems, he said.
Aside from the traditional sellers, some fireworks purveyors set up tents in parking lots.
"Every year it seems that there are a few that pop up here and there," said Chief Deputy Dominic Iasparro of the Winnebago County Sheriff's Department. "I haven't seen any so far this year. If the past is any indication of the future, we'll have some coming in the week before" the holiday.
A quick check of Boone and Ogle counties also found no tents set up yet this year. Often, controversy arises over the types of items being sold inside the tents.
When those stands do set up in the sheriff's jurisdiction, Iasparro said, officers will inspect the merchandise being sold.
"If there's something being sold that's illegal, that will lead to arrests and/or confiscation," Iasparro said.
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The District of Columbia and 39 states, including Wisconsin, Indiana and Missouri, allow consumer fireworks. Illinois is among five states that allow sparklers and novelties including snake/glow worm pellets, smoke devices, trick noisemakers, and plastic or paper caps. Arizona allows only novelty items; five states ban all consumer fireworks.
What's legal, what's not
Illinois allows: Sparklers
Illinois prohibits: Firecrackers, torpedoes, skyrockets, Roman candles and smoke bombs.
Wisconsin allows: Cylinder fountains, cone fountains, sparklers containing no magnesium, chlorate or perchlorate; snakes containing no mercury; and small smoke devices.
Wisconsin prohibits: Firecrackers, wheels, torpedoes, skyrockets, Roman candles, aerial salutes and smoke bombs.
Penalties for violators
Violating the Illinois Fireworks Regulation Act is a Class B misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of up to $1,500 and a maximum jail sentence of six months.
What's legal in Illinois
Sparklers: The hand-held firework burns slowly while emitting colored sparks. The classic sparkler consists of a thin metal or wooden rod about a foot long that has been dipped in a thick batter of pyrotechnic composition that emits sparks when lit.
Smoke bombs produce colored smoke when lit. There are two main varieties: balls, which are hollow, cherry-sized spheres of colored clay filled with a smoke composition; and canisters, cylindrical cardboard tubes that create a thick cloud of smoke.
Snakes and glowworms: These novelty items are pressed pellets of pyrotechnic composition, usually about the size of an aspirin. When lit, they produce a large, snakelike ash. The ash expands in length, twisting and coiling as the pellet burns.
Snaps, party poppers or noisemakers: Also called snappers and poppers. The small pellets are thrown on a hard surface and make a caplike popping sound. These also can be hand-held devices loaded with a cap that produces a small report and propels confetti or crepe streamers into the air.
Cap guns: A plastic or metal toy gun in which a round of shots can be fired. The round is typically a ring of pyrotechnic composition that emits a popping noise when the gun is fired.
What's not legal
Illinois: Anything not included in the list above, including firecrackers, torpedoes, skyrockets, bottle rockets and Roman candles.
Sources: The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, Register Star archives, local fire officials
What you can do
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission offers these tips for fireworks safety:
Do not allow children to play with fireworks.
Sparklers, considered by many the "safe" firework for children, burn at up to 1,700 degrees and can easily ignite clothing.
Older children should only be permitted to use fireworks under close adult supervision. Do not allow running or horseplay.
Light fireworks outdoors in a clear area, away from houses, dry leaves or grass, and flammable materials.
Keep a bucket of water nearby for emergencies and for pouring on fireworks that don't go off.
Be sure other people are out of range before lighting fireworks.
Do not try to relight or handle malfunctioning fireworks. Douse them with water and throw away.
Never ignite fireworks in a container, especially a glass or metal container.
Keep unused fireworks away from firing areas.
Store fireworks in a dry, cool place. Check instructions for special storage directions.
Observe local laws.
Never have any portion of your body directly over a firework while lighting.
Don't experiment with homemade fireworks.


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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said today it is calling on the nation's pork, beef, and poultry producers to reduce their use of antibiotics. But some watchdog groups say this voluntary guidance doesn't go nearly far enough.
The issue has been contentious for decades. Just last month, a federal judge ruled that the FDA had to go ahead with a plan it proposed in 1977 that would ban the use of some antibiotics as a growth promoter in animals.
Farm animals in the U.S. actually consume far more antibiotics than people do in part because producers want to keep their animals healthy. But a big reason animals routinely get antibiotics is that the drugs also make them grow faster.
For years, the FDA has been saying that practice is both unnecessary and dangerous. It increases the chances that bacteria in animals will become resistant to drugs — and those drug-resistant bacteria can then infect people. But that hasn't significantly reduced use.
Today, the FDA unveiled a plan aimed at ending the use of antibiotics for growth promotion. It's the formal and more detailed version of draft guidelines issued in 2010, which lays out a roadmap for making it happen.
Rather than banning that use, the agency aims to collaborate with drug companies, veterinarians, and livestock producers.
