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The study also finds that health care employers successfully compete for the same talent as science and engineering fields because the necessary skills are similar, and educational programs have an appealing alternative for science and engineering students. Still, although health care and STEM skills have their similarities, health care employees typically place higher value on developing social bonds as opposed to focusing on achievement and independence.
Nurses are becoming more skilled, the study shows. Only 37 percent of entry-level registered nurses attained at least an associate's degree in 1980; however, this number reached 80 percent by 2008. Among minorities, 46 percent of Hispanics and 44 percent of African Americans under the age of 40 hold bachelor's degrees as opposed to 51 percent of white nurses.
Twenty-two percent of health care workers in the United States are foreign born compared to 13 percent of all national workers, the study finds. These foreign workers are typically from the Philippines, India and China.
The study also shows that doctors and physicians are the highest income earners in the country and usually come from affluent backgrounds.


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June 2013, The Center For Development
therapy is the use of specific
substances, either synthesized chemicals or natural ones, to remove a few toxic
metals from a person's body. It is
used mainly by some holistic doctors and naturopaths.
The word, to
chelate, means to grab onto
something. Thus, chelating agents
are substances that have a strong ability to grab onto toxic metals and
dislodge them from the tissues so they can be removed.
the same as chelated minerals.
Chelation therapy is completely different from the concept of chelated
minerals. The latter are
minerals that are tightly bound to specific mineral transporters so that they
are absorbed faster and better into the body inside the intestinal tract. In fact, our bodies naturally chelate
or bind minerals in the stomach and intestines in order to absorb them
therapy, however, has nothing to do with absorbing minerals. It has to do with removing minerals by
the use of a type of chemical that binds to them tightly.
Overall recommendation. While helpful to remove some toxic metals, I would definitely avoid chelation therapy. The main reasons are that it is not
needed at all, it removes some vital minerals along with the toxic ones that
cannot be easily replaced, and it is toxic for the kidneys.
people today are told that the more they chelate their heavy metals, the
better. This is insane advice, as
this article will explain.
include the following:
Random and erratic removal of vital minerals. All chelating agents, both natural and synthetic, remove
some essential mineral compounds from the body. This is a serious problem today for two main reasons. First, many people are already
extremely deficient in many essential minerals such as zinc, chromium, selenium,
manganese and others. If one
removes even a little of the essential minerals, the person can become much
more ill, even though the deficiency state can be subtle.
The other
problem with removing some essential minerals is that it further unbalances or
upsets the body chemistry, often in ways that are difficult to repair. For this reason, removing vital
minerals from the body in a random way is usually the worst problem with all
chelation – synthetic or natural - that we observe.
that offer chelation say they replenish the vital minerals with either oral
supplements or minerals added to an intravenous chelation bottle. However, in our experience, this is not
true. The proper foms of the
minerals often come from food and cannot be duplicated with pills or IV
minerals. In fact, replenishing
minerals in the human body is a delicate, exacting process and it cannot be
done by just 'dumping' them into the bloodstream or with mineral
supplements. Foods are best, in
all cases, and this takes time and patience to achieve. The mineral compounds that are lost cannot be duplicated by
simple oral or IV supplementation.
Unbalancing the body. Chelation rips
toxic metals out of the arteries, veins and some tissues without regard for the
overall balance of the body chemistry.
Replacing minerals with IV pushes and piles of vitamin pills does the
same thing, or worse.
If one
unbalances the body, the vitality always suffers, even if symptomatic
improvement occurs. This is a
major problem with chelation, using either natural and synthetic chelating
The toxicity of many chelating agents.
All chelating agents are toxic or potentially toxic. The synthetic chelators such as EDTA,
DMPS, DMSA, penicillamine, deferoxamine and other drugs are known to be toxic
for the kidneys, in particular.
Dr. Paul Eck
found that IV chelation therapy tends to lower the sodium/potassium ratio on a
hair mineral analysis. This is
always a bad sign.
The nature
of the damage is that methylation in the kidney seems to be affected. I know this because giving clients who
have had chelation therapy in the past with DMPS, DMSA or EDTA some
trimthylglycine or TMG seems to help them a lot. TMG is a powerful methyl donor.
The toxicity
may not be apparent, although some chelation protocols demand that the doctor
check the patient's liver and kidney function periodically, for this
reason. Unfortunately, normal
liver and kidney blood tests are not sensitive enough to detect subtle damage
due to chelating agents.
chelators such as high-dose vitamin C, zeolite, chlorella, cilantro extract,
distilled water, reverse osmosis water, charcoal tablets and others are less
toxic, but still damaging in various ways, and should be avoided. The safest agents are sulfur amino
acids, garlic, modified citrus pectin, and the alginates. While safer, these are quite yin in
Chinese medical terms and must be used sparingly, if at all.
Removal is not thorough enough.
Most, if not all of the chelating agents only work in the blood and in
the tissues and organs located near larger blood vessels. Repeated use of the chelating agents
can go somewhat deeper, but then the hazards of chelation such as removing more
essential minerals also increase.
In contrast,
nutritional balancing science begins at the cellular level and works at this
level. The metals can slowly be
removed at much deeper levels, as a result, and much more thoroughly. Several patients of mine had previously
undergone 40 or more chelation treatments. This is usually considered enough to rid the body of lead,
mercury or other metals. However,
when these patients went on a nutritional balancing program, they began to
eliminate significant amounts of these toxic metals that supposedly had already
been removed. The only explanation
I can think of is that deeper deposits were now being removed that were not
reached by the chelating agents.
Chelation does not remove a dozen toxic metals very well. Chelating agents are somewhat helpful
to remove mercury, lead, cadmium, arsenic, copper, iron, aluminum and perhaps a
few other toxic metals. However,
they will not remove very well about a dozen other toxic metals for various
reasons that are not well understood.
By contrast, nutritional balancing science will remove all of the toxic
metals, along with hundreds of toxic chemicals as well.
Chelation does not address some deeper causes of illness, and indeed often
makes body chemistry more unbalanced.
toxic metal removal is helpful in some cases, many times the metal accumulation
is due to many other bodily imbalances.
These include Yin Disease, Sympathetic Dominance, mineral
deficiencies, chronic infections, imbalanced mineral ratios and more.
balancing approaches the problem of toxic metals from a different
perspective. First one balances
the body and renourishes the body.
One also removes the need for
adaptations to stress. Toxic
metals often function as adaptations to the stress of mineral deficiencies and
other things.
When one
balances and renourishes the body in a particular manner, the body
automatically begins to remove the metals by itself. Our bodies have millions of years of experience removing
toxic metals, and the body can do this easily when it is balanced and nourished
When metal
removal is done this way, the toxic metals also will not tend to reaccumulate
nearly as much, so less therapy is actually required.
Also, the
process is much safer. The toxic
metals can actually perform a useful function to balance certain mineral
ratios. Just pulling them out can
be like pulling one's finger out of a hole in a dike that was holding back the
water. This is why patients
sometimes have very bad reactions to chelation therapy. Such reactions do not occur as much
with nutritional balancing science because the emphasis is on balance and
nourishment first.
Stopping mental and spiritual development. One of the problems with bypass surgery is that the
anesthesia drugs from a long and complex surgery often cause permanent mental
impairment. However, the effects of
chelation therapy are even worse, in my experience. The reason is that by removing tiny amounts of certain forms
of minerals such as zinc and selenium, chelation therapy easily stops the
development of some of the finer brain centers. Unfortunately, these effects are difficult or even
impossible to reverse, in my experience to date.
When this
type of mental development is stopped or damaged, people report, for example,
that they feel less connected to God or the holy spirit. This can be devastating for them. Please consider this when tempted to opt
for chelation therapy instead of a nutritional balancing program.
Chelation removes toxic metals in an unnatural order. In
nutritional balancing, all of the toxic metals are removed in the body's own
order. This is a complex and
delicate process. The practitioner
simply keeps balancing and supporting the overall stress response by balancing
the key mineral ratios and oxidation rate, and the body does the rest.
therapy is more of a 'sledgehammer' approach that literally rips the toxic metals
out of the enzyme binding sites in a totally unnatural order. This can cause problems, and, in fact,
it slows deeper healing of the body or may cause it to stop altogether.
