The Rural Blog: Got marquee? This arts idea is downright poetic

Every small town worth its salt has a movie theater marquee waiting for some terrific homebred poetry to entertain and enlighten the masses. And every small town has an arts alliance in need of a good community involvement idea. Thanks to some bright folks in Stevens Point, Wis., and to the marquee value of having a daily blog as well-read as the Daily Yonder, here it is: The Haiku Marquee Project, in which the state's student body -- from pre-school to high school -- has been asked to submit haikus for display at the town's Fox Theater this fall. (Daily Yonder photo)

Reads the release in the Stevens Point Journal: "This is a cooperative venture between the Arts Alliance of Portage County, the Sanders family, which owns the Fox Theater, and the Woodrow Hall Jumpstart Award. The two haiku will be posted on the marquee each month, and 10 honorable-mention poems will be displayed in the Fox Theater show window. Haiku should consist of three lines and no more than 17 syllables. Poems must be the original work of the poet."

Qualified? Interested? Poets may submit no more than three haiku to: Haiku Marquee, Fox Theater, 1124 Main St., Stevens Point, WI 54481; or email them to jimpollock@charter.net. The deadline for submissions is Sept. 14. Include your name, address, phone number and, if you are a student, grade level.

Source: http://irjci.blogspot.com/2012/07/got-marquee-this-arts-idea-is-downright.html

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Doctors Worry Pain Med Petition Goes Too Far

Thirty-seven health care workers signed and submitted a petition to the Food and Drug Administration Wednesday, urging officials to change labels on prescription opioids, such as OxyContin, morphine or Vicodin, all part of an effort to curb prescription drug abuse.

"If the requested changes were adopted, drug companies would not be able to claim that the pain medications are safe and effective for long-term use by noncancer patients," read a statement from Public Citizen, the nonprofit advocacy group spearheading the petition.

The petition follows a wave of reports of increased addiction to opioid pain drugs. Although pain management and addiction specialists agreed with the sentiment behind the petition, several doctors told ABC News it takes a step too far by limiting opioid access to noncancer patients with chronic pain.

"I believe this is not an appropriate way to address the disease of addiction," said Pam Kedziera, the clinical director of Fox Chase Cancer Center's pain program. "Pain is a significant problem in the United States, and those who suffer deserve treatment."

The proposal suggests striking the word "moderate" from opioid labels to reserve it only for patients with severe pain; limiting the maximum daily dose to the equivalent of 100 milligrams of morphine; and limiting the maximum prescription duration to 90 days.

Dr. Joshua Prager, who directs the Center for Rehabilitation of Pain Syndromes at the University of California at Los Angeles, told ABC News he's treated chronic pain patients for nearly 30 years and believes a regulation that would make it harder for doctors to treat these "legitimate patients" would be "extremely regressive."

Prager's patients have included people who've had a failed back surgery or severe osteoarthritis.

Other chronic pain patients could have shingles, multiple sclerosis or pain from a nerve injury.

"We've seen the pendulum go from it being extremely difficult for physicians to prescribe opioids to patients who didn't have cancer? to where it was clearly being overprescribed," Prager said. "What I would argue for is that there really has to be balance that doesn't have the pendulum swing back too fast and too far beyond what is reasonable."

Prager called the 90-day limit "draconian," and Kedziera called it "unbelievable." After all, the definition of chronic is that it is long-lasting, and Kedziera said she's worried about arbitrarily taking chronic pain patients off medication just because time runs out.

Regardless of whether doctors said they believed the petition went too far, they agreed on the need to rethink opioid prescriptions based on firsthand knowledge and the data presented in the petition.

Opioids are the second-most-addictive drug, right behind tobacco, said Dr. Stephen Ross, who holds a slew of addiction and psychiatry titles at New York University hospitals and said he is in favor of the petition. He said about one-quarter of all patients who try heroine, an illegal opioid, become addicted.

Ross said about 75 percent of all opioid users get it from a friend or a parent's medicine cabinet, and because doctors prescribe it, they think it's safe. However, opioids can suppress breathing and become lethal.

However, even addiction specialists like Ross said they were worried about curbing opioid addiction at the expense of pain patients.

Source: http://feeds.abcnews.com/click.phdo?i=f4f70c5046e53c13201a0032edb70c9c

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Zoltan Kovago, Hungary Discus Thrower, Banned For 2 Years

BUDAPEST, Hungary ? Discus thrower Zoltan Kovago of Hungary has been banned for two years for a doping offense, forcing him to miss the London Olympics.

Kovago was considered a medal contender at the games. He won the silver medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport upheld an appeal filed by athletics' governing body, the IAAF, the Hungarian Olympic Committee said Thursday.

Kovago refused to provide a sample to doping officials last year, the committee said. Hungarian doping officials initially cleared Kovago, but the IAAF appealed the decision.

Kovago's ban comes shortly after another Hungarian discus thrower, Robert Fazekas, was removed from the Olympic team for testing positive for the banned steroid stanozolol.

Fazekas initially won the Olympic title in Athens but was disqualified for a doping offense.

Kovago had finished third but was upgraded to the silver-medal position in the standings.

The 2004 Olympics gold went to Virgilijus Alekna of Lithuania.

