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Three Southern Recipes for Fun!
1. One of the best recipes to come out of New Orleans is Jazz Fest!
- Get 7000 performers, the top of their class in every music genre imaginable
- A racetrack with 12 stages – each running 10 bands each a day
- Do a fair, one price, all day admission ticket
- Only operate in daylight so the musicians can play at bars and other venues at night
- Run this show for two weeks
- In the beautiful, fun loving city of New Orleans
Directions: Mix all ingredients with 400,000 music loving fans….. (Jazz Fest this year runs from April 25th to May 4th. Get there if you get the chance, it's a classic!)
2. Southern Gates Jewelry Collection
Inspired by the wrought iron gates, window, and balcony designs throughout the South and around the country, the filigree, scroll and tracery patterns found in the Southern Gates Collection are unique, yet familiar. The buildings and courtyards of New Orleans' French Quarter are an incredible showcase of these wrought iron designs.
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3. Dooky Chase's Shrimp Gumbo
Our third recipe for fun come's from the Queen of New Orleans Cuisine, Leah Chase: (Thank-you, Food Channel & Your Highness)
1/2 cup peanut oil
4 tablespoons flour
1 cup chopped onions
1 pound small white shrimp (30/40), peeled and deveined
8 ounces Creole hot sausage, cut into bite-size pieces
8 ounces smoked sausage, cut into bite-size pieces
8 ounces beef stew meat, cubed
8 ounces smoked ham, cubed
6 chicken wings, cut in half
1 tablespoon file powder
1 tablespoon paprika
1 tablespoon salt
2 dozen oysters, with their liquid
1/4 cup chopped parsley
3 cloves garlic, minced
1 teaspoon ground thyme
- Heat the oil in a skillet over low heat and add the flour to make a roux, browning until golden about 3 minutes. Add the onions and cook over low heat until the onions wilt about 4 minutes.
- Put the shrimp, sausages, stew meat and ham in a 5-quart pot over medium heat. Pour the onion mixture over the ingredients and add 3 quarts water, the chicken wings, file powder, paprika and salt. Bring to a boil and cook for 30 minutes or until broth reaches desired thickness.
- Add the oysters, parsley, garlic and thyme. Lower the heat and cook until the shrimp is pink, about 10 minutes more, before serving.
- Hope you get a chance to enjoy each and everyone of these Southern treats!
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Agyness Deyn has swapped the catwalk for the cameras as she plays a feisty stripper in Pusher, opening in cinemas on Friday, October 12. The Lancashire-born model, who recently married actor Giovanni Ribisi in a surprise wedding, talks about her biggest role to date, how acting is her new focus and why she loves being a wife.
By Shereen Low
For Agyness Deyn, big breaks have never been in short supply. At 13, she was an ordinary Lancashire lass, fitting part-time shifts at a local fish and chips shop around schoolwork.
Fast forward a decade, and Deyn was the hottest new supermodel on the scene, being dubbed "the new Kate Moss", gracing the cover of Vogue, strutting down runways around the world and starring in advertising campaigns for Burberry, Giorgio Armani and Shiseido, and making friends with the fashion elite.
Of course, luck had played its part - but hard work, ambition and a hearty dose of creativity (Deyn had abandoned her original name of Laura Hollins for something a little edgier and more exciting, and also knocked a few years off of her age when her professional modelling career was launched) certainly helped.
By her mid-20s, Deyn had made it. Her youthful, elfin face and white-blonde crop had become one of the defining looks of the Noughties.
Now though, she's onto round two - forging a career on the silver screen.
She's by no means the first model to turn her hand to acting, following in the footsteps of the likes of Cameron Diaz, Charlize Theron and Liz Hurley.
But, just as with modelling, Deyn has a canny knack of making it look easy.
We first meet in the summer of 2011 when, in the basement of a popular London bar, Deyn is writhing provocatively on the floor, dressed only in skimpy black underwear and a red wig.
She's filming scenes for her first lead role as stripper Flo in the English language remake of Danish thriller Pusher.
Later, she emerges from her dressing room a different woman. Gone is the Agent Provocateur lingerie; in its place, a ripped white T-shirt, blue jeans, khaki jacket and maroon Dr Martens, and the bright, coloured wig is gone.
Initially guarded and hesitant, it takes a while for Deyn to open up, but when she does, she is chatty and animated.
"Every day has been brilliant. It's been a rollercoaster. It's such a great experience, you know," she says in her soft Lancashire tones.
Deyn has every reason to be positive. Landing a lead role so soon after her big-screen debut - which was as Aphrodite in 2010's Clash Of The Titans - is no mean feat.
"Clash was such a huge production and I had such a small part, but I was so grateful to have done it because it really opened my eyes as to what this is all about," Deyn says, explaining the transition.
"I feel I got so much enjoyment from modelling - it was so creative and I did it for 12 years. I got to a stage were I needed something a little bit more and I didn't know what or how I would get that.
"Acting made me feel like I was pushing the boundaries of myself, like I was taking it to the next level.
"Working and doing scenes with amazing actors like Liam Neeson and Ralph Fiennes and watching how they work really planted a seed in me and made me think, 'I really want to do this. It's so creative'."
Deyn initially auditioned for the role of a drug mule before director Luis Prieto picked her as Flo, describing her as "wonderful".
The praise is reciprocated. "I love Luis's work, and after meeting him I fell in love with him. Luis is so patient, so nurturing and such a gentle, understanding guy," she says.
The original role of Flo in the 1996 Danish film, directed by controversial director Nicolas Winding Refn, was a small part, but Prieto decided to make it bigger to show off Deyn's acting prowess.
A self-confessed tomboy, Deyn chose not to see the original before filming, because she wanted to put her own take on the character.
"I always dress like a little boy. That's why it's really nice to play Flo because she's nothing like me," she says, giggling.
"Flo is quite a delicate flower, quite vulnerable and child-like. She's very feminine, sexy in an innocent way, sensual and delicate.
"She's just discovering herself really and she's tormented by her drug addiction. She's quite a dreamer and is like a beacon of light in the whole film."
Taking her clothes off for scenes didn't faze her.
"The stripping scenes were really fun because they were very liberating. That's why Flo strips - she doesn't want to be herself, she wants to be this other person because she doesn't know who she is. I really enjoyed doing that bit of her," she explains.
Deyn's performance has won compliments from leading man Richard Coyle, who portrays Flo's drug dealer boyfriend Frank.
She admits they bonded easily partly due to their northern backgrounds. "I didn't know him before but, you know, we're both Northern so it's as if we've known each other our whole lives. It's like I've met my long-lost brother!
"He's amazing. He's a bit hot, ain't he? So that makes it a bit easier, since Flo's madly in love."
In real life, Deyn is blissfully settled with actor husband Giovanni Ribisi, whom she married in June after a whirlwind romance.
"I love being a wife. It's so cool. Every day is a honeymoon," she says.
The 37-year-old actor - best known for playing Phoebe's oddball brother Frank in Friends - has inspired Deyn to continue acting, but she hasn't completely turned her back on modelling. "I never really class myself as a model. I didn't aspire to be a model, I just got spotted," she says. "But I don't want to say, 'I'm never going to model ever again', because that seems silly.
"I just want to do projects that I find creatively fulfilling and challenging. Acting has enabled me to go in a different way and challenges me: my fears, my creativity, my openness. It's been a real blossoming process and I'm learning so much."