Update at 5:32 PM ET: That collaboration will be voluntary. Michael Taylor, the FDA's Deputy Commissioner for Food, says this will be a more effective approach, because any attempt to ban specific uses of more than a hundred separate drugs — and then defend each one in court — would be a hugely cumbersome undertaking: "Decades of effort, and millions and millions of dollars of resources."
Scott Hurd, a veterinary scientist at Iowa State University, says that the voluntary approach will have a real effect on farmers' practices. "Even though it's called guidance, people take it as the gospel and the law, so growth promotion usages will go away," he says.
Activists were divided on the FDA announcement.
"This is the most sweeping action the agency has taken in this area, as this covers all antibiotics used in meat and poultry production that are important to human health," said Laura Rogers, director of the Pew Campaign on Human Health and Industrial Farming, in a statement.
But Avinash Kar, an attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council, says today's action is a "make-believe" solution. He wrote: "industry is not required to do anything. This is an ineffective response to the real and sobering threat of rising antibiotic resistance, which threatens human health."
The NRDC is one of several organizations that sued the FDA to force the agency to implement the 1977 proposed ban. That's the lawsuit that the federal judge ruled on last week.
There's an additional complication. The FDA wants to reduce the use of antibiotics for growth promotion, while allowing continued use of the drugs to prevent disease. But what's truly necessary to prevent disease is a matter of interpretation.
Consider what happened when the European Union banned the use of antibiotics for the purpose of animal growth promotion. The law was passed in the late 1990s, but took effect in 2006.
Dik Mevius, a leading expert on antibiotic resistance at the University of Utrecht, in the Netherlands, says meat producers there simply started using more antibiotics for what was still allowed: Preventing disease or treating it. "We saw a more or less doubling of those drugs that were used for therapy, so the total exposure of animals to antibiotics remained virtually the same from 1999 to 2007," he says.
After that, though — and after lots of Dutch pig farmers realized that they and their families were carrying antibiotic-resistant strains of disease-causing bacteria — the Dutch government clamped down hard.
Each farm now has to report how often it uses antibiotics for all purposes. Farms that use a lot are told specifically what they need to do to cut back. The government is funding lots of research into farming methods that don't require antibiotics.
Antibiotic use in the Netherlands is now coming down.
Rogers told NPR that the FDA may need to do something similar so that prescriptions aren't simply re-written to call them disease prevention drugs. "The loophole that does remain is these uses of the drugs for prevention purposes, and they are used in massive quantities. so that's where the FDA is really going to have to dig in," she says.
So stay tuned. Firmer guidance there may now be, but the long wrangle over antibiotics in animals is far from over.
From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Audie Cornish.
And I'm Robert Siegel. The Food and Drug Administration announced a plan today to cut back the use of antibiotics on farm animals. If it works, within three years, pork and chicken producers will no longer use antibiotics to make their animals grow faster.
But NPR's Dan Charles reports, the plan has its share of skeptics because it relies on voluntary cooperation.
DAN CHARLES, BYLINE: Pork and chicken producers use antibiotics to fight off disease, but also to help their animals grow faster and use feed more efficiently. The FDA's been worried about the overuse of antibiotics on the farm for decades. The reason is, the more these drugs are used, the more quickly bacteria in the animals will develop resistance to them. Some of these microbes can infect people, too, and then the antibiotics won't work.
Thirty-five years ago, the agency proposed banning the use of some antibiotics as growth promoters, then it withdrew the proposal. Today, Michael Taylor, the FDA's deputy commissioner for food, announced a new approach.
MICHAEL TAYLOR: We must find a practical and effective way to limit the use of these animal drugs to treating, controlling and preventing specific disease.
CHARLES: The FDA is starting some intensive consultations with the drug industry and veterinarians. The agency says it has persuaded drug companies to stop listing more efficient production as an acceptable use of antibiotics or antimicrobials in farm animals. And no drugs will be used on animals without a veterinarian in charge.
But all this is voluntary. The reason, Taylor says, is the voluntary route is more practical and effective than trying to legally ban hundreds of different drugs and defend each one in court.
TAYLOR: It's decades of effort and millions and millions of dollars in resources.
CHARLES: And we don't even need to go through that, Taylor says. The meat industry now is willing to limit its use of antibiotics only to what's really necessary to treat or prevent disease.
Scott Hurd, a veterinarian at Iowa State University and a former USDA official, says this voluntary approach will change farmers' practices.
SCOTT HURD: Because, even though it's called a guidance, essentially, people take it as the gospel and as the law, so growth promotion usages will go away.
CHARLES: Now, some people don't buy that. The Natural Resources Defense Council called today's FDA action make believe reform. Skeptics say the industry has shown little interest in change. Also, what's truly necessary use of antibiotics is a matter of interpretation.
