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im very frustrated with the service here as you make an appt and an hour later, you still havent been seen. i understand she is still young and new but she seems to always have to research everything and I havent felt like she was very helpful. not all staff has poor attitude but the majority is unpleasent to deal with.
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My experience with Dr. Chopra was horrible. She replaced my previous physician who had retired. I would advise anyone seeking a new doctor to avoid her. I too have mental health issues (documented) and it was obvious to me that she wasn't taking me seriously. I can't go into detail here at the moment, suffice it to say (charitably), she "misled" me for almost 2 years about a very important mental health related issue. I felt completely violated. One thousand characters does not provide nearly enough space to enumerate ALL that went on during my two years with her. Luckily I had a good support group around me to counteract what she put me through. Otherwise I don't think I would've made it through. She just didn't care. Plain and simple. Also, for anyone requiring continuity of care- stay away. She's continually away from office for long periods. Suffered through two of her replacements. Like having incompetent substitute teachers. All I can say is thank god I have a new doctor now!
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I went to see Dr. Chopra when I had a pressing mental issue. I felt I could tell her anything and she was non judgmental. I also felt that even though it was a mental illness I was struggling with, she dealt with the issue as if it was very serious and didn't downgrade it because it wasn't a physical problem. She prescribed me medication until we found the right one together and was very good at following up with me and also very thorough and referred me to a mental health professional. Thank heaven for Dr. Chopra I am so greatful for her dedication. She has also been great with any physical problems I have been having (obviously).
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We started seeing her after our family doctor retired. I had been to two doctors previously for a problem I had been having for six months. She finally gave me some medication that cured it, so I was quite pleased. We find she is very knowledgeable and thorough, more so than our previous doctor.
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The staff at Dr.Chopra office are the the worst espicially Carole. She is very rude and unhelpful in all situations. She does not demonstrate the customer service necessary to work with the public and gets on her high horse immediately!!! Dr. Chopra doesnt seem aware of how rude her staff is and that is a very big concern of ours.
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at first i thought she was good because she took the time to listen and would not hesitate to refer me to a specialist, however the mroe i see her the more I begin to feel like she refers so often because she is lacking knowledge to deal with different situations. She now rushes through visits and never really can tell you what is wrong. Instead she prescribes medication that does nothing.Her nurse always calls back with tests results but can never explain what the results mean.
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Dr. Chopra was my O.B. during my first pregnancy (She was replacing Dr. Kelly). At first I thought she was alright, hearing my questions and acting accordingly (first few visits). When I went in labour, I noticed she was not on one line with the doctors at the hospital. I felt her knowledge lacked, when she insisted that I was going to have a baby soon, while neither I was having any contractions nor my water had broke (she broke my water). My son was born premature and had lung problems, which she also did not diagnose at time of birth. It was only for a smart nurse who noticed my baby's breathing problems and sent my baby to the NICU! Meanwhile, Dr. Chopra went home, leaving me in disbelief. It was a horrible experience. I am about to have my second child now, and I did not hesitate to move to a different O.B. where I feel they ARE knowledgeable. After all, knowledge and experience is what you need from your doctor in a new experience such as delivering your first baby.
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On my first visit with Dr. Chopra she definitely seemed like she was concerned for my well-being but on my second visit if felt like I was being rushed, that she was not really taking my opinions into consideration and as if she was talking down on me. I feel like all she does is prescribe medications without knowing the side effects, cross reactions, etc. Literally my last visit was me trying to describe my symptoms and she just typed away and printed off five prescriptions for me and then left the room when I still had concerns to talk about. Also, the walls are thin yet she talks so loud..Especially about personal matters. I was not impressed.
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I have not been her patient for too long but so far I am impressed with her practise. She is very thorough and seems generally concerned for the well being of her patients. She is young and relatable, easy to talk to and actually listens to your concerns/questions.
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The sexuality of Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865), the 16th President of the United States, has been a topic of fringe historical debate and scholarship, particularly since the late twentieth century.[1] Lincoln was married to Mary Todd from November 4, 1842, until his death on April 15, 1865, and fathered four children with her. According to several historians, there was no indication during Lincoln's lifetime that anyone suspected him of homosexuality[2] and few researchers have argued to the contrary. In a 2005 book, psychologist C. A. Tripp described Lincoln as having a problematic and distant relationship with women, in contrast to his warmer relations with a number of men in his life; Tripp writes that two of those relationships had possible homoerotic overtones.[3] Tripp's view has been particularly criticized for flawed historical methodology.[4] Some Lincoln biographers, including David Herbert Donald, have strongly contested claims that Lincoln was homosexual or bisexual.[5] In opposing such claims, Donald cites Lincoln's letters for context, in which he frequently referred to acquaintances, even political enemies, as "my personal friend".[6]
Commentary on President Abraham Lincoln's sexuality has existed since the early 20th century. Attention to the sexuality of public figures has been heightened since the gay rights movement of the later 20th century. Lincoln's case re-entered the public light in 2005 with the posthumous publication of psychologist C. A. Tripp's book, The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln.
In his 1926 biography of Lincoln, Carl Sandburg alluded to the early relationship of Lincoln and his friend Joshua Fry Speed as having "a streak of lavender, and spots soft as May violets". "Streak of lavender" was slang in the period for an effeminate man, and later connoted homosexuality.[7] Sandburg did not elaborate on this comment.[8]
Lincoln wrote a poem that described a marriage-like relation between two men, which included the lines:
" | For Reuben and Charles have married two girls, But Billy has married a boy. The girls he had tried on every side, But none he could get to agree; All was in vain, he went home again, And since that he's married to Natty. | " |
This poem was included in the first edition of the 1889 biography of Lincoln by his friend and colleague William Herndon.[9] It was expurgated from subsequent editions until 1942, when the editor Paul Angle restored it. This is an example of what Mark Blechner calls "the closeting of history,"[10] in which evidence that suggests a degree of homosexuality or bisexuality in a major historical figure is suppressed or hidden.
