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"I think for women 40 to 49, we should target women who are at high risk," she said, such as those with a first-degree relative with breast cancer.
Changing the screening interval from annually to every two years for women 50 to 74, she said, "is one of the best things they did." At her clinic, Kerlikowske said, biennial screening has been a standard for years.
A Gynecologist's View
Gynecologist Judi Chervenak, an associate clinical professor of obstetrics-gynecology and women's health at Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City, said she will tell her patients this: "From age 39 on, a woman should have a yearly visit to her health-care provider, during which she discusses which routine tests are appropriate for her, including mammography."
But, she also said she favors mammography for many women.
"Unless the patient is at increased risk of radiation exposure or increased mental health stress of dealing with a false-positive test, I still feel that the use of the mammogram is a potentially lifesaving and quality-of-life improving test for many women," Chervenak said.
"We know that mammography often picks up a cancer before it can be palpated," she said. "We have to do everything we can to maintain our quality of life."
A Family Physician's View
A woman should remember that the guidelines are based on the entire population and that her own decision must be an individual one, said Dr. David Baron, a family physician and chief of staff at Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center and Orthopaedic Hospital in Santa Monica, Calif., and an assistant clinical professor of family medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles.
"That's why communication between a patient and her health-care professional is very important," Baron said.
The new guidelines, in his view, are encouraging physicians to individualize the screenings.
"Some of this will depend on how risk-adverse a woman is," Baron said. A 40-year-old woman, for instance, might be afraid of radiation from a mammogram and be at average risk for breast cancer. No matter how much a doctor explains that the radiation amount is minimal, he said, she might not be convinced, and she might be advised to wait.
On the other hand, he said, another 40-year-old woman might be very frightened of breast cancer and want the screening. For her, Baron said, he might advise sticking with annual screening.
To women 50 and up, Baron said he would say: "I think it's important to have a mammogram. Whether you want to have it every year or every two years is negotiable."
And for his patients 75 and older? "It's really a matter of individual choice," he said.
The task force has drawn criticism for recommending fewer mammograms and starting them later. But Baron offered another perspective. "I respect them a great deal," he said. "They've got no horse in the race. They are independent experts."
He said the task force did its best to sort through the available evidence and come up with the most scientifically sound guidelines.
Women should also realize that the results of future studies might change the recommendations yet again, Baron said. And no matter what the recommendations are, he said, women must always discuss their own medical history and risks with their doctors when making a decision about screening for breast cancer or any other disease.


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May 22, 2014
(5 Nov. 2010) --- One of the Expedition 25 crew members aboard the International Space Station, 220 miles above Earth, took this night time photo, looking south along the Atlantic coast of Europe and into Africa, from Lisbon, Portugal south across the Strait of Gibraltar. The lights can be followed down the coast of Morocco to Casablanca, and beyond.
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Today I'm going to do something I don't like to do. I'm going to use labels. I don't like labels of any kind because they oversimplify what is complex, and this is especially so when labels are used to describe human beings, the most complex complexity of all. A label on a can of soup can, at most, only list the ingredients, but it cannot come close to capturing the experience of enjoying a bowl of delicious soup. How much more inadequate is a label trying to explain a person. As a psychologist, I even resist using diagnostic labels, but I have to in order to satisfy the insurance companies. To call someone "borderline" or "schizophrenic" doesn't tell you much of anything of importance about a human being. Labels cause us to imagine that we know someone before we do, so we don't even try to know them once we have put them in our little boxes of categories. Labels objectify people, and objects are easy to ignore, dismiss, and throw away.
I am especially wary of using the highly charged labels "conservative" and "liberal," especially during this political season. But I'm going to use them anyway, but not with their political connotations; I'm going to use them for their spiritual implications. For the terms "conservative" and "liberal" are not just labels for explaining opposing political ideologies; they describe complementary elemental forces.
We see the conservative and liberal rhythm at work in nature. Nature hibernates in winter to restore itself before bursting forth into new life in spring. Fields lie fallow to regenerate in order to produce the following year. The ocean withdraws from the shore in order to swell into waves, which release back onto the shore. Living creatures breathe in to replenish their cells with oxygen so that they may breathe out their energy. The body shuts down during illness or injury to heal itself for activity.
The conservative and liberal impulses exist in nature and within each of us. They are the yin and yang of the spiritual life. The conservative yin is grounded in reality. It's practical, sensible, factual, down-to-earth. It's ordered, stable, predictable, settled. The conservative tendency within us seeks to preserve the past and maintain tradition. We need the conservative impulse to conserve our energy, to protect our boundaries, to solidify our gains, to heal our wounds.
And there is the liberal yang, soaring up into the clouds, untethered, unrestrained, free, and spontaneous. It's imaginative, speculative, and creative. The liberal tendency within us anticipates the future, has dreams and visions of what is possible, and longs to change what is into what can be. We need the liberal impulse to stretch and grow, to venture over the next horizon, to incorporate the new, to adapt and change in order to survive in changing times. Politically, "conservative" and "liberal" are usually posed as opposing, conflicting forces, but they are really complementary. Spiritually, they are not either/or but both/and. We need both tendencies to be whole persons. The challenge of the spiritual life is to hold the conservative yin and the liberal yang in tension with each other.
Religion is the organized, institutional expression of spirituality, and unfortunately, religion usually doesn't hold these tendencies in tension very well. It usually makes the false choice of one being superior to the other and engages in the misguided mission of trying to destroy the other. Conservative religion often falsely believes that the truth was delivered in its entirety once upon a time for all time, and its mission becomes preserving the past against any change and maintaining tradition at all costs, even when the tradition has lost its meaning and relevance. Conservative religion is about inerrant Bibles with literal meanings that are not open to new interpretations, infallible Popes and preachers whose pontifications are never open to question or critique, and rigid rituals that must be repeated over and over without the slightest deviation. Conservative religion defines faith as obedience, which, at its worst, devolves into unquestioning compliance and stifling conformity.
Liberal religion often falsely believes that truth and meaning are found only in the present and future and is quick to dismiss the past as having little to teach us and much to rebel against, and its mission becomes denigrating the past, rewriting the creed, and desecrating the tradition, even when a tradition may still have value. Liberal religion places it faith in the inevitability of progress, in what Unitarian minister James Freeman Clarke called "the progress of mankind onward and upward forever," in what John Lennon sang, "every day in every way it's getting better and better." The past holds dead doctrines and dogmas, worn-out institutions and rituals, and authorities who have lost their authority, while the future holds the promise of attaining everything we have ever desired. In this way, liberals can be just as rigid and dogmatic as conservatives about the time zones they live in -- one lives in the promise of a future utopia, the other in the nostalgia of a idyllic Garden of Eden. Liberals define faith as openness and adventure, which, at its worst, devolves into rootlessness and groundlessness, vulnerable to chasing the latest fad and fashion until a new one comes in vogue.
So in a simplistic nutshell, this is the fundamental difference between conservative and liberal religion: conservatives resist change and liberals push for change.
I don't have to tell you on which side of this divide we Unitarian Universalists fall. Since our inception, we have always pushed for change. We have pushed for theological change -- ethics instead of belief, reason instead of superstition, the facts of science instead of the wishful thinking of faith, the potential for human good instead of original sin, human responsibility instead of divine intervention, life in the here-and-now instead life in the hereafter, and respect for the wisdom of all spiritual paths instead of the arrogance of a my-way-or-the-highway, one, true religion.
We have pushed for political change -- the abolition of slavery, the abolition of the death penalty, the suffrage for women and civil rights for African Americans, LGBT persons, and all people, public education, the autonomy of women over their own bodies, the preservation of our natural environment, the end of war and the waging of peace, a democracy of, by, and for all the people.