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The Economy, Marijuana and the Youth Vote: All Tied Up in Colorado

ANALYSIS | Colorado: It's a quintessentially purple state with a libertarian streak as wide as the Rockies. Split down the middle by the Continental Divide, so too are its voters nearly evenly divided between President Barack Obama and presumed Republican nominee Mitt Romney. According to a recent Purple Strategies poll, the president is currently clinging to a 1-point lead over his GOP rival in the Centennial State, and who voters support depends largely on where they live.

"Where you stand depends on where you sit in Colorado," Colorado State University economist Martin Shields told the Associated Press in Ft. Collins. "If you give a talk in Boulder, everyone thinks [Obama's] great. If you give a talk in Colorado Springs, everyone thinks he's awful."

But everywhere in Colorado, one issue will loom largest come November 6: the economy. And like its politics, the state's economy-- and the outlook of its workers-- varies markedly by geographic location. The northeastern part of the state is enjoying a major oil boom, with two companies announcing that they will invest a whopping $15 billion in drilling operations in Weld County alone.

Colorado farmers are also enjoying record crop prices, especially for corn, although the drought that is devastating much of the nation and a plague of grasshoppers are threatening their livelihood.

Down in Pueblo, it's quite another story. Unemployment here is a staggering 12.2 percent, well above the national rate of 8.2 percent. But even here, there are signs of hope. Vestas, a Danish wind-energy giant, has opened the world's largest wind turbine tower plant in Pueblo. Some 470 jobs have been created. It's a drop in the bucket, but overall, state officials say that Colorado has recovered nearly half of the 151,600 jobs lost in the recession.

Pointing to the state's shaky economy, supporters of Amendment 64, a statewide ballot initiative that would legalize the recreational use of marijuana and regulate and tax it like alcohol argue that passing the measure could generate as much as $80 million in annual tax revenue. According to a June Rasmussen poll, fully 61 percent of Colorado voters favor legalization.

This is no surprise in places like Boulder and Denver, where there are more medical marijuana dispensaries than there are Starbucks, but support for legalization isn't just limited to the Mile "High" City. Down in Colorado Springs, one of the nation's most conservative cities, there are nearly as many medical marijuana dispensaries as there are churches. For many conservatives here, and throughout the state, the issue of government intrusion trumps concerns about marijuana use. Many Coloradans bristle at what they see as federal government overreach in this, the birthplace of the Libertarian Party.

With a combination of laid-back liberals and anti-government conservatives and libertarians, there's a chance that Amendment 64 might just pass. But more importantly, the measure could bring young voters out to the polls in droves. That could bode well for President Obama, although many young people here are dismayed and disappointed by the Justice Department's crackdown on medical marijuana, something Obama had promised to take a hands-off approach to earlier in his presidency. The president's hypocrisy on the issue -- he has admitted to being a pretty serious stoner in his youth -- also rankles young voters.

Still, the president fares much better on this issue than does his opponent. Not only has Mitt Romney promised to continue the War on Drugs, he also flippantly dismissed Colorado's heated marijuana legalization debate as "unimportant" during a recent visit to the state. That rubbed many Coloradans raw and did little to improve perceptions of Romney as "out of touch." Indeed, the economy, marijuana and the youth vote are inextricably tied up and could tie break in Colorado come November 6.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/economy-marijuana-youth-vote-tied-colorado-212100696.html

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Iran offers "unchangeable" support for Syria

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran said on Thursday it would stand by its ally Syria despite mounting international pressure on President Bashar al-Assad to step down to defuse a 16-month uprising against his rule.

Iran's Press TV quoted first Vice President Mohammad Reza Rahimi as saying Tehran's support for Syria was "unchangeable", countering suggestions that Tehran could soften its backing for Assad, the Shi'ite Muslim republic's closest Arab ally.

"The Iranian people have an unchangeable stance on Syrians and will always stand by them," Rahimi was quoted as saying, accusing major powers of uniting to damage the Syrian nation.

The secretary of Iran's National Security Council, Saeed Jalili, said on Thursday Tehran was ready to support Damascus "more than before in the face of foreign pressure", the official IRNA news agency reported.

Despite lauding popular uprisings in other Arab countries as an "Islamic awakening", Iran has dismissed opposition to Assad's rule as a foreign conspiracy.

A statement earlier this month by Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi that Tehran was ready to host talks between the Syrian government and opposition groups had suggested a possible policy shift.

In a concrete sign of support for the Syrian authorities, a delegation of Syrian ministers was received in Tehran on Thursday and the two sides agreed a deal on importing Iranian electricity via Iraq.

"We agreed with Iran that in one month agreements be made with Iraq so that, putting problems to one side, electricity imports from Iran begin," the Iranian Students' News Agency (ISNA) quoted Imad Khamis, Syria's electricity minister, as saying.

"Iran will not leave Syria alone in difficult times," Iranian Energy Minister Majid Namjou was quoted as saying by ILNA news agency, adding Tehran was ready to reconstruct facilities damaged in Syria during the uprising.

Iraq's Shi'ite Muslim-led government, which is close Iran, has called for reform in Syria - whose leadership belongs to the Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shi'ite Islam - rather than an end to Assad's 12-year-old rule.

(Reporting by Isabel Coles and Zahra Hosseinian; Editing by Mark Heinrich)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/iran-offers-unchangeable-support-syria-153101458.html

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