Sure enough - she may be making it look easy but, characteristically, Deyn is certainly putting the hours in, and picking her roles carefully.
Since filming Pusher, she made her West End debut in Francois Archambault's comedy, The Leisure Society, and has signed on for another starring role as Chris Guthrie in Terence Davies's pre-wartime drama Sunset Song, based on Lewis Grassic Gibbon's 1932 novel.
"She is such a heroine and so strong. She had such a hard life and the film looks at how she got through it. Peter Mullen is playing my father so I'm just really excited," she says.
"When I read the script I fell completely in love with the character and the story. I'm so honoured and excited to be working with Terence, he's such an incredible director.
"I can't wait to get started and just hope that I can do Chris Guthrie justice!"
Extra time - From style to screen
:: Cameron Diaz - The former teenage model, who had contracts with Calvin Klein and Levi's, has become the queen of romcom with roles in There's Something About Mary, My Best Friend's Wedding and Bad Teacher.
:: Charlize Theron - The South African model, who is the face of Christian Dior's J'Adore perfume, won an Oscar for her screen-stealing performance as serial killer Aileen Wuornos in 2003's Monster.
:: Halle Berry - The ex-beauty queen won an Academy Award for her role in Monster's Ball, played a Bond Girl in 2002's Die Another Day and has also appeared as Catwoman and X-Men star Storm.
:: Frieda Pinto - The Bafta-nominated actress worked as a model for two years before being given her big break in Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire. Since then, she has worked with Woody Allen and Michael Winterbottom, and is filming with Terrence Malick.
:: Pusher opens in cinemas on Friday, October 12

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Given all the back and forth in Washington these days, with policy meetings and dramatic proposals to revolutionize retirement, I've got retirement-income solutions on the brain. So here's a modest proposal for providing "Retirement Income Security for All."
The U.S. Treasury could create, and sell at auction, a new set of transferrable debt securities that obligate the Treasury to pay holders $10 of interest, adjusted for inflation, at the end of every month, forever (well, at least until the Treasury either buys them back or defaults). These securities—actually perpetuities—could be bought and sold on a secondary market, and would have a market price like every other form of marketable Treasury debt.
When saving for retirement, individuals could buy them in an IRA or 401(k)—or perhaps more easily and cheaply, in a separate mutual fund account. Before an investor entered retirement, he could just use the periodic payments to buy more income. And once he had bought as much guaranteed income as he wanted, any ongoing payments could be invested elsewhere. In retirement, investors would just spend the payments instead of reinvesting. These securities or fund shares could be bought or sold at any time, and they would be bequeathable at death.
For individual savers/retirees (and even perhaps defined benefit plan managers), these securities would eliminate the issue of trying to build a ladder of income from bonds or other instruments with various maturities and structures, while simultaneously dealing with the issue of "running out of money." They never mature, so they don't run out. They would be backed by the federal government from inception—so no bailouts or complicated "backstops" or "reinsurance programs" needed for bankers, pension or fund managers, or insurers that turn out to be unable to meet their obligations. And the payments would be indexed to the CPI, so no inflation risk.
There's no question such securities would solve the issue of providing people "guaranteed retirement income." So why don't they exist? Or, more correctly, why don't they exist anywhere other than in very small amounts in the U.K.? (Though the British version is not indexed for inflation. In the U.K., this form of government debt is called a consol, short for "consolidated annuity," and it has a very long and interesting history.)
A few reasons are easy to see, even if we set aside—for just a second; don't worry, tea-partiers—the glaring issue of how wisely the government might use the proceeds from such a securities sale.
First, these securities would not be cheap. In a world with a flat term structure of real rates, the price/value of perpetuity is the payment per period divided by the interest rate per period. As of March 9, 2010, the real interest rate on the new 30-year TIPS (just issued in February) was 2.18%, or roughly 0.182% per month. If the yield curve were flat at that level, it would mean a current value for a $10-a-month perpetuity of $5,581. In other words, $25,000 of annual guaranteed income would cost $1.16 million. Pretty steep.
Second, while these securities would by definition provide truly guaranteed income, their market values would fluctuate every day with interest rates, like every other bond. Suppose these rates rose to 3%: $10 a month forever is now worth only $4,000, a "loss" of 28 percent. Suppose rates instead fell to 1.75%: $10 a month forever would be worth $6,857, a gain of 22 percent. Quite a roller-coaster ride.
But of course, retirees wouldn't care about this, because all retirees are looking for is "guaranteed income," right? Wrong—and this is a point that, to date, I just haven't found a way to communicate effectively: Retirees very rationally place a huge value on flexibility, as they may suddenly need or want to spend resources at a point in time rather than slowly and steadily over time. Since they can't know when that time might be, this kind of interest rate risk is a huge deal, and they have a need to diversify it, as well as other risks, across "states and dates," as the economists say. Hence even totally flexible guaranteed income is ultimately of somewhat limited value. It just isn't the same thing as financial security, by a long shot, if you ever have a need to spend it in a hurry.
Finally, what about the issue of what our government would do with the proceeds from the sale of these securities? We all have our own opinions on that, I'm sure. If it isn't something wise and reasonably productive, it could potentially affect the odds that payments would actually be made in perpetuity—meaning that even "government-guaranteed income" isn't, ultimately, unconditionally guaranteed income. (Of course, swapping these securities for existing debt wouldn't create any new problems of this sort.)
But the bottom line is that even though we could clearly provide flexible, real, strongly guaranteed income if we wanted to, doing so would not be cheap for those buying it, and, even more importantly, would not be the same thing as providing retirees financial security. There is a very strong logic behind prudently drawing from a diversified portfolio, in conjunction with Social Security and other pensions or annuities, even if there is some market risk still involved. I'm confident that truth won't change, regardless of what new proposals come out of the retirement experts in Washington.
Still, I guess Don Quixote had a certain charm.
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U.S. Sen. Deb Fischer wrote a letter Thursday to farm bill conferees in Congress, bringing attention to the livestock losses in western Nebraska during the heavy, wet blizzard Oct. 5-6.
The wet heavy snow was driven by gale-force northwest winds. Cattle piled up in pockets or drifted with the wind until they collapsed from exhaustion or became tangled in fences.
"Several key factors combined to dramatically escalate the death of livestock," Fischer wrote, "including the lack of physical cover and protection from winter elements, cold wind and freezing rain which preceded the blizzard conditions, and the inability of the animals to naturally protect themselves from the sudden cold weather due to a lack of winter coat and hide conditioning."
Fischer highlighted the losses to make the case for a speedy reauthorization of the Livestock Indemnity Program (LIP), which is contained in the final farm bill conference report.
The Farm bill has been stalled for nearly a year while Congress is gridlocked. House Republicans want to curb food stamp spending, which is included in the bill with traditional farm subsidies, crop insurance and disaster payments.
LIP provides assistance to producers for livestock deaths in a disaster. In the past, the LIP national payment rate for eligible livestock is based on 75 percent of the average fair market value of the livestock. In 2011, that amounted to $746.95 per cow, according to a fact sheet published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Citing substantial economic impact suffered by livestock producers because of the storm, combined with drought throughout the region in recent years, Fischer said, LIP support would provide some modest assistance to Nebraska producers struggling through these difficult economic times for their industry.
