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The following is an article from the April 29, 1999 issue of Rolling Stone. This issue is available online in Rolling Stone's digital archive. Click here to subscribe.
The Michigan rapper, who calls himself Eminem — and whose debut, The Slim Shady LP, sold 480,000 copies in its first two weeks — was a $5.50-an-hour cook in a Detroit grill before his obscenity-strewn, gleefully violent, spastic, hilarious and demented rhymes landed him in the studio with rap honcho Dr. Dre.
The blue-eyed MC is dealing with the instant fame and simultaneous criticism well enough — much better, actually, than he is dealing with the fifth of Bacardi he downed an hour ago. On a chilly Friday night in New York, he emerges bleary-eyed from the bathroom in his manager's office. "I just threw up everything I had," he says in his slow-roll drawl, which is a bit slower at the moment. "All I ate today was that slice of pisza. Feel good now, though."
His manager exhales slowly in relief. Eminem has three club gigs tonight, and the first one starts in less than an hour. The crew (nine, including DJ Stretch Armstrong and Dennis the security guard) ambles toward the elevator. Downstairs awaits Eminem's partner in rap, Royce the 5'9", who looks to be about that and has seven people of his own in tow. Em hops into a giant white limo as fellow honky Armstrong cops a rhyme from
Eric Clapton's Cream. "In the white room, with white people and white rappers," he bellows. A minute later there's a knock on the window and one of Royce's posse gives Em the first of the three hits of ecstasy he will consume over the course of the night. Down it goes in a swallow of ginger ale as the car zooms off toward Staten Island.
Out on New Dorp Lane, there is a crowd of kids, a mere fraction of the number already inside the Lane Theater. The all-ages show is packed, and Eminem is the evening's main course. The mob is being controlled by the club's security, but when the rapper moves inside, the burly dudes are no match for the crush of shouting teens. "You look good!" one girl shouts. "Oh, my God, he looks better in person," shrieks another. Everywhere, kids have tiny glow sticks in their mouths, which, here in the dark, look like neon braces. At the back of the club, up a ladder, is the minute dressing room, where the very proud owner of the club is waiting. "Hey, nice to meet ya," he says. "My daughter told me to get Eminem, so I got Eminem. It's her fourteenth birthday. Hey, say hi to her and her friends."
Eminem soon grabs four bottles of water and heads to the stage. He owns this audience. These predominantly white kids know every word, every nuance, and can't get enough. If Slim Shady's rhymes about sex with underage girls ("Yo, look at her bush, does it got hait?/Fuck this bitch right here on the spot bare/Till she passes out and she forgot how she got there") bother them any, they don't show it. In fact, the filthier the material, the louder the cheers.
On The Slim Shady LP, Eminem says, "God sent me to piss the world off." Interscope Records is Em's label — a perfect fit for a company that's home to controversial artists like the late Tupac Shakur and Marilyn Manson. Eminem has been condemned as a misogynist, a nihilist and an advocate of domestic violence, principally in an editorial by Billboard editor in chief Timothy White, who attacked The Slim Shady LP as "making money by exploiting the world's misery." "My album isn't for younger kids to hear," Eminem says. "It has an advisory sticker, and you must be eighteen to get it. That doesn't mean younger kids won't get it, but I'm not responsible for every kid out there. I'm not a role model, and I don't claim to be." On the album, his alias, Slim Shady, hangs himself from a tree by his penis, dumps the girlfriend he's murdered in a lake with the help of their baby daughter, takes every drug at once, rips "Pamela Lee's tits off" and heads out into the night yelling, "To all the people I've offended, yeah, fuck you, too!"
This hard-core attitude has won him acceptance not just from teenagers taken with his video but also from the hip-hop community. Later on, at Manhattan's Sound Factory, Em will win over a mostly black audience. He will be greeted with indifferent stares that will melt into smiles, then rump-shaking abandon by the end of his four-song set. The rapper will top off the evening — well, the morning by that point — entertaining doelike women and spiky-haired guys at the trendy mecca called Life, where a table often model types will be evicted so that Em and his friends may kick back.
Right about now, though, a roomful of Staten Islanders is going berserk. In the silence between songs, a young girl in the front row who's wearing a white baby T screams, "I love you!" Eminem walks over. "I love you, too," he says and bends down to give her a hug. Big mistake. The girl lays a kiss on his lips and sets off the girl next to her, who tears Eminem's head away and kisses him full on the mouth. "Oh, shit," he laughs. "I'm going to jail tonight!" He launches into "Scary Movies," the B side to the independently released "Bad Meets Evil" single, and the audience raps right along. When he sits at the front of the stage, his pants are pulled at and his crotch is grabbed. "I touched his dick!" one girl boasts to her friend.
Eminem is already a bona fide star, the type not likely to play a club this small again. The only reason he is here at all is that this date was booked before his debut album entered the charts at Number Two. The demand for the record at stores around the country was so great that Interscope shipped more than I million copies — extraordinarily rare for a first record. Eminem has similarly conquered MTV: Since the January release of the wise-ass video for "My Name Is," he has been on the network more than Carson Daly. And now, three months later, despite the fact that he's never headlined for any length of time, the rapper has been offered slots on every summer tour except CSNY's.
Eminem empties a water bottle on the heads of the audience, drops his pants, waves his middle finger around, and the show is over. He is whisked into a waiting car through a back alley. The police have been called to keep things orderly as the limo moves off into the night. At the curb, a girl who looks no more than fourteen shouts, "I want to fuck you," tugging suggestively at the top of her shirt and revealing her pierced tongue. "I want to fuck you, too," Eminem says aloud to himself. "But I won't."
Eminem is a White Boy in a Black Medium. He has been booed on the mike and told repeatedly by black hip-hoppers that he should stop rapping and go into rock & roll. "It's some very awkward shit," says Em's mentor, Dr. Dre, about the race card. "It's like seeing a black guy doing country & western, know what I'm saying?" Even Dre's judgment was suspect when he signed Em to his Interscope imprint, Aftermath. "I got a couple of questions from people around me," he says. "You know, 'He's got blue eyes, he's a white kid.' But I don't give a fuck if you're purple: If you can kick it, I'm working with you." Indeed, talent will overcome, and Em is having the last laugh. "A lot of the people who disrespected me are coming out of the woodwork now for collaborations," he says. "But I like doing my own shit. If there were too many other voices, the stories wouldn't go right." True enough — slipping a verse into a song about a New Wave blondbabe nurse's aide who overdoses on mushrooms and relives her father's sexual abuse, all over a partyhearty tempo, isn't exactly the same as freestyling on the "Money, Cash, Hoes" remix.
