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A health peril for all of us Part Two: Meth: A deadly epidemic -- Users of meth face many grave dangers, but the drug can harm anyone in its path
Ken Olsen - Staff writer
After three hours with the addict -- in her car and her office -- the social worker became violently ill.
"Have you been hanging out in a lab?" the social worker asked.
"Yeah. Why? Are you getting sick?" the addict replied.
Moments later, the social worker was headed to the emergency room.
That's meth's signature.
You don't need to smoke, snort or shoot it to screw up your body. Just hang out with someone whose clothes soaked up fumes from its caustic ingredients. Or rent a house where the last tenants cooked dope.
But far greater miseries afflict the people who use meth as little as a few times a month, those who make meth, and children living where the cheap, powerful dope is manufactured.
Angela's meth use torqued her unborn baby's heart. Steve baked his brain. Virginia's meth-fueled fights landed her and those around her in the hospital.
Occasionally a meth cook blows off a hand. Or blows up a life.
Many meth addicts inject the drug for a faster high and share needles they don't bother to sterilize. That means many are contracting HIV, hepatitis B, hepatitis C and necrotizing fasciitis -- the flesh-killing strep bacteria.
Meth pushes the body into an endless adrenaline rush, numbing the brain, hammering the heart, weakening blood vessels and kidneys. Addicts lose their teeth and their minds.
"It's like accelerated wearing out," says Dr. Alex Stalcup, a 30-year veteran of treating meth addiction. "Imagine taking a year's worth of life and using it up in a week."
110-degree binge
Ask Steve Wade what he misses most about his pre-meth life.
"My . . . my brrr-a-i-n," he says in halting, laborious syllables, pointing to his head. "I can't . . . think as clear as I used to."
Wade once dreamed of being a race car mechanic. Five years after a harsh meth overdose, he shakes too much to shave with a razor.
Some days, it seems the whole room spins. Other days, individual objects spin. Either way, Wade's always dizzy.
He forgets key words in mid-sentence. He hates his monthly speech therapy sessions, where he practices sentences such as, "How?" "What?" "Are you OK?"
"I get frustrated," Wade explains. "This is hard mentally."
A poster on Wade's wall says: "They say meth won't kill you. But you'll wish it had."
Which is how Wade felt those months he lay in a nursing home, unable to walk.
After his binge. After he ran his body temperature to 110 degrees, blew his cognitive skills, the hearing in one ear and the reasoning power that keeps worry from becoming paranoia.
Yet Wade, a five-year meth abuser, will tell you he's lucky.
He downed a fifth of 151-proof rum, injected meth five times and snorted it 10 times -- in a single evening.
Wade had used other drugs, in quantity, before meth obliterated his mind.
Yet he had a good job as a diesel mechanic, a steady girlfriend and attended Spokane Community College when he went on his last drug bender. He cashed a student grant to escape the dullness of it all, took a motel room on Division, downed his fifth of rum and took several hits of meth.
"Spun" -- high, in meth lingo -- Wade hired a prostitute, then did more meth. Somehow he managed to catch a taxi for the emergency room before blacking out.
Nurses covered Wade with ice to bring down his temperature and attended to him around the clock. Once out of his coma, he went from the hospital to rehabilitation to a nursing home before finally moving in with his mother.
Today, his girlfriend is gone. He is permanently disabled and, at age 31, depends on his mother, Ida, to help with simple daily tasks.
He started a struggling nonprofit organization called Smart Choices and takes his story to schools. His presentation includes a slide show of photos his mother took of him while he was in the hospital and graphic photos of the gunshot wound he received during a soured attempt to buy pot in Tennessee.
Revolting images, Wade admits. "I try to show how much it sucks . . . what kind of a prison I'm in."
Why Steve's brain doesn't work
Steve Wade's brain is wrecked because of repeated assaults from meth and traces of the toxins used in its manufacture.
Meth cooks rely on drain cleaner, gasoline, liquid ammonia fertilizer, Red Devil lye, red phosphorous, toluene, sulfuric acid, hydrochloric acid and xylene to extract meth from diet tablets and over-the-counter cold remedies. Many of these chemicals carry warnings: "Do not ingest. If ingested, induce vomiting and call a physician. Avoid contact with skin or inhaling."
Cops call small-time operations using these concoctions "Beavis and Butt-head" labs. If the meth cooks are sloppy, or using their own dope -- as most are -- the meth they produce is tainted with these poisons. That's why the drug burns so much when it goes up an addict's nose or into a vein.
As a prescription drug, tiny doses of meth are used to treat narcolepsy, Parkinson's disease and depression. As a chronically abused street drug, meth has overtaken crack cocaine because it's cheaper, four to six times more powerful than the "speed" of the '60s, and the high lasts hours instead of minutes.
Meth zips to the central nervous system and triggers releases of dopamine in the pleasure center of the brain and adrenaline into the bloodstream. Dopamine makes you feel great. Adrenaline gives you tremendous energy and sets off your fight-or-flight response.
Normally, your system kicks a microscopic amount of adrenaline into the bloodstream. With today's potent street meth, the amount is millions of times greater. Your heart rate jumps, your blood pressure soars. The walls of your blood vessels weaken.
"You feel like you are in a 100-mile marathon," says Stalcup, medical director at New Leaf Treatment Center in Concord, Calif. "Your body feels it, too. Your system isn't getting a break."
Meth addicts don't eat and don't sleep, sometimes for a month. All of their body's resources go to maintaining the high. There's no energy for normal tissue repair.
"Your whole body starts to rot," says Angela, who requested anonymity. She quit using six months ago after finding out she was pregnant.
Gums break down. Teeth fall out. Major organs such as the kidneys disintegrate. Sores don't heal.
Meth is believed to induce strokes, psychosis and schizophrenia, says Dr. Thomas Martin, director of the University of Washington's Toxicology Service.
Then there's "speed sex."
Meth increases the sex drive and enhances sexual pleasure, Wade and other addicts say. The sex drive lasts. But performance plummets.
Couples get together for a weekend of meth-charged sex, complete with kinky, meth-induced fantasies, Stalcup explains. They start energized and end up frustrated. Addicts get to the point where it takes between 18 and 72 hours to achieve an orgasm.
The Addict mind
Meth's mental consequences are as disastrous as the physical ones.
Adrenaline agitates your mind, especially at such extreme levels. Meth addicts are aggressive, belligerent and mean, experts say. Or they are anxious, fearful and paranoid. These extreme feelings persist for weeks, exacerbated by fatigue.
Meth addicts often beat their children, their spouses and their friends. They imagine a cop lurking behind every curtain, and another doper intent on stealing their stash - behind every door.
Sarah Cook's son, a meth user since 1996, runs outside with knives ``because he thinks people are after him,'' the Coeur d'Alene woman says. ``He tears his clothes off and ties them around his head.
``He picks and picks and picks at himself, like there are bugs inside his face. It's Satanic.''
Even Wade, clean for five years, props a space heater against the inside of the door when he goes into the bathroom - in case someone comes after him.
Physicians once believed time and abstinence would clear an addict's brain. Now it appears damage is permanent.
Cerebral scans show large areas of meth users' brains either no longer function or appear to be missing entirely, Stalcup says.