In addition,
because the order is unnatural, some reaccumulation of the toxic metals often
occurs, necessitating more chelation therapy in the future. It is also possible that toxic metals
that the body either cannot remove well enough or that reaccumulate for other
reason will end up in more vital organs.
This does not occur with a properly designed nutritional balancing
Cost and necessity. Intravenous
chelation can be somewhat costly, although it is far cheaper than bypass
surgery, for example. Neither one,
however, are needed, in our experience.
No matter what anyone claims, chelation therapy is an allopathic, or drug
approach to healing. By this I
mean that it does not address underlying imbalances, it is somewhat toxic, it
never balances the body, and it usually reduces the overall vitality of the
This is
important because naturopaths and holistic doctors claim to avoid allopathic
approaches, but often offer chelation.
While it is alternative than bypass surgery for heart disease, for
example, it is still very allopathic in its philosophy and methodology.
Granted, it
may extend life because it can remove calcium deposits from the arteries of the
heart, brain, liver and elsewhere.
However, this is not the same as improving overall vitality and health.
exactly because it does not involve a chemical or herb. However, the effect is very similar. That is, drinking mineral-free water will
bind to and leach out of the body some minerals. It is sometimes called "hungry water". Unfortunately, it does not just leach
out toxic metals, but also removes vital nutrient minerals, as well.
this reason, please do not drink reverse osmosis or distilled water. The only exception is that distilled
water is occasionally helpful during a healing crisis for a few days or a week
if one is eliminating toxic metals and needs to get them out faster.
are other problems with distilled and reverse osmosis water, even though they are
fairly pure and chemical-free. For
more on this important subject, please read Water For
Drinking on this website.
disease (arteriosclerosis).
Chelation therapy definitely removes some toxic metals that lodge in the
arteries. This is one of its best
uses. By so doing, it can improve
blood flow to the heart and other organs.
Over one thousand studies confirm this.
chelation therapy for heart disease is not medically accepted. The likely reason for this is that it
competes directly with heart bypass and other common surgeries that are major
sources of income - literally in the billions of dollars - for physicians,
hospitals, drug companies and others who sell or supply various medical items.
The claim
that chelation is not well-researched, or that it is more dangerous than most
heart surgery, is false. The
ignorance and deception by the medical journals and authorities on this subject
are a sad reflection upon a medical profession that supposedly exists to help
people, rather than to harm them or take their money.
statistics on bypass surgery, for example, show clearly that there are many
side effects that would be prevented if nutritional balancing, chelation or other
methods such as sauna therapy were tried first. The cost of chelation and natural methods is often one tenth
to one-one hundredth of bypass surgery.
Thus, bypass surgery is quite insane today. If chelation or other natural methods failed, then surgery
might be considered, but that is not the way heart disease is treated today.
for other diseases such as dementia, diabetes, impaired circulation, and
others. Fewer studies support the benefits of
chelation therapy for other conditions, but it can be helpful to remove
symptoms in some cases because toxic metals cause so many ailments in modern
day society.
said this, chelation therapy is not a part of nutritional balancing science,
and never will be due to the reasons given above. While safer than open heart surgery, chelation is not safe
at all compared to nutritional balancing, and not as effective. In fact, nutritional balancing, in our
experience, can accomplish all that chelation does, and can do it far better in
every way.
Toxic metal
exposure is universal today.
Everyone has toxic metals.
To read why I say this, read Everyone Is
Toxic. All children are born
with some toxic metals that pass through the placenta from their mothers. This is why removing toxic metals with
a nutritional balancing program BEFORE one becomes pregnant is very critical if
one wishes to have healthy children.
It does not matter how beautiful a young woman looks, or even if her
blood or hair tests indicate that she does not have toxic metals. They are just hidden in these cases.
After birth,
vaccine exposure is an important source of mercury and aluminum, along with
food, drinking water, pharmaceutical drugs of many kinds, over-the-counter
drugs, cosmetics, and other environmental sources. These include, but are not limited to air pollution, dental
amalgams and other dental materials, and contact with toxic metals at home and
at work.
nutritional balancing work, we assume that everyone has toxic metals. I have yet to work with anyone who is
not quite toxic. Toxic metals are
not the most important assessment.
It is far more important to figure out a person's energy level, exact
oxidation rate, ability to eliminate toxic metals, ability to digest and
assimilate nutrients and a few other parameters of health.
Once this is
done, Dr. Eck's system involves designing a healing program that includes at
least 20 methods to gently and safely remove ALL the toxic metals and ALL toxic
chemicals in the body at the same time.
They include improving the vitality level, balancing the autonomic
nervous system (see Understanding The
Autonomic Nervous System), improving the eliminative organs, the use of
antagonists and synergists and much more.
For the specifics of these methods, read Toxic
Metals And How To Remove Them on this site.
In my
experience, saunas are the finest single additional modality with a nutritional
balancing program for toxic metal elimination. They combine a number of effects that together produce
wonderful results. They are also
safe and very cost-effective. One
can build or buy a light sauna for several hundred dollars or less. Click here
for information about saunas.
essence, sauna therapy helps rejuvenate the skin, the largest eliminative organ
in the body. It helps decongest
the internal organs by shunting blood to the body surface. It helps to spare and protect the
kidneys, as most all toxins eliminated by the kidneys can be eliminated in the
Heating the
body assists it to kill pathogenic microorganisms, and helps destroy weaker,
toxic metal-laden cells. Saunas
also drastically increase circulation, assisting to dislodge stored toxins and
assisting nutrients to reach all the cells to improve energy output.
The sauna is
also a powerful inhibitor of the sympathetic nervous system. According to Guyton's Textbook of Medical Physiology, when
heat is supplied from outside, normal heat production, a sympathetic activity,
shuts down. Also, shunting blood
to the body surface to remove heat requires and causes inhibition of the
sympathetic system.
energy supplied by far infrared and infrared light saunas adds other benefits
such as deep tissue heating, decoupling of toxins from water molecules,
production of heat shock proteins that help regenerate cellular structures, and
more. Saunas also have a long
history of safety that extends over literally thousands of years..
all these reasons, saunas are the finest single modality for toxic metal
removal. As added benefits, they
are also the best methods I have found to remove toxic chemicals, another
serious health hazard. They are
also powerful infection-fighters, and able to dig out old chronic infections
that deplete one's energy and secrete biological toxins that are hidden causes
of systemic disease.
Coffee enemas. These are also superb for removing most
toxins from the liver and large intestine. They should be included in any detoxification protocol for
this reason. For more information
about this unusual but very helpful therapy that can be done in the privacy of
your home, read Coffee Enemas on this website.
One of our
clients, Rosemary G., asked that her experience with chelation be included in
this article. Several years ago,
at age 64, Rosemary was diagnosed with mercury toxicity. Her symptoms included extreme fatigue,
a kind of free-floating fear, depression, anxiety, skin problems, and other
emotional disturbances.
underwent more than 20 chelation treatments to remove the mercury, using DMPS
and DMSA. She reported that the
treatments did not help her symptoms, but in fact made her more ill.
Her first
hair tissue mineral analysis revealed a 0.4 mg% mercury level. This is over 10 times normal. She had been told that her mercury
level was fine. After only three
months on a nutritional balancing program, Rosemary began to feel normal for
the first time in many years. A
retest hair mineral analysis showed an almost 100% increase in her hair mercury
level to 0.74 mg%. This indicates
an active elimination in progress.
Rosemary is continuing on her nutritional balancing program and feeling
still better, as there is more mercury yet to be eliminated.
I do
not like chelation therapy at all, but I would certainly choose chelation
therapy over bypass surgery if it were the only alternative. It is not, however, since a nutritional
balancing program can unblock arteries as well.
surgery is much more invasive, much more costly, and much more dangerous. In fact, it is a very dangerous and
usually unnecessary operation that usually leaves the patient with permanent
brain damage due to hours of breathing anesthesia. Usually, the patient requires drug therapy afterwards, as
well, which tends to worsen overall health even more.
