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One of the more amusing aspects of being in the fashion editorial business is the way that industry-outsiders like to test you. The "pop quiz" invariably happens when you run into an old classmate or some random associate you haven't seen in ages. After exchanging awkward pleasantries, there's inevitably a lull in the conversation, and then they pounce. Like a game-show host gone mad, they bark at you, demanding a list of the latest looks that are key for the season. These ambushes can be quite amusing, but we've noticed that one trend in particular provokes lots of follow-up questions: strong shoulders. It seems that most people remember the fearsome (we mean that reverentially) structured styles from the eighties and assume that exact silhouette is back. While there are some assertive interpretations of the trend out there, there are also scads of ways to translate this shape into non-scary, very chic outfits. So while angular shoulders are certainly important for fall, you can also go for a less architectural interpretation of the trend. As seen on Alexa Chung and Olivia Palermo, all you have to do is pick up cocktail frock with ruffled shoulders for a fabulous ultra-feminine look.
As the ladies above so aptly demonstrate, there are ample variations of ruffle-shoulder dresses available right now, so finding a style that works for you shouldn't be hard. The boldest dresses were created by equally daring designers like Jeremy Scott, whose three-dimensional Curly Dress ($812) has a playful Geena Davis circa Earth Girls Are Easy look. Admittedly, his eighties-style ruffles are challenging, but it's easy to translate the spirit of that dress into a wearable outfit. For example, you could take a page from Chanel Iman and Annabelle Dexter-Jones' playbooks and reach for a brightly colored sleeveless column dress with ruched shoulders. The former stunned in a bright red Bensoni Ruffle Sheath ($695) at a party celebrating the brand's designers, while Dexter-Jones wowed in a shocking pink Notte by Marchesa cocktail frock at a benefit for Love Heals foundation.
While Dexter-Jones' dress is sadly no longer available, you can pick up Iman's exact frock at Barneys New York later this week (or buy it in black now). If that's not quite what you're looking for, there are loads of options out there that boast similar lines. For example, we love the delicate look of Laila Azhar's Puff Sleeve Dress ($385); the rich blue hue and subtle shoulder details are lovely. Another suggestion is the Animal Puff Dress ($100) by Topshop, which isn't an exact replica of either Iman or Dexter-Jones' selections, but definitely has the same vibe as today's Trend Report ensembles. (Plus, it's got a very Leighton Meester-in-Louis-Vuitton-at-the-Met-Gala look to it, no?)
If the bright colors and big ruffles are putting you in a fashion panic, take a few deep breaths and remember that you can try the trend in a toned-down way too. Just look to the less-intense styles that fashion fanatics like Alexa Chung and Olivia Palermo prefer. After all, who could resist the delicately detailed Poltock & Walsh Shoulder Ruffle Dress ($760) Alexa Chung wore to the Glamour Awards party in London earlier this summer? The frock, which is from P&W's S/S 09 line and already sold out, has a wildly flattering fit thanks to its shoulder-emphasizing and waist-cinching silhouette. Plus, we adore the soft nude oyster silk; the color allows Chung's peep-toe Chanel booties to really stand out. We know that many readers are interested in not-so-basic black versions of the trend, so we'll direct you to Olivia Palermo's interpretation for inspiration. As seen at Maybelline New York's celebration of the launch of Color Sensational Lipcolor, Palermo embraced the trend with the feather-embellished Thane Dress ($595) by Diane von Furstenberg. Paired with a slim belt, Wolford tights, and Yves Saint Laurent Tribute Platform Sandals ($760), she displayed a fashion-forward outfit that still looks polished and professional.
Fortunately for our neutrals-favoring readers, this season there's no shortage of serviceable ruffled-shoulder dresses in somber hues. In addition to the ones we've already mentioned, don't miss Milly's Ruffled Dress ($395). The fact that this frock has a belt and soft ruffles at the shoulders means it will look good on lots of different figures. Additionally, you should check out the French Connection Ruffle Shoulder Detail Mini Dress ($175), which offers perhaps the daintiest version of them all. Additionally, if you're in London, you could stop by the Poltock & Walsh Shop and pick up the Rocket Dress from their F/W collection. It's very similar to Chung's exact frock, but made in an autumnal fabric (wool) and color (charcoal).
However you work this trend into your wardrobe, just remember that the dramatic shoulder calls for an equally compelling shoe. Whether it's a sophisticated platform, striking sandal, or noteworthy ankle boot is up to you-just make it memorable. Aside from the dress, your footwear is really the only other way to show off your personality and taste level. (Please don't fight the dramatic shape of the dress with oversized earrings, loads of bracelets, or a giant flashy bag, okay?) In other words: keep it simple, but make strong choices.
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I really like AlphaMom's array of paper plate holiday hats for every occasion. With simple directions, and supplies that you likely already have on hand, this is one of those surefire boredom busters for kids from toddlers on up.
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His team lost by a little, but Sydney coach John Longmire insists the AFL's ladder leaders will get a lot out of their first loss in ten games.
Just don't tell Longmire the eight-point defeat by Collingwood at ANZ Stadium on Saturday night was the loss they had to have.
"I don't believe in that," Longmire told reporters after the Swans suffered an 11th straight loss to to the Magpies.
"Regardless of whether you win or lose, you always look at the games and you get something out of it, you get some real positive stuff out of it and you get some things to improve upon and that's no matter what.
"They have been a good team for a long time and we'll get a lot out of tonight.
"We'll assess the game on Monday, and look at what we did well and look at the things that we can improve upon and hopefully learn and move on.
"That's the bonus and the benefit of playing the really good teams."
The loss means Sydney, facing the lowly Western Bulldogs at Etihad Stadium next Sunday, now only lead on percentage from Adelaide and Collingwood.
Structural and skill errors, bad decisions and inaccurate kicking were among some of the issues highlighted by Longmire and co-captain Jarrad McVeigh.
"Towards the end we just made a few structural errors which good teams don't make under pressure," McVeigh said.
"We improve on that and we look at that on the tape and improve for next week and we believe we can compete with the best teams now."
Co-captain and talisman Adam Goodes wasn't able to impose himself on the game, something Longmire acknowledged.
"I thought he was a bit quiet tonight," Longmire said of Goodes.
"I might have had a word to him a couple of times during the course of the game, but it was more about the structural things and more about some different things that he could do.