We have pushed for economic change -- the right to organize, safe working conditions, the eight-hour work day and the five-day work week, livable wages, a universal retirement pension and universal health care, regulation of the greed of the powerful and protection of the well-being of the vulnerable, a social safety net that catches you when you fall, and a helping hand to lift you up again.
Many people go to church to feel comfortable and complacent, to be reassured that what has always been will always be, to be "saved," which means that one has arrived at one's spiritual destination. We come to church to be challenged to stretch and grow, not to save our souls but to grow a soul, to be transformed and to transform our world, to embark on a lifetime adventure of exploration and discovery, a journey which never ends. We liberals believe in and are dedicated to change.
Now change may be small and straightforward: to read more books, to go to the gym more consistently, to spend more time with your family and friends. Or change may be more profound: to confront an addiction and begin the recovery of a more meaningful life, to leave a job you have always dreaded and pursue the work you have always dreamed of doing, or to leave a loveless marriage and pursue the possibility of realizing true intimacy. Whether the change we seek is small or large, there are basically two ways to approach change.
One way is trying harder. This approach is about change from the outside in. You change how you behave or you change your external circumstances in order to change who you are internally. This approach has confidence in human knowledge. You know what you need to change in your life in order to be happy, and the way to get from where you are to where you want to be is to formulate a step-by-step plan with clear goals and objectives. Or as someone once said, "The difference between dreams and goals is a deadline." This is the way of Mike Paget and of strategic plans. This approach has confidence in will-power. You can do anything you set your mind to. Change is about action; it's about doing something. Don't just sit there, do something. As the Nike ads put it, "Just do it." As Thomas Palmer put it, "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again."
This is the way of change you find in the self-help section of bookstores. This is the American way. In a national survey that asked people what they would change to make their lives happier, 33% said their financial situation, 14% said their jobs, 9% would change where they live, 5% said their appearance, 5% their family, 5% their romantic partner, and 4% their health. Notice that just about all of these changes are about external changes. Change from the outside in, change by trying harder pervades our culture, and many of us assume it is the only way of changing our lives.
Let's say you characteristically spend too much. The "try harder" approach would dictate that you cut up your credit cards and devise a strict budget and stick to it, keeping track of every dime you spend by keeping your receipts and entering the amounts in your budget columns; and if and when you run out of money for your allocated areas, you don't spend anymore.
Or let's say you need to earn extra money or have been laid off and need to find another job, but you find it hard to get motivated to put yourself out there. The "try harder" approach would dictate that you may take an assertiveness class and learn how to push yourself past your shyness. You may go to someone to help you put together your resume. You may practice job interviewing with a job coach. You may meet with a job recruiter and visit job fairs.
Let's say you want to feel closer to your life partner. You may schedule regular "date nights" to guarantee that the two of you will spend more time together. You may see a couple's counselor together and work on your communication skills.
Let's say you want to grow a garden. So you plant some seeds, but they don't seem to grow. So you get to work. You talk to your seeds, then you yell at them, but still they don't seem to be growing. So you try harder. You read stories and poems to your seeds, you sing to them, you play music for them. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. (Reference to Frog and Toad in Arnold Lobel's The Garden.)
These are the ways of change that take action and try harder. But there is another way, and it's the way of W.C. Fields: "If at first you don't succeed, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it." Not trying so hard is about change from the inside out, changing how you think, feel, and perceive in order to change how you behave or to change the circumstances of your life. This approach doesn't have a lot of confidence in our knowledge. We don't know ourselves nearly as well as we think we do. The best laid plans of mice and men are frequently overridden by unconscious needs and desires. Our egos are terrific tricksters. The ego can make you think that your self-interest coincides with the interests of everyone else. A nation's ego can fool it into thinking that it's national interest is what's best for all humankind.
This approach doesn't have much confidence in the power of will-power. Even when we know what we need to change and what to do bring about change, we won't or can't do. The average person makes the same New Year's resolution ten years in a row, each year rationalizing their past failures to convince themselves to try, try again. Of the people who make New Year's resolutions, only half are able to sustain the resolution for two weeks, and the number is down to 19% after two years. St. Paul was speaking for a lot of us when he said in his letter to the Romans, "I don't understand myself. I want to do what is right but I do not do it. Instead, I do the very thing I hate."
Sometimes trying harder leads to change. But sometimes our plans and actions can interfere with change. Sometimes our plans and actions can intrude upon the natural process of change. Sometimes you need to stop trying so hard to change in order for change to happen. Sometimes you don't have to talk and sing and read stories to your seeds for them to grow. This approach to change is not so much about doing as being. It's about acceptance. When you accept yourself the way you are, you may be surprised at how much you change. Don't just do something, sit there. This is the way of change you are more likely to find in the spirituality section of bookstores. This is the way of Buddhism and other Eastern religions. This is the way of meditation, yoga, Tai Chi, and other spiritual practices. This is the way of psychotherapy when psychotherapy focuses on gaining insight and supporting self-acceptance.
Let's say you characteristically spend too much. You could spend some time in quiet solitude, without the distraction of noise and things to do, getting to know yourself better. You may discover a loneliness and an emptiness inside that have been there a long time but that you've never paid attention to before. You may discover that your overspending has been your way of trying to satisfy your loneliness and emptiness.
Or let's say you need to earn extra money or have been laid off and need to find another job, but you find it hard to get motivated to put yourself out there. You may start your job search by searching inside to try discover the internal obstacles that are holding you back. Maybe you're afraid of failure, or maybe you're afraid of success.
Let's say you want to feel closer to your life partner because the two of you have been losing your connection with each other. Instead of focusing on his or her shortcomings, you may focus on yourself and look at your own resistance and fears about intimacy. As much as you want more closeness in your relationship, getting close may feel dangerous to you or stifling or overwhelming. As Jesus said, "Take the beam out of your own eye before trying to remove the speck from your friend's eye."
The way of trying hard is the American way. It's also the Unitarian way. From the beginning, we have always put our faith in reason and in the ability of people to do the reasonable thing. I think any honest self-examination and any honest reading of history, especially in light of last week's convention, should convince us that this is a misplaced faith. Like many of you, I left behind the evangelical faith of my childhood and came to embrace the reasonable faith of Unitarian Universalism. There are clearly many aspects of my childhood faith that I am relieved to leave behind and that should be left behind. But the older I get, the more I appreciate at least one aspect of that faith, and that is it's focus on change as an inside job. If you want to change your behavior, you have to change your heart. If you want to change society, you have to begin with yourself. You need to undergo a internal conversion. You have to adopt new priorities and commit yourself to new values. You must be born again.
In my next couple of sermons, I will lay out how to become a born-again Unitarian.
Rev. Dr. Neal Jones
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Challenge To Chesapeake Cleanup Tests EPA Power
Maryland is joining three other jurisdictions in supporting the Obama administration's plan to clean up the Chesapeake Bay watershed, seeking to counter an election-year legal challenge by farmers and 21 attorneys general that could shape future U.S. environmental policy.
Atlantic Menhaden Fish Kill Under Investigation In Canton
Hundreds of dead fish are floating to the surface in the Inner Harbor and Patapsco River. Right now, it's a mystery what's causing it. It's the first fish kill of the season.
Environmental Groups Sue WSSC Over Plant
Environmental groups are suing the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission for alleged Clean Water Act violations, claiming a water filtration plant Potomac is polluting the Potomac River and Chesapeake Bay.
Md. Environmentalists Against Repeal Of The Rain Tax Outline Benefits
With some in the state legislature moving to repeal the so-called "rain tax," those in favor of keeping it promise a fight.