Nutritional balancing for arteriosclerosis and
other heart disease. A better alternative than either
chelation or bypass surgery is a nutritional balancing program, in my
experience. The latter removes all
the toxic metals much more deeply, is the safest by far, and is even less
costly than the alternatives. Only
a nutritional balancing program improves overall health, as well, by balancing
all the major mineral ratios in the body and restoring balance, total nutrition
and vitality.
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I am only planning on running 300mg of test-e for 10 weeks on this first cycle. I have liquid nolva on hand if gyno becomes an issue and have ran havoc and SD before. I played it safe on both of those and only did 20mg of SD for 3 weeks last time. That was over 6 months ago and am currently just doing the protein and misc supplements for now. I am 31 yrs so am not a kid either.
I am hoping to get to about 215lbs after the 10 weeks and keep my BF% low. Well thanks for looking and will update weekly with gains, feelings, sides, etc.


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Priority Groundwater Management Areas
Briscoe County - On October 8, 2013, the Executive Director filed a report with the Commission that identifies the western portion of Briscoe County in the Briscoe, Hale, and Swisher County PGMA that is not currently part of a Groundwater Conservation District (GCD). The report recommends that the area be added to the High Plains Underground Water Conservation District #1 as the most feasible, practicable, and economic means to achieve groundwater management in the Briscoe, Hale, and Swisher County PGMA.
The matter has been referred to the State Office of Administrative Hearings who will schedule a preliminary hearing to be conducted in Briscoe County. A notice of hearing will be mailed to stakeholders identified by the Executive Director and will be published in the newspaper(s). The material filed by the Executive Director with the Commission can be accessed on the Commissioners' Integrated Database using TCEQ Docket No. 2013-1467-WR.
Hill Country Priority Groundwater Management Area Hearing Status - The Executive Director petitioned the Commission with recommendations that southwestern Travis County should be added to the Barton Springs/Edwards Aquifer Conservation District and western Comal County should be added to the Trinity Glen Rose Groundwater Conservation District (TCEQ Docket No. 2010-1040-MIS). The petition was referred to the State Office of Administrative Hearings (SOAH) to conduct a contested case hearing on the matter (SOAH Docket No. 582-10-5643). On May 5, 2011, the SOAH administrative law judges (ALJs) granted an initial motion to abate the proceedings in this docket, pending the completion of the 83rd regular session of the Texas legislature. On August 7, 2012, the ALJs issued Order No. 10 to extend the period of abatement to July 1, 2013. The period of abatement has passed.
On June 27, 2013, the Executive Director filed a motion to schedule a third preliminary hearing in this matter. The motion requested that a preliminary hearing be convened to: (1) determine which parties are still interested in the matter; (2) explore the possibility of aligning the parties into groups; and (3) set a procedural schedule, including a date for the hearing on the merits. The Commission's procedural rules authorize the ALJs to convene one or more preliminary hearings, including for the purposes proposed by the Executive Director. 30 Tex. Admin. Code 80.105(d) (Commission Rule 80.105(d)). On July 10, 2013, the ALJs granted the Executive Director's motion (Order No. 11).
The ALJs will convene the third preliminary hearing at 10:00 a.m., August 2, 2013, at the Hays County Government Center, 712 S. Stagecoach Trail, 3rd Floor-Courtroom #5, San Marcos, Texas. The preliminary hearing will be convened for the purposes listed in Commission Rule 80.105(d), including the alignment of the existing parties. The ALJs will not consider petitions to add parties and will not consider public comment. The following information may be helpful:
- The Executive Director's report;
- A map generally outlining the boundaries of the recommended districts; and,
- The mailing list of stakeholders located either in whole or in part in the identified areas.
You may locate additional information using the TCEQ and SOAH Docket Numbers on the Commissioners' Integrated Database.
Upton and Midland County - The public comment period for the Executive Director's Preliminary Report Soliciting Stakeholder Comments for the Reagan, Upton, and Midland County Priority Groundwater Management Area – Northeastern Upton and Southeastern Midland Counties ended on June 30, 2013. The Notice of Report Availability was mailed to stakeholders on January 24, 2013.
PGMA Information
To enable effective management of the state's groundwater resources in areas where critical groundwater problems exist or may exist in the future, the Legislature has authorized TCEQ, the Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) , and the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) to study, identify, and delineate PGMAs and initiate the creation of GCDs within those areas, if necessary.
- Map of Priority Groundwater Management Areas (PGMAs) and Aquifers (December 2013, pdf)
- Summary Description of PGMAs (December 2013, pdf)
- What Is a PGMA ?
- Rules
- Legislative Report
- Studies, Study Areas, and Designated PGMAs
- PGMA Reports (Since 2004)
- GCDs Created in Designated PGMAs
What Is a PGMA ?
A Priority Groundwater Management Area (PGMA) is an area designated and delinated by TCEQ that is experiencing, or is expected to experience, within 50 years, critical groundwater problems including shortages of surface water or groundwater, land subsidence resulting from groundwater withdrawal, and contamination of groundwater supplies.
Since the ultimate purpose of designating a PGMA is to ensure the management of groundwater in areas of the state with critical groundwater problems, a PGMA evaluation will consider the need for creating groundwater conservation districts and different options for doing so. Such districts are authorized to adopt policies, plans, and rules that can address critical groundwater problems.
If a study area is designated as a PGMA, TCEQ will make a specific recommendation on groundwater conservation district creation. State law authorizes the citizens in the PGMA two years to establish a Groundwater Conservation District (GCD). However, if local action is not taken in this time frame, TCEQ is required to establish a GCD that is consistent with the original recommendation. Under either scenario, the resultant groundwater conservation district would be governed by a locally elected board of directors.
For more information about PGMAs, see Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service publication B-6191, Priority Groundwater Management Areas: Overview and Frequently Asked Questions.
The PGMA process provided in Chapter 35 of the Texas Water Code is implemented by TCEQ rules that outline procedures for the designation of PGMAs and address issues related to the creation of GCDs in areas which have been designated as PGMAs. These TCEQ rules are contained in Title 30, Texas Administrative Code (TAC), §293.19 and §§294.41–294.44. The rules were amended in August 2012 to implement statutory changes made by the 82nd Legislature, 2011.
Legislative Report
Priority Groundwater Management Areas and Groundwater Conservation Districts, Report to the 83rd Texas Legislature: Published in January 2013, this report provides information to the legislative leadership on activities undertaken during the preceding two years relating to the study and designation of PGMAs and the creation and operation of GCDs. This report has been prepared by TCEQ and TWDB, with assistance from TPWD, the State Auditor's Office (SAO), and TAES. The report fulfills the requirements of Texas Water Code (TWC), Section 35.018.
Studies, Study Areas, and Designated PGMAs
As of July 2009, 18 PGMA studies and five PGMA update studies have been completed. Eight study areas were determined to have, or were expected to have, critical groundwater problems and were designated as PGMAs:
- Bandera, Blanco, Gillespie, Kendall, Kerr, Comal, Hays, and Travis Counties and parts of Bexar County — the Hill Country PGMA (considered two study areas);
- Parts of Reagan, Upton and Midland Counties — the Reagan, Upton, and Midland Counties PGMA;
- Swisher and parts of Briscoe and Hale Counties — the Briscoe, Hale, and Swisher Counties PGMA;
- Parts of Dallam County — the Dallam County PGMA;
- Parts of El Paso County — the El Paso County PGMA;
- Northern Bexar County — the Northern Bexar County PGMA;
- Bosque, Coryell, Hill, McLennan, and Somervell Counties — the Central Texas – Trinity Aquifer – PGMA; and,
- Collin, Cooke, Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Fannin, Grayson, Hood, Johnson, Montague, Parker, Tarrant, and Wise Counties — the North-Central Texas – Trinity and Woodbine Aquifers – PGMA.
Ten study areas were determined not to be PGMAs:
- Lower Rio Grande Valley Area;
- Fort Bend County Area;
- Orange-Jefferson Counties Area;
- Wintergarden Area;
- Southernmost High Plains Area;
- North Texas Alluvium and Paleozoic Outcrop Area;
- Hudspeth County Area;
- Williamson and Parts of Adjacent Areas;
- East Texas Area; and,
- Trans-Pecos Area.