Consider what happened in parts of Europe when the European Union banned the use of antibiotics for the purposes of animal growth promotion in 2006. Dik Mevius, a leading expert on antibiotic resistance at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands, says meat producers there simply started using more antibiotics for what was still allowed, preventing disease or treating it.
DIK MEVIUS: So we saw a more or less doubling of those drugs that were used for therapy, so the total exposure of animals to antibiotics remains virtually the same from 1999 to 2007.
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Laura Rogers with the Pew Campaign on Human Health and Industrial Farming says the FDA may need to do something similar so the prescriptions aren't simply rewritten to call them disease prevention drugs.
LAURA ROGERS: The loophole that does remain is these uses of the drugs for prevention purposes and they are used in mass quantities, so that's really going to be where FDA's going to have to dig in.
CHARLES: The FDA says it will see how well this voluntary program works over the next three years. If it doesn't seem to be effective, the agency will have to try something different.
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Together, families can fight financial stress during holidays
One of the challenges of reporting on personal finance is finding people eager to talk about their financial lives in detail. Sometimes you strike gold - as I did with a couple that talked with me about their struggles in retirement. Their story personalized the facts and figures, and helped some readers feel a little less "money shame," a little less alone, and a little more motivated to make some necessary changes.
How do I know? The readers called me. We talked about it. The couple that offered up some of their life lessons didn't just help me - and what use would that be, really? - they helped a lot of people who read the story.
Other times, I strike out. That's what happened this week. I wanted to find people to talk about visiting family this holiday season, and the financial stresses that can come with that. But combine financial issues with intrafamily issues and people don't even want to talk about it with names changed to protect the innocent.
I get it. Why add more stress? And I know it's not just me. A lot of folks are loath to talk money even with those closest to them.
For now, let's talk to an expert about the seasonal issues.
"People tend to feel that they are locked in to certain traditions," says Amy Carbone, licensed professional counselor and certified financial recovery counselor. "What I usually do with that is that I start in early fall talking about this."
She calls it a "values clarification."
"When anybody comes in for money coaching or financial therapy we look at money as a form of energy," she says.
Wait! Keep reading. Not woo-woo energy - think physics. Potential energy and kinetic energy.
"It's an exchange of energy," Carbone says. "It takes time and energy to earn, and how do you want to spend that energy? How do you want to exchange it? We try to make that much more conscious so that people are conscious of what they're spending, what they're earning, what they're saving."
So around the holidays, what are the main financial stressors? Travel and gifts. What are the things you value about the holidays? Which traditions? And then what can you whittle back or opt out of, without feeling like you've either lost something treasured or like you're being left out? Can you agree on a gift price limit? Agree to get gifts mainly for the younger kids?
"All of the family needs to be on board," says Carbone, "but there are tons of creative ways to do this differently."
The hardest part is - you guessed it - getting around to talking about it openly. Everybody will have different situations. Maybe one sibling is getting by comfortably, another is raking it in and another has had a few tough years.
"It may be the adult children who are struggling who have to bring this up, and that's very hard to do," says Carbone. "To get very clear about what they want and what they need to change and to feel that commitment."
Carbone suggests finding ways to tailor family traditions to new needs, taking emphasis off of some of the spending, and putting it on something that's more of an event. A family discussion may reveal easy ways to cut back on spending that don't affect the most treasured parts of spending the holidays together."It's not about the money anymore," she says, "it's about the value system."


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You may be tighter than usual on a particular day. This is not important - you should never try to stretch to where "you think you should be". Just stretch, making sure to pay attention to what you're doing. It's easy to injure a muscle if you're thinking about something else, or if you're rushing, trying to squeeze in some stretching before dashing off to the gym.
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The Financial Planning Association last week announced internally a restructuring which included a decision to outsource its advocacy efforts in Washington and around the country, a move designed to "align our operational and staff resources to provide the best services to our members," in the words of Lynn Brackpool, FPA's managing director of communications.
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The Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer shows the U.S. is making progress in controlling some tumors, but rates of human papillomavirus–related cancers remain stubbornly high.
Overall, the report shows lower cancer rates in the U.S. among all genders and racial and ethnic groups for the most common cancers, including lung, colon, anal, breast and prostate. But rates of HPV-related cancers, like cervical cancer, are elevated despite the fact that a vaccine exists to prevent the viral infection that can trigger the disease.
"It's hard not to be happy that the death rates of these major cancers are going down, but I think the HPV issue is pressing. "If you can't get individuals to get vaccinated—because getting cancer is horrible, then there has to be an economic side to this because treating people with these cancers is expensive," says Dr. Joanne Mortimer, director of the Women's Cancer Program at the City of Hope cancer center in Los Angeles. "I think the biggest challenge we face is figuring out a way to vaccinate individuals to prevent this."