Meth addicts don't realize they are making themselves stupid. And they can't stop using.
The craving is so intense that ``some people get addicted to the (needle) prick,'' says Angela. ``Your addict mind thinks there's going to be a rush. I have friends who get a rush just from a needle - giving blood.''
People who use meth as little as twice a month are at great risk of becoming addicted. It's both psychological and physical: the sexual rush; a cheaper, longer-lasting high than even cocaine; a brain and body soon rewired so that increasing levels of meth are the only way to feel good. ``It makes you feel like you have control of your life. Like you are something, someone. You don't feel lonely,'' says Virginia Holme, 24, who recently graduated from a treatment program at the Isabella House in Spokane.
Meth also is hard to avoid because, to many addicts, using isn't wrong. They learn it at home.
``I remember my aunt smoking crack,'' Holme says of her early years in California. ``I never asked, `What's that?' It was normal.''
When Holme smoked meth for the last time in November, she got high with her mom at a house in Airway Heights.
Holme ended up in the hospital at Christmas a few years ago after a meth-fueled fight with a girlfriend. Her mother once put her baby sitter in the hospital after a meth-induced fight.
Addicts stay on meth to avoid the hell of coming down into intense depression, and to delay feeling the consequences of running a malnourished, fatigued body at full throttle for days. The more they use, the more they need.
They crash, sleep for days, and start again.
If they quit using, they still long for the drug, smelling it, tasting it, twitching without it.
``It's worst 180 days after you stop,'' Stalcup says. ``You are irritable, your mind's racing, you literally dream craving.''
Meth also is self-medication for a raft of problems.
``We find no matter what the drug, it is a symptom,'' says Nancy Echelbarger, who runs Substance Misuse Services for the Spokane Regional Health District. ``Ninety-five percent of both men and women use drugs to cover the memories, pain and anger of a traumatic past, or childhood, or both.''
Most of the women have been sexually molested and are ``shattered at a level we know very little about,'' says Lindy Haunschild, coordinator of the Parent-Child Assistance Program in Spokane. ``When they reach adolescence, they go to drugs and they go to the sexual arena and get pregnant.''
Children born to these mothers also are likely to be sexually abused, Haunschild said. ``They don't have stable, loving, nurturing parents to keep them safe. They end up being taken from their homes, moved around in the foster care system and are not allowed to bond'' with an adult.
The mother gets pregnant again - in part to heal the loss of the child that social services has taken, in part to deal with other ``very deep wounds,'' Haunschild adds.
One such woman has seven children, six of whom have been removed from her custody. She is trying to get pregnant again.
It's graduation day for Virginia Holme. Her fellow addicts take turns sharing a word they believe defines her. ``Courage,'' ``persistence'' and ``free'' are offered.
Every addict in this room is a woman still in treatment. Every one is either pregnant, holding her newborn child on her lap or has children somewhere else.
Children are trampled by meth. When they grow up in a home lab, they inhale volatile fumes and are burned by the caustic chemicals.
They live amid household garbage that may get a foot and a half deep. They play outside where mom and dad dump hazardous byproducts.
Some are locked in rooms for days by parents who don't want their kids to see them getting high and then forget to let them out.
If their mothers used the children were in the womb, they are born with behavioral problems and tremors, and they scream from withdrawal 24 hours a day. Many grow up to be drug users because ``their systems are hard-wired to crave this drug,'' Haunschild believes.
Angela's baby is due in June. Because she leveled with her doctor, her child will have an operation almost immediately after it's born. Otherwise, the baby would die within a few days.
An ultrasound shows the infant's heart is backward and has two holes. That's a condition nicknamed ``worm heart.''
Officially, it's called ``transposition of the great vessels'' and it's another signature of meth. As the child develops in the womb, the heart is supposed to rotate into normal position, Stalcup says. When mom is a meth addict, the heart often remains reversed.
``The brain, heart and kidneys form very early on - often before the mom knows she is pregnant - when the developing baby is the size of your thumb,'' Stalcup says.
``If there's an insult to the organs, they don't develop properly. Meth is a very serious insult.''
1. About this report
Meth is so dangerous that you can get sick just by walking into a house where it was made. The drug damages users, the people around them -- especially children -- and the environment. The stories and pictures in this series are intended to reflect the devastation of meth. To fully document it, we've made an exception to our policy of not identifying juveniles who are victims of criminal activity. We hope to make readers aware of a world that may seem distant, but surrounds us every day.
Users of Meth face many grave dangers, but the drug can harm anyone in its path
2. At a glance
Spotting a user
Telltale signs of chronic meth abuse:
* Small sores on arms and legs, similar in appearance to infected bug bites. Users wear long-sleeved shirts and long pants to cover the sores, known as "meth mites."
* Yellowed teeth that appear to be splintering. Many addicts lose their teeth.
* Undernourished or gaunt appearance, often with a pale skin tone. Methamphetamine curbs appetite and pulls nutrients from the body.
* Lack of sleep. Users can stay awake for long periods, sometimes days or weeks.
* Lack of mouth control. Users click or move their tongues around, move their jaws or bite their lips. Users have rapid, excited speech.
* Aggressive and paranoid behavior. Users express fear they're being stalked or targeted, and often have guard dogs and weapons to bolster a sense of security.
Meth user's paraphernalia
For smoking:
* Glass or metal rod pipes
* Hollowed-out writing pens or drinking straws
* Aluminum foil
* Light bulbs with a hole in the bottom
For snorting:
* Razor blades
* Mirrors
* Straws or rolled dollar bills
For injecting:
* Syringes and spoons
* Surgical tubing, bandannas or belts
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Thayer Era by Thomas Fleming. Thomas
Fleming - Duel, Alexander Hamilton,
Aaron Burr and the Future of America is Mr. Fleming's
latest book and has won astonishing praise from fellow historians.
He is the author of more than 40 works of fiction and nonfiction,
including biographies of Jefferson and Franklin, and the revisionist
"1776: Year of Illusions." Liberty! The American Revolution told the story of the
nation's founding in conjunction with a six part series on the Revolution
that appeared on PBS in 1997.
The History Book Club named it one of the eight best books
of the year. It was
named the best book of the year by the American Revolution Round
Table, and was a main selection of both the Book of the Month Club
and the History Book Club. Mr. Fleming is a frequent guest and commentator
on NPR, PBS, A&E, and the History Channel. West
Point's Golden Age, by Cecelia
Holland. James McNeill Whistler
was not among their number.
