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Roses Farm: A dreamy British renovation
This beautiful cottage Roses Farm, is similar in style to my parents old cottage in Wales, and seeing these photos really makes me miss the old family home. I love this style of cottage with the exposed beams, inglenook fireplaces and flagstone flooring, there is something so cosy and inviting about them..... and not a sterile surface in sight :)
Snuggling up in front of a blazing fire, or sitting around the table in the dining room waiting for the aga to finish (slowly) cooking dinner. with a cuppa or glass of wine in hand..... bliss!
Literally my dream kitchen
Roses Cottage . Photos by David Merewether for Wheldon Times
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Anderson and Dee: USD's ultimate underdogs
Christopher Anderson attended two men's basketball games at the Jenny Craig Pavilion while USD was recruiting him as a high school senior.
One was against Pepperdine, which won in overtime after tying it on a 40-footer at the regulation buzzer when the Toreros missed a clinching free throw. The other was three weeks later against Gonzaga, which won 68-31 – USD's fewest points in a game since joining Division I in 1979.
Anderson waited for USD coach Bill Grier to finish speaking with his team and return to his office. The point guard looked Grier in the eye, shook his hand and committed to the Toreros. Grier is about 5-foot-11, and Anderson was looking up at him. Anderson went 5-7, 130 pounds. Maybe.
That was late February. Two months later Johnny Dee, a shooting guard from Rancho Buena Vista High who is listed at 6-0 but is probably closer to 5-10, was making his college decision. He had one firm Div. I scholarship offer, from Portland State. He had taken a recruiting trip there and "had my mind made up that I was going there."
But his father suggested he sleep on it, pray on it, for a couple more days while weighing his other options. Which were: attend NAIA Biola or walk on at USD, paying tuition and living expenses that approach $50,000 per year because Grier had no more scholarships available.
"I came here again, walked around campus and just felt like this was the place I was supposed to be," Dee says. "I saw a good opportunity here. I felt like this program had kind of been kicked around and pushed in the dirt, had struggled some. I thought God wanted me here. That's the reason I came."
Anderson played 24 minutes in his college debut, against Stephen F. Austin at the Jenny Craig Pavilion in USD's Nov. 14 season opener. Had nine points and five assists.
Dee started and played 33 minutes. Made 7 of 14 shots and scored a game-high 22 points, and USD won 66-61.
"The thing about both of them is they're both really competitive," Grier says. "They play with a chip on their shoulder and an edge about them. And at their size, you have to do some stuff to survive. I like that."
He didn't have much choice, really. Teams digging out from 6-24 seasons and a federal game-fixing indictment of the school's all-time leading scorer generally aren't building the backcourt of the future with five-star prospects who turned down North Carolina and Kentucky. And particularly not in the spring, long since the overwhelming majority of legit Div. I prospects have signed letters of intent.
Your options are essentially reduced to dipping your mining pan in the river, swirling it around and hoping a gold flake glistens in the gravel. You find a couple of undersized guards overlooked by nearly every Div. I program and cross your fingers.
"He definitely saw something," Dee says of Grier, himself once an undersized guard from Oregon. "He was one of the few coaches who actually took a risk on us. I don't know what he saw, but he saw something."
Grier admits it: He saw something, just not this. Just not this soon.
Dee, ultimately awarded a scholarship after Trevor Fuller transferred last spring, is the only Toreros player to start all 23 games and is averaging a team-best 14.3 points, which also leads all West Coast Conference freshmen. If he scores nine points tonight at Pepperdine, he'll pass Gylan Dottin to break the school's freshman scoring record (336 points) in the Div. I era.
Anderson already owns USD's freshman steals record (37) and is 22 shy of the freshman assist mark. Grier put him in the starting lineup alongside Dee after what he calls the "UC Irvine debacle" – they trailed by 38 against a previously winless team – and "I haven't looked back."
Together, they are reshaping the stature of a USD program that has been on a steep slide since advancing to the NCAA Tournament in 2008, Grier's first season, and upsetting Connecticut in the first round. The Toreros have won 16, 11 and six games since.
It is a smaller stature, certainly. But the inference is clear: This is their team now.
"This school is not really big on sports," says Dee, whose Toreros (9-14) are on pace to double last year's win total. "They don't have very big crowds come out to see us, and they haven't won the past four years since the (NCAA) tournament team. I think the biggest thing we're trying to do here is change the reputation, get some people just to come out and watch us play.
"We're exciting, we're young, we play hard. We don't win every game, you know, but we're fun to watch."
Anderson's older brother, Jerime, is a 6-3 senior guard at UCLA. His younger brother is already 5-10 as a high school freshman.
"I got the short end of the stick," says Anderson, who is still 5-7 but is up to 140 pounds thanks to second and third helpings at the cafeteria. "My size, I guess it played a role in people's eyes that, oh, he won't be able to play against these types of (bigger) players in college. To me, I can compete against anybody. My size doesn't really matter.
"I've got a big heart, and that's all that counts."
He considered Penn of the Ivy League, which doesn't offer traditional athletic scholarships. He had an offer from UC Irvine. UCLA called because of his brother but never made an offer. Santa Clara called but never offered, either.
Dee knows the feeling. His father, Donnie, was an NFL tight end with Indianapolis and Seattle. He was a shortstop on the Rancho Buena Vista team that reached the semifinals of the 2005 Little League World Series. As a senior at RBV High, he led the county in scoring at 32.8 points and the Longhorns went 26-4.
He says most of the WCC schools called and expressed interest … and then just stopped calling. He was 5-10, maybe 5-11. How many 5-10 shooting guards make it in Div. I?
"I'd be lying to say I forgot about it," Dee says. "I remember pretty much every school that called me and told me, 'You're a good player and we're going to recruit you right now.' It's sort of fun to play against teams that were giving me calls once a week to I just didn't hear from them any more."
Anderson wears No. 0, Dee No. 1. Their dorm rooms are next door to one another. They have the same classes this semester. They are both Christian but not Catholic at a Roman Catholic university. They are both tireless workers.
They're both undersized. Both underdogs.
"We're a lot alike," Dee says.
"A black cloud is hanging over us because of what happened with Brandon Johnson and the point shaving," Anderson says. "We're just trying to bring a new culture, be more enthusiastic, have guys laughing and smiling, having fun and playing basketball and winning games. We're just trying to do bigger and better things, and have our program known as a good program and not for cheating or point shaving.
"That's what Johnny and I are trying to do."
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Microsoft will begin selling in April an upgraded version of its Xbox 360 console that packs a higher capacity disk drive and high-definition video interface not present on current models and is still cheaper than the rival PlayStation 3.
