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When I see something like that happen I usually try to compliment the kid. I either say to the "parent" (loosely defined) what a cute kid or something of that nature.

HAPPY HAPPY!!!!!

Condiments in general. I hate pretty much all of 'em: ketchup, mayo, mustard, salt, pepper, etc. If it doesn't taste goood without all that crap on it, why eat it at all?

QUOTE(Wong & Owens @ Dec 1, 2005 -> 12:47 PM) Not at a public hospital he can't. I guess the best solution is to ensure that if there is a pharmacist working who would not dispense the morning-after pill due to religious beilefs, the pharmacy will have another pharmacist on site that will. Everyone wins? I agree. I think that is a more than admirable solution.

QUOTE(Iwritecode @ Dec 1, 2005 -> 12:09 PM) Is it really considered an abortion if the cells haven't even started to split yet??? Or, more actually, the egg hasn't even been fertilized. . .

Why wear the red ribbon?

Frank's hot sauce. I put it on everything.

Bump, because it's important (and I liked her column) Dawn Turner Trice The new face of HIV/AIDS: Black women Published December 1, 2005 Remember when newscaster Gwen Ifill was moderating the vice presidential debate last year and she asked Dick Cheney and then-Sen. John Edwards what they proposed to do about the growing number of African-American women infected with HIV? Both candidates' faces turned ghostly white. Clearly, neither had a clue that black women are so disproportionately affected. And the truth is many Americans, on this World AIDS Day 2005, still don't know. "In the 1980s and 1990s, we told people to use condoms, and then we walked away," said Cathy Christeller, Chicago Women's AIDS Project executive director. "The assumption was that women had gotten the information, had access to condoms and had the power to make their partner use them." Those assumptions were wrong. In Chicago, according to the city Department of Public Health, African-American women made up 78 percent of newly diagnosed HIV cases among women from 2002 to 2003, even though they made up only 37 percent of the female population. To be clear, the highest numbers of new HIV cases in the city and across the nation are still among men who have sex with men. And the racial disparity between blacks and whites who have HIV is still huge. But experts say the increase in HIV among black women is particularly striking because this group is so hard to target when getting the word out about HIV prevention and treatment. Back in the day, safe sex campaigns targeted gay men at risk for contracting HIV. Clean needle campaigns targeted intravenous drug users. "But it's far trickier to get to black women at risk," said Christeller. "Women most at risk often have partners who are infected. We tell women that marriage isn't a protector against HIV. Neither is a boyfriend who says, `You don't have to worry, I don't have a disease.'" Women have to take charge of protecting themselves. Black women, especially, have to understand that AIDS is not just a "gay" disease or one that only affects women who are drug abusers or prostitutes. The stigma surrounding HIV/AIDS remains high in the black community. So does the level of denial. "That means black women who are infected don't get the care and treatments we now have," Christeller said. "They don't get tested. When they do, they don't want to tell anyone. And they don't want to get services that are available, because they fear someone may be aware they're taking meds." Christeller said the community has to come together so that women can embolden and educate one another. Prevention is key. But if you've already contracted HIV, early treatment and careful monitoring may prevent this from developing into full-blown AIDS. In the 1980s, the early years of the disease, many who got AIDS fell sick and died from infections. Treatment continues to get better, and contracting HIV doesn't have to be a death sentence. But you have to get tested, and preferably before you show signs of illness. Testing is the big challenge, said Christeller. To get the word out, the AIDS Foundation of Chicago has enlisted several local agencies, including the Women's AIDS Project, to go into South Side and West Side beauty salons and other businesses catering to women. The outreach effort, called the South Side Women's Collaborative, began this summer and is in 21 sites, including beauty salons, nail salons and shelters. The agencies are training staffers to talk to their patrons about HIV testing, prevention and treatment. In salons, patrons often are accustomed to sharing some fairly intimate details about their lives, which makes these the perfect forums for talking about the disease. Besides, the women are a captive audience. The collaborative provides its participating sites with female and male condom kits and, among other things, referral cards for HIV testing, which only takes about 20 minutes. (For information on testing, call the Chicago Women's AIDS Project at 773-955-8709.) We think of HIV as an out-of-control epidemic in Africa. But clearly, it remains a big problem right here. Christeller said most people don't get tested because they're afraid that knowing their status will disrupt their lives. The truth is, not knowing could be an even greater disruption.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Dec 1, 2005 -> 10:32 AM) And then have an extended discussion thread about how this is George Bush's fault for underfunding internet addiction research because he is an anti-semite. Why was that necessary?