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A woman was airlifted to a San Francisco Bay Area hospital with injuries after the car she was riding in was hit by another vehicle just before noon Wednesday, fire Battalion Chief Brett Loomis said.
The collision at East Laurel Drive and Capidero Avenue trapped the woman in the car, and firefighters had to use the Jaws of Life to free her, Loomis said.
The impact of the collision pushed the car into a front yard.
Resident finds car riddled by gunfire
Bullets hit a parked car in the 200 block of Bardin Road late Tuesday, police said.
Police said the shooting was reported at 8:22 p.m. by a resident who heard shots fired outside his home, went outside and found that his Honda Accord had been hit twice by gunfire.
No one was injured, police said, and the shooting appears to be gang-related.
Gunman robs boy of iPod
A 13-year-old boy was robbed of his iPod on Tuesday by a man who displayed a gun, police said.
Shortly before 11:30 a.m. in the 1200 block of North Main Street, police said, the gunman told the boy to walk with him, lifted his shirt to show a handgun in his waistband, demanded the iPod and ran.


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In the career of a movie actor, it doesn't get much better than winning an Oscar. Academy Award winners have to make every move perfectly to get on stage with the little golden man: They've chosen the right role in the right movie, performed well, and campaigned effectively during awards season. But can the rest of us learn any career lessons from celebrities' big night in the spotlight? Well, I'm glad you asked! Here are seven pieces of career advice from last night's best Oscar moments.
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here. CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Think of a roaring city full of tall buildings, lots of confusing traffic and sidewalks teeming with people.Charleston might not immediately come to mind but, to a girl from sleepy, small-town West Virginia in the early 20th century, it certainly looked like one."It was a big city," says Lorella Boggess.At age 18, she moved to Charleston in 1939 to take a job typing and filing with the National Youth Administration, a New Deal jobs program for young people.Where to stay in that big, possibly dangerous, city, so unlike the quiet streets of home? Back then, there was about one game in town for a young woman facing the bustle of the Mountain State's capital -- lodging at the Young Women's Christian Association.It's not hard to find, among the women of the city's Edgewood Summit retirement home, tales of what that building meant to them when they were young -- and when they were older."It was a comfortable, safe place to stay for young women," Boggess said. "I stayed there through the winter in '39 up until the '40s."She shared an apartment with another woman and a communal bathroom with a bunch of them. It was so many years ago that she doesn't recall too many details except for big important ones and oddly remembered little ones."No men or boys were allowed upstairs, I remember," she said. "The manager -- I guess she was the manager -- I remember her name, of all things to remember. It was Clotille Littleton."The YW also was where a young girl went in high summer to cool down at a time when pools were few and far between."You didn't have a pool in every backyard," recalled Ruth Elam, who grew up on the East End. "As near as I can remember, there was one [private] pool, that belonged to Mr. Middleburg, who owned the Capitol Theater. If we wanted to go swimming, we either had to have somebody drive us out of town or we went to the Y." Only, you didn't say you were going for a swim, said Elam who could walk to the YWCA from her home along with her East End girlfriends."It was called 'the Plunge.' We went for a 'plunge.'"Forget about bringing your own bathing suit."It was required we wear their bathing suits, not ours. They were gray wool. And they had no shape. They covered us, and that was about it."In 1947, Emily Warden moved to Charleston from the quiet, hilly streets of her hometown of Hinton, hoping to find a teaching job. "So I came to the big city to get that," she said.She stayed with a cousin for a while. The cousin then asked her to move out for a couple of days, since she'd promised lodging to a visitor. "She asked me to leave because this famous missionary was coming home. I went to the Y and stayed two nights - and I'll never forget that, because it was a safe haven for me and a place I had to go in a hurry."She found work as a lifeguard at a YWCA summer camp. She feels indebted to the Y for an extra-special reason, since a young man she knew from Baptist Temple church choir came every night to see her at the camp.Warden wiggled the ring finger of her left hand, flashing the diamond her future husband presented to her soon after. "It was very rewarding thing because I got this diamond ring while I was there."Virginia Thomas recalled the YWCA's three-meals-a-day dining room, which opened Oct. 19, 1921, with a chicken and waffle supper.If you had a couple of extra quarters, the YW cafeteria was a place to escape lunch food served at Charleston High School, Thomas said. "It was a treat to go over there and have lunch."Years later, living in South Hills in the late '30s and early '40s, the YWCA cafeteria would be the place her family often headed to on a certain night of the week, she said. "It was 'maid's night off' on Thursday nights. My mother was not much of a cook and we often went to the YWCA dinner, as well as many of the other South Hills people."As they grew older, the Y continued to offer itself to the women's changing needs.Emily Warden found a different purpose for the pool than in the days of "the Plunge.""In 1988, when I retired from school teaching, I joined the classes for arthritic people. It met three days a week and I was there every day for about 10 years. I became very acquainted with the Y and all the people."Jody Stalnaker traces her personal fitness regimen to the YWCA."I really am very grateful to the Y because they got me started on exercise. I still walk and exercise every day," she said."There was one class I really liked, and it was probably in the '80s or '90s. It was Dancerobics. At that time, they had started letting men come to the YW. Our husbands wanted to know if they could exercise with us, we were having such a good time. So they opened it up and had a co-ed Dancerobics class."It turned out to just be a circus. The men actually were good. We just had a big time, and it turned into a kind of social event, too. We dressed up for Halloween and exercised in our Halloween costumes."Stalnaker, a former Charleston City Council member, witnessed as well as helped along the YWCA's own metamorphosis, as new programs came along to meet the changing needs of women and families."In the late '70s and early '80s, the homelessness in Charleston had become a major problem, and there wasn't anybody that was doing much. They stepped in."The YWCA's efforts to develop and grow its domestic-violence and homeless shelters and related social services had its fans on the council, Stalnaker said."We knew [YWCA director] Debby Weinstein really well at that point. She knew that there were about four of us on the council -- all women -- that we would be very anxious to get a homeless shelter. So, we were good supporters of the Y."Stalnaker's Dancerobics cohorts, on the other hand, didn't find much longevity after they took their act to the streets."We even thought we were so good that they started parading in parades. It turned out to be a lot harder than any of us ever thought it would be. So we didn't last very long."Reach Douglas Imbrogno at email@example.com or 304-348-3017.


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The other day on the nameberry message boards, I heard tell of a little boy named Vandal. And then, the next day, one of the bandmembers of My Chemical Romance named his newborn daughter (yes, daughter) Bandit.
Are these parents masochistic? Gang members? Or do they just love the idea of launching a bad boy (or girl) into the world?
Vandal and Bandit aren't the only hellions in the nursery these days. There's Breaker, one of the seven children of Robert and Cortney Novogratz, hipster parents who own Sixx Design in New York. Then there are Racer, Rebel, Rocket, and Rogue, sons of film director Robert Rodriguez. (Survival tip: If you're invited to dinner at their house, wear a helmet.)
The trends toward word names, surnames, and occupational names have certainly fueled this trend. If Cooper can be a name, after all, why not Cutter? If Porter, why not Power?
While the popularity list is full of newborns named Heaven, Nevaeh, and Angel, it also features a growing number of babies with these less-than-angelic names:
RYKER — How many of the nearly 700 sets of parents who named their baby boys Ryker last year realize that, when spelled Rikers, it's the name of the notorious island prison in New York? I'd hazard to guess not many, but maybe the association will sink in if I say it's like naming your baby Alcatraz.
