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National Gay Men's HIV/AIDS Awareness Day: Celebrating Gay Men
September 22, 2011
Next Tuesday, Sept. 27th, marks the fourth annual observance of National Gay Men's HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, an event organized and launched by the National Association of People with AIDS (NAPWA). Many HIV/AIDS organizations from across the country will commemorate this day with programs, social media campaigns and numerous events in hopes of educating gay men about HIV risks, as well as addressing HIV stigma and homophobia.
In a recent Washington Blade article, NAPWA president and CEO Frank Oldham Jr., a gay man himself who has been living with HIV for more than 20 years, shared his thoughts on society's inability to celebrate gay sex and the beauty of gay culture:
"Gay male culture, by the parties we have, the circuit parties, the bathhouses - all of that is part of a beautiful, gay male culture. And it is something that has to be embraced and especially embraced if you're going to deal with the AIDS epidemic," Oldham says. ...
... "Just because there is a virus, which is chemical, which is scientific, doesn't mean that the culture is bad," he says. "You tell people that if you happen to be monogamous, that's fine. If you happen to have 10 partners a week, fine. But you have to be safe. You have to use condoms."
If you are HIV positive, Oldham says, "you have to take medication and be adherent so that you have a zero viral load and are less likely to infect someone because you love your culture. So this is all a positive thing. I love my culture so I will take care of it. I don't want to infect anybody. I want people to be safe and healthy and beautiful."
In addition, National Gay Men's HIV/AIDS Awareness Day will also place focus on the need for the media to increase reporting about the major issues that make MSM so vulnerable to contracting HIV.
A full list of events is available on NAPWA's website.
Warren Tong is the research editor for TheBody.com and TheBodyPRO.com.
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Insulting Goffstown: Misunderstanding the school vote
March 24. 2013 5:30PM
Goffstown voters on March 12 narrowly rejected the school district's proposed $37.3 million operating budget. And for that, school board members accused the voters of not caring about schools. Their highnesses are miffed.
"I think Goffstown needs to change some of (its) focus and stop being so divisive," board member Virginia McKinnon said. "We passed the town budget; we did not pass the school budget. That sends a huge message to our sending towns. One thing they're looking at is if we support education. I think the message that we sent this year is a real bad one."
Board member Philip Pancoast told voters directly, "I would encourage you to get on board to support education and understand that challenging times are coming."
The district-recommended budget was $700,000 (less than 2 percent) higher than the default budget. Out of 2,199 votes cast, the district-recommended budget failed by only 79 votes. So, because 1,139 Goffstown voters preferred a budget that spent $36.6 million, while 1,060 voters preferred a budget that spent $37.3 million, school board members concluded that the entire community does not care about education.
All Goffstown residents ought to find that condescension rude and offensive.
Several residents pointed out after the defeat of the district's budget that they were struggling financially and did not think this was a good time to increase town spending. They support the schools; they just want the schools to make ends meet with the revenue they have - just like so many residents have to do.
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Gifts Galore
The Slate 60 conference and philanthropy series.
"Listening to the Slate 60: Audio and video from our recent conference," by Andy Bowers, Jim Festante, and David Plotz. Posted Nov. 22, 2006.
This week, Slate is co-hosting the Slate 60 Conference on Innovative Philanthropy with the William J. Clinton Foundation and the Clinton School of Public Service at the University of Arkansas. The idea is to gather 150 donors and thinkers in hopes of spurring more and better giving. To accompany the conference, we're running a series of pieces that take a practical and sometimes skeptical look at major philanthropy:
"Grant Away: Why venture philanthropy is important, even if it sounds ridiculous," by Henry Blodget. Posted Nov. 13, 2006.
" Market Magic: Nonprofits could access needed capital by turning donors into investors," by Douglas K. Smith. Posted Nov. 13, 2006.
"How To Give Away a Million Dollars: Ideas from Nora Ephron, David Brooks, Jane Smiley, and others." Posted Nov. 10, 2006.
"The Gifts That Keep on Giving: Why smart investment policy is critical to healthy philanthropy," by Henry Blodget. Posted Nov. 10, 2006.
"Give Strong: A road map for philanthropists," by Sebastian Mallaby. Posted Nov. 10, 2006.
"Looking the Carnegie Gift Horse in the Mouth: The 19th-century critique of big philanthropy," by David Nasaw. Posted Nov. 10, 2006.
"Portraits of Philanthropy: A Slate video." Posted Nov. 16, 2006.


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After a courageous battle with cancer, Alice Elaine Walters passed away at her home amidst her family and friends on June 21, 2013.
Elaine, as she was known to all, was born Aug. 23, 1946, in Prattville, Ala., to James Herbert Riley Jr. and Beryle Alice Donahoo-Riley. She grew up in McMinnville, Ore., and graduated from McMinnville High School. She later attended Northwest Christian College in Eugene where she met her husband, Theodore Walters, of Yamhill.
The couple wed in McMinnville at the First Christian Church on Sept. 10, 1965. They lived in Salem for two years, moved to Yamhill, and then to Salem. They spent the next 14 years in Hood River, and moved back to Yamhill to the family's Century Farm for 28 years.
Along with her husband Ted, Elaine was a member of the Yamhill Christian Church, and as active as health permitted.
Elaine will forever be remembered by her husband, Ted Walters; her mother, Beryle Donahoo; her sister Eleanor Williams; her sister Colleen Greenwade, preceded; her beloved children, daughter and son-in-law Heather and Alex Novickis and son and daughter-in-law Kevin and Jessica Walters; treasured grandchildren Cyrus Lindsey, Nikklas Lindsey, Dmitri Novickis and Thomas Walters; along with countless other family and friends who were blessed to know her.
Elaine loved NASCAR, movies, playing the piano and singing, knitting, gardening, reading, laughing, being with family, having fun with friends, and her mission work.
Elaine loved knitting. Her passion was knitting sweaters, hats, booties and washcloths for children in various parts of the world. Some of the places included Kenya, Ecuador, Mexico, Texas, Ukraine and Yamhill County's first-time parents.
Elaine has touched the lives of many people with her smile and generosity. Friends and family are invited to attend a celebration of her life on July 13 at 11 a.m. at the Yamhill Christian Church.
The family would like to thank Newberg Providence Hospital and Hospice for their excellent care of Elaine, as well as our family and friends.
Potted plants are requested in lieu of cut flowers.
Memorial contributions may be made in her name to Operation Christmas Child at www.samaritans
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Let's all get our bibs ready and prepare for the next edition of Restaurant Day on August 17.
Just in case you are not familiar with the concept of Restaurant Day, on this special day anyone can set up a restaurant, café or bar for a day. Yes, just anyone. You choose the location—at your home, office, on a street corner, in your garden, at a park, or on the beach— (almost) everything is possible and you decide what you want to offer be it soup, tea, candy, fish kebabs or whatnot.