C. A. Tripp, who was gay and died in 2003, was a sex researcher and protégé of Alfred Kinsey. He began writing The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln with Philip Nobile, but they had a falling out. The New York Times quoted Nobile saying, "Tripp's book is a fraud", noting that Nobile "declined to say what was fraudulent, however, because he said he was writing his own article about it".[11]
Nobile wrote a critical review of Tripp's book, published in the Weekly Standard, in which he accused Tripp of distortion, plagiarizing his own work, and relying heavily on the work of Charles Shiveley without proper attribution.[12] Nobile has never published a book on Lincoln. In 2007 he encountered controversy of his own, related to his allegedly wrongfully accusing his superiors of involvement in a cheating scheme at his school.[13]
Tripp's book includes an afterword by historian and Lincoln biographer Michael Burlingame titled "A Respectful Dissent", in which he states:
" | Since it is virtually impossible to prove a negative, Dr. Tripp's thesis cannot be rejected outright. But given the paucity of hard information adduced by him, and given the abundance of contrary evidence indicating that Lincoln was drawn romantically and sexually to some women, a reasonable conclusion, it seems to me, would be that it is possible but highly unlikely that Abraham Lincoln was "predominantly homosexual."[14] | " |
In a second afterword to the book titled "An Enthusiastic Endorsement", historian Michael B. Chesson makes the argument for the historical significance of the work:
" | Tripp, for all his research, sophistication, and insight, has not proved his case conclusively. … But any open-minded reader who has reached this point may well have a reasonable doubt about the nature of Lincoln's sexuality. The "Tall Sucker" was a very strange man, one of the strangest in American history, and certainly the oddest to reach a position of national prominence, let alone the presidency. If Lincoln was a homosexual, or primarily so inclined, then suddenly our image of this mysterious man gains some clarity. Not everything falls into place. But many things do, including some important, even essential, elements of who Lincoln was, why he acted in the way he did, and a possible reason for his sadness, loneliness, and secretive nature.[15] | " |
Time magazine addressed the book as part of a cover article by Joshua Wolf Shenk, author of Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness. Shenk dismissed Tripp's conclusions, stating that arguments for Lincoln's homosexuality were "based on a tortured misreading of conventional 19th century sleeping arrangements".[16] Charles Morris in 2009 has critically analyzed the academic and popular responses to Tripp's book, arguing that much of the negative response by the Lincoln Establishment reveals as much rhetorical and political partisanship as that of Tripp's defenders.[17] In an earlier 2007 essay, Morris argues that in the wake of playwright Larry Kramer's "outing" of Lincoln, the Lincoln Establishment engaged in "mnemonicide", or the assassination of a threatening counter-memory. He put in this category what he called the methodologically flawed but widely appropriated case against the "gay Lincoln thesis" by David Herbert Donald in his book, We Are Lincoln Men.[18]
In 1999, Larry Kramer claimed that he had uncovered previously unknown documents while performing research for his work-in-progress, The American People: A History,[19] including some allegedly found hidden in the floorboards of the old store once shared by Lincoln and Joshua Speed. The documents reportedly provide explicit details of a relationship between Lincoln and Speed, and currently reside in a private collection in Davenport, Iowa.[20] Their authenticity, however, has been called into question by historians such as Gabor Boritt, who wrote, "Almost certainly this is a hoax."[21] C. A. Tripp also expressed his skepticism over Kramer's discovery, writing, "Seeing is believing, should that diary ever show up; the passages claimed for it have not the slightest Lincolnian ring."[22]
Critics of the hypothesis that Lincoln was homosexually inclined note that Lincoln married and had four children. Scholar Douglas Wilson claims that Lincoln as a young man displayed heterosexual behavior, including telling stories to his friends of his interactions with women.[23]
Tripp notes that Lincoln's awareness of homosexuality and openness in penning this "bawdy poem" "was unique for the time period."[15] Donald, however, notes that Lincoln would have needed to look no further than the Bible to realize "that men did sometimes have sex with each other",[5] and historian William Lee Miller, among others, has acknowledged that Lincoln was reading the Bible well before his twentieth birthday.[24]
Lincoln's stepmother, Sarah Bush Lincoln, commented that he "never took much interest in the girls". However some accounts of Lincoln's contemporaries suggest a strong but controlled passion for women.[25] Lincoln was devastated over the 1835 death of Ann Rutledge. While some historians have questioned whether he had a romantic relationship with her, historian John Y. Simon reviewed the historiography of the subject and concluded that "Available evidence overwhelmingly indicates that Lincoln so loved Ann that her death plunged him into severe depression. More than a century and a half after her death, when significant new evidence cannot be expected, she should take her proper place in Lincoln biography."[26]
Herndon, Lincoln's law partner, in his biography of Lincoln, attests to the depth of Lincoln's love for Ann Rutledge. An anonymous poem about suicide published locally exactly three years after her death is widely attributed to Lincoln.[27][28] In contrast, his courting of Mary Owens was diffident. In 1837, he wrote to her from Springfield to give her an opportunity to break off their relationship. Lincoln wrote to a friend in 1838: "I knew she was oversize, but now she appeared a fair match for Falstaff".[29]
In 2012, Sylvia Rhue, a filmmaker and activist, interviewed Reverend Cindi Love about her family history and research. Love, a descendant of William Herndon, noted that family tradition held that Herndon was gay and the lover of Lincoln.[30]
In her book Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, historian Doris Kearns Goodwin argues:
Their intimacy is more an index to an era when close male friendships, accompanied by open expressions of affection and passion, were familiar and socially acceptable. Nor can sharing a bed be considered evidence for an erotic involvement. It was a common practice in an era when private quarters were a rare luxury... The attorneys of the Eighth circuit in Illinois where Lincoln would travel regularly shared beds. (58)
Goodwin also states, echoing Donald Yacovone, that "the preoccupation with elemental sex" reveals more about the later centuries "than about the nineteenth" (58).