MAVERICK — Okay, this one's kind of soft-core, but it still suggests a range-riding, sharp-shootin' kind of guy. Either that or Sarah Palin.
GUNNAR and GUNNER — I fully admit to being one of those wimpy East Coast liberals who's in favor of gun control, so maybe it's just me. But this name seems to go beyond the rabble-rousing Rockets and Vandals to some darker and more lethal level of badness.


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Kent City Council committee passes medical marijuana dispensary, collective gardens ban
The majority of the Kent City Council apparently wants to just say no to medical marijuana dispensaries and collective gardens.
Despite pleas at a public hearing from more than two dozen people who want the two collective garden businesses in Kent kept open, the council's Economic and Community Development Committee voted 2-1 Monday night at a packed City Hall to ban medical marijuana dispensaries and collective gardens from the city. Council members Bill Boyce and Deborah Ranniger voted for the ban. Jamie Perry opposed it.
The proposed ordinance now goes June 5 to the full seven-member council, where it appears to have the four votes needed to adopt the ban unless a couple of council members change their current stands.
"We adopted this and it will go to the full council where we will talk about it," Boyce said to the crowd at the public hearing. "Between that time and now I promise you I will be open minded and talk to people I need to talk to and visit some of these (collective gardens) places and that's how I will make my decision.
"But right now I strongly believe this is something that we as a council we need to talk about it. We've had a moratorium twice and we owe it to ourselves and to you to make a decision for the city of Kent whether it is right or wrong in your view. We no longer need to prolong this."
Boyce joined council members Les Thomas and Dana Ralph in a 3-0 vote April 23 on the Public Safety Committee to recommend that the Economic and Community Development committee pass an ordinance banning medical marijuana dispensaries and collective gardens from the city. That trio plus Ranniger would give the ordinance four votes.
Ranniger said she favors a ban because federal law prohibits the use of marijuana, even though state law allows medical marijuana use. She also said the state definition on what defines a collective garden remains unclear.
"If the state defines medical dispensaries as a legal entity that could dispense medical marijuana that's another story," Ranniger said. "But they in fact, do not. And they created this new definition which these professional medical clinics that are trying to wrap their brains around and change who they are to comply with the state regulations. And that feels kind of shady and like a sham to me.
"I'm not happy with what the state has done. And the way it's defined right now saying that medical cannabis dispensaries are illegal that hasn't changed. I don't see how these professional dispensaries that everybody's talking about this evening are now suddenly collective gardens where patients are engaging in the production of marijuana."
Many who testified at the public hearing are patients at the Evergreen Association of Collective Gardens in Kent. Herbal Choice Caregivers is the other collective garden in town.
The patients told the committee that the use of marijuana has helped them as they combat their chronic pain and illnesses, eliminating the need for prescription pills that made them sick.
Pam Larsen, of Kent, told the committee that Evergreen has helped her fight chronic pain and aided her husband, who suffers from multiple sclerosis, a disease that affects the brain and spinal cord. She said she used to buy marijuana off the streets.
"Evergreen is the safest I've ever been in," Larson said. "I've walked into other places and they scare me. I walk in there and feel like I'm at my mother's home. You're treated like family."
Larson pleaded with the committee to allow the collective gardens and "please don't send me back to the streets" to buy marijuana.
Perry said she supports zoning regulations for collective gardens and opposes a ban.
"This was decided for me long ago when the voter initiative was passed," said Perry about the 1998 statewide vote. "That was the voters of this state speaking and saying that medical marijuana patients should have access. The state law to me is sort of giving a little bit more meat to that and better defining how that's going to happen."
Perry, an attorney, said she thinks if the city adopted a ban, the state would eventually come in and tell the city it does not have that authority.
Douglas Hiatt, an attorney representing Evergreen Association of Collective Gardens and its owner Charles Lambert, told the committee he doesn't understand why the city's going after medical marijuana dispensaries.
"I do not know what has happened with the city of Kent and I do not know why but I believe that your mayor and potentially your city attorney are starting a war on medical marijuana for no reason," Hiatt said. "It's clear to me that state law does not allow you to do what you're doing if you decide to enact a total ban."
Lambert testified that he wants to keep on operating in order to help the medical marijuana patients.
"Whether you ban it or we sit down and work something out, it'll be a fight to the end," Lambert said. "I also invite every council member and the mayor to come down and see what we do."
Hiatt promised a lawsuit on behalf of Evergreen if the city passes a ban.
"We'll have no choice but to take you to court," he said. "If you pass this ban you'll force us to file and get an injunction to stop what you're doing because what you're doing is wrong."
Cooke, in a phone interview Tuesday, said her job is "to enforce the law" and that she promises to do that along with police officers when she swears them into office.
"They take an oath of office to uphold the laws of the United States, the state of Washington and the city of Kent," Cooke said. "Until medical marijuana is legal in some form at the federal level, it'll create a disconnect on enforcement no matter how far our state liberalizes the law.
"I'm in an uncomfortable position if I determine what laws we enforce. I encourage people who want medical marijuana to change the federal law. As mayor I need to uphold the laws and the laws do not allow medical marijuana from a point of distribution."
Council members Dennis Higgins and Elizabeth Albertson are expected to oppose the ban on June 5. Both voted against the current six-month moratorium to ban medical marijuana dispensaries. They also have voted in favor of a zoning ordinance for collective gardens that failed to get a majority vote.


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While Sparxxx's rhymes initially drew attention to the rapper -- and rightfully so -- you can't help but marvel at his story. Yes, he was white and large. But he was also from the backwoods of the South -- about as far from the streets as you could get. Born Warren Anderson Mathis on March 6, 1977, Sparxxx grew up in the country on a dirt road 15 minutes north of LaGrange, Georgia, a rural town itself 65 miles southwest of Atlanta. As you can imagine, he lived a sheltered youth, with his closest neighbor over a half mile away. Yet it was that neighbor, a black kid, who turned him onto rap via mix mailed tapes from New York.
Sparxxx's introduction to rap music was through 2 Live Crew -- a far stretch from Rakim or Grandmaster Flash. It caught his attention, though, and soon Sparxxx began broadening his taste for rap music, taking a particular liking for early-'90s West Coast gangsta rap: N.W.A., Too Short, and Eazy-E. Later, when he discovered Atlanta rappers OutKast, Sparxxx knew his interests were moving into the forefront of his mind. He began writing rhymes at age 15 and would battle with fellow rap-minded students at school. His rapping was more of a hobby than a possible profession for Sparxxx at the time, though. Throughout high school, football took precedence over everything else for the young Sparxxx; he played tight end and linebacker, earning All-Region honors as a senior.
When a football career never happened for Sparxxx and a brief stab at college didn't hold his interest, he turned to rap. His break came when he met Shannon Houchins, a staff producer for Jermaine Dupri's So So Def label in Atlanta. In late 1996, Houchins paired Sparxxx with then-So So Def rapper Lil' Devil for a group called 1 Card Shi. Though the duo did record some material together, it never saw the light of day and Sparxxx began pursuing a solo career, working with Houchins again in 1999 on some songs. These recordings resulted in the 12-song Dark Days, Bright Nights indie release on Sparxxx's own Nocents Records. After moving a surprising number of units after getting radio play in the surrounding Georgia area, Nocents became 11th Hour Entertainment, and the album fell into the lap of Interscope Records head honcho Jimmy Iovine.