"But I thought we probably had a few players that were a bit quiet."
One Swan who excelled against the Pies was midfield dynamo Josh Kennedy, who tallied 40 touches, nine clearances and eight tackles.
"His effort for the entire game was just enormous," Longmire said.


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The Penalty Box
October 19, 2009
Peter Harbage is a Washington DC-based health policy analyst who worked with both Senator John Edwards and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on their individual mandate proposals. He has also worked at both the Center for American Progress and the New America Foundation. With the release of the Congressional Budget Office report on the Senate Finance health bill, there has been significant concern about how health reform may not cover all of the uninsured. From leaders in the progressive movement (read Jon's list of top health reform issues) to Karen Ignagni's October 11 cover memo on the infam
Truther Consequences
October 07, 2009
Alex Jones is a husky man with short sandy hair, weary eyes, baby cheeks, and the kind of deep, gravelly voice made for horror-movie trailers. And it's horror he has in mind. "Your New World Order will fall!" he screams through a megaphone at the shiny façade of a nondescript office building. "Humanity will defeat you!" A syndicated radio host, filmmaker, and all-around countercultural icon based in Austin, Texas, Jones has long been one of the country's most significant purveyors of paranoia.
Right Said Fed
September 25, 2009
Of all the exhibits at the Congressional Black Caucus's annual conference, which started Wednesday and will run into the weekend, the one I least expected was tucked in the back corner, behind rows of booths hawking Coca Cola and wood carvings, silk suits and ornate hats, and a cornucopia of Obama kitsch. The booth promoted the Federal Reserve. When I first saw it, I thought it might be a part of Ben Bernanke's recent charm offensive, an effort to demystify the central bank and ease fears about its reach into the financial markets over the past year.
Have the Ratings Agencies Taken Enough Flak?
September 24, 2009
You read something like this and you kinda maybe start to think the ratings agencies are, if far from blameless, then perhaps a necessary evil. But then you go and read something like this piece in yesterday's Wall Street Journal and you're embarrassed for having entertained the thought. Per the Journal: Despite months of regulatory scrutiny and some internal changes at the firms, a recently departed Moody's Corp. analyst says inflated ratings are still being issued.
Irving Kristol's Other Journey
September 19, 2009
Irving Kristol, who died on Friday at the age of 89, was often called the godfather of neoconservatism. And so he was, along with Norman Podhoretz, who has actually done far more to set the (foreign-policy focused) agenda and (insistently combative) tone of recent neocon thinking and writing. Kristol's impact was felt earlier, as he led a group of moderately liberal academics and intellectuals on a rightward migration across the political spectrum during the 1970 and '80s. It's an important story that's been told countless times.
This Giant Isn't Sleeping
September 17, 2009
It's now widely believed that the global recession is coming to an end, but the path out has been far from typical: This time around, China, not the U.S. has led the global recovery. With its $600 billion stimulus package and with banks lending with abandon, China has become the engine of global manufacturing and industrial activity.
A Nation of Commentators
August 07, 2009
"For two thousand years," wrote Harold Rosenberg, "the main energies of Jewish communities have gone into the mass production of intellectuals." For Rosenberg, the art critic who belonged to the receding constellation of writers known as the New York Intellectuals, such a claim was something between a boast and a self-justification. The New York Intellectuals were mainly second-generation Americans, whose self-sacrificing immigrant parents won them the opportunities America offered to newcomers, including Jews.
Obama And The Future Of Iraq
August 03, 2009
A recent dispatch from Iraq by The New York Times' Elisabeth Bumiller articulated something that has been true for several months now: America has moved on from the Iraq War. Much of the 2008 election was organized around that conflict. Barack Obama beat Hillary Clinton in large measure by deriding the judgment she showed in supporting the 2003 Iraq war resolution. And John McCain's public embrace of George W. Bush's policies may have doomed his campaign from the start. Few things seemed to exhilarate Obama's supporters more than his firm call for "an end" to the Iraq war.
Top Down
April 15, 2009
A new theory of the AIG catastrophe.
For Love Of Screwing Romney
February 05, 2008
An ABC analyst just asked Mike Huckabee if the campaign "got too acrimonious" during an interview. "Oh, I think you're going to see one of the most civil campaigns you've seen in a long time," he responded--all the while smirking like he just ate the canary. --Barron YoungSmith


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MGH Hotline 4.29.11 The MGH Department of Nursing will release a commemorative book, "MGH Nursing at Two Hundred," on May 2.
Nursing at 200
The MGH Department of Nursing will release a commemorative book, "MGH Nursing at Two Hundred," on May 2. Through historical images and written reflections, the book provides an overview of 200 years of nursing at the MGH. The MGH General Store will offer the book at a 20.11 percent discount during May, and Jeanette Ives Erickson, RN, MS, FAAN, senior vice president for Patient Care and chief nurse, will sign books at the General Store May 5 from 3 to 4 pm following the Chief Nurse Address in the O'Keeffe Auditorium – one of the many events being held as part of MGH Nurse Recognition Week May 1 through 6. MGHers also are invited to catch a glimpse of MGH nursing history through a photo exhibit on display in Doric Hall at the Massachusetts State House from May 2 through 13. For more information about the State House exhibit, the commemorative book or Nurse Recognition Week, contact Nursing Administration at 617-726-3100.
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Motionless In White release "America" lyric video, announce new drummer
April 23, 2013 by Tyler Common
Motionless In White have released a lyric video for their song "America." You can view it below.
They have also revealed Brandon Richter (formerly of The Witch Was Right) will be playing drums from them for now on.


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Cutting Ball Theater's Ubu Roi frolics in kitchen sink surrealism
While the kitchen theme develops rather organically (if also in unexpected ways) from the text, it also stands as a kind of stylistic conceit — a small but deliberate dose of realism in a fantastical comedy of outrageous, yet also domestic, proportions. Its surfaces may shine with the absurdity of a geopolitical food fight, but the motivations and details of the plot are very much in sync with an everyday ruthlessness and regret.
Meanwhile, the plot itself fractures by the second half of the play, as things get truly surreal, abandoning all pretense to linear storytelling. This tonal and aesthetic shift comes nicely registered in the flexible playing style, as Father and Mother Ubu discover they have inherited a realm after all — one they would have thought unreal only a short time before. *
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Forget "Dancing with the Stars." Tonight's election is the ultimate reality results show.