The Xbox 360 Elite will cost about US$480 compared to the US$499 price tag of the low-end PlayStation 3 console. The hard-disk drive in the new version can accommodate up to 120G bytes of data, which is six times that of the drive on current models. The HDMI (high-definition multimedia interface) interface will also make hooking up the console to a modern flat-panel TV easier.
The console will be the third in the Xbox 360 family after the US$399 standard version and US$299 "core system" and its launch will raise stands to make the competitive games console market even more so.
The Xbox 360 has been on sale for more than a year. When it hit stores in November 2005 it was the first console to offer high-definition gaming although it's now sharing that distinction with Sony Computer Entertainment's PlayStation 3, which launched in November 2006. Both consoles are also battling with Nintendo's Wii, which has proved surprisingly popular among consumers thanks to its innovative movement-sensitive controller. The Wii doesn't offer high-definition.
The Xbox 360 Elite is due to hit stores in the U.S. on April 29. Launch dates and prices for other markets were not immediately available.
The higher capacity drive will also be offered as an upgrade unit for gamers using current Xbox 360 models. It will cost $180 and will also be available on April 29.
The higher capacity drive will be especially useful to consumers downloading TV shows and movies from the Xbox Live online service.
The range of content available via the service in the U.S. is set to grow soon with the addition of programs from A&E Network, ADV Films, National Geographic and TotalVid.com, Microsoft also said Wednesday.
Movie-studio Paramount Pictures also plans to begin offering high-definition content through Xbox Live. It will make available "Braveheart," "Team America: World Police," "World Trade Center" and "South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut," and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment will release direct-to-video movies exclusively in high definition on the service simultaneous with their availability on DVD. Titles will include "Sublime" and "Babylon 5: The Lost Tales."


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Liberty will get to preview the Big South Cross Country Championships course during Saturday's VMI Invitational.
Course Map Buena Vista Weather After a three-week layoff from competition, the Liberty men's and women's cross country teams will return to action Saturday morning. The Flames and Lady Flames are entered in the VMI Invitational at the Vista Links Golf Course in Buena Vista, Va. The men's 8K race will begin at 10 a.m., followed by the women's 5K at 10:30. Both races will allow runners to preview the courses which will be utilized for the 2013 Big South Cross Country Championships on Nov. 2.
Weather Report The temperature in Buena Vista is expected to be in the mid-60s Saturday morning, with a chance of thunderstorms. Any significant rainfall could make footing treacherous on Vista Links' hilly terrain.
Scouting the Competition Nine of the Big South's 12 cross country teams are entered in the VMI Invitational, including Campbell, Charleston Southern, Coastal Carolina, High Point, Liberty, Longwood, Radford, UNC Asheville and host VMI. The only non-conference squad expected to compete is Division II Tusculum.
Saturday's meet could provide a nice preview of the Big South Cross Country Championships, as the top six men's teams and eight of the top nine women's squads from the Big South preseason poll are slated to compete.
Checking Out the Course VMI will debut a new home course at the Vista Links Golf Course in Buena Vista, Va., on Saturday, after hosting its meets at the Virginia Horse Center in Lexington, Va., in previous years. The course, which features rolling hills, will also host the 2013 Big South Cross Country Championships in November.
Last Time in Lexington Saturday's meet will mark the first time Liberty has competed in a meet hosted by VMI since the 2005 Big South Cross Country Championships. That event was contested at the Virginia Horse Center in Lexington, Va., on Oct. 29, 2005.
Current Liberty assistant coach Josh McDougal won the men's individual title by more than a minute, helping the Flames win the first of their now eight consecutive Big South team championships.
On the women's side, current assistant Rebekah Ricksecker placed 16th overall and sixth among the Lady Flames, who finished as the team runner-up to Coastal Carolina.
A Sign of Things to Come? For two years running, the top Big South teams at this meet have gone on to claim conference titles on the same course six weeks later. In 2011, the top conference squads at the Coastal Carolina Invitational/Big South Preview were the Liberty men's team and the High Point women. Both later claimed the Big South team crowns.
Last year, the Liberty men's and women's squads both placed first among Big South entrants at the Winthrop/Adidas Invitational, previewing their sweep of the team titles at the 2012 Big South Cross Country Championships.
Regional Rivals The Liberty and High Point men's teams have finished first and second, respectively, at the Big South Cross Country Championships for six straight seasons. The Flames and Panthers appear to be among the top teams in the Big South Conference and the NCAA's Southeast Region once again in 2013.
Liberty was named the unanimous favorite to win its ninth straight conference title in the preseason Big South poll, with the Panthers tabbed for second place. Last week, High Point posted an impressive runner-up finish at the Furman Cross Country Classic, moving the Panthers up to No. 8 in the Southeast Region, two places ahead of Liberty.
Saturday's meet will be the first of four matchups between Liberty and High Point this season. They will also face off at the Virginia/Panorama Farms Invitational (Sept. 28), Big South Cross Country Championships (Nov. 2) and NCAA Division I Southeast Regional Championships (Nov. 15).
Fabulous Freshmen Freshmen will play a key role in the success of the Liberty women's cross country team this fall, as evidenced by the season-opening UVa Duals on Aug. 30. Five of the Lady Flames' top 10 finishers that day were newcomers, including Kat Bouton, Lindsey Bray, Chelsea Page, Jessie Proehl and Alexis Taylor.
Back to Work The VMI Invitational will be Liberty's first meet in 22 days, as the Flames have enjoyed an extended break from competition since the Aug. 30 UVa Duals. Saturday's meet is the first of the Flames' pair of competitions in eight days, with Liberty returning to the course on Sept. 28 for the Virginia/Panorama Farms Invitational.
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General Questions
- What does the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) do?
- What is The HBO Addiction Project and how is NIDA involved?
- What drugs are commonly abused?
- What are the costs of substance abuse to society?
- Where can I learn more about the science of drug addiction?
- How can I receive educational materials regarding drug abuse?
Questions About Addiction to Drugs
- What is drug addiction?
- How is addiction a disease?
- How do drugs work in the brain?
- Why do some people become addicted, while others do not?
- How do I know if someone is addicted to drugs?
- What are withdrawal and detoxification ("detox")?
Questions About Health Outcomes Related to Drug Abuse
- Other than addiction, what are some other health consequences of abusing drugs?
- What happens to your brain if you keep taking drugs?
- If a pregnant woman abuses drugs, does it affect the fetus?
Questions About Drug Addiction Treatment
- When is the best time to get someone into treatment?
- Are there effective treatments for drug addiction?
- Where can I find information about drug treatment programs?
General Questions About NIDA and Drug Abuse
What does the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) do?