As noted above, in 19th-century America, men commonly bunked with other men. For example, when lawyers and judges traveled "the circuit" with Lincoln, the lawyers often slept "two in a bed and eight in a room".[31] William H. Herndon recalled, "I have slept with 20 men in the same room".[32]
A tabulation of historical sources shows that Lincoln slept in the same bed with at least 11 boys and men during his youth and adulthood.[33] There are no known instances in which Lincoln tried to suppress knowledge or discussion of such arrangements, and in some conversations, raised the subject himself. Tripp discusses three men at length and possible relationships: Joshua Speed, William Greene, and Charles Derickson.
Lincoln met Joshua Fry Speed in Springfield, Illinois, in 1837. They lived together for four years, during which time they occupied the same bed during the night (some sources specify a large double bed) and developed a friendship that would last until their deaths.[34] According to some sources, William Herndon[35] and a fourth man also slept in the same room.[36] Historians such as Donald point out it was not unusual at that time for two men to share even a small bed due to financial or other circumstances, without anything sexual being implied. Putting the issue in historical perspective, Jonathan Ned Katz wrote of the bed sharing:
" | At the start of the twenty-first century it may even be difficult to imagine a man, especially a bachelor, offering another a place in his bed without some conscious fear or desire that the proposition will be understood as a come-on. In the nineteenth century, Speed was probably not conscious of any such erotic possibility. His immediate, casual offer, and his later report of it, suggests that men's bed sharing was not then often explicitly understood as conducive to forbidden sexual experiments.[25] | " |
Katz does indicate that such sleeping arrangements "did provide an important site (probably the major site) of erotic opportunity". Katz notes that referring to present day concepts of "homo, hetero, and bi distort our present understanding of Lincoln and Speed's experiences."[25] He notes that, rather than there being "an unchanging essence of homosexuality and heterosexuality," people throughout history "continually reconfigure their affectionate and erotic feelings and acts".[25] He suggests that the Lincoln-Speed relationship fell within the 19th-century category of intense, even romantic man-to-man friendships with erotic overtones that may have been "a world apart in that era's consciousness from the sensual universe of mutual masturbation and the legal universe of 'sodomy,' 'buggery,' and 'the crime against nature'".[25]
Some correspondence of the period, such as that between Thomas Jefferson Withers and James Henry Hammond, may provide evidence of a sexual dimension to some same-sex bed sharing.[37] The fact that Lincoln was open about sharing a bed with Speed is seen by some historians as an indication that their relationship was not romantic.[5] None of Lincoln's enemies hinted at any homosexual implication.[5]
Joshua Speed married Fanny Hennings on February 15, 1842. He and Lincoln seem to have consulted each other about married life. Despite having some political differences over slavery[38] they corresponded for the rest of their lives, and Lincoln appointed Joshua's brother, James Speed, to his cabinet as Attorney General.
Lincoln and Mary Todd met in Springfield in 1839 and became engaged in 1840.[39] In what historian Allen Guelzo calls "one of the murkiest episodes in Lincoln's life", Lincoln called off his engagement to Mary Todd. It was at the same time as the collapse of a legislative program he had supported for years, the permanent departure of his best friend Joshua Speed from Springfield, and the proposal by John Stuart, Lincoln's law partner, to end their law practice.[40] Lincoln is believed to have suffered something approaching clinical depression. In Lincoln's Preparation for Greatness: The Illinois Legislative Years, Paul Simon has a chapter covering the period, which Lincoln later referred to as "The Fatal First", or January 1, 1841. That was "the date on which Lincoln asked to be released from his engagement to Mary Todd".[41] Simon explains that the various reasons the engagement was broken contradict one another. The incident was not fully documented, but Lincoln did become unusually depressed, which showed in his appearance, and Simon wrote that "it was traceable to Mary Todd".[41] During this time, he avoided seeing Mary, causing her to comment that he "deems me unworthy of notice".[41]
Jean H. Baker, historian and biographer of Mary Todd Lincoln, describes the relationship between Lincoln and his wife as "bound together by three strong bonds – sex, parenting and politics".[42] In addition to the anti-Mary Todd bias of many historians, engendered by William Herndon's (Lincoln's law partner and early biographer) personal hatred of Mrs. Lincoln, Baker discounts the criticism of the marriage. She says that contemporary historians have a basic misunderstanding of the changing nature of marriage and courtship in the mid-19th century, and attempt to judge the Lincoln marriage by modern standards.
Baker notes that "most observers of the Lincoln marriage have been impressed with their sexuality". Some "male historians" suggest that the Lincolns' sex life ended either in 1853 after their son Tad's difficult birth or in 1856 when they moved into a bigger house, but have no evidence for their speculations. Baker writes that there are "almost no gynecological conditions resulting from childbirth" other than a prolapsed uterus (which would have produced other noticeable effects on Mrs. Lincoln) that would have prevented intercourse, and in the 1850s, "many middle-class couples slept in separate bedrooms."[42]
Far from abstaining from sex, Baker suggests that the Lincolns were part of a new development in America of smaller families; the birth rate declined from seven births to a family in 1800 to around 4 per family by 1850. As Americans separated sexuality from child bearing, forms of birth control such as coitus interruptus, long-term breast feeding, and crude forms of condoms and womb veils, available through mail order, were available and used. The spacing of the Lincoln children (Robert in 1843, Eddie in 1846, Willie in 1850, and Tad in 1853) is consistent with some type of planning and would have required "an intimacy about sexual relations that for aspiring couples meant shared companionate power over reproduction".[42]
Captain David Derickson was Lincoln's bodyguard and companion between September 1862 and April 1863. They shared a bed during the absences of Lincoln's wife, until Derickson was promoted in 1863.[43] Derickson was twice married and fathered ten children. Tripp recounts that, whatever the level of intimacy of the relationship, it was the subject of gossip. Elizabeth Woodbury Fox, the wife of Lincoln's naval aide, wrote in her diary for November 16, 1862, "Tish says, 'Oh, there is a Bucktail soldier here devoted to the president, drives with him, and when Mrs. L. is not home, sleeps with him.' What stuff!"[15] This sleeping arrangement was also noted by a fellow officer in Derickson's regiment, Thomas Chamberlin, in the book History of the One Hundred and Fiftieth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, Second Regiment, Bucktail Brigade. Historian Martin P. Johnson notes that the strong similarity in style and content of the Fox and Chamberlin accounts suggests that, rather than being two independent accounts of the same events as Tripp claims, both were based on the same report from a single source.[44] David Donald and Johnson both dispute Tripp's interpretation of Fox's comment, saying that the exclamation of "What stuff!" was, in that day, an exclamation over the absurdity of the suggestion rather than the gossip value of it.[5]

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Agitated and high-strung, Lopez talks about his work with evangelical zeal. "We are doing a job that government is incapable of -- that is informing people about what is really happening here," he says proudly. Reports from the independents include everything from allegations of police brutality in towns far from Havana to economic and environmental analyses, political commentaries, impressionistic essays -- anything outside the rigid ideological confines of the official press.
