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FIGO World Congress 2012: Partnering with Professional Associations
Last week, I joined over 8,000 obstetricians/gynecologists, midwives, public health practitioners, and women's health advocates, as they gathered for the 20th World Congress of Gynecology and Obstetrics on the outskirts of Rome, Italy. Convened by the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO), the meeting focused on the vital role health professionals and health professional organizations can play in advancing women's health and well-being, especially during pregnancy and childbirth.
At a press conference on the first day of the conference, Professor Gamal Serour, outgoing President of FIGO, noted that "Professional organizations can do a tremendous amount… from influencing policy decision-making to raising awareness of issues and their solutions, to setting standards, to educating and training healthcare professionals and providers."
The FIGO World Congress included the global premier of a short film, "Why Did Mrs X Die, Retold." Originally released in 1987 by the World Health Organization at the first global safe motherhood conference, "Mrs. X" told the story of a woman's journey through pregnancy and childbirth, and the many cultural, social, and economic factors which contributed to her death. "Why Did Mrs. X Die, Retold" updates the story and shows that many of the factors which contributed to maternal mortality 25 years ago are unfortunately still causing maternal deaths today. The updated animated short film is compelling and worth watching, it can be viewed here.
Also during the World Congress, the World Health Organization (WHO) and FIGO launched updated, evidence-based guidelines and clinical recommendations for the prevention and management of postpartum hemorrhage (PPH), the major cause of maternal deaths worldwide. The new WHO guidelines include the recommendation for lay health workers to administer misoprostol after childbirth for prevention of PPH. FIGO issued new clinical recommendations for dosing, route of administration, and contra-indications for misoprostol's use in PPH prevention and treatment.
Throughout the conference, the importance of partnership, with other health professionals such as midwives, and across sectors, was underscored: "We can't do it alone," said Professor Sir Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, the incoming President of FIGO. He called for support from advocacy groups to intensify global efforts toward achievement of Millennium Development Goals 4 (reduce child mortality) and 5 (improve maternal health).
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Joan London at 2523 Rose St., Berkeley, Ca., 1938, writing her father's biography, Jack London and His Times. Published by Doubleday & Company.
She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1921. Throughout the twenties and thirties she persued a varied career as lecturer and writer, including a number of "ghost" assignments.
In 1941 she went to work for the California State Federation of Labor Headquarters in San Francisco where she built a research library for the federation of labor. In addition to being a librarian and performing a variety of writing tasks, she became publications editor. In 1962 she retired but continued to write.
Joan London published essays, poems, short stories and a novel entitled, Sylvia Conventry. During the last few years of her life, Joan wrote two other books, one about the California farm labor movement co-authored by Henry Anderson: So Shall Ye Reap: The Story of Cesar Chavez & the California Farm Worker's Movement, which was published in 1971. Joan's other book, uncompleted memoir, Jack London and his Daughters, was published in 1990 with a forward by her son, Bart Abbott.
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HOPE, Ind. (AP) — Nestled in the farmland of Clifty Township is an eclectic collection of wildlife with one thing in common.
Every creature housed at UTOPIA Wildlife Rehabilitators is on the mend.
They include Loki, a 6-year-old bald eagle with a crushed "elbow" in its wing; Grubby, a woodchuck that a cat dragged onto someone's doorstep; and Shelly, a three-legged box turtle that survived a dog attack.
Kathy Hershey, who founded UTOPIA on her property in 2002, is seeking to expand her organization's educational and rehab capabilities by purchasing vacant property next door to the refuge's facility, The Republic reported (http://bit.ly/1mMDwKN ).
In order to do so, however, UTOPIA must raise upward of $150,000 to acquire the land, which includes a small house and a large pole-barn. An additional $50,000 is being sought to renovate the buildings after the property is purchased, according to Barbara Garton, UTOPIA board member.
Hershey would like to use the home on the property as a small medical facility — complete with a nursery, intensive care unit and office — to perform medical examinations on the distressed wildlife regularly brought to UTOPIA and to house an intern who specializes in veterinary sciences. She also plans to use the barn as an indoor nature center to ensure the various field trips and nature outings visiting the rehabilitation center are not canceled because of weather.
"Education is what we feel is our most important aspect; and right now, if it gets cold or it's raining, it becomes a problem," said Hershey, a former biology teacher.
"She's had to call off a lot of field trips with these kids because of the weather," UTOPIA co-founder Melissa Newcomb said.
UTOPIA sponsors about 180 educational programs a year — including off-site nature exhibitions and in-house tours — viewed by about 10,000 people, Hershey said. The in-house tours are offered in an amphitheater on the property, built by a local Eagle Scout for a service project, and are restricted to days with decent weather.
Being able to conduct programs year-round is Hershey's ultimate goal; and in order to achieve that goal, she said her organization must expand.
"I love to teach. Teaching is my favorite part of this job," she said. "All of the organizations like ours start out in someone's home or at someone's kitchen table. They all start out small like us and then eventually move on, and we've just reached that stage."
Expansion also would help house critically injured and baby animals that Hershey now keeps in her home due to a lack of a suitable, weather-protected shelter.
