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The Vespa blog we talked about a few weeks ago has been eventually launched in the United States. Customer blogs can prove extremely powerful in building communities among existing customers, and they can also help driving purchase intent among prospects. As Jackie Huba writes on Church of Customer, a Vespa is not an impulse purchase so the enthusiasm on the Vespa (community) blog should spread and influence also undecided prospective buyers.
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In Alabama, a teacher who takes a Christmas ham as a gift from a student could get jail time. That's because of a new ethics law the governor wants changed. The new law severely restricts gifts to teachers.
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In this episode of Investor Insight, CREW TV explores the reasons why investors are heading to Western Canada and why they can't afford to abandon the east.
CREW's Jemima Codrington talks to Sam Hosseini of online realty TheRedPin.com and Leslie Quinsay of Coridian Capital.
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Go west young real estate investor. Hi, I'm Jemima Codrington and welcome to Investor Insight on Crew TV.
From sky high prices in Toronto to Alberta's bustling oil industry to say nothing of its [micro workers]. The reason that a number of investors are looking west are many. Still taking that big leap of faith is often fraught with doubt.
Leslie Quinsay, Director, Coridian Capital
Leslie Quinsay: A lot of Ontarians today are actually getting away from the notion of having to invest in their own backyard. They are recognising that when you are investing, you are looking at an area with a future, not necessarily a past and so a lot of them are looking westwards towards provinces such as Alberta.
Alberta is expected to have strongest economic growth in Canada over the next few years. It's a commodity driven economy. So you know basically it will have increased job growth as they explore and develop the natural resources there. But all things that are favourable for an investor when they are looking for a region to invest in.
Jemima Codrington: But investors need to be careful not to throw the [DTA] out with the bath water. Canada's biggest market remains key, despite [other light] challengers. Again there are many reasons why.
Sam Hosseini, The RedPin. Com
Sam Hosseini: You know I understand that people are looking out west and afraid of price hikes in the city of Toronto and the greater Toronto area, but unlike cities like Vancouver which are confined to an area, the city of Toronto has immense space to grow west, we are growing east, we are growing west, we are growing north, the 905 area has grown and we think that eventually the supply, the income and supply will balance them out.
Blue Pearl Mortgage Group Inc. is expanding its footprint once again, this time with services in Ontario
Transit City Condos is a new 55-storey development located next door to new Vaughan Metropolitan Centre
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Weird LegendTrivia brain teasers have some element of trivia in them, but they are not just pure trivia questions.
A legend says that 200 years ago a man sailed from Madagascar to Paraguay. The man used a sailboat made out of wood from maple trees that grew on his island. The man used the north star to navigate at night and he ate lobsters to survive. Once he reached Paraguay, his boat sank and his ghost lives near the wreckage.
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Brooklyn Museum Of Art
The museum opened its dramatically redesigned front entrance and new public plaza in 2004. The new entrance pavilion rectifies the architectural imbalance, as well as resolving the practical issues of access, that had remained since the original monumental staircase was removed in 1934.
With the nineteenth-century Beaux-Arts facade as a backdrop, a multistory sheer-glass entrance pavilion, named the Martha A. and Robert S. Rubin Pavilion and Lobby, provides a dramatic architectural connection between the interior of the building and the exterior surroundings, while bringing natural light into the formerly dark interior.
The new shingled-glass pavilion, recalling the staircase of the original McKim, Mead & White entrance, combined with the renovated lobby area, creates an entirely new entrance facility and more than doubles the size of the previous lobby area. Among the amenities is a new, full-service Visitor Center offering information, ticketing, and a range of services to the public.
Original portico seen through the glass roof of the Rubin Pavilion.
Within the pavilion, the brick support piers that once housed the five front doors have been "excavated," restored, and left permanently exposed, showing the foundations of the institution both structurally and symbolically.
In addition to the main pavilion level, there are two further, exterior levels: an elevated promenade, above the new entrance pavilion, provides inviting views into the interior as well as a sweeping overview of the plaza and the surrounding neighborhood; and above the promenade, the preexisting third-floor portico has been expanded and repaved with limestone slabs that match the original facade.
As part of the entrance pavilion project, construction of a new public plaza on the north side of the building was completed in 2004. The front plaza area encompasses more than 80,000 square feet, much of it reclaimed from what was once a large, unused, fenced-in area, which is now entirely open to the public.
The new plaza area includes a "front stoop" providing multiple options for programming as well as areas for informal gatherings. It also includes two water features created by WET Design, the firm that designed the famous fountains at the Los Angeles Music Center and the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas. One of the features, a fountain, provides a versatile array of vertical "dancing" water jets that may be programmed in a variety of dynamic patterns.
The other water feature, a shallow reflecting pool over black granite beneath a spiral outdoor ornamental stair, is on the west side of the entrance pavilion. The plaza area also features permanent benches along with numerous cherry trees and other plantings.
The Brooklyn Museum is a publicly funded institution that receives operating and capital support from the City of New York through the Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York City Council. Additional support is provided by the Brooklyn Borough President.
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The bond bears are coming out of hibernation again. We have actually seen a steady stream of bearish bond calls over the past few years:
- Jim Rogers and his constant announcements of having "shorted the Treasury market,"
- Peter Schiff's hilarious forecasts of soaring interest rates because the Chinese were going to start dumping Treasuries,
- Naseem Taleb's, "Everyone in the entire world should do themselves a favor and short Treasuries," and
- Bill Gross and his, "Who's gonna buy them now?" warnings back in 2011.
The worries now are that the Fed is closer to reversing its accommodation and when it does, it's going to have to sell its vast holdings of Treasuries. That's not only going to collapse the market, but it's also going to unleash pandemonium. We're going to witness a disorderly decline as never seen before when panic selling ensues and there are no buyers.