Lopez cites an example of the Cuban media's tendency to slavishly disseminate the official line. As Hurricane Lili approached the island last month, a television news crew broadcast a segment showing Castro listening to a meteorologist predict the hurricane's path. "At the end of the forecast, the reporter turned to Castro and asked, 'Is it okay to air this?'" Lopez repeats in amazement. "I don't consider them journalists, I consider them government spokespeople."
Since the April raid, the bureau's newsroom has become something akin to a state of mind, continuously resurrected from materials at hand. On this bright, hot Saturday in October, the headquarters exist in the home of Lazaro Lazo, who acts as director of the bureau. Lazo and Lopez have commandeered the tiny front room, which serves as the Lazo family's living room, dining room, recreation room, and parlor. Lazo's diploma in Spanish literature from the University of Havana hangs on the wall, a reminder of his former status as a privileged intellectual.
Long ago he was an editor at a government publishing house that turned out novels, short stories, and books about Cuban art. Then in 1981 he wrote a series of short stories and essays about bureaucratic snafus, shortages in consumer goods, and the hardship faced by country people who had emigrated to the capital. Some of the pieces were published in a Costa Rican newspaper.
Lazo was arrested and charged with enemy propaganda and contempt -- the latter charge reserved for those accused of making fun of Fidel Castro or other public officials. He was convicted and shipped off to prison for three and a half years. During that time, he spent 42 days in solitary confinement, composing parodies of popular songs and singing them aloud to keep his sanity. He also spent eighteen days in a so-called punishment cell, crouched over the infamous "Turkish chair," a stinking waste receptacle that took up most of the narrow cell floor. There was no bed, so Lazaro leaned against the iron cell door to sleep. "The stench was overwhelming," he remembers, "but at least the door was cool."
The thought of being sent back to prison unnerves him, and he admits that he would leave the country if he could. "But we find ourselves in a jam," he says, speaking not only for himself but for other independent journalists who have been told to pack their bags. "How can we emigrate? Even if we were offered political asylum, we don't have the money to buy a ticket. We're caught in a paradox. I can't leave and I can't stay. So we keep doing the same thing day after day. We're like crazy people who are told not to take another step -- and yet we keep on walking."
Lazo disappears for a moment into the back room where he, his wife, and two children sleep. The room is crammed with beds and little else. A makeshift curtain separates the sleeping area from a cranny containing the toilet and improvised shower.
He returns with a loose bundle of papers. These are the dispatches the bureau has recently prepared for broadcast. Much of this week's news deals with the island's recovery from Hurricane Lili. Reporters have stitched together their own observations with statistics that appeared in the official press, along with interviews with Catholic relief officials.
Bureau reporters worked full-time to gather this information, yet they receive nothing for their labor. The commercial Miami radio stations do not pay. Lazo says bureau members survive primarily on contributions from foreign organizations such as Reporters Without Borders, which sends $1100 each month to the five main independent news agencies on the island. Lazo distributes the bureau's share (about $200) equally among its members.
The monthly fifteen dollars or so per person is used for supplies -- pens and paper -- and for food. It is rarely sufficient. On this day, for example, Lazo and his family had a breakfast of sugar and water. Yesterday all he had to eat was two bananas. He opens his empty refrigerator and shrugs. "Our biggest problem is the lack of economic resources," he notes earnestly, oblivious to the understatement.
"These are groups that work against the revolution and that work as the instruments of those from the United States who are trying to return our country to a past of oppression."
-- Cuban official referring to the independent news agencies during the opening session of a conference called "Community Press in Today's World: Alternative Grass Roots Proposals," October 21, 1996
More than 100 foreign journalists have gathered in the auditorium of a polytechnic institute just outside Havana and are listening to government officials lay down the party line regarding the independent press. The visiting journalists represent scrappy, upstart news organizations from Argentina, Ecuador, the Dominican Republic, Germany, Canada, and the United States. They give voice to those who oppose government policy, or those whose opinions are drowned out by corporate media. Ironically, they and Cuba's independent journalists share similar aspirations: Each seeks to break the information monopoly maintained by the powers that control their societies.


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After the Supreme Court's narrow decision late last month to uphold the bulk of President Obama's health care reform legislation, advocates for community pharmacies and retailers weighed in with a range of reactions.
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NEW YORK – After the Supreme Court's narrow decision late last month to uphold the bulk of President Obama's health care reform legislation, advocates for community pharmacies and retailers weighed in with a range of reactions.
While many of the groups criticized the high court's ruling to uphold almost all of the Affordable Care Act as a blow to employers, most agreed that some provisions in the law that will fully go into effect 17 months from now will help keep patient costs down.
They stressed that community pharmacy will continue to play a huge role in meeting that goal.
"As we have said all along, health care reform remains a constant pursuit," National Association of Chain Drug Stores president and chief executive officer Steve Anderson says. "With the Supreme Court's decision, the best approach for future progress continues to be saving lives, enhancing patient care and reducing health care costs. NACDS and the pharmacy industry we represent have the power and potential to help achieve these goals."
Those sentiments were echoed by others in the pharmacy arena, with some advocates citing the law's provisions that will help pharmacists become more deeply involved in patient care.
"The Supreme Court ruling is an important opportunity for pharmacists to help patients with their medications," American Pharmacists Association chief executive officer and executive vice president Thomas Menighan says. "We are pleased that the many pharmacy-friendly provisions of the Affordable Care Act will remain in force."