NIDA is one of the 27 Institutes and Centers comprising the National Institutes of Health (NIH), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. NIDA is the largest supporter of the world's research on drug abuse and addiction. NIDA-funded scientific research on illicit and prescription drugs, as well as on nicotine, addresses the most fundamental and essential questions about drug abuse, including tracking emerging drug use trends, understanding how drugs work in the brain and body, developing and testing new drug treatment and prevention approaches, and disseminating findings to the general public and special populations.
What is The HBO Addiction Project and how is NIDA involved?
The HBO Addiction Project is a multimedia venture that includes a centerpiece documentary, supplementary materials, a website, and a book. This monumental project was done in partnership with NIDA, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The purpose of HBO's Addiction Project is to provide the public with an in-depth picture of the science of addiction, treatment, and recovery, with contributions from the Nation's leading scientists and the personal narratives of addicts and their loved ones.
As the foremost expert authority on the science of drug addiction, NIDA's scientists and staff worked closely with HBO to provide an accurate and comprehensive picture of the current science on drug addiction. By recommending the most appropriate scientists to feature in the documentary, including our Director, Dr. Nora Volkow, providing research-based information about addiction, and fact-checking much of the information HBO is distributing through this project, NIDA sought to ensure that HBO's contribution to the public's understanding of drug addiction was based on research. While NIDA is a proud partner in this project, it was not funded by NIDA, and the views expressed in the documentary and other materials are not necessarily those of NIDA.
What drugs are commonly abused?
NIDA and other agencies monitor which drugs are being abused by tracking drug abuse trends through national surveys and other data collection systems. One example is the NIDA-funded Monitoring the Future survey, which gathers information on use patterns and attitudes toward commonly abused drugs among 8th, 10th, and 12th graders. Below are highlights of the 2006 Monitoring the Future Survey:
The Good News
- Overall, the results are positive - an approximate 23% decline over the last five years in the past-month use of any illicit drug by students in the 8th, 10th, and 12th grades combined (see figure).
- Cigarette smoking continues to fall to the lowest rate in the survey's history. And, between 2001 and 2006, declines were observed in daily cigarette use among 8th, 10th, and 12th graders. These findings are particularly noteworthy since tobacco addiction is one of the leading preventable contributors to many of our Nation's health problems.
- Between 2001 and 2006, marijuana use within the past month declined by nearly 25% for 8th, 10th, and 12th graders combined. Lifetime, past-month, and past-year use of marijuana decreased among 8th, 10th, and 12th graders separately, and daily use decreased among 10th graders during the same time frame.
- Since 2001, lifetime, past-year, and past-month steroid use decreased among 8th and 10th graders; lifetime use of steroids also decreased among 12th graders.
- Lifetime, past-year, and past-month use of MDMA (Ecstasy) decreased among 8th, 10th, and 12th graders from 2001 to 2006 - by more than 50% on most measures.
- Methamphetamine abuse continues to decline - on all indicators for each grade since 2001; and past-year and past-month use declined among 10th graders between 2005 and 2006.
- Lifetime and past-year use of alcohol modestly decreased among 12th graders, but remains prevalent.
Areas of Concern
- While past-year OxyContin abuse was down among 12th grade students - from 5.5% in 2005 to 4.3% in 2006 - the rate nearly doubled among 8th graders between 2002 and 2006 - from 1.3% to 2.6%. Vicodin continues to be abused at unacceptably high levels - 9.7% for 12th graders, 7.0% for 10th graders, and 3.0% for 8th graders.
- A question on the non-medical use of over-the-counter cough or cold medicines was added to the survey in 2006, with nearly 7% of 12th graders reporting past-year abuse of cough or cold medicines to get high.
- Although overall rates are stable, 8th graders, at 9.1%, continued in 2006 to have a higher rate of past-year use of inhalants compared to 10th and 12th graders, at 6.5% and 4.5% respectively. This is one of the few categories in which 8th graders report higher rates of abuse than 10th and 12th graders.
- Attitudes toward substance abuse, often seen as harbingers of change in abuse rates, were mostly stable. However, among 8th graders, perceived risk of harm associated with MDMA decreased for the second year in a row, and disapproval of using MDMA also decreased this year. Attitudes about risk of harm and disapproval of using LSD also softened among 8th graders this year.
To learn more about this survey please visit: http://www.monitoringthefuture.org/
What are the costs of substance abuse to society?
Estimates of the total overall costs of substance abuse in the United States - including health- and crime-related costs as well as losses in productivity - exceed half a trillion dollars annually: approximately $181 billion for illicit drugs,[1] $168 billion for tobacco,[2] and $185 billion for alcohol.[3]
The $181 billion illegal drug use cost is subdivided as follows:
- $129 billion in lost productivity;
- $16 billion in healthcare costs; and
- $36 billion in other costs, such as efforts to stem the flow of drugs.
For more details on the economic cost of drug abuse, visit http://www.ncjrs.gov/ondcppubs/publications/pdf/economic_costs.pdf (PDF, 999KB).
Beyond the raw numbers are other costs to society:
- The spread of infectious diseases, such as HIV/AIDS and hepatitis C either through sharing of drug paraphernalia or risky sexual behaviors, which sometimes result from drug intoxication;
- Deaths due to overdose or other complications from drug use;
- The effects on unborn children of pregnant drug users;
- Child abuse and neglect by parents who are drug abusers; and
- Other effects such as crime, accidents and homelessness.
Further, substance abuse and addiction start early and can tragically alter the course of a young person's life. These costs cannot adequately be measured, but nonetheless have a devastating impact.
[1] Office of National Drug Policy (2004). The Economic Costs of Drug Abuse in the United States: 1992-2002. Washington, DC: Executive Office of the President (Publication No. 207303). 2004.
[2] Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Annual Smoking-Attributable Mortality, Years of Potential Life Lost, and Productivity Losses - United States, 1997-2001 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 54(25):625-628, July 1, 2005.
[3] Harwood, H. Updating Estimates of the Economic Costs of Alcohol Abuse in the United States: Estimates, Update Methods, and Data Report prepared by the Lewin Group for the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, 2000. 2000.
Where can I learn more about the science of drug addiction?
In 2007, NIDA released a comprehensive booklet Drugs, Brains, and Behavior: The Science of Addiction. This booklet aims to help people understand why individuals become addicted to drugs.
Another resource is the NIDA website, which provides detailed information on drugs of abuse, latest research findings, and multiple links to information tailored for teens, parents, and teachers. Please visit:
How can I receive education materials regarding drug abuse?