The problem with these forecasts and calls is just that they're ignorant. The Fed has told us it intends to reverse policy when the unemployment rate hits 6.5%. And in case you hadn't noticed, with the unemployment rate at 7.9%, we are still a long way away from there. Even so, if you're one of these people who feels inclined to get a jump on any Fed policy reversal, you can still wait until the jobless rate crosses below, say, 7% before you start your selling. In other words there's plenty of time.
On the other hand, let's address this claim that there's going to be some tsunami of bond sales when the Fed decides to change course. This assumes that we'll ever see this happen because austerity is about to happen, making it highly doubtful that the unemployment rate will ever get to 6.5%. But I digress.
What, then, of this wall of selling? Well, it's not likely to happen and here's why. Ever since the Fed was given the authority to pay interest on reserves in 2008, the need to sell securities to drain reserves so that rates hit some target became moot. By paying interest on reserves, the Fed really has to do nothing at all. Those reserves will remain in the banking system, collecting interest, and banks will always lend out at the reserve rate -- and not below. Thanks to this change, rates are now set by mere decree of the central bank with no need to conduct a reserve drain via the selling of securities. Case closed.


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Jim Harbaugh is doing what he must do. He shouldn't apologize, and he is not apologizing. The 49ers coach is paid to win football games. The NFL is the country's largest sports business entity. It is brutal commerce with cheerleaders and slow-motion replay.
Wednesday, that commerce included the official naming of Colin Kaepernick as the 49ers' starting quarterback for Sunday's game in St. Louis and probably beyond. Kaepernick replaces previous starter Alex Smith, who on Nov. 11 left the first half of a game at Candlestick Park when he said his vision was blurry. He was diagnosed with a concussion.
Since that moment, Smith has not taken a competitive snap, even though he was cleared by doctors to play last Sunday in New Orleans. Kaepernick has started the last two weeks for the 49ers and won both times, showing some moxie and skill. Harbaugh, however, has mostly danced around the issue of whether this makes Kaepernick or Smith the "real" starter moving ahead.
"Both have earned it," Harbaugh said again of the job Wednesday before announcing: "Colin has the hot hand. We'll go with Colin."
In truth, it is more than "a hot hand." If anything, Harbaugh was bending over backward in being diplomatic to Smith. Anyone with a half-educated football eye can see that Kaepernick is bigger and faster than Smith, with a stronger throwing arm. The 49ers can win with either quarterback, but Kaepernick might make three or four plays a week that Smith can't. Giving Kaepernick the nod is clearly the right call for this week in pure football terms and in commerce terms.
But the choice Harbaugh made is still dangerous and fraught with risk. For a couple reasons. One is less perilous than the other.
Any time a coach decides to bench a veteran player who is popular in the locker room—and Smith was elected the 49ers' offensive captain by his teammates—there is the chance that roster chemistry will be discombobulated.
Smith likely won't be fomenting that discombobulation. He is a professional who has been through worse than this. In the NFL, lots of unfair things happen. Smith understands that being disgruntled will get him nowhere, either this season or with a future employer. But if 49ers veterans believe that Smith has been treated shabbily, it could create attitudinal issues—especially if they start fretting about whether they might lose their own starting jobs through injury, an unwritten no-no in pro sports.
The initial player reaction to Kaepernick's promotion was as you would expect: Praise for both him and Smith, focus on the task at hand.
"Alex is a great player, a great person," said offensive lineman Alex Boone when asked how he thought Smith (who was not available for comment) would react to the move. "He's a team-team-team guy."
"I'm not surprised by anything," said wide receiver Michael Crabtree when asked about the quarterback decision. "I don't worry about that. I just worry about my job. I'm trying to play my position."
In the end, that part will take care of itself. Kaepernick will play and the 49ers will either win or lose. The team mindset is all internal stuff that Harbaugh is—let's say it again—paid to handle. His record shows he will and he can. It's not your usual path to the Super Bowl when you make a late-season quarterback switch from one of the league's top passers (as Smith is, according to statistics) to a relatively untested second-year man. But Harbaugh has been unconventionally successful all along.
The other and more serious danger of Harbaugh's decision is far more troublesome because it involves future player safety. Given the way Smith's concussion story line played out, shouldn't there be a concern that other 49ers will be reluctant to self-report their own woozy heads?
"That would be something to worry about," Harbaugh acknowledged. "I would never want that message to be sent to our players."
The problem is, the message already has been sent, intentionally or unintentionally.
The blow that led to Smith's concussion Nov. 11 occurred early in a drive that led to a touchdown. He stayed in the game, called and executed plays while completing three more throws, including the scoring pass to Crabtree. Only then did Smith come off the field and tell trainers he felt strange. If he had not said so and had gutted out the rest of the afternoon, would he still be the starter?
The implication is yes, if you believe Harbaugh's contention that Smith is still a starting quarterback. Why would he have come out of the game that day if he had not reported any symptoms? The 49ers are very involved in NFL concussion protocol, with team owner Dr. John York serving as chairman of the NFL Committee on Health and Safety. The fallout of Smith's situation should prompt some interesting discussion.
"I think if you truly had a concussion," said Boone, the offensive lineman, "you are going to report it."
"I think you have to be smart enough about it and worry about your own health," fullback Bruce Miller said.
Harbaugh's feelings about all of this are pretty transparent, even if he tries to hide them. He thinks people are making too big a deal about the quarterback folderol. And he's right. The 49ers are still a defensive-based team and offensively will continue to rise and fall mostly on the shoulders of running back Frank Gore.
Yet forever and always in the NFL, quarterback decisions do matter. If the 49ers don't win it all this season, Harbaugh will be second-guessed, no matter what. That's football. More important is that everyone remains clearheaded about it. In every way.
Mark Purdy is a sports columnist for the San Jose Mercury News.
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A scientist from Michigan is digging up the past in Utah. The 19th century pottery he unearths will be displayed at the Iron Mission State Park Museum in Cedar City.
Tim Scarlett, an archeologist at Michigan Technological University, calls pottery one of Utah's "pioneer-era" industries.