Trying To Reduce Stormwater Runoff In Maryland
A Maryland environmental official is starting a tour around the state to talk about efforts to reduce pollution from stormwater runoff.
DNR Seeks Riders To Test New ATV Trail
The Maryland Department of Natural Resources is looking for riders to evaluate a new off-road vehicle trail in the Savage River State Forest.
Md. Expands Scrap Tire Collection Program
The state of Maryland is pumping more money into scrap tire collection.
National Aquarium In Baltimore Overhaul Creates Coral Ecosystem
The National Aquarium in Baltimore is completing one of the biggest overhauls in its 32-year history with a massive new centerpiece exhibit that features 1,000 animals and 3,000 hand-sculpted coral replicas as their environment.
Gov. O'Malley Releases Long-Term Greenhouse Gas Reduction Plan
Gov. Martin O'Malley is scheduled to release a greenhouse gas reduction plan.
Chesapeake Bay Restoration Makes Progress But Won't Reach Goal
Washington, D.C., and states within the Chesapeake Bay watershed are making progress to reduce pollution flowing into the hobbled estuary but none is on track to meet cleanup commitments set this year, an analysis by environmental groups concludes.
Heat Prompts Code Orange Air Quality Alert In Baltimore Area
The Maryland Department of the Environment has issued a Code Orange Air Quality Alert for Tuesday in the Baltimore metro area.
Oysters More Effective Than Previously Believed In Filtering Water
Scientists knew oysters were good for the bay but they never knew how good until now.


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El Otro Lado: Portobelo
This colourful retreat is on the "other side" of the bay of Portobelo, opposite the city once prized by the Spaniards as a silver port and attacked by Henry Morgan. The hotel's four villas burst with tropical hues, set against the lush forest backdrop of Chagres National Park. Inside, Arte Povera meets mid-century Modernism, with patterned tiles and local artwork. Caribbean fusion cuisine is served at the poolside Gazebo.
El Otro Lado, Portobelo Bay, Colón (00 507 202 01 11; elotrolado.com.pa). Doubles start at US$490 (£306), including breakfast.
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ClockWorkMod recovery installation and Rooting Samsung Galaxy Tab2 10.1
- Download and install Samsung KIES
- Download ODIN 1.85
- Download recovery.tar.md5
- Download cwm-root-gtab2.zip for GT-P5113
- Download cwm-root-gtab2a.zip for GT-5100 and GT-5110
This CWM recovery installation and root method is compatible with Samsung Galaxy Tab2 GT-P5113, GT-5100 and GT-5110
Install CWM Recovery
- Connect Tab2 to PC/Laptop via USB cable
- Copy cwm-root-gtab2.zip to Samsung Galaxy Tab2 SDcard
- Turn off the device
- Press and hold power + Volume[+] buttons until it`s load to download Mode
- At windows, run Odin 1.85.exe
- Make sure that Odin is detect the device
- Click at PDA button
- Find and select recovery.tar.md5 file
- click Start
- Wait until odin finish all task and device will reboot.
- Done, ClockWorkMod Recovery now installed in your Galaxy tab2
note: Sometime Samsung KIES makes Odin cannot detect the device as it should be, so make sure that Samsung KIES is closed before run Odin
Root Samsung Galaxy Tab2
- Turn off Samsung Galaxy Tab2
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Rights in Cohabitation & Domestic Partnerships
If you have lived with someone intimately for a substantial period of time, you may have rights which can be enforced in a court of law. In a divorce of a married couple, the division of assets and debts is presumed to be equal. In a domestic partnership, the court tries to divide assets and debts based on the intent of the two people involved. Determining intent can be difficult. The court will look to an written agreements and if there are none, then to the couples' oral statements and conduct over time. If a court can establish that you and your partner intended to share property, the court can exercise authority over the division of the property to reach a fair and equitable result. Each case is different and decided upon its own facts. Oregon courts have applied these principles, whether or not the parties were of the same or opposite sex. No alimony or spousal support is allowed in domestic partnerships unless specifically provided for in a written agreement.
Domestic Partnership Agreements
If you and your partner are living together on an intimate or prolonged basis, and if you share your assets, you can put your agreement in writing. A domestic partnership agreement allows you to define how your assets will be shared during your relationship, and how your assets will be divided if the relationship ends or if one of you dies. You can agree to mix your assets in any way you choose. Your agreement is governed by general contract law. You can hold all of your property and assets jointly, separately, or any combination of jointly and separately. You can make provisions for support and what will happen if your relationship ends.
A domestic partnership agreement may involve significant property issues and may have serious tax consequences. Additionally, the laws on domestic partnership vary significantly from state to state. You and your partner are encouraged to obtain professional legal advice if you intend to enter into a domestic partnership agreement.
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Ending a relationship is always difficult. If you and your partner are not married, there may be significant issues about assets and debts you need to resolve. You can file for a dissolution of domestic partnership in civil court. If a domestic partnership agreement exists, you or your partner can seek to enforce the agreement. Even if you have an agreement, if conduct during the relationship has contradicted the agreement, you may be able to argue to a court that the agreement should be modified or canceled. If no agreement exists, a court will determine how you and your partner intended to share your assets and property.
All assets and property may be considered in a domestic partnership dissolution, if you or your partner are able to establish that your intent was to share the assets or property.
There are several ways to settle property issues. You can settle the matter between yourselves informally. If you do, you should consider putting your agreement in writing and obtain professional legal advice to help in drafting a final settlement agreement. You can mediate your disputes with the help of a neutral third-party. Or, you can file for a dissolution of domestic partnership, which may give you an advantage if your former partner is not cooperating, and may give you access to evidence you may not have.
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Unmarried couples with children may or may not have legal rights, depending on the circumstances. If you and the other person are established as the child's legal parents, then custody, visitation and support issues are handled like a divorce. If paternity of the child is not established, either the mother or alleged father can file a legal action to establish paternity and then determine custody, support, and visitation. If you are not biologically related to the child and there has been no legal relationship established by the other person, you may qualify as a psychological parent under Oregon law. Psychological parent status may allow you to have visitation with the child, if a court finds that it would be in the child's best interests. However, unless the circumstances are compelling, a psychological parent will not be awarded custody over a biological parent.
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text: Standing over the plate and getting brushed back are both just parts of the game, awesome parts of the game. Its baseball, and not the real world so that's why both such things are aceppted. How boring would it be if both sides were friends, after Votto hit a bomb and Capenter said "nice shot, you got me good that time buddy." Hell no, thats terrible and just not sports. Besides the fact that these guys play a kids game for millions, most of them anyhow. I for one love the brush back and the bean balls, its baseball. A very small part of what makes it so great, but it is a part. This is baseball, not the real world, and thats why its not assault....a part of making it the great game it is.


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Slinche Bryag: Great lamb meat
So special, wonderful restaurant! Bulgarian and European cuisine) Great atmosphere, very beautiful place, Friday and Saturday evening live saxophone. Magic!
Some of stuff speaks good English, they do have English menu there! Important
Variety of meal- lamb, rabbit, more traditional pork and chicken, fish)) We enjoy it much*
The place have business lunches for reasonable prices ($8) and good portions)))
The address: Frunze 53, from Main Post office on the central street take to Ussurijskij parkway, just 50 meters. Work hours: 12 - 24
Favorite Dish: "Agneshko" - it's lamb meat, for the side rice with lamb offal. Do like soups, veal meat and way they cook trout fillet there.
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Ice-cream parlor Siberian style
My favourite place was an ice-cream parlor, sorry, I don't have the address!
The ice-cream was not sold by scoops, but by weight, so they put the ice-cream on this old-time scale to make sure you didn't get too little nor too much!