PGMA Reports (Since 2004)
Each of these reports is available in PDF format. (Help with PDF.)
- East Texas Priority Groundwater Management Study Area: Updated Evaluation, June 2004.
- Trans-Pecos Priority Groundwater Management Study Area: Updated Evaluation, March 2005.
- Hudspeth County Priority Groundwater Management Study Area:March 2005.
- Part 1: Table of Contents, Executive Summary, and Introduction (cover–page 8)
- Part 2: Geology, Physiography, and Groundwater Resources (pages 9–20)
- Part 3: Natural Resources; State-Owned Lands; Water Use, Demand, Supply, and Availability; Stakeholder Participation; Area Water Concerns and Identified Management Strategies; Existing Water Planning, Regulatory, and Management Entities; Administrative Feasibility of Groundwater Management; Summary; Conclusions and Recommendations; and References (pages 21–77)
- Williamson, Burnet, and Northern Travis Counties Priority Groundwater Management Study Area: Updated Evaluation, November 2005.
- North-Central Texas - Trinity and Woodbine Aquifers - Priority Groundwater Management Study Area: Updated Evaluation, June 2007. The report recommends that Collin, Cooke, Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Fannin, Grayson, Hood, Johnson, Montague, Parker, Tarrant, and Wise counties be designated as the Northern Trinity and Woodbine Aquifers Priority Groundwater Management Area (PGMA) and that a regional, fee-funded Groundwater Conservation District (GCD) should be created. After contested case and public hearings, the Commission designated Collin, Cooke, Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Fannin, Grayson, Hood, Johnson, Montague, Parker, Tarrant, and Wise counties as the Northern Trinity and Woodbine Aquifers PGMA on February 18, 2000. The Commission Order recommended a single, multi-county GCD over Collin, Cooke, Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Fannin, Grayson, and Johnson counties.
- Central Texas - Trinity Aquifer - Priority Groundwater Management Study Area: Updated Evaluation, December 2007. The Commission Order recommended that a regional, combination-tax-based and fee-funded GCD is the most feasible, economic, and practicable option for conservation, protection, and management of the groundwater resources in the area. An alternative recommendation was also provided that recognizes:
- Multi-GCDs in the PGMA would be practicable and feasible;
- Two created, but unconfirmed, GCDs (McLennan County GCD and Tablerock GCD in Coryell County) were present in the PGMA; and,
- These two GCDs are required by their enabling Acts to add an adjacent county by September 2011 or be dissolved by the TCEQ.
- Dallam County Priority Groundwater Management Area: December 2008. The report and petition recommended that identified areas of the Dallam County PGMA be added to an existing GCD. On February 17, 2010, the Commission issued an Order recommending that all of the three areas that were not included in a GCD in the Dallam County PGMA be added to the North Plains GCD. In March 2012, the 2012 Addendum recommended that identified areas of the Dallam County PGMA be added to an existing GCD. On August 7, 2012, the Commission issued an Order adding the Dallam County PGMA areas to the North Plains GCD.
GCDs Created in Designated PGMAs
Locally-initiated GCD (or "district") creation, or addition of territory to an existing district, has occurred in six of the designated PGMAs. Areas remain in four PGMAs that have not yet established a GCD. Successful district creation has not occurred in the designated parts of Briscoe, Comal, Dallas, Midland, Travis, and Upton counties.
- Map of Priority Groundwater Management Areas (PGMAs) and Groundwater Conservation Districts (GCDs) (December 2013, pdf)
- Summary Description of PGMAs (December 2013, pdf)


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Radcliffe fellow and Rutgers English professor Rebecca L. Walkowitz '92 identified a new genre of fiction, novels that are intended to transcend language barriers, in a lecture at the Radcliffe Institute.
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The Harvard Gazette speaks to Radcliffe Institute graphic designer Jessica Brilli about her work in design and painting. "I love doing both — I love painting, and I love doing graphic design. So I feel very blessed to have a job that I like so much, and an outside hobby that ties into it. Both things really inspire each other."
The Boston Globe Ideas section explores the increased interest in the study of notes, which unlock conversations around great works. In examining the scribblings that were once dismissed, scholars are unlocking real insights into the way people in the past read, thought, worked, loved, and joked. "Take Note," a Radcliffe Institute conference addresses the rise of these once-marginal jottings as a topic in their own right.
"Access to Reproductive Health Care: In 2012, It Shouldn't Be This Hard!" featured Susan Yanow, founder of the Abortion Access Project (now known as Provide), and Judy Norsigian '70, executive director and founder of Our Bodies Ourselves.
Literary scholar Roger Chartier took on the question of "When and Why Do Literary Manuscripts Matter?" at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study on Oct. 18, exploring the creation of literary archives and the appearance in the 1750s of authorial manuscripts.
Haiti had been cholera-free for 100 years before the 2010 earthquake. At a recent Radcliffe Water Lecture, Harvard's John Mekalanos said, "The most likely conclusion is cholera was introduced in Haiti by a human."
Blogger Christine Frost attended Radcliffe's lecture and 20 questions with Roger Chartier and writes, "The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study has become an amazing place. It serves as a hub for collaborative projects that span Harvard University, and all disciplines, from humanities to the sciences, are explored in a variety of symposia and events."
The Radcliffe Institute's Annette Gordon-Reed reviews Henry Wiencek's Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves, a new examination of Thomas Jefferson and slavery.
The future of water symposium featured a variety of water-centric issues, from desalination to pollutants to the dangers of contamination from hydraulic fracturing. Radcliffe Dean Cohen said that water issues reach across disciplines, making them good subjects for the science symposium, which seeks to stimulate interdisciplinary conversation and collaboration.
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OTTUMWA, IA -- An Ottumwa man has been charged with theft and several other charges.
According to the Wapello County Sheriff's Office, 47-year-old Christopher Orval Myers, of Ottumwa, has been charged with theft in the second degree, a class D felony, three counts of credit cards, a class D felony, and ongoing crminal conduct, a class B felony.
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Getting To Know Y'All
Bobbi Sue, the self-proclaimed "hawtest" housewife of Hazzard County, arranges a party to meet the other ladies. On their way to her house, LaDonna, Lurlene and wildcat Jessie experience a few hours of confusion when they can't find the right rural route and must outrace a freight train in their Pontiac Firebird. They finally arrive at the party, only to find that Bobbi Sue's mother JoJo has single-handedly polished off the entire cooler of Pabst Blue Ribbon Lite. Later, Bobbi Sue and Jessie have fun with air guns while Lurlene and LaDonna listen to White Snake and relax in Bobbi Sue's above-ground pool.
And Baby Makes 5
Chastity Rose, the youngest housewife, meets the other women for the first time at Hazzard County's newest Mediterranean eatery, Quiznos. Within minutes of arriving, Chastity makes a misstep by saying she went to a junior college orientation one time. This leads to an awkward confrontation with Jessie and LaDonna, who repeatedly ask Chastity if she "thinks she's smarter than us, well, do ya, chickenshit?" The night ends with sutures and complimentary Baked Lays for all.
Brimming with emotion, Lurlene asks third ex-husband Big Mike if he'll give her away during her upcoming nuptials to his second cousin Lem. He agrees, but only if she lets his KFC franchise cater the reception. Meanwhile, Jessie's long awaited vacation to Crayfish Lake turns sour when half-sister Rhea crashes their rented pontoon into a bait shop. They smoke Merits and reminiscence about vocational school while picking at their nail polish and waiting for the authorities to arrive. Across town, Chastity and Bobbi Sue enjoy some illegal fireworks.
It's Hard Out There For A Housewife
A tearful Jessie apologizes to half-cousin Travis for taking his ATV to the Pik 'n Sav without his permission. Travis forgives her and says he's just happy she was able to "negotiate" her way out of another DUI with the Po-Po. Meanwhile, LaDonna and Bobbi Sue share a Meat Lover's pan pizza and gossip about Lurlene's most recent appearance on America's Dumbest Criminals. They agree that while her hair looked bitchin', she shouldn't have ripped off a Walgreen's while wearing a t-shirt airbrushed with her first and last names. Later that night at her son's basketball game, Chastity discovers Red Bull plus Mucinex equals a kick ass buzz.