"The potters helped build a society in the desert," he says.
Scarlett and his team have located 45 sites in 26 Utah towns, from Logan to St. George, from Panguitch to Vernal.
He heads the Utah Pottery Project, which is working to gather into one place information about the potters, their work, their products and their contributions to the history of Utah. The exhibit will open this spring.
Scarlett envisions a replica of a pottery works. He wants to involve teachers, students, community planners, the media, genealogists, historians, ceramics artists, chemists, art historians and archival experts.
"My hope is to reinvent public archeology," he says. "Utah could become a best-practice model."
Michigan Technological University (www.mtu.edu) is a leading public research university developing new technologies and preparing students to create the future for a prosperous and sustainable world. Michigan Tech offers more than 120 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in engineering; forest resources; computing; technology; business; economics; natural, physical and environmental sciences; arts; humanities; and social sciences.


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A West Marin family is struggling to make ends meet after the unexpected death of a man just weeks after his 4-year-old son was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer.
Roneil Powell, 43, died Sunday in his sleep at his Inverness home, just two days after his son Ezequiel came home from his first round of chemotherapy for stage-four embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma — a malignant soft tissue tumor near his pelvis that has metastasized to his spine, lungs and maybe his bones. Powell, who is believed to have died from a massive heart attack, is survived by his son, 6-year-old daughter Yolanda and his wife Alex Porrata.
West Marin community members have rallied around the family, holding fundraisers and creating a website where people can donate money to help. Alex Porrata was laid off from her job recently and had been searching for a new one before her son got sick. Her husband was the family's sole source of income and he didn't have life insurance. The family is living at Alex Porrata's parents' house.
Elisabeth Ptak, of Inverness, said the outpouring of support for her friends has been uplifting. A tamale sale this week sold 1,000 tamales, workers at local businesses are donating their tips to the family and more fundraisers are in the works.
"There's going to be so many expenses," Ptak said. "And next week Ezequiel goes back to the hospital in Oakland for his next round of chemotherapy."
Ptak has known the Porrata family for 40 years and said Powell worked really hard to support his family, working as a data recovery engineer at Novato-based DriveSavers Data Recovery, which specializes in recovering lost data from hard drives, iPhones and camera cards.
"Ron was a wonderful person. Most everyone I've talked to has described him as gentle. He was a tall man, 6-foot, 5-inches tall, but he was so calming and so sweet," Ptak said.
Mike Cobb, director of engineering at DriveSavers and Powell's boss, said Powell was just about to celebrate his 10-year anniversary with the company. He specialized in preparing camera cards to retrieve pictures and other memories.
"He worked with a small team of three guys doing prep work for the jobs," Cobb said. "He always had a smile on his face and he was always willing to help everybody."
Yolanda Porrata, Powell's sister-in-law and the namesake of Powell's daughter, agreed.
"He really was a very happy, happy person. It took so much to even get a rise out of him," Yolanda Porrata said. "He radiated so much positive energy and he saw the goodness in everybody."
Powell grew up in Los Angeles, but attended college at Dominican University in San Rafael where he was a star basketball player. After graduating in 1994 with a bachelor's degree in business, he coached the university's women's basketball team between his two seasons of professional play on basketball leagues in Australia and New Zealand.
It was at Dominican University that he first met his future wife Alex Porrata, later reconnecting and marrying her after college, said longtime friend Billy Borda.
Borda, of Torrance, played basketball with Powell and was his roommate for many years during and after college. He said Powell took him under his wing and was a role model to him, especially when they became fathers to daughters that are just two months apart in age.
"He was outgoing, friendly and the kind of person that always found the good in somebody," Borda said. "He was someone who definitely led by example in everything he did."
The last year has been a challenging one for the Powell-Porrata family as they have juggled work and driving to and from Petaluma where their daughter Yolanda attends a Spanish immersion primary school. Stresses mounted in December when Ezequiel began having stomach aches. It got to the point where he was unable to walk and local doctors sent him to an Oakland hospital, where they discovered the rare childhood tumor.
But Powell remained calm, giving his family the strength to move forward.
"Ron was such a devoted, patient and loving father," Yolanda Porrata said. "He just lived for his family."
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Study to Evaluate the Safety and Efficacy of USL261 (Intranasal Midazolam) in Patients With Seizure Clusters (ARTEMIS1)
This study has been terminated.
Proximagen, LLC
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First received: July 6, 2011
Last updated: September 19, 2017
Last verified: April 2017
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The purpose of this study is to examine the safety and effectiveness of USL261 for the outpatient treatment of seizure clusters.
|Drug: USL261 Drug: Placebo
|Phase 3
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Triple (Participant, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|A Randomized, Double-blind, Placebo-controlled Study of the Safety and Efficacy of Intranasal Midazolam (USL261) in the Outpatient Treatment of Subjects With Seizure Clusters. ARTEMIS-1: Acute Rescue Therapy in Epilepsy With Midazolam Intranasal Spray-1
Resource links provided by NLM:
Genetics Home Reference related topics: pyridoxal 5'-phosphate-dependent epilepsy
MedlinePlus related topics: Epilepsy Seizures
Drug Information available for: Midazolam maleate Midazolam hydrochlorideU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by Proximagen, LLC:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Proportion of subjects who meet the criteria for Treatment Success. [ Time Frame: 6 hours ]Treatment Success is defined as achieving both of the following: 1) termination of seizure(s) within 10 minutes after study drug administration, and 2) no recurrence of seizure(s) beginning 10 minutes after study drug administration to 6 hours after study drug administration.