Iovine liked what he heard and flew Sparxxx out to California to discuss a label deal. Offers soon came in from a number of labels, and suddenly Sparxxx's breakthrough seemed just on the horizon. He decided to stick with Iovine's Interscope empire and soon found himself working with Timbaland. Over the course of two weeks, the two recorded six songs and Sparxxx also worked with other producers like Organized Noize and Houchins. "Ugly" became the lead single; an all-important video communicating Sparxxx's rural white country-boy background hit MTV; the evidence of his breakthrough came when the Interscope version of Dark Days, Bright Nights debuted at number three on the Billboard chart, making him the next in a short list of overnight superstar white rappers. The follow-up, 2003's Deliverance, was an introspective album that found favor with critics but failed to sway the public. OutKast member Big Boi was a big fan of the album and felt it should have been a hit, and that it was just handled improperly by the label. He came to the rescue by signing Sparxxx to his new Purple Ribbon imprint and releasing the rapper's third album, The Charm, in 2006. Sparxxx landed on the Average Joe's label with his 2013 release, Pain Management, an album that featured guest appearances from Colt Ford, the Lacs, and others. The introspective effort was followed in 2014 by Made on McCosh Mill Road, a more party-minded release with Danny Boone, Lamar Williams, Jr., and others on the assist. ~ Jason Birchmeier, Rovi


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Pulmonary Embolism in Exacerbations of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
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Sykehuset Innlandet HF
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The purpose of this study is to determine the prevalence of pulmonary embolism in our population of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) patients admitted to hospital with dyspnea. The patients will undergo investigation for pulmonary embolism, according to current guidelines.
|Pulmonary Embolism Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Observational Model: Case-Only
Time Perspective: Prospective
|Official Title:
|Prevalence of Pulmonary Embolism in Exacerbations of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
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|Non-Probability Sample
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Patients with known or suspected COPD admitted with an exacerbation of unknown aetiology
Inclusion Criteria:
- known or suspected COPD
- COPD-exacerbation
Exclusion Criteria:
- other causes of dyspnea
- unable to perform CT pulmonary angio (contrast allergy, pregnancy)
- already included in the study (each patient included only once)
- use of anticoagulants
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|Sykehuset Innlandet
|Lillehammer, Oppland, Norway, 2381
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|July 7, 2014
Keywords provided by Aleksander Talgøy Holten, Sykehuset Innlandet HF:
Pulmonary embolism
Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Lung Diseases
Lung Diseases, Obstructive
Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive
Pulmonary Embolism
Respiratory Tract Diseases
Embolism and Thrombosis
Vascular Diseases
Cardiovascular Diseases
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To rotate an occipitoposterior baby, put the mother on her side in Trendelenburg's position (supine on a table which is tilted head downward 45 degrees or less). The first time I tried it, the baby rotated and delivered quickly. It probably gets the baby's head "unstuck" from the birth canal and helps it rotate easier. Most mothers can tolerate this position better than knee-chest, and it seems to work better. We put a large wedge under the mattress of the bed. A beanbag could also work.
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A study undertaken at the University of North Carolina examined the association between frequency of eating and preterm delivery in more than 2000 women enrolled in a study from August 1995 to December 1998. All women were asked about their frequency of eating during the second trimester of pregnancy and were followed through delivery. The vast majority of women met current Institute of Medicine recommendations for eating three meals plus two snacks each day during pregnancy. Women who fell short of these guidelines had a 30% increase in risk of delivering prematurely than the others. Women who ate less often than recommended were also slightly heavier prior to conception, were older and had lower total energy intakes than the other women in the cohort. Research in animals suggests that skipping meals could result in elevated levels of stress hormones implicated in the events leading to preterm delivery. Some studies in humans also support this mechanism of action.
- Am J Epidemiol 2001;153:647-652.
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Cervical adhesions: It is not unusual to find hard spots on the cervix during examination of a woman in labor. If the woman does not have condylomas, most often what you are feeling are small cervical scars from previous births or gynecological procedures. The use of instruments for dilating the cervix or delivering the baby often causes small tears to occur, as well as women pushing their babies out prematurely (before complete dilation). These adhesions most often will break down during the active phase of labor. If you feel they are causing lack of progress (the woman remains at 5 to 6 cm for over an hour), you might consider simply pressing the adhesion against the presenting part during a contraction. You will feel the adhesion break up under your finger. This causes no pain and readily resolves the problem. There may be a spot of blood as this is done, but this is of no concern. The labor will usually progress rapidly after the adhesion is gone.
- Valerie El Halta, Midwifery Today Issue No. 46
I recommend that midwives change their notion of what is happening in the pushing phase with a primip from "descent of the head" to "shaping of the head." Each expulsive sensation shapes the head of the baby to conform to the contours of the mother's pelvis. This can take time and lots of patience especially if the baby is large. This shaping of the baby's skull must be done with the same gentleness and care as that taken by Michelangelo applying plaster and shaping a statue. This shaping work often takes place over time in the mid-pelvis and is erroneously interpreted as "lack of descent," "arrest" or "failure to progress" by those who do not appreciate art. I tell mothers at this time, "It's normal to feel like the baby is stuck. The baby's head is elongating and getting shaped a little more with each sensation. It will suddenly feel like it has come down." This is exactly what happens.
Given time to mold, the head of the baby suddenly appears. This progression is not linear and does not happen in stations of descent. All those textbook diagrams of a pelvis with little one-centimeter gradations up and down from the ischial spines could only have been put forth by someone who has never felt a baby's forehead passing over his/her rectum!
Often the mother can sleep deeply between sensations and this is most helpful to recharge her batteries and allow gentle shaping of the babe's head. Plain water with a bendable straw on the bedside table helps keep hydration up. The baby is an active participant and must not be pushed and forced out of the mother's body until he/she is prepared to make the exit.
- Gloria Lemay (To read this article in its entirety, click here)
[Ina May Gaskin] and the women of the community she serves turned away from paternalistic, fear-based medicine. They have their babies, with certain exceptions at home, and promote an acceptance of birth as natural and holy. In her book Spiritual Midwifery under "Slow Progress During the First Stage," she states, "You don't have to have any preconceived notions about what is too long for the first stage. If the mother is replenishing her energy by eating and sleeping, rushes [contractions] are light, the baby's head is not being tightly squeezed and the membranes are still intact, the first stage can stretch over three or four days and still be perfectly normal."
- Marion Toepke McLean, Midwifery Today Issue 46
Should labor commence with baby occipitoposterior (OP), time spent early on in deep knee-chest position, with legs spread wide, may effect rotation. Other tricks to consider are duck walking, stair climbing with one leg abducted, lunging, quarter-squatting or hula-style belly dancing. If these don't work, consider the uncomfortable intervention of internal manual conversion to anterior. Invasive? Very. And effective. Sure, many women push out wee ones sunny-side up with little fuss. I am convinced that multips who have ample pelvises with a history of happy births can do positively anything! However, the diminutive mom with a large baby, previously sectioned for failure to progress with a smaller, persistent posterior babe, is a poor candidate for watchful waiting. By getting close to our clients, we learn who would benefit from assertive action and who we can simply sit on our hands with. Though not often needed, internal manual conversion is an example of a strongly interventive, briefly painful technique that may avert an even worse outcome: a brutal, protracted, traumatic labor with a surgical conclusion.