"Pivnushka": The beer restaurant
The specialized beer restaurant is designed for 80 seats. The building, in which the restaurant is placed, is a monument of architecture. The interior of trade halls is designed in rural style.
The restaurant offers to the visitors:
German Beer "Pauliner", made under the recipe of the Munich monks since 1684;
Domestic beer in assortment more than 20 names
In the restaurant one can taste traditional dishes of Russian and German cuisines.
From 5 pm till 4.00 am one can enjoy services of smorgasbord placed in the hall (soaked apples, mushrooms, slab bacon, pickles, herring, potatoes with bacon etc.)
There's only live music in the restaurant - violin and accordion.
We invite you to visit our restaurant, to relax, to taste our cuisine and to visit our beer festival
Favorite Dish: Vodka predominates, of course. Russians prescribe to drink it neat in small single shot glass at one gulp. In Khabarovsk try vodka of local manufacturers and you will never be disappointed.
Beer is also popular and the choice is wide: European and Japanese brands, made in Russia beer, local bottled beer among them.
Wines either white or red are delicious but tend to be rather sweet for the Western palate.
Russian champagne is surprisingly good and cheap.
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"Utes": Beautifuf place
The restaurant is located in the central park of the city on the bank of Amur river, in a separate building, which is an architecture and culture monument of Khabarovsk city.
There are 2 halls on 60 places there. The bottom hall is designed in classical style, the top one in Japanese. There is a small banquet hall for 2 places, located on the top floor of the tower. You may enjoy the violin music in the bottom hall in the evening.
Cuisine: Russian and European in the bottom hall, Japanese and fish in the top hall.
Special dishes: meat in the pot "Utyos", salad "Utyos", meat "Utyosovsky", "Hors D'oevres of the Emperor", salad "Sea Gift", "Scallop in liquor", "Sea Imagination".
Form of payment: cash and credit card.
Working hours: round-the-clock.
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"Russian restaurant": Russian food
"Russian restaurant " is designed in a style of Russian log hut. Everything is made of wood here. The wicker statuettes of national man and women are standing in the corner under icons. In the middle of the hall there is a Russian furnace with pig-iron pot. The waiters are dressed in Russian national clothes.
You can taste there all the traditional dishes of Russian cuisine and also an exotic dish "Meat on stone". There is a large choice of meat and fish dishes, as well as salads, cooling, alcoholic and alcoholic-free drinks.
The hall is designed for 36 places. In the evening you can enjoy live Russian music, Russian folklore, performances of the actors, dressed in the Russian national clothes.
Favorite Dish: BORSH - beetroot soup which often includes other vegetables (potatoes, carrots, cabbage, onions and tomatoes), chopped ham and a swirl of sour cream. When in Russia help yourself to Moscow, Ukrainian and Siberian borsch.
PELMENY come from Siberia. They are small dumplings filled with meat and served in a pot as a main course.
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All stars: All stars
It is situated in Platinum arena, local hockeu palace. The thing I liked that it has a long long leather chairs... and they are so comfortable to lie on. The food is not so tasty and great but it's a good place if you want to spend some hours with friends for talking and drink some bear.
Doping Bar: Doping Bar
Doping Bar is situated on the lower floor of a sport shop "Intersport" which is located in the opposite of the hotel "Intourist". I guess it was concieved not just as the place where poeple can spend some minutes after they've done some good buyings but also as the place where poeple can have a tasty breakfast or a nice party with your friends. Nice music (chill out), fashion or sport TV, soft chairs and complaisant and very nice watresses. And of course ver very tasty and sweet food.
Favorite Dish: 1) Orange ice-cream - 195 rubles - it's just fabulous and it's taste is indescribable.
2) Apple cake with cheese - 90 rubles - very good for breakfast
Senior Pomidor (Tomato): Senior Pomidor
A small, nice and comfortable pizza house in the center of the city with a nice Italian menu and music (Celentano in most of the time).
In cold times it's full of people and it is so hard to find a sit... In hot times it's so easy to find a sit and taste my favourite pizza "Compania" with cheese Mozarella (sorry if I was mistaken in writing the name of this cheese), sausages, tomatoes, olives, pepper and a special sauce (always forget it's name).
There's also a great number of good and tasty italian salads. The most popular is Caesar.
Good company is greeted...
Favorite Dish: 1) Pizza "Compania" - 180 rubles (over 6$ or may be less)
Baskin Robins: A dream for an ice-cream lover
Being a big lover of ice-cream I couldn't resist myself of visiting Buskin Robbins which is situated of the last flour of a mega market "NK city". In weekends it's full of local people and children.
Favorite Dish: My favourite ice-cream is "New York" - 1 ball of ice-cream will cost you 30 rubles.
And I also love a capuccino cocktail - 100 rubles.
Café La-Vita: La-Vita
European food, desserts, ice-cream, great number of tasty cakes made of fruits and berries are to be found in La-Vita. Prices: Cold course - 40-250 rubles (2-9$), first course - 20-70 rubles (0.6-5$), second course – 60 -150 rubles (2-5$), drinks from 20 rubles (from 0.5$), cakes from 150 rubles (from 5$), desserts and ice-cream from 50 rubles (from 2$).
Working hours: from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Favorite Dish: 1)Ice-cream with bananas and chocolate - it's so sweet. - over 100 rubles
2) salad "Mexican" - I'm not sure whether it's real mexican but very tasy. - over 150 rubles
3) cake "Winter garden" - over 50 rubles
4) Theramissu withh banana liqueur (actually don't know how to right it exactly - 95 rubles
Cherno-beloe Cafe (Black and white): A chance to see a good comedy
It's a very nice cafe where I like to spend some time with my friends. It'sa kind of a small cinema with sofas and tasty things. Menu differs from meat dishes, saladsand deserts to beer, alcohol and non-alcohol coktails.
Favorite Dish: My favourite dishes are: 1) salad "Kolomna" - 139 rubles; 2) desert "tropicheskiy ray" - over 100 rubles; 3) pel'meni (meat dumplings) in a pot - 95 rubles;
Gals: Seafood
A restaurant, billiard (pool – 150 rubbles per hour, it's over 5$) and a disco floor. It's a restaurant with sea food but there are some meat rations and a very tasty ice-cream!!! The restaurant is situated in the area of the Far Eastern University of Sport so most of the alcoholic drinks are prohibited. But there's a wide choice of bear and national Russian drink – vodka.
Favorite Dish: Ice-cream
Golden Bird: A taste of home
If you want the look of McDonalds, but the taste of Kentucky Fried Chicken, Golden Bird is the place for you. It is very strange to see, but it does taste good.
Favorite Dish: Order just like you were at McDonalds. The pictures are on the wall, and you only need to tell what number you want........
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Pekin: Chinese world
Very popular among people of Khabarovsk ý not good, not bad, something middle. It represents Chinese food. Actually I donýt like such type of a food but thereýre some things I find tasty here. For example, straws in caramel or bananas in paste. As I like sweet things such things seem to me good enough. In dinner time (from 10:00 a.m to 03:00 p.m) here is a Sweden meal. And you have to pay only 70 rubles (over 3 $).
Viord: Pizza house
Cosy conditions, modern design, on walls a collection of pictures in modern style … Wide scale of alcoholic and nonalcoholic cocktails, juices. Menu includes a wide range of ice-cream, hot chocolate. The prices in cafe rather low, and assortment of dishes and their flavoring qualities can satisfy a wish of any visitor. A subject special pride is different verities of pizza.
Favorite Dish: Pizza "Viord" - spicy pizza of the closed form with a stuffing from the hen, mushrooms and vegetables baked in sauce.
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I love a good Thomas Jefferson quote. Besides the Jeffersonian Bible, which removed all references to miracles and the supernatural, the author of the Declaration of Independence also wrote the following.