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Proportion of subjects with recurrence of seizure(s) beginning 10 minutes after study drug administration to 4 hours after study drug administration. [ Time Frame: 4 hours ]
- Time to next seizure with a start time > 10 minutes after study drug administration. [ Time Frame: 24 hours ]
|Study Start Date:
|June 2011
|Primary Completion Date:
|March 2017 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: USL261
5 mg intranasal midazolam
|Drug: USL261
Experimental: Placebo
Intranasal placebo
|Drug: Placebo
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|12 Years and older (Child, Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Has a competent, adult caregiver who can recognize and observe the subject's seizure cluster episodes
Has an established diagnosis of partial or generalized epilepsy that includes the following:
- A documented history of seizure clusters lasting a minimum of 10 minutes
- Seizure cluster pattern is observable, stereotyped, and recognizably different from the subject's other non-cluster seizure activity (if any)
- A second seizure in the seizure cluster typically occurring within 6 hours from the time of cluster recognition
- A seizure cluster pattern composed of multiple (≥ 2) partial or generalized seizures
- A seizure cluster pattern established > 3 months before Visit 1
- A frequency of ≥ 3 seizure clusters during the year before Visit 1
- At least 1 seizure cluster occurring ≤ 4 months before Visit 1
- Seizure cluster pattern is confirmed by a central reviewer
- Currently on a stable regimen of AEDs (no changes in type of AEDs) since Visit 1 and for ≥ 7 days before Visit 2, with or without intermittent use of benzodiazepines at a constant dose
- Weight is 40kg to 125kg, inclusive
Exclusion Criteria:
- Has a neurological disorder that is likely to progress in the next year
- Has severe chronic cardio-respiratory disease
- Has had psychogenic, non-epileptic seizure(s) within the 5 years before Visit 1
- Has a history of their stereotypical seizure cluster progressing to status epilepticus within the 2 years before Visit 1
- Has a history of acute narrow-angle glaucoma.
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There are two camps in our debate about guns, and both are worshiping idols.
There are two camps in our debate about guns, and both are worshiping idols. That is the conclusion I came to while attending the gun control rally in Harrisburg on Jan. 23. The rally organizers argued for stronger laws, asserting that such laws could prevent tragedies like Newtown. For this camp, gun control is God. Meanwhile, at the counter-rally, gun-rights advocates contended that unfettered access to guns would have saved lives in Newtown. For this side, the right to bear arms is God.
Judaism warns against idolatry because it masks complexity, inhibits the discovery of truth and hinders the pursuit of the good. Those of us debating guns should heed this warning.
Those who champion expanded regulations tend to fall into one of two categories. The first are those who argue for "common sense" reforms to existing laws: universal background checks, closing certain sales and licensing loopholes, and banning certain weapons. These reforms will help get some of the most dangerous weapons out of circulation, and keep many others from some of the most dangerous people.
But banning assault weapons, while a noble step, does not address a critical issue: Most gun violence in the United States is carried out with handguns (including the bloody 2007 Virginia Tech massacre). The Supreme Court says handguns must remain legal. We also know that hunting rifles will not be banned.
A second category of gun control advocates argues for repealing the Second Amendment. But this would require not only the banning of all guns, but also confiscating the 300 million guns in circulation. Confiscation would be next to impossible. Plus, it would likely leave guns on the streets, and in criminals' hands.
Gun rights advocates emphasize this reality, that "common sense" reforms are likely not strong enough to work, and that a ban could potentially be more dangerous for the law-abiding population. They see the solution as more guns, more people armed, trained and ready to defend against the "bad guys."
But like the opposition, this camp, too, ignores crucial facts: that a gun in the home is more likely to harm the people inside than protect them; that there is a strong link between access to guns and gun deaths; that armed defense is not a guarantee of security; and that dangerous people with access to weapons are, well, markedly more dangerous.
Many ignore such facts, it seems, because their primary fear is not gun violence, but governmental tyranny. This might be understandable if it weren't based on a misunderstanding of the Second Amendment. We are not afforded the right to engage in armed rebellion against the federal government.
According to historian Danielle Holtz, the Second Amendment intended to allow states armed, "well-regulated" militias to protect against the possibility of a tyrannical federal government. Thus, the Second Amendment might have aimed to give states the right of armed rebellion, but not individual citizens. Of course, none of this matters because the courts have limited gun rights to hunting and self-defense, and have never interpreted the amendment as permitting armed rebellion for anyone.
Thus, gun rights advocates have to come to realize that their right to keep and bear arms is limited, and therefore that the government can and should regulate it.
Both sides must admit that neither has a perfect solution. Holding up the idolatry of either extreme can distract us from other factors that contribute to gun violence: the expense, inaccessibility and stigmas of mental health treatment; the fact that kids in our broken education system become more likely to live lives of poverty, violence and crime; the link between rising poverty and deepening economic inequality and violent crime.
In addition, we glorify violence and equate masculinity with aggression. Our culture reinforces the notion that violence solves difficult problems, and is rewarded and celebrated. These issues are sometimes mentioned, but the right uses them as a dodge, and the left sees them as distractions. But we cannot solve the problem without seriously addressing these issues, too.
Jewish tradition reflects the complexity of the issue. Judaism emphasizes the obligation to save lives, and yet the Mishnah calls weapons "an embarrassment" for a person. Jewish law prohibits the hunting of animals, much less owning a weapon to do so.
At the same time, Judaism obligates self-defense, which implies the right to bear arms because self-defense means little if one's assailant wields more sophisticated weapons. Meanwhile, the Torah is clear on our obligations to care for our society's most disadvantaged, knowing that justice for the downtrodden is crucial to a peaceful society.
The Jewish tradition, then, invites us to avoid the idolatries of this debate and have a full conversation with each other about how to reduce gun violence, lift up the most vulnerable among us and defend ourselves. Judaism urges us to be open to arguments that soften our ideological predispositions, and resist simple solutions to complex problems.
Rabbi Michael Knopf is assistant rabbi at Har Zion Temple.


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Get an overview of this hotelFamily-friendly resort with 3 restaurants and 7 outdoor pools
Popular property highlights
This family-friendly Sharm el Sheikh resort is located near the airport, within 2 mi (3 km) of SOHO Square and Montazah Beach. Shark's Bay Beach is 2.8 mi (4.5 km) away.