- Judy Edmunds, Midwifery Today Issue 46
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Q: I am a doula and have a client who had two previous c-sections with large babies and really wants to try for a vaginal birth. What information and support can you offer? She plans to have a hospital birth.
- Amy
A: I'm a newly practicing doula and the first birth I attended was for an attempted VBAC after a large babe. In the end my client had an (unneeded, in my opinion) c-section. What is the climate at the hospital? Are her doctor and the doctor on call truly supportive of VBACs? After the birth my client's doctor told her he thought she would have a cesarean but didn't want to discourage her. Sadly, his negative attitude unconsciously showed through with his interventions and meddling. Be aware how greatly you can influence your client but also be aware there will be other influences at the birth.
- Madelene Doring
A: I'm a mom of four daughters (pregnant w/fifth). I had my first two by c-section after laboring and pushing, because they were too large. When I got pregnant with my third I was determined to have a vaginal birth. I found a doctor who was supportive and a doula who could offer encouragement. I did a lot of reading on VBAC and believed I could do it. My doctor kept a close eye on the baby's weight and decided to induce me at 38 wks. After 15 hours of labor and 15 minutes of pushing my beautiful daughter was born and weighed in at 7 lbs. 15oz. My fourth was even easier. My midwife worked on my cervix, massaging with evening primrose oil, and I did a lot of squats. At 38.5 weeks I went into labor and six easy hours later my fourth beautiful daughter was born and weighed 8 lbs. 3oz. Having a vaginal birth has been the most wonderful experience. You can do it!
- Sonya
A: As a doula, I, too, have been in this situation several times. Specific questions to ask your client and her physician are:
1) Does she have such a small pelvis that the care provider is hesitant she
could ever deliver vaginally?
Above and beyond the possibility of a repeat section, assure her that she is not a failure, that she worked very hard to carry the baby to term, and that ultimately, the outcome we all want is a healthy, happy baby and family.
- Kelly Merrow, Doula
A: I'm preparing to become a doula. I had two sons (22 & 18), the first one by c-section, the second a natural delivery. The advice I have is the following:
1. Go to the hospital; don't try a home birth.
2. If the time between the previous pregnancy and this one is less than three years, a natural delivery can be a problem.
3. Your client must prepare for this birth even more than if this was her first one. She must have a very good and healthy diet and exercise regularly. More important, she must clear her mind of fear or anything that might have interfered with the two previous births. I did rebirthing, a therapy technique based on breathing that helped me immensely, not only to release fears, doubts and other ghosts, but especially to develop new thought patterns of confidence and purpose.
4. Your client must truly understand all phases of the birthing process and what she can do to succeed in each phase.
5. Your client needs you to be especially reassuring, nourishing and supportive. There are risks involved in trying to deliver after c-sections but they are not obstacles and they can all be anticipated and prevented.
6. Don't rush to the hospital as soon as labor begins. Take time at home with warm baths and a calm atmosphere. I started my last son's labor in the early morning, and I went to the hospital only when I was already about 8 cm dilated. I arrived at the hospital at 3:00 am the following morning and my son was born at 5:30 am. At 7:30 am I was able to return home with my baby!
7. Massage therapy has a lot to offer your client if she is open to touch. It can help her mind/body connection, and it can provide a safe space in which she can relax and activate her self-healing powers.
- Elza Suely Anderson
In Celebration of Doulas
Even if I never attend the birth, knowing I helped inform, comfort and support a pregnant woman gives me great joy! I feel this is what I was born to do. When I got started I thought I would have aspirations to become a midwife, but being "just" a doula fills me to the top with happiness. I love that I'm helping to bring birth back to basics. Being a doula is like watching the heavens open--you witness the coming of angels. The passion I feel about pregnancy and birth is only overcome by the love I have for my own sweet angels here at home. Doulas fill depleted reservoirs and uplift, comfort, acknowledge and guide with gentle hearts, strong hands and souls of light.
- Chantel
When I look into a birthing woman's eyes during labor and see my sister, mother, daughter and close friend, I know I am needed. A laboring woman deserves full attention and, in hospital births, needs protection. Her partner usually needs reassurance and a normal and stress-free birth is of paramount importance to their baby. I try to offer the element that I lacked with my first birth without a doula and provide the security, comfort and understanding that I reveled in during my second birth.
- Deb Wood, ICCE DONA
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I wish to help a friend who lives in Geneve, Switzerland. She's 24 weeks pregnant
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who work for the hospital (apparently there is a shortage) will be on vacation
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- Mandi
In response to Kathy's question about antibiotics affecting infants [Issue 3:18],
there is a huge increase in yeast infection and thrush. With my second child I
was given one dose of antibiotics about 4-6 hours before her birth. We never suffered
any lasting effects. With my son we had two doses four hours apart before birth.
He had a serious yeast infection around his legs and testicles about a week later
and we suffered thrush for several months.
- Chantel, doula
In response to Arts of Midwifery [Issue 3:18] about foot care during pregnancy:
I emailed the information to a friend who is seven months pregnant and having
foot pain. She was a little alarmed to hear about using peppermint oil because
she read on a web site that it was to be avoided.
- Anon.
In response to the 3/28 question on breech births: Unfortunately I can't help with information on breech births 100 years ago, but I do know of a midwifery trick of 700 years ago: From a graduate course on life in 14th century France, I learned that midwives were known to use a candle flame on the emerging foot of a footling breech to coerce the babe into pulling his foot back in and hopefully staying in a more manageable, complete breech position. Unfortunately I don't have a historical citation, but it does seem possible given these women really had no other recourse.
- Bethany Karn, CBE
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|Version 37 (modified by 7 years ago) (diff),
Self-contained Blog plugin
This plugin provides a project Blog, but unlike TracBlogPlugin and SimpleBlogPlugin it does not use Wiki pages to store the content. It has no dependencies on other plugins.
This is a production-ready release, supporting Trac 0.11 and 0.12 installations. The current 0.11 branch is 0.12 compatible, but does not yet support other locales than English (no l10n/i18n support).
Basic features are:
- Create, edit and view blog posts under a new 'Blog' menu a.
- Browse post by month, category and author + and Archive page for all posts.
- Attachments on blog posts.
- Comments for blog posts.
- Posts and comments appear in Timeline / RSS.
- Search for blog posts and comments.
- Admin page for basic settings and editing informational text in sidebar.
- Permissions for
- Support for Trac fine-grained permissions security checks (based on resource / realm).
- Special handling of a post named 'about'.
- Area in sidebar for information text, blogroll, links and similar.
- TracLink provider. Examples:
- Delete post version, delete post and delete comment.
- A tags provider for TagsPlugin if plugin is available.
[[BlogList]]news-listing macro with various display modes for pulling blog posts into the wiki.
- Change listener and manipulator APIs for hooking on to changes.
- Spamfilter implementation included - thanks to athomas, ([3106] - forgot commit message...)
- Sample plugin provided illustrating how to use the hooks.
- FullBlogNotificationPlugin adds email notification of changes to posts and comments.
- AnnouncerPlugin has a plugin to provide the same functionality as the FullBlogNotificationPlugin.
- Sample plugin that implements blog post 'draft' functionality (
Some planned features are not yet done:
- Diff between version of the post.
- XmlRpcPlugin support.
Feedback is most welcome - see osimons to get in touch with me by mail or on the #trac channel.