The future artist flunked out in 1853, his most dismal subject
being chemistry. Later
in life, he loved to startle ladies at London dinner parties by
remarking "if silicon were a gas, I would be a major general
today." West
Point in the Civil War, by Stephen
W. Sears. At the beginning of the war, so many of the unsuccessful Union generals were West Point graduates that the old Congressional call to do away with the Academy resurfaced with a vengence. Washington also resented the number of West Pointers who had resigned from the Academy or the Army and headed south. Orators called it "a nursery of treason." But Stephen Sears recalls a touching side to the story and one that had to do with the extraordinary bonds of brotherhood established at the Academy. Before the war, Southern and Northern cadets brawled; but as state after Southern state seceded in 1861, and wholesale resignations began, Northern cadets would carry their departing Southern opposites on their backs to the steamboat landing. (The first official shot of the war, which also opened the bombardment of Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, was fired by Henry S. Farley of South Carolina, the first cadet to resign.) Friends met friends on the battlefield. There is a memorable 1862 photograph, which the book will reproduce, of George Armstrong Custer seated with James B. Washington, a West Point classmate whom Custer's men had captured just hours earlier. But in the saga of West
Point, no close encounter quite matches that of the Confederate
Brigadier-General Lewis Armistead and the Union Major General Winfield
Scott Hancock, both West Pointers and friends from Army outpost
days in the West. Armistead
led Pickett's charge on the third day of the Battle of Gettysburg
and had vaulted over the famous stonewall on Cemetary Ridge, when
he was cut down. Moments
before, Hancock had been struck in the testicles by a minié
ball, apparently mortally wounded.
(He survived and later became the Democratic candidate for
President in 1880.) As
a dying Armistead was being carried back, he asked about his friend
Hancock. Some time
later, Hancock's wife opened a locked suitcase that Armistead had
left behind for the Hancocks.
In it she found a prayer book inscribed with the motto: "Trust
in God and fear nothing." The
Ungilded Age, 1865-1914, by
Carlo W. D'Este. As early as 1870, young men from the South began to rejoin the Corps of Cadets. Former West Pointers from opposite sides like U.S. Grant and James Longstreet resumed old friendships. But if the Civil War had been largely fought over the slavery issue, West Point's treatment of the thirteen Black cadets who matriculated between 1865 and 1915 was shameful. They were not so much hazed as ostracized. The first flunked out; of the only three who graduated, one, Henry O. Flipper, was dismissed from the Army on trumped-up charges- and was only granted a Presidential pardon in 1999. As Carlo D'Este notes, West Point during the Gilded Age was not a pleasant place for anyone. The Academy was described as a "military monastery." No less a personage than Douglas MacArthur '03 called it "a provincial reformatory based on fear." He spoke from the experience of extreme hazing. ("Boys will be boys" Sherman commented about the "Bracing" problem -as hazing was called- that too often made headlines in those years.) Cadets even marched in formation to take baths. Rules were draconian. A cadet once received a demerit for touching a young lady's arm- and another cadet for helping a woman across the street. The woman was his mother. The wars cadets graduated
to fight were small and not always splendid: bloody skirmishes with
Indians on the frontier (which officially closed in 1890); the Spanish-American
War (one of the five West Pointers killed was Dennis Michie, the
first football captain, for whom West Point stadium was named);
the Philippine Insurrection (sixteen graduates killed); or the Mexican
goose chase of John J. Pershing '83 after Pancho Villa.
But as the new century began, West Point was at last undergoing
changes- changes that events in Europe would accelerate. The
Great War and After, by Robert
Cowley. In 1919, a thirty-nine-year-old
Douglas MacArthur was appointed superintendent of the Academy, the
youngest ever. The
former commander of the 42nd Division had a won a Distinguished
Service Cross for bravery in the late war.
He immediately set about instituting reforms- which included
allowing cadets to have spending money.
He added 170 course hours in math and dropped 188 in "drawing."
"How long are we going on preparing for the War of 1812?"
he asked. MacArthur
lasted just three years. Old
grads and the Academy's faculty ganged up on him.
Their behind-the-scenes manipulations led to a convenient
"promotion": MacArthur was sent packing across the Pacific,
to command US troops in the Philippines.
For the next two decades West Point supplied officers to
an army without a mission.
By 1940 the American Army had become so unimportant that
in size it ranked seventeenth in the world, just behind Bulgaria. West
Point during World War II, by
Tom Wicker. But already big, and lasting, changes were in the works, and that is the story Wicker tells. Motorized vehicles were substituted for horses. "Horsemanship" however was not altogether eliminated until 1947, when the last horses were "withdrawn from the post." Army regulars were imported to teach tactics; the theoretical had no place in this war. Khaki drill uniforms were introduced to make the cadets look more like draftees. Many cadets trained at the nearby Stewart Airbase to be pilots in the Army Air Force: more West Point graduates won the Distinguished Flying Cross than any other award (except the Purple Heart), but there were months when the pilot training accidents claimed almost as many lives as combat. Some 9000 West Pointers were on active duty in World War II of whom 700 died. Even in wartime, cadet
life was as rigorous as ever.
Hazing by upperclassmen was still a ritual that all incoming
cadets had to endure, though it little resembled the ordeal of MacArthur's
day. Dates- known as
"drags"- came up by train, and if a cadet and his date
wanted to eat lunch at the Hotel Thayer, the girl had to pay.
MacArthur's reform about pocket money had been rescinded.
A goodnight kiss, if detected, was worth twenty-two demerits.
West Point life was dominated by football.
These were the years of Doc Blanchard and Glenn Davis, and
three consecutive national championships: 1944, 1945, 1946.
Korean War Years, by Dennis
E. Showalter. The curriculum at West Point may have become less rigid at this time, but it was hardly liberal. As one official Army report noted, "skepticism frequently breeds indecision and to turn on a man beset by doubts is hardly the proper objective of service academy training." That was perhaps an answer to another problem brought on by what was essentially an unpopular war. Increasingly, instruction at West Point turned to producing men who would immediately be better leaders in active combat. The other event in these
years that produced a radical change at West Point was the cheating
scandal of 1951, which turned the Academy away from the football
culture that had brought it so much prominence.
Academic departments, fed up with seeing football players
get special privileges, played a large role in exposing cheating,
which saw the expulsion of 90 cadets.
Changes were in the air- and ones that many of the old grads
would predictably resist, as would a number of the cadets. Who in the 1950s, for example, could foresee the coming of
women? In 1955 the
cadet magazine The Pointer ran a mocking feature titled "The
Day West Point Went Co-Ed"
The article, which jeered at the prospect of "Cadettes",
appeared on April Fool's Day.
at West Point, by Geoffrey Norman. Army football would never be the same after the cheating scandal of 1951, which saw 37 players expelled from the Academy, including Blaik's son. Blaik, under pressure from Douglas MacArthur, stayed on and rebuilt his shattered team. In 1958, Army led by Heisman award winner, Pete Dawkins, was undefeated. Dawkins would go on to become a national hero in Vietnam, as would another West Point football hero, Bill Carpenter, the so-called "lonely end." Athletics have always been
important at West Point. Every
cadet is required to participate in a team sport- the operative
word being "team" (This was another of MacArthur's reforms.
He felt that too many officers in World War I, West Pointers
included, had been in wretched physical condition).
One of the first great West Point athletes must have been
U.S. Grant, Class of 1843, who established a high jump record on
horseback that lasted until after the Civil War. George Patton announced that he would make the football team
and be the first in his class to make general; he did neither.