Photos courtesy of Restaurant Day Reykjavík.
Restaurant Day is the world's biggest food carnival and happens all over the world four times a year.
So far, over 9,000 one-day restaurants by an estimated 38,500 restaurateurs have fed about 1,060,000 customers
Although it is still one month to this brilliant event, there are plenty of interesting pop-up restaurants in the works already.
The event first came to Reykjavík in 2012, with five to 15 pop-up restaurants opening their doors each time since then, including everything from Japanese lunch boxes to tacos to theatrical food/design experiences to Tiramisu served from a window of an old timber house.
Oh, that Tiramisu... sweet memories. Just thinking about it makes me drool. Said divine Italian dessert was sold out of a second floor window in a typically Icelandic timber house in the city center. Once a customer approached, a basket was lowered from the window. This was probably the coolest way anybody has ever served me anything to eat.
If you like to cook or bake and are interested in participating you should follow the instructions on the event's website.
And if you are just interested in eating great food (like me) you should make the best of it and roam the streets of Reykjavík at the next event tracking down those pop-up restaurants.
What a great concept: a bunch of people who have nothing really in common but their love for cooking and baking delicious meals and goodies setting up a pop-up restaurant in their own backyard or home selling their home made tidbits to people.
So now you know what to do on August 17. Verði þér að góðu!
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High rank in State Senate brings power that is often corrupting
ALBANY – The title of State Senate majority leader exudes Albany power.
But with the arrest Tuesday of Democratic Sen. Malcolm Smith of Queens, three of the four most recent majority leaders have later faced serious federal corruption charges.
Smith, who lost the title following a 2009 Senate coup, was arrested at dawn at his home and accused of a bribery scheme to get political support for him to run as a Republican for New York City mayor this year.
Five others were arrested in connection with the affair or spinoff allegations of corruption.
For prosecutors, it was just the latest in an extraordinarily long line of cases brought against state officials, from former Comptroller Alan Hevesi to former State Senate leaders Joseph Bruno and Pedro Espada.
The newest Albany scandal "demonstrates, once again, that a show-me-the-money culture seems to pervade every level of New York State government," said U.S. Attorney for the Southern District Preet Bharara.
The New York Public Interest Research Group pointed out that 29 top state officials, most of them lawmakers, have been arrested, convicted, censured or brought down by scandal involving everything from stealing money to sexual indiscretions.
One of those arrested on corruption charges for his role in the Smith scandal, New York City Councilman Dan Halloran, offered a simple explanation about politics and money in an FBI tape recording.
"That's politics," the Republican was quoted as saying on the undercover tape. "It's all about how much … That's our politicians in New York. They're all like that, all like that. And they get like that because of the drive that the money does for everything else."
FBI agents said they caught Smith, 56, on tape as recently as two weeks ago in his Albany Senate office. Agents made five other arrests, including GOP leaders in the Bronx and Queens, a New York City Republican councilman and the Democratic mayor and deputy mayor in the Rockland County community of Spring Valley.
In all the episodes involving a strange set of connections, prosecutors allege more than $100,000 was spread around in bribes arranged by an unnamed cooperating witness and an FBI undercover agent posing as a real estate mogul.
Smith, who ran the Senate during a turbulent period before a 2009 coup, denied the allegations through his lawyer. A maximum sentence on the charges, if convicted, could land Smith in prison for 45 years.
He was the first and only African-American member of the Independent Democratic Conference, the breakaway group of five Democrats who formed a coalition to keep Republicans in partial control of the Senate. He was stripped of his leadership and committee posts seven hours after his arrest.
Sen. Jeff Klein, a Bronx Democrat and leader of the IDC, said that Smith's actions "breached the trust" of the group and that Smith should consider stepping down from office.
Klein stripped Smith of his $12,500 stipend as Social Services Committee chairman.
In a Buffalo News editorial board meeting Tuesday, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo called the corruption charges "horrific and very troubling if true."
Not unlike past prosecutors who have dealt with Albany corruption, Bharara noted the level of criminal behavior at the Capitol in the past decade or so and said prosecutors alone can't clean up Albany.
"The dream of honest government cannot come to pass unless there is a real honest change in the culture … New Yorkers should demand more,'' he said in a Manhattan news conference.
In the first scheme outlined by prosecutors in a written complaint, Smith approved payments to Joseph Savino, the Bronx GOP chairman, and Vincent Tabone, the Queens vice chairman, to secure their backing to let him run on the Republican mayoral line. As a Democrat seeking a wild long shot to run as the GOP candidate for mayor, Smith needed the backing of three of five Republican chairmen from the city's five boroughs.
Smith was "bent on becoming mayor," Bharara said.
Halloran, the city councilman and former New York police officer, was described as the quarterback who arranged the payments to the borough leaders. This was all with Smith's blessing, who talked of giving only half the money until they delivered the signatures needed to get him on the ballot.
In all, $80,000 was paid or promised to the two GOP county bosses, who also were arrested Tuesday morning.
"He decided to bribe his way onto the ballot," the prosecutor said of Smith.
Prosecutors said Smith also sought to steer $500,000 in state transportation funding to the cooperating witness and undercover agent for a Rockland County real estate deal.
The second case involves allegations Halloran directed $80,000 in city funds to a company he believed was controlled by the cooperating witness and undercover agent.
A third case was brought against the mayor and deputy mayor of Spring Valley in Rockland County – Noramie Jasmin and Joseph Desmaret, respectively. They were part of a scheme involving Smith and road and redevelopment projects in the village.
Smith joined the Senate in 2000 and became majority leader for a brief time before the 2009 coup. He later emerged with the title of temporary president of the Senate but little real power until the Republicans took back control of the Senate in 2011.
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Since I wrote in this recent post about my trompe l'oeil painting, I have gotten several inquiries about the wine labels. This was one I did for our family, incorporating wine labels we had saved over the years - mostly with special memories attached. I have also been asked to do special orders of friends' own labels and corks, as well as cheese labels, and other personal memory-laden items.
I am currently accepting commissions on custom versions of this wine painting - incorporating specific labels and corks of the client's choosing. I will paint each label exactly as it is sent to me, including wine spills, rips, handwriting, etc., unless I receive instructions to "clean it up" (but I personally think the wine spills and other imperfections give the painting much more character).
This is the perfect gift for wine aficionados who already have all the oenophile's accoutrements. In a way, it's a very personal portrait of a wine lover's best memories!
Here are some of the specific details:
- Hand painted in highest quality artists oils on board (museum quality), signed
- Size: 24" x 16", unframed
- Price: $2100 (unframed)
- Price with gold leaf style frame: $2100 + 250 = $2350 (framed)
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Poor on purpose
Clare of Assisi vowed to live in poverty not for its own sake but to enrich her relationships with others and God. Today her way of life is not just for cloistered nuns.