The plugin in action (old-ish screenshot):
To see the blog in action, visit its 'home' at http://www.coderesort.com/about/blog
There is a script available in the contrib directory for migrating existing TracBlogPlugin users to the FullBlogPlugin.
To use it:
- Install TagsPlugin 0.6
- Install FullBlogPlugin
- Upgrade the Trac environment:
trac-admin /path/to/env upgrade
- Run the migration script:
migrate-tracblog.py /path/to/environment
- Confirm the migration succeeded, then remove the old posts (if desired)
migrate-tracblog.py /path/to/environment --delete-only
Take a look at
migrate-tracblog.py --help for more options
Bugs/Feature Requests
Existing bugs and feature requests for FullBlogPlugin are here.
If you have any issues, create a new ticket.
Download and Install
- Download the zipped source from [download:fullblogplugin here]. Unzip the file, and
cdinto the directory with correct version (currently 0.11). Run
python setup.py install.
- or, check out the source (see below) and similarly run
python setup.py installat correct location (like previous alternative). To update the plugin later, you can then just do
svn upto pull down the latest source from repository and install it again.
- or, to install it directly from repository to get the latest version with revision marker, use easy_install:
easy_install --always-unzip http://trac-hacks.org/svn/fullblogplugin/0.11
You can check out FullBlogPlugin from here using Subversion, or browse the source with Trac.
Get it working
Follow these simple steps and configuration hints:
- Install the plugin in your preferred manner (see above).
- Enable the plugin:
[components] tracfullblog.* = enabled
- Run
trac-admin /path/to/env upgrade.
- Restart server and as
TRAC-ADMINyou should now see 'Blog' in menu.
- Add one or more permissions to let users view, create, comment and modify posts (see list above).
The link to 'Blog' in menu will appear last. To move it, edit your
trac.ini config file to add
blog into the ordered list:
[trac] mainnav = wiki,blog,timeline,....
If you would like the blog to be the new default home page for your project (ie. handle requests to
/myproject/), then update trac.ini:
[trac] default_handler = FullBlogModule
Available Plugins
- AnnouncerPlugin/PluginSupport/FullBlogPlugin Email Notifications for FullBlogPlugin using AnnouncerPlugin
- FullBlogNotificationPlugin Email Notifications for FullBlogPlugin
Recent Changes
- 16217 by osimons on 2017-02-01 12:59:48
FullBlogPlugin: Render genshi admin template correctly with very latestst jinja2 support in Trac trunk (1.3.2dev).
- 16216 by osimons on 2017-02-01 11:30:06
FullBlogPlugin: Small (but vital) fix for reading version from database correctly.
- 16215 by osimons on 2017-02-01 01:12:08
FullBlogPlugin: Various compatibility fixes to make plugin (apparently) compatible with current Trac trunk at ~1.3.2dev.
Now also with basic tests for web requests.
Also a missing
db.commit()for old compat code.
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Topic: University of Chicago Trial FOLFIRINOX.
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The Queen will become the first monarch for at least a century to attend Cabinet when she takes a seat beside Prime Minister David Cameron at the famous Number 10 table.
Arranged to mark her Diamond Jubilee, she will be presented with a gift paid for through contributions by each Secretary of State.
But although she is expected only to observe the discussions and not contribute to the debate, the move has been criticised by a constitutional expert. Rodney Barker, emeritus professor of government at the London School of Economics and Political Science, said it was "daft" and would blur the boundaries between government and monarchy.
At what is believed to be the first such visit since the reign of Queen Victoria, she will sit between Mr Cameron and Foreign Secretary William Hague. Officials said the Queen would leave before the end of the meeting to fulfil other diary commitments - including a visit to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
Downing Street refused to disclose any details about the gift she will be presented with but said all members of the Cabinet had contributed to it equally.
Although the head of state performs some ceremonial and formal duties relating to government, including the state opening of Parliament, they must remain strictly neutral on political matters.
Prof Barker said he believed the move was "inappropriate". "I think it is daft, it muddies the waters," he added. "It will mean potentially the Queen will know things she is not supposed to know and hear things she is not supposed to hear." He said: "Cabinet meetings, on the whole, are to confirm what has already been agreed but there is some sort of discussion. Presumably ... they are all going to sit there agreeing and nodding their heads."
Prof Barker said the Queen would not be able to make any contribution because the role of head of state was "totally apolitical". He said it was a surprising decision by Buckingham Palace but added that "they must have their reasons".
Lord O'Donnell, former Cabinet secretary, told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme: "I'm sure Cabinet want to do this because they want to say thank you. I've always viewed the Queen as the ultimate public servant."
"The Queen, she did come and visit the Cabinet Office and sat in on a meeting of the perm secs (permanent secretaries) so we got there first," he added. "This is right for her to be doing this. I think it is exactly the right thing and it shows she would have done this whichever party had been in power."


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Behind the scenes of Teddy Newton's animated short film...
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Pixar Animation Studios' latest animated short Day & Night is arguably the most difficult to describe. And as it turns out, was actually more challenging to create than one would imagine. Figures.com spent some time with artist Teddy Newton (also the voice of the Chatter Phone in Toy Story 3) at the Four Seasons Hotel in Los Angeles to learn more about his Disney-Pixar directorial debut project that premiered before Toy Story 3.
Teddy Newton presents his animated short, Day & Night
Day & Night makes use of both traditional 2D animation layered over computer animation, something that HAS been done before but not quite in the same manner. Here, the backgrounds actually serve as key foreground visuals but the 2D characters "Day" and "Night" are the main focus. In essence, this has become three films in one. You have the 2D characters, then the CG backgrounds had to be made, animated, and rendered in both day AND night modes. This simple short became quite complicated since there was no pipeline at Pixar to produce 2D animation.
Early keyhole concept that inspired Day & Night
But how did Teddy Newton get to this point? The first idea for Day & Night came about when Teddy was working on The Incredibles. He doodled a keyhole that revealed different events behind it. He added eyes and legs to give it more personality and then shelved it to work on designs for The Incredibles using paper cutouts. A Pixar producer liked his concepts so much that he encouraged Teddy to do a film in that style. Years later, a series of vignettes were created, but one really caught John Lasseter's attention (The Spark) and the project was green lit.
The morning radio vs. evening radio was an idea Teddy had from the start as well, growing up listening to Dr. Wayne Dyer, an inspirational speaker and author. One of his recordings was used at the end of the short.
"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." - Dr. Wayne Dyer
Other fun facts about Day & Night:
* In the scene where Day is watching a drive-in movie through Night, the drive-in theater sign says the film playing is "TS3," the abbreviation for Toy Story 3.
* The western movie playing at the drive-in is a homage to the TV show in 101 Dalmatians.
* The flip-flops next to the girl on the beach are actually 10 times bigger than her foot.
* There are several characters in Day & Night that were taken from the film Up.
o The joggers are all background characters from Up.
o The lumberjack chopping down the tree is the construction working, Tom, from Up.
o The howling wolf is a modified version of Alpha, Charles Muntz's head dog from Up.
* The cars seen on the strip in Vegas were taken from the film Cars.
* The airplanes that Night sees zooming through Day are modeled on "Glamorous Glennis," the rocket-powered Bell X-1 that Chuck Yeager flew to break the sound barrier.