Injuries prevented him from making a varsity football "A"
but he gained the letter anyway when he broke the Academy record
in the 220-yard hurdles. An
expert horseman, he would place fifth in the Penthalon in the 1912
Olympics in Stockholm. Omar
Bradley '15 was a fine baseball player; his classmate Dwight Eisenhower
was a star halfback, but a fall from a horse ruined his knee and
his football career. There
are many more such stories that Geoffrey Norman will cite. Into
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Letters to the Editor — December 13, 2012
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Gerry's Food Pantry thanks donors
To the Editor:
For both the Turkey Drop-Off and the distribution of Thanksgiving meals we were ably assisted by members of the Strafford County Community Work Program, Students from the Bud Carlson Academy, the Crusaders for Caring of St. Elizabeth Seton School, BSA Crew 184 from the First United Methodist Church, as well as volunteers from the community and the food pantry. Anne Ackerman Coordinator
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To the Editor: An evening with President Lincoln
To the Editor:
The following morning, I heard a respected university presidential historian, on NPR, give the thumbs up to the historical accuracy of "Lincoln." He even recommended that both high school and college U.S. History instructors would be well advised in showing the film in their classrooms.
Remarkably similar to President Lincoln, President Obama, is adored by his supporters and reviled by his detractors for bravely standing up for all Americans equally (I.e. the Affordable Healthcare Act, fair taxation and building a lasting economy from the Middle Class out). A note of thanks
To the Editor:
In my early years of teaching social studies at Lebanon High School, I was part of the state team that wrote the curriculum on NH History; it was one of my favorite units. On Wednesday, the official start to the 2013 Legislative session, a humbled social studies teacher was living the lessons he taught. It is impressive to look at the gold seal on the document from the Secretary of State saying I am now a member of "The House". Even more impressive is to realize that you sit in one of 400 seats set front of the giant portrait of John Parker Hale, Rochester born, hanging beside Lincoln and Washington in the House and know it is my job to live up to their ideals. For this incredible opportunity to represent you, to use my voice on your behalf, to work collaboratively with other representatives — I extend my gratitude.
May 2013 bring an end to food-insecurity for children and families! XL Pipeline struggle
To the Editor:
The power of our people is unstoppable if we use it This has been proved time and time again. Thank you for listening. The Do-nothing Congress
To the Editor:
One thing is clear, however. Our hard-working Congresswoman-elect Carol Shea-Porter is not happy about this lack of work ethic. When she heard about the 2013 calendar, she stated, "This is so wrong! They are going to be hearing about this from me!" Here in the First Congressional District, we are fortunate to have such a dedicated, hardworking Congresswomen representing our interests.
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To celebrate the Grand Opening of the new Korah Branch Library on 556 Goulais Avenue, the Sault Ste. Marie Public Library is holding a week of events. Our celebration events will start after the Grand Opening on Thursday October 11th and end on Wednesday October 17th with our Customer Appreciation Day. All movie events will take place in the Essar Community Room.
Friday October 12th from 2:00 4:30 pm Classic Movie Event - My Man Godfrey
Saturday October 13th from 1:00 3:30 pm Movie Event -The Hunger Games
Monday October 15th The Kick Off of our Grand Opening Month Membership Drive. Come to your local library to get a new library card or renew your current membership to enter your name in for the draw.
Tuesday October 16th Tours of the library including sessions in the Essar Community Room of how to use the library catalogue and other new library technology including the Smart Board and Smart Table.
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An executive order bans from the BBC's airwaves direct statements by members and apparent sympathizers of groups the British government considers "terrorists." The broadcast ban was applied to three legal organizations, including one whose president was elected member of the British Parliament.
When soliciting pledges, U.S. public TV and radio hosts often boast about the British news programming that they bring to U.S. airwaves. What they don't say is that such programming sometimes comes with British censorship.
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a fully funded government agency, with a board of directors appointed by the Queen (under government recommendation). No pretense is made that the BBC's journalistic independence is ensured: Its license states that a cabinet "minister may direct the [broadcasting] authority in writing to refrain from broadcasting any particular matter or matter of any particular class, and the authority shall comply with the direction."
In 1988, British Home Secretary Douglas Hurd, the cabinet minister in charge of domestic affairs, announced an executive order banning from the airwaves direct statements by members and apparent sympathizers of groups the British government considers "terrorists." Aimed at Irish nationalists, the "broadcast ban" was applied to representatives of three legal organizations, including Sinn Fein, a party whose president was an elected member of the British Parliament. Also banned are "statements by any person which support or invite support for these organizations."
BBC director general Michael Checkland has admitted that the broadcast ban handicapped his institution (BBC News Release, 11/22/89). "We have protested and we continue to protest at this measure because it interferes with our task of reporting current events fully and fairly and sets a damaging precedent."
Despite this hobbling censorship, U.S. public broadcasting often relies on BBC reports for coverage of Northern Ireland. U.S. public broadcasters have close ties with the British system: John Tusa, a managing director of BBC World Service, sits on the board of directors of American Public Radio, the main U.S. distributor of the British news program. NPR allows the BBC to share its satellites worldwide.
James Mullin, president of the South New Jersey chapter of the Irish-American Unity Conference, brought these facts to the attention of the board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which, according to a 1967 law, was supposed to give public broadcasting "maximum protection from extraneous influence and control."
Board member Victor Gold (a conservative who co-wrote George Bush's autobiography) responded that he was "in complete sympathy with your position that CPB should not be funding, directly or indirectly, any program which partakes of political propaganda, especially regarding a situation as complex as that in Northern Ireland." But the board as a whole declined to take any action about the public broadcasting system's use of censored reporting.
On FAIR's radio program CounterSpin (7/16/93), Mullin argued that BBC reports should not be barred from U.S. airwaves, but should be clearly identified as containing state-censored news. Moreover, says Mullin, U.S. public radio and television have a responsibility to provide equal airtime to alternative perspectives on Northern Ireland.
The way British programming slants public broadcasting's view of Northern Ireland was illustrated by Understanding Northern Ireland, a documentary aired in May on PBS stations. The program was originally produced for Britain's Channel 4, subject to the restrictions imposed by the broadcast ban. The U.S. version received funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Throughout the special, the conflict in Northern Ireland was presented as a struggle between "tribes" in which the English find themselves "reluctantly involved." 'Two armed camps with the British caught in the middle," the narration says at one point at another, it referred to "bewildered British troops caught in the middle."
The program featured quotes from pro-Union militants like Ian Paisley and British cabinet ministers like James Callaghan, along with Irish politicians from the South. The missing perspective was the nationalist one, voices barred from British broadcasting under the 1988 ban. Not one speaker was heard from Sinn Fein, or from anyone sympathetic to the republican cause.
According to Article 19, an international anti-censorship group, Understanding Northern Ireland was censored by the British government "because of statements by Ireland's first Prime Minister, Eamonnn de Valera, and Sean MacBride, one-time IRA chief and Nobel Peace Prize recipient."
The PBS broadcast of the show did touch lightly on the British system's failings in the North, specifically with respect to false imprisonment and illegal killings by British security forces. But because it was produced under censorship, it still denied viewers the full range of debate on the Irish question.


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Progressive Education Institute
The 9th Annual Progressive Education Institute is presented in partnership with EarthWalk Vermont.
Opening: 1:00 pm, Friday, July 19, 2013
Closing: 10:30 am, Tuesday, July 23, 2013
We invite you to join us for an exciting and engaging five-day retreat on the Goddard College campus, located on a 175-acre woodland setting in central Vermont.
Register by downloading this PDF.