NIDA's website is a tremendous resource for educational materials. For print copies of publications, NIDA maintains an online publications catalog; orders can be placed by calling DrugPubs at 1-877-NIDA-NIH (1-877-643-2644). Many of our publications are available in both English and Spanish, and most of these materials are free of charge. For teachers and students, our NIDA Goes Back to School section provides a wealth of educationally appropriate materials, including curricula, posters, booklets, and other educational materials developed in collaboration with Scholastic Marketing Partners, part of Scholastic, the global children's publishing and media company.
NIDA's education materials for the public also include:
Questions About Drug Addiction
What is drug addiction?
Drug addiction is a chronic, relapsing disease that affects the brain and causes compulsive drug craving, seeking, and use despite harmful and often devastating consequences. For more information, see Drug Abuse and Addiction: One of America's Most Challenging Public Health Problems (Archives).
How is drug addiction a disease?
Addiction is considered a brain disease because drugs change the brain - in structure and in function. It's true that for most people, the initial decision to take drugs is voluntary. Over time, however, the brain changes that occur with drug abuse erode a person's self control and ability to make sound decisions, while prompting intense urges to take drugs.
How do drugs work in the brain?
To understand how drugs work in the brain first requires a general understanding of the brain itself - not an easy task, given that that the brain is the most complex organ in the human body. The brain has multiple systems that control how our bodies function - everything from when we sleep, to how we feel, to what we think, to what we like to eat, etc. The brain controls these systems through a far-reaching communications network that uses chemical messengers (neurotransmitters) to transmit messages between nerve cells (neurons). When the brain is exposed to drugs, a variety of systems are compromised, since the communications network that runs them is impaired. There are at least two ways in which drugs disrupt communication in the brain:
- Imitating natural neurotransmitters (chemical messengers in the brain). Because of the similarity in chemical structure between certain drugs (such as marijuana and heroin) and the neurotransmitters naturally produced by the brain, drugs are able to "fool" the neurons into sending abnormal messages via the network.
- Over-stimulating the reward system by flooding the circuit with dopamine, which is a neurotransmitter present in regions of the brain that regulate movement, emotion, motivation, and feelings of pleasure. Nearly all drugs of abuse directly or indirectly increase dopamine signals in the reward pathway. Some drugs, particularly stimulants like methamphetamine, cause nerve cells to release abnormally large amounts of dopamine, whereas others, such as cocaine, prevent the normal recycling of dopamine, which is needed to shut off the signal between neurons.
Why do some people become addicted, while others do not?
This is a difficult question, and the answer is complex. We know that many factors affect vulnerability to addiction and protection from it. These include: the drug itself and how it is taken (smoked, swallowed, injected), how often, and how easy it is to get; individual differences based on genes, gender, age, and other events in a person's life, including past experiences; and cultural/societal factors related to norms, economics, and legal consequences, for example. And this is only a partial list.
In fact, no single factor can predict whether or not a person will become addicted to drugs - any drugs. However, the more risk factors an individual has, the greater the chance that taking drugs will lead to addiction. For example:
- Biology. People with a family history of addiction to drugs or alcohol may have an increased genetic risk for becoming addicted - it is estimated that genes account for about half of this vulnerability. But it is not only having these genes that matters, it is how they interact with other biological (e.g. gender, ethnicity, mental illness) and environmental (e.g. stress, poverty, drug availability) factors that accounts for a person's vulnerability to addiction. Even with no family history of alcohol or drug addiction, an individual is not safe from addiction; anyone who uses drugs, regardless of family history, is at risk. So while genes play a significant role, they do not by themselves determine whether someone becomes addicted.
- Environment. A person's environment includes many different influences - from family and friends to socioeconomic status to quality of life in general. Factors such as peer pressure, physical and sexual abuse, stress, and parental involvement can greatly influence the course of drug abuse and addiction in a person's life.
- Development. Drug abuse and addiction typically begin in adolescence and sometimes even earlier. Research shows that the younger a person is when they start using drugs, the greater his or her chances of developing later drug problems. This may be because the brain does not fully mature until about age 25; thus, exposure to drugs may alter its development. Moreover, the last parts of the brain to develop are the ones responsible for decision-making, judgment, and self-control, which helps explain why adolescents are especially prone to risk-taking behaviors, including trying drugs of abuse.
Understanding why some people become addicted to drugs and others do not is a complex issue and one that our still-evolving science is addressing. In assessing personal risk, it is important to consider family history, social environment, and age, among other factors. Ultimately, the only way to avoid becoming addicted to drugs is not to use them, since it is not possible for a person to predict whether or when they will become addicted and if they do, how ravaged their life will be as a result. In fact, addiction is only one serious consequence that can result from drug abuse - accidents, disease, and other harms can occur even with a single use.
How do I know if someone is addicted to drugs?
If a person is compulsively seeking and using a drug despite negative consequences, such as loss of job, debt, physical problems brought on by drug abuse, or family problems, then he or she probably is addicted.
The physical signs of abuse or addiction can vary depending on the person and the drug being abused. Each drug has short-term and long-term physical effects. And while some of these effects can be seen, others can not. It is therefore important that if you suspect a loved one is addicted, you suggest they seek professional help to determine if this is the case and, if so, the appropriate treatment.
What are withdrawal and detoxification ("detox")?
Withdrawal is the all-inclusive term used to describe a complex variety of unpleasant physical symptoms that occur when the use of some addictive drugs is reduced or stopped. Detoxification is the process of allowing the body to rid itself of a drug while managing the symptoms of withdrawal.
Length of withdrawal and the severity of physical symptoms vary with the type of drug and how long it has been taken. For example, physical symptoms of highly addictive drugs, such as heroin, may not only include difficult physical symptoms that may last for several days, but also general depression, or dysphoria (opposite of euphoria), that can last for weeks. In many cases, withdrawal can be treated with medications to ease the symptoms, but treating withdrawal symptoms and/or detoxifying the body from drugs is not the same as treating addiction - it is only the first step and should be followed by treatment with a behavioral-based therapy and/or a medication, if available.
Questions About Health Outcomes Related to Drug Abuse
Other than addiction, what are some other health consequences of abusing drugs?
NIDA has health information on many commonly abused drugs, including illicit and prescription drugs. Brief charts summarizing information, such as street and commercial names and health effects of drugs, are available online at: Commonly Abused Drugs Chart and Commonly Abuse Prescription Drugs Chart. Additional, more in-depth information can be found in our Medical Consequences Section
What happens to your brain if you keep taking drugs?
Drugs produce abnormally large surges in dopamine in the brain's reward structures that lead to the "high" drug users often refer to. In response, the brain becomes less reactive to the drug, and the user feels less and less of a "high" from the same amount of the drug - an effect known as tolerance. In addition, because drugs tap into the same parts of the brain involved with natural rewards - such as seeing a good friend or eating a delicious meal - the brain also becomes less sensitive to these types of everyday non-drug-related events and activities. As addiction deepens, the drugs become less an added positive experience and more a necessity for the brain (and the abuser) merely to feel "normal."