Livin' La Vida Hazzard
The ladies are excited to attend the grand opening of Hazzard County's biggest Dollar Store. Chastity desperately wants to get to know the other housewives better, but Bobbi Sue and LaDonna shamelessly snub her in the $1 tampon/enema aisle. Chastity makes the best of it by flirting with the cashier, who later buys her a $1 kitten sweatshirt and a day's supply of Oxycontin. Meanwhile, entrepreneur Lurlene struggles to balance the demands of her in-home childcare business with her new venture, a multi-level puppy farm.
Heirlooms & Catfights, Oh, My!
Feeling a financial pinch after replacing the corrugated aluminum roof on her trailer, Bobbi Sue makes the heart-wrenching decision to sell her family's heirlooms on ebay. Tears flow when someone chooses "Buy Now" on her favorite "Goofy Goes Fishin'" figurine. That evening, the ladies try to have a fun girls' night out at the Hazzard Chili's, but a light-hearted discussion about who's more freakin' awesome, Stone Cold Steve Austin or The Gravedigger, soon turns ugly, leaving Bobbi Sue with just 2 fingernails and Lurlene with a 10% hearing loss in her right ear.
All's Well That Ends Well
After her fiance's request for a conjugal visit is once again denied by the state, Chastity lifts her spirits by taking her 7 half-kids to the local waterpark. She later realizes that she forgot Lil Jim at The Tsunami Lagoon and makes plans to pick him up the next day after her nail appointment. The season ends with Lurlene hosting a glamorous "Pimps 'n Ho's" party at her river house. Her big news that she's expecting an 18th child is tarnished when Bobbi Sue remarks that Lurlene only got knocked up, "So's she can cash in on being on one them breeder TV shows." The intense and heated wrestling match that follows ends with the housewives sharing a box of wine and hugging it out at the 24-hour Hazzard County Urgent Care facility.
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Spotlight Ideas managing director Stephen Pope weighs in on the state of the European economy.
May 29, 2012
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European markets not -- higher bully that are not as quick election polls point to support.
For staying in the eurozone but new worries for our markets as Egan Jones downgrade Spain's debt rating -- -- the managing director responded -- At London Matt Egan Jones downgraded just coming through not too long ago what do you make -- it did it surprise you at all that Spain is getting hit again with the not just.
No I think he's got surprises told that Spain is being put under pressure and having another level taken off his credit -- We are in a situation where unemployment is straightforward it's around 24%.
Move rolling over 50% for the youth unemployment.
-- prime minister keeps telling -- suspend does not need anybody that's assistance well.
And already quite shall war -- accusing not reason to -- it's.
-- because -- with yields -- -- six and a half percent -- cannot really afford to carry on raising money on the capital markets.
But didn't see that all of us really come on depends on Germany I mean if you look at what at what German bonds go far vs Spanish bonds -- -- -- about ilsley euros and right now.
What are the Germans gonna say enough on -- -- Merkel is facing reelection she's under pressure.
Doesn't that affect what happens with the economy there.
Most certainly she's worried about next September's election in September 2013 because she's lost some regional relations already.
And she knows that people in Germany since -- don't want to keep paying out bailout money.
However they do recognize that Jim has -- quite substantially from the export volumes his head into euros on.
I feel that Germany could carry on selling it's good for the not the Euro was there or not because.
People why Jim discuss in the quality not because they think rich people -- do discuss their quality products.
Who worry is slow if you start something I think Germany agree to your -- like socializing of European national debt.
Then the opposition policy the SPD in Germany can say well how about tuition -- bonds.
To try and say some of the states -- -- in Germany who are struggling themselves so.
Jim has a very tricky balancing act to perform via.
OK let me ask you about that being the no longer be health and the -- it's -- the elephant that's Greece.
There -- a -- times poll that came out it surveyed eurozone businesses consumers basically most even the Greeks and Europe.
Think that they would prefer to stay in the eurozone vs -- in the eurozone -- the euros on one grace that.
Well if you believe the politicians and bureaucrats we love the Greeks -- -- to stay.
Quite frankly I think enough is enough how much more money and time do we waste on summits that had nineteen already since this crisis began -- -- would have the twentieth.
How much more to they have to spend trying to -- the Greeks.
Either they decide to go again to -- policies that could form a coalition and it hits the terms of the bailout -- -- agreed in March.
-- they go with -- reason of this left wing group and they say no we're not going to do that either we'll stay you bias to stay.
All Greece has to -- -- merry way I think quite frankly if we could -- to spoil the Euro zone as it will be all right sixteen countries would be better off.
Stephen Pope is always gonna touchy about what's happening with the eurozone.
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Garden tended by cancer patients grows cancer-fighting foods
Nov 16, 2012
Vipp Jaswal, Cheryl Creech, Steven Clinton
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-- -- -- a battle with breast council has changed the perspective on many things including a diet instead of doing what's easy at -- shows little to do expects.
Properly cook but -- not to eat.
Just just different recipes thanks to try to keep your meals interesting.
Do that -- often -- foods from this garden.
One planted -- -- by cancer patients just like it was an idea cultivated by doctor Stephen Clinton.
Awful Ohio State's James cancer hospital who say is these two acres you've just as many life lessons as fresh -- Had experience with cancer can be turned into a very teachable moment it's a time where folks.
Really do reevaluate their lifestyle their diet nutrition.
Hoping to capitalize on that teachable moment Clinton is using this garden to stress to cancer patients the importance of fruits and vegetables.
And if he has his way these foods will soon be engineered to become highly concentrated -- it is.
We want to create the fruit or vegetable that has the most possible anti cancer activity.
So Clinton is looking with food scientists at Ohio State to cross breed foods with potent nutrients like tomorrow to those with extra lycopene.
To help fight prostate cancer well supercharged.
Black cross breeze which have been shown to fight -- -- and colon cancers.
The idea is to take the best of what grows it and make it even more potent.
Every step of the way from the farmers gate to the consumer's plate.