Both current matriculated Goddard students and educators seeking professional development opportunities attend this Institute. The program is planned for teachers, administrators, counselors, community organizers and activists, as well as graduate and undergraduate students interested in education.
The Progressive Education Institute brings progressive educators together for renewal and connection with like-minded educators. Our goal for the Institute is the renewal of our basic values, which include honoring the learner, trusting professional wisdom, engaging in meaningful inquiry and assuring safe, inclusive learning communities.
The Progressive Education Institute has two options (see below). In both options, participants will receive a Certificate indicating earned Professional Development Hours or you may elect to combine the Institute with a three-semester undergraduate or graduate independent study, which has an additional cost. (Refer to the registration form.)
Option 1. Strand A: Voice, Vision and Curriculum
On campus dialogue and collaborative inquiry with the focus on curriculum. Strand A will support participants as you explore your voice and vision as progressive educators utilizing a curricular lens. The program is highly individualized, yet will facilitate experiences that invite small group activities and collaborative projects. Participants will examine how the theory and practice of curriculum, instruction, and authentic assessment can be transformative for the classroom teacher, the students you serve, as well as the school site as a whole. Strand A participants will gain specific skills in the area of differentiated lesson planning and project-based learning; additionally, you will be invited to engage in a passionate and meaningful way around educational inquiry, action, and reflection. The group is limited in size to allow for individual voice and group collaboration.
Option 2. Strand B: EarthWalk Institute
Intergenerational nature mentoring experience in partnership with EarthWalk Vermont. EarthWalk, founded in 2005 and located on Goddard's campus, is a non-profit community and nature-based education organization, with the mission to inspire and empower children, families and communities to reconnect with and care for one another and the Earth.
This will be the second year of the EarthWalk Institute; a camping residency in Hawthorn Meadow Commons, an approximate 5-10 minute walk into the woods from the Goddard Campus. Our 'classroom' will be the diverse local ecosystem which offer the learner opportunities for exploration and reflection in meadows, mixed forests and along the banks of the Winooski River. Wild-harvesting, camp crafts, communal cooking, and late-evening storytelling around the fire are integral experiences of the EarthWalk Institute. Although appropriate time will be allocated to individual reflection as well as group discussion, most of the EarthWalk Institute will be experiential; including some shared experiences with EarthWalk teen students and local elders. Participants who do not want credit and elect Strand B will enroll directly through EarthWalk (at www.earthwalkvermont.org) and can receive a certificate of 40 professional development hours.
Register for the 2013 Progressive Education Institute by downloading this PDF.
Description of credit-bearing option: Participants who elect to register for Goddard College credit will work with the Institute faculty to complete an Individual Study Plan based on the question/problem of most interest to you. Included in the plan are the resources you will use (books, articles, journals, activities, etc.). Following the Institute, you will work independently to complete a culminating project, a reflective essay and a narrative evaluation, which are due on August 23, 2013. A faculty member will assess the culminating project and write a narrative evaluation of the study. The title of the participant's Culminating Project, the number of semester credits and the faculty's narrative evaluation are included in the student's official transcript and will be on record at Goddard College.
For general information about the Progressive Education Institute contact Goddard College faculty member Karla Haas Moskowiz at email@example.com, or Program Director Susan Fleming at email@example.com, or write to Goddard College, 123 Pitkin Road, Plainfield, VT 05667.
For more information about EarthWalk Vermont and the EarthWalk Institute, visit www.earthwalkvermont.org or contact Angella Gibbons, EarthWalk's Executive Director, at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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In American suburban communities, McMansion is a pejorative for a type of large, new luxury house which is judged to be incongruous for its neighborhood. Alternately, a McMansion can be a large, new house in a sub-division of similarly large houses, which all seem mass produced and lacking distinguishing characteristics, as well as at variance with the traditional local architecture.[1]
The stunt word "McMansion" seems to have been coined sometime in the early 1980s.[2] It appeared in the Los Angeles Times in 1990[3][4] and the New York Times in 1998.[5] Related terms include "Persian palace",[6] "garage Mahal", "starter castle", and "Hummer house."[7] An example of a McWord, "McMansion" associates the generic quality of these luxury homes with that of mass-produced fast food meals by evoking the McDonald's restaurant chain.
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The term "McMansion" is generally used to denote a new, or recent, multi-story house of no clear architectural style,[8] with a notably larger footprint than the existing houses in its neighborhood. It may seem too large for its lot, closely abutting upon the property boundaries and appearing to crowd adjacent homes. A McMansion is either located in a newer, larger subdivision or replaces an existing, smaller structure in an older neighborhood.
Typical attributes also include a floor area of over 3,000 square feet (280 m2),[10] ceilings 9–10 feet (270-300 cm) high, a two-story portico, a front door hall with a chandelier hanging from 16–20 feet (5 to 6 m), two or more garages, several bedrooms and bathrooms, and lavish interiors. The house often covers a larger portion of the lot than the construction it replaces. McMansions may also be built in homogeneous communities by a single developer.[citation needed]
The term can also be used derogatorily to describe the excessively-priced homes of families who, while although they might have a high five or even six-figure income, spend more than they make in an attempt to appear wealthy. In addition to huge mortgage payments and poor money-management skills, luxuries like SUVs and sports cars, country club memberships, seldom-used boats, RVs, etc., are reasons many families inhabiting McMansions are actually in debt for far more than the balance of their mortgage suggests.
Beginning in California in the 1980s,[9] the larger home concept was intended to fill a gap between the more modest suburban tract home and the upscale custom homes found in gated, waterfront, or golf course communities. Subdivisions were developed around such communities, as well as in pre-existing neighborhoods, either in empty lots or as replacements for torn-down structures. The larger homes proved popular and demand increased dramatically, particularly in light of new land-management laws that were enacted in the 1980s and '90s. Efforts to economize may have led to a decline in quality for many of these new homes, prompting the coinage of the disparaging term.
In a development that runs counter to the previous boom in construction of McMansions, recent reports suggest that the Great Recession (2008–2009) has caused new house sizes in the United States to stabilize.[11]
The widespread disdain for the McMansion stems from perceptions that these houses look and feel inappropriate for a given neighborhood, are wasteful in terms of space (too much room for too few people) and resources (building materials, electricity, gas), project the pretentiousness (or lack of taste or refinement) of their owners,[12] and a general discordance in architectural preferences.[13]
McMansions often mix a bewildering variety of architectural styles and elements, combining quoins, steeply sloped roofs, multiple roof lines, complicated massing and pronounced dormers, all producing what some consider an unpleasant jumbled appearance.[8]
The builder may have attempted to achieve expensive effects with cheap materials, skimped on details, or hidden defects with cladding:[citation needed]
Another unflattering observation is that some McMansions have been designed from the inside out, rather than from the outside in. Because priority has been given to the interior, a house's exterior appearance suffers, with oddly placed windows and an amorphous or bloated quality.[14]
The construction of what seems to be too large a house on an existing lot will often draw the ire of neighbors and other local residents. In 2006, for example, a recently built house in Kirkland, Washington — an affluent suburb on Seattle's Eastside — stood so close to an adjoining property that, in the words of the chair of the city's Neighborhood Association, "you can read the lettering on the canned vegetables in the house next door."[15] Built as tract "mansions" or executive homes in marketing parlance, they generally are found in outlying suburban areas because lot sizes in older neighborhoods generally are not conducive to residences of this large scale. These homes usually are constructed among other large homes by a subdivider on speculation; they generally are built en-masse by a development company to be marketed as premium real estate, but do not feature custom features.