In addition to the dopamine-release system, or the reward system, long-term drug abuse changes other brain chemical systems that control the ability to learn, to remember, and to exert control over one's behavior. With repeated abuse, a type of conditioning (or non-conscious memory formation) occurs in which a person becomes highly sensitive to environmental cues associated with drug-taking. These cues can include people, places, or even mood states linked to the drug experience. They can trigger uncontrollable drug cravings, even when the drug itself is not available, and lead to relapse in formerly abstinent drug abusers.
All of the changes that take place in the brain from repeated exposure to drugs constitute addiction. Brain imaging studies of drug-addicted individuals show such changes in brain areas critical to judgment, decision-making, learning and memory, and behavior control. These changes are what drive an abuser to seek out and take drugs compulsively despite catastrophic adverse consequences.
If a pregnant woman abuses drugs, does it affect the fetus?
Pregnant women who abuse drugs place themselves and their developing fetuses at risk for negative health effects. Since the fetus' health is directly related to the health of the mother, it is important to consider the negative health affects that drugs have on all people, including pregnant women.
In addition, a pregnant woman who abuses drugs may have other risk factors that could adversely affect the health and well being of her child. These can include poor nutrition and health care, lack of prenatal care, and a chaotic home environment. Further, alcohol, nicotine, and other drugs of abuse can directly affect the developing fetus because they travel across or through the placenta.
For many drugs of abuse, the long-term health effects are not yet known, or are tangled up with other adverse environmental circumstances associated with drug abuse. Nevertheless, studies show long-term behavioral effects and vulnerabilities to addiction in the offspring of mothers who used drugs (including nicotine and alcohol). Pregnant women should be encouraged to abstain from these substances, or to get treatment as early as possible in their pregnancies.
Questions About Drug Addiction Treatment
When is the best time to get someone into treatment?
It is a myth that an addict must hit "rock bottom" to be ready for treatment. The reality is, treatment works regardless of whether a person has hit rock bottom; and catching a person earlier in the addiction cycle, may mean fewer accompanying problems and a better overall prognosis for long-term recovery. Further, "rock bottom" is a dangerous place to be, and for many addicts, that point is when a near-fatal overdose or other serious health or criminal justice consequence has occurred. If you think a loved one is in need of treatment, it is advisable to do everything in your power to help them find the courage, determination, and means to seek treatment as early as possible.
Are there effective treatments for drug addiction?
Yes. Research shows that combining addiction-treatment medications, where available, with behavioral therapy is the best way to ensure success for most patients. Treatment approaches tailored to address each patient's drug abuse patterns and co-occurring medical, psychiatric, and social problems can lead to sustained recovery and a life without drug abuse. It is important to remember, however, that drug addiction is a chronic, relapsing disease - like diabetes, asthma, or heart disease - that can be managed successfully. Treatment helps people to counteract addiction's powerful disruptive effects and regain control of their lives. And just as with other chronic diseases, relapses may occur but do not signal failure; rather, they indicate that treatment should be reinstated or adjusted to help the person fully recover.
Treatment will vary for each person, depending on the type of drug(s) abused. Often, multiple courses of treatment may be needed to achieve success. NIDA's Principles of Drug Addiction Treatment: A Research-Based Guide describes 13 basic principles that underlie effective drug addiction treatment based on 30 years of research. NIDA has also recently released a treatment guide for criminal-justice involved populations, with research-based principles aimed at decreasing drug abuse and criminal recidivism: Principles of Drug Abuse Treatment for Criminal Justice Populations - A Research Based Guide.
Where can I find information about drug treatment programs?
For referrals to treatment programs, call 1-800-662-HELP, or visit the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration online at http://findtreatment.samhsa.gov/.


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|CALIFORNIA COLORED WOMEN TRAIL BLAZERS -- --extract from-- -- " NEGRO TRAIL BLAZERS OF CALIFORNIA "
Miss Marietta Chiles for 46 years a teacher in the public schools of Richmond was a woman of lovable qualities. Her father was a messenger in the state capitol during the Civil War and carried the message to Jefferson Davis that Gen. Grant was near Richmond. This splendid woman served for a number of years as the Grand Secretary of the Grand Court of Calanthe and died as the honored and respected incumbent of that office. She was active in all efforts of uplift among her people.


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More mugshots: Can 'Gotcha!' survive with 'Crime Times'?
What is it about mugshots that's so darn compelling? Some may call it schadenfreude, that hidden pleasure the misfortune of others, but for the publisher of the second mugshot mag to hit Central Virginia newsstands in less than six months, the money can't hurt.
In October, Media General, publisher of the Daily Progress and the Richmond Times-Dispatch, introduced Charlottesville and surrounding counties to Gotcha!, a weekly tabloid featuring recent arrestees and the crimes for which they're charged.
Like the competing Crime Times, which first hit stands in June and has been doing brisk business (with circulation ballooning from 6,000 a week in June to 25,000 a week this month), Gotcha! retails for $1. It's apparently a small price for the pleasure of seeing the smiling, frowning, grimacing– and even bloodied– visages of recent arrestees.
In its first week at the store, says Kim Brown, co-owner of Brown's convenience store on Avon Street, sales have been brisk. Of the 25 delivered, 12 had sold in the first 48 hours. And once people see what's inside, she notes, sales may increase.
"I swore I wasn't going to read it," she laughs, "but then I heard they had restaurant violations."
Unlike Crime Times, which restricts its content to mugshots by jurisdiction, with the alleged offender's name and offense, and which features photos of missing persons and information on unsolved crimes, Gotcha! provides health code violations, articles on recent arrests culled from the pages of the Daily Progress and the T-D, in addition to a wider array of mugshots.
For instance, the October 29 issue features a "Halloween" section of alleged offenders with unusual clothes or makeup, an "80s Hair" section dedicated to alleged offenders with sizable coiffures, and a center spread entitled "Bruisers," filled with photos of individuals whose arrests and/or alleged offenses left them bloodied and bandaged.
A March 2010 article on a Richmond business blog reveals other mugshot groupings that might eventually land in Central Virginia's Gotcha!: "Beauty and the Beast," featuring attractive arrestees juxtaposed against less fortunate counterparts, and "Bad News Beards," featuring, of course, arrestees with prodigious facial follicles.
Even if such features provide an additional chuckle for readers, it's not something Crime Times plans to emulate, says that magazine's owner, Brad McMurray.
"It's embarrassing enough to be in there," says McMurray, noting his belief that the snarky groupings consist primarily of mugshots from outside Central Virginia.