For anyone expecting more of the naughty, pop-culture-obsessed blond kid in the clean version of "My Name Is," proffered on MTV, The Slim Shady LP is some bad-trip nether world. But that world is exactly why the hip-hop underground loves Em. His off-the-beat flow, way-off-the-beat lyrics and loony-tunes presentation place him in a class by himself. Em isn't trying to be Jay-Z, DMX or 2Pac; he's trying to be the Roadrunner, turning his enemies' anvils back on themselves with split-second trickery. He's also probably the only MC in 1999 who boasts low self-esteem. His rhymes are jaw-droppingly perverse, bespeaking a minimum-wage life devoid of hope, flushed with rage and weaned on sci-fi and slasher flicks.
And in the midst of the splatter is Marshall Mathers. Songs like "As the World Turns," in which Shady "fucks a divorced slut" to death with his "go-go gadget dick," are adolescent fantasies that indicate how Em spells revenge. But songs like "If I Had" and "Rock Bottom" are where the cartoons fade away, the bravado drops and the frustrated kid of his not-too-distant past appears, fed up with life, dead-end jobs and the poverty that has made him "mad enough to scream but sad enough to tear."
"I couldn't even get into a motherfucking club just being Eminem, before the video," Mathers says, walking through Newark Airport the day after his New York club shows. "Last night they had people clearing tables for me. It's fucking bananas. Scary shit, too, 'cause you can fall just as quick as you went to the top." He is a smallish guy who walks with a subdued swagger. Em is like a class clown with a lot on his mind: When he's on, nothing escapes the cross hairs of his snottiness, but when he's off, no one is included in his thoughts. He keeps the world at bay with humor and an ever-growing list of character voices, including a roguish Scotsman, a Middle Eastern cab driver and a sleazy lech. He slips into these voices constantly, even in the midst of heart-wrenching stories about his childhood. Today he is chipper and apparently no worse for wear after just two hours of sleep and no breakfast. He is bound for his hometown of Detroit for three days off before heading to Mexico to perform on MTV's Spring Break '99, then on to Chicago for more album promotion.
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Original recipe yields 4 servings
- Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Add pasta and cook for 8 to 10 minutes or until al dente; drain and reserve.
- Meanwhile, season chicken with salt and pepper, basil, rosemary, Cajun seasoning, and red pepper flakes. Heat oil in a large skillet over medium heat; add chicken and cook until browned. Remove chicken from skillet and stir in garlic and onions; cook and stir until clear.
- Return chicken to skillet over onion mixture and add broth. Simmer until chicken is cooked through and no longer pink inside; spread mixture over pasta and serve.
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As an Italian, my only objection to this recipe are the instructions to cook the pasta first, and set aside. If you want your pasta "al dente" (angel hair easily overcooks anyway) I suggest the pasta pan be started only after the chicken is already cooking with the sautéed onion and broth.
This is one of the best recipes I've found on this site. I cut the recipe down to serve 2 and followed it almost exact with one exception. I doubled the amount of broth because it appeared a little dry. Instead of pouring the chicken mixture over the pasta, I added the cooked pasta to the skillet with the chicken mixture and heated it through for a couple minutes. It was so good, I made it two nights in a row!
I, too, like many reviewers thought this recipe sounded wonderful. The aromas from the seasoned chicken filled my kitchen, reminding me of the holidays. However, once the chicken dish was completely cooked, I was not impressed with the overall taste. It needed much more seasoning. It's hard to believe, given the amount you use on the chicken. Perhaps the chicken broth really dilutes the flavors. The only way I could save this dish was to add a can of crushed tomatoes. That is just what this dish needed! Only then could my family and I really taste the seasonings from the chicken. This dish was great, once I added the tomatoes!
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- 28%
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- Protein
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- 82%
- Cholesterol
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- 23%
- Sodium
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- 26%
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Johnston County voters sided with incumbents in Tuesday's primaries, but for some candidates, the tally was too close for comfort. About 15,000 of the county's 110,00 registered voters cast ballots, a turnout of 14 percent.
County Commissioner
In District 5, incumbent Cookie Pope won a close race to keep her seat on the Johnston County Board of Commissioners.
Pope, a Smithfield legal assistant and Cleveland community resident, took 52.51 percent of the vote, beating challenger Patrick Harris, the Smithfield fire chief, who finished with 47.49 percent. Pope is in her 20th year on the board. She faces no opposition in November.
"I am pleased that the voters of this county still have placed their confidence and trust in my abilities to govern and to lead," Pope said. She attributed the close margin to a good campaign by Harris.
This was Harris' first bid for elected office. He said he was happy with the race he ran.
"It was a great process," Harris said. "That's the first time I had ever run for anything, and I learned a lot. I truly enjoyed it and met a lot of great people and saw a lot of people I hadn't seen in a while."
At this point, Harris said, he's not sure if he'll run again in four years. "We'll cross that bridge when we get to it," he said.
In District 3, Chad Stewart, a Four Oaks business owner, defeated insurance agent Keith Brinson, taking 57.48 percent of the vote. Brinson, in his first bid for public office, finished with 42.52 percent.
Stewart was appointed to the county board more than a year ago after the death of his father, longtime Commissioner Wade Stewart. "It's a pleasure to know that you are elected by the people of Johnston County," he said. "I was very excited with my appointment, the confidence that existing county commissioners had in me to do that job and to fill out my father's term. But to actually have the vote of the people is a very, very wonderful feeling."
Like Pope, Stewart has no November opponent.
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Michelle Ball defeated David Ford and Keith Branch in the Republican Party primary for Johnston County Clerk of Superior Court.
Ball, a Smithfield paralegal, took 51.03 percent of the vote. Ford, a Clayton attorney, finished with 26.25 percent, while Branch, a Smithfield insurance agent and member of the county's school board, earned 22.72 percent.
"I'm very excited that there was a good voter turnout and that such a large percentage of the turnout voted for me," Ball said.
Ball attributed her success to focusing "on the people that could put me in office – the voters."
"I talked to just as many voters as I could through phone calls, through festival attendance and just shaking hands and talking to people," Ball said. She added that her large family helped spread the word across Johnston County.
This fall, Ball will face Democrat Michelle Denning, who faced no primary opponent. Longtime incumbent Will Crocker is retiring at the end of his term.
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Veteran state lawmaker Leo Daughtry defeated Dennis Nielsen in the Republican primary for N.C. House District 26, assuring the Smithfield attorney an easy path to his 12th term in the legislature.
Daughtry, who faces no opposition this fall, earned 73.13 percent of the vote, while Nielsen, a Clayton gun store owner, received 26.87 percent.
Daughtry, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, is on the short list for speaker of the House. Daugthry has said he said he would be happy to serve as speaker if elected by his fellow lawmakers.
"I'm grateful to the people of the county for having enough confidence in me to send me back," Daughtry said.
Staff writer Nash Dunn contributed to this report.
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John Ford Released From Prison
Former state senator John Ford returned to Memphis on Monday, four years and four months after he left to serve a term in federal prison for bribery, reports the Commercial Appeal.