"Right now, anything that is really sick or injured has to be in her (Hershey's) basement or her guest bedroom, and that's not the best situation for her, her family or for the animals," Newcomb said.
Newcomb, a veterinarian with Hillview Veterinary Clinic in Franklin, connected with Hershey in 2002 when the West Nile virus first affected birds of prey in Bartholomew County.
Newcomb and her husband worked together with Hershey and her family to transport raptors and birds from neighboring cities and towns to veterinary clinics.
The need for medical assistance for the birds was extensive enough that the women decided a rehabilitation facility was necessary. When searching for a name for the newly founded operation, Hershey said Newcomb's husband had suggested the name UTOPIA — an acronym meaning "Up To Our Posteriors In Animals."
UTOPIA now cares for a wide variety of injured and displaced animals ranging from coyotes to opossums to barn owls.
Newcomb receives many injured birds, mammals and reptiles at her veterinary office, and if their individual situations will allow them to be moved, she transports them to Hershey's property for continued care.
The organization operates as a nonprofit, has state and federal permits allowing for the treatment and housing of wildlife and is one of the few facilities in the state allowed to care for injured bald eagles.
The ultimate goal is to nurse the animals and birds back to health and release them into a suitable environment, Hershey said. Per Department of Natural Resources Fish and Wildlife Division regulations, animals are only allowed to be kept at wildlife centers for a maximum of six months before they are able to be released.
But if an animal is not healthy enough to be released, wildlife facilities such as UTOPIA may apply for permits to keep them for educational purposes or until they have recovered.
Almost every structure used to house UTOPIA's birds and mammals has been built by either Boy Scout and Eagle Scout members or high school students from Bartholomew County.
Zeke Sandlin, an Eagle Scout adviser who helps young Scouts connect with UTOPIA to establish their individual service projects, said the Scouts' focus on nature pairs well with UTOPIA's mission to save injured wildlife.
"It just goes along well with a Boy Scout's love of nature and wildlife," he said. "They really enjoy it, and they learn quite a bit from Kathy."
Because UTOPIA is a nonprofit organization, it relies heavily on donations to fund the treatment, care, shelter and transportation of the injured wildlife, as well as the upkeep of the grounds.
About 30 volunteers help to keep UTOPIA at its best throughout the year, Hershey said.
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If you're like many people, the scent and taste of gingerbread cookies brings to mind holiday memories. Whether it's in the form of cookies, a decorated house, or even a flavored latte, gingerbread is everywhere this time of year.
But did you ever wonder why gingerbread is a part of the holiday season, or even where gingerbread came from in the first place? We found this fun, informative article with all sorts of interesting facts about the history of gingerbread.
According to the story, gingerbread has been baked in Europe since the eleventh century. Depending on the specific location it might be a soft cake, a crisp, flat cookie, or warm, thick, dark squares of "bread." Although the exact flavor could vary, gingerbread was usually cut into shapes such as men, women, stars or animals.
If it's often in the form of a cookie, why is it called "gingerbread"? As the article explains:
In Medieval England gingerbread meant simply "preserved ginger" and was an adaptation of the Old French gingebras, derived from the Latin name of the spice, Zingebar. It was only in the fifteenth century that the term came to be applied to a kind of cake made with treacle, an uncrystalized syrup drained from raw sugar during the refining process, and flavored with ginger. Ginger was also discovered to have a preservative effect when added to pastries and bread, and this probably led to the development of recipes for ginger cakes, cookies, and flavored breads.
Gingerbread came to North America with the settlers from all over Europe who brought their traditions and family recipes. The German practice of making and decorating houses from gingerbread at Christmas time was especially prevalent in Pennsylvania, where there was a strong German influence. Many traditional German gingerbreads reappeared in this area, especially during the holiday season.
At Smiley Cookie we put our own twist on the classic gingerbread cookie with our gingerbread smileys and mini gingerbread smileys, available in a variety of holiday gift sets. Contact us to check out our entire selection of gingerbread and other holiday cookies.
With the holidays rapidly approaching, it's time to start thinking about gifts. What do you plan to give your child's teacher as a special thank-you? Another mug? A gift card for that coffee shop?
How about something more unique?
Think back to your childhood: remember how special a simple cookie made you feel? What about a cookie with a smiley face on it? We're pretty sure a box full of smiley face cookies would make that special teacher adore you even more.
Gourmet Cookies are a great way to show a teacher you appreciate all that they do. With 144 custom color combos, special occasion designs, and six different shapes your options are endless. By letting your child help choose the cookies, the gift becomes even more special.
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Teachers have plenty of mugs. Be ahead of the holiday game and order a custom designed box of cookies for that special teacher today! We take pride in offering a high-quality, great-tasting, fun cookie that just can't help but bring a smile to your face.
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You can enter by tweeting your answer @Smileycookie with the tag #StarSmile or by leaving a guess in the comments section of the StarSmile post on our Facebook page. At stake is a dozen awesome Smiley Cookies that we'll deliver fresh to your door.
