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Welcome to Riverside's home page. As medical director of the facility, Dr. Frank Scaccia is a uniquely qualified Dual Board Certified Facial Plastic Surgeon and Otolaryngologist who specializes in cosmetic surgery, plastic surgery, rhinoplasty, facelift and treatment of sinus/nasal disorders. After a unanimous vote by his peers, Dr. Scaccia was appointed for 2012 as the Chairman and Section Chief for the departments of Ear, Nose and Throat, and Head & Neck Surgery at Meridian Health's Riverview Medical Center in Red Bank, NJ. Riverview is one of the busiest and most respected hospitals in the region being a 5 time winner of The J.D. Power and Associates Award. His list of honors in plastic surgery includes the Jack Anderson Award which he won in 1995 after receiving the highest score in the United States on the certifying exam given by the American Board of Facial Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery. In addition, his surgical abilities have been featured in Time, Newsweek, Channel 7 "Eyewitness News," and most recently this past June on the "Anderson Cooper Show" where a TV personality was commenting to Mr. Cooper how much she likes her new nose that Dr. Scaccia operated on for her and that he is an "amazing doctor." He has also contributed to the medical literature with publications in textbook and journals. Dr. Scaccia was one of the first to publish in a textbook a technique to perform simultaneous rhinoplasty and sinus surgery. Follow this link for a copy of this interesting book chapter.
MM More recently, Dr. Scaccia has been named as one of New Jersey's leading cosmetic surgeons in a special article on "Top Beauty Docs" by magazine in the February 2006 through 2009 editions. Furthermore, he was cited as one of only seven cosmetic surgeons in New Jersey that was specifically recognized for his rhinoplasty nose skills. The criteria for selection of this honor was based on Castle Connolly's physician lead research team who uses a vigorous screening process to survey physicians and administrators at leading hospitals for recommendations of highly skilled, exceptional doctors in the field of cosmetic plastic surgery. In addition Dr. Scaccia has also earned the prestigious recognition of being listed in the 2006 to 2010 editions of "The Guide to America's Top Physicians," the 2006 through 2013 editions of "Top Doctors: New York Metro Area," the 2011 listing in "US News &World Report" of Top Doctors and 2012 edition of Top Doctors: The-Star-Ledger's Inside Jersey, the Marquis' 2007 through 2012 editions of "Who'sWho in America" and most recently, has been selected for inclusion in both the 2010 and 2012 editions of "Who'sWho in Medicine and Healthcare," and the 2011 through 2012 edition of "Who'sWho in the World." Finally, Dr Scaccia has the added distinction of being included in the 2013 list of "Top Cosmetic Doctors" in the nation by Castle Connelly Medical Ltd.
MM His new office is located in the historic town of Red Bank allowing convenient access from all northern and central New Jersey sites and the New York City metropolitan area. The plastic surgery NJ and sinus center NJ includes it's own federally approved and accredited ambulatory outpatient surgical suite built to hospital safety standards and is one of the first in Monmouth County to utilize Brain Lab's Image Guided Navigational Sinus System allowing for state-of-the-art endoscopic sinus surgery.
MMRiverside has also been awarded accreditation by JCAHO (Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations) the nation's leading evaluator among hospitals and other healthcare groups for quality care and patient safety. The center underwent a thorough onsite evaluation against nearly 150 standards which demonstrates our mission to provide the highest level of care possible. Your safety, comfort and privacy are our top priorities. Procedures can be performed under various levels of anesthesia (including general and twilight sleep) and will be administered by only board certified physician anesthesiologists. You will find that Dr. Scaccia's commitment to safety and excellence is exemplified throughout this web site. One benchmark is the fact that in his 20 years (residency training and private practice) as a physician (which includes thousands of surgical procedures) no medical malpractice judgments or even settlements have ever been brought against him.
MMSome of the facial plastic surgery procedures performed at the center include facelift, rhytidectomy, mini facelift, midface lift, s-lift, platelet gel facelift, weekend neck lift, eyelid rejuvenation, blepharoplasty, eyebrow lift, forehead lift, lip enhancement/rejuvenation, chin/cheek implants, liposuction, snoring and sleep apnea correction, female nasal sculpturing, rhinoplasty, male nasal sculpturing, rhinoplasty, Asian nasal surgery, Afro-American rhinoplasty, Ethnic rhinoplasty, revision/redo nasal surgery and sinus surgery.
MMBotox injections, laser surgery for tattoos, moles, pigment, spider veins, wrinkles, skin resurfacing, hair removal and scars are also available. Other plastic surgery procedures performed include ear surgery (otoplasty), split earlobe repair, AlloDerm implants, sclerotherapy and chemical peels. Gentlewaves LED Photomodulation is a new technology that we are now using to reverse photoaging and potentially speeds healing after surgery.
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Blepharoplasty (Greek: blepharon, "eyelid" + plassein "to form") is the plastic surgery operation for correcting defects, deformities, and disfigurations of the eyelids; and for aesthetically modifying the eye region of the face. With the excision and the removal, or the repositioning (or both) of excess tissues, such as skin and adipocyte fat, and the reinforcement of the corresponding muscle and tendon tissues, the blepharoplasty procedure resolves functional and cosmetic problems of theperiorbita, which is the area from the eyebrow to the upper portion of the cheek. Blepharoplasty Fair Haven NJ 07704.
The operative goals of a blepharoplastic procedure are the restoration of the correct functioning to the affected eyelid(s), and the restoration of the aesthetics of the eye-region of the face, which are achieved by eliminating excess skin from the eyelid(s), smoothing the underlying eye muscles, tightening the supporting structures, and resecting and re-draping the excess fat of the retroseptal area of the eye, in order to produce a smooth anatomic transition from the lower eyelid to the cheek.
In an eye surgery procedure, the usual correction or modification (or both) is of the upper and the lower eyelids, and of the surrounding tissues of the eyebrows, the upper nasal-bridge area, and the upper portions of the cheeks, which are achieved by modifying the periosteal coverings of the facial bones that form the orbit (eye socket). The periosteum comprises two-layer connective tissues that cover the bones of the human body: (i) the external layer of networks of dense, connective tissues with blood vessels, and (ii) the internal, deep layer of collagenous bundles composed of spindle-shaped cells of connective tissue, and a network of thin, elastic fibres. Blepharoplasty Fair Haven NJ 07704.