"He looked good. Good spirits. He looks to get his life back,'' said his brother, Joe Ford.
"We're glad he's back. It's been pretty hard on his family.''
Released from the Federal Correctional Institute in Yazoo City, Miss., Ford reported to a halfway house at 1629 Winchester, where he's expected to remain for at least the next week. Ford's 5-year sentence expires in February. Federal inmates often are released to a halfway house about six months prior to the expiration of their terms.
What comes next for Ford, 70, remains unclear. He could work for one of his relatives' three funeral homes.
"If he asks, it won't be a problem,'' said Joe Ford, whose Joe Ford Funeral Home is across the street from the halfway house where his brother is staying.
James Williams, executive director of Dierson Charities, which runs the halfway house, declined comment.
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Pets in California and elsewhere are falling ill and even dying, illnesses and deaths that appear to be associated with eating chicken jerky treats.
The Food and Drug Administration issued consumer warnings regarding the products in 2007 and 2008 and again last November after seeing a rise in the number of complaints it received of dog illnesses associated with consumption of chicken jerky products imported from China.
The FDA received more than 900 complaints after the November 2011 warning and updated its information on July 18.
The FDA warning refers specifically to chicken jerky products imported from China.
The dried chicken products may be labeled as jerky, tenders, strips or treats.
Signs of illness being reported include decreased appetite and activity; vomiting; diarrhea, sometimes with blood; and increased water consumption and urination. The signs may occur within hours to days of feeding the products.
Last week, Senator Barbara Boxer sent a letter to the FDA, urging the agency to take greater steps to alert consumers to the potential danger of feeding the treats as well as to find the source of the contamination.
The FDA and other animal health diagnostic laboratories have tested samples for multiple chemical and microbiological contaminants, including Salmonella, heavy metals, pesticides, antibiotics, mycotoxins, rodenticides and other chemicals and poisonous compounds, but have been unable to determine a cause for the reported illnesses. The samples also underwent DNA verification to confirm the presence of poultry in the treats.
Because no contamination has been found and because the FDA does not have recall powers, most of the treats remain on the market.
Pet supply stores and discount retailers have not pulled them from shelves because no direct link between the illnesses and the jerky products has been found.
On Friday, however, Arthur Dogswell LLC recalled 1051 cartons of Catswell VitaKitty Chicken Breast with Flaxseed and Vitamins after discovering the treats contained high levels of propylene glycol, which can cause anemia in cats. The lot codes, found on the bottom right back side of the package, are SEW12CH032701/03c and SEW12CH032702/03c, with best-before dates of 9/10/13 and 9/11/13 respectively. Consumers can return the treats to the place of purchase for a full refund.
Until the chicken jerky mystery is solved, it's best to avoid giving the treats to your pets.
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Give only small amounts, especially to small dogs or to cats. Take your pet to the veterinarian immediately if you see a decrease in appetite or activity level, any vomiting or diarrhea, or unusually high levels of water consumption and urination. Blood tests should be run to check for kidney failure or an increase in liver enzymes and urine tests to check for increased glucose levels. Treatment involves supportive care such as fluids and electrolyte supplements.
Me? I've never bought them, and I quit letting the neighbors give them to my dogs a couple of years ago. If I want to give my dogs chicken jerky, I'll make it myself.
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I'm an economist interested in the ordinary business of life.
On a couple of different occasions, I have used this space to call for an end to the economic, moral, and cultural disaster that is the drug war (1, 2, 3). American governments at all levels have been fighting the war on drugs for over four decades now, and it's overwhelmingly clear that it's time to cut our losses, admit that the whole thing was a mistake, and work toward restoring the lives that have been destroyed by the drug war.
I'm surprised–and saddened–that this isn't more of an issue in the Presidential race. Both major party candidates are bona fide drug warriors. Green Party candidate Jill Stein and Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson have called for an end to the drug war, but unfortunately, candidates from outside the major parties have a difficult time getting noticed by major media outlets. I hope that changes, but in my experience news outlets tend to pretend that there are literally only two people on the ballot.
Most major media outlets also tend to treat legalization as if it is a crazy idea that is absolutely outside of serious discussion. The people behind Seattle Hempfest, meanwhile, have been working to change that. For just over two decades, volunteers have been holding "the world's largest cannabis law reform event." I'm not a cannabis user myself, but I am a concerned citizen who is distressed about the erosion of basic liberties, the crime, and the mass incarceration that the drug war has brought us.
As I've mentioned before, prohibition is a textbook example of a policy with severe unintended consequences. The prohibition of marijuana and other drugs has produced unintended consequences not at all unlike those that resulted from the prohibition of alcohol in the twentieth century.
As events like Hempfest demonstrate, prohibition has done very little to stop people from getting drugs of all kinds, and it has also done little to prevent the emergence of a thriving community of marijuana enthusiasts. Some people know a lot about classic cars. Others know a lot about fine wine. Still others might be really into crazy straw design or connoisseurs of still pictures of Joe Biden eating a sandwich.
In the same way, there are a lot of people out there who know a lot about pot. How much? A picture is worth a thousand words. Once again, Brian Wallace from Nowsourcing, Inc. has been kind enough to share this handy infographic. If nothing else, this suggests that while pot prohibition has led to a the incarceration of a lot of people, it hasn't exactly kept the drug out of the hands of enthusiastic users. Marijuana prohibition has been a terrible mistake that has ruined far too many lives. It's high time we own up to it.
Edited 8/17/2012, 11:15 PM: The infographic was replaced because there was a typo in the original version.
It's time for us all to stop being ignorant hypocrites and start being "true" conservatives!
Pragmatic libertarians (minimal-statists) and true conservatives agree that many, if not most, of society's problems are caused by government usurping choices that could better be made by individuals themselves, and that government is just about the worst way of doing almost anything. Where libertarianism normally parts company with "fake" conservatism is over moral issues. But a true conservative would have no problem with agreeing that what people do with their own bodies, and especially in the privacy of their own home, should be supremely their business and that anything else would entail ignoring the basic tenet of limited government.
Fake-conservatism on the other hand has much in common with socialism – authoritarian-socialists and fake-conservatives appear to harbor the belief that nature does not exist and that any human can be "re-educated" into being anything society wishes. Leftists therefore tend to believe that little boys can be conditioned into preferring dolls over toy soldiers, and similarly, fake-conservatives believe that adults can be coerced into choosing alcohol over marijuana. A true conservative, just like a pragmatic libertarian, would immediately reject both ideas as nonsense.
If you support prohibition then you are NOT a conservative.
Conservative principles quite clearly are:
1) Limited, locally controlled government.
2) Individual liberty coupled with personal responsibility.
3) Free enterprise.
4) A strong national defense.
5) Fiscal responsibility.