Resort Features
3 restaurants, 7 outdoor pools, and a full-service spa are available at this resort. Free full breakfast is provided, as well as free WiFi in public areas, free self parking, and a free beach shuttle. Additionally, a private beach, 3 poolside bars, and 3 bars/lounges are onsite.
Room Amenities
All 629 rooms boast spring water baths and offer balconies or patios and Select Comfort beds. MP3 docks and sofa beds are standard, as are LCD TVs with satellite channels.
Guest Highlights
- Good location
- Beach
- Pool
- Helpful staff
- Clean guestrooms
- WiFi could've been better
Hilton Sharks Bay Resort
Resort Amenities
All-Inclusive Details
All-inclusive room rates at Hilton Sharks Bay Resort are available. These rates are higher because they include onsite food and beverages in the room rate (some restrictions may apply).
Food and beverages
- All buffet and à la carte meals, snacks, and beverages included
- Dining availability limited at one or more venues
Activities and facilities/equipment
Water activities
- Snorkeling
Land activities
- Fitness facilities
- Miniature golf
- Soccer
- Tennis
- Tennis lessons
- Volleyball
- Aerobics
- Water fitness
- Yoga
Kids' club
- Supervised activities for children between 4 and 12 years old
- Onsite entertainment and activities
- Access to onsite clubs
- Access to offsite clubs
- Onsite live performances
- Theme parties
Not included
- Use of golf cart
- Motorized water sports
- Sailboats
- Scuba-diving certification
- Scuba-diving excursions
- Snorkeling excursions
- Snorkeling gear
- Tennis lessons
- Windsurfing equipment
- Premium food items
- Premium and/or non-domestic beverages
- Alcoholic beverages
- Bottled wine
- Bottled liquor
- Room service
- Airport transfers
- Childcare
- Laundry/dry cleaning services
- Spa/beauty facilities and services
- Wireless Internet access
- Activities and services offered by independent operators
- Offsite tours
- Transportation to offsite activities
Resort Amenities
Some rates at Hilton Sharks Bay Resort are all-inclusive. These rates include onsite meals and beverages, and may include taxes and gratuities. Additional charges may apply for meals at some restaurants, special dinners and dishes, certain beverages, and other amenities.
This Sharm el Sheikh resort has its very own private beach. Hilton Sharks Bay Resort features a full-service spa, 7 outdoor swimming pools, outdoor tennis courts, and a waterslide. Dining is available at one of the resort's 3 restaurants and guests can grab coffee at one of the 7 coffee shops/cafés. The property also has a snack bar/deli. Guests can unwind with a drink at one of the resort's bars, which include 3 poolside bars and 3 bars/lounges. Guests can enjoy a complimentary breakfast each morning as well as a complimentary manager's reception. Public areas are equipped with complimentary wireless Internet access.
This 4-star property offers access to limo/town car service and a meeting room. Event facilities measuring 3000 square feet (270 square meters) include a conference center. This family-friendly resort also offers a children's pool, a health club, and a sauna. For a surcharge, the property provides a roundtrip airport shuttle (available 24 hours) and a shopping center shuttle. Onsite self parking is complimentary.
Hilton Sharks Bay Resort has designated areas for smoking.
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- Children's club (free)
- Supervised childcare/activities (free)
- Airport transportation (surcharge)
- Arcade/game room
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Multilingual staff
- Total number of rooms - 629
- 24-hour front desk
- Number of floors - 3
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Shopping on site
- Hair salon
- ATM/banking
- Laundry facilities
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Babysitting or childcare
- Number of bars/lounges - 3
- Number of poolside bars - 3
- Barbecue grill(s)
- Number of coffee shops/cafes - 7
- Newspapers in lobby (surcharge)
- Free breakfast
- Concierge services
- Elevator/lift
- Express check-out
- Fitness facilities
- Full-service spa
- Shopping center shuttle (surcharge)
- Free beach shuttle
- Health club
- Waterslide
- Number of outdoor pools - 7
- Pool umbrellas
- Free WiFi
- Billiards or pool table
- Grocery/convenience store
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Designated smoking areas
- Express check-in
- Children's club
- Sauna
- Luggage storage
- Limo or Town Car service available
- Spa treatment room(s)
- One meeting room
- Garden
- Terrace
- Picnic area
- Beach bar
- Porter/bellhop
- On private beach
- Conference center
- Outdoor tennis courts - 2
- Snack bar/deli
- Free self parking
- Beach umbrellas
- Beach sun loungers
- Pool sun loungers
- Free RV, bus, truck parking
- Beach towels
- Conference space size (meters) - 270
- Free reception
- Tennis on site
- Year Built 2002
- Number of restaurants - 3
- Conference space size (feet) - 3000
- Number of buildings/towers - 20
- Spa services on site
- Steam room
- Children's pool
- Swim-up bar
- Television in common areas
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Free self parking, Free RV, bus, truck parking
Room Amenities
- Premium TV channels
- Balcony or patio
- Air conditioning
- Free bottled water
- Minibar
- Coffee/tea maker
- Daily housekeeping
- Private bathroom
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Spring water bathtub
- Bathtub or shower
- In-room childcare (surcharge)
- Iron/ironing board
- Desk
- Sofa bed
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- MP3 docking station
- In-room safe (laptop compatible)
- Satellite TV service
- In-room massage available
- Room service (limited hours)
- Egyptian-cotton sheets
- Sleep Number by Select Comfort mattress
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Sofa bed size
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Rollaway/extra beds (free)
Where to Eat
A complimentary full breakfast is served each morning between 6:30 AM and 11 AM. A complimentary manager's reception is offered each day.
Mahfouz - Overlooking the pool and garden, this restaurant specializes in international cuisine and serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. A children's menu is available. Open daily.
Houses of Asia - Overlooking the pool and garden, this theme restaurant specializes in Asian cuisine and serves dinner only. A children's menu is available. Reservations are required. Open daily.