Who isn't interested in finally finding out who'll be awarded the grand prize — the presidency and entry into the Oval Office?
We also get every sort of TV network vying for our eyes with serious — and not so serious — coverage of the historic presidential election and other political contests.
For conservatives, there's always Fox News, which, despite its harrumphs and protests, does clearly lean to the right and toward McCain's candidacy.
MSNBC has been slammed for the opposite, being too liberal. Pundits Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews have been accused of being biased toward Obama.
For humor, nothing could beat the wry, irreverent team of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert from 9 to 10 p.m. on Comedy Central. Um, unless it's Ricky Gervais, who's contributing to the election coverage — starting at 5 p.m. — on BBC America.
A guide to broadcast, cable and comedy offerings across tonight's dial:
• ABC (6 p.m. to 1 a.m. with break at 10 p.m. for local news): Charles Gibson, Diane Sawyer and George Stephanopolous anchor from a specially constructed set overlooking Times Square — an "outdoor global viewing event" is what this coverage is being called. Crowds also will be kept up to date on results via moving electronic "signs."
• CBS (6 p.m. to 1 a.m., with local 10 p.m. news break): Katie Couric will anchor with lots of help from her election vet friends, including Bob Schieffer and Jeff Greenfield. But — boo-hoo — I'll miss Dan the colorful. (see below)
• NBC (6 p.m to 1 a.m., with local late news break): Mirroring coverage in 2004, the network once again transforms Rockefeller Plaza into election headquarters with Brian Williams anchoring and lots of veterans assisting including the venerable Tom Brokaw. What will be missed: the late Tim Russert's easy-to-follow commentary complete with white board and marker.
• Fox (6 to 9 p.m.; 10 p.m. to midnight; hour-long break at 9 p.m for local news): The likable Shepard Smith anchors.
• PBS (8 to at least 10 p.m.): Trusty, no-frills coverage led by Jim Lehrer.
• CNN (5 p.m. to 1 a.m.): Tech nuts will revel in every electronic bell and whistle including a magic election wall and holographic images of reporters (no foolin'). Wolf Blitzer anchors.
• Fox News Channel (5 p.m. to 1 a.m.): Brit Hume anchors his last election so expect a little devil-may-care behavior (hopefully).
• MSNBC (5 p.m. to 1 a.m.): David Gregory anchors with lots of colorful sidekicks including the aforementioned Olbermann and Matthews.
• Old-time favorites: Dan Rather (6 p.m. on HDNet) is bound to pull out some new, hilarious "Ratherisms" in describing this new race. A memorable one from long ago: "This race is tight like a too-tight bathing suit on a too-long ride home from the beach."
Ted Koppel (5 p.m. on BBC America) is the quintessential pro with a wonderful dry wit when it comes to elections.
• Presidential quips and jokes: Try "Frank TV" (10 p.m. on TBS) with parodies of everyone from George W. to Bill Clinton.


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The University of Michigan offers many opportunities for undergraduate study in sustainability-related fields. U-M's 19 schools and colleges offer degrees and course work in sustainability, environmental studies, engineering, the physical sciences, the social sciences, and more.
The College of Engineering offers a multitude of programs related to sustainability.
Chemical Engineering. A solid disciplinary foundation that allows students to personalize the curriculum for diverse careers, including in the environment.
Civil and Environmental Engineering. Sample topics: Environmental systems, environmental assessments, solid waste, nuclear waste.
Climate Science. Including an exciting new program called Climate Impact Engineering.
Earth System Science and Engineering. The interactions among Earth system components; concentrations in climate science, meteorology, and space weather.
Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences. This rapidly-growing major is based on the principle that a sound education in both mathematics and the basic sciences is an essential foundation for any specialized training. Undergraduates are routinely involved in research projects.
Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering. This department offers study in marine environmental engineering. Recent graduates are working on approaches to overcome water-borne pollution transport in the Great Lakes and the oceans, and coastal erosion predictions. Several professors are researching new ocean and river energy-generation systems.
Mechanical Engineering . Global economic, geopolitical, and environmental factors all suggest that improvements are needed in the way that energy is produced, converted, and utilized in the modern world. Mechanical systems are integral to all three of these activities. The Mechanical Engineering Department offers undergraduates a concentration in energy.
Program in Sustainable Engineering. A nine-credit-hour supplemental studies program whereby engineering students earn a "Specialized Study in Sustainable Engineering" notation on their transcript.
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Sustainability Scholars Program. A competitive program through which accepted students receive special access and funding to field-based courses in sustainability and who participate in a wide range of leadership and cohort building activities. Click on the video link to hear what students say about the program. The application deadline for the next academic year is January 15, 2014. Watch for details.
Literature, Science, and the Arts
NEW! Fully Searchable LSA Course Guide. This online course catalog now includes "sustainability tags" to help undergraduate students find just the sustainability-focused class they want via the key word search tool or new sustainability group menu selection. This makes it easy for students to find classes about sustainability subject matter within LSA regardless of whether or not the class title includes the word "sustainability."
Program in the Environment (PitE). An interdisciplinary undergraduate program that offers both a concentration (major) three different minors (Sustainability, Environment, and Sustainable Food Systems), plus courses open to all U-M students. PitE's curriculum encompasses the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities coursework—with a focus on hands-on field experience. Topics covered range from global change, public policy, sustainable development, analytics, and ecology. Click here for video about new sustainability minor.
Biology. Seven concentrations and three minors, including plant biology, and ecology and evolutionary biology.
Chemistry. Concentrations in chemistry and biochemistry, and a dual degree with chemical engineering.
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. An integrated perspective on the earth's biodiversity and ecosystems.
Geological Sciences. Concentrations in geological sciences, earth systems science, environmental geosciences, oceanography, and earth sciences.
Planet Blue Student Leader Program. An "eco-rep" program with a corresponding one-credit course through LSA, offered as a partnership between the Graham Sustainability Instiute, University Housing, and the Office of Campus Sustainability.