"But this opens with a vast accession of strength from their younger recruits, who, having nothing in them of the feelings or principles of '76, now look to a single and splendid government of an…Continue
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Today I wrote the following letter to the Board of Elections in my county. This is a slightly edited version that takes out a few personal details. I will post an update when (or if) I get a response.
Dear Election Commissioners:
I went to vote yesterday. My daughter was with me. She is 10 years old.
Inside the polling place, two men were sitting behind a table. One of the men looked up my name. The other man, who looked to be in his late…
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Tonight I received several text messages from friends in Boston near the Convention and Exhibition Center. Mitt Romney rented the place and was throwing a black-tie party to watch the election outcome on Fox "News".
Apparently, as the evening wore on, the oligarchy came tottering out a few at a time, somber and quiet. Every last one was wearing a frownie-face.
I only wish I'd been there to see reality bite down hard on the 1%.
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NFL Matchups >> Philadelphia vs. Oakland Preview 11/03/2013
The fans at O.co Coliseum will be treated to a game between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Oakland Raiders when they take their seats on Sunday.
Oddsmakers currently have the Eagles listed as 2½-point favorites versus the Raiders, while the game's total is sitting at 43.
The Eagles were a 15-7 loser in their most recent outing at home against the Giants. They failed to cover the 5.5-point spread as favorites, while the total score (22) made winners of UNDER bettors.
The Raiders were a 21-18 winner in their most recent outing at home against the Steelers. They covered the 2.5-point spread as underdogs, while the total score (39) made winners of UNDER bettors.
CURRENT STREAK:Philadelphia has lost 2 straight games.
TEAM RECORDS:Philadelphia: 3-5 SU, 3-5 ATS
Oakland: 3-4 SU, 5-2 ATS
PHILADELPHIA MOST RECENTLY:When playing in November are 2-8
When playing on grass are 3-7
After being outgained are 2-8
When playing outside the division are 2-8
OAKLAND MOST RECENTLY:When playing in November are 3-7
When playing on grass are 4-6
After outgaining opponent are 4-6
When playing outside the division are 2-8
A FEW TRENDS TO CONSIDER:The total has gone OVER in 5 of Philadelphia's last 5 games on the road
The total has gone OVER in 8 of Philadelphia's last 11 games
Philadelphia is 4-2 SU in its last 6 games on the road
Philadelphia is 5-14 ATS in its last 19 games
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Oakland's last 5 games at home
The total has gone UNDER in 6 of Oakland's last 7 games
Oakland is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games at home
Oakland is 4-12 SU in its last 16 games
NEXT UP:Philadelphia at Green Bay, Sunday, November 10
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Rated 3 out of 5 by jay326 Expectations First and foremost the long lines to check in were horrible. Approximately more than a half hour to be checked. Secondly the parking was horrid as the spaces were so small you could not even get out of your car. The parking attendants - mostly were rude and not very helpful with an attitude. The dining choices were limited to Relish bar/restaurant as the choices next door were much better. The lobby was nice but could use some revamping. The room could also be revamped as it just didnt feel like a Westin or Starwood Hotel. The pool was alright but lack drink service and closed too early at night. The only highlight was the happy hour prices at the pool. Hotels needs a bad makeover as it is a disgrace to be called even a Westin category of hotels. Starwood Group should be emabarrassed of this hotel to be in their family. May 7, 2015
Rated 4 out of 5 by Rkerrigan3 Great property just wish our room type was honored My husband and I are celebrating our 5 year wedding anniversary and his homecoming after a seven month deployment to the Middle East with the Marine Corps. Thus, all we truly wanted to do was sit and be with one another, therefore, we booked an Ocean view room during our stay. We had plans on sitting on our balcony together just looking out and seeing the ocean. Not only did my husband spend 7 months staring at dirt we are stationed 45 minutes outside of Palm Springs where the thought of an ocean view is only a dream. This again why booking an ocean view room was important to us. Upon checking in this afternoon we were told we were upgraded from an ocean view room to a duplex room and we were thrilled and so grateful. However, when we walked into the room and saw our view was of the ocean view tower, pools, and slightly the ocean our hearts dropped. This was not at all what we wanted or what we booked. We called the front desk and expressed our concerns and asked for our originally room back and we were told it was not possible. This was very upsetting. I am beyond upset and disappointed in Westin and just thought someone needed to be told about our issue. We are only staying for two nights before we head to Hana and then back home so knowing that the one ocean view we had hoped for was ruined defiantly was upsetting. I just hope in the future this doesn't happen to someone else. It defiantly was a huge disappointment on our end and I would hate for someone else to feel the way we feel now. If you are going to "upgrade" someone please make sure it is an upgrade and ask if this is ok before taking action. Show the vistor the difference and let them decide if it is worth it to them- it was not worth it to us at all! May 7, 2015
Rated 5 out of 5 by Sana the staff was amazing Brandon from the front desk, Kai from activities and Kealii from the shuttle were so great i decided to write a review. I usually never review places but this was exceptional. The beach was perfect. The rooms were clean and the staff was friendly. I could not ask for more . THANK YOU May 6, 2015
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Rated 5 out of 5 by KoriMac Great Hotel & Location Stayed here for a conference/vacation and will definitely go back! Lovely rooms, great location right on the beach, easy access to the town. Staff gave excellent recommendations and scheduling excursions was easy. April 16, 2015
Rated 5 out of 5 by ERIKAWITHAK Best Anniversary Our anniversary trip to the Westin Maui in 2014 was our favorite vacation ever! We initially booked our stay the first weekend of August and due to the hurricane, the hotel staff allowed us to move our reservation to the next weekend with such ease. The hospitality was amazing! We were greeted immediately and did not have to wait to check-in. We made a very specail employee named Alfred Pecson who was very helpful in making sure our stay was the best ever! He helped us navigate throughout the island, mapped out the hikes we wanted to do, and recommended the best restaurants. He even made the reservations for us for our anniversary dinner. We plan on making it a tradition to stay here every year for our anniversary! Thank you Maui Westin! April 9, 2015
Rated 5 out of 5 by Visitor127 Great stay, great staff This property was the site of a conference, and my spouse and I were able to extend our stay a couple of days beyond at the conference rate. That said, even the conference rate was much more per day than we normally spend on a hotel, so this was a treat for us. Check-in was fast and we were surprised that we could self-park our rental car free. The hotel is well-kept and on a great stretch of beach. Just a couple of critical notes before the praise: Our room was located right off the elevator at the end of the building, and it rumbled almost all night. Also, the Relish Bistro for supper was just average; however, we took advantage of a special for the breakfast buffet one day, and it was very good. The rooms are great - they're large and the beds are very comfortable. If you use the Green Choice program ($5 voucher per day of not having your linen changed out) be aware that staff won't come into your room for at least 5 days. That was fine for us. The hotel has a separate pool for adults, which was very nice. I can't say enough about the staff, who, to a person, were extremely friendly and helpful. We splurged on a cabana the last day of our stay, and Tasha ensured that we were well taken care of. We felt quite pampered! Overall, our experience was very nice, and I can recommend this property. April 7, 2015


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Pretty In Pink Redux In Miami
At long last, brat pack heartthrobs Molly Ringwald and Andrew McCarthy will cross paths again. They're both appearing at the Miami Book Fair International on the same day, in the same room ... but not, sadly, at the same time. They'll be separated by five hours. Ohhhhhhh.
Maybe they'll run into each other in the hall.
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Molly Ringwald will be reading from her new novel, When it Happens to You, about "the complexities of modern relationships," according to the folks at the book fair. She's also a busy Los Angeles mom. You can hear all about that in her appearance at the live storytelling series, The Moth.