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Caroline Wozniacki Accused of Promoting Rape Culture By KO Barstool For Playfully Making Fun Of Serena Williams During Exhibition Match
Dailymail – Caroline Wozniacki has been accused of doing a 'racist' impersonation of fellow tennis player Serena Williams after stuffing her bra and shorts. At a recent exhibition against Maria Sharapova in Brazil, the former world No. 1 stuffed courtside towels down her kit to replicate the body of the curvaceous Grand Slam champion. But now the 22-year-old Dane, whose boyfriend golfer Rory McIlroy was in the crowd, has now been accused of racism by some observers. On feministing.com, an article read: 'Given the history and current-day context of racialized standards of beauty, and the hypersexualization of people of color, when a white woman makes fun of a black women's body, especially in a way that hypersexualizes her and draws on the stereotype of black women's big butts, it's racist.' The joke was not lost on her friend Williams, also in Brazil to promote the 2016 Games, who tweeted: 'Do they make Brazilian bikinis for, um, well, me?'.Wozniacki mentioned during a press conference after the game that she was performing an impression of her friend and fellow tennis player Serena Williams.
Love it. Feminists just doing the damn thing per usual. Seriously this story sums up ugly hairy disgusting feminists perfectly. Wozniacki and Serena Williams are fucking friends. Serena Williams knows she has a HUGE ass. She makes fun of it all the time. She thought this was funny. But is that good enough for feminists? Nope. They got to butt in (no pun intended but intended) and protect everybody from themselves. See that's the twisted irony of the feminist movement. They rant and rave about empowering women, but 99% of what they do is treat other women like brain dead morons incapable of making decisions for themselves. That only feminists know what is appropriate for women to do and say. That you can't even crack jokes about people you are friends with. That only feminists know how women should dress and act. They constantly treat other women like 2 year olds. It's insanity. Hey newsflash you morons. Just because you're ugly and gross and hate life doesn't give you the right to try and make everybody as miserable as you are. It's not the rest of the populations fault you are a loser.


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Conducting Business with the County of Berks - Procure to Pay Life Cycle - iSupplier
If you are interested in doing business with the County of Berks it is now more efficient then ever before. The County of Berks including the Purchasing Department has streamlined our operations to better serve our end users, suppliers and the general public.
The iSupplier section of the Purchasing Department webpage is a place where the supplier can navigate to register on-line and learn how to conduct business with the County of Berks. Registered County of Berks Suppliers have access to their supplier portfolio twenty-four (24) hours a day, seven (7) days a week, to update their contact information. It is important that supplier information is accurate and updated in order to recieve payments as well as electronically receive solicitations such as Request for Quotes, Invitation for Bids, Request for Proposals, Request for Information.
"What is iSupplier?" - "Why should my business register?" - "What do I need to register and what is the cost?"
Once registered suppliers will have access to their portfolio twenty-four (24) hours a day, seven (7) days a week. You may be asking, "What is iSupplier?", "Why should my business register?", "What do I need to register and what is the cost?"
iSupplier is one module which is part of the County's Enterprise Resource Planning System (ERP) utilizing Oracle. iSupplier portal is a completely electronic interface. No special software, aside from an up-to-date web browser such as Microsoft's Internet Explorer, is required to access this system. There is no fee required to be paid by your business to register or utilize iSupplier.
Efficiency created by the functionalities of iSupplier available to your business
Functionalities of iSupplier include but are not limited to the potential opportunity to obtain solicitations/negotiations from the County such as Request for Quotes, Invitation to Bids and Request for Proposals, be notified of awards resulting from such, receive and/or monitor purchase orders from the County and the receiving and payment of purchase orders issued such as date check was issued, check number, payment about etc.. In addition to review and monitoring suppliers will have the ability to process various transactions in the system such as responding to a request for quote or submitting and invoice for payment against a purchase order. Refer to the training section below which includes a detailed breakdown of the functionalities of iSupplier.
iSupplier Training - Available via Power Point and Video
This site contains power point training materials to guide you through the various actions and functionality of iSupplier. In addition the County is happy to advise that a video application of the training materials will also be available after August 23, 2009 so that you can view iSupplier in action and use this as tools to continue your training. The videos will be segmented allow you to pick and choice at different dates and times which process and functionality you would like to review, i.e. registration, administration (contact updates), orders, accounts/payments etc. These videos will not be housed directly on the County's site however a link will be provided so that you can access them.
As notated the following is a detailed breakdown of functionalities which are broken down in detail in the training materials and options notated herein. Click into the link for each section to open the powerpoint training materials for that specific segment.
q Introduction to iSupplier
q Vendor Registration
• New Vendor Registration –
Ø How to register without a notification from the County
• Registration via Notification
Ø If your company has done transcations with the County in the past you may have received a notification to register. This sections will provide you with instruction on how to proceed.
q Orders Tab
• Search for Purchase Orders
• Find Agreements
Ø Awarded Solicitations to Supplier
• Purchase Order Change History
q Shipments Tab
• Delivery Schedules
• Receipts
• Returns
• Overdue Receipt
q Account Tab
• View invoices
• View payments
• Submit invoices for payment (Note: Function is not currently available however will be in the near future.)
q Admin Tab
• Supplier Details
• Address book
Ø Enter/Edit one or multiple sites for purchasing, payment and invoicing for the County to utilize with your company.
• Contacts
Ø Enter/Edit contact information for indivdiuals at your company the County should contact for topics such as sales/purchasing, questions regarding invoices or payments to your company etc.
• Products and Services
Ø Enter/Edit commodity codes for the good and/or services your company provides in order to potentially receive notification on negotiations/solicitations (i.e. RFQs, ITBs & RFPs). Failure to do so may result in potential missed opportunities for sales for your company.
• Bank Accounts
Ø Enter/Edit account information regarding payments
• Approvals & Admin
q Negotiations
• Notifications for County of Berks Solicitations - Request for Quotes (RFQs), Invitations to Bid (ITBs) and Request for Propoals (RFPs) - If attempting to obtain an ITB, after registering/logging in please contact the Purchasing Department for assistance to ensure the complete package is obtained.
• Respond to a Solicitation
• View Solicitation Award
q iSupplier Questions & Clarifications
Remember - This registration will soley give you access to your company's transactions.
It is important that you complete the registration in it's entirety and continue to update to ensure your business does not miss out on any potential opportunities. For example be sure to select the proper NIGP commodity code for the codes and services your company provide.
iSupplier Prospective Vendor Registration
If you have done business with the County of Berks Purchasing Department in the past and have not recieved an email notification to register then please contact the County of Berks Purchasing Department.
The following link is the County's terms & conditions required for utilizing iSupplier;
iSupplier Registration - Terms & Conditions


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LAKEWOOD RANCH — East County firefighters will bring the heat at the first Manatee County Emergency Services Chili Cook Off Sept. 12 on Lakewood Ranch Main Street.