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It doesn't take a nuclear scientist to figure out that Smith Ohrig, the character played by Robert Ryan in Caught, is a thinly disguised takeoff of Howard Hughes. But whereas Howard Hughes was merely paranoid and eccentric, Smith Ohrig is an all-out psycho. Impulsively marrying ambitious model Leonora Eames (Barbara Bel Geddes), Ohrig keeps the poor girl a virtual prisoner in his palatial mansion, tormenting her with twisted mind games while he continues his premarital playboy activities. Coming to the realization that wealth and creature comforts are no substitute for stability, Leonora takes a "normal" job in the offices of society doctor Larry Quinada (James Mason). Falling in love with her boss, Leonora nonetheless returns to Ohrig when he turns on his patented charm. Only an act of God (accelerated by Ohrig's hedonistic lifestyle) rescues Leonora from a life of lavish bondage. Billed as Max Opuls on the credits of Caught, director Max Ophuls manages to implant his own distinctive style upon what is essentially a slick Hollywood studio product. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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Barbara Bel Geddes
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Forever Darling
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When Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz beat the odds against TV stars succeeding on the big screen in The Long, Long Trailer (1954), MGM contracted America's favorite couple for a second theatrical feature. Forever Darling casts Desi as Lorenzo Xavier Vega, a brilliant scientist and Lucy as Susan, his neglected wife. Wishing out loud that her husband would pay attention to her, Susan is surprised to find her Guardian Angel standing in her living room. Even more surprising is the fact that said angel is an exact double for Susan's favorite movie star, James Mason. Following the angel's advice, Susan tags along when Lorenzo takes a trip in the woods to test out a revolutionary new insecticide. Hoping that the trip will constitute a second honeymoon, poor Susan is in for a major disappointment; as for Lorenzo, he must suffer his wife's well-intentioned "assistance," which of course is no help at all. After a number of I Love Lucy-style comic situations, the couple is on the verge of divorce, but the angelic Mason straightens things out. Forever Darling tanked at the box office, but at least Desi Arnaz cultivated a hit song by recording the title tune. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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Lucille Ball
Desi Arnaz
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I Love Lucy: Country Club Dance
A pre-I Dream of Jeannie Barbara Eden guest stars as Diana Jordan, a sexy young lass who attends a country club dance along with the Ricardos, the Mertzes, and the Ramseys. Much to their wives' dismay, Ricky Ricardo (Desi Arnaz), Fred Mertz (William Frawley), and Ralph Ramsey (Frank Nelson) are all much smitten by the flirtatious Diana. In order to regain their husbands' attentions, Lucy Ricardo (Lucille Ball), Ethel Mertz (Vivian Vance), and Betty Ramsey (Mary Jane Croft) all purchase expensive new clothes and subject themselves to an elaborate "glamour" treatment. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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Mary Jane Croft
Frank Nelson
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Jane Eyre
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Director Robert Stevenson collaborated with novelist Aldous Huxley and theatrical-producer John Houseman on the screenplay for this 1944 adaptation of Charlotte Bronte's gothic romance Jane Eyre. After several harrowing years in an orphanage, where she was placed by a supercilious relative for exhibiting the forbidden trait of "willfulness," Jane Eyre (Joan Fontaine) secures work as a governess. Her little charge, French-accented Adele (Margaret O'Brien), is pleasant enough. But Jane's employer, the brooding, tormented Edward Rochester (Orson Welles), terrifies the prim young governess. Under Jane's gentle influence, Rochester drops his forbidding veneer, going so far as to propose marriage to Jane. But they are forbidden connubial happiness when it is revealed that Rochester is still married to a gibbering lunatic whom he is forced to keep locked in his attic. Rochester reluctantly sends Jane away, but she returns, only to find that the insane wife has burned down the mansion and rendered Rochester sightless. In the tradition of Victorian romances, this purges Rochester of any previous sins, making him a worthy mate for the loving Jane. The presence of Orson Welles in the cast (he receives top billing), coupled with the dark, Germanic style of the direction and photography, has led some impressionable cineasts to conclude that Welles, and not Stevenson, was the director. To be sure, Welles contributed ideas throughout the filming; also, the script was heavily influenced by the Mercury Theater on the Air radio version of Jane Eyre, on which Welles, John Houseman and musical director Bernard Herrmann all collaborated. But Jane Eyre was made at 20th Century-Fox, a studio disinclined to promote the
theory; like most Fox productions, this is a work by committee rather than the product of one man. This in no way detracts from the overall excellence of the film; of all adaptations of Jane Eyre (it had previously been filmed in 1913, 1915 and 1921, and has been remade several times since), this 1943 version is one of the best. Keep an eye out for an uncredited Elizabeth Taylor as the consumptive orphanage friend of young Jane Eyre (played as child by Peggy Ann Gardner). ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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Joan Fontaine
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Little Mister Jim
MGM's newest child star Jackie "Butch" Jenkins--lisp and all--is the title character in this overlong family drama. The setting is a postwar army camp, where returning GIs live in Quonsets with their families. Jenkins' mother dies, whereupon his soldier dad becomes an alcoholic. Both father and son are saved by the realization that life goes on. It was MGM's notion to reteam three of the stars from the previous season's Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (Butch Jenkins, James Craig and Frances Gifford) in hopes of lightning striking twice at the box office; no such strike occurred. Little Mr. Jim was adapted from the Tommy Wadelton novel Army Brat. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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Mrs. Parkington
The usual modus operandi for Hollywood "through the years" sagas was to gradually age its young actors in the course of the film. In Mrs. Parkington, 35-year-old Greer Garson appears in old-lady makeup for virtually the entire 124-minute running time, even though this filmization of Louis Bromfield's best-selling novel covers the years 1875 through 1938. Eightyish widow Mrs. Susie Parkington (Garson) gathers together all of her grown children in an effort to bail out son-in-law Amory Stilham (Edward Arnold), who's gotten in Dutch through crooked financial deals. As the children and grandchildren bicker over the "impossibility" of giving up any part of their inheritance, Mrs. Parkington's mind wanders back to her marriage to wealthy mine owner Maj. Augustus Parkington (Walter Pidgeon) and her own efforts, as an unlearned Nevada serving girl, to fit into proper Manhattan society. Augustus' ex-love Aspasia Conti (Agnes Moorehead, in a surprisingly sexy role) is engaged to teach Susie the in and outs of which fork to use and how low to curtsy. Shut out by the "400," Susie is avenged by her husband, who wheels and deals to ruin the snobs financially. Later on, he assuages his anger by conducting several extramarital affairs, before perishing in one of those convenient movie auto accidents. Just how all these incidents strengthen Mrs. Parkington's resolve to rescue her wastrel son-in-law is a mystery that even two viewings of this overlong soap opera may not solve. Incidentally, Greer Garson isn't the only one who is prematurely aged in Mrs. Parkington; keep an eye out for 27-year-old Hans Conried, convincingly playing a doddering musician. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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Greer Garson
Walter Pidgeon
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Summer Holiday
Summer Holiday is a musical remake of the 1935 MGM comedy-drama Ah, Wilderness!, which in turn was adapted from the play by Eugene O'Neill. Mickey Rooney (who played a supporting role in the 1935 film) stars as O'Neill's alter ego Richard Miller, a young man coming of age in early 20th century New England. Anxious to live life to the fullest, Richard ignores the cautionary admonitions of his father Nat (Walter Huston), preferring instead to follow the example of Uncle Sid (Frank Morgan), the family's "black sheep". In his ongoing quest for wine, women and song (he gets precious little of the first two commodities, but plenty of the third!) Richard ignores the fact that the true love of his life, sweet young Muriel (Gloria De Haven), has been under his nose all along. Director Rouben Mamoulien's obsession with cinematic innovations is largely absent here; what emerges is a staid, conventional MGM musical, albeit gorgeously photographed in Technicolor by Charles Schoenbaum. Filmed in 1946 but not released until 1948, Summer Holiday would not be the last musicalized version of Ah, Wilderness!; that honor went to the 1959 Broadway musical Take Me Along, which starred Jackie Gleason as Uncle Sid. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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Mickey Rooney
John Alexander
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The Arnelo Affair
On the whole, the films of producer-writer-director Arch Oboler seldom came up to the lofty standards of his radio work, but each of his movie projects had a few meritorious moments. One of the better Oboler film efforts was The Arnelo Affair, produced by MGM in 1946. Frances Gifford delivers what may be her best performance as Anne Parkson, the loving but neglected wife of busy Chicago attorney Ted Parkson (George Murphy). Upon meeting one of Ted's clients, shady nightclub owner Tony Arnelo (John Hodiak), Anne finds herself inexorably drawn to the charismatic Arnelo. He in turn is equally fascinated by Anne, but his fascination deepens into love. Upon realizing that Arnelo is essentially a cold-blooded thug, Anne tries to break off their relationship. But Arnelo has murdered his cast-off mistress Claire Lorrison (Joan Woodbury), and has arranged the evidence so as to implicate Anne in the killing. To Arnelo's way of thinking, if he can't have Ann, no one can-certainly not her scrupulously honest husband, who has gone on record insisting that he'd prosecute any criminal to the fullest extent of the law, even if that criminal was a friend or relative. Told in Arch Oboler's traditional stream-of-consciousness manner, the story comes to a violent but logical conclusion when Arnelo exhumes his own long-suppressed sense of decency. Despite competition from the three stars, and from such reliable supporting players as Eve Arden and Dean Stockwell, The Arnelo Affair is stolen by Warner Anderson as a soft-spoken, philosophical Chicago detective. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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John Hodiak