The thorough pre-operative medical and surgical histories, and the physical examination of the patient's periorbital area(eyebrow-to-cheek-to-nose), determine if the patient can safely undergo a blepharoplasty procedure to feasibly resolve (correct or modify, or both) the functional and aesthetic indications presented by the patient. Sequentially, lower eyelid blepharoplasty can successfully address the anatomic matters of excess eyelid skin, slackness of the eye-muscles and of the orbital septum(palpebral ligament), excess orbital fat, malposition of the lower eyelid, and prominence of the nasojugal groove, where the orbit (eye socket) meets the slope of the nose.
Concerning the upper eyelid, a blepharoplasty procedure can resolve the loss of peripheral vision, caused by the slackness of the upper-eyelid skin draping over the eyelashes; the outer and the upper portions of the field of vision of the patient are affected, and cause him or her difficulty in performing mundane activities such as driving an automobile and reading a book.
A blepharoplasty procedure usually is performed through external surgical incisions made along the natural skin lines (creases) of the upper and the lower eyelids, which creases then hide the surgical scars from view, especially when effected in the skin creases below the eyelashes of the lower eyelid. According to the technique applied by the plastic surgeon, the incisions can be made from the conjunctiva, the interior surface of the lower eyelid, as in the case of a transconjunctival blepharoplasty. Blepharoplasty Fair Haven NJ 07704.
Transconjunctival blepharoplasty technique was pioneered by Clinical Professor of Surgery at the University of Chicago Medicine, Dr. Anthony J. Geroulis and introduced to medical trial in 1998. Transconjunctival Technique has become the norm in the plastic surgery field with most surgeons preferring it over the external surgical incisions. This technique is particularly useful for patients with darker skin tones where standard external incision often leaves a visible white scar. Blepharoplasty Fair Haven NJ 07704.
Transconjunctival blepharoplasty technique permits the excision (cutting and removal) of the lower-eyelid adipose tissue without leaving a visible scar, but, the transconjunctival blepharoplasty technique does not allow the removal of excess eyelid-skin.
A blepharoplasty operation usually requires 1–3 hours to complete. Post-operatively, the initial swelling and bruising consequent to the surgery will subside and resolve with 1–2 weeks; the final, stable results of the blepharoplastic correction will become apparent after several months. The results of a blepharoplasty procedure are best appreciated by comparing pre- and post-operative (before-and-after) photographs of the eye region of the patient.
After the procedure, a type of stitch known as a canthopexy is placed near the outer corner of the lower eyelid, which is inside the tissue. This allows the eyelid's position to remain fixed during the healing process. The canthopexy is dissolved after four to six weeks of use. For particular patients, a mid-face elevation may be required to rejuvenate the lower eyelid-cheek complex.
The anatomic condition of the eyelids, the (wear-and-tear) quality of the patient's skin, his or her age, and the general condition of the adjacent tissues, consequent to the anatomic conditions of the patient, affect the functional and aesthetic results achieved with the eyelid surgery. Additional to the anatomic conditions of the eye region of the patient, the occurrence, or not, of medical complications is determined by factors such as:
Asian blepharoplasty (double eyelid surgery) is a blepharoplasty procedure used to create a supratarsal epicanthic fold in the upper eyelid of the patient who lacks such a crease. The supratarsal epicanthic fold is common to most ethnic groups, but is absent in approximately half of the Asian population. Blepharoplasty Fair Haven NJ 07704.
East Asian blepharoplasty, also known as "double eyelid surgery", is a type of cosmetic surgery where the skin around the eye is reshaped (blepharoplasty). The purpose of the procedure is to create an upper eyelid with a crease (i.e. "double eyelid") from an eyelid that is naturally without a crease (a.k.a. "single eyelid" or "monolid").
Anatomically, there are a number of subtle differences in the upper eyelids of many East Asians, compared with the eyelids ofCaucasians. While some East Asians have a double eyelid and some do not, there is also a large variation in the crease position (double eyelid size) of the East Asian upper eyelid. The upper lid fold can range from 1 mm (0.039 in) above the eyelash line to about 10 mm (0.39 in). Several methods can be used to create the double eyelid — including the full-incisional, partial incision and no incision methods (e.g. the DST method). Each has its advantages depending on the patient's anatomy and desires.
East Asian blepharoplasties have been reported to be the most common aesthetic procedure in Taiwan, South Korea and other parts of East Asia. The procedure has been reported to have some risk of complications, but is generally quite safe if done by an expert plastic surgeon. Practitioners of Asian double eyelid surgery includeplastic surgeons (facial plastic and reconstructive surgeons), otolaryngologists, oral and maxillofacial surgeons, and ophthalmologists (oculoplastic surgeons). A procedure to remove the epicanthal fold (i.e. an epicanthoplasty) is often performed in conjunction with an Asian blepharoplasty.
The procedure to alter the natural East Asian "single eyelid" appearance has been a subject of controversy. For example, opponents of the procedure, such as author David Mura, described it as being "indoctrinated by white standards of beauty", although New York-based cosmetic surgeon Dr. Edward Kwak states that many patients who get the procedure done are "not trying to look white", but look like the many Asians who naturally have an eyelid fold. There is also a belief that double eyelids provide a more energetic appearance, and the procedure is popular among high school graduates in China with the view that it will improve their job prospects. Blepharoplasty Fair Haven NJ 07704.


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Tall and lithe, Rabbi Rick Jacobs strode in the j. office last week with a spring in his step, looking like the rabbi he is, as well as the dancer he used to be.
It was his first trip to the Bay Area since his June installation as the president of the Union for Reform Judaism, the umbrella organization representing more than 870 Reform congregations across North America.
He's come to the job at a great time and a terrible time. On one hand, the Reform movement is now the largest Jewish stream in the country. On the other hand, like most Jewish organizations, the URJ has no money — at least not enough to do what it used to do, and what some think it should still be doing.
Jacobs was brought in to clean house, but the slashing and burning got under way even before he was officially installed. Entire departments at URJ headquarters in New York were wiped away, replaced by consultants working offsite; regional offices were closed; anywhere belts could be tightened, they were.
Things had become so rocky that in 2009 a group of Reform rabbis from 17 congregations, some of the largest in the movement, rebelled against what they considered the URJ's unwieldy bureaucracy, threatening to break away altogether. Just one did — Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles — but others hovered on the edge.
Jacobs, senior rabbi at Westchester Reform Temple in Scarsdale, N.Y., was part of that rebel group. He now heads the very organization he and his buddies laid siege to.
"That process probably clarified for him what was really needed for the movement," opines Rabbi Dennis Eisner of Peninsula Temple Beth El in San Mateo, who was part of a group of local Reform rabbis who met with Jacobs last week while he was here.