Guess as often as you like and we'll keep adding hints on Facebook and Twitter every now and then to help you out. We'll randomly draw the winner from everyone who guessed correctly at 3 PM today. We tried to make this one pretty difficult, so let us know if you need more hints.
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This post is not all about cookies. I know, it's hard to believe. The thing is, even though I remember baking peanut butter bumble bee cookies for my mother and grandmothers, that tradition seems to be largely familial in origin. Historically, Mother's Day is traditionally celebrated with cakes instead of cookies.
The Origin of Mother's Day
In the United States, Mother's Day was made an official holiday in 1914. It's a floating holiday here in the States, always falling on the second Sunday of May. This tradition was adopted in many other countries in Europe including Germany, Greece, Latvia, Denmark and Finland. But the idea of Mother's Day predates the official holiday by centuries.
The Greeks celebrated Rhea, the mother of the gods and the ancient Romans celebrated Cybele, the celebration of the goddess Cybele. Even today, Mother's Day in different countries often matches up with more ancient versions of the celebration.
Food on Mother's Day
No matter where Mother's day is celebrated, there are several common themes. For that one day, children and fathers take over the jobs the mothers usually do, cooking meals and generally making mom's life as easy as possible. These meals often have traditional elements.
Simnell Cake
This marzipan covered fruit cake is the traditional food gift in Britain from children to their mothers. It's quite similar to the Christmas fruit cake. According to popular legend, Simon and his sister Nell wanted to make a cake for their mother. One wanted to bake it. The other wanted to broil it. They ended up doing both and bringing the cake to their mother.
French Bloom Cake
In France, Mother's Day is not celebrated on the second Sunday of May, but instead is celebrated on the last Sunday of the month. A huge family dinner in honor of mother and a special cake decorated as a bouquet of flowers is traditional.
American Traditions
Making cookies is a lot easier than baking cakes. It may be for this reason that cookie baking and gifting is catching on in America, though it hasn't quite overtaken breakfast in bed or the traditional dinner out. I still think that a plate of bumble bee peanut butter cookies from a 6-year-old is one of the best Mother's Day gifts, but then again, I might be biased.
Happy Mother's Day everyone!
When you think about Easter, you likely think about Easter Eggs. But we have news for you, our cookie-loving friends. Easter Cookies are just as much a tradition around the world as eggs are. There are hundreds, maybe thousands of ethnic traditions involving baking around Easter, but we're going to focus on some of the more well-known traditions concerning cookies.
Greek and Italian Easter Cookies
Cookies and sweetbreads are a staple around Easter time in many Mediterranean countries. In Greece, the traditional Easter cookie is Koulourakia. It's a butter-based braided cookie with a hint of vanilla.
The Italians have a citrus flavored cookie made in a similar way. These cookies go by a variety of names: Knot Cookies, Lemon Knots, Anginetti and Taralucci are just a few. They're tasty, crumbly Easter cookies frosted lightly, and sprinkled with multicolored confetti.
Nordic Easter Cookies
Semla are not precisely cookies. They get their name from the type of flower from which they are made: semolina. Versions of this delicious pastry filled with almond paste are served from Shrove Tuesday, the last day before Lent, until Easter in many Nordic countries. In Sweden, it's called Fastlagsbulle. In Denmark and Norway, it's called fastelavnsbolle, and is sometimes filled with whipped cream or jam rather than almond paste. In Finland, the pastry is known as Laskiaispulla. This traditional Easter bun can be found as far east as Latvia and Estonia.
The Easter Sugar Cookie
The sugar cookie is sort of the blank canvass of the cookie world. It's easily decorated and so easy to make a variety of shapes with. For this reason, Americans have latched onto the sugar cookie for creating Easter themed cookies in a multitude of shapes. You can find bunny cookies, decorated egg cookies, flower cookies, chick cookies and almost any other shape and decoration remotely related to Easter.
We'd love to hear about your Easter cookie traditions! Maybe see some spectacular Easter Cookie pictures? Feel free to post in the comments section! Happy Easter!
When you think of Pittsburgh traditions, there are a few things that usually jump to the front of your thoughts:
- The Terrible Towel
- People in Steeler's gear, regardless of season or solemnity of occasion
- Pierogies
- Chair parking space holders
But there's one more thing that makes 'Burghers famous throughout the rest of the country: Wedding Cookies.
"But wait," the unknowing non-Burgher might say, "People eat CAKE at weddings."
True. But while the traditional wedding cake still retains its touted position and remains a wonderful source of candid, frosting-smeared photos, the mighty cookie table often completely overshadows it.
The History of the Wedding Cookie Tradition
There are as many theories as to why we are such a cookie-loving people as there are types of cookies adorning the table at even the simplest of Pittsburgh weddings.
Necessity as the Mother of (delicious) Invention?
The wedding cookie tradition could have been born of necessity. As the steel mills closed down – and Pittsburghers began to tighten their collective belts, lavish wedding cakes were probably one of the first things to go. Many a bride's disappointment must have eased as her entire family pitched in for days (sometimes weeks) to bake and freeze a dizzying array of traditional wedding cookies for the big event. In many ways, baking the wedding cookies is as meaningful for the mother of the bride as it is for the bride herself!