Prohibition is actually an authoritarian "war on the economy," Constitution and all civic Institutions of our once great nation.
Well said.
Hello Malcom Kyle,
You wrote:"Pragmatic libertarians (minimal-statists) and true conservatives agree that many, if not most, of society's problems are caused by government usurping choices that could better be made by individuals themselves, and that government is just about the worst way of doing almost anything."
There are many more unicorns than there are "true conservatives". Conservatives are just liberals with a different set of objectives. Liberals want the government to collect taxes, pass laws, and intervene in society to achieve their political and ideological objectives. Conservatives are exactly the same, just they want the government to collect different taxes, pass different laws, and intervene in society to achieve their – different – political and ideological objectives.
Libertarians claim to be against government in general or, at a minimum, to minimize government. This is opposite of what any politician wants, conservative, liberal, or otherwise. A politician seeks to weld government power. A libertarian politician is contradiction in terms, it is an oxymoron. What is true of politicians is true of voters. Conservative voters and liberal voters both want the people that they elect to weld government power. Look at how Ron Paul was booed at the Republican debates for saying that the US should follow the Golden Rule – could anything have been more revealing about the nature of the conservative voter.
Opposing the legalization of marijuana wins conservative (and other) votes. Conservative politicians know this and will continue to oppose the legalization of marijuana to gain those votes. It is only (a few) liberal politicians who support the legalization of marijuana, many do not for fear that a conservative politician will run against him or her for being "soft on crime". Being "Tough on Crime" is the stock and trade of conservative politicians, it is their favorite and most effective weapon against liberals. The only way to legalize marijuana is get enough liberals elected.
Perhaps up in "Cloud-cuckoo-land" there are "true" conservatives who would favor the legalization of marijuana, but there are none down here on earth. A unicorn against the legalization of marijuana would get more votes from conservative voters than a libertarian in favor of legalization of marijuana.
All true things about marijuana but one. The picture added actually dramatizes the effects of smoking marijuana. Smoking marijuana exclusively has actually been proven to have the opposite effect of smoking tobbaco on your lungs. As opposed to closing and restricting airways, marijuana opens them and DOES NOT cause cancer. Smoke is still harmful, this is true, but solely marijuana smoke is not carcinogenic.
As someone who has seen printouts of GCMS testing on various strains of cannibis and on smoke I can tell you emphatically that cannibis smoke contains carcinogens. The same as wood smoke, leaf smoke, and charcoal smoke. While cannibis also contains many beneficial compounds and does dilate airways, the smoke of any burning material includes toxins. So yes, to some extent, marijuana smoke is carcinogenic. Much the same way sunlight it.
Personally, I am a libertarian at heart and also a Constitutionalist at heart. That means that I believe that the Constitution prohibits legislation that is of a social nature. That means that the Federal government can neither make marijuana legal nor illegal. But when it comes to smoking of any kind, tobacco as well as marijuana or whatever, I do not want it to be done in any place where I can inhale secondary smoke, for that seriously infringes on my rights. Maybe tobacco and marijuana should be regulated as a hazardous air pollutant. Certainly that's more logical than regulating the stack gas discharges from a coal fired power plant. I have yet to cough or wheeze around one of them, but I have some sort of negative respiratory effect every time that I'm around tobacco smoke and I have to assume I would have similar reaction to marijuana smoke (Thankfully, I haven't smelled of marijuana in over 40 years.).
Frankly, I have no idea why anyone would smoke anything. When I look at an ashtray, I am reminded that the smoker's lungs look worse. How a smoker cannot see this totally escapes me. And cancer? A twenty year exhaustive study of smoking concluded nearly 50 years ago showed that a normal smoker is 20 times more likely to get cancer. I cannot imagine that consistent marijuana use would be much better, so why take that risk either? I am living proof that one can live a perfectly happy life without either and I am quite sure that every other human being can do likewise.
There is plenty we CAN do without. Coffee. Chocolate. Television. more than 1 pair of shoes. A person can survive without ever hearing music.
Going to the beach or gardening can expose you to enough UV radiation to risk skin cancer. Artificial sweetener has been connected with stomach and colon cancers in several studies. Living entails risk- which it did even before industrialization. And a life determined only by base need for survival and utility doesn't sound like a human life to me. Just like water skiiing and hiking and building things with power tools, somethings we just do out of pure enjoyment. We weigh the risks and make a choice. And that's what this is about. The freedom to make those choices.
yea a perfectly HAPPY person doesnt need to smoke, but we arent all perfectly happy are we? Im a smoker of tobbaco and marijuanna andyes i know and understand the risks, i smoke tobbaco because when i was 15 i went through a deppression that wound me up in the wacko basket, cigarettes were the only thing that made it manageable, so i became addicted, then i became familiar with pot and it CHANGED me life, i am open minded and clear in a way i have NEVER been before, when i couldnt handle life pot HELPED me, it began to alter my perception on things even when i wasnt stoned anymore. i saw and noticed things i would have never seen otherwise. things became simple in an over complicated world. and i can tell you that smoking weed is FAR more healthy then tobbaco, and much more than that alcohol, both of which are LEGAL. In a violent and volitile world even the meanest man alive cant help but smile and be kinder when he is high on weed, iv SEEN this. Look im not trying tsay weed is for everyone, but it is deffinatly something the world can benifit from if it were only legalized, and I am living proof of THAT.
I love the infographic but… The full list of smells is missing the second most common terpine, lemonine. Also, the smell of "skunk" is unaccounted for and unattributed.
While I agree with you entirely, as I grow older, it has become apparent that PROHIBITION IS PROFITABLE. The largest lobby against legalizing it in California, when it was on the ballot last Nov., were those businesses already in the medical marijuana industry. Our nation's largest growth industry, PRISONS. 50% of those incarcerated, out of our world leading 2.9% of the population, are there for marijuana related offenses. With all this money to be lost , not to mention the $30 Billion annually that trades hands due to it's consumption, who has an interest in devaluing marijuana ? No one really, how unfortunate.That is ultimately the solution. To make it worth far less or practically free.It's a plant that anyone can grow in their yard. If it's legal no money would have to change hands, and that is un-American now isn't it?


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Of all the saints, few are as revered as St. Michael, the Archangel. Called upon to intercede in times of danger, Michael is the patron saint of paratroopers, police, and a protector of the Church. He is known for his battles against Satan and is frequently depicted trampling the Devil.
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St. Michael is referred to as an Archangel, and scripture testifies to his place above other angels, referring to him as the "Prince of the Seraphim."
This saint's feast day is September 29th and his name remains a popular choice for children around the world.
It is widely understood that St. Michael continues to protect the Church and its faithful in their daily business.
Catholics typically recite this prayer to ask his help and protection.