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Ingredients: can Spam, cut into cubes, large potato, cut into cubes, large carrot, sliced, stalk celery, sliced, small onion, diced, can pineapple chunks, drained, butter
Heather's Campfire Chicken Parmesan
Ingredients: chicken nuggets (thawed), shredded lowfat mozzarella cheese, spaghetti sauce, parmesan cheese, oregano or Italian seasoning
Herbed Fish
Ingredients: fish fillets about 1/2 inch thick, olive or vegetable oil, bisquick mix, herb seasoned bread crumbs, chopped basil leaves, salt, egg
Hillbilly Stew
Ingredients: ground venison or beef, large onion (chopped), large can Campbell's Pork and Beans, small can Campbell's Pork and Beans, molasses, butter
Hoagie Pockets
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Latest Polling Shows an Uphill Battle for Arkansas' Medical Marijuana Initiative, Issue 5
The latest polling data coming out of Arkansas shows a rough fight ahead for their ballot initiative to legalize the medical use of marijuana. In a poll conducted Thursday, October 18th, by TalkBusiness and Hendrix College had support for Issue 5 at just 38%, with opposition at 54% and 8% are undecided. Another poll, conducted by the University of Arkansas between October 9th and October 14, had support for medical marijuana in Arkansas at 44%, opposition at 52%, and undecideds at 5%. Both of these polls show support down when compared to data released in July of this year, which had the issue in a dead heat with 47% support and 46% opposition.
For more information on the initiative and on how you can help legalize medical use of cannabis in Arkansas this November, please visit the campaign's website at www.arcompassion.com
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These initiatives should only be started when states are obviously supporting the issues. This kind of thing looks bad for the movement, and steal from victories in more liberal states! It was way to soon for this, and those that proposed it should have known it. Backward states will follow only when they feel pressured. Arkansas is full of backward thinking nuts just like Kansas, Oklahoma, and unfortunately Texas!
fear is a powerful weapon but a war always begins and ends with the truth
That Racist propaganda add the opposition started in Arkansas speaks volumes as to how that state's majority thinks, and everyone knows it.
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As someone who has lived in Northwest Arkansas their whole life, I assure you that places such as Fayetteville, Fort Smith, Conway and Little Rock are fully behind the medical marijuana movement, even most of the elderly in Bella Vista (a former retirement village that I lived near) are calling for it. Unfortunately, there are still plenty of the racist, backward thinking tea-baggers that are trying to shut it down because of the simple fact that they fear what they don't understand. Humans are a tricky thing.
@BW such a fool, if you never start till everyone's ready you would never start! As for backwards well I'll let you show that side. and for some of the polls some were done by a Christen collage. Time will tell.YES on Issue #5
I'm with you Ken! I haven't given up yet and neither should ANYONE!!! Let's just vote this in and shut down these lowlife naysayers once and for all. THIS ABSOLUTELY IS THE RIGHT CHOICE FOR ARKANSAS!!
It's not that you should'nt start something, it's that you jumped head first into something the majority of Arkansa voters are clearly not ready for. All these ass kicking defeats do is give the "naysayers" a clear message to other backward states that the "legalizers" are still the minority. Look this is just a difference in opinion in the end, all I'm saying is baby steps are required! The states that even have a shot start with some form of decrim to soften up peoples attitudes. I'd share your opinion, and if I lived there I would absolutely vote yes, but the numbers tell me someone did'nt prepare for this.
Sorry about the lack of another s there, but I'm sure you understand seeing as how you misspelled both Christian and college. Fool
Maybe it's the "medicine"
So very sad, 75 years and still we need to take baby steps? I'm afraid I'll baby step all the way to my grave. Too many people with out represintation from the goverment. Stay the corse Arkansa, to late to second guess now. I hope common sense will prevail.
medical marijuana works. i have seen it. when a loved on is on chemo it so terrible you will do anything. only thing that really worked was marijuana it helped alot. for god sake how can you say no when somebody you love is suffering. thanks and god bless
Getting 38% for Medical Marijuana in America's most conservative state (trust me) is hardly a failure or a baby step. All the good people who worked to get Issue 5 on the ballot deserve a round of applause. It's a great start.
Voters who live in the Natural State will have the chance to live up to their name. Issue 5 will provide alternative medicine to those who are sick and dying. Arkansans will have the opportunity to end the monopoly forced upon them by pharmaceutical companies controlling their access to safe, alternative medicine. A YES vote for issue 5 will make Arkansas the first southern state to recognize marijuana as a legal medicine. The greatest compassion Arkansans can give to those who are ill, is Choice. I urge the good people of the Natural State to show compassion through choice. Vote Yes on issue 5 to secure that choice.
@BW Last election cycle, we didnt even get this on the ballot. Times are changing… not just in liberal states. If we are defeated we will get more signatures and KEEP GOING. Not gonna give up!!!
Bw: you may want to look up defeatism in the dictionary. i really don't appreciate your pessimism on this issue–we'll have our day at the polls and will come up smiling.
i could not agree more with what travis wrote above. he summed it up right there for all of us! recognize.
I really don't know how it will play out. I've already voted for it and have about 10 people pledging to vote for it. The Family Life Council in the state (a conservative 'religious' organization) has lined up opposition and they are bombarding the media with misrepresentation and hitting on people's fears of the unknown.
I have never smoked and I don't drink and have a business but I still believe 5 should pass. I know it can help sick people that suffer with pain and some mental illness. Yes Arkansas is backwards. Some cities won't sell alcohol on sunday. What a joke. The people here just drive 5 miles and buy the alcohol they want. No taxes money for Ozark, Arkansas. They will probably stay backwards for another 50 years. I will be heading back to California and there will be no more taxes from me for Arkansas.
Medical Marijuana, if you don't want to access it AFTER it becomes approved, then don't use it. If you're satisfied with a busted economy, don't approve it. Why not suck up all that money, and cut out the middle men. Quit saying it's a SIN until you've tried it.
Someone told me {just yesterday} that smoking pot causes short term memory loss…….And something else but i forgot ! lol
All B.S. aside,The states are in bad shape {lack of funds}, By taxing this we can improve the school's …that's all good untill the state's put the tax's into a general fund and use it for something else just like they do with the lottery.
OK, I have to get back to my bong and solve the world's problem's…
There are just too many cranky 70+ old retirees in Arkansas for medical marijuana to pass. They still fear 'hippies' will take over.
Maybe in a few years when they pass on, it will have a better chance.