A Cultural Melting Pot
Much of Pittsburgh's population descends from hardworking immigrants who came to Pittsburgh in search of industrial work. There's a strong possibility that the wedding cookie tradition came with them. Pinpointing which ethnicity made the tradition popular would be nearly impossible. The credit for the Pittsburgh wedding cookie table is most often given to the Mediterranean and Eastern European cultural influences in this area.
The Popularity of Wedding Cookies
Regardless of where the wedding cookie table originated, it has certainly transcended its origins and has been embraced by an entire region of America. Though Pittsburgh is well known for it, the tradition is also prevalent in Ohio and parts of West Virginia and Virginia. Articles on where to get custom wedding cookies that match the wedding color schemes are popping up in high-end bridal magazines and people across the country are starting to adopt the tradition.
There is definitely something very warm and inviting about packing up dozens of cookies to send home with guests as edible reminders of a fantastic and memorable evening. It's no wonder the wedding cookie tradition is still strong and growing!
We'd love to see pictures of your wedding cookie tables! Feel free to upload them in the comments section!
In honor of St. Patrick's Day, I thought I'd write about the various cookies of Ireland.
The Oatmeal Cookie
Oatmeal cookies didn't start out as the tasty, sugary desserts we know now. Back in the 1800′s, oats were plentiful in Ireland, England and Scotland. They were a staple food group for people and animals, used in a variety of dishes. Oat cakes were easy to make, preserve and dry. They were also inexpensive and filling. They were largely considered peasant food. Eventually, as more and more people could afford sweeteners, they began including honey, molasses and even sugar. The eventual result was today's Oatmeal Cookie. Cookie gifts were often presented at the Celtic festival of Beltane to commemorate the beginning the summer season.
Shortbread Cookies
So, why's it called "shortbread?" Well, it's not because of height. The name "shortbread" actually refers to the ingredients. The term "shortening" is used to describe any fat that was used to create a nice, crumbly texture and rich, creamy taste. In this cookie's case, butter is used.
Shortbread is extremely popular in Ireland and the British Isles. The dough holds its form while baking so shortbread can take on a number of shapes. Some of the most common shapes are shortbread "fingers" and shortbread rounds.
The Sugar Cookie
Often enjoyed at tea time, the sugar cookie is popular, not just in Ireland, but all over the world. Sugar cookies are simple to make and are the cookie equivalent of a blank slate. They can be cut into as many different shapes as you can think of and frosted in a myriad of ways.
Our Shamrock Smiley Cookies
Although they haven't been served on St. Paddy's day in Irish households through antiquity, we're starting to see that our Shamrock Smiley Cookies are becoming a bit of a St. Paddy's day tradition here in America. We would love hear about your St. Patrick's day traditions and maybe even get a few pics of you chowing down on our Shamrock cookies!
Happy St. Patrick's Day!
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Ships Required To Shore Up For Power
Container ships at the Port of Oakland are faced with a 2014 deadline to convert their diesel auxiliary engine to a shore plug-in system. To help with the estimated US$90 million price tag on the project, the Air Quality Management District has awarded a US$5 million grant to bring electrical shore power to three Oakland Berths.
In addition to the grant, the Port has raised another US$13 million towards its shore power goal.
The maritime industry is also investing approximately US$1 billion to retrofit their vessels with the system to plug in to shore power.
Along with the 2014 deadline, the California Air Resources Board had ruled that 80% of all ships in dock at California ports must plug in to shore power. The Oakland port board of commissioners hopes to exceed that goal by 5%.


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AASPCA tries to find homes at discount
The Anne Arundel SPCA, in response to full capacity, put their dogs up for adoption at half price this past weekend.
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John Doe 1 Hires Gloria Allred For John Travolta Lawsuit
By Mack Rawden 4 years ago
What a difference twenty-four hours can make. Yesterday, John Doe #1 dropped his two million dollar sexual harassment lawsuit against John Travolta, prompting the actors attorney to claim his client was completely vindicated. This morning however, John Doe #1 reversed course and hired Gloria Allred. The famed attorney has never met a legal circus she didnt like, and with her on board, this is shaping up to be one hell of a legal circus.
According to Radar Online, John Doe #1 still hasnt refilled his lawsuit yet, but Allred is confirming she has taken him on as a client, which means either a settlement or a lawsuit is coming. Given Travoltas attorney has made it clear hell fight to the death before having his client admit to false allegations, this will probably wind up in front of a judge.
Heres a look at what Allred had to say
" I represent John Doe #1. Mr. Doe's lawsuit was dismissed without prejudice which means that he is still legally entitled to file another lawsuit against John Travolta if he chooses. We are in the process of conferring with him regarding the next steps, which he may wish to take. Our client and our firm has no further comment at this time."
You would have to think she knows something all of us dont. After all, John Doe #1 was already dropped by his first attorney, and given Travolta has already proved he wasnt in Los Angeles on the day in question, any future legal battles will probably be fought from behind. Maybe shes uncovered some new evidence, or maybe shes just excited about the attention. We should know shortly.