For instance, he notes, the court's ruling means that elements of the law that the pharmacy community feels are important will stand, including closure of the Medicare Part D "doughnut hole" and opportunities for pharmacists' inclusion as members of the health care team in medical homes and accountable care organizations.
Pharmacy advocates also stress that by upholding the health care reform law the Supreme Court has protected pharmacies' ability to be adequately reimbursed for government-funded prescriptions.
National Community Pharmacists Association chief executive officer B. Douglas Hoey, for instance, notes that the law includes provisions to achieve reasonable reimbursement for Medicaid generic prescription drugs and transparency requirements for pharmacy benefit managers in the health insurance exchanges set to launch in 2014. In addition, he notes, medication therapy management will be expanded in Medicare.
Still, while pharmacy advocates were praising the Supreme Court for helping to ensure that the nation's health care system continues to evolve and become more cost-effective, other retailer groups condemned the decision as bad for business.
"This law will have a dramatic, negative impact on every employer and employee in the United States and further constrain job creation and economic growth," National Retail Federation president and chief executive officer Matthew Shay says. "It penalizes employers too much; it doesn't do enough to reduce the cost of health care; and it is unreasonably complicated and difficult to implement and administer."
NRF says that the new regulations that the health reform law imposes on employers who do not provide care will not bring down the cost of health care for those business by will rather wind up costing the more.
Retail advocates say one of the most problematic parts of the health care reform law upheld by the Supreme Court is the so-called employer mandate.
Retailers say the law is vague on what will be required of them and fear that once the regulations are made more clear they will be overly burdensome.
"While retailers are committed to continuing to provide health coverage to their employees, overregulation jeopardizes their ability to do so," Retail Industry Leaders Association president Sandy Kennedy says.
In its 5-4 decision on June 28, with Chief Justice John Roberts leading the majority, the Supreme Court decided that the Affordable Care Act's controversial "individual mandate" — which required individuals to buy health insurance or pay a penalty — was constitutional under Congress' authority to levy taxes.
The court also determined that the health care reform law's expansion of Medicaid eligibility requirements was constitutional but not its stipulation that the federal government can deny states all Medicaid funding if they don't comply. If states decide not to accept the expanded eligibility, they can continue to receive funds for the rest of the Medicaid program, just not the new funding under the act.


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New era in publishing for women's health
The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) sells its prestigious publishing list to Cambridge University Press.
27 June 2013
Lin wows capacity crowds at the LSE
Professor Justin Yifu Lin, former Chief Economist at the World Bank, and author of 'Against the Consensus' (published next week by the Press) enthralled a packed house at the London...
11 June 2013
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Jasmine's Cove, Estate of the Day. 5 of the World's Weirdest Buildings. Most amazing apartment ever! - MAIYA - MY ADVENTURE IS YOUR ADVANTAGE. Ah, jeez.
This apartment in Sweden has my name written all over it! I love the black and white theme accented with bits of green and yellow. I could definitely be happy in such a bright, clean place! Interior Inspiration #20. Continuing a series of posts about the best interiors in a week.
To see more pictures or information, simply click on the image. Colorful Apartment Pleasantly Combining Traditional and Modern Design Ideas Maurice Padovani. Inspiration for artists from Wildfox Couture - I LOVE WILDFOX - Gwyneth Paltrows Apt, Tribeca (Don't cry) 79 Ideas - a blog about decoration, design, decor, fashion, food and other pretty things. Have you heard the sentence "Find a beautiful place to get lost"?
This exactly happened to one Danish couple. They found a small medieval castle in South Italy and fall in love. The whole story is told by "Skona hem". And I can only say that I adore Italy and I absolutely fell in love with this place. It is airy and light and has history in it. A selection of graphic projects. Pretty Beach House. Miss, miss design, miss-design, missdesign, design, illustration, interior, interior design, style interior, interior old style, workspace, workplace, creative workspace, veranda, garden, balcony, exterior, photography, studio, 3d, typography, blog, person, architecture, arts, creative, layout, design studio, inspire, inspiration, technology, resources, tools, internet tools, discussions, bridal bouquet, font, free font, digital art, logo, logotype, typographic design, tutorial, tutorials, icon, icon tutorial, how to, industrial design, camera lens, canon, nikon, pentax, olympus, books, bookshelves, cupboard, chair, unique style, unique design, unique interior, before and after, benchmark.
The Designer Pad - Straight To The HeART. I consider myself a very crafty person and love everything handmade.
I'm always delighted to see how others use their creativity to transform everyday materials into something unexpected and beautiful. When I stumbled upon these lovely heart pieces in Bloesem I was immediately seduced by them, especially by their sculptural vive. These personalized handmade Hearts are the creation of Brit artist Veronika, founder of the design studio Sarah & Bendrix. The funny thing is that it all started with a piece she made for a friend as a wedding present and everyone started asking about the artist...and the rest is history.
Don't Judge a Book by Its Cover… If you drove by this house in Bedford, NY renovated by Alisberg Parker Architects you'd probably expect the interior to be chock full of traditional classics, right? I really do enjoy a home that has a traditional architectural exterior (and interior- notice all thought molding and trim painted over glossy white) paired with really modern furniture. It's so unexpected. And that pool house? I die. Splash Of Colors. I love white decor in the home for a fresh and clean look.
However, when bright colored home furnishings are added and used in the right proportion, they can certainly add charm and personality to any white room! As seen in this Georgian house in Stockwell, from the portfolio of UK-based location agency, Light Locations. I'm especially fond of the clawfoot tub and the blue rustic cabinet against the colorful vintage painting! Closet Office. I have begun to meet up with several of my 555 residents to document some of their downsizing solutions.
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"the more stuff you put in a room, the bigger it seems" Turquoise and Red. Stylish Rooms for Babies. Lately, I've been thinking a lot about time and how quickly it passes.