Local EMS groups will be serving up samples of their best chili in hopes of earning a trophy and a year's worth of bragging rights.
"It's a fun day and the proceeds benefit the emergency services of Manatee County," said event chairman Frank Pondillo, a retired New York City Fire Department firefighter. "There's a lot to do."
In addition to the spicy treats, the event will feature activities such as face painting, paddle cars, demonstrations by fire departments, tours of fire and EMS trucks, a smoke house, live music by the Rum Runners and other bands and more. Chili sampling will begin at 4 p.m., and the cook off winner will be announced at 7 p.m.
About eight fire districts and EMS groups will be participating in the cook off, including the Southern Manatee and East Manatee fire districts.
Proceeds benefit the Tribute to Heroes Fund Emergency Memorial Fund, a charity that provides financial assistance to firefighters, police officers and EMS workers who have been injured in the line of duty or to their families if they are killed.
The fund was created after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, as a way to remember the sacrifices of firemen and emergency workers who responded to the attacks on the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center and as a way to thank local first responders for their service to the community.
The event will go on rain or shine, Pondillo said.
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Chili Cook Off
WHEN: 3-10 p.m., Sept. 12
WHERE: Lakewood Ranch Main Street
ACTIVITIES: Face painting, paddle cars and other children's activities as well as fire and EMS truck viewings, a smoke house demonstration, food and drink, and live music. Samplings for the chili cook off will begin at 4 p.m.; the winner will be announced at 7 p.m.
COST: Entrance is free. Donations will be taken.
BENEFICIARY: Tribute to Heroes Emergency Services Memorial Fund
Sept. 11 Memorial Service
WHEN: 9:30 a.m.
WHERE: Anthony T. Rossi Waterfront Park, 10th Avenue West and Third Avenue West, Bradenton
Tribute to Heroes Luncheon
WHEN: 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
WHERE: Bradenton Municipal Auditorium, 1005 Barcarrota Blvd., Bradenton
GUEST SPEAKER: U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Xavier P. "Max" Lobeto
TICKETS: Cost is $30. Tickets available at the Manatee Chamber of Commerce building, 222 10th St. W., through Sept. 10. A limited number will be available at the door.
INFORMATION: 748-4842 Ext. 115.
Tribute to Heroes Bash
WHEN: 7 p.m. to midnight
WHERE: Sarasota-Bradenton International Convention Center, 8005 15th St. E., Bradenton.
DETAILS: Activities include raffles and 50-50 drawings and live music by the Dr. Dave Band.
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This solution portal area is dedicated to how you can get the most out of timesheets and timesheet systems. Much of this material is generic to any multi-purpose timesheet system and some if it is TimeControl-specific. We hope you find it all of use.
When we hear the term "timesheet best practices" we think from at least two perspectives. First, what is the best practice from the organization's point of view? We might for example, identify a huge advantage to the organization of tracking research and development tax credit information in a timesheet. Secondly, we look at what is the best practice from an individual's point of view. We might for example, want to let people know how much time they should devote to timesheet entry each week. So you'll find the best practice information on this page divided where possible into organizational and individual best practices so you can find our recommended best practices quickly.
Executive Perspective This wWhite paper describes some of the return on investment benefits that become possible when an organization deploys a centralized multi-purpose timesheet like TimeControl. There are numerous possible avenues of benefit along with quotes from HMS clients. The paper focuses on TimeControl-specific benefits, but some of these returns on investment are possible regardless of which timesheet is selected
Increase Resource Capacity As project managers we often think of resource capacity as finite. We reduce it by reducing staff. We increase it by increasing staff. Yet, Project Management as a culture has become so ingrained in our corporate world that it often becomes a silo of its own. Does Project Management know what is happening beyond its own borders? Does it know what time is being spent on non-project tasks and what those tasks are? For organizations who are willing to integrate both project and non-project timesheet collection, the potential benefits are vast. This white paper describes actual HMS client examples where organizations were able to increase their project resource capacity through the implementation of timesheet best practices.
Have a Timesheet Process It's commonly forgotten but compliance is tough to come by if you have not published your timesheet process. When we're asked to write such guides, our staff think of timesheet processes first from the Administrator, Supervisor and Individual perspectives and then we assemble proceses by incident (such as hiriing a new employee or starting a new project) or by period (such what must happen each week or each payroll period). If you're interested in a template to start your own processes off, download the TimeControl Process Template.
Best Practices Q & A We gave a list of questions that we often receive from organizations considering a timesheet system and asked our technical staff to respond to them. You'll find both the questions and answers on the Best Practices Q & A page.
Timesheet Best Practices Whether you are a TimeControl user or not, this presentation may be of interest to you. HMS has been delivering timesheet systems to organizations since 1984 and over the years we have compiled some best practices which are useful to anyone deploying or using a timesheet system. The Timesheet best practices webcast and associated slides are designed to share these best practices with you.
Timesheet and Project Dashboards In today's economy, having a real-time dashboard of information can be critical to making key decisions in a timely manner. This webinar shows how to create dashboards for timesheet and project management information, discusses the challenges in creating a good dashboard and shows how you can leverage TimeControl's extensive dashboard functionality to deliver the right information in the right format to the right people. We'll even show you how to embed an Excel Spreadsheet view right into the TimeControl dashboard.
Know your timesheet system No one comes to work in the morning excited to do their timesheet. You'll see your timesheet when it's the only thing between you and leaving for the day, so learn how to get what you need done in your timesheet as quickly as possible. TimeControl has numerous 3-4 minute web-lessons to teach basic functions. If you're a TimeControl user, check them out!
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Do it on your mobile! You should not be restricted to your Desktop PC to do your timesheet. On the train? Bus? You should be able to do your timesheet on your cell phone. Ask your IT department to make sure they choose a timesheet with mobile functionality. This page shows you how TimeControl's works. With TimeControl Mobile (included with every TimeControl) you can add, edit or approve timesheets from wherever you are!
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Increasing donor ecosystem productivity decreases terrestrial consumer reliance on a stream resource subsidy
- John M. Davis,
- Amy D. Rosemond,
- Gaston E. Small
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Because nutrient enrichment can increase ecosystem productivity, it may enhance resource flows to adjacent ecosystems as organisms cross ecosystem boundaries and subsidize predators in recipient ecosystems. Here, we quantified the biomass and abundance of aquatic emergence and terrestrial spiders in a reference and treatment stream that had been continuously enriched with nitrogen and phosphorus for 5 years. Because we previously showed that enrichment increased secondary production of stream consumers, we predicted that aquatic emergence flux would be higher in the treatment stream, subsequently increasing the biomass and abundance of terrestrial spiders. Those increases were predicted to be greatest for spiders specializing on aquatic emergence subsidies (e.g., Tetragnathidae). By adding a 15N stable isotope tracer to both streams, we also quantified nitrogen flow from the stream into the riparian community. Emergence biomass, but not abundance, was higher in the treatment stream. The average body size of emerging adult insects and the relative dominance of Trichoptera adults were also greater in the treatment stream. However, spider biomass did not differ between streams. Spiders also exhibited substantially lower reliance on aquatic emergence nitrogen in the treatment stream. This reduced reliance likely resulted from shifts in the body size distributions and community composition of insect emergence that may have altered predator consumption efficiency in the treatment stream. Despite nutrient enrichment approximately doubling stream productivity and associated cross-ecosystem resource flows, the response of terrestrial predators depended more on the resource subsidy's characteristics that affected the predator's ability to capitalize on such increases.