Eisner says he has "high hopes" for Jacobs and his new leadership team. He cites Jacobs' cooperative way of working, as well as his 20 years as a pulpit rabbi. "He understands congregations and their needs," Eisner says.
Rabbi Larry Raphael of Congregation Sherith Israel in San Francisco is more sanguine. "I happen to think very highly of Rabbi Jacobs and Rabbi [Jonah] Pesner [a new URJ senior vice president], and I wish them very well," he says. However, despite all its bang, Jacobs' overhaul "hasn't affected us," Raphael says.
Jacobs is an artist and an activist. He danced with a modern dance troupe in the 1980s, he went to Darfur with the American Jewish World Service, he served a decade on the board of the New Israel Fund and he's unabashedly Zionist — which, according to his definition, emphasizes pluralism and human rights. That's why he took part in an anti-government demonstration two years ago in east Jerusalem, protesting house demolitions — an incident his opponents within the Reform movement held up as evidence of his "lax" Zionist commitment when they tried to derail his appointment last year.
In fact, Jacobs was hired largely on the strength of his pro-Israel credentials. One of his main priorities is to get Reform Jews to "engage with Israel, at a very deep level," the way he did in the mid-'70s during his junior year abroad in Jerusalem.
He's already launched an Israel engagement strategy in some three dozen congregations. "A lot of Reform Jews are disconnected from Israel," he admits. "It's not just about getting people there, but getting them to touch Israel deeply."
So-called "unaffiliated" Jews? He hates that word. "It makes it seem as if it's their problem," he says. "I prefer the word 'uninspired' — it's our problem. In many ways we haven't been that inspiring."
Reform congregations need to reinvent themselves, he says. "Reform Judaism is not 'Judaism light' — it is innovative, serious, committed to social justice; it's about change. It's open and inclusive."
Jacobs has not stepped into an easy position. Heading the URJ, Eisner says, is "a hard, hard job — you get a job like that, you say 'mazel tov' and Kaddish at the same time."
Eisner says that a couple years ago, Beth El, too, was considering leaving the URJ. "Congregations felt they were only there to foot the bill, and that was difficult," he explains.
Whether Jacobs and his colleagues can turn the movement around remains to be seen, but, says Eisner, "There's definitely a different feeling under Rabbi Jacobs. We need to be supportive, proactive and patient."
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Met's Gelb Took Cut to $1.3 Million; Levine Made $1.5 Million
Peter Gelb, the general manager of the Metropolitan Opera, took an 11 percent pay cut in 2009 to $1.3 million in salary and benefits as the company's endowment got sliced by the world financial crisis.
James Levine, the Met's music director, earned $1.5 million, down 5 percent from a year earlier, according to the Met's 2009-2010 tax return.
Salaries at the Met were cut by 10 percent in December 2008, according to Peter Clark, a spokesman. In the year ending in July 2009, its investments fell by 12 percent, or $40 million, after losing $14 million the year before.
(Due to reporting requirements, Gelb's pay is for calendar year 2009 while Levine's is for the year ending in July 2010.)
Chorus master Donald Palumbo's compensation was $461,617. Among the Met's top stagehands, master carpenter Stephen Diaz earned $415,377, while assistant head electrician Richard Wagner made $417,548.
Operating revenue at the Met increased by 7 percent to $163.9 million in 2009-2010, led by expanded broadcasts of performances in movie theaters worldwide. Yet the company's net assets fell 16 percent to $203.6 million, hurt by ballooning pension benefits. Two years earlier, in August 2008, net assets were $380.1 million.
The Met's 2009-2010 deficit was $1.7 million, Clark said. The company will end with a balanced budget this season, its first since 2003-2004, he added.
Joseph Volpe, the general manager who retired in July 2006 after 42 years with the company, received $432,807 in pension benefits. Advertising agency Serino Coyne received $2.9 million, down from $3.1 million a year earlier.
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Credit Suisse said the update and the solid outperformance of the stock this calendar year factored in a number of the near-term price drivers it had been emphasising, but it said there was still room for further upside. The broker said Campbells was trading at a 12 per cent discount to its international peers on fiscal 2011 price-to-earnings ratio and 21 per cent on fiscal 2012 earnings. Credit Suisse raised its target price to $37.20, up from $35.80 previously, maintaining its "outperform" rating.
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Ou Leili: China's Wheelchair Bomber Shines Light on Injustice, Disability Rights
August 1, 2013Jing Gao2 CommentsAccessibility, Disability, Human rights, ji zhongxing, petitioners, social injustice, terrorism
Ou Leili is a contributor at Ministry of Tofu. You can learn more about her on our About page.
"I am festering away, paralyzed and over 100,000 yuan (US $16,303.60) in debt. Our family has suffered an unimaginable fate."
This declaration was translated from the now-deleted blog of Ji Zhongxing. Ji, a 34-year-old man from a farming family in Shandong Province, set off a bomb at Beijing Capital International Airport last week from his wheelchair. His bold act of protest worsened his situation: his hand was amputated after the incident, he now faces criminal charges, and he is being kept in an unknown location. No one else sustained injuries.
Ji Zhongxing held high a home-made bomb at Beijing Capital International Airport shortly before he detonated it. Witnesses later said Ji spent several minutes yelling at people around him to evacuate the crowds, an act that netizens believe separates him from a typical terrorist.
The outpouring of support for Ji flooded Chinese microblogging site Sina Weibo when people learned both that Ji had allegedly warned people to stand back from the bomb and when they learned from Ji's blog that he claimed to have been brutally assaulted by Dongguan police for operating an unregistered motorbike to transport passengers in 2005.
Ji Zhongxing was permanently paralyzed by violence used by Dongguan police against him in 2005. Years of petitioning to seek damages or redress grievances went unanswered.
"I believe his behavior does not constitute a crime or endanger public safety or count as an act of terrorism. He did not hurt others or cause damage to property," one Weibo user wrote, echoing popular opinion. He added that Ji should be punished by China's less harsh Public Security Administration Punishment law. This law, according to the US Congress' Commission on China, "includes traffic offenses, public disturbances, prostitution, drug use, and other 'minor crimes' that the Chinese government punishes with administrative penalties, including fines and administrative detention, rather than criminal sentences."
Some others feared that Ji's actions would inspire copycats, however. "This isn't a kind thing to say but the media's reporting of Ji Zhongxing as a tragic hero will inspire copycat incidents. Such poetic and tragically written reports," one user added sarcastically.