* Day and Night are lit in homage to 1950's Technicolor films. In those films, directors would shoot night scenes during the day, and use tinted filters to make the scene look like nighttime. In Day & Night, Night, in particular, is lit in this style.
* There were 29,888 frames inked, painted and exported from animation for the final versions of Day, Night and the special effects in the film.
Day & Night can now be found on the Toy Story 3 DVD and Blu-Ray releases (read our review HERE). A commentary by Teddy Newton has been recorded for the short but will be included on a second volume of Pixar Shorts. The soundtrack by Michael Giacchino has not been made available outside of Pixar Animation Studios.
Words and Photography by David Yeh
Stills Provided by Pixar Animation Studios
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Do you have any advice for the person whose age is misunderstood? I am not gracious in these situations.
A. Most of us, past a certain age, have experienced one or more of these uncomfortable and embarrassing moments. And yes, they can be stunning and hurtful. Unfortunately, we can't control what other people say and think. And often it is more about them than you. By that I mean, often people are so busy and caught up in themselves that they don't stop and think before they open their mouths to speak. That is what "foot in mouth" remarks are all about. Talking without thinking.
For anyone who has made one of those faux pas — and who hasn't — you do feel bad and want to take the remark back or hope a crack in the ground will open and swallow you up. For instance, asking a woman when her baby is due after she has already delivered. It is hard to rebound from that remark, but just saying sincerely that you are sorry and moving on is the best thing to do.
Being discreet in what you say and how you say it takes some attention to the situation and the ability to put yourself in the other person's place. It also takes some skill and, sometimes, maturity. Teenagers and very young adults often look at anyone past 35 as ancient because they are in their own worlds and age is very relative and their radar is not well-developed. Usually, the older we get, the less distance there seems to be between the ages, and certain ages seem to get younger to us the closer we get to them.
Today, people are having their children later than they did a few decades ago. So we do have parents at ages that used to be the typical age for grandparents. That makes some of the misconceptions more understandable, but not less hurtful. An awareness of what not to say can be very helpful in avoiding an embarrassing situation. Here are some tips:
•Never assume anything about the people you meet regarding age, gender, pregnancy status or the relationship to the people they are with. If you're not sure of how someone is related, ask what their relationship is to the person they are with, instead of assuming someone is a child or grandparent of the individual.
•Don't put people into categories, such as "seniors" (a favorite category today). If your store or company offers a discount to people of a certain age, put the responsibility on the customer and not the young person checking out the customer's groceries. Post something that can be easily seen that states you offer discounts to seniors or people over a certain age and let the customer ask for it. You will be less likely to offend someone, and you will relieve the people who work for you from having to make a judgment call about someone's age.
•Avoid phrases such as "at your age" we do this (a favorite phrase in health care today). Just say that you need to order a certain test before doing a certain procedure or surgery. Less is more.
•Train your staff and do role-play scenarios on some of the situations they might encounter in their job. If employees don't know a particular phrase or question is rude, they will have a hard time correcting themselves.
•Take control of a situation by introducing the person as your grandchild or child before anyone has time to mistake your relationship. Let them know up front that that Barbie is for your daughter.
•Respond politely if you feel the need to correct someone who has made an error or asked a rude question. It isn't essential, but correcting them may help them think the next time they are inclined to ask a personal question or make an assumption.
•Keep your sense of humor. This may be hard to do in some situations, but it may help. It allows you not to take what someone else says too seriously.
Karen Hickman is a certified etiquette/protocol consultant and owner of Professional Courtesy LLC. Do you have a question for her? Email firstname.lastname@example.com, and we'll forward it to her.


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You probably know that the U.S. census is taken every 10 years. However, you may not realize that the census involves more than simply counting people.The data collected is used to ensure equal representation of each resident in the government.
Apportionment is the process of determining how many representatives each state is entitled to.
Redistricting is the redrawing of boundary lines to create districts that are almost equal in population.
Individual states are responsible for adjusting the district boundaries after the Census Bureau sends them the necessary data. In Missouri, redistricting for the U.S. House of Representatives is done by the General Assembly, while redrawing Missouri's 34 state Senate districts and 163 state House districts [pdf] is the responsibility of two bipartisan commissions appointed by the governor.
The 2010 census redistricting process has been unusual in Missouri. Missouri will soon have eight representatives in the U.S. House of Representatives instead of nine because our population did not grow as quickly as that of other parts of the country during the last decade. The new district lines, which can be compared to the old on this map, will change only slightly in southwest Missouri but more drastically in other parts of the state.
On the state level, the new Missouri House district lines were created with little public dissension. However, the Missouri Senate Apportionment Commission failed to come to an agreement. The Missouri Supreme Court assigned a group of appellate judges to step in, but the map they drew was tossed out by the court. Finally, a second bipartisan commission created the latest Senate map. You can view the Tentative Senate Plan page on the Missouri Office of Administration website.
The maps indicate that St. Louis and Kansas City are the areas most affected by the proposed changes, but southwest Missouri would see some small differences, as well.
For updates on the status of the Missouri Senate debate and general state redistricting information, please see the Missouri Office of Administration's Redistricting Office.
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By the way, don't think Libertarianism is a good thing to be. Capitalism is a good idea in theory...
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Slow Cooker Spicy Ground Beef and Bean Soup with Cabbage and Spinach
Heat a little olive oil in a large heavy frying pan and brown the ground beef well.
I also added a generous pinch of dried red pepper, totally optional, but good.
Slow Cooker Recipe for Spicy Ground Beef and Bean Soup with Cabbage and Spinach
(Makes about 6-8 servings, but this freezes well. Recipe created by Kalyn with inspiration from a soup recipe in Fix-It and Forget-It Cookbook.)
I used a 4.5 quart slow cooker for this recipe.
2-3 tsp. olive oil (depending on your pan)
1 lb. lean ground beef (use ground beef with less than 10% fat for South Beach Diet)
1 cup chopped onion
1/2 cup chopped celery
2 tsp. crushed garlic (or more)
2 cans (14.5 oz.) petite dice tomatoes with juice
(rinse each can of tomatoes with 1/2 can of water)
4 cups homemade beef stock (or use 2 cans beef broth and a little water)
1 can vegetable broth
1 can kidney beans, rinsed
1 T dried parsley
1 1/2 tsp. dried thyme
salt and fresh-ground black pepper to taste
2 cups very thinly sliced and chopped green cabbage
1 cup chopped spinach
pinch red pepper flakes (optional)
2-3 T sherry vinegar (or use any mild vinegar that you like)
sour cream or grated Parmesan cheese for serving (optional)
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More Phase One Soups You Might Like:
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Marywood Will Host Eating Disorder Screening Day
Published on Wed, January 29, 2014
Marywood's Psychological Services Center will host an Eating Disorder Screening Day on Thursday, February 27, from 9 a.m. to 7.p.m., in the McGowan Center for Graduate and Professional Studies. The screenings are completely confidential, free, and open to all ages.
National Eating Disorders Awareness Week (NEDA) is a collective effort of primary volunteers, including eating disorder professionals, health care providers, students, educators, social workers, and individuals committed to raising awareness of the dangers surrounding eating disorders and the need for early intervention and treatment.
In conjunction with NEDA week, Marywood's Psychological Services Center will conduct screenings that will focus on three major disorders—anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating—and provide referrals if needed. For more information, please call Marywood's Psychological Services Center at (570) 348-6269.