Francis and Clare. Even though he was the better known of the two, it was Clare who most captured my attention at my Franciscan high school. From the beginning, there was something about her life that resonated deep in my being.
Hers was the story of a young woman inspired by a charismatic troubadour, refusing a marriage arranged by her family, stealing away to join the fledgling Franciscan movement as the lone woman in the group, and renouncing all to follow her ideals. This drama had just the right mix of romantic intrigue and spiritual idealism to draw me in. Allowing "Lady Clare" to emerge from the confines of the 13th century in which she lived and speak her vision as clearly today as she did then has been an unfolding journey for me.
Clare. Chiara. The clear one. As her name suggests, Clare had clarity of purpose and intense determination from an early age. She was probably no more than 17 or 18 when she first heard Francis of Assisi preach. Yet, as he spoke, she heard her own voice. In befriending him, she became truer to herself.
Clare was born in 1193 to a well-to-do family in Assisi. The patriarchal structures of the times dictated the place of women. Those, like Clare, who felt called to live a life of vowed poverty, chastity, and obedience were bound to live in an enclosure.
Clare didn't question this. She had other causes that consumed her. And so it was in the little dwelling at San Damiano in Assisi that Clare lived for 42 years until her death in 1253.
During this time, Clare became convinced that a life of radical poverty was essential for maintaining loving relationships among the sisters in the community and experiencing total reliance upon and union with God.
Knowing that formal papal approval was the only way her Rule could survive through the ages, Clare pressed Pope Innocent IV until he acquiesed. Two days later, her mission accomplished, Clare died.
It wasn't until I visited Assisi that I really met Clare and began to feel her wisdom. I sat in silence at her place at the wooden table in the little cloister at San Damiano. I walked in the garden where she would have prayed, my own steps tracing those she and Francis made 800 years earlier. I climbed the rough-hewn stairs to the dark, attic-like dormitory where she slept among her sisters. It was such a poor life, but something about it felt so rich.
I have always wrestled with my vow of poverty, more so than any of the other vows. My life in the 21st century, though Franciscan, is a far cry from the radical poverty of Clare and her sisters in that little enclave of Assisi.
There I realized that Clare's wisdom was not about copying someone else's vision—even Clare did not mirror the vision of her dearest friend and soul mate, Francis. He was always more concerned about obedience than poverty. We each deal with our own times and our own reality, I realized in Assisi.
Part of Clare's radical poverty was not poverty for its own sake but for the deeper relationships it made possible. Freedom for relationships—this was her wisdom. She understood that pure relationships, uncluttered by anything that would hold back total and sacrificial loving, must be her vow.
Clare's message for us is clear, simple and strong: A relentless pursuit of material goods can stifle a heart for compassion. A life preoccupied with acquisitions leaves little space for the kind of longing that only God can fill. The things of greatest value are found not in shopping malls, but in relationships—in deep human connections where loving thoughts replace petty jealousies, and forgiveness heals resentments that have been nursed far too long. We cannot purchase sunsets and stars, yet these are among the richest creations of a holy God. Friends, Clare knew, are the most precious gift of all.
While Clare lived in a cloister, her voice soared beyond the convent walls. This relentless sage made demands that may have annoyed church leaders. Hers was not a stubbornness born of self-will, but a clear conviction that the way of life she started must be protected.
I cannot help but wonder how Clare would have lived these convictions today. Perhaps she would have entered a convent, perhaps not. I can see her as a lobbyist who presses Congress for health care for the poor. I can picture her as a mother who insists that her children share, be kind, and plant a garden. Perhaps she would have been a theologian, lecturing about prayer from within the wellspring of her own deep spiritual life.
I can even imagine her doing what she did in the 13th century—pestering popes to take women more seriously.


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Traveling Tool Museum Returns for WIA 2011
In the August 2007 issue of Popular Woodworking Magazine, Christopher Schwarz introduced you to John Sindelar and his jaw-dropping collection of rare and one-of-a-kind handtools. (You can read that story here, and download a PDF slideshow of items in his collections; keep a drool rag handy).
And in September of last year, just days before the Woodworking in America Conference, John put the finishing touches on his Traveling Tool Museum (an incredible custom trailer with interior wood fittings that are far fancier than what you'll find in most houses), then drove from Edwardsburg, Mich., to Northern Kentucky to share part of his collection with conference attendees. We captured some video of the Museum – but it doesn't begin to do justice to the fabulous things inside.
I, for one, was gazing longingly at the shiny silver trammel points (far prettier than jewelry – and useful to boot!).
This year, John is returning to Woodworking in America 2011 (Sept. 30-Oct. 2) with some of his new finds on display (he recently acquired a semi-load's worth of packed tool crates that hadn't been opened in 40 years!). And – and this is new – he's offering free appraisals of any rare/collectible tools you care to bring along.
The Traveling Tool Museum will be in the Marketplace, and open during all Marketplace hours (9 a.m.-6 p.m. Friday and Saturday).
Early Bird registration for Woodworking in America 2011 ends August 14 – so sign up now and save. And if you can't attend the full conference, I hope you can at least visit the Marketplace – if for no other reason that to see John's incredible collection.


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The fact of the matter is, for about $29.95 you can buy a package to build your own website without any knowledge or previous skill and put it on the Internet which might look as good and it may have many "Professional" features giving a professional appearance.
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Websites are advertising, marketing and sales! Promotion of your website on the Internet is required to be successful.
Many of the decisions you will need to make for your website will require experience in each of these areas as it applies to both your business and your website. If the only experience you web designer has is running their web design business they will not be able to guide you and your chances of success are not very good.
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"Business transactions conducted via electronic means; most often referring to Internet-based relationships between customers and vendors, but also including CD-ROM catalogs; also called internet marketing. The Internet, direct marketing's newest channel, has provided an unprecedented opportunity on a global basis for businesses to interact with, reach out to, and be accessible by their customers without limitations with respect to physical location or time zone. E-commerce practitioners utilize the Internet to disseminate company or product information, generate leads, take orders, and build customer databases. CD-ROM catalogs permit the distribution of vast amounts of personalized product information via a cost efficient medium. Business-to-business sales are expected to dominate e-commerce by 2003 reaching $1.3 trillion, whereas consumer sales are projected to be $108 billion. Electronic commerce may be adopted more readily by buyers of services and products such as software, information, and photos, because these items can be both sold and distributed over the Internet."