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"Oh please, the first year (in 6 years) that Dani actually looks like a title threat and is taking more wins this season than his usual 1 or 2 average and the old "But he's lighter than everyone else" chestnut gets dragged out again."
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You might be right but for all the injuries. First of his six seasons he hasnt missed races due to injury (and subsequent recovery period).
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Stocks are finishing the day lower, but there's some relief that the pullback wasn't as bad as it could have been.
The Dow fell nearly 500 points in the opening minutes before regaining some ground.
It closed down more than 300 points. The drop puts it more than 40 percent down from where the index stood a year ago.
There were big declines overseas today after another round of grim corporate news, which stirred new fears about global economies.
After plunging 500 points at the start of the trading day, the Dow has regained some ground.
Still, it's well into negative territory as most major stock indexes around the world have been.
Earlier, Japan's main stock index fell nearly 10 percent. Germany's benchmark index saw an even bigger drop.
One analyst says traders are facing the "realization" that the global economy is in recession.
"There's a lot of panic out there today."
That's how one analyst describes the markets today. Stocks prices have been heading sharply downward since trading opened this
morning on a growing belief the global economy is plunging into recession.
The Dow has been down by as much as 500 points in morning trading.
Wall Street is joining world stock markets in a precipitous plunge, with the Dow Jones industrials dropping more than 400 points in the opening minutes of trading.
The growing belief that the world will suffer a punishing economic recession has investors furiously dumping stocks.
Grim news from overseas has added to the worldwide gloom. Big companies including Sony and Daimler are warning of tough times ahead, joining U.S. companies in scaling back their earnings forecasts.
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The film also mixes sex and humor in a typically von Trier-ian way, such as when Gainsbourg's Joe decides to have sex with two African brothers, who come to her room and, once in the buff, start discussing what each one should do in their own language while she's seated on the bed, with a bouncing penis at either side of her. Similarly, her scenes with Jamie Bell are both shocking and crudely funny. The film has a "weird sense of humor, very disturbing," says Gainsbourg. "I mean, I was disturbed, embarrassed and a little humiliated but I wanted to go there. He didn't force me into this film, I was really willing but still, having to do that…"
READ MORE: Why the Shorter Version of 'Nymphomaniac Volume I' Is Better Than Lars Von Trier's Director's Cut
Of course, playing a nymphomaniac implied being in several sex scenes for the actress, which, though she has done them before, she still finds difficult: "I am uncomfortable being naked. Also, I had just had a child and I was very embarrassed by the way I looked. But when I come into the part, I don't have that much nakedness to perform. All the beautiful sex is done by Stacy and I do all the nasty stuff that comes after," she says, suppressing an uneasy giggle.
Indeed, Martin and Gainsbourg, though they play the same woman at different ages, are given very different things to do as Joe matures and explores different facets of herself. "I was worried I'd be jealous of the scenes that she had," Gainsbourg says of Martin, admitting she'd thought she might think: "'Why couldn't I play a little bit younger?' When reading the script, it didn't say: 'This is where you come in,' so I was really curious to know when I could start with the part."
With von Trier, who has made a lot of films with female protagonists he then puts through the wringer, the question of feminism (or its ugly counterpart, misogyny) always comes up, as Gainsbourg admits: "I've been asked this before and I, I don't know. I think it's a film about a woman portraying herself, with all her suffering and all her faults. She tries to portray herself as a terrible, bad human being and by the end, I think she understands more of who she is. It's a beautiful portrait of a woman but is it feminist because of the way she portrays her sexuality? I don't know. Maybe because it talks about a woman, that's feminist enough?"
After giving it some thought, Gainsbourg continues: "For me, the character I play is Lars so it's hard to only see her as a woman. Lars has put himself, in my mind anyway, in both Seligman and Joe, two opposite characters. That's who he is and we all have contradictory facets, different faces. So, in that sense, how is it feminist? People have said he doesn't like women but I don't see how you can portray characters with such depth and not feel for them, have no empathy? I think he loves women".
Few would argue that von Trier doesn't have an original voice and clearly Gainsbourg is attracted to working with him for the same reason: "What I find so terribly rich with him, is he…," she pauses, searching for the right words, "...he's an artist who has a compulsion, a compulsive side that wants to show us all the dark aspects of himself. So you have his sense of humor, his cynicism… He's very generous in the sense that he is willing to show it all. He's not making any compromises. In that sense he's very original and a real storyteller".
The actress also reveals a little bit about how von Trier, who refused to talk to the press after his Nazi comment at the "Melancholia" press conference in Cannes was willingly misunderstood and blown out of proportion, works on set: "Starting a scene, you don't know where you're going. It's all quite scary but Lars doesn't give you any indication. Nobody knows; the actors don't know but the cameraman doesn't know either where to go. Of course the scene is written but you can take it any place. So it's difficult because you have to dare, you have to dare being ridiculous and being bad and you are quite bad at first but then he comes in and helps".