George Murphy
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The Clock
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The Clock was designed by MGM as a "small" picture--though characteristically, it was a bigger production than most "A" efforts from any other studio. Paul Gallico's simple story involves a girl (Judy Garland) and a GI (Robert Walker), who meet under the huge clock at New York's Pennsylvania Station. Over the next 48 hours, the girl and the soldier fall in love, make the acquaintance of such lovable gotham types as cabbie James Gleason and inebriate Keenan Wynn, and decide to get married before the GI is shipped out again. The enormous Pennsylvania Station set, combined with some unusually convincing back projection (MGM was hitherto notorious for the worst back projection in the business) has convinced even lifelong New Yorkers that The Clock was actually lensed in Manhattan rather than Hollywood. Director Vincente Minnelli injected further visual dynamism in The Clock by seldom repeating the same camera angle twice. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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Robert Walker
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The Harvey Girls
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This glorified Technicolor commercial for the Fred Harvey restaurants stars Judy Garland as a 19th-century mail-order bride. Upon arriving in New Mexico, Garland discovers that her husband-to-be is the town drunk. She cuts her losses and takes a job at the local Harvey restaurant, an establishment which endeavors to bring a little civilization and class to the wide open spaces. Harvey's operation is challenged by saloon-owner John Hodiak, corrupt-judge Preston S. Foster, and local-madam Angela Lansbury. With the help of tenderfoot Ray Bolger, Garland and her fellow waitresses foil the corrupt elements in town. Prominent in the supporting cast are Cyd Charisse, Marjorie Main, Chill Wills, Kenny Baker and Virginia O'Brien (whose musical numbers aren't quite as rambunctious as the contributions of the others, mainly because O'Brien was pregnant during filming). The songs are for the most part perfunctory, with the spectacular exception of the Harry Warren and Johnny Mercer's Oscar-winning "Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe." The Harvey Girls is tenuously based on a more sober-sided historical volume by Samuel Hopkins Adams. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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John Hodiak
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The High Barbaree
In this war movie, set during WW II, a pilot must crash land in the Pacific after he is shot down. As he floats upon the waves, he begins remembering the mythical island of Barbaree that his grandfather used to tell him about. To keep his wounded companion alive, he begins telling his life story. Via flashback, his youth, his love affairs, and his naval enlistment are chronicled. It is one of his lovers that talks her father into organizing a search party to find him. Meanwhile his companion dies. The pilot too, is half-dead by the time they find him. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
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Van Johnson
June Allyson
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The Milkman
The Milkman is a low-key variation of a theme explored in such slapstick festivals as The Fuller Brush Man and The Yellow Cab Man. Donald O'Connor plays Roger Bradley, who hopes to become a top-flight milkman to please his father (Henry O'Neill), the owner of the milk company. Jimmy Durante co-stars as Breezy Albright, the older milkman who teaches Roger the ropes. After several comic set pieces, the plot rears its ugly head in the form of John Carter (Jess Barker), the nephew of rival milk-company proprietress Mrs. Carter (Elizabeth Risdon). Carter has gotten mixed up with a nasty bunch of gamblers, led by Mike Morrel (William Conrad). This leads to an exciting, albeit chucklesome finale wherein Roger, Breezy and ingenue Chris Abbott (Piper Laurie) combine forces to rout the bad guys. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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Donald O'Connor
Jimmy Durante
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The Secret Heart
The Secret Heart is a psychological drama starring June Allyson as a disturbed teenager obsessed with the memory of her dead father and unable to embrace her stepmother. Following the suicide of her father, Penny Addams (Allyson) begins to behave strangely, even locking herself in her room and playing the piano in his memory. Greatly worried, Penny's brother, Chase (Robert Sterling), and stepmother, Lee (Claudette Colbert), consult a psychiatrist, Dr. Rossiger (Lionel Barrymore), who suggests that Penny be returned to the family's country home. Since the site is where the suicide took place, Rossiger believes that confronting the scene will force the young woman to mentally face the reality of her father's death. Once there, however, Penny becomes disenchanted with her father's memory -- which causes her to become even more despondent than ever. Eventually, Penny tries to kill herself in the same manner of her father, but she fails, and the healing process proceeds for all concerned. This dark tale, offbeat for its time, was narrated by Hume Cronyn. ~ Karl Williams, Rovi
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Claudette Colbert
June Allyson
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The Strange Mrs. Crane
Strange Mrs. Crane stars Marjorie Lord, later famous as the TV wife of Danny Thomas (and the real-life mother of actress Anne Archer) in the atypical role of female crook Gina Crane. Hoping to bury her criminal past, Gina settles into a comfortable existence as the wife of politician Clinton Crane (Pierre Watkin). When her former associate Floyd Durant (Robert Shayne) shows up to blackmail Gina, she has no choice but to murder the man. Things take a bizarre turn when Barbara Arnold (Ruthe Brady) is charged with Durant's murder-and Gina Crane is selected to serve on the jury! Director Sherman Scott was actually the prolific Sam Newfield, taking a brief respite from his multitude of B-western series. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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Robert Shayne
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The True and the False
The Swedish The True and the False was produced by actress Signe Hasso, who also stars in the film, which was lensed in two different languages to broaden its appeal. On the eve of her wedding a young bride-to-be (Hasso) decides to do a little light reading. Her first selection is Balzac's La Grande Breteche, a story of infidelity and revenge in which the girl imagines herself and her fiancé (William Langford) in the leading roles. She then looks over DeMaupassant's The Old Maid, imagining herself as the tragic heroine and her future husband as the soldier who loves her. As she puts down her books, the girl sees her marital future in a whole new light. Signe Hasso does just fine in her multiple roles; less successful are the other cast members, who seem to have been hired for their physical suitability rather than their thespic talents. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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The Unfinished Dance
An aspiring ballerina begins following a prima ballerina hoping that she will become her replacement. Unfortunately, another dancer is chosen, causing the determined twinkle-toes to cause a little accident to destroy the usurper's career. It works and the hapless ballerina's career is destroyed. In the end, the conniving one atones for her treachery and the two become fast friends. Danny Thomas makes his feature film debut in this musical. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
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Margaret O'Brien
Cyd Charisse
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They Came to Blow Up America
In this provocative WW II drama, an American agent sneaks into a Nazi spy ring to learn the identities of certain double-agents. The hero works for the FBI, but was born in Germany and speaks the language like a native. First he assumes a dead spy's identity and in that guise, contacts the Nazi superiors. He is then placed aboard a U-boat and sent to the US. Things go well until his cover is blown. Fortunately, he manages to escape. He then is forced to appear in a lengthy court case to help convict the treacherous spies. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
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March 18–24, 2012, marks the 20th observance of National Inhalants and Poisons Awareness Week. The good news is that fewer teens are inhaling poisons and chemicals to get high, according to NIDA's 2011 Monitoring the Future study. Use has been declining since about the mid-2000s, especially among 8th and 11th graders.
Still, even one person using an inhalant is too many. Here are some facts about inhalant use that you might not know.
Helium isn't harmless. You may have seen people inhale helium out of a balloon at a party to make their voices sound funny. But doing so can be dangerous, and in rare cases it can even cause sudden death. This happened recently to a 14-year-old in Oregon who inhaled helium out of a tank.
Inhalants can affect speech. Inhalants rob cells of oxygen, which can harm your brain. Using inhalants repeatedly can affect the hippocampus—a brain area that helps control memory—so that a person may lose the ability to learn new things or have a hard time carrying on a simple conversation.
Even if a person stops using, the damage may already be done. Some effects of inhalant use may never go away. These include hearing loss, limb spasms, and damage to the bone marrow and to the central nervous system (or brain).
Inhalants can be addictive. Although not very common, some people may become addicted to inhalants after long-term use.
And never forget about sudden sniffing death, which can result from irregular and rapid heart rhythms caused by sniffing inhalants. It can occur the first time or 100th time a person uses inhalants. Read other SBB posts that address inhalants.
We get a lot of comments and questions about what drugs do to your brain, including chemicals that people sniff to get high. For example, Justin posted a comment on this blog once saying he always thought that if he "huffs" markers in small doses, just every once in a while, that it will cause little or no damage to his brain cells. Maybe or maybe not. The problem is that you really don't know when something might be dangerous for you even if other people are okay.
What's clear is that when you inhale toxic chemicals like those in markers, paint thinner, or computer duster, it messes with your brain's wiring and signals, so you feel almost drunk or dizzy for a while—but if you keep doing it, you can have pretty scary side effects.
In the short term, these chemicals can cause dizziness, loss of consciousness, bad mood swings, and headaches. In the long term, toxic fumes can take the place of oxygen in the blood, leading to hypoxia (low oxygen pressure in the body), which can damage your brain and other organs or even kill you. In fact, even one hit of a toxic substance can stop your heart, aka "Sudden Sniffing Death Syndrome"—a tragedy that too many teens and parents have experienced. Some only come close, like Megan who stopped just in time.