Saint Michael the Archangel,defend us in battle;be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil.May God rebuke him, we humbly pray:and do thou, O Prince of the heavenly host,by the power of God,thrust into hell Satan and all the evil spiritswho prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls.Amen.
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Feastday: September 29Patron of grocers, mariners, paratroopers, police, and sickness
St. Michael, the Archangel - Feast day - September 29th The name Michael signifies "Who is like to God?" and was the warcry of the good angels in the battle fought in heavenagainst satan and his followers. Holy Scripture describes St. Michael as "one of the chief princes," and leader of the forces of heaven in their triumph over the powers of hell. He has been especially honored and invoked as patron and protector by the Church from the time of the Apostles.
Although he is always called "the Archangel," the Greek Fathers and many others place him over all the angels - as Prince of the Seraphim. St. Michael is the patron of grocers, mariners, paratroopers, police and sickness.
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There are a number of scriptural references to St. Michael, which comprise the majority of our understanding of his role in God's kingdom.
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In the Hebrew Scriptures, and hence in the Old Testament, the prophet Daniel experiences a vision after having undergone a period of fasting. In the vision in Daniel 10:13-21 an angel identifies Michael as the protector of Israel. Daniel refers to Michael as a "prince of the first rank".[6] Later in the vision inDaniel 12:1 Daniel is informed about the role of Michael during the "time of the End" when there will be "distress such as has not happened from the beginning of nations" and that:[7]"At that time Michael, the great prince who protects your people, will arise."
In view of this, Michael is seen as playing an important role as the protector of Israel, and later of the Christian Church.
Although the three references to Michael in the Book of Daniel10:13, 10:21 and 12:1 are to the same individual who acts in similar ways in all three cases, the last one is set at the "end times" while the first two refer to local time in Persia.[8] These are the only three references to Archangel Michael in the Hebrew Bible.[9]
The references to the "captain of the host of the Lord" encountered by Joshua in the early days of his campaigns in the Promised Land(Joshua 5:13-15) have at times been interpreted as Michael the Archangel, but there is no theological basis for that assumption, given that Joshua then worshiped this figure, and angels are not to be worshiped. Some scholars also point that the figure may refer to God himself.[10][11] In the book of Joshua's account of the fall of Jericho, Joshua "looked up and saw a man standing in front of him with a drawn sword in his hand". When the still unaware Joshua asks which side of the fight the Archangel is on, the response was, "neither...but as commander of the army of the Lord I have now come".
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The Book of Revelation (12:7-9) describes a war in heaven in which Michael, being stronger, defeats Satan:[12]
"...there was war in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back. But he was not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven."
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"Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses"A reference to an "archangel" also appears in the First Epistle to the Thessalonians 4:16"... the Lord himself shall descend from heaven, with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first" (American Standard Version of 1901, a version that uses the definite article, "the archangel", absent in the original Greek and in English translations such as the (English Standard Version of 2001, which has: "the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God").
This archangel who heralds the second coming of Christ is not named,[13] but is probably Michael.[14]
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Michael (Arabic: ميخائيل, Mikhail ميكائيل, Mikael ), is one of the two archangels mentioned in the Qur'an, alongside Jibreel (Gabriel). In the Qur'an, Michael is mentioned once only, in Sura 2:98: "Whoever is an enemy to God, and His angels and His messengers, and Jibreel and Mikhail! Then, lo! God (Himself) is an enemy to the disbelievers."[15] Some Muslims believe that the reference in Sura 11:69 is Michael, one of the three angels who visited Abraham.[15]
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Now, in a new coming of age (ignore the pun), Cosmopolitan has expanded to feature more gay and lesbian-friendly content. Hurrah.
Their most recent offering? A fully-illustrated online feature called '28 Mind-Blowing Lesbian Sex Positions', including our personal favourites 'The Laconic Lounger' and 'The Rocket'…
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This is unexpected. The Fort Worth Police Department made national news five years ago when they engaged in a Stonewall-style raid on the gay bar The Rainbow Lounge. The Fort Worth PD is now attempting to repair its relationship with the gay community by reaching out with a recruitment video featuring out gay officer Chris Gorrie to display the increased diversity and sensitivity now present in the police department.
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A second state judge in as many weeks struck down Florida's same-sex marriage ban as unconstitutional in a ruling handed down Friday that only applies to Miami-Dade County.
Circuit Court Judge Sarah Zabel found Florida law prohibiting same-sex marriage violates the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the U.S. Constitution and also offends "basic human dignity."
"The flood of cases that have come out since Windsor amply demonstrates this truth as not one court has found a same-sex marriage ban to be constitutional," Zabel wrote...Read More
In a statement to the AP, ExxonMobil spokesman Alan Jeffers said the company will continue to "abide by the law," adding that it prohibits "discrimination on any basis." He wouldn't say if that meant changing the language in the company's formal equal employment opportunity policy.
For 15 straight years, most recently in May, ExxonMobil shareholders have overwhelmingly voted down proposals to create specific LGBT protections. The proposal this year won 20 percent of voters holding roughly $41.5 billion in Exxon stock. The company claims that it has a "zero-tolerance" policy for discrimination, but the Securities and Exchange Commission has pointed out that this does not offer the same legal force as the regularly-rejected protections would…
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Several Illinois-based advocacy groups joined together today to praise the Illinois Department of Insurance for taking a crucial first step in addressing discrimination against Illinois transgender insurance coverage.
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By Andra Bryan Stefanoni
One deer equals about 200 meals.
To Chester Palmer, who heads up a food distribution program that operates out of the First Baptist Church in Quapaw, Okla., that's a lot of meat.
"Right now, we're helping an average of 65 families once a month, and we try to get some meat somewhere so we can have it all the time, but most times people donate canned vegetables or maybe tuna," Palmer said.
So whenever he learns from Wade Payne, owner of the Columbus, Kan., meat locker, that a deer has been donated, processed and is ready in 2-pound packages, he's relieved.
"We just go on donations from people in the church, which has about 75 people, and that limits us," Palmer said.
Similar stories are playing out across Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma each deer hunting season. In Kansas, the nonprofit organization Kansas Hunters Feeding the Hungry in 2011 provided 1,038 deer — or nearly 225,000 meals — through 100 food banks across the state.
Payne's meat locker has participated in the program for six years.
"We probably had 30 deer donated already this year," Payne said. "When it's processed, it stays pretty much local, within at least 35 or 40 miles. Churches can sign for it and pick it up for food pantries."
Wildlife officials estimate that during the 12-day Kansas firearm deer season, which this year ran from Nov. 28 to Dec. 9, more than 50,000 deer may have been harvested. In some areas of the state, hunters can obtain permits to harvest up to five antlerless white-tailed deer, in addition to their permit to harvest either gender. While additional harvests help stabilize and control the deer population, some hunters don't want or need more than one or two deer in the freezer.