She continues: "He doesn't do it on purpose, to make you uncomfortable at first, but he needs to see it, or that's the way he calls it, he needs to see it to then be able to articulate his ideas and explore them with you but that's what's wonderful, to have his spirit explore your character. He understands every wink you make. It's like having some read you better than you read yourself. It's wonderful then to push yourself, for the really hard scenes anyway, to push yourself to these really difficult places, to suffer a little. All of that is very exciting and so uncommon and that's why I love doing what I do. And a lot of it is thanks to him".
But working in this way isn't always easy, as Gainsbourg explains: "For each film, he has put me in a very difficult spot and asked me for something that was nearly animal-like. In 'Melancholia,' it was the last scene, he wanted something... and we shot it for three days in a row, just exploring my suffering, which was very painful and puzzling because I didn't know where to go. And again with this, it was shorter, but for the scenes where I'm recovering my orgasm, with the masochistic part, that again was really embarrassing. You know, an orgasm is an orgasm but when you have someone say: 'Surprise me,' I don't know what to do. That was quite hard."


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as a result of an accident, I have broken my girlfriends front derailleur cage on her very precious Specialized.
I thought it would be a simple matter of swapping the front Deore derailleur.
Surprise. I've never seen a derailleur mount like this before. Instead of being clamp on or a bolt on flange, it seems to affix to a post and a bracket that goes around the bottom bracket.
Can anyone advise me as to:
a) what kind of mount or derailleur is this?
b) is there anyway to just replace the cage?
c) what would I search for if I were to look for a replacement?
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Staff Report
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has selected Columbia-based Companion Data Services to host the agency's Enterprise Portal.
The portal will allow the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, also referred to as CMS, to provide its customers access to information, products and services.
"We at CDS (Companion Data Services) are very excited about this award. It's an example of CMS making information accessible to a wide array of customers," Companion Data Services President Lola Jordan said. "This new task order will allow us to showcase our expertise and knowledge of health information technology hosting solutions."
The multiyear task order was completed under CMS' Enterprise Data Center contract, Jordan said. The contract's value was not announced.
Companion Data Services, a subsidiary of BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina, provides health information technology services, such as claims processing, programming and outsourcing, to CMS and other government and private entities.
Last year, the company processed almost 800 million Medicare fee-for-service claims, about 65% of the national total.


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Will The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Follow the Book? Stanley Tucci Weighs In
As huge fans of the YA novel before it was even rumored to be a movie, the most burning question in the backs of our minds about The Hunger Games movie was if it would do the incredible plot justice. We have to say that although there were definitely a few minor holes and edits, we are still freaking out about the release of Catching Fire, due out in November.
Our man Stanley Tucci (Caesar Flickerman) sat down to answer the question of how well this upcoming installment would follow the acclaimed book. Have a listen at what he had to say, and then tell us what part of Catching Fire you're most excited for below!


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Korean director Kim Jee-woon's Asian-Western, "The Good, the Bad, the Weird" has been acquired by French distributor ARP from Seoul-based Cineclick for French-speaking territory rights. The deal was made after thirteen minutes of footage was screened on the $11 million USD budget project. The deal is described as a "high six digits figure," considered "quite high" for Asian film in the French market.
"Kim Jee-woon has a unique flare for style and for humor," commented Michele Halberstadt," head of production and acquisitions at ARP. "We are very proud to bring his iconoclast Western to French audiences."
Cineclick says it expects further sales of the film, and cited the film's three Korean stars Song Kang-ho ("The Host"), Lee Byung-hun ("A Bittersweet Life") and Jung Woo-sung ("A Moment to Remember") as prime draws. The company's chief Youngjoo Suh cited other Western countries were showing interest, including Italy, the home of the 'Spaghetti Western.' Japan has also shown interest. "The Good, the Bad, the Weird" began shooting in early April and delivery is slated for next spring.
In other Cineclick news, Kim Ki-duk's Cannes competition film "Breath" (Soom) received a "flurry of offers" following its gala screening at the Lumiere on Saturday. ARP picked up French rights for the film prior to the start of Cannes, while other European countries inked deals for their territories in addition to agreements in Latin America (Mexico, Brazil, Argentina) and Turkey. Cineclick also just concluded deals for the title in Poland (SPI), Singapore (Festive Films) and the Baltic states (Lietuvos Kinas).
Fellow Cineclick title "Opium War" by Siddiq Barmak, which is currently being shot in Afghanistan, has added Aztec International for Australia and New Zealand to its list of pre-buy distributors. Others include Alta (Spain), Shani (Greece), Maywin (ex-CIS) and Film House (Mexico). Japan's Happinet Pictures holds a stake in the project and holds Japanese rights. [Brian Brooks]


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Ducourneau Tabbed Sun Belt Diver of the Week
Missouri State diver Eric Ducourneau has been named this week's Sun Belt Conference Diver of the Week for the second time this season, the league office announced Thursday.
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"David came to the rescue with the hat trick tonight," head coach Paul Snape said. "A goal scorer wants to score and he was there at the right time."