I think that once you have children, time goes by even faster than before. I can't believe that 5 years has gone since our girls were newborns. A lot has happened in that time and we've been extremely blessed all along. It seems like there are quite a few new babies around me these days and I miss that newborn stage a lot. Level Up: Sloped Hillside Home has Super-Slanted Floors. Stairs and ramps have slopes and slants, but building floors are precision-tuned to be as flat as they can be constructed … right?
This topsy-turvy rural dwelling inverts tradition and flips our architectural expectations upside-down – or at least sets them sharply on edge (Photos by Ester Havlova). Usually, building a hillside home means compensating for the exterior slopes – finding places where the natural environment can be adjusted to fit the needs of our flat-footed species. The Designer Pad - Zen-sational. This breathtaking loft is absolutely heavenly, a place to worship white and simplicity. Zen is the perfect word to describe the home of fashion designer Johanne Riis, who had the vision to transform a former warehouse into this incredible five-story multiple space where she now lives and works.
The basement houses her atelier, the ground floor is where her shop and showroom are located, and the remaining three floors are dedicated to the living quarters. Without a doubt, there's a deep feeling of peace and serenity that surrounds all the areas, which are always changing thanks to the ingenious furniture solutions she created — like using ten individual tables to form one larger one for the dining room. Although most of the spaces are bathed in white, the sparce use of red and black tell the perfect story.
Inner Child: Colorful Home has Trap Doors & Secret Slides. If kids could design and build whole homes, what would they look like? This so-called Rainbow House is filled with secret doors, slides that bridge between floors and multi-colored spiral staircases to wind you back up. Chutes and ladders, anyone? Belle maison. Bedroom Designs: Modern Interior Design Ideas & Photos. Do you prefer plush padding a minimalist pillow, a decked-out design or toned-down interior? From dazzling abstract designs to humorously offbeat sleeping spaces here are seven brilliant bedroom designs to inspire your imagination. Who knows, with a few decorative adjusts you might be able to remodel your own bedrooms to similar effect.
A thrifter's paradise. 362285_1232630961_large.jpg (1500×1076) Dream Bedrooms.
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Parents of Tajik 'jihadists' beg their children to come home
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Kyrgyzstan steps up fight against drug crimes
CPLC plays vital role reducing crime in Karachi
N. Tajikistan gets 1st foreign-born football star
Ghana native arrives in Khudzhand
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KHUDZHAND – The FC Khudzhand football club, which plays in Tajikistan's top league, has signed a contract with a Ghanaian player. This is the first time northern Tajikistan has had a foreign-born football star grace one of its teams.
William Gyane is a mid-fielder, Khudzhand head coach Uraz Turakulov told Central Asia Online. The 23-year-old newcomer has played just 20 minutes so far, but important matches will come soon enough, Turakulov added.
The Sughd Oblast government underwrites Khudzhand. The team has won the Tajik Cup three times, finished second twice and third six times. This season in tournament play so far, Khudzhand is in seventh place out of nine and doesn't look like the powerhouse it has been in other seasons. The Sughd Oblast government is considering major changes to the team's personnel.
Gyane started playing at age 6 in Ghana. He reached the top league in his homeland. In 2008 he signed a contract with the Moscow team Kamaz, then moved to Kyrgyzstan to join Dordoi Dinamo. His wife has stayed in Ghana during his nomadic career.
"The contract is good, and so are the training conditions," he said. Khudzhand began negotiations with Gyane after making preliminary inquiries with the Dordoi team management, Turakulov said. "We received good recommendations and signed a six-month contract with him."
Gyane also received a US $2,000 bonus and lives rent-free in an apartment that the team provides.
Tajikistan's top league has nine teams. Rustam Marofiyev, deputy chairman of the Sughd Oblast Football Federation, said Africans and South Americans play in the league. FC TsSKA Pomir of Dushanbe has two Ghanaian players — Charlie Nakuti and Gabriel Dontoh. Yet another Ghanaian, Elijah Ari, plays for FC Vakhsh of Qurghonteppa.
A Brazilian, Jailton Oliviera, plays for FC Regara of Tursunzade – considered the favourite to take the Tajik Cup.
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July 20, 2012 @ 09:07:38AM farhod -
If you pay Tajiks $2,000, they will play better than international players.
February 11, 2012 @ 06:02:12AM romaregar -
There is no such role as half-striker!
November 11, 2010 @ 03:11:00PM Tima Altay Kray -
I am very happy for this player.
September 13, 2010 @ 01:09:00AM maston -
I don't give crap about Tajik football.
September 11, 2010 @ 02:09:00PM karim -
Sogd seems to take football more seriously. Take the upcoming Khujand-Khulbuk match for example: advertisements have been going on for a month, there are lotteries and there's a 25000-seat stadium.
August 21, 2010 @ 07:08:00AM bakha -
I did not know that foreigners play for Tajik clubs. We are making progress!!!