Bw's.. lack of education lead to the following :
" Sorry about the lack of another s there, but I'm sure you understand seeing as how you misspelled both Christian and college. Fool "
First "s" is not a word & " fool "is not a sentence . There is also a period after sentences ( example – medicine ) so what have you been drinking,Bw ?
I am not real sure mj or other drugs where ever illegal. I do however understand there are a bunch of in bred genocidal maniacs in our legal system that think we are nothing but animals ( i.e. live stock ). Prohibition is retarded and has increased the level of substance abuse, violence and associated crime. My 2 cents worth.
to many good people get suckered into criminal element to get what helps them out……..beware of the negetive sides …..pot dealers will be against this bill and so will police and officials using the law to steal realestate and personal property ……its a scam to keep it illeagle……you get the message!
Arkansas just like the rest of the south has problems with the ideas of progressing. The state is Poor rural and super conservative with a common practice of bible thumping by the older generations. As an Arkansan I support issue 5 and believe it is morally wrong to keep medicine away from Cancer patients. Marijuana is everywhere in Arkansas regulating seems to be the way to go.
I gathered signatures to get this put on the ballot. It is not that support isn't there a majority of people here a marijuana supporters. There are several things that hold this back though and that is lots of people that support it are felons and can't vote or just are not registered and don't care about voting. This issue has got more people here registered than ever before. Also what is holding this back it the stupid racist propaganda that the "Family Council" has been putting in the paper almost every day. I will never buy an Arkansas Democrat Gazette paper after seeing all the stupid shit they have aloud them to put in the paper. These "news" papers just let anyone put anything they want in their papers if they pay enough for it. Nothing but garbage and everyone reads it and most believe it.
Adding to above comment they are using the "they are going to prescribe marijuana to all our kids" propaganda to defeat this. These religious nuts freak out about giving underage cancer patients a natural plant but I don't see any of them up in arms about the thousands of small children (many under 10) that get prescribed amphetamines usually in the form of Adderall, large doses of Seroquel, and antidepressants like the shit is candy. I have seen many kids get really fucked up by this shit and many of them have grown up to be much more dis-functional than they were before. When my girlfriend was in school they tried to force Seroquel down her throat for awhile and she was a pretty normal kid. They tell the parents this is what is best for their kids and most are idiots so they go along with it. The parents and the school then become the biggest drug pushers and they are not even aware of it. This really bothers me because the victims are not aware of what is going on. I am fine with adults being drug addicts if they choose to do that but it is wrong to force it on kids that don't understand what it being done to them.
smoke 5 joints get home safely..drink 5 beers endanger yourslef and society. but they can have their organized drug dealers on every corner and liquor store on every street. and yes if something dont change alot of us business owners are gonna go packing..not gonna create jobs here anymore to pay taxes where we cant have a personal choice.. its bs and brain washing
and for the bible belt..god said which not to eat from to eve. he didnt say all my plants are good but dont touch that pot plant.. and stop trying to mix religion into medical issues..tks
I have bipolar disorder and marijuana is the only thing that keeps my mood swings in check.So who is this govt. to tell me I can't have my medicine?It sure would be nice to go to a secure place to get medicine instead of the hood.Please folks pass issue 5. You never know it might be you that needs it some day…Thank you
As someone who lives in Arkansas let me inform you that in this state most of these backwards hillbillies are actually very avid stoners. Despite what some communities in this state think most of the big ones are full of avid drug users and regular people who fully Support the issue. I believe it will have no problem passing.
i agree ronald almost every one i know in fort smith supports parents grand parents and most of my friends
I have lived here in ar for 6 yrs. I moved frim so. Cal. I had a medical marijuana card. It was a god send. I have really bad back pain. I was on pills fir years. Weed is so much better. I am glad its on the ballot and I can hopefully do this legally again. Please vote yes.
I really hate it when some of you call my state backward!Most of us are not! I am 59 and have voted yes already as well as many of my friends and family. This overbearing family counsel group are pumping out lies just as they did with the Casinos and hoping something will stick. I do hope and pray that it will pass. Every state has stupid people not just us!Two faced people who voted against casinos line op everyday to buy tickets! I think the vote will go quite well.
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You have to take into account that a lot of people who will be voting for this, probably won't vote till last minute
I dont' know about 'avid stoners" but everyone I have talked to has claimed to have voted YES on Issue 5 with 1 exception. So nearly a 20:1 ratio? look around on facebook & twitter and see how many people are say yes vs no on Issue 5.
Heart-wrenching War on drugs
Obama's DEA spokesman was on TV the other morning talking about progress in the war on drugs and how the agency is stamping out Marijuana use where ever it exists, aggressively arresting users and dealers alike and dropping the hammer.
It reminded me of two patients I once had while attending medical school in Little Rock. Both patients were undergoing chemotherapy for breast cancer that had spread to their bones and organs. The chemotherapy caused severe nausea and vomiting to the point that they were both losing weight at a frightening pace. Each lady was in danger of having to suspend chemotherapy which meant certain death for both.
The answer for both was marijuana, for patient A, who was a wealthy lady with unlimited resources that meant taking Marinol which is a legal form of Marijuana produced at a huge profit by a large pharmaceutical company and legally purchased at the local drug store. However for patient B who was poor, dependent on Medicaid and unable pay 1000 dollars a month for government marijuana it meant drinking marijuana tea. Both forms of the drug worked great and both ladies began to regain weight and respond to chemotherapy.
A few weeks later patient B failed to make her appointment and we were dumfounded because she had never missed an appointment. We later discovered that she had been arrested for growing marijuana plants in her home and was looking at serious prison time for being a producer. She missed several weeks of chemo' and her disease returned with a vengeance, she died a horrible death a few months later.
Patient A went on taking the government approved form of marijuana and had a complete recovery.
When I picture Ms." B" leaving her house for the last time in handcuffs I cannot escape images of WWII Nazi SS soldiers leading Jewish citizens to death camps in those black and white film strips shown on the history channel. Nor can I help but imagine myself as one of the German citizens looking the other way while denying the Holocaust.
In a FREE country of FREE people freedom is almost always the best course.
There is no such thing as a war on drugs. All wars, regardless of their monikers, are waged by governments against people.
Randy Walker MD
To those who are saying Arkansas is the most conservative state in America, you couldn't be more wrong. The bigger cities ere are filled with liberals. I voted, I don't quite expect it to pass, but I think it will be closer than most people are thinking.