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"business-to-consumer and business-to-business commerce conducted by way of the Internet or other electronic networks. E-commerce originated in a standard for the exchange of documents during the 1948 – 49 Berlin blockade and airlift. Various industries elaborated upon the system until the first general standard was published in 1975. The electronic data interchange (EDI) standard is unambiguous, independent of any particular machine, and flexible enough to handle most simple electronic transactions. In addition to standard forms for business-to-business transactions, e-commerce encompasses much wider activity — for example, the deployment of secure private networks (intranets) for sharing information within a company, as well as selective extensions of a company's intranet to collaborating business networks (extranets). A new form of cooperation known as a virtual company, actually a network of firms, each performing some of the processes needed to manufacture a product or deliver a service, has flourished."
TechEncyclopedia: e-commerce
"Perhaps the First E-Commerce
In 1886, a telegraph operator was able to obtain a shipment of watches that was refused by the local jeweler. Using the telegraph, he sold all the watches to fellow operators and railroad employees and then ordered more. Within a short time, he made enough money to quit his job and start his own catalog mail order business. The young man's name was Richard Sears, who formed Sears, Roebuck and Co. in 1893."


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The Ph.D. Program in General/Experimental psychology admits students in three broad areas of concentration ("clusters"): Biobehavioral Psychology; Developmental/Social Psychology; and Behavioral Psychopharmacology.
The Ph.D. program in Clinical Psychology places equal emphasis on research and clinical training. The clinical program is fully accredited by the American Psychological Association.
Further information about both programs can be obtained electronically from the Department of Psychology website, or by requesting a department graduate studies brochure from the Department of Psychology. Both contain details of requirements, funding opportunities, clinical and research facilities, specialty areas, ongoing research, and faculty, as well as general information about the University and the area.
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Twenty-four credits of psychology courses and seminars, including Psychology - PSYC 301, PSYC 302, PSYC 340, PSYC 341; Proseminar; thesis research for six credits. The requirements of the specific courses (PSYC 301, PSYC 302, PSYC 340, PSYC 341) may be exempted by examination. There is no foreign language requirement.
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The writing life
After spending what seemed to be several lifetimes at school studying to be a writer, I must admit I was discouraged when I learned that the guy who wrote "Baby on Board" on a little yellow triangular sign made more money as a writer than Herman Melville, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and James Joyce put together.
I am most impressed that he made his money while he was alive. Artists, writers and composers historically enjoy posthumous success more often than not. However, it isn't fair to say that more music by Bach, Mozart, and Chopin was sold after they were dead than when they were alive, because recorded music, concert tours, blood-sucking agents, managers, producers and air-headed groupies had yet to be invented. Anyone wanting to hear Bach when he was alive had to go to Germany.
Nonetheless, Elvis Presley sold 200 million recordings the year after his death, more than any year when he was alive, which gives credence to the creative set being worth more dead than alive, no matter when they lived. That being the sentiment of most of their spouses, I am surprised that more are not murdered.
Anyway, the romance and glamour of my initial dream of being a career novelist quickly went to the wayside when a professor told my class that less than two percent of people who write for a living are even modestly successful fiction writers. At the time, the idea of being paid to lie sounded like a cool idea, but the odds of actually selling a work of fiction made the need for a steady job a reality.
I was pursuing employment as a political speechwriter, because that's close to writing fiction, when the nuttiest guy in my writing class landed a job working for a tabloid. His employer paid him handsomely for making stuff up about celebrities that was just to the right of being illegal. As long as the paper wasn't sued, and people kept buying his lies, he was allowed to write anything he wanted.
One of his stories was about the possibility of Richard Simmons being a secret weapon used by terrorists to torture the chronically overweight and brain-dead by leading them to believe they could "Sweat to the Oldies" until they miraculously became slender and attractive. Oddly, his readers found the subject fascinating. Unfortunately, his hypothesis had merit. Simmons' groupies actually believed the gender-defying guru of gelatinous flab and spent real money on his weight-loss videos, which proves the inventiveness of terrorists knows no bounds.
Nevertheless, my writer friend still had this fabulous, though sleazy, job of lying about whatever he wanted as long as readers kept buying the paper. After thinking about it, I felt I had no right to criticize his tabloid mindset when I was being paid to pen political speeches - the undisputed ultimate lies. So I decided to move up the food chain a notch and become a columnist.
For the most part, the only difference between columnists and tabloid writers is that columnists are published in real newspapers, and if they are a bit lucky and good, the possibility of syndication is always a bonus. Tabloids tend to limit their writers to one paper. Good liars are coveted and they keep them to themselves.
I find column writing to be therapeutic. Columnists more or less have the freedom of writing about any subject they like as long as sex, religion, and politics are not involved to the extreme. Consequently, we can rant about anything and everything that annoys us and get it off our chest with little opposition. Although it's therapy for us, it causes publishers and editors acute anxiety and other strange diseases, which creates work for real therapists, and I figure that's a good thing.
Writing a column can also be used to pave the way to more lucrative careers. For instance, I could use my experience as a political speechwriter and introduce possible legislative ideas that I think would be appealing to the voting public. If they are well-received, I could include them in a political platform to get elected to high office, where I would be generously paid for doing what I always wanted to do - lie for a living.
I would promise things like: "If I am elected to office, I will introduce Bari's Law number 1001. Any person caught shopping while their half-filled cart is in line at the cash register will be sentenced to rotting in prison for life where they will stand last in line for everything including meals, showers, telephone privileges, etc., etc., blah-blah-blah."
However, there is one drawback. Readers might take me seriously, and if I were elected to office, I would be an integral part of the system that we can't understand.


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K-9 officers and their dogs from Ardmore Police Department, Carter County Sheriff's Department and Lone Grove Police Department completed a two-day Building Search School Tuesday, winning praise from Professional Law Enforcement Seminar instructors.
"The instructors (Royce Stephens and Thomas Comstock, both Stillwater Police Department) said they were very impressed. They said we had a very good group of dogs and handlers," said Sgt. Keith Ingle, APD K-9 Team supervisor.
The course included two hours of classroom instruction on case law. The balance of the course was what Ingle described as "practical exercises." Six dogs and their handlers, who serve with the three departments were put through their paces.
"Because we had two instructors we were able to have a continuous training cycle," Ingle said. "Each dog received more than 60 scenarios over the two days. When it was over we had some real tired dogs."
The "practical exercises" were conducted in the former Franklin Elementary School building.
"The training is about clearing a building, searching and finding the bad guy," Ingle said. "The dogs must use their noses to find the living creature in the building who is putting out the most adrenalin."
The adrenalin was provided by APD Narcotics Officer Brandon Cathey and Carter County Deputy James VanZant.
"The decoys wear bite suits, which are extremely padded, hot and heavy. The burden of wearing the suit and being in a hot environment increases adrenalin and simulates a person who is attempting to run and/or hide from police," Ingle said. "Brandon and James provided the most important element of the training. It's hot, heavy and hard work to be consistently jumped on and dragged by the dogs. They did a great job and we really appreciated it."