Goldsmith's goals came in the 11th, 50th and 89th minutes. The last Butler player to post a hat trick was Ben Sippola on September 10, 2010, also against Houston Baptist. Sippola recorded his hat trick almost three years to the day of Goldsmith's.
Houston Baptist out-shot Butler 19-14 in the match, but Bulldog goalkeeper Jon Dawson, who picked up his second win of the season, was able to hold them to only one goal, a strike from Tobenna Uzo that went in the left side of the goal in the 64th minute.
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My new site- opinions please
Hello guys,
As some of you may or may not know i've been working on my new site Bag a Card with Adrian Johnson from Assystance.
I would like your opinions please on the site, but mostly the cards and designs?
( be kind please) Lol....
I would just like to say a BIG THANK YOU to Adrian he has been great!!!!
"Make no small plans for they have no power to stir the soul." (Niccolo Machiavelli)
Marvee Woods Music
Talented songwriter
Re: My new site- opinions please
I am not keen on the wording of the text on the home page as I feel that it is a little amateurish and implies a business run from the spare room.
The opening text of :-
On the contact page I am afraid that a Hotmail account may be a big turnoff for potential customers and would suggest that you use something like email@example.com which can be diverted elsewhere but sounds much more professional.
If you click on a "buy" link it takes you to a Paypal page where it shows the supplier as email@example.com which again doesn't indicate a professional image.
It may be that the small cottage industry is the image that you wish to portray in which case please disregard the above.
Would I buy one of your cards - yes I would and probably will at the appropriate time
Thanks Ian for your feedback i will take all of what you said on board!
"Make no small plans for they have no power to stir the soul." (Niccolo Machiavelli)
Marvee Woods Music
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Hi, Natasha,
I like the cards, but as I leave most my card need buying to my wife its difficult to express much of an opinion on them, I'll get her to have a look at them and feedback anything she has to say.
With regards to the site here are a couple of things that I didn't think looked quiet right, this is purely from the visual aspects not technical as I'm non-techie!!
There is a bit of overlap where the "d" in customised is hidden behind the beginning for exclusive which seems to make it feel a little cramped.
Also is it possible to resize the flowers that are on the menu bar so that there is one behind each menu option? At the moment the lines which are between each flower seem to make the menu bar look a little confused, while it is obvious what each button does at first glance it can look a little strange to see a thin line between the word Contact and the word Us.
While on the subject the bag-a-card header panel looks a little small, there is a line down the right showing parts of the flowers used in the menu bar.
Also I feel that it would be better of you could view the larger pictures of the cards by clicking directly on the small picture rather than using the link at the side.
Hope this project goes well for you, best of luck.
A few more comments on site optimization (whilst I am waiting for dinner)
Google seems to place greater importance on words that come early in the title and description and I would suggest that you put your most important keyword first.
Your current title is "Bag-a-Card: exclusive handmade cards by Natasha Britton" and to be honest I am not sure how best to rephrase that but "Bag-a-card" isn't an important keyword so shouldn't come first. Perhaps something like "handmade cards - exclusive from Bag-a-card" might work better.
The meta description is wasted as it is the same as the Title but Google allows you to have almost twice as many characters. Again try and get handmade cards and whatever other important search terms people may use right at the front end.
Google doesn't use keywords any more but some of the other search engines do. The rules have always been that the most important keywords come first so you should think about rejigging yours.
Google also rates sites by their "importance" and they decide this by the number of inbound links to the site. You need to get as many other sites linking to yours as possible with the most brownie points being given to links from businesses in similar lines and also those that have high Google Page Ranks themselves.
Perhaps we should start a shell link exchange
Thank you Tim for your feedback nearly everything you pointed out has been changed thanks for your advice.
Let me know what the Mrs thinks of the cards.
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Me again - I was going to send you a PM but found that they are disabled here which is a shame.
Not everyone has pin sharp eyesight and mine is particularly poor. I am not sure exactly what your cards are made of and I originally thought that they were just painted card but having gone back for yet another look I am not so sure.
Until I clicked on Birthday 002 I wasn't aware that it said "Dad" or that it looked embossed. If it embossed I think that perhaps you should add a descriptive line to the picture and I think that you should also cater for the short sighted by perhaps giving your designs a name instead of a number. Web surfers have notoriously short attention spans and if you don't grab their attention immediately you may have lost the chance as they will be off to the next site.
Card 011 is a lovely card but what exactly is it. It could be painted or embossed or even a silk flower stuck on. I can't tell, but whichever it was I would probably buy it - but you need to sell it more to me. I would much rather buy something called "Hand painted rose" than something called "011"
Thank you Ian for all your feedback it has been very helpful, all my cards have embelishments, so they are raised, i don't have any painted ones.
I will take into account what you said, orginally i started to think up names for all the cards but it was getting too difficult and couldn't think of enough names but i will add a short discription to each card, thank you.
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An interesting point when you are optimizing your site is that if you search on Google for "handmade cards" you get a completely different set of results than if you searched for "hand made cards" so you will need to optimize your site for both terms.
