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The following editorial appeared in the Chicago Tribune on Saturday, Aug. 2: Beneath the serene waters of Lake Michigan and other Great Lakes, a war rages. It pits armies of invaders bent on establishing colonies against a dwindling force of native lake dwellers. The invaders - at least 56 organisms not native to the Great Lakes - have infiltrated the lake over the decades, most of them arriving stealthily in freighter ballast tanks.. You've heard about the tenacious zebra mussel, which has cost industries on the Great Lakes billions of dollars over the past two decades to keep pipes open and water flowing through homes, businesses and power plants. You may have heard about its even more destructive cousin, the quagga mussel: It roams farther than the zebra and blankets nearly the entire lake bottom. Damage: unfathomable. And ... there are more lake pillagers likely to come. (See carp, Asian.) We mention this because we just finished an impressive series in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "A Watershed Moment: Can We Protect The Great Lakes From A New Wave of Invasive Species?" The answer: gulp. History isn't on our side. Nor do most people <a href=http://www.buycelinebags.com>Celine Bags</a> comprehend the staggering scale of what's happening beneath the waves: "The public can comprehend the devastation of a catastrophic wildfire that torches vast stands of trees, leaves a scorched forest floor littered with wildlife carcasses and turns dancing streams into oozes of mud and ash," reporter Dan Egan writes. "But forests grow back. The quagga mussel devastation of Lake Michigan is so profound it is hard to fathom. ... The mollusks now stretch across the bottom of Lake Michigan almost from shore to shore, piling on top of one another like a gnarly, endless plate of coral, clustering at densities exceeding 35,000 per square meter. People might still think of Lake Michigan as an inland sea full of fish. It's now more accurate to think of it as an exotic mussel farm." So what? Here's what: "We wear shoes while swimming or risk stinging, razor-sharp shell cuts. We buy exotic farm-raised tilapia instead of local fish such as chubs at our local grocery stores and restaurants. We turn up our noses and walk away from beaches fouled by rotting seaweed slicks triggered by the mussels and laced with their <a href=http://www.buycelinebags.com>Buy Celine Bags</a> carcasses - often wrongly blaming the stench on sewage spills. We don't even notice the hundreds of millions of extra dollars in utility bills we've paid to keep water pumping through everything from our power plants to our faucets." The mussel colonization of Lake Michigan has opened the floodgates for another invasive species, the round goby, a prodigious consumer of mussels - it crowds out the lake trout, white fish, sturgeon, herring and perch that welcomed European explorers to Lake Michigan. One bright note: There hasn't been another invasive species found in the Great Lakes since 2008, when a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rule required oceangoing ships sailing into the Great Lakes to decontaminate ballast water. That's the longest lull between invasive species discoveries since the St. Lawrence Seaway opened in 1959, Egan reports. Two possible reasons: _There haven't been any new species crafty enough to evade decontamination. _Scientists <a href=http://www.buycelinebags.com>Celine UK Outlet</a> aren't looking in the right places ... or "sleeper colonies" are skulking around the lake just waiting to be discovered when their numbers grow large enough to be readily detected. Gulp again. There's a rogues' gallery of potential invaders on the government's watch list. Those include the notorious Dikerogammarus villosus, aka the "killer shrimp." Don't laugh. The shrimp "makes a mess of ecosystems it invades by destroying native species with its vise-like jaws and then leaving them for dead, often without even swallowing a bite," Egan writes. Defending Lake Michigan against hordes of aquatic raiders is a grinding, long-term fight that requires constant vigilance. Not every invader harms the ecosystem. But this region's most precious commodity, sloshing just outside your window, needs to be protected and safeguarded - from pollution, yes, but also from alien invaders.
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Mind, body, spirit: Counselor who is blind encourages holistic treatmentsCounselor who is blind encourages holistic approach in mental health treatmentJenna Galligani, a counselor at Preventive Measures, a center for mental (DONNA FISHER, THE MORNING )August 04, 2014|By Jennifer Sheehan, Of The Morning CallJenna Galligani has hurdled roadblocks most of her life.At 17, she taught martial arts and self defense to visually impaired children.In 2002, as a student at Kutztown University, Galligani was a member of the school's equestrian team, and took a first-place ribbon in an intercollegiate horse show in Maryland. The horse she rode was a notoriously difficult one.Her blindness never stood in her way.Now, at 33, she is a counselor at Preventive Measures, a facility in Allentown that provides outpatient mental health services."It <blindness> is something <a href=http://www.louisvuitton-pascher.com/19-porte-monnaie>Porte-Monnaie</a> that allowed me to make a stronger bond with patients," the Bethlehem resident says. "My own style, not letting it stop me, it's created this philosophy in my life that I quickly think outside the box."Born with 20/20 vision, Galligani contracted juvenile rheumatoid arthritis in her left knee when she was in third grade. The disease later flared in her eyes, and she eventually lost nearly all her sight.Erin Harris, program director at Preventive Measures, says Galligani can pick up on the body language of patients despite not being able to see them."She has such good insight into people into how they react," Harris says. "Even in the silence and the pauses in the conversations, she can read social cues."Galligani's blindness can work to help patients become more comfortable in therapy, Harris says."Eye contact can play a big part in people putting up walls," Harris says. "Jenna offers them a way to take down those walls. It sheds a layer of