While it is not required for a law enforcement dog to be certified in building searches, Ingle said it is essential the dogs are trained to do the job.
"After watching all the dogs work there is no doubt in my mind every dog that went through the training is capable of doing a building search and doing it successfully," Ingle said.
The course was sponsored by the APD.
"We are pleased to have been able to sponsor this training and have these instructors here. It is in line with our ongoing goal of bringing high level training in all aspects of law enforcement to Ardmore. It is an opportunity for officers from this area to attend valuable training, and contributes to the economic well being of our community at the same time. We will continue to bring instructors and training to Ardmore in hopes of being the training hub for Southern Oklahoma law enforcement," said APD Chief Keith Mann.


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CALEDONIA TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A 9-year-old fatally stabbed at a playground near his western Michigan home was remembered during a memorial service Wednesday as a big-hearted and fun-loving boy who was taken much too soon.
Michael Connor Verkerke's "life had barely begun," Pastor Brad Kalajainen told hundreds of mourners at Cornerstone Church in Kent County's Caledonia Township.
The boy, called Connor by family and friends, was playing with some other children on Aug. 4 on the playground in Kentwood, near Grand Rapids, when witnesses say one boy pulled a knife and stabbed Connor in the back.
Connor died at a hospital, and the 12-year-old who allegedly stabbed him is facing a murder charge.
The service Wednesday, though, was largely free of talk about the incident. It was all about Connor, whose father called him "one of my heroes."
"I have never known anybody" who loved as much as "my 9-year-old son," said Jared Verkerke, one of several family members, teachers and others who spoke at the service.
They cited his varied interests that included dancing, singing, superheroes and the Cub Scouts.
The Scouts played a prominent role in the service, lining the entrance to the church and performing a flag ceremony inside. They also provided the food that was served afterward.
Connor was the oldest of four boys. During the service, his 7-year-old brother Kameron got out of his chair on stage, walked toward the audience and spoke into a microphone that the pastor handed him.
"It's hard to go through this," said Kameron, who was wearing a dark blue Cub Scout shirt. "But he's in a better place."
The service came two days after a judge ordered a mental competency exam for the 12-year-old boy charged in Connor's death.
The Associated Press isn't naming the 12-year-old because of his age. He's designated as an adult in the juvenile court system, meaning he'd be sentenced as a juvenile if convicted and then resentenced as an adult once he turns 21.
State mental health experts will examine the 12-year-old and report on whether they believe he is mentally competent to stand trial. That is expected to bring a delay of several months.
Laura Roth, Connor's godmother, said the boy's unselfish personality was on display even in the moments leading up to the attack.
"When the child who took Connor's life asked if he could join them, true to form, Connor welcomed him wholeheartedly," Roth said.
After being stabbed, her godson's focus was on his brother and not himself, she said.
"During a time when most would have been consumed with fear, Connor was more concerned about Kameron," she said. "He told Kameron: 'Look at me, Kameron. If I die, this is not your fault. I love you.'"


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Bruins general manager Peter Chiarelli today told the assembled media at the 2011 NHL Entry Draft in St. Paul, Minn., that he will not qualify goaltender Matt Dalton, who was scheduled to be a restricted free agent.
Combine that with Anton Khudobin, Boston's No. 3 on the depth chart by the end of last season, being an unrestricted free agent, and suddenly it looks like the Bruins need to replenish their goaltending coffers.
The Bruins might look for a goalie Saturday during rounds two through seven of the draft.
Dalton, who was signed as a collegiate free agent out of Bemidji State, appeared in 22 games for the Providence (AHL) farm club over the last couple seasons. But he spent most of the last two years with Reading of the ECHL. He will now become an unrestricted free agent.
Khudobin, who was acquired in the Bruins' only trade on deadline day last season, was 9-4-1 with a .920 save percentage and 2.40 goals-against average for the P-Bruins after the deal. Chiarelli said the netminder might go to play in Russia.


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CLiki web site
A Wiki site with "links to and resources for free software implemented in Common Lisp and available on Unix-like systems". It is based on the Araneida Web server.
CMU Common Lisp Repository
This is some kind of ancestor of the Common Lisp Directory... The Common Lisp Repository (formerly the Lisp Utilities Repository) was established by Mark Kantrowitz in 1990 to collect files and progr...
Introduction à la programmation en Common Lisp (French)
"Introduction à la programmation en Common Lisp" (PDF in French) and Lisp Programming Examples: - Computing influence spheres for atoms in a protein. - Functions to compute frequencies of characters, ...
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A personal Common Lisp "newbie" guide (for Windows)
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Shared State Concurrency for Common Lisp
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This is a belated introduction, since I posted a discussion topic earlier.
Let's see...I am a second-generation Japanese/ native Californian who went to college in Providence, Rhode Island, where there were not really many Japanese restaurants or markets. Also, the campus food was greasy. I missed Japanese food dearly, and I eventually started practicing my Japanese home-cooking skills in the dorm kitchen. Whenever I would return to California during breaks, I would ask my mom how to make certain dishes, and even got to the point where I would take notes watching Japanese cooking shows. I am still continuing my journey in appreciating and enjoying Japanese home cooking. I've been following this site and just hungry for a while, and they have also been very helpful-- Thanks Maki!
Also, I run a Japanese food blog for fun with two co-writers. Meshing our love of photography and poetry and Japanese food together, we take any favorite dish and write a (sometimes silly) poem, along with a description for each. Through it, we're trying to find the importance of food as an art, culture, and well, as something that we can not live without. Ha, that sort of turned out as shameless advertising.
Anyway I'm so glad to find so many other Japanese food enthusiasts here!
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BOSTON (Reuters) - A jury on Wednesday convicted one of two people accused of operating a prostitution business out of a Zumba fitness studio in Kennebunk, Maine, in a scandal that has rocked the popular coastal vacation spot.
A jury meeting in York County Superior Court in Alfred, Maine, convicted Mark Strong, Sr., of Thomaston, Maine, on 13 misdemeanor charges related to promoting prostitution, according to a court official.
He faces up to a year in jail on each charge.
Strong was charged with helping fitness instructor Alexis Wright operate a prostitution business out of a Zumba dance studio the two ran, and with videotaping some of the 150 clients whose names Wright documented.
Wright is due to go to trial on charges of engaging in and promoting prostitution in May.
Kennebunk, located in southern Maine about 85 miles northeast of Boston, is a few miles away from Kennebunkport, where former U.S. President George H.W. Bush has a summer home.
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Good-bye Summer - I love you!
It's killing me to have to say good-bye to summer.
I know there are gorgeous Autumn days ahead but summer is by far my favourite season.
Here are just a few things I will miss about summer:~
lovely, bright summer fashions
light and healthy salads
summer parties with friends
entertaining on the deck on the deck
ice-cream & fruity popsicles
seafood, seafood and more seafood!