According to the Overture keyword suggestion page here the other obvious term that you should be optimizng for is "hand made greeting card" as that is apparently a common search term.
Someone else's turn now
Thanks Ian for your suggestions, i'm not too clued up on the whole search engine thing, but i'm learning.
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Hi Natasha,
First of all well done on getting the site up and running- I've been looking forward to seeing it for what seems like ages. I love handmade cards but thats probably a woman thing!
I like the overall look of the site- its simple and contemporary. I like the font you have used for the logo and the headings, it seems really effective.
I think that the homepage could benefit from direct links to the 'range of cards' available. Anything that makes it easier for the customer to get to your product has to be beneficial.
For your contact details, I always like to see a physical address or at the very least a land line number. It just gives the customer more confidence in Bag-a-card and gives you more credibility as a retailer.
On the customised cards page, it implies that the envelope has been customised in some way- has it? Or is it just colour co-ordinated?
I too would prefer to see a description of the card- even if I have to click to see it.
I have to say that I really like card 006. I just wish I had seen it when my best friend got married a couple of months ago.
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Hey natasha - firstly well done for getting a final site up
I think a lot of good points have been made re: site design so wont go into these. Was just thinking if I would use it and I might do when I need a card it looks like you have some good designs....
going forward however if you want to make this into a real business you will need to make some changes / enhancements to your product - just some ideas in no particular order ..
- Stress some key factors on the front page to make your offering unique to stop me going into my cards-galore shop! so for example:
- Can you print / create customised greetings ?
- Can you post the things ! ..ok it losses the personal touch but would appeal to the commericals who send out cards en-mass during xmas (this may / may not be a business you want to get into - I would if I was doing this).
- Free delivery - absorb this into your margins as you want 0-100% , but stress this point on the front page, make it a selling point.
- Others.. sure there loads - some might work some not, but if you can implement these ideas cheaply and guage reaction its worth doing.
- Scrap PayPal - or implement it better - It can work well so have a look around the web to see what others have done.
good luck !
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- Can you print / create customised greetings ?
- Can you post the things ! ..ok it losses the personal touch but would appeal to the commericals who send out cards en-mass during xmas (this may / may not be a business you want to get into - I would if I was doing this).
I think thats a good point. I know a couple of people (blokes!) that actually get their PA to choose and send birthday cards etc for them. That may be a good option.
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Thank you both Amy and J for your comments both are very helpful thanks.
I'm working on all the comments that were raised cheers
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Product range / Customer diversification
Hello Natasha,
I'd agree with the points Ian raised esp. with regards to the email address.
As for the product range,I too did a quick search on Google to see what turned up and it struck me that there are quite a few people who are doing the same as you are doing,for exactly the same occasions,which means that you must find a way to make what you are doing stand out from everyone else who is offering cards for same occasion.Otherwise,there's no real reason to buy a card from you,or another online small biz or worse still,Paperchase or Clinton Cards (!)
I know *i-check* mentioned chasing the corporate sector as a poss. customer,but I would disagree,as they will send cards in bulk and look to the bottom line.A card will be secondary to the client gift !
A sector I do feel would have some potential is Jewish cards.
Why ?
1/ I see you live in London - as you know,there is a big Jewish community up in north London - Golders Green,Hampstead,Radlett (*where I'm from originally) ,as there is elsewhere in country;nb Manchester,Glasgow.
From personal experience,having looked for and ended up buying
a 'congrats on your new baby' for a Jewish work colleague of mine,I had great difficulty in trying to find a card saying 'Mazel Tov' (Congratulations) which wasn't tacky/cheap looking or gaudily coloured.So,from personal experience,I have not seen anyone making any handmade personalised cards with a Jewish slant for special occasions.
2/Judaism has more festivals/high holidays than you can shake a stick at.My own personal feeling is that the most popular festivals for card buying would be birth (Mazel Tov !) , Bar Mitzvah & Bat Mitzvah (M. & F. coming of age;c.13 yrs old) ,Hannukah (Festival of Light;around Christian Christmas time) and Yom Kippur (Jewish New Year ).
3/Distribution channels: from having looked (via Google) a couple of US companies who have made a living out of selling handmade Jewish cards,I see that they have targeted customers in 2 ways.
a/ synagogue shops/kiosks
b/independent retailers in Jewish areas
You could also think of advertising in other more off-beat lateral thinking ways :
1/Website links : mutual links to Jewish Chronicle (London jewish newspaper) , Kosher butcher chains etc.You may scoff;but you will be reaching you target audience far more specifically thatn just having a 'stand-alone' website,hoping to reach 'everyone' with a scatter-gun approach.
Although I'm not Jewish,I grew up in a very Jewish area of N London/Herts and have many Jewish friends.....and this just struck me as a sector which has not really been focused on by card mfrs. Although I have seen that some of the larger card store chains have started to introduce a Jewish range,these are still the same tacky/cheap looking cards (nothing handmade),so who knows - if you ever grew your business,then aiming to have a range of handmade Jewish cards in major retailers might be your ultimate goal ?!!!
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