Like Justin, maybe you weren't aware of the potential consequences of huffing. Many teens and parents are not. That's the point of National Inhalants and Poisons Awareness Month. Every year this month is a chance to educate people about the dangers of huffing, while supporting those who have already been affected. So what can you do? Maybe you can start a conversation with a friend about inhalant abuse or pass this blog along to others. You can make a difference and could maybe save a life.
Why don't you see how you and your friends do on this short quiz about inhalants?…see if you can get them all right—let us know how you did!
1. Inhaling stuff repeatedly can cause serious damage to the:
- A. heart
- B. liver
- C. brain
- D. all of the above
2. Huffing and using illegal drugs can cause brain changes that last:
- A. for minutes
- B. for days
- C. four days
- D. for years
3. "Sudden sniffing death" can be caused by…
- A. Acute odor receptor over-activation
- B. Inhaling noxious fumes from household products like glue, hairspray, or gasoline
- C. Smelling dirty socks
- D. Inhaling noxious fumes from your little brother
- E. Smoking marijuana
4. Damage from the use of inhalants can slow or stop nerve cell activity and reduce the size of some parts of the brain, including:
- A. Cerebral cortex (the thinking part)
- B. Brainstem (controls respiration and basic activities)
- C. Cerebellum (involved in movement)
- D. All of the above
5. Inhalants cause damage to the brain because:
- A. They smell really bad
- B. They prevent oxygen from getting to neurons
- C. They cause muscles to break down
- D. All of the above
1.d, 2c, 3.b, 4.d, 5.b,
At NIDA's Drug Facts Chat Day, we get great questions from teens all over the country about drugs. Here's one from "hhentze," representing Junction City High School in Oregon:
What drug is most often used by teens in the USA?
Every year since 1975, the Monitoring the Future Study has surveyed teens to better understand their drug use rates, attitudes, and beliefs. Looking over the past 10 years, data show that more and more teens are saying no to drugs, period. They are not even trying them once.
Still, to answer the question, statistics from 2009 (PDF, 362.76KB) show that the drug most often abused by teens in 8th, 10th, and 12th grades is alcohol, followed by marijuana. The third most abused drug varies by grade—for 8th graders, it's inhalants. For 10th and 12th graders, it's Vicodin (a prescription medication for pain). Here's a little more info:
- Alcohol
So, even though alcohol might be the drug most abused by teens, the good news is that the number of teens who report drinking in the last 30 days has gradually declined by as much as 40% over the past 35 years. You go, Gen Y!
- Marijuana
Seems marijuana use is slowly creeping upwards after a steady decline that lasted almost 10 years. What's up with that? The answer may have to do with the fact that young people are seeing marijuana as less risky than before and are more accepting of its use in general.
- Inhalants and Vicodin
With both inhalants and Vicodin, the rates of abuse among teens are about the same as they have been for the past 2-3 years. That's pretty positive, especially since the study only recently started looking at trends in prescription drugs.
Your Turn
Carry out your own mini-study and see what drugs friends, relatives, or teachers think are most often abused by teens. Feel free to share what you found out with us in the comments. Spread the word, and help set the record straight.
You may remember hearing something about neurons in biology, but what about today's word of the day: axon?
Neurons are nerve cells in the brain that communicate with each other 24/7 to control everything we do, think, and feel. The axon is the long, tunnel-like part of the neuron (see picture) that steers messages from the cell to other nerve cells or body tissues, such as muscles.
Since the axon's only job is to transmit messages from point A to point B, it can focus on doing it fast. For this reason, many axons are lined with a fatty material called myelin, which helps the message glide through the axon quickly. Prolonged drug use can damage the axon or the myelin, causing noticeable changes in a person's behavior over time.
For example, scientists have discovered that abusing certain drugs on a long-term basis—like inhaling fumes or markers—can eat away at myelin. Without its protective myelin lining, the axon itself is more vulnerable to harm. An axon that is damaged or is missing myelin cannot transmit messages as well to other nerve cells, if at all. For someone with damaged axons, this can mean muscle spasms, tremors or difficulty with basic motor skills, like walking, bending, or talking.
More info is available on the NIDA for Teens' Web site about axons and their role in the brain's communication system, as well as inhalants and their effects on the body.
The Shoutout is gathering volume and the message is coming through loud and clear: JUST THINK TWICE!
Myth: If I smoke cigarettes now and then, I won't get addicted.
- Think twice: Each puff of a cigarette gives a smoker about 1 to 2 milligrams of nicotine. Although that may not seem like much, it is enough to make someone addicted. Learn more.
Myth: Huffing – like sniffing Sharpies or household cleaners – really doesn't do anything bad; just gives me a quick high.
- Think twice: In the short term, these chemicals can cause dizziness, loss of consciousness, bad mood swings, and headaches. In the long term, toxic fumes can take the place of oxygen in the blood, which can damage your brain and other organs. Learn more.
Myth: Prescription drugs can't be dangerous if a doctor prescribes them.
- Think twice ADHD medications like Adderall can cause increased heart rate and blood pressure, psychosis, and seizures if they're abused; pain medications like Vicodin can cause respiratory depression and arrest, and even death, particularly when combined with alcohol. Learn more.
Throughout the day on November 8, watch our Sara Bellum Blog, where we will showcase as many shoutouts as we find. Follow us on Twitter (#drugfacts2010) and check out NIDA's National Drug Facts Week Facebook page. On November 9, check out Chat Day as we shout it out for teens everywhere – First, get the facts on drugs. Then choose health.
"Why does that guy keep breathing into that stupid paper bag?"
"Did you see that kid back there? Looks kinda' dazed."
"Oh no, I think she's passed out. Wait, is she still breathing?"
Ever seen someone at school weaving around like he's drunk, but you know he's never taken a drink? Maybe he smelled funny – like gasoline or rubbing alcohol or even air freshener. Or perhaps he talked about seeing things – hallucinations – that you know aren't there.
What's really going on?
What you may have observed is someone under the effect of inhalants. These are common household substances that people actually sniff – or "huff"– to get high.
This year, National Inhalants and Poison Prevention Week takes place the week of March 20-26, and aims to shed light on this pressing matter. "Just a single session of repeated inhalations can cause permanent organ damage or death," according to NIDA Acting Deputy Director Dr. David Shurtleff. "Most inhalants produce a rapid high that resembles alcohol intoxication. Given the wide availability of these substances and the severe health consequences they can produce, inhalant abuse is a serious problem."
Sara Bellum attended a news conference this week about this topic and its dangers. Erin Davis, mom of a teenager, was there to tell her story of inhalant addiction. For 2 years, she was addicted to inhaling computer keyboard cleaning spray. During that time, she had a seizure from the toxic effects to her brain; she was charged with reckless driving; and she even lost her parenting rights.
As the Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) Gil Kerlikowske noted, "Just because a product is legal doesn't mean it is safe." Dr. Shurtleff reminded the audience that "these products are poisons."
When you use these products, be safe—point them away from your face, not toward it.
According to NIDA's glossary, polyneuropathy is a "permanent change or malfunction of nerves." "Poly" means "many," so multiple nerves throughout the body such as in the arms, legs, hands, and feet are affected.
Possible symptoms of polyneuropathy are weakness, the feeling of pins and needles, or burning pain. In the most extreme cases, people can have trouble breathing and experience organ failure.
Many things can cause polyneuropathy, from genetics to a nutritional deficiency. But something else can also cause it—inhaling toxic, poisonous fumes, like those found in certain household products, in order to get high.
Long-term inhalant abuse can break down myelin, a fatty tissue that surrounds and protects some nerve fibers. Myelin helps nerve fibers carry their messages quickly and efficiently throughout the body and to the brain. Damaged myelin can lead to muscle spasms and tremors or even permanent difficulty with basic actions like walking, bending, and talking.
Don't forget about sudden sniffing death, which can occur when inhaled fumes fill up the cells in the lungs with poisonous chemicals, leaving no room for the oxygen needed to breathe. This lack of oxygen can lead to nerve damage, suffocation, and even death.
Sudden sniffing death could occur during a person's 100th time using inhalants or the first time. There's no way to predict it.
Learn more about the consequences of abusing inhalants.