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Dec 1, 2005 -> 12:57 AM) What is your masters and/or BA in? BA Psych/Neuroscience Masters (expected Spring 06) Psychology/linguistics

I get mocked for this but. . .I loooooooooooove cold chinese food.

With one week left of classes I am suddenly deluged by students who are missing grades on blackboard or want to protest their grades. They took some of those tests in friggin AUGUST. Oh, and students who won't come to any of my office hours, but won't come to discuss their grades before 8:30 classes or after 4 classes. If it's that important you can drag your ass out of bed 15 minutes early. . .Or hold off on your binge drinking for another 15 minutes. . .

Mushrooms Sharp/strong tasting cheese any and all seafood pesto (result of a rather unfortunate food poisoning--one trial learning baby!) creamed corn alfredo sauce

QUOTE(mreye @ Nov 30, 2005 -> 12:40 PM) I think PA is Soxtalk's funniest poster. Oh, now I get it! Bwahahahaha, that was good. BURN!

I would say my big guilty pleasure (and, this is a weird category, but bear with me) I love drag queen music--like the music you see at drag shows: Cher, Britney, Pat Benatar, Carly Simon all that fast shake your booty music. It's just so peppy it really makes me work a lot faster.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Nov 30, 2005 -> 12:36 PM) How about Cnn/money http://money.cnn.com/2005/11/30/news/econo...dex.htm?cnn=yes Newsday http://www.newsday.com/business/ny-bzecon3...iness-headlines Bloomberg http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=1...G8Vo&refer=home And even a Canadian news article... http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/Art...s/International http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=1...G8Vo&refer=home I don't think he was saying the economy is bad--I think he was saying that not all sources are equal. And, to be fair, I think that's a really good point.

QUOTE(Controlled Chaos @ Nov 30, 2005 -> 11:15 AM) Whoa I just noticed this thread when I was looking for my post. What's the deal? Are we gonna try lumping all topics in one thread? Won't there be like 10 conversations going at once? CC, there was also an identical thread to yours started by sec159 yesterday, so it would have been merged anyway.

QUOTE(mreye @ Nov 30, 2005 -> 11:19 AM) Sorry, but I think this is a weak idea. What's next, put all the jokes in one thread? All the news links from SS2K5 in one thread? I can't tell someone how to run a forum that I'm a guest of, but this is unreal. I don't post on the weekends, so now I'll be replying to 4 day old post in the "Political Thread!" Shouldn't we change the name of the forum now? Like Wino said, we can revisit the idea of separate threads when people manage to show respect and have a dialogue instead of a pissing contest.

So, we've had several threads about the best song/group/whatever ever. But, what is your favorite bad music? Kind of a guilty (or, in some cases, downright shameful) pleasure?

My friend and I were talking about this yesterday (prompted by Rent), and it seems like AIDS is so much less of a "forefront" idea these days. I remember when I was younger, through, maybe the mid/late 90s it was so huge in the public's mind and I really feel like now it's faded away from that consciousness.

QUOTE(bmags @ Nov 30, 2005 -> 02:10 AM) but we enjoyed it! Good. I'm glad someone did.

This may not foster much discussion--but how much "discussion" was really going on before? To quote a favorite movie, "Talking constantly isn't communicating." Neither is the yelling, snarking and generaly asshattery that was going on before. I say give this new format a chance and if people can be civil to each other maybe we can revisit this later. But right now we don't need a million threads all with people posting the same s*** rhetoric (and, to quote my dearest Joni, I'm referring to "both sides now") without actually listening to other people.

QUOTE(SoxFan1 @ Nov 30, 2005 -> 01:23 AM) Are you serious? you can import stuff into itunes. . .

I had a Dell one (actually I had two and neither worked), after a year I finally said f*** it, and shelled out the extra cash for an ipod. My friend that had an earlier model Zen did the same thing. Neither of us have regretted the ipod decision. . .

Went and saw Rent--I really loved the musical (came out when I was in high school) and so thought I'd see the film. I wouldn't say they ruined it--but definitely was only worth the $5 I paid to see it. Cool to see so many of the original broadway cast, but it came off a lot hokier on screen than on the stage. It was a nice sentimental trip back to high school--but definitely didn't do the material justice. . .