Look there are 70 verses in the bible all about weed
On how god mad it and how he saw that it was good
So for this being the bible belt they don't follow it
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Yeah, it was fun. Umpqua even got a couple of Thanks. Not sure why, but that's how it goes.
Yeah, you thanked him for his nonsense. It gave me a good chuckle.
After reading this thread I had to go and make sure that my back door was still locked.
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Prozac Yogi. ~ Lance Griffin
There's a story from the Buddhist tradition that you may know: the one about the guy with the arrow.
Basically, a guy gets hit with an arrow and it hurts like hell. Some people show up to help. "How did it get there?" "Who shot the arrow?" They start asking questions. "Look at that, I wonder if that arrow was made by so-and-so, he's a great arrow maker." "I don't know, the markings aren't characteristic of so-and-so." Meanwhile, our poor friend is screaming. "Just pull out the damned arrow!"
I started thinking of suicide when I was eleven years old.
Depression was my arrow, only no one could see it. It was a blessing in that I started my spiritual journey at a very young age. Even so, the illness remained a dull throb through adolescence. I practiced yoga, fasted, read spiritual texts, and that eased it and made it manageable. Then the arrow rusted and the wound infected.
When I turned 21, I was so agonizingly insecure and depressed that I could no longer live with myself—I had to seek help, or die.
Let me go into detail: I graduated with a weighted 5.0 GPA from high school, and attended the flagship university of the state with tuition covered. I did not lie in bed all day or sink so deep that I couldn't eat—I carried on.
From the outside, I had everything that 'makes you happy.' Underneath my façade, I was drowning.
It was in the evenings when I would reflect on ending my life. I held fast to the promise of relief from yoga and other spiritual pursuits, without much luck.
To give you an idea, this was my routine: I woke up and meditated for two or three hours in the morning. I devoured book after book on every spiritual topic and self-help subject I could find throughout the day. I practiced yoga for at least an hour, six days a week. I was also a practicing vegetarian and bought mostly organic.
Sometimes I would find that rapture, where everything in the world was perfect, and for a few minutes, the pain left.
Then it was back.
I did everything those famous spiritual speakers tell you to do. You know who I mean—everybody and their mom has some spin on depression nowadays.
At a dead end, I went in to see the psychiatrist and therapist. They were markedly friendly and compassionate. They diagnosed me with dysthymia, or chronic, low-level depression. Bottom line was that I was clinically, scientifically, medically depressed. And I'd received more compassion from clinical professionals than anywhere in the spiritual world.
It's a disease…it's an arrow and it makes you bleed.
To be precise, it's a malfunction of serotonin and dopamine in the brain. As much as the yoga magazines promote it, staying in wheel for ten minutes is not going to give you tons of energy and renew your life. I had fought medication for years, largely due to what I had read from fellow seekers. Skip medication: just eat kale! Depressed? Try this new yoga sequence! I tried therapy first, because I was still resistant. When it failed, I knew I had no choice. I started on medication.
A month after I started taking it, I could only ask why: Why is this such a big deal?
It occurred to me that there is a taboo in our culture, and it exists especially in spiritual people. We believe that we deserve to suffer. We believe that suffering has some mystical lessons to teach us, or that it's our karma, or that we can just meditate out of it. Let me ask you this: if you are shot in the arm, are you going to do bridge pose to alleviate the pain? No. You go to a fucking doctor.
Shortly after I started taking anti-depressants, my life changed.
I suddenly wondered why I'd been in so much pain all those years. I couldn't figure it out. Instead of wanting to murder myself every evening over a nice Chianti, I was going out and dancing.
Two months after I started, a romantic relationship fell into my lap. I joined a community service group and became a voice for those in need. I started coaching my peers at the university. Life had flavor again.
I became more spiritual than I ever had been. I was more mindful during yoga, as my attention was not consumed by a mysterious unholy pain. For the first time in my life that I could remember, I was actually happy.
About six months after I took the plunge, I had another kind of rapture: this is what life is supposed to be like. This is what it's like for normal people!
I'm taking meds now and I don't plan on stopping. Why would I? Whenever someone admits, with a guilty glaze over their eyes, that they take meds, they'll say: I'm taking them, but just for a short time. Why are we ashamed? Imagine a type 1 diabetic obsessed with eventually going off insulin. Just a few more weeks of shots, then I'm back to myself again! It's a little silly. My family suffers from depression; it's a genetic issue that affects me at a biological level. If this is resonating with you, then chances are, you're in the same boat.
Then you get the hecklers: "Sometimes you just gotta pull yourself up by the bootstraps!"
I like to tell those people, "Sometimes, the horse tramples you and breaks your legs and ribs. You're lying in agony, and your goddamned bootstraps are broken. Please shut up and help."
So let's start pulling arrows out.
Get help—and stick with it. Stop trying to be a hero. There is a lot of snake oil and a lot of shame.
There's absolutely no reason for it.
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20 Responses to "Prozac Yogi. ~ Lance Griffin"
Thank you for your raw honesty. The spiritual world can be so harsh on depression and you expressed it beautifully. Depression is serious business and the spiritual world certainly does a disservice to those suffering by adding guilt for not being able to cure it naturally. Thank you for bringing light to this important topic
This is a beautiful and much needed article. Thank you for writing it. Yoga is a beautiful thing, but it is not the end all be all for everything. I'm glad you found your path. Namaste.
Ok, this is such an awesome article. Seriously awesome. As a fellow yoga practitioner, and believer in some of the snake oil, but a traditional pharmacist, meds are sometimes necessary- and a combination with yoga is just amazing. I mean being depressed and then being faced with your flaws and limitations in a yoga practice could just be so detrimental. Psychotherapy is a must. I wish more people would take the step and see a physician like you did.
Good luck with everything!
So grateful for this. Thank you.
This is actually exacly my story, except for the fact that i was on anti-depressants and went to see a psychiatrist before i got my connection with my spiritual path. Buddhism/Dharma helped me off my meds (5 years i took those), but i'm not so sure if i'm happier now then i was when i was on them. But what i can assure, is that when i went to see the psychiatrist, and started taking the meds, at that time it was the best thing i ever did for myself, although i know others sometimes disagree. There is no shame whatsoever in seeking help when things get though. Like the U2 song that quite greatly inspired me says: "sometimes you can't make it on your own".