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The Food and Drug Administration approved the first vaccine against a cancer, Gardasil, which protects against the HPV strains that can trigger cervical cancer and genital warts, in 2006. Shortly after approval, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which sets immunization guidelines, added the HPV vaccine to its lineup of recommended childhood vaccinations, proposing that girls ages 11 to 12 be immunized against the sexually transmitted HPV before they became sexually active. State health departments, which follow CDC guidelines, began mandating the shot for school entry, but parents balked. The so-called promiscuity vaccine, as they saw it, would only promote sexual activity and many refused to vaccinate their preteen children for a sexually transmitted disease. (Research shows that's not case.) In 2010, only 48.7% of girls ages 13 through 17 received at least one dose of the three-dose HPV vaccine (Cervarix joined Gardasil as the second HPV vaccine in 2009), and only 32% received all three recommended doses. Considering the U.S. government's Healthy People 2020 target is 80% vaccination among girls ages 13 to 15 for all three doses, those immunization rates are lagging. Comparatively, vaccination rates are much higher in Canada, the U.K. and Australia.
The shots are effective at controlling the most common strains responsible for cervical cancer, and public-health officials still see the vaccine as a powerful weapon in keeping rates of this cancer down. Between 2000 and '09, rates of HPV-associated cancers declined in all women except American Indians and Alaska Natives, among whom vaccination rates are lower.
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And the benefits of the anticancer vaccine aren't limited to girls. The same virus that contributes to cervical cancer can also lead to anal and oral cancers, which is why the CDC also recommends the shot for boys ages 11 to 12 years as well. "It's not unique to certain populations, and HPV infections are now across all demographics, and that is one reason we are seeing more anal cancers," says Dr. Julian Sanchez, a colorectal-cancer surgeon at City of Hope. "It's not a topic that's in the media very often."
That frustrates cancer experts and public-health officials since the HPV-related cancers are among the most preventable, with proper vaccination. But misconceptions about the vaccine and its potential side effects — former presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann erroneously linked HPV vaccination to mental retardation — and parental resistance to inoculating young children against a sexually transmitted virus make HPV vaccination a "taboo" topic for many doctors.
But that's a hurdle that health providers have to overcome, say cancer experts, if they want to see the encouraging declines in cancer continue. "Just as it is hard for some patients to talk about anal disease or their kids having sex, it's equally hard for some providers to talk about it," says Sanchez. "I talk about it everyday, and sometimes it is still difficult for me to approach some patients who I know have a degree of opposition to this type of conversation."
(MORE: Gardasil: No Serious Health Concerns Linked With HPV Vaccine)
The annual report is a collaboration between researchers at the CDC, the American Cancer Society, the National Cancer Institute, and the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries. Since 1998, it has provided a robust picture of the state of cancer in the U.S.
Unlike the case with HPV-related cancers, the report shows that from 2000 to '09, cancer-death rates overall have been declining, dropping by 1.8% per year among men, 1.4% among women and 1.8% among kids up to the age of 14. For both men and women, the declines occurred among some of the most common cancers: lung, prostate, breast, colon and rectum, leukemia, and non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
The cancers with rising death rates included skin, pancreatic and liver cancers for men, while women showed an elevated risk of dying from pancreatic, liver cancer and uterine cancers.
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The rates of new cancers in the same time period showed a more varied pattern. While men enjoyed an overall 0.6% decrease per year on average of new diagnoses, the rates for women remained stable, while children showed a 0.6% increase per year of new cancer cases. The decline for men was driven by fewer cases of prostate, lung, rectum, stomach and larynx cancers; women showed some of the same drops, but these were offset by increases in thyroid, melanoma, kidney, pancreas, leukemia, liver and uterine cancers.
"Every time we get these reports we argue about whether the death rate decreases because we find so many of these cancers early and we overtreat certain cancers like breast cancer and prostate cancer," says Mortimer. Overscreening and overtreating cancers have recently become a controversial public-health topic as new analyses question the extensive and repeated screening for certain cancers, like breast and prostate, in light of their potential complications and costs. In 2009, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force changed its recommendations for mammograms, advising women to wait until they are 50 years old, not 40, to begin regular testing. In 2012, the task force also advised men to skip routine screening for prostate cancer with the prostate-specific-antigen test altogether unless they have a history of the disease.
(MORE: Government Panel Recommends HPV Vaccine for Boys)
Experts hope that the good and bad news in the report will motivate Americans to remain vigilant about cancer's risk factors, including smoking and too much sun exposure, while taking advantage of ways to protect themselves from tumors, like getting vaccinated against HPV.
"The report does a great job of raising this awareness to the public, showing that we are doing our job. But we still have more to do. Just as in other diseases where vaccination has eradicated some, we can still make strides in this disease as well," says Sanchez.