Il Rustico - Overlooking the pool and garden, this restaurant specializes in Italian cuisine and serves dinner only. A children's menu is available. Reservations are required. Open daily.
Mattam - Overlooking the pool and garden, this restaurant specializes in international cuisine and serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. A children's menu is available. Open daily.
Sunset Bar - This beachfront bistro specializes in international cuisine and serves lunch only. Open daily.
Room service (during limited hours) is available.
Nearby Things to Do
Guests can experience the thrill of a safari, and enjoy recreation facilities including a private beach, outdoor tennis courts, and a health club. 7 outdoor swimming pools are on site along with a children's pool. Other recreational amenities include a waterslide, a sauna, and a fitness center.
Children under 12 years old are not allowed in the swimming pool without adult supervision. Guests under 18 years old are not allowed in the swimming pool, health club, fitness facility, or spa tub.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
- Golf lessons available nearby
- Safari on site
- Fitness classes on site
- Motor boating on site
- Parasailing on site
- Playground on site
- Sailing on site
- Scooter/moped rentals on site
- Scuba diving on site
- Snorkeling on site
- Volleyball on site
- Water skiing on site
- Beach volleyball on site
- Beach yoga on site
- Boat tours on site
- Rock climbing nearby
Spa Services
Bodycare has 5 treatment rooms including rooms for couples and outdoor treatment areas. Massages are available on the beach and in the spa; other services include deep-tissue massages, hot stone massages, and sports massages. A variety of treatment therapies are provided, including aromatherapy, Ayurvedic, and hydrotherapy. The spa is equipped with a sauna and a steam room.
Guests under 18 years old are not allowed in the spa.
- Hot stone massage
- Deep tissue massage
- Swedish massage
- Prenatal massage
- Steam room in spa
- Thai massage
- Reflexology
- Sports massage
- Detoxification wrap
- Minimum age to access spa is 18
- Number of treatment rooms 5
- Outdoor treatment areas
- Couples treatment rooms
- Massages on beach
- Manicures and pedicures
- Body wraps
- Body scrubs
- Aromatherapy treatments
- Thalassotherapy treatments
- Hydrotherapy treatments
- Ayurvedic treatments
- Sauna in spa
- Massages
- Body treatments
- Facial treatments
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
Resort Policies
Minimum check-in age is 15
Special check-in instructions:
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Kids stay free! Up to 2 children 6 years old and younger stay free when using existing bedding.
- Free rollaway/extra beds!
- Free cribs (infant beds)!
- Pets not allowed
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Optional extras
- Airport shuttle fee: USD 15 per vehicle (one way)
- Early check-in fee: USD 50.00
- Late check-out fee: USD 50.00
Resort Name
- Hilton Bay Resort
- Hilton Bay Sharks Resort
- Hilton Resort Sharks Bay
- Hilton Sharks
- Hilton Sharks Bay Resort Sharm el Sheikh
- Hilton Sharks Bay Resort
- Hilton Sharks Resort
- Sharks Bay Hilton
- Sharks Bay Resort
- Hilton Sharks Bay Sharm el Sheikh
- Hilton Sharks Bay
We should mention
Local laws may restrict unmarried guests from sharing rooms. Guests are responsible for providing proof of marriage, if requested by the property. This property offers transfers from the airport (surcharges may apply). Guests must contact the property with arrival details 24 hours prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. Reservations are required for massage services and spa treatments. Reservations can be made by contacting the resort prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. Up to 2 children 6 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding. Only registered guests are allowed in the guestrooms. The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.


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to sweeten or not to sweeten that is the question
Being Japanese I have never put sugar in my tea, I was wondering what percentage of Americans sweeten their tea? is it really better with sugar or sweetener? Is tea so unbearable without sweetening it?
I don't know whether there are statistics, but my guess would be that nearly all Americans sweeten their tea. Here on Steepster, the percentage of Americans who sweeten tea is much lower.
As to your question about whether tea so unbearable without sweetening it, I'd have to say yes if what you're talking about is the tea most Americans drink: poor quality bagged black tea. That tea is quite bitter and not very good tasting on its own.
Americans who drink green teas typically don't sweeten that tea. The small number of Americans who drink good tea don't do a lot of sweetening either. Those Americans who drink Japanese green teas don't sweeten them (at least I've never seen them do so) because Japanese teas really don't call for sweetening. However, most of the Japanese tea drinking seems to be done in areas with large Japanese-American communities so it is likely that there is some cultural carry-over.
The herbal tea drinking community seems less inclined to sweeten their teas and more likely to use honey or agave syrup instead of sugar when they do.
Sweetener (not just sugar, but honey or splenda or whatnot) does change the taste of teas; it brings out different notes.
My husband only sweetens his "southern sweet tea" (because that's how you drink it). All other tea is taken unsweetened… until we tried Harney's Christmas blends at our local tea house. I sweetened mine (because I do that) and found them to be good and flavorful. Unsweetened, he thought they were dull. The sweetener really brought out the different spices and notes in the tea blends. So even though he hated admitting it, he sweetened those 2 teas.
Is tea "unbearable" without sweetener? No, but I personally like it better with. It's just a preference.
The average north american tea bag drinker in my experience use some sort of sweetening agent and I used to be one of those as well. It was the possibilty that I may be prone to having diabetes that I decided to stop using sugar and replaced it with a sugar replacement. The flavour of the tea decidedly was horrible with the sweetner and I went cold turkey – Milk only! Over time as I tried new and different teas I began to disern the subtlties and began to wean myself fm adding any dairy product. I would say that 98% of the teas that I consume and enjoy I drink naked(that is with no additives). Once in a while I will add some honey to my chai teas. With all the refined sugars added to our prepared foods these days I work hard to eliminate any additional sugar to my teas.
it really depends on the tea, i find milk and honey or sugar improve the blacks i enjoy, but i think reds don't need to be sweetened, i also like to try a tea without anything first, then add honey or sugar or cream to see how it changes the flavor.
so it depends
An existing thread.