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THE WARP LABEL story in one sentence: Two Sheffield record-store clerks turned dance-music entrepreneurs fall in love with the bleep 'n' blip minimalism of early, imported acid house and Detroit electro, and stick with it forever--through the rave explosion, the Gen-E comedown, and the great rocktronica swindle that by all rights should have rendered the pair as obsolete as Craig G or Downtown Julie Brown. Ten years after Warp's birth (and with the most fascinating techno produced by a micro-label bedroom industry fashioned, for the most part, in its image), the love defined on the first two of this three-disc retrospective seems not just admirable but prophetic.
Warp's body of brainy body music still has a confounding power, and it should still sound contemporary to fans of Timbaland and Triangle alike. This is house stripped bare--no arena dynamics, no divas, not a lot of melody, really. Just beautiful obscurantism--R2D2 melodies and evanescent synth-soul that bubbles in and out of throbbing, hide-and-seek acid grooves in the finest technopastoral tradition.
The first two discs document forebears Nitro Deluxe and Adonis turning Afrika Bambaataa's subterranean hideouts into spacey islands of the mind, and early U.K. pioneers LFO sexing up the cerebellum. And, just to prove the Warp boys weren't so contrary they couldn't smell a hit, there's DJ Mink's sampledelic b-boy throw-down, "Hey Hey! Can U Relate?," probably the coolest English hip hop ever recorded.
Sadly, instead of following their aesthetic's course into the late Nineties--when Autechre, Squarepusher, Broadcast, and Aphex Twin brought the Warp sound into new fields of post-dance--the third Remixes disc attempts to underscore the subgenre's sonic plasticity by handing more recent tracks over to Protools putterers who only succeed in showing us just how unduly obscure their sound can get. Bummer. This could have been the best three-CD set since the Magnetic Fields' 69 Love Songs.
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Please note the dimensions listed are for the photograph only. This work is professionally framed and in excellent condition. The framed dimensions are 54.5 x 75 inches. This is edition 2 of 9.
This stunning large-scale color photograph taken in Times Square, New York, is one of the most recent visually saturated and compositionally accomplished images by famed Contemporary Indian artist Vivek Vilasini (Indian, 1964), who has become critically acclaimed for his incredibly intense, highly ironic works that employ and conflate Indian traditional imagery with American and British Pop Art Culture. Two traditional male warriors confront one another, dressed in full regalia from days past seem to fit right into the surreal glare and glitz of New York's Time Square, the comments of one to the other captured in the yellow square at top, a nod to American Pop Art and artists such as Roy Lichtenstein. Vilasini's in-depth knowledge of art history makes grounds his works yet allows the irony and fantastic social commentary and narrative of each to resonate.
Focusing on incredibly poignant photography and multimedia works, contemporary artist Vivek Vilasini (B. 1969) closely investigates the effects of existing social structures and cultural identities upon individuals in the grand scheme of rapidly developing globalization and ever-changing ideologies. Using an array of mediums such as wood, steel, dust, video, photography, and painting, his works portray controversial narratives, embellished with a hint of humor, and comprised in a language all his own. The artist has exhibited internationally, with shows held at Indigo Blue Art (Singapore), The Guild (New York, NY), Aicon Gallery (London, UK), and Sharjah Art Museum (Sharjah, UAE), among others.
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Two Clinical Case Reports Demonstrate Trend Accuracy of Masimo Noninvasive and Continuous Hemoglobin and Illustrates Its Use as an Effective Tool for Blood Conservation
IRVINE, Calif., Sept. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Masimo (Nasdaq: MASI) announced today that two new clinical case reports presented at the Society for the Advancement of Blood Management (SABM) Annual Meeting demonstrate that Masimo noninvasive and continuous hemoglobin (SpHb®) provides measurements as accurate as invasive laboratory blood tests, offering a "new and effective strategy to facilitate blood conservation efforts and minimize unnecessary transfusions in the intensive care unit (ICU)." The case report also states that SpHb monitoring contains none of the drawbacks of traditional blood analysis that can impact clinical decisions.
According to Aryeh Shander, MD, Executive Medical Director at the Institute for Patient Blood Management & Bloodless Medicine Surgery and Chief of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at Englewood Hospital & Medical Center, "In continuing to recognize the negative impact of red blood cell (RBC) transfusion on the critically-ill, our threshold for transfusion is increasing. Masimo noninvasive and continuous hemoglobin technology offers two significant advantages: the first is the ability to continuously monitor hemoglobin (especially at low levels) as we treat the patient with modalities other than transfusion and the second is the ability to avoid or reduce development of anemia in the ICU patients due to repeated blood draws that cause and aggravate anemia as noninvasive hemoglobin measurement eliminates the need for repeated blood draws in anemic patients."
In the first case report presented, researchers at the Englewood Hospital and Medical Center (EHMC) in New Jersey and Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in New York tracked the performance of Masimo SpHb in a severely anemic patient over the course of four days in the ICU. In comparing SpHb with invasive hemoglobin measurements (tHb), researchers found high correlation with a SpHb bias of 1.26 g/dL and standard deviation of 0.43 g/dL. Researchers noted that SpHb measurements (ranging from 4.9 to 11.2 g/dL) "exhibited a consistent trend compared to the changes in laboratory hemoglobin measurements" (between 5.2 to 8.1g/dL) over the four-day period, concluding that "the ability to continuously monitor hemoglobin noninvasively may offer a new and effective strategy to facilitate blood conservation efforts and minimize unnecessary blood transfusions in the ICU."(1)
In the second case report presented, researchers at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida tracked the performance of Masimo SpHb in a patient undergoing high blood loss liver transplantation surgery. Comparing SpHb with invasive hemoglobin measurements (tHb) led researchers to conclude that Masimo SpHb measurements compared "favorably with the laboratory measured values over a range of 6-12 g/dL." Researchers also noted the unique advantages of SpHb monitoring in that it provides "results faster and as an instantaneous readout" while the "stored data is easily retrievable enabling post-procedure processing." Dr. Klaus Torp, lead researcher and Anesthesiologist at Mayo Clinic, recognizes the importance and impact of SpHb monitoring in surgical patients, offering that "During massive hemorrhage, having the ability to monitor hemoglobin levels in real-time may enable the anesthesiologist to assess and match transfusion needs fast–allowing one to rapidly optimize oxygen delivery, intravascular volume, and avoid over-transfusion."(2)
Traditional blood analysis has many drawbacks, including complexity, time-consuming turnaround times that can impact clinical decisions, and blood loss due to invasive blood draws that have been found to contribute substantially to the anemic conditions that commonly occur in critically-ill patients–thereby increasing transfusion rates. Published studies have shown that transfusion of just one or two units of blood significantly increases infection, pneumonia, sepsis, and mortality after surgery.(3,4) These studies also suggest that transfusions and their associated risks could be "largely avoided" through implementation of better blood management techniques and "more appropriate indicators" for transfusions. The ability to continuously and noninvasively trend a patient's hemoglobin level with Masimo SpHb offers a breakthrough in blood management with the potential to improve clinical decision-making, reduce patient exposure to unnecessary blood transfusions, and preserve precious resources.
"These two case reports clearly demonstrate that Masimo SpHb provides the best available opportunity for reducing and/or eliminating anemia and transfusion related risks in surgical patients in the easiest and quickest possible way," stated Dr. Shander.
SpHb is available as part of the Masimo rainbow® SET platform–the first-and-only technology to noninvasively and continuously measure total hemoglobin (SpHb®), oxygen content (SpOC(TM)), carboxyhemoglobin (SpCO®), methemoglobin (SpMet®), Pleth Variability Index (PVI®), and acoustic respiration rate (RRaTM), in addition to the 'gold-standard' Measure-Through Motion and Low Perfusion performance of Masimo SET® oxyhemoglobin (SpO2), perfusion index (PI), and pulse rate (PR).