Indeed, several similar incidents have occurred in China since Ji detonated the bomb at the airport. According to the China Digital Times (via South China Morning Post) there have already been two similar incidents involving bombs at a video arcade and at a bank in Shenzhen after the airport incident.
As Ji remains detained by Chinese police in an unknown location, examining the quality of wheelchair accessibility in China's cities provides some context for the life he may have been living in the past eight years. How has life changed for a man who now at 34, uses a wheelchair, in a city more than three hundred miles from Beijing that generates a substantial subset of its GDP from the cultivation of peony flowers?
According to the popular blog Seeing Red In China, China "wasn't built for wheelchairs, but that is starting to change." A post from 2011 by anonymous author "T" reads, "I lived in China for almost three years before I saw someone in public in a wheelchair, and I have yet to see anyone using one under their own power. I think this is largely because China wasn't built for wheelchairs. Even in the big cities, it's hard to find a sidewalk that would be suitable for rolling, and almost every building has a half dozen steps to the front door. I imagine it would be difficult for most of China's physically disabled people to even leave their homes, since buildings with less than eight floors typically do not have elevators. This includes schools and practically every government building. Not only are there few programs for physical rehabilitation, but they literally can't even access the public education they are entitled to."
A common scene in China
"T" adds that while many of the new subway stations in Beijing now have elevators, "the only physically disabled people that most Chinese people are familiar with are the beggars who wait next to the bus stops and subway stations." He also adds that he hopes that the government begins to prioritize handicapped accessible walkways, "because at the moment children with physical handicaps are still seen as such a burden on the family that some would rather have them aborted."
In The Washington Post in 2008, journalist Maureen Fan explained that improvements made for people with disabilities have surfaced mainly in Beijing, especially after the Olympics. Now, it is possible to visit the Great Wall of China in a wheelchair and to take some buses and trains. But as soon as you hit South Beijing, she notes that "a former coal miner needs a nurse to help push him up a too-steep ramp leading to his apartment building. He has trouble boarding taxis and buses and finding restaurants without steps. He can't use a public toilet." She adds that, "Wheelchair ramps are not built long and low according to standards but short and steep, in order to save money" and also that many people with disabilities are afraid of going out because people may mock them. A blog on touring the world in a wheelchair claims that wheelchair-friendly adjustments made in preparation for the '08 Olympics have since been removed.
If Ji's punishment is softer than expected, this case may speak to the power of citizen journalism in China and to the increasing support of individuals with disabilities. Still others fear that more and more people will resort to this "new kind of terrorism" out of desperation.
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The restaurant was closed throughout my stay in the afternons & evenings for what I consider flimsy excuses (weekends, public holidays). This was difficult for a family visit; had to go outside to get lunch & dinner. If you go there, don't do it on a weekend or public holiday!
The hotel needs remodeling. Lots of things are falling apart. The Restuarant needs improving. Service and selection is poor.
Hotel staffs are sincere and helpfull to sort out the trouble which we had, (bad noise in a room), so despite few negatives it was not bat stay after all. It seems hotel has not finished the renovation, we complained the noise in our room and few broken sign etc were quite embarrassing as I was taking my cliant to there.
It was close to the shops and restaurants and it was a comfortable nice place to stay. Staff were polite and helpful.
very kind service, and convenient location near to train station the wifi connection was slow, and not stable enough. Maybe this hotel is newly built, the smell was stongh, make my firends allergic
Friendly and helpful staff
Very close to transport system to central Bordeaux
Lovely clean, fresh hotel very conveniently located to Gare du Bordeaux. Staff were very helpful and spoke fluent English. Parking is a little tricky.
The location near the Gare St Jean The noise from the street in the early hours of the morning
Very helpful staff. The vibrant colour scheme.
Perfect location for fast stay: close to rail station and next to tram station to bring you into the center very quickly. Staff very friendly. We could even leave our bags in the storage till midnight.
Nice and helpfull staff Location - not a nice nabohood and far from city center.
Helpful staff. Nice breakfast! Steps away from St. Jean's tram station. Rooms are toooooooooo small! Specially since we were travelling with a 19 months old baby. Putting a crib in the room practically left no space for anything else!
Staff and breakfast The room smelt of cigarettes
Staff were very helpful. Room was comfortable. We were even able to borrow a screwdriver to mend my suitcase handle. Being close to the station, it was a bit noisy at night, but we had chosen it on purpose because it was convenient, so we were not bothered by the trains. The breakfast was a bit more expensive than we expected, but it was excellent, with a good choice of food .
The hotel was exactly what we were looking for, convenient for our transfer point, clean, efficient and very pleasant. The staff was most helpful. None at all!
Ibis Styles Bordeaux is extremely close to the rail station, and easy to find. Although it is clearly a budget hotel, I found the bright colors and decor charming. My room was quiet and comfortable, although, as others have noted, not large. Staff were all pleasant (and also kind and patient as regards my weak French). The included breakfast is exceptional, with a good espresso machine to use, a juice press, many pastries and breads, fresh fruit, and cold cuts and cheese, yoghurt, etc. The bathroom seemed really too tiny, and a bit scruffy.
Clean and central to the city Argument over a cancellation in which we were in the right but no apology
Good location, nice staff and cheap All was fine
Nice small hotel and good breakfast.Convenient location. Friendly staff. The refrigerator did not work in the room. The tv-set could not handle hd programming, so half of the channels were not available.
Super close to the train station. Were able to accommodate us on a very last minute reservation. Left very easy instructions for us as no one was actually on site when we arrived. Let us store our luggage while we went out for a bite. Could use more supplies- i.e. toilet paper and blankets for a larger group.
Clean, quiet and comfortable. Excellent breakfast. Nice staff. Marked it down because no lifts and had to carry our heavy bags up three flights of spiral staircase.
Very friendly and helpful staff. The room I stayed in was small and rather rundown - clean but shabby.
location -hot water-heating The hotel was trying to increase the agreed internet price
Close to the train station, okay neighborhood, desk person offered helpful advice for local restaurants, good petit dejeuner.
It was a short walk from the train station and the breakfast room in the basement was cheerfully decorated. The room was tiny and the bathroom lighting was very dim. fOOTSTOOLS were used as end tables.
Very convenient to train station and city tram. Clean and comfortable. Great value for exploring Bordeaux as a budget traveller.
Reasonably priced/value for money, clean, not noisy, handy for trams into the city. Surprised to be asked to pay day-by-day, almost impossible to park even though parking is mentioned on the website.