Also unlike Crime Times, Gotcha! seems to have launched with a beefy advertising presence, which may boost the bottom line. In the October 29 edition, attorneys, bail bondsmen, and a locksmith hock their wares.
McMurray, by contrast, says he's made little effort to sell ads in his publication, preferring, he says, to donate open space to missing persons cases, fugitives, and unsolved crimes. He's says he not worried about the big-company competition.
"We just worry about ourselves," says McMurray, noting that he's received requests to expand into the Richmond market– Gotcha!'s original territory– and has begun to do so. A planned expansion into Fairfax, however, was aborted after officials there demanded $2,500 a week for providing the mugshots.
So how's Gotcha! doing in Charlottesville? That's hard to say, given that no one at Media General seems eager to claim parentage of this new baby.
Progress publisher Lawrence McConnell did not return the Hook's call, and a Times-Dispatch exec claims ignorance of the new product.
"I don't know anything about it," says the market growth manager for the Times-Dispatch, Floyd Spencer, who directed a reporter to use the contact information inside the magazine. We tried that, but a phone message went unreturned, and an email was answered anonymously.
"Gotcha!'s goal is to deter crime in the communities it serves," writes the responder, who signs the email by the publication's name and did not respond to a further inquiry seeking his or her identity.
The magazine launched in Central Virginia on October 1, the emailer wrote, and already has editions in Richmond and Northern Virginia, with plans to expand further.
Special online-only editor's note posted several months after this story ran: Due to the high volume of calls we have received from frustrated readers unable to find contact information for Crime Times, here it is as retrieved from the pages of the magazine: firstname.lastname@example.com more on: Crime TimesGotcha! magazine
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This is just a print version of what has been online for years; nothing original. It will survive and prosper for a time then peeter out.
I am so anxious to see if an editor or reporter from one of their papers is nabbed, will their picture be published? The media has a long history of protecting its own...and minimizing stories about their own.
Plus, I am sure Media General will use any profit made from "Gotcha!" to sink into more in-depth reporting in their major news dailies! Yeah, sure!
The national online version equivelent would be The Smoking Gun website. Every Friday they have their weekly roundup of the best mugshots they could find nationwide, including the beauties, the beasts and the crazy looking weirdos, like what this mag is doing, as well as celebrities. Plus they've got case files on strange and scandalous cases and famous celeb cases. For people who are into that sort of thing it would probably be a fun website. wwhttp://www.thesmokinggun.com/ I see that they've recently revamped their look more towards a "tabloid mag" appearance. It used to be more low key.
I'm pretty sure most of those are fakes. They are photo shopped images stolen from the web. If you dig deeper, I bet you'll not find any court records to support the reality.
Looks like my HS yearbook............
Heck of a way to make a buck.
Wow, this is so typical of the area, and seems especially so in publishing crap. Crime Times, then "Gotcha!", Cville then Hook. Does anyone here have an original idea? Obviously not.


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Edward Bulwer-Lytton
English novelist, poet, playwright, and politician (1803-1873)
Edward George Earl Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (25 May 1803 – 18 January 1873) was an English novelist, playwright, and politician.
- A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
- The Disowned (1828), Chapter xxxiii.
- The easiest person to deceive is one's own self.
- The Disowned (1828), Chapter xlii.
- The magic of the tongue is the most dangerous of all spells.
- Eugene Aram (1832), Book i, Chapter vii.
- Fate laughs at probabilities.
- Eugene Aram (1832), Book i, Chapter x.
- Rank is a great beautifier.
- The Lady of Lyons (1838), Act ii, Scene i.
- Curse away!
And let me tell thee, Beauseant, a wise proverb
The Arabs have,—"Curses are like young chickens,
And still come home to roost."
- The Lady of Lyons (1838), Act v, Scene ii.
- The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan.
- Night and Morning (1841), Chapter vi.
- Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame — to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell.
- Last of the Barons (1843), Book v, Chapter i.
- The most useless creature that ever yawned at a club, or counted the vermin on his rags under the suns of Calabria, has no excuse for want of intellect. What men want is not talent, it is purpose,—in other words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labour.
- Lucretia, Part II, Chapter XII
- The brilliant chief, irregularly great,
Frank, haughty, rash,— the Rupert of debate!
- The New Timon (1846), Part i. In April, 1844, Benjamin Disraeli thus alluded to Lord Stanley: "The noble lord is the Rupert of debate."
- Alone! — that worn-out word,
So idly spoken, and so coldly heard;
Yet all that poets sing and grief hath known
Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word ALONE!
- The New Timon, (1846). Part ii.
- A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes to-day.
- Kenelm Chillingly : His Adventures and Opinions (1873), Book I, Ch. 8.
- There are times when the mirth of others only saddens us, especially the mirth of children with high spirits, that jar on our own quiet mood.
- Kenelm Chillingly; His Adventures and Opinions (1873).
Paul Clifford (1830)Edit
- It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents — except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.
- Probably the most parodied and ridiculed opening line in literature. It is the inspiration for a satirical prize, the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest. Used by Charles M. Schultz in the Peanuts cartoons.
Richelieu (1839)Edit
A play, first performed in 1839.
- You speak
As one who fed on poetry.
- Act i, Scene vi.
- Beneath the rule of men entirely great,
The pen is mightier than the sword.
- Act ii, Scene ii. This is the origin of the much quoted phrase "the pen is mightier than the sword". Compare: "Hinc quam sic calamus sævior ense, patet. The pen worse than the sword", Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 4, Subsect. 4.
- Ambition has no risk.
- Act iii, Scene i.
- Take away the sword;
States can be saved without it.
- Act iii, Scene i.
- In the lexicon of youth, which fate reserves
For a bright manhood, there is no such word
As "fail".
- Act iii, Scene i.
- Our glories float between the earth and heaven
Like clouds which seem pavilions of the sun.
- Act v, Scene iii.
Zanoni (1842)Edit
- We commenced research where modern conjecture closes its faithless wings. And with us, those were the common elements of science which the sages of to-day disdain as wild chimeras, or despair of as unfathomable mysteries.
- Quoted by H.P. Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled, Part One, Science, Ch. 1 (1877)
Caxtoniana: Hints on Mental Culture (1862)Edit
- Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light — every eye looking on finds its own
- In science, read, by preference the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.
- The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who, early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.
The Coming Race (1870)Edit
- My father died shortly after I was twenty-one; and being left well off, and having a taste for travel and adventure, I resigned, for a time, all pursuit of the almighty dollar, and became a desultory wanderer over the face of the earth.
- Chapter 1. This is the origin of the phrase "pursuit of the almighty dollar". Washington Irving coined the expression almighty dollar itself.


