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He's "stunned?" I think it's "bleepin' golden."

(EXPLAINER: If you don't catch the refernce,christian louboutin cheap, "bleepin' golden" is the linguistically cleaned-up way that US Atty. Patrick Fitzgerald quoted Blago's FBI-taped description of the opportunities that President Obama's old Senate seat offered an enterprising governor to,cheap designer bags, as Blago later described provide more benefits to serve the people of Illinois. Questions that Fitz raised about the nature of what benefits to WHICH people marked the path to Blago's indictment and eventual conviction.

(And if you don't follow the news closely enough to have known that without my telling you,cheap christian louboutins, you're qualified to have been a Blago juror. That's the irony of our legal system. Lawyers for both sides traditionally seek jurors who are registered to vote but don't follow the news. Sounds like a contradiction of sound democratic principles to me,http://www.cheapdesignerhandbagsgo.com, but I'm just a journalist.) 

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New guidelines discourage annual Pap tests - chicagotribune.

For generations of women, it's been an ingrained medical ritual: Get a Pap test every year. Now two influential groups of medical experts say that having cervical screening once a year is not necessary and, in fact, should be discouraged.

Many women can wait as long as five years between screenings, the new guidelines say.

The call for screening cutbacks, released Wednesday, is based on evolving knowledge accrued over the last decade about human papillomavirus, a common that causes most cervical cancer,christian louboutin shoes for sale, and the availability of an test that shows whether a woman has been infected with the most common variants of the .

In recent years, advice on cervical cancer screening has varied widely among medical organizations, with experts recommending screening intervals ranging from one to three years and varying according to a woman's age and whether she is sexually active.

The fact that the two new documents are largely in agreement should reassure women and their doctors that experts have neared a consensus on what has been a controversial issue in prevention medicine, said Debbie Saslow, director of breast and for the American Cancer Society, which led a consortium that was one of the groups issuing the guidelines.

"I think everyone is on the same page for the first time that I can remember," Saslow said.

By having both a Pap smear and an HPV test — known as co-testing — women ages 30 to 65 can safely go five years between screenings if the results are negative, said Dr. Michael LeFevre, co-vice chair of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, which published the other set of guidelines in the Annals of .

This is the first time that co-testing has been formally recommended as an alternative to Pap smears alone, although some doctors have been offering the tests in tandem for some time.

Studies show that the death rate for cervical cancer is not affected by lengthening screening intervals, LeFevre said, and the move would reduce the number of false-positive tests and unnecessary follow-up procedures.

"You can have fewer Pap smears and it is still as safe and effective," he said. "That is the product of science and what we've learned about HPV."

Both the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force and the consortium of medical groups led by the American Cancer Society continue to emphasize that Pap tests are important, however. More than 11,000 new cases of cervical cancer are diagnosed each year in the U.S. and about 4,000 women die from the disease, largely because they didn't get screened and their cancers were caught too late.

"If you look at cervical cancer today in the U.S., at least half of the women who get it have not been screened," LeFevre said. "Extending out the interval to three years or five years doesn't mean, 'Gee, this must not be important.' "

The new guidelines are the latest in a number of reports issued in recent years by the task force and other medical groups recommending fewer routine cancer screenings because of emerging science showing that test intervals can be safely lengthened and because doing so would reduce the distress caused by false-positives and harm resulting from unnecessary procedures.

In a controversial 2009 decision, for example, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommended scaling back mammogram screening for some women. And in 2010, the American Cancer Society retreated further from recommending routine screening by saying that men over age 50 should discuss the risks and benefits with their doctors before having a -specific antigen test.

In lieu of the combined Pap smear-HPV test combination,christian louboutin pumps, the task force screening guidelines also offer women ages 30 to 65 the option of having a Pap smear alone every three years.

The American Cancer Society-led guidelines go slightly further, stating that co-testing is the "preferred" screening strategy for women 30 to 65. Other authors of the document included the American Society for Colposcopy and Cervical and the American Society for Clinical Pathology; in addition,christian louboutin outlet, it was endorsed by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

Co-testing is powerful because each exam screens for slightly different things, experts said. The HPV test detects only viral infection that over time can cause cancer in some women. Pap smears, meanwhile,christian louboutin for sale, detect precancerous cells that should be treated to prevent cancer.

Until now, use of the HPV test in combination with the Pap smear was not endorsed by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, but it changed its position following recent reports that demonstrated the value of using both tests.

One such report, a large study published in December in the journal Lancet Oncology, showed that women who got an HPV test and a Pap smear had fewer cases of precancers and cancers five years later compared with women who got only a Pap smear.

Both sets of new guidelines discourage the use of HPV tests in women under age 30. That's because many in this group have active HPV infections that will soon go away.

"HPV infection is usually self-limited,christian louboutin on sale," LeFevre said. "Within a couple of years most women will clear it on their own with no problem."

But since the presence of the virus in women 30 and older may signal a persistent infection that could increase cancer risk, co-testing is of value in women 30 to 65, both documents said.

Both documents recommend several other changes to screening. Young women don't need Pap smears until age 21. Women ages 21 to 29 should be screened with the Pap smear alone every three years. Women can now stop having Pap smears and HPV tests at age 65. Previous guidelines called for halting screening at age 70.

In all, the changes amount to fewer cervical cancer tests for women than ever before, LeFevre noted.

"Most women will view this as a plus," he said.

Executive Profile Lindsay Gaskins, CEO of Marbles The Brain

The phone rings at the Bucktown headquarters of Marbles: The Brain Store, puncturing the tapping of keyboards and the whir of the heating system.

No one picks up, though,

until a woman with curly brown hair and hazel eyes, sitting at a desk in the center of the room,cheap replica designer handbags, snatches a handset.