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January 21, 2014 – Viewed as a front-runner in a bid for developing unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) research sites for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), California surprisingly was not selected among the six public entities to become a testing site operator.
The number of UAS manufacturers based in California – including 3D Robotics and General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, both in San Diego, Advanced Defense Technologies in Anaheim, AeroVironment in Monrovia and Swift Engineering in San Clemente – seemed to position the Golden State to make a slam-dunk.
The Business Journal asked FAA Pacific Division Public Affairs Manager Ian Gregor to explain why California was passed over in this bid. He responded via e-mail, "We reviewed 25 proposals from public entities in 24 states. All the proposals were quality submissions, and the FAA reviewed them very carefully. We chose the six proposals that best meet our research goals. The FAA considered geographic diversity, climatic diversity, location of ground infrastructure, research needs, airspace use, safety, aviation experience, risk and economic impact."
This unmanned aircraft system (UAS), an MQ-9 Reaper of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency,
exemplifies the potential domestic use of drone technology manufactured in California.
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems based in San Diego designed this particular system. The U.S. Air Force, Navy,
Central Intelligence Agency, National Aeronautics and Space Administration and others
also use the MQ-9 Reaper, which has acquired the name "hunter-killer"
for its tactical unmanned combat capabilities.
(Photograph from the Federal Aviation Administration's Certification of Authorization Sponsors database)
According to California Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz) spokesperson Brook Taylor, the state military council "offered its strong support for a federal drone testing site in California and GO-Biz worked directly with both local applicants to strengthen the state's bids." One applicant is based in Ventura County, the other in Kern County. "Because California is already a center of innovation for aviation technologies, we remain well positioned to attract further research and development investment moving forward."
According to the Federal Aviation Administration's Certification of Authorization Sponsors database, the U.S. Air Force, Navy, Customs and Border Protection, Central Intelligence Agency, National Aeronautics and Space Administration and others have used a variety of UAS, including the MQ-9 Reaper, manufactured by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems. As UAS industry is growing, private industry is exploring uses that could include monitoring the environment and wildlife as well as providing support for oil spill emergency response crews.
Republican Assemblymember Jeff Gorell of Camarillo authored a bill last year trying to grow a deal with the UAS industry in California. The bill, AB 1326, would have provided tax credits for UAS manufacturers in the state. According to Doug Lorenz, communications director for Gorell, the FAA test site bid would have provided some benefit to an industry that provides quality jobs. "It was just one more opportunity that could be offered to these companies," Lorenz told the Business Journal. "During the time the FAA was investigating drone airspace, companies could have used that test program for their own research and development. It would have encouraged businesses to do testing. . . . We still have very large technology companies that do work in that area. That's why it seemed to be a natural fit." Introduced last February, the bill remains held under submission in appropriations.
According to Rob Lapsley, president of the California Business Roundtable, the state's long history of producing cutting-edge aerospace technology provided a significant amount of middle-class jobs that have been disappearing since the 1990s.
"It would be a very clear sign if the legislature stood up, as Assembly Gorell did with his bill, to ask: What can we specifically do to keep these jobs in California? The governor did with Boeing (in the bid for the 777x program), but the legislature hasn't with space exploration and UAS . . . . California needs those jobs."
Though the governor's office claimed to have made its best effort to win the FAA bid, there was no evidence of a collective rally for UAS testing made by the state legislature. On Capitol Hill, however, California Sen. Dianne Feinstein publicly stated her view on UAS at a hearing of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation held January 15.
"I believe civilian drone technology, much of which has been developed in California, has great potential for both beneficial use and for job creation," Feinstein said. "But the unique capabilities of the drone bring with it significant risks, most notably related to privacy and public safety. I believe we should proceed with caution, and that Congress must act to set reasonable rules to protect the American people and ensure that this industry can reach its potential."
California as a state has lost about 630,000 manufacturing jobs since 2001, according to Gino DiCaro, vice president of communications for the California Manufacturers and Technology Association. The average manufacturing job wage is about $76,000 in California, and the state has been lagging the nation in manufacturing job growth since 2010, he told the Business Journal. Research and scaling manufacturing jobs, including those associated with testing UAS, he said, is what California needs.
"These are critical jobs that we need to both retain and grow in California," DiCaro said. "GO-Biz is doing everything they can to retain and grow these industries. They gave it their best effort with the FAA drone-testing program. That's a good sign. It's unfortunate that the Feds had this in their hands and sent it to other states."
Taylor noted that a 2012 study commissioned by the Aerospace Industries Association cited California as the top state in the country for manufacturing specialized equipment, along with search, detection, navigation and guidance systems. The study also cites Washington as having the highest employment in aerospace products and parts manufacturing.
"When new industries start to emerge, it's critical we grow the manufacturing sector as a whole in California going forward," DiCaro said. "We've got to make sure we get people to invest here and scale up here."


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I could honestly not comprehend where our society would be without creativity. Creativity is completely entwined in every part of our culture. Without creativity the world as we know it would not exist. Creativity is related to independent thinking and judgment. It allows us to continue to grow and develop as a society, to adapt to the changes in our environment, to develop new technologies, artwork, and literature. It is the basis for every new idea ever developed throughout time and history. To understand a culture without creativity would be to imagine a world where everything were the same, and every move forward was solely based on necessarily. It is a general consensus that people use both a logical portion of their brain and a creative side. Just as it is important to have a society which thinks logically it is equally as important to have as society that values creativity.


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The community is invited to attend a giant baby shower Sunday for the big bundle of joy expected to be born at the Reid Park Zoo in the coming weeks.
Mama-to-be Semba, one of the zoo's African elephants, is nearing the end of her 22 month-long pregnancy and will give birth to the first elephant born at the zoo.
Elephant crafts, activities and shower games will be a part of Sunday's celebration which lasts from 8 to 10 a.m. at the zoo, 3400 Zoo Court.
The first 100 guests will nosh on cupcakes. And the whole elephant herd will join in on the fun with a healthy "cake" and the opening of food "gifts."
Guests can sign a giant card to welcome the new calf.
And keepers will give details about Semba's pregnancy care which includes stretching, foot care and body conditioning.
Tours of the Elephant Care Center will be given at 9:30 a.m.
Guests who don't want to attend the party empty-handed can check out Semba's baby wish list, including items selected by keepers ranging from $4 feed buckets to a year's supply of sand for $12,000.