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A suspected stowaway has been killed when he was hit by a coach after emerging from underneath the vehicle.
The man, thought to be in his 20s or 30s and of African or Arabic origin, is thought to have climbed beneath the coach as it left Calais in France.
He remained there, unknown to the driver, as the coach travelled almost 200 miles to Bexwell, near Downham Market in Norfolk.
As the coach reversed into its home depot at D&H Harrods Coaches at about 1.20am yesterday, the man was hit and died at the scene from his injuries, Norfolk Police said.
A force spokesman said: " An inspector from the Health and Safety Executive, crime scene investigators and collision investigators remain at the scene conducting further inquiries and a Home Office post-mortem is due to take place to determine the cause of death.
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Justin Bieber? You know him, right? Yea, so do I. Quite honestly, I don't care about him. I do, however care about my job. RIght now i'm a back-up dancer on his tour "Believe". I know what you're thinking, 'YOu have to audition for that' WRONG. I didn't really have a choice. They needed another dancer, and my agent needed me to get a job. So now, here I am dancing for Justin Bieber.
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The European Court of Auditors audits EU finances. Its role is to improve EU financial management and report on the use of public funds. It was set up in 1975 and is based in Luxembourg.
To ensure that EU taxpayers get maximum value for their money, the Court of Auditors has the right to check ('audit') any person or organisation handling EU funds. The Court frequently carries out on-the-spot checks. Its findings are written up in reports submitted to the Commission and EU national governments.


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I was a big fan of Electric Light Orchestra back in the Dark Ages of my youth and, when pissed, regularly shoved on headphones and "sang" along to my favorite track which was "Do You Want My Love". This was long before karaoke was invented so it was just you, your drink-fuddled mind and Jeff Lynne and his mates blasting out fab stuff.
Anyway, as I was waiting at the traffic lights the other day, I became aware of a familiar tune I hadn´t heard in decades and then realized it was "Living Thing", another brilliant stomper from ELO. But instead of that heavy rhythm and electrifying guitar magic that makes it impossible to stand still, this was a tinny, anaemic version that sounded as if it was being squeezed out of the voice boxes of adenoidal choirboys in a large, cold cathedral. The source was a cut-price carpet shop which had put a speaker outside blasting out this pitiful, criminal cover. I was tempted to kick it over, go in and set fire to the place for desecrating a great band.
Cover versions – fuck ´em, I say! Here´s a link to get your adrenalin flowing ISACers:
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TOKYO—In her first appearance before the press since her claims of an astounding breakthrough in stem cell research started unraveling, Haruko Obokata, of the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Kobe, Japan, apologized for the trouble she has caused her employer, her colleagues, and the scientific community. But she also firmly maintained that STAP cells, the new type of stem cells she claims to have developed, exist, and said she will not retract the two Nature papers reporting her finding.
"I sincerely apologize to RIKEN, my co-authors, and to many others for the trouble I caused through my insufficient experience and carelessness," Obokata said with a deep bow at the beginning of the press conference, which was held in Osaka. But "STAP cells exist!" she defiantly declared in response to a question. She also pledged to "go anywhere" to help any interested scientist reproduce her results.
Obokata last faced the press when she and colleagues at RIKEN and other institutions in Japan and at Harvard Medical School in Boston published a research article and a letter online in Nature on 29 January. The 30-year-old was lionized in Japan for her unexpected breakthrough, a method to create stem cells that she called "stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency," or STAP. It works by subjecting mature cells to a brief acid bath and then tweaking culture conditions. But soon there were reports of doctored images and plagiarism, and to date, no one has reported replicating the first step in creating STAP cells. One co-author has called for the papers to be retracted.
A RIKEN investigating committee announced on 1 April that it had found two instances of research misconduct. RIKEN President Ryoji Noyori said at the time that Obokata would be given a chance to appeal before a disciplinary committee would be convened. Obokata's lawyers filed the appeal with RIKEN yesterday.
At the press conference, Kazuhiko Murotani, one of her attorneys, elaborated on Obokata's previous claims that there was no intent to deceive, and that the problems in the papers do not affect the results. He did reveal a few new details. For instance, Obokata had previously admitted to using images from her doctoral thesis in the Nature papers by mistake; Murotani explained today that the images did not come directly from the thesis, but rather resulted from a mix-up of PowerPoint slides.
He also parsed the meaning of the term "fabrication," claiming it describes cases where an image is made up completely from scratch and intended to deceive. That's not what happened in Obokata's case, where images were inadvertently mixed up, he said. He said the investigating committee had rushed to a conclusion without giving Obokata sufficient opportunity to present her side of the story. Obokata, through her lawyers, is asking RIKEN to reinvestigate the matter and reconsider the judgment.
RIKEN released a statement confirming receipt of the appeal and saying the institute "will give due consideration to the appeal in accordance with our regulations."
Obokata answered most of the questions herself during a Q&A session that stretched the press conference to a bit over 2.5 hours. Among other things, she said that she has at least four or five lab notebooks containing the details of her experiments, not the two notebooks the investigating committee mentioned in its report; unfortunately, they are scattered among the various labs she has worked in.
She apologized several times for the errors in the papers, but also repeatedly expressed her faith in her findings. She claimed she has created STAP cells more than 200 times; retracting the Nature papers would indicate that the STAP phenomenon is not real, she added. "If I can continue in research, I want to work to realize the hopes of STAP cells as quickly as possible," she said.
In a related development, at a press conference on Monday, Hitoshi Niwa, a RIKEN senior scientist and a co-author of the papers, outlined how a RIKEN team will try to replicate every step of the experiments reported in the two papers, from the stressing of the cells and the creation of STAP stem cells to testing their pluripotency. He said he expects the effort to take a full year but promised to release interim reports on progress.


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Feminist, leftist propaganda in the public school classroom
Earlier today, while my kids were still at school, I wrote about the way in which unions pushed a Leftist agenda into the classroom. I should not have been surprised, therefore, when Little Bookworm came home from high school and told me that, because one of the teachers was absent, they spent classroom time watching Miss Representation instead. Little Bookworm was not pleased with the movie. Why not? Because, according to Little Bookworm, the movie claimed that there had been a right wing takeover of media, and that Fox was a terrible, corrupting influence on the media.
Wow! Really?
I recall reading about Miss Representation when it first came out, and thinking that it was rather foolish, with its usual Regressive . . . uh, Progressive worldview, one that's rooted firmly in the early 1970s. In Regressive-land, blacks are perpetually in the back of the bus, while women are barefoot, pregnant, and in the kitchen. (Which is why it's such a hoot when an arch Regressive such as Paul Krugman tries to ascend the "reality based" soapbox to accuse the Right of factual ignorance. I mean, this is the guy who thinks you can solve the deficit by minting a trillion dollar coin.)