Congrats on your new life! People need to learn to "blur the line" and understand that there is good in both Eastern and Western medicine. Everyone needs to find their own path to maximize the joy and health in their own life, and stop worrying about what others might think! We are all unique!
Thank you so much for this essay! I too have suffered from depression and anxiety for many, many years. I can remember anxiety attacks as far back as age 11. Throughout my twenties I relied on psychotherapy and meditation. By my early thirties it was evident that medication needed to be added to the mix. At 49 I am a fully functioning human being thanks to my meds especially and to a lesser degree yoga and meditation. I taught yoga for 4 years in the mid 2000s and regularly encountered the "anti-meds" yogis. I"m not sure why there is such a hostility to medication for anxiety and depression in the yoga world. We wouldn't tell someone to stop taking insulin but yet many yogis think nothing of dissing the use of meds. Yogis are not medical professionals yet feel qualified to tell students that depression and anxiety can be managed by yoga, pranayama and meditation only. Where do they get this? Additionally, a diatribe about the "evils" of big pharmacy are often hurled my way as well. They don't seem to be able to separate the good that medication can do from the extreme overuse of meds that can sometime happen.
You're welcome! There is definitely a silent culture of suffering. I'm happy you found your path! I know what you mean about the teachers as medical professionals. I experienced that, so I decided to work on a graduate degree in exercise science to see what yoga actually does. It's been great, but it's also put into light the fact that a great majority of claims are word of mouth home remedy type stuff.
Wow! Brilliant! I'm sooo spiritual'd out right about now. I'm draining myself by expecting everything to be this big lesson all the time. I feel this insane pressure to find the "reasons" for things and that's freakin impossible and exhausting. So, I try to just be. Just live. Just breath. Just observe. But somehow I end up feeling guilty.
What's worse is I've created by whole life to be this way. My relationships are built around it. My day is built around it. My everything is built around it. And I'm exhausted from it all.
Thank you for writing and sharing your experience. . . you are not alone. I have had almost an identical experience and find it reassuring that some of us just have to accept the medication IS the only alternative. No amount of yoga/kale/vitamin B12/ meditation/etc. will eliminate our depression and/or anxiety. Namaste.
This is brilliant…thanks so much for taking the time to write this. We are currently working on a film integrating western psychiatry with ayurveda, and it indeed involves taking medication if it is deemed necessary. Here's the link to our Facebook page if you're interested: https://www.facebook.com/healingthemindayurveda?r…
Thank you! I could have written this myself. To be honest, I wish I come out to my fellow yoga teachers that I'm on meds.
It took me over 25 years of struggling on and off, holding on to yoga, exercise, alternative therapies, countless hours of counselling until I realised how much I was lying to myself and how much damage I was doing to my kids.
I recovered once I embraced my depression and was serious about seeking for the medical reason. God knows I had tried everything else. Cannot tell how much I cried when I started the treatment. My ego was so trampled and defeated. As it turns out, it runs in my family (both sides) as far as anyone can remember. It didn't skip me.
Today I'm so much better. I don't have to put so much effort into being me, into functioning. I just feel free, sunnier inside and a huge sense of relief.
I still have hangs up about my depression around the yoga crowd over here. I just don't want to see the reflection of my old self in them.
I want to mirror some of the comments above. When I saw this article a moment ago my heart stopped. I teach yoga and I recently went to my doctor to ask for prozac. After over 25 years of trying to manage my emotional state of anxiety and depression from a natural and spiritual perspective, I finally had nothing left. I am two months in to my medication, and I feel like I am able to be myself for the first time is YEARS. The light has been let back in to my life and I can finally get on with fulfilling my life's purpose, instead of silently beating myself up for being such a looser and being griped with fear of everything, whilst simultaneously trying to life with a facade that I am in control and everything is fine. However, since taking the meds, i have become acutely aware of how uncomfortable the subject makes people. So a heart felt thank you for sharing your story. It has put that demon to rest that I am not alone and this is just part of what makes us who we are. And just incredibly grateful to live in a time where there is the science to help people like us. x
You are most welcome! I wrote it to try and touch at least one person out there, so I am very happy to hear that it helped. So happy that your demon has been put to rest.
Great article, thank you. I take anti depressants for my anxiety and have also had clinical depression in the past. A combination of anti depressants, cognitive behavioural therapy, yoga, mindfulness and a loving and supportive wife help me live a "normal" life. I was initially resistant to medication and would wean myself off every time I was doing okay but always end up back on them. It runs in my family and I know now that I will probably have to take medication all the time but I'm okay with that now.
Thank you, Lance. I walked with my Dark Passenger for over twenty years until I landed in a psych ward which, blessedly, was staffed by some excellent psycho-pharmacologists. It wasn't so much as starting medication for me as finding the right ones and the right dose. Some made me feel zombified, others so jumpy I could barely sit still, others just . . . dull. After a year and a half of therapy and trying this and that med combo, I found one that worked. I was able to function again, and not long after started working as a job coach for adults with developmental disabilities. I have not experienced Depression for the last nine years. After hellish chunks of 22 years just hanging on, the right meds are a gift beyond measure. The combination of having the damn arrow removed and having something worthy to aim for myself has saved my life. I hope everyone reading this who is tormented by Clinical Depression finds a really good doctor and begins finding the med combination which works for them. Again, thanks for a great article.
I am dysthymic, too … but I also have read the books by Peter R. Breggin (including Talking Back to Prozac). And the book Prozac Backlash. Now, if I were in a more high-powered type of career, there is no telling what I would have done; so I am not condemning use of drugs across-the-board. All I know is I allowed my career to take a hit when faced with a crisis boss/situation, ignorant of how my age and structural unemployment would impact it. Underestimating what I'd had to lose at the time. In the face even of ridicule by my family at times.
Then, up against the wall; having been chronically unemployed/underemployed for years I reinvented myself and my skills.
Don't like what I do very much; but I was told, point blank: " You do what the market pays for. I know you will feel stifled and bored and may find the work dull and unexciting. If you want excitement, you can go to the gym after work."
But, hot damn, a LOT less chronic overwork and stress than my earlier "career" that I hadn't wanted to walk away from.