I envy those of you with summer just around the corner!
Melissah xox
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Five Small Kitchens from This Old House
This Old House is not usually the first resource we turn to for small-space tips and ideas. We usually associate it with big rambling houses and expensive renovations. But this may be a mistake; many of the older homes they feature have small kitchens, and there are some treasures in their archives for those of us in older, smaller spaces.
Here are five small(er) kitchens from their archives. Not every kitchen is tiny, but they are all modestly-sized and very inspiring.
• Cottage Kitchen - Part of a cottage renovation in Concord, Massachusetts. This kitchen is compact and well-proportioned, and it shows off clever space-saving design like the angled drawer by the stove.
• Functional Form - There doesn't look to be much storage in this small kitchen, but it feels open and uncluttered. The concrete countertops include a built-in knife block and drain board.
• Big Personality - The owner of this kitchen repurposed her grandmother's furniture into built-in cupboards for her 11x12 kitchen. We love the rich color and tin ceiling.
• Looks and Brains - This kitchen makes great use of odd spaces, like the wire storage in the slot to the left of the stove, and the small pull drawers under the upper shelves. They give closed storage while still letting the upper areas feel open, and they have the added bonus of looking like charming library drawers. And that blackboard over the stove - that's different!
• A Chef's Galley Kitchen - Manhattan chef Michael Lomonaco's renovation reads like a playbook of all the best things you can do to optimize a small NYC kitchen. Check out the deep drawers, folding stepstool, and pull-out pantry.
Related: Kitchen Spotlight: Open Storage in Small Kitchens
(Images: Joshua McHugh for TOH; Deborah Whitlaw Llewellyn for TOH; Eric Piasecki for TOH; Mike Huibregtse for TOH; Alexandra Rowley for TOH)


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Pati's Mexican Table "Lip-Smacking Mexican Meal" By adding a few key Mexican ingredients to what you'd normally find in an all-American pantry and fridge, you get these to-die-for, lip-smacking dishes. Chicken a la Trash; Everyday Green Salad; Impossible Chocoflan. D
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Ask This Old House "Installing a New Kitchen Sink and Faucet/Installing Insulated Sidelights on a Front Door" Plumbing and heating expert Richard Trethewey heads to Colorado Springs, Colorado, to install a brand new kitchen sink and faucet. Then, general contractor Tom Silva installs insulated sidelights on a front door. D
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Rick Steves' Europe "Highlights of Castile: Toledo and Salamanca" Rick marvels at El Greco, pops some explosive pickles, and rambles medieval walls.G
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Grand View "Golden Gate National Recreation Area" Baumann sets his sites on one of the largest urban parks in the world: Golden Gate National Recreation Area. The park, which includes Alcatraz, the Marin Headlands, and the original military fortifications surrounding San Francisco, was conceived as part of a trend to make national park resources more accessible to urban populations. Interviews include Frank Heaney, Alcatraz prison guard, Heather Booth, park interpretive ranger, and Stephen Haller, civil war historian. D
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Lidia's Italy In America "California: Pesto Pronto!" On her trip to the Golden State, Lidia meets with Brady Whitlow, president of Corto Olive, to talk about their methods of producing Italian-style olive oil in California. Next, Lidia visits one of the longest-standing wine making families in Sonoma County, the Seghesio family, at their vineyards. Joe joins Lidia in the kitchen to give his take on how to use pesto in two easy recipes: Pesto Salmon BLT and Pesto Chicken Salad. D
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Mexico -- One Plate at a Time with Rick Bayless "A Ceviche State of Mind" Nothing captures the spirit of a day at the beach in Mexico like the fresh seafood cocktail or ceviche. But you don't have to be on the coast to enjoy it. Rick finds a classic version at a favorite spot with the feel of a beachside fish shack - right in the heart of landlocked Mexico City. D
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Caprial and John's Kitchen: Cooking for Family and Friends "Pumpkin Patch Dinner" The Pences visit a pumpkin patch to harvest their favorites for pumpkin curry soup and pumpkin cookies served with hot apple pie drinks.G
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STROUDSBURG, Pa. (AP) — A retired Pennsylvania pastor charged with killing his wife has acknowledged cheating on her and lying about it.
But Arthur Schirmer insists he is telling the truth about how his spouse Betty died in a car crash.
Schirmer spent about two hours testifying in his own defense on Friday in Monroe County Court.
He is charged with homicide in the 2008 death of Betty Schirmer. He is charged separately in the 1999 death of his first wife, Jewel.
Prosecutors say he bludgeoned both women and staged their deaths to look like accidents. Schirmer has pleaded not guilty in both cases.
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Missouri CourthousesContact and other information about this county is available on the National Association of Counties website, http://explorer.naco.org/.
The home of John B. Williams, in Cape Fair, served as meeting place for Stone County's first County Court. In January 1852 court was ordered to meet at Jamestown, the county seat. Jamestown's name was changed to Galena in January 1853.
Money for construction of the first courthouse came from the sale of lots. The court appropriated $376 and appointed Samuel D. Nelson, superintendent. John H. Moore submitted the low bid and won the contract for building the two-story, hand-hewn structure, which the court accepted in February 1853.
The upper story was neither finished nor partitioned. Court officials kept their records and equipment in special corners.
Workers painted the building in 1854 and repaired the underpinning and the chimney in 1858. By 1867 the courthouse was in such poor condition that the county clerk's office moved to the home of P. C. Berry, a few yards from the courthouse.
On Dec. 12, 1870, the court appropriated $4,000 for construction of a new courthouse (Figure 1). Harry Baker served as first superintendent. He was succeeded by W. P. Davenport. Contractors were Goodall and Bradshaw. Apparently, an additional appropriation of $986 was required to complete construction on the hip-roofed, two-story frame. It may have had a cupola. Exterior stairs led from each side to the center door upstairs. The court accepted the courthouse May 4, 1874.
Figure 1Stone County Courthouse, 1870-1919, left. County jail, right. (From: Centennial Edition, Stone County, May 1951)
By 1919 the building was in such a deplorable state of repair that only three offices remained; the other offices were scattered throughout Galena. After more than 50 years of use, the courthouse was razed when Stone County authorized construction of a 20th century courthouse.
Petitions presented to the Stone County Court called for an election on a $50,000 bond issue, which passed in July 1919. Illustrations of recently built neighboring courthouses were printed next to the old courthouse of Stone County to point out the contrast.
Commissioners chose Charles Sudhoelter and Co., Joplin, as architects. Contractor was the Pauley Construction Co., Springfield, which bid $47,600 on the three-story, 65-by-70-foot, 40-foot-tall, brick building with concrete trim (Figure 2). A central hall divides the interior; courtrooms, located on the south, have a curved projection with seven windows. The graceful, oval shape of the third floor Circuit Court room distinguishes this modest courthouse. Cornerstone ceremonies for Stone County's present courthouse took place on March 27, 1920.
