the beauty industry and on to the next clean up project, the plastic industry, oil and war industries, too until there are no more toxic chemicals in babies, no more rocket fuel in breast mil

the beauty industry and on to the next clean up project, the plastic industry, oil and war industries, too until there are no more toxic chemicals in babies, no more rocket fuel in breast milk or communities burdened by pollution. that is the work before us and that is what we are here to do and thank you so much for joining me for beauty and make over. on the same page is our monthly actually bimonthly book club that the library sponsors. this month, march, the book of the month is the samari gardens. how many are you have read this book in >> that's fabulous and gale is blushing in front of me. it's my pleasure to introduce gale. gale was born and raised in san francisco. her combined ancestory a chinese mother from hong kong and japanese father from hawaii gave her a unique asspect much the language of threads, dreaming water and others. please, help me welcome gale sukiama. [applause] >> so that means if you have read the book you will not be buying the book? [laughter]. i'm always feel a little embarrassed because i looked back and i kept think thanksgiving book was published in

world war ii was the making of the plastics industry in this country. and, in fact, i found a wonderful article in american machines magazine of 1942 saying to the readers and so on, are you finding with regard to a lot of the work you're doing with the machine and all that, you can't get the kind of copper and steel components used to need to make dies, for production kind of things. and it's and try plastics, give it a shot. these things are very an expensive -- inexpensive. >> the problem of shipping all this wartime material across the atlantic and then eventually crossed the pacific the same time. this stuff has got to be secured. it's got to be wrapped so it is sealed so it's not going to corrode in these big leaking liberty ship's. so dow comes up with a substance on your to do this. i talked to a guy who worked for shipping company and midwest with more supplies coming in all over the place into ohio, and then being prepared for shipment overseas. he remembers when the dow salesman showed up with sheets of this stuff, which was totally transparen

that is the most challenged today because it has one use and that is in the petrochemical or the plastics industry. and the elasticity of demand tends to be very low because it's got that one use. so that's something, though, that has come back a little bit. and as gas prices, natural gas prices go up, which we all believe they will in 2013, ethane prices go up with them. >> one last question, you did the terrific deal, $1.4 billion and just one of your 150,000 net acres area, can there be more of those deals to bring out value? i'm trying to figure out how devon can get it so that it does not trade below its proven reserves net asset value which i've never seen devon do, this is right now doing. >> we're still in our transition. we completed the sale of our offshore properties in june of last year. we've been reinvesting those funds in these oil projects that are not contributing to cash flow. that's going to change as we continue to invest in this. these joint ventures with sinopec and sumitomo, both terrific partners, and that really significantly improves our capital efficiency, because it rec

and the dow formula becomes the basis for the american magnesium industry, being able to supply lightweight parts for american airplanes. in the process. plastics. world war ii was the making of the plastics industry in this country here. and, in fact, i found a wonderful article in american machinist magazine from about 1942 saying to, saying to the readers are you finding with regard to a lot of the work that you do in terms of machining and all that you can't get the kind of copper and steel components that you used to need, you know, to make dyes, right? for production kinds of things. and it says try plastics. give it a shot. these things, you know, it's very inexpensive, it's easy to get, it's very lightweight and so on, get into plastics. dow comes in another surprising way as well, as i discovered, and that is with the problem of shipping all this wartime material that's going across the atlantic and can then eventually across the pacific at the same time. this stuff has got to be secured, it's got to be wrapped so it's sealed, so it's not going to, you know, corrode in these big, leaking liberty ships. and so dow comes up with a substa

plastic bag laws. 13-year old abby goldberg of suburban grayslake celebrated the veto. she gathered some 170-thousand signatures in a petition drive against the bill. >>industry disappointed. a statement from the illinois manufacturers association says consumers paper or plastic choices will be limited at the checkout counters and they'll face taxes on use of plastic bags. >>something needed to be done. >>the bill would have locked illinois into high rates of bag use. that was it's goal. one bolingbrook resident received a big surprise, today just days before he leaves for marine bootcamp. operation welcome you home hosted a party for sean wickert. friends and family gathered to support him as he begins his new journey. a surprise motorcade left from the menard's in bolingbrook and drove to wickert's house to escort him to his send off party. wickert graduated with honors from bolingbrook high school in 20-11. he attended lewis university for a year before deciding to become a marine. the university of illinois received a record number of applications this year. and some of those accepted were at the u-i-c pavillion today for a convocation ceremony. classes b

true part manufacturing makes metal and plastic parts for everything from satellites to the medical industry to the military while fending off foreign competition. >> keep your costs under control. >> reporter: production is up 25% so the owner is hiring. >> i believe we hired six people. we went from three, four people to 12. >> reporter: but such optimism is not universal. today's report also shows temporary jobs continue to rise up nearly 45% since the recession ended in 2009. >> inside sales. >> reporter: this head of a staffing company outside indianapolis says businesses want to be flexible. >> i think it's how do i remain smart, frugal, and prudent while doing business. >> reporter: jobs are the issue on the presidential campaign trail. today's report provided fodder for both sides. >> it's another hammer blow to the struggling middle class families of america because the president has not kept policies that put american families back to work. >> we've still got too many folks out there who are looking for work. we've got more work to do on their behalf. >> reporter: what's holding ba

the number one country in gun sales but there's a new twist to this trade and it involves a or fifteen plastic and one heavy duty printer the details coming up. plus stars from the adult film industry are inserting themselves into presidential politics lining up behind either mitt romney or barack obama will this porn power raise approval ratings well and cover the issue. it's thursday august ninth six pm here in washington d.c. i'm liz wall and you're watching our. lawyer begin this hour zeroing in on two mass shootings that have rocked u.s. community is the massacre at a colorado movie theater and just days later a gunman opens fire at a sikh temple in wisconsin both cases tragic unsuspected and thinkable for the most part they're seen as isolated incidents in both cases the suspects are young white males not the typical face of terror but someone has stirred controversy highlighting the fact that homegrown terrorism as a dangerous threat in america today. former d.h.s.s. analyst daryl johnson wrote a report titled right wing extremism current economic and political climate fueling resurgence and radicalization and recurrent recruitment many on the right criticize it as political

the ground. one explosion, also in 2003, at west pharmaceutical industries in kinston, north carolina, showed just how insidious the problem can be. because it was a drug company, the factory floor was immaculate. but plastics hidden above the workers' heads. >> we know that as much as 2 inches of dust had accumulated in the ceiling, probably about a ton of material. that makes for a powerful explosion. >> hours after the blast, employees were still trapped inside. seven died, and scores were injured. carolyn merritt's investigation concluded that osha, the government agency created to safeguard workplaces, had no effective regulation on its books to deal with explosive dust. and she found that osha inspectors routinely overlook the hazard. did osha inspect that work site before the explosion? >> yes, osha had been in that facility. >> what did they find? >> they didn't find any dust issues. >> even when the dust was in plain sight, osha inspectors missed it. as they did at c.t.a., a plant that made soundproofing in corbin, kentucky, where the workplace had been covered in plastic dust. that factory exploded in february of 2003, killing seven. the chemical safety board determined that the cause was dust, i