"Marbles: The Brain Store, this is Lindsay."

A pause.

"It's a warehouse. Are you delivering something?"

She steps forward and listens.

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No one looks up or apologizes to Lindsay Gaskins, CEO and co-founder of Marbles: The Brain Store, for not answering the phone.

"It's not like we're working for this untouchable boss," said Marla Byrd, a staff accountant and one of Marbles' 154 full-time employees, most of whom work at the company's retail locations. "There's no caste system here. Lindsay comes in, and she does the grunt work and she projects the future. It's a leadership thing. It's refreshing."

It's an involved, personal style of leadership Gaskins said she will strive to maintain as her company evolves.

"If you're going to do something like this, you have to be willing to do everything," she said. "I want a good culture in my company, where everyone lends a hand. It's part of who we are. I hope it doesn't change as we get older."

Marbles began in October 2008 with one retail location in downtown Chicago, grew to four locations in 2009, then eight in 2010. It ended 2011 with 18 stores in the Chicago area, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Minnesota and Massachusetts, as well as a growing online presence. This year, Gaskins' goal is to open 10 to 15 more stores on both coasts.

"Right now,discount christian louboutin," Gaskins said, "has been the best time ever in my career."

Amid that growth, Gaskins gave birth to her first child, Louise Gaskins Barnard,christian louboutin shoes on sale, nicknamed Lulu, 21 months ago with her wife, Laura Barnard.

"There's more of a reason for me to be successful," Gaskins, 35, said of how becoming a mom has changed her perspective. "There's Lulu and there's my family that I want to do well for."

Weekday mornings at Gaskins' and Barnard's sunlit, third-floor condo in Wicker Park involve a 6 a.m. wake-up time and thrice-weekly, three-mile jogs for Gaskins.

On a recent Friday morning,christian louboutin discount shoes, Gaskins and Barnard spent several tranquil minutes flipping Lulu, who erupted with giggles several times before Barnard, 31, dashed out to her job in marketing for Wrigley's Skittles brand.

"We have the best jobs ever: toys and games and candy," Gaskins said.

Spider Saloff takes wing as songwriter in Butterfly - chicag

In 2009, the superb Chicago jazz singer Saloff lost her husband of 18 years, Bob Drake, his unexpected death understandably weighing heavily on her.

Saloff tried to cope with her loss through music, re-writing a cabaret show she already had been developing.

Thus what had begun as a mere divertissement turned into a confessional on love and death and now has been transformed once more, this time into a musical comedy, of all things, set at a memorial for a fictional Asian drag queen named Butterfly. Not precisely the Spider Saloff story.

But even if "The Roar of the Butterfly" springs from an obviously fertile imagination, there's a certain amount of personal truth in it, Saloff insists.

"When my husband died, the play took a complete turnaround,ralph lauren polo sale, and I eventually decided to write myself out of it and turn it into the story of Butterfly," says Saloff, whose show launches its Chicago premiere engagement Thursday night at Victory Gardens' Richard Christiansen Theater.

"But I also made the decision that I was going to talk about loss, and not have it just be a crazy comedy. I mean, it is a silly comedy, it has wild characters, it's based on weird people … but it does talk about loss and death."

Specifically, Saloff plays multiple characters who gather for Butterfly's memorial service, all soliloquizing and singing about how the late drag queen changed them.

"It's about an individual who touched so many lives in so many different ways,christian louboutin on sale," says Natalija Nogulich, who's directing the show.

"But it's not like he got up and sang a song to a bunch of schoolchildren and they were wowed. He had an alternative lifestyle. He seemed to touch everyone: a hairdresser, the waitress,http://www.loveschristianlouboutin.com, the man who drove his limo.

"Not only do they remember him, but he did something significant in their eyes. He sparked someone to follow a dream for dancing. He sparked someone (else) not to give up on his daughter's addiction.

"The whole story has a kind of leavening feeling. Even though it's a memorial, like many memorials, it's a celebration."

Most tantalizing for anyone who has followed Saloff's art through the decades, "Butterfly" should give an already accomplished singer the opportunity to stretch out musically, because of the broad range of characters she plays.

"It's kind of soup to nuts," says piano accompanist Jeremy Kahn, in describing the musical styles Saloff draws upon in "Butterfly."

Moreover, she finally gets to stand stage center as a songwriter in her own right. Though most of these tunes will be new to the audience,polo ralph lauren outlet, a couple have appeared in her club dates, most notably "Deep Inside the Rain," an elegantly crafted piece that deals explicitly with grief.

"'Deep Inside the Rain' is a song that's definitely about the loss of Bob,'" says Jim Sellers, the musical director of "Butterfly" who has been working with Saloff on the show for the past few years.

"Actually, Bob's influence is throughout, because he was her manager for many years. He was her biggest fan. He used to give her a lot of feedback, and I'm sure he's (present) in small ways throughout this show.

"But she doesn't talk about him (explicitly). It's not a dark piece."

Considering the loopiness of some of Saloff's stage antics – in earlier days she draped herself across a grand piano to spoof over-the-top chanteuses – this is not hard to believe. Here is a performer who revels in the double entendre, the scandalous anecdote, the big laugh. There's a palpable love of life in everything she does, which makes it easy to envision her brightening the stage with the many lives touched by Butterfly.

"I think this is a celebration of the people that she has known," says musical director Sellers. "She's a very sociable person. Spider likes to hang out. She's gotten to know a lot of people in her lifetime,christian louboutin shoes on sale, and a lot of those people are still with her.

"They're a part of her personality, and she thinks about them, and they still influence her, so that's what this story is about: The guests in your mind."