Figure 2Stone County Courthouse, 1920-. Architect: Charles Sudhoelter and Co. (From; postcard, Trenton Boyd collection)
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A federal judge cleared the way Friday for a trial in a class-action antitrust lawsuit that could force the National Collegiate Athletic Association to share billions of dollars in revenues with student-athletes whose images it uses in merchandise such as videogames.
In a 48-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken denied motions for summary judgment by the plaintiffs and by the NCAA. She reaffirmed a trial date of June 9.
The judge also dealt a small but potentially significant blow to the NCAA's case by rejecting one of the organization's arguments for keeping the current arrangement with athletes. The ruling dismissed the notion that the NCAA's current rules—in which it doesn't share revenue from its licensing deals with the athletes—promote competitive balance by helping to "increase support for women's sports and less prominent men's sports."
For years, NCAA Division I member schools have operated under a business model in which one or two teams, usually top-level football and men's basketball teams, have generated enough revenue to support many other men's and women's teams that aren't profitable. The NCAA had argued that this is one of the reasons that the current arrangement is fair.
"The NCAA may not rely on this justification at trial," the ruling said.
Michael P. Lehmann, a lawyer for the players, said the plaintiffs are pleased with the ruling. "Nobody is going to be avoiding a trial," he said. Mr. Lehmann said the judge's order "limits the types of proof [the NCAA] can offer. That creates a disadvantage for them."
In a statement, the NCAA said it disagreed with the court's decision.
"The NCAA values and prioritizes all of its student-athletes regardless of whether their sport brings in revenue," it said. The organization also said it is committed to addressing areas to improve the current system of NCAA laws.
Earlier this year, both sides asked the court to decide some of the major antitrust issues in the case with a summary judgment ahead of a trial set for June.
Lawyers for the athletes pressed the argument that the NCAA conspires with its business partners in television and videogames to fix the price of an athlete's image and likeness at zero. Lawyers for the NCAA, meanwhile, offered several arguments for why the athletes' claims should be barred, including that the athletes don't have underlying broadcast rights.
The lead plaintiff in the case is Ed O'Bannon, a former basketball star at UCLA who works at a car dealership in Nevada. Mr. O'Bannon filed the suit in 2009 after he saw an avatar that looked like him depicted in an NCAA-branded videogame. He claimed it was unfair that the NCAA could license his image for a videogame or sell broadcast rights to games in which he played while prohibiting him from receiving any proceeds.
He is one of several former athletes who brought suit against the NCAA for a share of the revenue that results from the NCAA's and its member schools' agreements with TV networks and videogame makers.
Videogame maker EA Sports had been a defendant in the suit before settling out of court late last year by agreeing to pay $40 million to the plaintiffs. Between 100,000 and 300,000 people would be eligible to benefit from that settlement, with different levels of payouts for the various cases involved, said Steve Berman, an attorney for the plaintiffs. Current college players also would be eligible, Mr. Berman said.
Judge Wilken certified the case as a class action on Nov. 8, meaning all Division I men's basketball players and bowl-subdivision football players would be part of the suit unless they opt out. A week later, plaintiffs' lawyers moved for summary judgment in the case, seeking an expedited ruling.
The plaintiffs can't recover funds already lost, the judge ruled, so Mr. O'Bannon himself wouldn't receive any windfalls under the class action. But a successful suit could force the NCAA to change the way it does business and cut players in on burgeoning TV-rights deals. (The plaintiffs aren't seeking any athletic-ticket or donation funds.)
The money at stake is significant. The Pac-12 Conference has a 12-year, $3 billion, broadcast-rights contract with ESPN and Fox. The NCAA has a 14-year, $10.8 billion deal with CBS and Turner Broadcasting to air the NCAA men's basketball tournament. Every major college sports conference has its own such deals.
Last month, the regional director of the National Labor Relations Board ruled that Northwestern University scholarship football players are employees of the school and are eligible to form the nation's first college athletes' union. The ruling, which Northwestern appealed, has the potential to upend big-time college sports by reversing the NCAA's longtime stance that athletes are students first and athletes second.
NCAA president Mark Emmert said last week that the organization needed to change, but that a union of college athletes would be a "grossly inappropriate solution."
"It would blow up everything about the collegiate model of athletics," he said, adding that "no one up here believes the way you fix that is by converting student-athletes into unionized employees."
—Rachel Bachman and Jacob Gershman contributed to this article


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After each boxer made weight (Bika 167.8 pounds, Dirrell 168), posed for photos on the scale and faced-off at center stage, Dirrell (26-0-1, 22 KOs), of Flint, Mich., was interviewed by SHOWTIME's Brian Custer. Dirrell's interview came off peacefully but when it was Bika's turn to speak Dirrell and his team could be heard harassing him unmercifully off camera. A couple of times, an agitated Bika (32-5-3, 21 KOs), of Sydney, Australia, looked down and spoke directly to Dirrell while the heated exchanges continued before he finally returned his full attention to Custer.
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Posted by dand124 on Sun Mar 11 13:04:16 2012http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-03-09/take-birth-control-battle-over-the-counter-commentary-by-virginia-postrel.html
Anyone -- a local teenager, a traveling businessman, a married mother of four, an illegal immigrant, even a student at a Jesuit university -- can walk into my neighborhood CVS any time, day or night, and, for less than $30, buy a 36-count "value pack" of Trojan condoms.
That's enough to last most Americans at least three months, according to Kinsey Institute surveys. If you want more, you can buy out the store's entire stock. There's no limit, and you don't need to see a doctor for permission and a prescription.
Contrary to widespread belief, there's no good reason that oral contraceptives -- a far more effective form of birth control -- can't be equally convenient.
True, making the pill available over the counter could reduce the amount of outrage and invective available for entertaining radio audiences, spurring political fundraising and otherwise amusing the American public. But the medical risks are quite low.
Partly because birth-control pills are available only by prescription, people tend to think they're more dangerous and less well understood than they actually are. In fact, "more is known about the safety of oral contraceptives than has been known about any other drug in the history of medicine," declared an editorial in the American Journal of Public Health back in 1993. That editorial accompanied an article arguing for over-the-counter sales.
Safer Than Ever
Unlike most medications, the article noted, birth-control pills require no medical diagnosis: "A woman herself determines her need for oral contraception; she assesses her own risk of pregnancy ... and the costs and benefits of both pregnancy and alternative contraceptions." Nearly two decades later, birth- control pills look even safer than they did then, and recent research indicates that women are both able and eager to manage their own purchase decisions.
Requiring a prescription "acts more as a barrier to access rather than providing medically necessary supervision," argues Daniel Grossman of Ibis Reproductive Health, a research and advocacy group based in Massachusetts, in an article published in September in Expert Review of Obstetrics & Gynecology.