The wish list and a blog documenting Semba's pregnancy can be found at reidparkzoo.org


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|Located in Ottawa, Algonquin College was established as a community college in 1967 to provide the community with career-oriented, post-secondary education and training. As one of the larger colleges in Canada, Algonquin has a $180 million operating budget with approximately 500 full-time professors and 130 full-time programs serving 15,000 full-time students. With over 50,000 part-time students upgrading their employment skills, the College has substantial experience in responding to the employer community. Algonquin's International Education Centre (IEC) coordinates international activities at the College. It has comprehensive experience in capacity building and human resource development in Asia, Latin America, India, China, and Africa.
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Excellent in Every Way - Rome to Venice: Wind Surf Cruise Review by blondegeek
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Excellent in Every Way - Rome to Venice
Destination: Europe - Eastern Mediterranean
Embarkation: Rome (Civitavecchia)
There was nothing to worry about! Everything was excellent, and as a traveling machine (I spend more time in hotels, planes, boats, and trains than at home), I am really picky.
First, the condition of the boat: It was sparkling. They clearly were paying attention to keeping the varnish new, and everything clean and dusted. The carpets had a stain here or there, but seriously, that's the worst of it.
The stateroom: WAY bigger than I expected, but it's still a cruise ship. Still small, but very functional, and for a Category B, very spacious, and the bathroom was very fancy, with marble and L'Occitane products. The bed was incredibly comfortable, moreso than the hotels that followed, sadly. My husband loved that our portholes More (remember no balconies on this ship) were down close to the water, but I know some may not like that. We did - it was a unique perspective.
The decks: For 300 people, you have so much room on the decks, there's no reason for a balcony! We really enjoyed how uncrowded the ship was (it wasn't quite full, but probably 3/4 capacity), and every afternoon and evening we enjoyed cocktails on the deck. If we'd had a balcony, we wouldn't have used it.
Embarkation/Disembarkation: Super easy, and fast. We took a private car (split with some new friends - thanks, CruiseCritic!) from Rome to get there, which was very easy. Keep in mind that there are shuttles at Civitavecchia now, and you can't go right up to the boat even in your car. Thanks for the welcome drink, Windstar, and so grateful we could sleep in just a touch on the last day (no long lines like the big ships). However, be forewarned that once you're off the ship, it can be crazy - Venice is a nightmare. Not their fault, but important to know.
The clientele: We are in our early thirties, so were were afraid there'd be no people our age. In fact, we found a pack of about 3 other couples to join in our fun, in addition to a few more couples on their honeymoons who came and went. There were truly groups of all ages (except children - none of those). We loved meeting others on the boat - mostly American, but a healthy dose of Aussies, Kiwis, South Americans, and a few Europeans. What great fun finding dining companions each night - a different experience with different groups!
The service: Impeccable - everyone remembered our names after about a day or two. Wine you don't finish is corked, and though your drinks are not included, I found that the difference (versus an inclusive cruise, and also versus the inclusive package they offered) was in my favor with Windstar. However, I am a young, petite woman (read: don't drink huge amounts, and also haven't ventured into extremely pricy wine snobbishness yet) - so some may not find this true.
Excursions: Skip 'em. I planned all my own, and they were so fun that we wound up with an immediate line of people joining on to our own excursions. The options are limited through the ship, but you will find fun by planning your own. Great ports, and loved using the ship's tenders. Great ports!
The food: Delicious, every meal - it is a cruise, so you expect excellence. The food was not 5 star, but decidedly 4-4.5 star. I enjoyed every meal, and nothing was too fussy. Breakfast was available for on-demand griddling, lunch was delicious with broad options, and dinner (four restaurants on such a small ship - amazing!) rivaled some of my favorite restaurants. Keep in mind, though, I prefer a *fun* dining experience - not a *fine* one. It is NOT casual dining, but not quite up to the Ritz Carlton, which makes it more relaxed and not so fussy. Do wear pants, gentlemen.
The entertainment: Music every night, in two locations. Nice to have the backdrop, but the best parts were definitely the staff shows! Hilarious! And yes, they have STAFF SHOWS!!
Overall: I never want to cruise with any other line again. There's nothing better than sitting on the deck with a few of your new best friends, watching those sails unfurl, with a cocktail in your hand, and Croatian mountains as the backdrop. Stop worrying, just book with Windstar...and take me, too! Less
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Cabin review: B141 Oceanview Stateroom
Just above the water line - which we loved. Not all may love it. Very spacious for a cruise stateroom, desk, flat screen tv, iPod dock, plenty of storage room. Bed was REALLY COMFORTABLE!! Extremely quiet, too. Beware of the blackout curtains - they will force you to sleep in!Read All Oceanview Stateroom (B) Reviews >>
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We then walked down to the other side of the island to relax at Da Luigi ai Fariglioni for swimming in the Mediterranean and enjoying the craggy views. Beware that there is a charge for sunbeds and umbrellas, as well as towels. Also, if you wish to dine at the restaurant, there is a cover charge. Food was great, but many bees.
Finally, the shuttle to Marina Piccolo (NOT the cruise marina) doesn't leave until 3:30. If you have a short day, talk to the lifeguard and he can book you a private water taxi for about 20 EU per person, which can be a beautiful way back to the port.
The kayaking was great to give a different perspective - because since we climbed the walls in the late afternoon, we could really get a good feel for where we were.
BTW, do NOT climb the walls before 4. It is way too crowded and hot! Wait until late afternoon, and you will thank me later!
The best part about this beach is that there were absolutely only locals. Clear, beautiful water, but a very pebbly beach so bring water shoes. Also bring snacks and drinks because there ain't much around them parts.
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Etendeka Mountain Camp
Etendeka Mountain Camp is a small, rustic eco camp, located in a private 500km2 concession area (effectively a private reserve) in the foothills of the Grootberg massif, which stands in stunning scenery amidst the ancient Etendeka lava flows of northern Damaraland. Here the basalt rock has been slowly eroded over millennia, leaving scattered boulders lying upon dramatic flat-topped mountains. One of the first 'real' safari camps in Namibia, Etendeka opened around 1991 and has been run since then by Dennis Liebenberg, ably assisted by his head guide, Bonny.
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Etendeka is relatively simple by the standards of modern safari camps, and is exceptional in being owner-run for around two decades – a major achievement. What's even more impressive is that Dennis and Bonny have retained their enthusiasm, and still manage to make sure that their guests have a really individual experience. Etendeka's fairly small size, communal dining and simple but excellent home-cooked food combines to make this a friendly and relaxed camp. It will appeal strongly to those who love solitude, great scenery and walking – whilst the wildlife which is increasingly visible here comes as a real bonus!