August 4, 2010 @ 03:08:00AM parosh


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Fox should have let Ricks speakBy Howard Kurtz, CNNUpdated 6:27 PM ET, Wed November 28, 2012Author Tom Ricks criticized Fox News on that network; his interview was ended abruptly.Story highlightsA Fox News interview with author Thomas Ricks was cut short Ricks said "Fox was operating as a wing of the Republican Party"Howard Kurtz: Fox acted too self-protectively rather than allow a debate on its roleKurtz says other cable anchors have shut down guests who question their networksIt was a remarkably short interview by cable news standards.The moment that veteran military reporter Thomas Ricks, in an appearance on Fox News, begin to unload on Fox, he found his segment abruptly ended. Thank you, very much. Nice of you to drop by. Adios, amigo.Some of those who love to dish it out, it seems, aren't very big on taking it.The self-protective shield that some media organizations erect around their companies is hardly limited to Rupert Murdoch's network. But what happened with Ricks this week is a case study in sidelining a guest who dared challenge the premise of a story.Howard KurtzTo be sure, anchor Jon Scott was polite and didn't interrupt Ricks, but he couldn't have hustled him off the set faster if he had used a vaudeville-style hook.Watch: Should Fox have pulled plug on Tom Ricks for ripping the network?Ricks, a longtime reporter for the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal, has been making the rounds to talk about his latest book, "The Generals." (He appeared on "Reliable Sources" on Sunday, and I welcomed his criticism of the media.) Fox, not surprisingly, wanted to focus on an issue that it frames as a scandal: the Obama administration's handling of the fatal attack on American diplomats in Libya.Watch: Twitter on fire as Chris Brown slimes a female criticFox's angle was clear from Scott's setup: "Right now, pressure mounting on the Obama administration over its response to the deadly attack on our consulate in Benghazi." But Ricks didn't pull his punches based on the venue. "I think Benghazi was generally hyped by this network especially," he said.Scott pushed back, which he had every right to do: "When you have four people dead, including the first U.S. ambassador in more than 30 years, how do you call that hype?"That's when Ricks, after explaining the difficulty of determining what happened in a firefight, went for the jugular: "I think that the emphasis on Benghazi has been extremely political, partly because Fox was operating as a wing of the Republican Party."The interview was over, less than 90 seconds after it started.Just WatchedPetraeus and the pressreplayMore Videos ...Petraeus and the press 07:27PLAY VIDEOJust WatchedRicks on Broadwell's bookreplayMore Videos ...Ricks on Broadwell's book 01:48PLAY VIDEOWas Ricks being deliberately provocative? Perhaps he was, for controversy sells books. And maybe his criticism was overstated. But the fact remains that he was invited as a guest, was asked about the Libya attack and responded in a way that made Fox's relentless coverage of the controversy part of the story. And that was deemed unacceptable.Watch: Is it time for Chelsea Clinton, gay rights activist, to leave NBC?Michael Clemente, Fox's executive vice president, told me that Ricks's conduct "felt like a stunt ... That was just bush league, especially for a veteran reporter." Ricks wasn't answering the anchor's question, says Clemente, and Scott, feeling "offended," decided that "I'm not going to give this guy any more airtime."What's more, Clemente says, Ricks "apologized" to a Fox staffer on the way out.Ricks denies this, saying he told the staffer, who accused him of being rude, that he "might have been a bit snappish" because he was tired from his book tour. "This was in no way an apology," Ricks told me, "but rather an explanation of why I jumped a bit when the anchor began the segment with the assertion that pressure on the White House was building, which it most clearly was not."As for the interview itself, "I was not picking a fight with Fox. I was answering their questions."Watch: Why Matt Lauer is getting a bum rap on TwitterHad Scott wanted to argue that his network was right to pound away at the administration's shifting stories on Libya, and that it was the rest of the media that was underplaying the matter, they could have had a substantive discussion. Instead, it was over before it began."You have a point," Clemente said. "It could have been a back-and-forth debate. But that's just not Jon's style. Jon is a more traditional anchor-reporter."The episode reminded me of an uncomfortable clash in 2010 when Fox anchor Megyn Kelly repeatedly berated Kirsten Powers, a liberal contributor to the network, for challenging her constant harping on a minor scandal involving the New Black Panther Party. Kelly repeatedly interrupted her guest, told Powers she didn't know what she was talking about and at one point threatened to cut her mike. The difference is that Kelly later realized she had gone too far and told me she had apologized to Powers.The anchor, of course, holds the power in such situations. In May, MSNBC's Tamron Hall was interviewing Tim Carney, a conservative columnist for the Washington Examiner. She asked about Mitt Romney's testy reaction to a reporter's question, the day after a report that the candidate had bullied another student in high school, when Carney tried to turn the tables."What you're doing here is a typical media trick," he said. "You hype up a story and justify the second-day coverage of the story."Hall began lecturing Carney, saying "you don't have to answer a single question and you didn't have to accept the invitation to come on ... You're kind of in my house here," as if he were an unruly dinner guest.As Carney tried to get a word in, Hall kept talking over him: "You're irritating me right now ... You're not gonna come on and insult me, you're not gonna come on and insult the network when you knew what we were gonna talk about. Done." And he was. The anchor went to another guest and Carney had been summarily dismissed for challenging MSNBC's handling of the story.Watch: Media buzzing as Newt Gingrich says he may run againWhat's at issue here is not that on-air personalities sometimes let their tempers flare; anyone spending many hours on the air (including me) may get a little peevish now and then. It's an attitude that one's own organization is so above reproach that a guest's criticism amounts to insulting behavior. And since anchors pride themselves on their aggressive questioning, they look small and defensive when they shut down the guest.Not everyone fits this description, of course. In fact, Fox's Bill O'Reilly seems to relish the chance to repeat the swipes of anyone who takes him on, punch back and invite the offender on for a debate (which many decline).Cable news can be a rough arena. 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Bee-Hold the Tower of Jewels
It's worth the wait.
The two towers of jewels (Echium wildpretti) are blooming in the Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven, the half-acre bee friendly garden next to the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility, UC Davis.
The plant is a biennual and it blooms the second year and that's it. Plant specialists call this a monocarpic (dies after flowering).
There's no better place for the towers of jewels to "bee" than next to the six million or so bees at the Laidlaw facility.
The garden is open from dawn to dusk (no charge) year around. It's located on Bee Biology Road, west of the central campus.
If you go, bring your camera!
As Tiny as a... Sweat Bee
If you like to take photos of insects that are as small as a grain of rice, then you'll love--absolutely love--stalking a sweat bee.
Sweat bees, members of the worldwide family Halictinae and order Hymenoptera, are so-named because they are attracted to human perspiration or "sweat." They probably lap up perspiration because of the salt content, according to Christopher O'Toole and Anthony Raw, authors of Bees of the World.
The most important of the many genera, the authors say, are Halictus and Lasioglossum, which are common to both the Old World and New World.
Speaking of common, Halictus is also common in bee friendly gardens and swimming pools. Ever gone for a swim and feel a tiny insect sting you? It may have been a sweat bee. ("Their sting is only rated a 1.0 on the Schmidt Sting Pain Index, making it almost painless," according to Wikipedia.)
O'Toole and Raw point out that some sweat bees are only 4mm long, which is why they can be easily overlooked and so difficult to identify.