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- Title
- Increasing donor ecosystem productivity decreases terrestrial consumer reliance on a stream resource subsidy
- Journal
Volume 167, Issue 3 , pp 821-834
- Cover Date
- 2011-11-01
- 10.1007/s00442-011-2026-9
- Print ISSN
- 0029-8549
- Online ISSN
- 1432-1939
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Additional Links
- Topics
- Keywords
- Emergence
- Nutrient enrichment
- Food web subsidy
- Predator resistance
- Industry Sectors
- Authors
- John M. Davis (1) (2)
- Amy D. Rosemond (1)
- Gaston E. Small (1) (3)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 30602, USA
- 2. Stream Ecology Center, Department of Biological Sciences, Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID, 83209, USA
- 3. Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, 55108, USA


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Black & White is Back.
As we gear up for the new Fall season, there is one thing on our minds – which bag will be the next bag to buy? Well we have pretty much already made up our minds after being introduced to new British brand, Zatchels, who creates gorgeous classic leather satchels in a whole slew of prints, patterns, colors and combos. This season is going to be all about re-inventing the classics, which is why our purchase will most definitely be a traditional yet bold style in the forever updating classic, Black & White. Check out the fabulous Zatchels bags and other great Fall options like classic messenger bags and rich leather backpacks from Visconti from DCH Supplies at PoshbagsUK. Those brits definitely know how its done.
LANVIN Does it Again.
Our favorite French luxury label, Lanvin, introduces their Fall/Winter 2013 collection with a witty new campaign video entitled "Self Portrait" where Edie Campbell explores six sides of her imaginary self, portraying the diversity of the Lanvin woman. Undertaking vanity as the subject, the video juxtaposes the brand's upscale garb with the inner monologue of the tastemakers who might wear it. The result is a sharp, humorous and of course chic. Perfection.
Introducing One Clique!
If you haven't yet heard of One Clique, your mind is about to be blown. This incredible new brand has created a life-changing situation for girls everywhere – an interchangeable shoe. What does that mean, you might ask? Well, we seriously urge you to run to the site for the full details but the basic rundown goes something like this: Choose an upper, or two or three or ten; Choose a heel, or two or three or ten – mix and match the miraculous parts and voila, you have an entirely new shoe collection and pretty much never need to go shoe shopping again! Insane, we know. Even better – building up to their highly anticipated launch, One Clique is offering the chance for YOU to win a trip to NYC to be a part of their first lookbook, which, we must add, will include their secret Sole Sister celebrities! Again, straight to the website (details below as well)… You're welcome
The Royal Baby's Couture Rattles…
"And we thought Harper Beckham had it good.
His Royal Highness, Prince of Cambridge, who was welcomed into the world yesterday by Prince William and Kate Middleton (remember her?), will not only get a 41-gun salute today in London (along with 62 shots fired from a canon at the Tower of London), but he's already got fashion's most high-profile designers vying to dress him.
WWD asked designers Karl Lagerfeld, Christian Lacroix, Dior, Vera Wang, and more, to sketch some gift ideas for the royal babe (whose name has yet to be announced).
Lacroix sketched an ornate, royal pram, Dior imagined a whole collection of delicate babywear, and Lagerfeld, never one to be afraid to push the limits with his sketches (like that cleavage-bearing maternity dress for K.Midd), envisioned a pacifier in the shape of the crown: "A Royal Dummy" he's calling it. WWD notes that pacifiers are commonly called dummies in England. We still laughed a little.
Between Lacroix's over-the-top pram, and Vera Wang's silver rattle–engraved with HRH, obv–there's tons of goodies for the future king to enjoy. One question though: Will he stick to his mother's rule and not accept any designer freebies?" Courtesy of Fashionista
Top Left: DSquared
Top Right: Dior
Center: Vera Wang
Bottom Left: Karl Largerfeld
Bottom Right: Christian Lacroix
One to Watch: KANUPRIYA
We are seeing chunky metal jewels all over the runways, in the stores and on the streets this season…and while we definitely love the edge, the heavy golds can get a bit redundant. So in seeking out new ways to incorporate this trend in to our wardrobes, we came across KANUPRIYA, an incredible designer that has introduced something totally fresh – TEXTURE. We are absolutely loving the Cobblestone collection, which showcases a unique animal-like print stamped delicately in to Rose Gold & Gold statement pieces like this insanely amazing bib necklace – but you will see a refreshing mix of textures across the entire assortment from Filigree to Finely Carved detailing. Snatch these up while they're still available at Shopkanupriya.com and definitely keep on eye on this one.
Best of the Cannes Carpets
1 – Audrey Tautou inPrada
2 – Alessandra Ambrosio in Roberto Cavalli
3 -Marion Cotillard in Dior
4 -Nicole Kidman in Giorgio Armani
5 – Jessica Biel in Marchesa
6 – Isla Fisher in Oscar de la Renta
30 Spring Wardrobe Essentials!
With the sun shining and sandals out in full force, there is a lot of shopping to be done! So we thank Refinery29 for their fabulous guide to the 30 must-have pieces for Spring. Knowing our small obsession with accessories, we obviously chose our faves to feature accordingly but for the whole lot, check out Refinery29!
New York Fashion Week Trends Day 1: Oxblood
Today marks the second official day of New York's Fall 2013 Season of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week and we were pretty excited to catch up on the collections that kicked off the shows. There are always trends that dominate the runways and we definitely keep a keen eye out to ensure we're on top of it all but this little craze couldn't be missed if we tried…especially since this is now it's second season dominating the catwalk – oh, Oxblood, how we love you so. The deep red hue basically took over the magazine pages just a few months ago, we couldn't get away from shades of wine, burgundy, maroon and the like – bags, shoes, jewels, furs, leathers – everywhere we turned. Well it appears this baby is still going strong and although the name makes us cringe (Lucky Magazine really nailed it with their "19 Euphemisms for Oxblood"), we have to admit, we're pretty into you. Especially with BCBG's laser-cut leather and Yigal's head-to-toe cape. The unanimous vote on NYFW Trend Takeaway Part 1: Oxblood has our hearts beating harder for sure.
Kate, Lara & Natalia ALL Cover W Mag March Issue!
W magazine has come up with a great way to boost newsstand sales, this month: give three hot supermodels their own gorgeous cover, so that the indecisive fashion-obsessed end up buying the March 2013 issue three times. Smart move. Kate Moss, Lara Stone and Natalia Vodianova were each photographed by Mert & Marcus, posing in sultry jewel tones by Prada, Saint Laurent and Burberry Prorsum. Take a look all three W covers and see if you can pick a favorite…


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- I Am The Man, Thomas
- Mr. Tambourine Man
- Masters Of War
- It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
- Tangled Up In Blue
- Watching The River Flow
- When I Paint My Masterpiece
- Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again
- Not Dark Yet
- Highway 61 Revisited
- Love Sick
- Like A Rolling Stone
- Blowin' In The Wind
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