I am dysthymic, too … but I also have read the books by Peter R. Breggin (including Talking Back to Prozac). And the book Prozac Backlash. Now, if I were in a more high-powered type of career, there is no telling what I would have done; so I am not condemning use of drugs across-the-board. All I know is I allowed my career to take a hit when faced with a crisis boss/situation, ignorant of how my age and structural unemployment would impact it. Underestimating what I'd had to lose at the time. In the face even of ridicule by my family at times.
Then, up against the wall; having been chronically unemployed/underemployed for years I reinvented myself and my skills.
Don't like what I do very much; but I was told, point blank: " You do what the market pays for. I know you will feel stifled and bored and may find the work dull and unexciting. If you want excitement, you can go to the gym after work."
But, hot damn, a LOT less chronic overwork and stress than my earlier "career" that I hadn't wanted to walk away from, because all that (physical-health-impacting) high-impact real estate management and commercial real estate brokerage administrative support had been exciting (and I'm not being facetious) …
a friend posted this on her FB wall, i read it, and have had to look it up again… i am currently in a depressive/anxious state, trying like hell with yoga, eating well, praying, taking supplements anything… to fell better, I have an appt. with a Doc. in 2 weeks… I pray they can help and help me find a good combination of something… I thank you so much for this article… and… for making me laugh… "if your shot it the arm… you need and effing doctor"… 😉
Wonderful; thanks for your honesty and courage–for sharing your story, and encouraging others to seek the care they need.
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Rated 3 / 5 stars
It has got potention but its to short and honestly could use better animation skills.
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Honestly i didnt like it, everything went by too quickly and it has no storyline. Next time put a storyline, add voices if your comp. allows it and make everything slower. Then it would be much better


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Bill Nash: Men wore high heels first; now it's women's turn
The headline in the BBC News Magazine caught my attention: "Why did men stop wearing high heels?" The answer was resolved by the year 1740, but there is more to the story than that.
According to the article by William Kremer, the high-heeled style for men started as a form of riding footwear. Good horsemanship was essential to the fighting techniques of the Persian armies. The high-heeled Persian shoes helped the soldiers keep their feet in the stirrups, much like cowboy boots do today. As Persian influence spread into Western Europe at the end of the 16th century during their fight against the Ottoman Empire, the Persian-style shoes were rapidly adopted by European aristocrats.
But by 1740, impracticality overcame fashion and the practice had ended with high heels becoming widely regarded as effeminate. By the time of the French Revolution, even women had stopped wearing them. They didn't come back into fashion until the mid-19th century, and now, it appears they are here to stay.
Well, they will if my wife has any say in the matter.
My wife is utterly devoted to high-heeled shoes, to the point where she is willing to endure the occasional pratfall rather than switch to a lower heel. She thinks they make her look taller. I think they make her look wobbly. Although I think she's entitled to a little wobble.
What the shoe manufacturers call a heel, I would call a pencil. I have no idea how my wife stands up in her shoes, let alone walks in them. She perches precariously atop two heels that have a circumference smaller than a dime. I get sympathy pains in my ankles just seeing her in the heels. But she considers the high heels to be a part of her "look" and discomfort is no reason to not look good.
"You put on high heels and you change," said shoe designer Manolo Blahnik. "People walk differently in high heels. Your body sways to a different tempo."
Well, obviously you walk differently in high heels, you're on stilts. And your body isn't swaying to a different tempo, it's attempting to maintain equilibrium. Another shoe designer, Christian Louboutin, said, "High heels are pleasure with pain." It's the pain, not the pleasure, that's starting to worry health care professionals.
Doctors are seeing more and more injuries related to stiletto and other high heels.
A Consumer News article quoted Dr. Judith Baumhauer, a member of the American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society, as saying high heels create the "perfect storm" for foot and ankle injuries. She regularly treats a number of fractures — mostly to ankles and the fifth metatarsal (the long bone on the outside of the foot that connects to the little toe) — in addition to ligament tears and other ankle injuries.
Dr. Hillary Brenner, a podiatrist, may have expressed the dangers of high heels best. She was quoted on WebMD as saying, "We podiatrists like to call it shoe-icide."
Just to be clear, none of this will have any effect on my wife. She likes the way she looks in heels, so she wears them all the time. This is a woman who wears high heels to the county fair. And she's not about to throw out any high heels because she would cede too much closet space to me if she were to do that.
I have to admit, she looks good. I just hope I'm there to catch her when she falls.
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Harvest Bar + Kitchen Explodes Onto the Clintonville Dining Scene
Harvest Bar + Kitchen brings the same emphasis on local sourcing, quality ingredients, and friendly, laid-back service. The restaurant is plain but warm, with high tin ceilings, wood tables and booths, and seating at the L-shaped bar. Harvest does not take reservations, so go early.
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Oregon Legislature begins 5-week session
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon lawmakers kicked off the 2014 legislative session on Monday but avoided immediately wading into the most contentious issues on their agenda.
In the coming weeks, debates over gun control, marijuana legalization and the proposed Columbia River bridge are likely to dominate. The state budget will need to be revised, and lawmakers are likely to look at the fiasco with Cover Oregon, the state's health insurance exchange that has not yet launched a fully functioning website.
None of those hot-button issues were on the agenda for Monday, but lawmakers did advance a handful of relatively noncontroversial measures.
A House committee unanimously advanced a bill that would allow the children of reserve police officers and volunteer firefighters to qualify for scholarships that are available to the children of paid public safety officers killed in the line of duty. The bill follows the death in November of Robert Libke, an unpaid reserve police officer for Oregon City who was shot in the head responding to a report of a house fire and an armed man.
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The House Health Care Committee approved House Bill 4013 allowing health care providers to electronically transmit prescriptions for painkillers, stimulants and other heavily regulated drugs known as Schedule II controlled substances. The committee also backed House Bill 4109, which would pay for a study of the costs and impacts of creating a "basic health program," an option under the federal health overhaul to make coverage more affordable for people with low incomes.
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The newest member of the Legislature also was sworn in. Rep. Ann Lininger, D-Lake Oswego, replaces Democrat Chris Garrett, who resigned to become a judge on the Oregon Court of Appeals. Rep. Betty Komp, D-Woodburn, was elected to replace Garrett as speaker pro tem and will fill in when Speaker Tina Kotek is unavailable.
Unlike the past three years, Democratic Gov. John Kitzhaber has not outlined an ambitious agenda he's hoping to muscle through the Legislature.
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