…I usually add sugar as soon there is milk in a tea. And some blacks, from my humble point of view, can only be drunk w. milk. Shall I go so far and say…"designed to be drunk with milk"? Englisch/Irish Breakfast…for example. The keemun notes only come to life if a splash of milk is added. The blends are backed up with very strong assam or pu-erh to carry the tunes.
Hi, I just got into Japanese tea. I have been drinking regular English tea in the mornings since Im 5, always with milk and sugar… I went to Teavana w my wife and we got a really nice teapot and cups and some amazing tea as well. They sold me this rock sugar the use and I have been using it but after reading this post I am going to try it with out. I have a question, if do choose to put this rock sugar, should I put it in the pot with water before adding the tea or after the tea has been steeped? Thank you and congratulations on the website.
There are regional differences. On the West Coast, unsweetened green tea is still fairly popular. It used to be much more popular throughout the United States, but political changes after World War II caused a dramatic shift in tea-drinking habits here.Generally the Southeastern United States uses the most sugar in their tea, partially due to tradition. The most popular way of drinking tea there is a style called "Southern Sweet Tea", which is a strongly-brewed Ceylon tea that is sweetened then poured over ice. It was invented in the late 1800s. I think that the idea behind the sugar is to help counteract the rapidly melting ice, which would otherwise leave the tea tasting watery… a matter of taste, I suppose. :) Less and less sugar is added as you head north up the East Coast (although you are also more likely to find lemon offered with your tea).
Part of the issue may be "ready-to-drink" bottled teas, and instant teas. These are both quite popular in the United States, and when they were first introduced, all were pre-sweetened, I imagine for technical reasons.


text: Audi Electronics Venture GmbH Takes a Look into the Future By admin - March 17, 2005 March 17, 2005 Source: Audi AG All-seeing vehicle diode opens up a whole new dimension Venturing into the third dimension: at the 9th International Forum on "Advanced Microsystems for Automotive Applications" in Berlin, Audi Electronics Venture GmbH is presenting a pioneering innovation in the form of an anticipatory, optical proximity sensor system. This ultra-sensitive sensory system, which is being showcased in Berlin in a test vehicle, is capable of supplying a three-dimensional image of the scene in front of the vehicle. It offers a glimpse of things to come: although it is still several years away from being ready for series production, it opens up an exciting realm of possibilities in the field of both vehicle safety and driver assist and convenience functions, such as stop-and-go assist and parking aid systems. The sensor is placed behind the windscreen on a level with the rear-view mirror. At the heart of the technology is an infrared light source plus a detector module made from revolutionary new photosensitive semiconductor elements known as Photonic Mixer Devices (PMD). These diodes "with eyes" are able to process the return signals from a multitude of reflector points simultaneously. How is the 3D picture produced? The infrared light source illuminates the scene in front of the vehicle. Based on the differences in the time that the light signal requires to travel back from the various objects in the scene to the PMD semiconductor elements, the sensory system computes a three-dimensional image: every PMD pixel in the detector module simultaneously records the distance readings for the objects ahead of the vehicle. The objects registered by the sensory system in this way appear on the navigation display inside the vehicle. The detector's field of vision has a horizontal sweep of 32 degrees and a vertical sweep of 8 degrees. The reading rate frequency is 200 hertz, meaning that a 3D image of the scene ahead is formed 200 times a second. This allows even fast events to be tracked accurately. Previously, sophisticated stereo camera technology and immense computing power were required to achieve a comparable level of technical "vision" and understanding of the scene in the field of vision. Weight and space restrictions made fitting such a system in a vehicle an impossibility. Unlike radar-based systems, the groundbreaking proximity sensor system is able to sense the horizontal and vertical spread of the objects it detects. Both the range and the resolution of the new sensory system can be adapted for the full scope of in-vehicle applications too. It will be possible to develop new driver assist and convenience systems by building on this technology: when driving in stop-and-go traffic in city centres, for instance, the system's data will allow the vehicle to automatically follow the traffic flow, while the sensor's 360° three-dimensional view will help make light work of parking for drivers. The system also has the potential to enhance pedestrian protection: its three-dimensional perception capability allows the system to distinguish between people and vehicles and to initiate an emergency stop if the driver fails to react when a pedestrian steps into the road. A further application would reduce the severity of accidents by priming the vehicle's protection systems accordingly as soon as the sensors registered an imminent impact. Audi Electronics Venture GmbH is a fully-owned subsidiary of AUDI AG. It is active in developing cutting-edge key technologies in the field of electronics. By entering into alliances, joint ventures and participations, particularly in partnership with small, flexible high-tech firms, the company seeks to strengthen Audi's expertise in the electronics sector and to pool together its know-how.