About Masimo
Masimo (NASDAQ: MASI) develops innovative monitoring technologies that significantly improve patient care–helping solve "unsolvable" problems. In 1995, the company debuted Measure-Through Motion and Low Perfusion pulse oximetry, known as Masimo SET®, which virtually eliminated false alarms and increased pulse oximetry's ability to detect life-threatening events. More than 100 independent and objective studies demonstrate Masimo SET provides the most reliable SpO2 and pulse rate measurements even under the most challenging clinical conditions, including patient motion and low peripheral perfusion. In 2005, Masimo introduced rainbow® Pulse CO-Oximetry(TM), allowing noninvasive and continuous monitoring of blood constituents that previously required invasive procedures, including total hemoglobin (SpHb®), oxygen content (SpOC(TM)), carboxyhemoglobin (SpCO®), methemoglobin (SpMet®), and Pleth Variability Index (PVI®), in addition to SpO2, pulse rate, and perfusion index (PI). In 2009, Masimo introduced rainbow Acoustic Monitoring(TM), the first-ever noninvasive and continuous monitoring of acoustic respiration rate (RRa(TM)). Masimo's rainbow platform offers a breakthrough in patient safety by helping clinicians detect life-threatening conditions and helping guide treatment options. Founded in 1989, Masimo has the mission of "Improving Patient Outcome and Reducing Cost of Care … by Taking Noninvasive Monitoring to New Sites and Applications®." Additional information about Masimo and its products may be found at www.masimo.com.
Forward Looking Statements
This press release includes forward-looking statements as defined in Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, in connection with the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are based on current expectations about future events affecting us and are subject to risks and uncertainties, all of which are difficult to predict and many of which are beyond our control and could cause our actual results to differ materially and adversely from those expressed in our forward-looking statements as a result of various risk factors, including, but not limited to: risks related to assumptions regarding the repeatability of clinical results, risks related to our belief that Masimo SpHb will facilitate early diagnosis and treatment of low hemoglobin/anemic conditions for all surgical and post-surgical patients, as well as other factors discussed in the "Risk Factors" section of our most recent reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), which may be obtained for free at the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. Although we believe that the expectations reflected in our forward-looking statements are reasonable, we do not know whether our expectations will prove correct. All forward-looking statements included in this press release are expressly qualified in their entirety by the foregoing cautionary statements. You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of today's date. We do not undertake any obligation to update, amend or clarify these forward-looking statements or the "Risk Factors" contained in our most recent reports filed with the SEC, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as may be required under the applicable securities laws.
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(1) Juhl A., Naqvi S., Aregbeyen O., Shander A. "Noninvasive and Continuous Hemoglobin Monitoring in an Intensive Care Unit Patient with low Hemoglobin." Society for the Advancement of Blood Management (SABM) Annual Meeting. September 24, 2010.
(2) Prith P, Torp K, et al. Real Time Hemoglobin Monitoring During Liver Transplantation. A Case Report. Society for the Advancement of Blood Management (SABM) Annual Meeting. September 24, 2010.
(3) Bernard AC et al. Intraoperative transfusion of 1U to 2U of packed red blood cells is associated with increased 30-day mortality, surgical site infection, pneumonia, and sepsis in general surgery patients. Journal of the American College of Surgeons. 2009;208:931-937.
(4) Surgenor SD et al, for the Northern New England Cardiovascular Disease Study Group. The Association of Perioperative Red Blood Cell Transfusions and Decreased Long-Term Survival After Cardiac Surgery. Anesthesia & Analgesia 2009; 108:1741-1746
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For a Microsoft Office Access 2003 version of this article, see 824277Moderate: Requires basic macro, coding, and interoperability skills.
(https://support.microsoft.com/kb/824277/ ).
This article applies only to a Microsoft Access database (.mdb).
When you try to open a query that contains a function, you receive both of the following error messages. When you open any subsequent query, you receive only the second error.
when you click OK to the first error message, you receive a second message:
Your Microsoft Access database or project contains a missing or broken reference to the file '<FileName>'.
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Your database contains a reference to a database, type library, or object library that is marked as MISSING: <referencename> in the References dialog box.
To remove the missing reference, follow these steps:
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in Access.
When you open a database in Microsoft Access 2002, you are informed about any problems with referencing external libraries and projects. When the database contains a broken reference to a library or project at the time that you try to run a query that calls a function, Access 2002 displays the first message that is mentioned in the "Symptoms" section of this article. After you click OK to this message, you immediately receive the second message that is mentioned in the "Symptoms" section of this article.
After you receive the first message, the first message is not displayed again. Even if you have other queries that contain calls to functions, these other queries only return the second message until you close the database and then reopened it.
CAUTION: If you follow the steps in this example, you modify the sample database Northwind.mdb. You may want to back up the Northwind.mdb file and follow these steps on a copy of the database.
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For the World Wide Web's 25th birthday, its creator is asking for a lofty gift: a bill of rights to govern the internet in response to recent revelations about government surveillance. Tim Berners-Lee said Wednesday that his creation needs a "global constitution" created by users and tailored to their countries.
"Unless we have an open, neutral internet we can rely on without worrying about what's happening at the back door, we can't have open government, good democracy, good health care, connected communities, and diversity of culture," Berners-Lee told The Guardian. "It's not naive to think we can have that, but it is naive to think we can just sit back and get it."
Berners-Lee, who has praised former NSA employee Edward Snowden for revealing details of the U.S. government's spy program, has been a big proponent of fewer controls of the web. He said people's rights are "being infringed more and more on every side," and added that a so-called global constitution is the first step to developing a freer internet. Jordan Valinsky
Ben & Jerry's wants ice cream lovers to know their dessert isn't the only thing in danger of melting. They announced new flavor Save Our Swirl, or SOS for short, to draw awareness to December's UN Climate Summit in France. There, global leaders are expected to work toward establishing a universal climate change agreement.
The flavor combines raspberry ice cream, marshmallow and raspberry swirls, and dark and white fudge ice cream cones.
"We created a flavor to bring attention to this historic issue and to send out our own SOS for our planet," the company said in a news release Wednesday.
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Ben & Jerry's is also encouraging fans to sign activist group Avaaz' petition to transition to 100 percent clean energy by 2050. Julie Kliegman
Parts of India are in the grips of a brutal heat wave that has risen to a hellish 117 degrees Fahrenheit in certain areas. Some 1,100 people have died from causes related to the heat wave, which is expected to continue through next week.
It's gotten so bad that asphalt roads are literally melting, as captured here by The Hindustan Times' Sanjeev Verma, in New Delhi:
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If you're a young, technologically inclined person in America, you probably have an opinion on the highest-stakes competition currently dominating the national conversation: Plants vs. Zombies. Lucky for you, so does one of the politicians vying for your vote to be the next president.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), best known as a polished Ivy League debate champion beloved by the far-right Tea Party wing and one of the many Republican candidates for president in 2016, is also a huge video game nerd, The Daily Beast reports. In fact, the senator is so enthralled by the likes of Super Mario Brothers and Centipede that he denies himself a game console "because if I had one, I would use it far too much."
Apparently, Cruz's current vices include Plants vs. Zombies, Candy Crush, and The Creeps!, which are all playable via smartphone. But gaming is a family affair in the Cruz household, with the senator telling the Beast that he and his daughters "curl up and play games," which drives his wife Heidi "crazy." Seeing as President Obama famously gave up his own addiction — smoking — at the urging of the First Lady, perhaps Mrs. Cruz will have similar luck should her husband win the nation's highest office. Kimberly Alters
New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority recently began a campaign to improve etiquette on the subway, plastering signs within carriages encouraging commuters to, for example, give their seats up for the elderly and disabled. One such sign tells man not to "manspread," i.e. sit with their legs spread so far apart that it disturbs other passengers. (It's a problem.)