Birth-control pills can have side effects, of course, but so can such over-the-counter drugs as antihistamines, ibuprofen or the Aleve that once turned me into a scary, hive-covered monster. That's why even the most common over-the-counter drugs, including aspirin, carry warning labels. Most women aren't at risk from oral contraceptives, however, just as most patients aren't at risk from aspirin or Benadryl, and studies suggest that a patient checklist can catch most potential problems.
To further increase safety, over-the-counter sales could start with a progestin-only formulation, sometimes called the "minipill," rather than the more-common combinations of progestin and estrogen. (Although we casually refer to "The Pill," oral contraceptives actually come in about 100 formulations.)
Progestin-only pills, or POPs, have fewer contraindications. Unlike combination pills, they're OK for women with hypertension, for instance, or smokers over the age of 35. The main dangers are fairly rare conditions such as breast cancer or current liver disease. "Not only are POP contraindications rare, but women appear to be able to accurately identify them using a simple checklist without the aid of a clinician," declares an article forthcoming in the journal Contraception.
Doctors' Financial Interest
Aside from safety, the biggest argument for keeping birth- control pills prescription-only is, to put it bluntly, extortion. The current arrangement forces women to go to the doctor at least once a year, usually submitting to a pelvic exam, if they want this extremely reliable form of contraception. That demand may suit doctors' paternalist instincts and financial interests, but it doesn't serve patients' needs. As the 1993 article's authors noted, the exam requirement "assumes that it would be worse for a woman's health to miss out on routine care than it would be to miss out on taking oral contraceptives."
Going to the doctor is costly in time, money and sometimes in dignity. Not surprisingly, the prescription requirement deters use of oral contraceptives. In a 2004 phone survey, 68 percent of American women said they would start the pill or another form of hormonal birth control, such as the patch, if they could buy it in a pharmacy with screening by a pharmacist instead of getting a doctor's prescription. Two-thirds of blacks and slightly more than half of whites and Latinas surveyed said they chose their current, less-effective method of birth control because it didn't require a prescription.
Right now, the American women who have the most choice are those who live near the border with Mexico, where pharmacies sell oral contraceptives without a prescription, generally for about $5 for a one-month supply. A group of researchers including Grossman have conducted extensive interviews with more than 1,000 women who live in El Paso, Texas. Roughly half the women get birth-control pills from local clinics, often free, while the other half go across the border to pharmacies in Ciudad Juarez. The researchers find, not surprisingly, that those who cross the border have more ties to Mexico; 77 percent were born there, compared with 60 percent of clinic users. But there are also differences in priorities.
"Among pharmacy users, very large percentages noted both not having to go to a doctor to get a prescription and being able to send a friend or relative to pick up their pills as advantages of Mexican pharmacies," the researchers write in a June 2010 article in the American Journal of Public Health. Clinic users, on the other hand, cite low cost and the availability of other health services.
Convenient and Reasonable
In addition, the authors note, for many clinic users crossing the border to buy contraceptives "was neither convenient nor free of risk; more than half expressed a fear of being stopped by US customs upon their return." Nonetheless, Grossman notes in an e-mail, the research "showed that US resident women are interested in OTC access when it's convenient and available at a reasonable price."
One result from the El Paso study surprised researchers. "Women who got the pill in clinics were significantly more likely to stop using it during the study -- even though they still didn't want to get pregnant," Grossman says. That's a big deal. In fact, he says, "my hope was that we would show that continuation was no worse for the OTC group, but in fact we showed it was better."
This suggests that having to see a doctor to get a prescription renewed really does drive women away from oral contraceptives. "People rarely tell you, 'I ran out and I was too lazy to get my prescription renewed,'" says Joseph Potter, a University of Texas demographer who worked on the El Paso research. "They say they quit because of side effects." But the problem isn't really laziness or, for that matter, out-of- pocket expense. It's all the things that get in the way. Potter recalls an airplane conversation with a department-store executive who said that poor women weren't the only ones to quit the pill because they couldn't get to a doctor. She'd done the same thing, because she was busy.
The real question now isn't whether allowing over-the- counter sales would benefit women and prevent unwanted pregnancies -- the evidence is overwhelming that it would -- but whether any pharmaceutical maker wants to change the status quo. For a pill already approved by the Food and Drug Administration for prescription sales, getting over-the-counter approval would require an estimated $10 million to pay for new studies. And, of course, there would be huge marketing costs to establish the new brand.
The company best positioned to make the switch is probably Johnson & Johnson. (JNJ) Its McNeil Consumer Healthcare division, most famous for Tylenol, has lots of experience marketing formerly prescription-only products, including Nicorette, Motrin and Pepcid. Most important, its drug Ortho Micronor is one of the few progestin-only pills already registered with the FDA. (Minipills are more common in Europe, but moving one of those drugs to the U.S. would require millions more in regulatory expenses just to get approval for prescription sales.)
Will J&J or another company take a chance on creating the Advil of oral contraceptives -- making a prescription product a touchstone consumer brand? Are there public policy changes that could encourage the switch? If you're actually interested in preventing unwanted pregnancies rather than merely scoring political points, these are the questions you should be asking.
(Virginia Postrel is a Bloomberg View columnist. She is the author of "The Future and Its Enemies" and "The Substance of Style," and is writing a book on glamour. The opinions expressed are her own.)


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RALEIGH — The 1-on-1 battle within the Boston-Carolina war between Norris Trophy finalist Zdeno Chara and All-Star center Eric Staal was being waged at a fever pitch in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference semifinal series tonight at RBC Center, as the teams started the third period tied 1-1.
In the last period's opening 65 second second, Staal chased a puck toward the side wall in the Boston zone and Chara chased after him. All of a sudden the referee's arm went up and when the Bruins touched the puck Chara went to the box. It was a call that could only be described as marginal.
Just 1:45 later, the Hurricanes crushed the Bruins' hopes of evening the series at 2 with a power-play goal by Jussi Jokinen.
"Honestly, I went after the puck and the referee all of a sudden called a penalty. So you can't change it now," said a surprised Chara.
Head coach Claude Julien didn't want to harp on the call because of the larger factors that have put his team down 3-1 in the series. But he did admit he was less than pleased with some of the whistles.
"I agree 100 percent (with Chara)," said Julien. "Those are things we can't really get into because first of all, it really … part of it doesn't matter because it's more than that call. It's more about our team than anything else and we have to own up to that. But certainly there's a lot of things out there that were let go and certain things that I thought they were a little hard on us tonight. But you normally think like that when you're not getting the breaks."
Boston is not getting the breaks and not getting the W's. The Bruins are going to have to make their own breaks if they're going to survive past Sunday's Game 5.


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