Enter Kansas Hunters Feeding the Hungry. It was founded in 2001 when Tony DeRossett, a mail carrier and hunter in Tonganoxie, read about an effort in Maryland that allowed hunters to donate the meat to lockers for distribution to food pantries. He contacted the Maryland program for advice on getting started, met with Kansas wildlife officials and began with a team of two volunteers.
"We signed up about 12 meat lockers to work with us, with a goal of maybe getting 10 deer donated," DeRossett said. "It costs $65 to have a deer processed. We had to raise money to pay for it and couldn't believe we got 180 deer that first year."
The organization now works with 42 meat lockers and 160 food pantries across Kansas, with the greatest concentration in the eastern two-thirds of the state. The biggest challenge, DeRossett said, remains funding.
"We use every imaginable way you can beg for money," he said. "Most comes in through grants and church groups, and companies also donate."
In 2003, legislation was passed to allow the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism to collect donations of $2 or more for the organization when hunters and anglers buy licenses.
More than 1,000 deer have been contributed annually for the past four years, with the cost for deer processing coming in at $72,000 a year. The organization has no administrative costs.
"We're supplying 230,000 meals every year," DeRossett said. "Cumulatively, we're about 1.3 million meals."
He said that when he began working with the Greenwood County food pantry, he was told that in seven years, the sole meat donation was a side of beef.
"Meat's expensive, it spoils, and people just don't donate it," he said.
Ultimately, DeRossett said, his organization would like to push for a legal means for harvesting deer outside of deer season.
"We would love to be supplying meat throughout the year," he said.
Participating meat lockers may be found online at www.kshfh.org. The meat lockers must be licensed and inspected, and there is a great deal of regulation to ensure that quality meat is being distributed.
There is no cost for hunters to donate deer, as long as the nonprofit organization has sufficient funding to cover the processing expense. Donated game must be field dressed and legally tagged. Hunters also may donate just a portion of the meat they are having processed.
The regular firearm season in Kansas ended Dec. 9. An extended firearm season limited to antlerless white-tailed deer opens Jan. 1 and runs through Jan. 13. An extended archery season for antlerless white-tailed deer runs from Jan. 14-31. A special extended firearm season for antlerless white-tailed deer runs from Jan. 14-20 in units 7 and 8 in north-central Kansas and unit 15 in south-central Kansas.
In Missouri, the Share the Harvest program provides a way for deer hunters to donate venison to the needy. Under the program administered by the Conservation Federation of Missouri and the Missouri Department of Conservation, 317,882 pounds of venison were donated by 6,191 hunters last year.
The cost of processing is each hunter's responsibility, but funds are available to help offset that cost. During the urban zones portion of the firearm season, the entire processing cost is paid by the Conservation Federation of Missouri and local sponsors.
During all other portions and seasons, the Conservation Federation of Missouri administers a statewide program that directly reimburses the processor a set amount for each deer that is donated. Some processors also have local money available to offset costs.
Missouri archery season began Nov. 21 and runs through Jan. 15. The firearm-alternative methods season will open Saturday and run through Christmas. A youth firearm weekend is slated for Dec. 29-30.
Hunters Against Hunger is a cooperative program by processors, the Department of Wildlife Conservation and hunters in Oklahoma. During the 2010-11 season, hunters donated 48,000 pounds of venison, which provided almost 192,000 meals.
Hunters who harvest a deer during any deer season may donate the meat at participating processors after the deer is checked at a hunter check station. To help with processing charges, each donor is requested to contribute a tax-deductible $10. The ground venison is distributed to the needy through a network of charitable organizations.
Oklahoma archery season opened Oct. 1 and runs through Jan. 15. The firearm season opened the Saturday before Thanksgiving and ran for 16 days. A holiday firearm season for antlerless deer will run from Dec. 21-30 in certain zones.
Good use
"WE DEFINITELY put the deer meat to good use," said Chester Palmer, who heads up a food distribution program that operates out of the First Baptist Church in Quapaw, Okla. "We definitely need it. It takes us through December, January and February."


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The Clinton Herald
---- — NEW YORK — Emily Oster isn't a baby doctor. She's an economist and a mom who wanted to know more about all those rules handed down to women after the pregnancy stick goes pink.
Only two cups of coffee a day! No alcohol. Beware deli meats.
Being pregnant, she said, felt a lot like being a child, so she decided to take a deep dive into research covering everything from wine and weight gain to prenatal testing and epidurals. What she found was some of the mainstays of pregnancy advice are based on inconclusive or downright faulty science.
To this data-cruncher, an associate professor in the University of Chicago's business school, those magical nine months became a question of correlation and causation.
Some of her conclusions? Weight gain during pregnancy is less important than a woman's starting weight and not gaining enough may be more harmful. Light drinking is fine (up to two glasses of wine a week in the first trimester and up to a glass a day in the second and third trimesters). And much of the evidence supports having three to four cups of coffee daily, which made Oster very, very happy.
There's more, of course, and not all of it runs counter to standard medical advice. And she happily reports in "Expecting Better," her book corralling all the research for other women to share, that her 2-year-old daughter, Penelope, is healthy and happy.
The book, from Penguin Press, is out this week. A conversation with Oster:
AP: Have you written the "Freakonomics" of pregnancy?
Oster: I think it's right that it feels a little bit like 'Freakonomics' because Steve (Levitt) and I are both economists, but the goal here was really to write down an approach that was right for me. The approach being thinking carefully through all of these decisions, getting the best data that you can and then structuring the decision in a way that takes into account your personal preferences, tolerance for risk and all the kinds of things that we should be thinking about every day.
AP: Do you anticipate blowback from women and doctors because you're an economist and not a medical professional who helps manage pregnancies?
Oster: For sure but I certainly do not envision women reading this book and saying, 'Oh, like, I can deliver my own baby now, right?' I think that there's a real sense in which pregnancy should be something that you do with your doctor, but I think that for a lot of women the time you have with your doctors is limited and it can be difficult to get all of the answers to your questions.
AP: That leads me to the vices, including alcohol. You and ACOG differ on that one. ACOG recommends no alcohol.
Oster: I think we can all agree that heavy drinking and binge drinking, even occasionally, is very dangerous, and I certainly say that in the book. What I found is there are a large number of quite good studies with a lot of women that show having an occasional glass of wine does not seem to pose a problem, that children of pregnant women who drink occasionally have similar or in some cases even better outcomes than children of women who abstain. This is a very personal choice. In some other countries the recommendations are it's OK.
AP: What are your top five fallacies about pregnancy?
Oster: One is that much of the evidence suggested an occasional drink is OK. Bed rest is not a great idea. Gaining too much weight may in fact be less risky than gaining too little weight. Sushi is OK. And coffee in moderation is fine.