vulnerability."Galligani believes that those who struggle with mental health conditions can benefit from also helping their bodies and spirits."We are empowering them to look at other avenues," Galligani says. "How they can treat the mind, body and spirit. We are only treating a small portion of their life."With this concept in mind, Galligani is helping coordinate a new holistic health fair, "Changing From the <a href=http://www.louisvuitton-pascher.com/18-pochette-louis-vuitton>Pochette Louis Vuitton</a> Inside Out," Aug. 16 at the Allentown Public Library. The fair will also help mark the first anniversary of Preventive Measures, which serves about 100 clients.The fair will bring together wellness options for Preventive Measures clients as well as anyone who deals with mental health issues such as anxiety or depression. Included will be information on nutrition, food allergies, exercise, massage and music therapy and chiropractic care."Alternative approaches can be really helpful in the long term," Galligani says. "In my own experience patients who work on all aspects of mind, body, spirit make more progress. They went out on their own, and it's done wonders for them."The goal of the fair is to help people help themselves."One common theme in therapy is that patients find they are lacking purpose," Galligani says. "A purpose is finding a new interest that makes us feel alive again, like working out or going to art <a href=http://www.louisvuitton-pascher.com/21-sacs-du-soir>Sacs du soir Louis Vuitton</a> school. We want to give people the idea that you can do something for yourself."twitter @jenwsheehan610-820-6628HOLISTIC HEALTH FAIR What: "Changing From the Inside Out" health fair When: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Aug. 16 Where: Allentown Public Library, 1210 Hamilton St. Info: 484-225-4323, Featured ArticlesMore:Related Articles<br>January 19, 2007<br>July 6, 1993<br>May 9, 1985<br>June 8, 2005<br>September 17, 2000Find More Stories About|||Please note the green-lined linked article text has been applied commercially without any involvement from our newsroom editors, reporters or any other editorial staff.

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@@@ Mind, body, spirit: Counselor who is blind encourages holistic treatmentsCounselor who is blind encourages holistic approach in mental health treatmentJenna Galligani, a counselor at Preventive Measures, a center for mental (DONNA FISHER, THE MORNING )August 04, 2014|By Jennifer Sheehan, Of The Morning CallJenna Galligani has hurdled roadblocks most of her life.At 17, she taught martial arts and self defense to visually impaired children.In 2002, as a student at Kutztown University, Galligani was a member of the school's equestrian team, and took a first-place ribbon in an intercollegiate horse show in Maryland. The horse she rode was a notoriously difficult one.Her blindness never stood in her way.Now, at 33, she is a counselor at Preventive Measures, a facility in Allentown that provides outpatient mental health services."It <blindness> is something <a href=http://www.louisvuitton-pascher.com/19-porte-monnaie>Porte-Monnaie</a> that allowed me to make a stronger bond with patients," the Bethlehem resident says. "My own style, not letting it stop me, it's created this philosophy in my life that I quickly think outside the box."Born with 20/20 vision, Galligani contracted juvenile rheumatoid arthritis in her left knee when she was in third grade. The disease later flared in her eyes, and she eventually lost nearly all her sight.Erin Harris, program director at Preventive Measures, says Galligani can pick up on the body language of patients despite not being able to see them."She has such good insight into people into how they react," Harris says. "Even in the silence and the pauses in the conversations, she can read social cues."Galligani's blindness can work to help patients become more comfortable in therapy, Harris says."Eye contact can play a big part in people putting up walls," Harris says. "Jenna offers them a way to take down those walls. It sheds a layer of vulnerability."Galligani believes that those who struggle with mental health conditions can benefit from also helping their bodies and spirits."We are empowering them to look at other avenues," Galligani says. "How they can treat the mind, body and spirit. We are only treating a small portion of their life."With this concept in mind, Galligani is helping coordinate a new holistic health fair, "Changing From the <a href=http://www.louisvuitton-pascher.com/18-pochette-louis-vuitton>Pochette Louis Vuitton</a> Inside Out," Aug. 16 at the Allentown Public Library. The fair will also help mark the first anniversary of Preventive Measures, which serves about 100 clients.The fair will bring together wellness options for Preventive Measures clients as well as anyone who deals with mental health issues such as anxiety or depression. Included will be information on nutrition, food allergies, exercise, massage and music therapy and chiropractic care."Alternative approaches can be really helpful in the long term," Galligani says. "In my own experience patients who work on all aspects of mind, body, spirit make more progress. They went out on their own, and it's done wonders for them."The goal of the fair is to help people help themselves."One common theme in therapy is that patients find they are lacking purpose," Galligani says. "A purpose is finding a new interest that makes us feel alive again, like working out or going to art <a href=http://www.louisvuitton-pascher.com/21-sacs-du-soir>Sacs du soir Louis Vuitton</a> school. We want to give people the idea that you can do something for yourself."twitter @jenwsheehan610-820-6628HOLISTIC HEALTH FAIR What: "Changing From the Inside Out" health fair When: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Aug. 16 Where: Allentown Public Library, 1210 Hamilton St. Info: 484-225-4323, Featured ArticlesMore:Related Articles
January 19, 2007
July 6, 1993
May 9, 1985
June 8, 2005
September 17, 2000Find More Stories About|||Please note the green-lined linked article text has been applied commercially without any involvement from our newsroom editors, reporters or any other editorial staff.

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