What's unique are about these ground-nesting bees? The females of all species of sweat bees mate before winter. "This means that, unlike female solitary bees of other families, those of halictids do not have to mate before founding a nest in the spring," they write.
Native pollinator specialist Robbin Thorp, emeritus professor of entomology at the University of California, Davis, identified this little pollen-packing sweat bee (below) as a female sweat bee, Halictus tripartitus.
She was nectaring a tower of jewels (Echium wildprettii) in our yard and packing a heavy load of blue pollen she'd gathered from the plant.
The tower of jewels is native to the Canary Islands. So, if you visit the Canary Islands, you can probably see--and photograph--this little sweat bee there, too.
Sweat Bee
Heavy Load
Just Hovering
Every insect looks prettier when it lands on a tower of jewels (Echiium wildpretti).
When in full bloom, the 9-to-10-foot-high plant, native to the Canary Islands, blazes with firecracker-red flowers. It's a showstopper.
Syrphid flies, aka flower flies or hover flies, battle with honey bees to sip the sweet nectar.
The flower flies flit in and out of the blossoms, barely visible.
However, these insects suffer from an identity crisis. Their wasp-like coloring wards off predators. That same coloring confuses people, too. The average person on the street--or in a flower bed--thinks they're bees.
They're not. They're flies.
UC Davis-trained entomologist Robert Bugg wrote an excellent pamphlet on flower flies that's downloadable free from the UC Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources. Titled Flower Flies (Syrphidae) and Other Biological Control Agents (Publication 8285, May 2008), it will help you identity flower flies.
Not bees. Not wasps. Flies.
Syrphid Fly
Itsy Bitsy--Not!
It wasn't an itsy bitsy spider.
And it didn't climb up the water spout.
It was climbing all over the tower of jewels, ready to stalk and pounce on prey.
We spotted this male jumping spider in the genus Phidippus (as identified by Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology at UC Davis) cruising the interstate of a nine-foot-high tower of jewels (Echium wildpretii).
The tower of jewels is a bee-friendly plant, but it's also spider-friendly.
The eight-eyed jumping spider (four large eyes on its face and four smaller eyes on top of the head) is considered an excellent predator because of its keen eyesight and amazing speed. Although it's only about two centimeters (less than 0.8) long, it can jump about 40 to 50 times its length. It's distinguished, too, by its iridescent green chelicerae or mouthparts.
The kneeling photographer and the jumping spider went eye to eye--well, two eyes versus eight eyes--and then the spider crawled under a stem.
I was hoping it would jump.
Jumping Spider
Green Mouthparts
The Tower of Bees
This spectacular plant attracts bees like a honey-laden hive does hungry bears.
The tower of jewels (Echium wildprettii), native to the Canary Islands, is a biennal; it flowers only in the second year and then dies. So, for the first year, it looks quite insignificant. The second year: it shoots up an amazing nine or 10 feet, ablaze with blossoms the color of rubies.
If you ever see a tower of jewels blooming, you'll remember it. One bloomed last year in the Storer Garden in the UC Davis Arboretum. it drew scores of visitors toting cameras.
The same will hold true when several towers bloom next year in the Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven, a half-acre bee friendly garden planted last fall next to the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility, UC Davis.
Visitors to the haven will see the "tiny" Echiums during the public opening on Sept. 11. They won't see the regal beauty unfold until 2011.
Meanwhile, we're savoring the three towers in our own bee friendly garden. So are the honey bees, hover flies, bumble bees, carpenter bees, butterflies and hummingbirds.
The scouts (bees) arrive as soon as the temperature hits 50 degrees. Then they head back to their hives to alert the foragers. You can almost hear them Waggle-Dancing: "Fine quality, large quantity--hurry, hurry!" By mid-morning, the towers are abuzz with bees. By mid-afternoon, the bees sound like jet engines.
A tower of bees.
HONEY BEE zeroes in on a ruby-red blossom. (Copyrighted Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
LADY IN RED--A honey bee amid the bright red blossoms of the tower of jewels. Note the blue-gray pollen from the plant on her leg. (Copyrighted Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
BLUE SKIES, red blossoms, busy bees. A honey bee heads for a tower of jewels. (Copyrighted Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)


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November 10, 2009 4:02 am | News | CommentsJim Lane Biofuels Digest - November 10, 2009 In Hawaii, at the BIO Pacific Rim Summit, Joule Biotechnologies announced that it has achieved direct microbial conversion of CO2 into hydrocarbons via engineered organisms, powered by solar energy.
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What's your favorite part about working in the deli? I am learning a ton, which is preparing me for when I become a store manager. It's a great stepping stone for making me a more well-rounded manager.
Do you cook? Yes. I have to; my husband doesn't cook. But I enjoy it.
Is there a favorite dish that you like to prepare? I love to make chicken paprikash. I just made it last night, actually. I'm always on Pinterest and different websites looking up cool new recipes and usages for interesting ingredients. My husband may not always like what I make but at least I have fun!
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Book Book — Goose!
Posted: January 10, 2013 | Author: Hilary Mason | Filed under: projects | Tags: absurdity, hack | 25 Comments »I like to read. I love bookstores, I like to wander, and to find things that I didn't know existed. But bookstores don't have every book that exists. Amazon has most books, but search is a terrible way to discover new things. Amazon's recommendations most likely maximize purchases, but are a terrible way to find something you didn't know you were looking for (look at a book like Effective JavaScript, for example, and you get recommendations for Async JavaScript, Building Node Applications with MongoDB and Backbone, JavaScript Enlightenment). Similarly, top 100 lists are great at showing you popular things that you're probably more likely to buy, but not very good at helping you find a book with a story or idea that's unlike anything you've read lately.
There must be a better way to explore books.
A random way to explore books would be a good way to start.
Hence, bookbookgoose. Browse randomly. Enjoy!
Hint: use the 'n' key to go forward quickly. I find about .2% of the books are awesome.
Update: you can now find @bookbookgoose on Twitter, sharing one random book per hour.
Update: Dustin Kurtz at Melville House had an eloquent writeup of the beauty in this random literature.