And in terms of toxoplasmosis, which is a parasitic infection that can cause birth defects, when I looked at the data on this, there's actually no evidence that women who clean the cat litter box or have cats are more likely to get this, but I do see some links between doing a lot of outdoor gardening and having this infection.


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Monsters, demons, and knife-wielding psychos might make for a suitably creepy movie, but if you really want to be chilled to the bone, just turn on the evening news and witness something really horrifying: The evil that men do to one another for no good reason. One of the most infamous crimes in American history centers around the torture and murder of young Sylvia Likens in the late '60s, but if you've never heard of this story, you can prepare yourself for two separate movies that tell the tale.
The first film is called An American Crime, and despite the fact that it played at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival, I'm of the opinion that it's a pretty bad film. The second movie is called The Girl Next Door, and it's based on the novel by Jack Ketchum. Mr. Ketchum's novel is loosely based on the Likens story. I suppose the two films would make for a bleak-yet-fascinating double feature. The first film approaches the subject matter with facts, figures, and much detachment -- but the second one digs right into the psychology of the story and turns out to be a powerfully sobering true-crime thriller.
Blanche Baker (a familiar-faced character actor who delivers a seriously memorable performance here) plays a woman who takes her two young nieces in after their parents are killed -- but one has to wonder why Auntie Ruth would even bother. She's already got a handful of unpleasant sons, and she clearly has no affection for teenaged Meg (Blythe Auffarth) and the brace-wearing Susan (Madeline Taylor). So when the sweet-yet-strongheaded Meg defies her aunt's commands, well, let's just say that things get really ugly. And here's the scary part: Not only does Ruth condone the horrific abuse, but she invites her enthusiastic sons to take part. While some of the details have been fictionalized by Ketchum and the filmmakers, the bulk of the story is the same. Hell can hide in the most unlikely of places, it seems, and The Girl Next Door would like to take you on a tour.
In addition to the commanding work from Ms. Baker, the supporting cast also excels: The young actors are top-notch across the board, but the standouts are Ms. Auffarth as the ill-fated teenager and newcomer Daniel Manche as the only kid in the neighborhood who seems to have his conscience intact. Catherine Mary Stewart and Grant Show are quite good in small-ish roles. Character actor William Atherton anchors the 'framing' story quite handily.
Fair warning: This is not a "fun" horror movie. Despite what you may have read, there's nothing about this movie that could be described as "torture porn." And while the film has very little bloodshed -- it's still one of the most arduous movies to sit through in quite some time.
Director Gregory Wilson sets the stage early by creating a warm and nostalgic 1950s setting, but it doesn't take long before we start to see some of the darkness beneath the seams. Where An American Crime seemed more interested in facts, figures, and manipulation, The Girl Next Door feels like a cross between Stand By Me and Irreversible. So while this film is most assuredly NOT for all tastes, the adventurous movie-watchers will undoubtedly appreciate Wilson's unflinching look at some true-life terror.
And fans of the book will be pleased to note that Mr. Wilson's film is a rather faithful adaptation of Jack Ketchum's highly-regarded novel. It's a dark, harsh and sometimes powerfully unpleasant film, but it's also one that's made with a lot of care and craftsmanship. Proceed at your own risk, but definitely consider this a recommendation to the strong of heart.


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By Will Broaddus
Staff writer
---- — Nikole Beckwith started writing plays in New York because she was homesick for Newburyport.
She moved to New York in 2005 to be an actress — and to work as an assistant to actor, writer and Woburn native Eric Bogosian — but she missed the creative scene she had known locally.
"I was highly stimulated in Massachusetts," said Beckwith, whose "Split — Tales of Escape" will be at the Salem Theatre Company through April 14. "A part of the draw of writing plays was to create a fictional community to be part of, because I was very new in the city and didn't feel connected to a community anymore."
The plays she wrote in New York included parts for herself, but it was her writing that found an audience.
"The plays themselves ushered me into the theater community and gave me a community to be part of," she said.
That circle of support has come to include the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which last year awarded Beckwith a Nicholl Fellowship. The $35,000 stipend, one of five granted from more than 7,000 applications, was for a screenplay that Beckwith adapted from her play "Stockholm, Pennsylvania."
This year, Beckwith was the first non-British playwright to be offered a residency at the National Theatre Studio in London.
But even as her new community has grown to include such generous benefactors, Beckwith has maintained a connection to the scene she left behind.
For 10 years, that included the theater company Independent Submarine in Newburyport, where she was an actor and eventually co-director with Greg Moss, who now teaches dramatic writing at the University of New Mexico.
"We did a bunch of plays," Beckwith said. "Greg mostly directed, and I mostly acted."
She and Moss have maintained a connection, sharing drafts of each other's work.
Beckwith, whose father and stepmother live in Beverly, has also stayed in touch with John Fogle, artistic director of the Salem Theatre Company.
"Split" came about when the theater lost the rights to a musical they had planned to produce, and Fogle saw an opportunity to ask Beckwith for work they could stage.
"I sent them a bunch of plays and said, 'Here are all of these themes of survival and escape,'" she said. "Choose whichever ones you like. He picked from those and said, 'Do you have a couple of monologues I could throw in?'"
This production marks the New England debut of this collection of Beckwith's works, which includes three short plays and two monologues.
Gary LaParl, who is directing "Split," has experimented with the best sequence for these short dramas.
"At the moment, what we've done is put them together in the way that it makes sense for them to evolve," he said.
LaParl, who said he has had "a blast" working on the plays, appreciates the vision that unites Beckwith's works.
"They each hold truths about living in this modern society that has been built for us," he said. "While these plays may not offer hard solutions, Nikole does offer the viewer the comfort of, 'Oh, good. I'm not the only one.'"
Each play departs from a unique premise, however, which in part reflects their origins in different situations.
"One of the monologues is from a show, 'Let Me Collect Myself,' that happened at Ars Nova here in the city," Beckwith said. Ars Nova is an off-Broadway, nonprofit theater in Manhattan that stages works by up-and-coming playwrights.
"It's based on interviews and articles and imaginings of people who obsessively collect things," she said. "It considers what their collections say about them and what it might feel like to be collected. Any obsession like that is a form of escape."
One of the plays, "Play for an All White Stage," got its title and parts of its plot from the circumstances in which it was originally staged.
Beckwith wrote it during her residency in London, for an evening of short plays that was performed on a set designed for another production, "The Real Thing" by Tom Stoppard. Her actors were forced to remove their shoes so they wouldn't get dirt on some white rugs, so Beckwith incorporated this element into the story.
"I wrote a play where it's set in the Arctic, and everyone's stranded and they don't have shoes because they ate them," she said.
Beckwith likes working within definite parameters, such as the immaculate, white set that she wasn't allowed to disturb.
"Rules give you some sort of structure," she said. "Writing is almost structureless because it's so much to do with the relationship between you and the muses. It's like weather, basically.
"I like following rules, and even more than that, I like breaking them."