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Bustling Bend is awash in beer, thanks to thirsty outdoors lovers
Sun., April 15, 2012
BEND, Ore. – It was when the 20-something guest-of-honor in a beer-saturated bachelor party aboard the Cycle Pub mooned a passing limo that Bend really proved that, if anything, it's not boring.
If there's any doubt that this Central Oregon city of 81,000 has become the ultimate destination for combining outdoor recreation with beer tourism, the Cycle Pub should cinch it.
This common sight around downtown Bend combines the elements of a bicycle and – yes – a pub. Six bike seats, each with a set of pedals, face inward on each side of a bar counter. There's a big tire at each corner, a canopy overhead and a nondrinking driver. Bike meets beer.
Cycle Pub builder James Watts, a Bend local, saw a similar contraption in Germany two years ago, and "I just knew the minute I saw it, it was a perfect cultural match for Bend."
Among cities in beer-crazy Oregon, Bend now has the most craft breweries per capita. Some locals have started calling this "Beer City USA." More breweries are opening soon. What better way to visit a few?
"We had a blast," said Ian Berg, organizer of the bachelor party, which pedaled the town with AC-DC tunes blaring on the "Pub's" stereo in between stops to refill glass jugs – "growlers," as they're known in the trade – at some of the town's nine breweries.
And, hey, nobody fell off.
After Gary Fish opened Deschutes Brewery in a downtown storefront in 1988, brewing erupted here like the lava domes that formed this pretty high-desert country.
Having long-since added a big brewery overlooking its namesake river, Deschutes is now the fifth-largest craft brewer in the nation. But its beers retain local names, such as Mirror Pond Pale Ale, after Bend's little midtown lake, and Red Chair, commemorating a ski lift at nearby Mount Bachelor (and named "World's Best Beer" in the 2010 World Beer Awards). You get to see these places when you visit, beer hounds. Get psyched.
Visitors will also find a thriving downtown with busy shops and restaurants, including the brewhouses that serve food (go for fish 'n' chips at Bend Brewing Co., crawfish cakes at 10 Barrel, or a great $10 Reuben at Cascade Lakes Brewery).
At the town's center is the 72-year-old, neon-bedizened Tower Theatre, renovated in 2004, offering bills such as a one-man show on Groucho Marx or a recent Leo Kottke concert. There's more shopping, too, at the Old Mill District ( www.theoldmill.com), a renovated lumber-mill site just south of downtown with high-end shops and riverfront trails.
Before happiness was measured by hoppy-ness here, visitors came for skiing, river sports, hiking and mountain biking in nearby Deschutes National Forest, or rock climbing on world-famous Smith Rock, just up Highway 97.
Maybe it was natural that a town full of extreme skiers, crazy paddlers and rock jocks would take to beer.
"People are here to celebrate life, and in doing that everything is strenuous and physical … and at the end of that experience, you want a beer!" said Larry Sidor, 62, who recently left after eight years as the brewmaster at Deschutes to start his own craft brewery, expected to open here in June (see www.yettobenamedbrewery.com).
"We're so accustomed to the spandex-clad outdoors person who's here to bike or ski," said Doug LaPlaca, president of Visit Bend, the tourism bureau. But since launching a promotional effort dubbed the Bend Ale Trail in 2010, "We've found the beer tourist looks very different – people with patches all over their vests, to show what breweries they've visited."
"I've had three couples come for their honeymoon, from places like Arizona, just to do the Ale Trail," said David Bafford, innkeeper at Bend's Mill Inn.
Don't know much about beer? In this town of Triple IPAs, India Brown Ales, Northwest Pale Ales, and porters and stouts and everything malty and hoppy – chances are, you'll learn before you leave.
Through its growing years, Sidor said, Deschutes has acted as a de facto training ground for local brewers. Several went on to open their own craft breweries, such as the popular, off-kilter Boneyard brewery ( www.boneyardbeer.com).
Housed in an old auto shop (37 N.W. Lake Place), it's called "Boneyard" because it started with used equipment from other brewers. A skull-and-crossbones logo helps set the snowboard-bum, biker-bar vibe, along with beers with names such as "Skunkape."
"It is dramatically opposite what most people think of in a craft brewery," LaPlaca said. "It's all tattoos and trucker hats."
Open just over a year, Boneyard had planned to start canning its beer by now, but delayed that because it can't keep up with demand for keg beer, said Maddy Wasserman, self-described "Beer Wench Extraordinaire," who shows visitors around. (Most brewers offer tours and tasting.)
Such wild popularity is typical for the newer generation of Bend's brewers. The 5-year-old 10 Barrel brewery has just expanded to a new 50-barrel brewhouse.
One thing was evident among Bend's brewers: These are happy people.
"It's a very friendly, compatriot type of environment," said 28-year-old Ty Barnett, a former home brewer who is a partner in GoodLife Brewing ( www.goodlifebrewing.com), which launched last year in a room-to-grow warehouse (with authentic German-style beer garden) at 70 S.W. Century Drive, on the road to Mount Bachelor.
"We grew up on Mirror Pond (ale). We grew up on the guys who started it all: Deschutes, Widmer, Sierra Nevada … A dozen or so paved the way."
His crowd is helping to push beer lovers to the next horizon, paying greater attention to flavors and aromas. Visitors to GoodLife learn all about "hop bursting," a technique for extracting citrusy hop flavors without lemon-peel bitterness. Stop in at 10 Barrel and they talk about beer and food pairing ("We don't employ a cook, we employ a chef").
These guys sound a bit like, well, wine snobs – but with a sense of humor. Good-Life's brew list includes the higher-alcohol "Pass Stout." (Say it fast.)
Another factor sets the grinning beer drinker apart from the cuff-shooting wine connoisseur, and makes a Bend getaway more affordable than Napa: "I can buy the most expensive bottle of beer in the world for $20," Barnett said with a smile.
Premium beers are easy to find here. Most supermarkets feature a cooler of ales like you won't find many places in the world. The take-home prize from my visit: bottles of The Abyss stout, a Larry Sidor creation from Deschutes that's aged in Kentucky bourbon barrels and flavored with licorice and molasses. At around $12 for a 22-ounce bottle, it's a bit like drinking alcoholic sipping chocolate.
It's also a souvenir that will go really nicely with pulled pork. You can't say that about a T-shirt.


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Work has begun on the repair of an undersea cable that provides Internet services to Pakistan, following an outage that has reduced bandwidth to the country since June 27.
