Good News - Bad News at SIU ...then a few more items..

Basically it's the same news both ways...

The Carbondale Liquor Commission last night approved the serving of BOOZE at the new SIU basketball arena and football stadium!!

That's good news for vendors, sales, and generating some tax revenue...
but with all the DUI's the players, coaches, & students have down there -- you'd better have a legion of designated drivers.......
http://thesouthern.com/news/local/article_013bcf46-9f82-11df-a422-001cc4c03286.html

However the liquor sales are being tightly restricted because it's really rare to have on campus college athletic facilities that sell liquor...really rare.......

The SIU AD even admits so........
"Mario Moccia, SIUC athletics director, ..said plans are to sell beer and wine in 12 suites and a club area at the stadium, and in a club area at the Arena. "It's rare that schools sell beer and wine in the general seating ‘bowl' area," Moccia said, because drinking could detract from a family atmosphere at games. Control of 15,000-plus people who are drinking also could be an issue, he said, because underage drinking could become a problem.
Liquor sales in the special stadium areas would be held for two hours before kickoff, suspended during the game, then resume during halftime."

One City Council member...
"questioned the implied "elitism" of serving only those with the money to watch games from the suites and club areas"
http://www.wsiltv.com/p/news_details.php?newsID=10765&type=top



Long time favorite coach and broadcaster Charlie Spoonhaur is ill, possibly in need of a lung transplant, and here's the story on him....
http://www.bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?t=16071



Happy Birthday Taylor Brown.....21 years old!!!!!!!!



Does anyone see a really stark contrast between these two differing efforts to improve health care and cancer detection in women...
There are TWO widely differing approaches being promoted......does this not confuse people??

--One which is a little silly - and also appears aimed pretty much at very young women who are least likely to get any benefit from self-exams...
http://www.feelyourboobies.com/

Even having basketball tournies sponsored by
"Feel your Boobies"..
http://www.pressandjournal.com/articleDetail.aspx?id=3340

Now seriously ... an organized campaign to get young ladies to "feel their boobies", especially one whose emphasis according to the web site is clearly aimed at "young women" and makes the whole thing seem a little bit less than serious - almost cartoonish..although there are other serious efforts aimed at women to get them doing self-exams.

--Then there's multiple new studies and analyses, plus a large push by many experts that says women doing breast self exam actually is possibly useless and also could be dangerous and causes women to think they've covered everything, then they skip their mammograms which are far more useful to save lives. It also causes unnecessary biopsies when women panic about harmless findings, and may reduce the desire to see a professional if women think they can handle it themselves.
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Breast+cancer+mortality+unaffected+by+self-exams.+%28Results+of+Large...-a094593862
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Canadian+Report+Advises+Against+Breast+Self-Exam.-a078872069
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0CYD/is_21_37/ai_94260986/
http://www.atforumz.com/showthread.php?t=155059

Either way...if I were a woman wanting to know what is really the right action to take, I can't help but think I would be terribly confused and I would wonder just which of these diametrically opposite courses of action to take.....
Obviously both sound legitimate but you cannot possibly follow both courses....

And ....I guess I'd wonder just who is it that takes this whole issue so cavalierly that they make a silly cartoonish issue of it.
I think the right answer is to go and talk with and get the answer from an expert...don't just sort through web sites and take a chance you're doing the wrong thing or taking advice from folks whose only focus is sponsoring basketball tournies and getting young women to go along with this silly campaign.



Lastly.....I guess I don't need man's best friend to do me this favor.......
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-20012608-10391704.html