The appearance of "Play for an All White Stage" in Salem allowed Beckwith to connect with her past in a new way.
"As a joke, I told my dad, who's never acted before, I said, 'You should go audition,'" she said. "There's one part in 'All White Stage' — there's a dead body — I said, 'You should go audition.'"
Not only did her father, Derek Beckwith, get the part of the corpse, but he was also cast in other works in "Split."
"Obviously, I never imagined my father as the corpse," she said. "It's thrilling for me. He's done no acting I'm aware of; this is his debut."
What: "Split — Tales of Escape" by Nikole Beckwith
When: Through April 14, Wednesday through Saturday at 7:30 p.m., Sunday at 3 p.m. No performance on Sunday, March 31.
Where: Salem Theatre Company, 90 Lafayette St.
Tickets and more information: $25 adults, $20 seniors, $10 students, available online at www.salemtheatre.com or by calling OvationTix at 866-811-4111. There will be a Name Your Own Ticket Price performance today at 7:30 p.m.


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By CHRISTIN COYNE
The medical examiner has ruled that the death of a man found dead following a standoff with police on Jan. 4 was a suicide.
John Cody Etheredge, 29, died of asphyxiation as a result of hanging, according to the Tarrant County Medical Examiner's Office.
The three-hour incident in the 100 block of West Fourth Street began when officers attempted to serve a felony arrest warrant for assault family violence on the man at his residence around noon.
The Weatherford-Parker County Special Operations Group was called after police officials said Etheredge barricaded himself in the house.
After shooting tear gas into the house, officers entered the home and found Etheredge's body.
Investigators had reportedly spoken with Etheredge, who had prior assault family violence convictions, the day before the incident about an alleged assault that occurred earlier that week.
A woman reportedly had some significant injuries, though they were not life-threatening, Weatherford Police Sgt. Wendy Field said.
After investigators talked with Etheredge, police later responded to the same residence around 9 p.m. Jan. 3 regarding a possible suicide call involving Etheredge that was made by a third party, Field confirmed. However, Etheredge told officers that everything was OK, she said.


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By BEN JOHNSON
Sports Editor
Coming off of a three-game sweep of New Orleans in late April, the Oklahoma baseball team seemed to be figuring things out. Another non-conference contest against Arkansas was going to be proof that the Sooners were on the up-swing.
However, Oklahoma's game in Fayetteville, Ark., was canceled due to poor weather conditions. And that wasn't even the worst thing to happen to the Sooners in the final full week of April.
A day before Oklahoma was slated to host Texas Tech in a three-game set, the Sooners found out that starter Dillon Overton would miss several starts due to inflammation in his throwing elbow.
All of a sudden, Oklahoma was left searching for a solution. Someone — anyone — had to surface quickly to keep the Sooners' NCAA tournament hopes alive.
Enter, Jake Fisher.
"I knew someone had to step up," said the former Keys standout, "and I was hoping it would be me."
In the mind of Oklahoma coach Sunny Golloway, Fisher was his best alternative. And losing wasn't an option.
"Coach Golloway called me [prior to the Texas Tech game] and asked me if I'm ready to pitch," Fisher recalled. "I said, 'yes, I am. I'm ready to go out there and give you my best.' And (Golloway) said, 'I don't want your best; I need you to win.'
"So that's what I did."
In fact, Fisher made it look easy.
Fisher turned in one of his best collegiate performances, throwing 7 1/3 scoreless innings while scattering seven hits on 117 pitches. He also recorded a career-high 10 strikeouts while not allowing a walk.
Not bad for someone who had been used primarily out of the bullpen during his junior season last year and now-senior season this year.
"It's something I've done before in my career," Fisher said by phone in an interview with the Tahlequah Daily Press. "It's something I'm comfortable with."
Since the Texas Tech game, Fisher has started games against West Virginia, Oklahoma State (in Tulsa) and at Manhattan, Kan., against Kansas State. Fisher took the loss in a 9-3 setback against West Virginia, but he followed that up with a no-decision after 4 2/3 innings of work against the Cowboys at ONEOK Field in Tulsa.
"Starting at ONEOK was amazing," said Fisher, who allowed three runs (two earned) on five hits against Oklahoma State.
"It was a surreal feeling."
This past weekend, Fisher led the Sooners to their only victory against Kansas State, giving up only two runs on nine hits in seven innings of work against the Wildcats, the Big 12 champions during regular-season play.
"I thought we played well, and I thought Jake Fisher did a really good job," Golloway said following Fisher's outing against the Wildcats, which helped him improve to 2-2 on the season.
Fisher is now sporting a 2.22 earned run average with 43 strikeouts in 18 appearances (44 2/3 innings) this season.
"I feel like I've progressed a lot [this season]," said Fisher, a 5-foot-10, 178-pound left-handed hurler. "My mindset is still the same out of the bullpen of in the starting rotation."
Now Fisher and the Sooners (36-19, 13-11 Big 12) will prepare for Big 12 tournament play in Oklahoma City. Oklahoma will take on Baylor (Thursday), Texas Tech (Friday) and Kansas State (Saturday) in pool play, and the winner of round-robin play will advance to the finals on Sunday.
"The Big 12 tournament is always huge, and it's also a fun time," Fisher said. "There might be a chance we have to win the Big 12 tournament. We just have to go in comfortable and do what we can do."
While the Sooners appear headed for the NCAA tournament after this weekend, Fisher's baseball career will likely extended beyond his college years. But he's waiting to turn that page when the time comes.
"I've heard some stuff," Fisher said the prospects of a professional career for himself.
"I try not to think about it. That's the last thing I'm worried about. I'm just trying to help my team go to Omaha (for the College World Series). I'm going to do what I can to play professional ball, but that will come later."
Big 12 tournament
Due to the catastrophe in Moore earlier this week, the Big 12 Conference opted to push the league tournament in Oklahoma City back a day. Here's a look at the schedule of games at the Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark:
Game 1: Oklahoma vs. Baylor, 9 a.m.
Game 2: Kansas State vs. Texas Tech, 12:30 p.m.
Game 3: West Virginia vs. Kansas, 4 p.m.
Game 4: Oklahoma State vs. TCU, 7:30 p.m.
Game 5: Oklahoma vs. Texas Tech, 9 a.m.
Game 6: Kansas State vs. Baylor, 12:30 p.m.
Game 7: West Virginia vs. TCU, 4 p.m.
Game 8: Oklahoma State vs. Kansas, 7:30 p.m.
Game 9: Baylor vs. Texas Tech, 9 a.m.
Game 10: Oklahoma vs. Kansas State, 12:30 p.m.
Game 11: West Virginia vs. Oklahoma State, 4 p.m.
Game 12: Kansas vs. TCU, 7:30 p.m.
Game 13: Championship game, 1 p.m.