It is not clear yet when the repairs will be complete, said Junaid Khan, president and chief executive officer of Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd. (PTCL) in Islamabad. A clearer picture may emerge this evening or tomorrow, he told IDG News Service on Tuesday.
PTCL, a majority government owned telecommunications services provider, is the Internet backbone provider in Pakistan.
A fault in an undersea cable has affected the country's Internet connectivity and international telephony service since June 27. The fault was detected south of Karachi on the Sea-Me-We 3 (South East Asia Middle East Western Europe 3) submarine cable, the only cable link to Pakistan.
Restoring service may take at least another 48 hours, according to V.A. Abdi, secretary of the Internet Service Providers Association of Pakistan (ISPAK), in Karachi, adding that there was more than one fault in the cable.
"They have located one fault and have lifted up the cable at one end," he said. "The people at PTCL are not giving much information, but we are picking up information from other sources."
Sea-Me-We 3 is 39,000 kilometers long in total and includes 39 landing points in 33 countries in Europe, Asia Pacific and Australia. Other countries on the affected segment of the cable are India, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Oman and Djibouti, although Internet services to those countries were not affected, according to reports.
Emirates Telecommunications and Marine Services FZE (E-Marine), a submarine cable installation, maintenance, and repair company in the UAE, announced last week that it had been notified about damage to the undersea cable off the coast of Karachi and that it had dispatched a repair ship to the location. Another repair ship, called Niva, reached the site Tuesday, according to ISPAK.
As long as the Sea-Me-We 3 link is down, Pakistan has to make do with bandwidth of 100 Mbps (mega-bits-per-second) available via satellite, Abdi said. Through some ad hoc provisioning with carriers in the region, PTCL was able to increase the satellite bandwidth from about 34 Mbps before the mishap to the current 100 Mbps, he said. Before the cable fault, Pakistan was using bandwidth of about 775 Mbps, according to Abdi.
Pakistan's economy has been affected by the faults in the Sea-Me-We 3 cable, Abdi said. The country's fledgling call-center business has been hit, as have some e-commerce activities such as stock trading on the Internet and bank transactions.


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Nowadays she is a marquee movie star, but Naomi Watts had to be especially patient in the earlier years of her career in Tinseltown.
The fall movie lineup is starting to come together and "St. Vincent" stands out as one of autumn's must-see films.
Stepping out to support a great cause, Hollywood lovelies attended the Happy Hearts Fund Gala supporting the Indian Ocean tsunami tribute on Thursday (June 19).
Attendees included the stunning Naomi Watts, who looked radiant in a white jumpsuit as she took the stage to give a speech.
Boasting an all-star cast, the first teaser trailer for "Birdman" hit the web on Thursday (June 12).
Production is already underway for the second installment of the "Divergent" series, but it's not too late to add an all-star cast member.
On Wednesday (June 4), The Hollywood Reporter announced that "Insurgent" added Naomi Watts to its production. Miss Watts will portray Evelyn, the leader of the Factionless in both "Insurgent" and "Allegiant - Part 1 and Part 2."
Celebrating fashion at Cannes Film Festival , a bevy of Hollywood beauties stepped out for the Calvin Klein Party on Thursday night (May 15).
Supporting their favorite designers, Olivia Munn, Marion Cotillard and Naomi Watts stepped out for the 2014 Met Gala on Monday night (May 5).
Honoring the best and brightest of the media industry, the 25th GLAAD Media Awards took over the Waldorf Astoria in New York City on Saturday (May 3).
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sNDA 20-386/S-032 Cozaarâ (losartan potassium) Tablets, Merck and Co.
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Jonathan M. Edelmann, M.D.
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William F. Keane, M.D.
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Ethnic Subgroup Analysis from the LIFE Study
John Lawrence, Ph.D.
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Cardiovascular and Renal Drugs Advisory Committee
98th Meeting
January 6, 2003
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Michael and Zena A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
One Gustave L. Levy Place
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By now you've probably heard about how U.S. Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius voided the FDA's decision to allow girls under 17 to buy emergency contraception (EC) without a prescription. That Obama-backed overrule came in spite of ample evidence that the single dose of the hormone levonorgestrel, sold under the brand name Plan B One-Step, reduces pregnancy risk by up to 90 percent when taken within 72 hours of a busted condom, missed pill or any other contraceptive fail. Know that girls under age 17 have been able to get EC with a prescription since 2006. But after an extensive review, the FDA OK'd unrestricted over-the-counter sales for this group--a sensible policy for a time-sensitive method.
But then came Secretary Sebelius's intervention. In a bizarre statement, she cited the relatively impaired judgement of the "ten percent of girls [who] are physically capable of bearing children by 11.1 years of age," as if that crew is lining up at the Walgreens to cop this $70 pill. Unswayed, critics called the move unprecedented and shamelessly political.
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I'm so not a fan of white-women-as-control-group, but in this context, it's important to note that while 36 out of 1,000 white girls and women ages 15 to 44 have an unintended pregnancy, that rate is 86 for Latinas and freaking 91 for black girls and women. (I've searched for recent, reliable stats for Native American and API sisters to no avail.) If anybody needs better access to EC, it's us.
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Because of the age restrictions, pharmacists store EC behind the counter. Even if you are eligible for it without a prescription, Sebelius's decision ensures that you'll get carded. Not so good. As Advocates for Youth's Aimee Thorne-Thomsen points out, "Women of color and immigrants face significant barriers securing identification documents." There's also a question of what constitutes proper ID: "How many teenagers have any form of identification, never mind an ID that shows proof of age?" she asks. "And who is to say that pharmacists will accept a school ID anyway? This is just another obstacle in women being able to take care of themselves."
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I've gone over. And over. And over the games anti-choicers are playing with race, abortion access and Planned Parenthood funding. And we've established that women of color have a higher abortion rate than white women for financial reasons. In this climate, does it really make sense to further limit birth control access to teen girls? (That's a rhetorical question.) As Tillet says more eloquently: "With the erosion of our social and economic safety net there are so few resources to support girls when they actually have children. Shouldn't we do as much as possible to help them prevent pregnancy?" Yes.


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Lamar Joseph Odom (born November 6, 1979) is an American professional basketball forward, who is currently playing for the Los Angeles Lakers. Lamar recently married Khloe Kardashian joining the ranks of athletes hooking up with reality starlets.
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The troubled NBA star is featured in a new clip (taken in the past) with a male friend, trying his best to spit rhymes after doing drugs and taking off his shirt.
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