Where was I?
Oh, right — Miss Representation.
Since it seems that Miss Representation isn't just some silly 1970s retread, I decided to check it out. First, the cast, which already tells you that this is propaganda from one side of the political aisle and not the other:
|Cory Booker
|Margaret Cho
|Katie Couric
|Geena Davis
|Rosario Dawson
|Dianne Feinstein
|Herself (as Sen. Dianne Feinstein)
|Jane Fonda
|Paul Haggis
|Catherine Hardwicke
|Dolores Huerta
|Jackson Katz
|Jean Kilbourne
|Martha Lauzen
|Lisa Ling
|Rachel Maddow
|Pat Mitchell
|Gavin Newsom
|Nancy Pelosi
|Jennifer Pozner
|Condoleezza Rice
|Gloria Steinem
|Jim Steyer
|Jennifer Todd
|Jan Yanehiro
|Daphne Zuniga
Is it just me or, with the exception of Condi rice, are conservatives missing from this list of media and political luminaries? Except for Condi (and I don't know how she stumbled into this crew of knaves and cutthroats), the speakers in this "documentary" all come from the Left or, failing that, the Far Left, with some of them even emerging from under those rocks that shelter the truly loony Left.
But maybe I'm just being nasty and judgmental. Maybe this stellar cast of Progressive thinkers (ahem) was able to pull a Fox and present a "fair and balanced" approach to the issue of women in the media. As far as I can tell from the reviews that people put on IMDB, the movie is the usual stuff about a male hegemony that deprives women of high visibility roles, which is funny coming from a film that features the highly visible, well-paid Katie Couric, Rachel Maddow, Gloria Steinem, Jan Yanehiro, Dianne Feinstein, and Geena Davis, to name but a few of the downtrodden women who regularly appear on American airwaves and are very, very, very rich.
The movie also earnestly explains how TV makes women feel ugly, because it's filled with images of unnaturally beautiful women. Yeah, like that's never happened before in history:
My point, of course, is that, at all times, in all places, women have been objectified for men's pleasure. And when men strut around in uncomfortable suits of armor, or ride off to the battlefield, or get their body's tattooed, they too are preening for the opposite sex. That's nature, not prejudice.
Moreover, as Thomas Sowell explains in simple (not simplistic) terms in Economic Facts and Fallacies, 2nd edition, is that women fall off the career track, not because of institutional misogyny, but because they have babies. A large number of women, probably the majority, when given the choice, elect to stay at home raising their children. While their husband's spend 18 years honing their careers (learning skills, climbing the corporate ladder, making contacts), women spend those same 18 years nurturing the up-and-coming generation. It's a Herculean and important task but, at the end of 18 years, they cannot simply walk into an office an demand a job at the same status and pay as their male counterparts who stayed in the office for those 18 years.
All of the above, in the context of Miss Representation, is the usual squawking that comes from a tired old feminism that, all real world experience to the contrary, continues to demand equality of outcome, rather than equality of opportunity.
The only area in which the movie seemed to try for some sanity was in its attempt to liken the media's treatment of Hillary Clinton with that of Sarah Palin. I haven't seen the movie, but this sounds somewhat apples and orangey. Back in the 1990s, Hillary did get challenged, but those challenges came from the right, which had no media outlets, not from the Left. I was there and I remember how Hillary was lauded. She was trumpeted as a career woman and a co-president. She got a 60 Minute segment to forthrightly explain (to media hurrahs) that she wasn't there just to bake cookies. When the Lewinsky excrement hit the fan, the media loudly and proudly supported this valiant woman.
During the 2008 campaign, the media supported Hillary wholeheartedly, right until they turned against her. But they didn't turn against her because she was a woman. They turned against her because they'd discovered an even more exciting, more politically correct candidate, and one with a drool-worthy body to boot. (And yes, the media went crazy sexualizing Obama, with New York Times articles detailing women's Obama-centered sexual fantasies, with photo spreads about his pecs and abs, and with icky stories about female reporters on the plane begging Obama to showcase his manly assets.) Having found an even sexier candidate than Hillary, all that they could do was turn their back on her with stories about her temper. Boo-hoo.
What happened to Hillary was utterly unlike the savagery unleashed against Sarah Palin. She was persecuted in a way hitherto unknown in politics, from garbage can trolling, to mail hacking, to scurrilous rumors about her pregnancies, to unending attacks on her intellect, and on and on and on. This wasn't because Palin was female, in which case her beauty would have been lauded as a campaign attribute. This was because Palin was a conservative female. She therefore had to be destroyed and, more importantly, her femininity had to be destroyed.
Comparing the media's treatment of Hillary and Sarah is false equivalency with a vengeance. It elevates Hillary without ever rescuing Sarah.
What really got my knickers in a twist, and what will have me contacting the school tomorrow, is that Little Bookworm told me that the movie aggressively attacks Fox news as emblematic of what the movie claims is a conservative takeover of the news media. Little Bookworm wasn't exaggerating:
Numbers don't lie: Women make up 51 per cent of the population, yet comprise just 17 per cent of Congress. That is just one of the facts director Jennifer Siebel Newsom highlights in her debut documentary "Miss Representation."
The film strings together statistics and interviews with women leaders to underline what it sees as a barrage of criticism and deluge of negative imagery the media rolls out on a daily basis.
"Unfortunately, the media and our culture is sending back to us the message that a woman's value lies in her beauty and sexuality, and not in her capacity to lead," Newsom told ABC News' "Top Line" today.
Mainstream media, Newsom said, is particularly guilty.
The film highlights a jarring headline from New York Magazine juxtaposing Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin: "The Bitch and The Ditz."
Fox News appears to be a repeat offender. The film shows a montage of the cable news network's anchors and guests zeroing in on the physical appearance or mood swings of political female leaders.
Fox News is a "repeat offender" only because Ms. Newsom (who is married to San Francisco's stylishly metrosexual ex-mayor Gavin Newsom) focused on Fox in much the same way that Jon Stewart, as partisan a comedian as one can find, focuses obsessively on Fox coverage, while carefully avoiding the drive-by media's slavish devotion to Obama, fixation on celebrity (and everybody else's) sex and sexuality, and general "race to the bottom" culture. I'll just note that the Leftist media was fascinated by General Petraeus' fall from grace, but couldn't be bothered to cover Obama's drone war or his malfeasance in Benghazi.
Movies such as Miss Representation might have some good points. However, to the extent that they are carried along on a wave of Leftist rhetoric, faulty statistics, a denial of human biology and its real world effects, and a deep and abiding hatred for the single somewhat conservative media outlet in America, they have no place in public school classrooms.


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