But it appears a couple of zealous police officers took the MTA's tips a tad too far, arresting a pair of Latino men for manspreading. As Gothamist notes, the men were arrested after midnight, which makes it unlikely their alleged manspreading actually impinged on anyone's space.
Indeed, it's possible that the men were arrested so that the police could meet their quotas, a much criticized aspect of the city's so-called "broken windows" approach to policing, in which even minor crimes are aggressively prosecuted. Ryu Spaeth
After Wednesday's news that the U.S. has indicted nine FIFA officials and five sports marketers on 47 charges including bribery, money laundering, corruption, and racketeering, some of the organization's largest corporate sponsors — including Visa, Adidas, and Coca-Cola — are threatening to revoke their sponsorships if FIFA doesn't implement reforms.
"Our sponsorship has always focused on supporting the teams, enabling a great fan experience, and inspiring communities to come together and celebrate the spirit of competition and personal achievement — and it is important that FIFA makes changes now, so that the focus remains on these going forward," Visa said in a statement. Coca-Cola, meanwhile, said the World Cup's reputation is "tarnished" by the FIFA scandal and encouraged the organization to make changes.
Nike, another huge FIFA sponsor, has so far stayed mum, and some suspect that the "multinational sportswear company headquartered in the United States" mentioned in the indictment in relation to 1996 bribery allegations involving a sponsorship deal with Brazil is a reference to the athleticwear giant. For its part, Nike said it was concerned about the "very serious allegations" — though the company did not directly admit it was the multinational sportswear company in question. Meghan DeMaria
In 1996, Bill Clinton turned 50 while running against 73-year-old Bob Dole. Clinton's camp took the opportunity to emphasize his comparative youth with a giant, custom birthday cake:
In 2015, Marco Rubio turned 44, and his campaign released a birthday cake graphic that looks very familiar:
Rubio is 23 years younger than Hillary Clinton, who is 67 — just as Bill Clinton was 23 years younger than Dole. It's a clever knock at Clinton's age, though ironically a reference that only be understood by people who are old enough to remember mid-1990s politics.
Rubio is not the first GOP candidate to address Clinton's age in light of a comparatively young Republican field — though others, like 52-year-old Rand Paul, have been a little more indirect. And speaking of Paul and Rubio, a poll released today finds that these two poll strongest against Clinton in a national matchup. Bonnie Kristian
Sen. Liz Warren (D-Mass.) is best known for her populist opposition to big banks on Wall Street, often critiquing their role in the 2008 housing crisis and the devastating spike in foreclosures it entailed. And in All Your Worth, a book Warren published in 2006, she says it is a myth that "you can make big money buying houses and flipping them quickly."
These two facts combined make it curious that, as National Review reports, Warren made $240,500 (before deducting unknown remodeling costs) in the mid-1990s by flipping five houses in Oklahoma. Several of the homes were foreclosures, and a lack of permits on file with local government suggests she did not make significant improvements in some of the houses before flipping them.
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CARLSBAD, Calif., Aug. 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Isis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: ISIS) announced that patients treated with ISIS-CRPRx achieved rapid, dose-dependent mean reductions of up to 67 percent in C-reactive protein (CRP) in a Phase 2 study in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Patients treated with ISIS-CRPRx showed improvements in signs and symptoms of RA; however, these improvements were not statistically significant when compared to those observed in patients in the placebo group, which demonstrated a higher than expected response in both symptom score and CRP reduction. A Phase 2 study of ISIS-CRPRx in patients with atrial fibrillation is currently ongoing with data anticipated in the first half of 2014.
"CRP is strongly associated with the presence and severity of many diseases, including numerous inflammatory and cardiovascular diseases. In this study, by treating patients with chronically elevated CRP with ISIS-CRPRx, we hoped to accomplish three things: to confirm in patients the substantial CRP-lowering activity we observed in our earlier clinical studies, to gain additional experience with the drug before testing it in more severe indications, and to evaluate whether lowering CRP correlates with an improvement in RA symptoms. The study accomplished its goals. We are pleased with the consistency of CRP lowering across all of our clinical studies, but we are disappointed that we did not see a greater impact on RA symptoms in these patients," said Richard Geary, Ph.D., senior vice president of development at Isis. "While we do not plan to further develop ISIS-CRPRx for RA, we do plan to continue to evaluate ISIS-CRPRx to treat other diseases."
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Big Internet Museum catalogs internet from ARPAnet to Gangnam Style
The Big Internet Museum is the brainchild of Dutch advertising professionals Dani Polak, Joep Drummen and Joeri Bakker
The Big Internet Museum starts with ARPANET
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The internet only became commercialized in 1995, but its genesis goes back to the late 1960s, more precisely October 29, 1969. That was the date when Robert William Tayor, a former NASA researcher working for the Pentagon's Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), launched the ARPAnet operational network, which is recognized as the precursor to what became the internet. ARPAnet provides the starting point for visitors to the recently launched The Big Internet Museum, a virtual venue for all things great and downright silly about the internet.
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HYDERABAD: Cameras, mikes and notepads jostled along the railings impatiently while the carnival progressed in a corner at Jal Vihar. The children from M.V. Foundation bobbed, squealed and frolicked in the gushing waters least caring to glance even sideways towards the scribes in waiting.
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Opportunities to unwind are rare for these little soldiers who had to fight tooth and nail with social atrocities at a tender age. For Jaggamma who escaped child marriage to join the camp, this is the third such outing.
"Previously I saw swimming pools at Indian School of Business and Mughal Gardens. I accompanied Madam (Shantha Sinha) to Delhi on a visit to the President," she says, her eyes all aglitter. For all the 120-odd children who gained free entry into Jal Vihar on Children's Day, there have been few such occasions of blissful oblivion. The children were treated to fruits by the management of Jal Vihar.
It was just an instance of the Children's Day celebrations that swayed the twin cities on Wednesday. While children from a few institutions were the distinguished guests as in case of Jal Vihar, flocks of children from a number of other schools and institutes could be seen picnicking in the city's parks and tourist places.
Software professionals from Satyam Foundation took upon themselves the responsibility of Children's Day's celebrations in 33 government schools in twin cities. More than 250 associates from Satyam trained the children in various cultural activities over a week that culminated in successful performance on the D-day.
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The children of Government Central Primary School, Neredmet received a warm gesture from NTPC when its Dakshin Deepanjali Mahila Samiti's president Sadhana Dave gifted them with stainless steel plates for mid-day meals. While Devnar School for the Blind celebrated the day with Lions Club of Hyderabad, Salar Jung Museum played host to children's week celebrations. Apart from these, various cultural and educational programmes marked the occasion.


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With his latest solo set less than 24 hours from release, heavyweight DJ/producer Statik Selektah has liberated one last standout cut to tide y'all over. In contrast to the gritty bombast of last week's Camouflage Dons, The Spark has a low-key, leisurely feel. Over swung rhythm section accented by brass, keys and Chipmunked vocal samples, guest spitters Action Bronson and Joey BadA$$ trade relaxed, yet appealingly braggadocious verses. Mike Posner lends his raspy (and Auto-Tune-free) vocals to the record's hook. To quote a commenter on SoundCloud, "THIS SH*T KNOCKS LIKE DOOR TO DOOR SALESMEN." Feeling it? More real hip-hop awaits on Extended Play, dropping this Tuesday via ShowOff/Duck Down.
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