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University Medical Acne Free Clear Skin Treatments Reviews
Definitely NOT Proactiv!My 15 year old daughter has been dealing with teenage acne for a couple of years now. I have had to use Proactiv to control my adult acne and it works well, as long as I am consistent! I picked up the University Medical Acne Free Clear Skin Treatment for her to try because it was supposed to work like Proactiv, but cheaper. Well, you get what you pay for! This system cannot replace or work as ...read morewell as Proactiv. This system left my daughter's skin more irritated with more breakouts than ever before. This system is sub par! If you need an acne program that works, you will have to stick with Proactiv. Her skin started clearing back up the minute I had her change! — 5 years, 6 months agopowerwoman033 | 509 reviews
BadI tried this for my cystic acne and it just made it worse! The repair lotion had little grainy particles like in an exfoliating face wash. The cleanser was kind of harsh and dried my skin out. Overall very disappointing. — 6 years, 3 months agoRoleModel | 157 reviews
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Not very good...and NOT a replacement for ProActiv!I tried this three years ago when I couldn't afford to buy ProActiv anymore. I didn't have really bad acne (mostly blackheads and one or two painful zits per month), but I needed an anti-acne product. By comparison, I didn't like this kit at all. The cleanser is more watery and gritty than the ProActiv cleanser. The toner feels like it does nothing, while the ProActiv toner always felt soothing. T...read morehe repair lotion - which we all know is the most imprtant part of the kit - isn't smooth and doesn't absorb that well. My face seemed to get more shiny than usual throughout the day when using it. And there are teeny, tiny little gritty bits in the lotion, like you'd find in an exfoliating cleanser. What are these doing in a leave-on product? They're not really visible on skin, but still...Anyway, after a month or so of using this, my mild acne seemed unaffected. I don't believe this product did anything to help, and he texture of it's components was too bothersome for me to buy it again. If you've been using ProActiv, and you're looking for something cheaper, AcneFree is not the answer. (As for me, I've had luck with Neutrogena's Acne Stress Control products.) — 8 years, 7 months agoamygab1126 | 242 reviews
Did nothing for meI use proactiv and it works like a charm, this did nothing. They claim it is just like proactiv but the difference is proactiv very finely mills their benzoyl peroxide to get deeper in the skin and they don't. This doesn't work better than any other drug store cleanser on the market. — 6 years, 10 months agoheidindg | 247 reviews
Came back, do now I use proactive. I do no like the wash orthe lotion, in the acne free. The to net is good.I started using this 10 yrs ago, when it first came out it had the grit in the wash and worked great, but when they changed it, my acn — 3 years, 7 months agoCandace1028 | 13 reviews
AcneFree has changed!I wanted to write this review so that people would know that AcneFree has actually changed their products & their ingredients. They now have a face wash, a toner and a lotion that you are to only use on the parts of your face where your break-outs occur. The lotion no longer has a gritty feel whatsoever. It is very smoothe and creamy. I personally use the AcneFree Sensitive Skin System. It is per...read morefect because it helps with break-outs (and yes, even cystic ones) without over-drying your skin or causing more break-outs. I have tried ProActive & many other facial cleansing systems to try to clear up my occasional break-outs, but all they ever did was make my skin worse. I say give AcneFree Sensitive Skin Acne System a try! — 3 years, 9 months agojenna_harris | 1 reviews
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Investors were shaken out of their complacency Wednesday. After seven straight weeks of gains, the market finally had a significant selloff. It was the Dow Jones Industrials' second-worst day of the year and the Nasdaq and the S&P 500 both posted their biggest losses since the post-election pullback in November.
The ostensible reason for the decline was minutes from the Federal Reserve's FOMC meeting showing a divergence of opinion on whether extraordinary measures to support the market and economy -- quantitative easing -- should continue. I have been increasingly skeptical of this market since the huge rally in January, when the market posted its best start to a year in over a decade. Over the last few weeks, I have moved all the money I put back into the market after the dip in November back into cash. I have also taken advantage of low volatility to purchase cheap insurance on the rest of my portfolio by buying slightly out-of-the money puts on the S&P 500 as a hedge should the market continue to fall. There are two main reasons for my pessimism about the market's short-term prospects.
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My second major worry for the market is around earnings and the trend in earnings estimates. I want to give a big shout-out to Gary Dvorchak, who highlighted this in an excellent column Wednesday. The market has managed to produce nice returns over the last year, even as S&P earnings estimates for 2013 have declined significantly over that period (see chart below).
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This means investors are paying significantly more for a dollar of S&P earnings than they did one year ago. Quarterly earnings estimates are also discouraging, and I believe investors have been taken in by some of the typical analyst games. For example, at the end of the third quarter, the consensus for fourth-quarter earnings forecast an approximate 9% gain year over year. By the end of the fourth quarter, consensus estimates called for a 1% to 2% gain year over year. When earnings came in with an approximate 4% gain, the market celebrated with a continued rally, even though earnings look like they will come with about half the gain compared to where the consensus estimate was four or five months ago.
I expect the market to give up a good portion of its gains for the year over the next few weeks as we navigate the sequester cuts and until the market has a better feel for what consumer spending will actually be like going forward. I do not expect a major correction, but the first pullback in months is very likely.
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You have some pretty big 80's-style shoes to fill if you claim that you sound like Depeche Mode. Unfortunately for Techno-group Audit Division, those shoes were way too big to fill. Audit Division's self-titled 6 song EP really doesn't hit high marks this week. The band is essentially an 80's style techno group with two lead singers, a girl and a boy. They were really not good. Of course, with a name like Audit Division, which sounds like no fun at all, that's about what I expected.
The first problem with their EP is that the songs are all a disproportionate amount of time. The shortest song is almost 5 minutes long and the longest clocks in at 8 1/2 minutes. The songs themselves aren't terrible, but they are way too long for their quality. It's really rare that an 8 minute long song is actually worth sitting through, and even the really good ones are hard to sit through. 8 minutes is essentially an eternity in listening-to-music time.
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A proposal to repeal laws that make it a crime to commit adultery or "promote sexual immorality" survived its first hearing in the legislature Thursday, after comments that ranged from the silly to the serious.
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ARLINGTON -- Mark Teixeira took on-field batting practice Monday for the first time since he sustained what the Yankees called a lower lat strain, and the first baseman hopes to return to the starting lineup on Tuesday against the Rangers at Globe Life Park.
"I'm very happy," Teixeira said. "The back spasms are gone, which I've been dealing with for a long time, so that's really good. It's good to see that the treatments worked and the time off helped, so hopefully they won't come back."
Teixeira had not played since July 20 against the Reds before singling in a pinch-hit appearance in Monday's 4-2 Yankees loss; he had a platelet-rich plasma injection, and at the time, the team said that he would miss three to four days. It has been longer than initially anticipated, but Teixeira has at least been able to avoid the 15-day disabled list.
"I wasn't expecting all the little annoying things that come up. That's part of the game," Teixeira said before the game. "Hopefully this is it, and I have two healthy months to finish the season. But missing a couple of games here, a couple of games there, it's never fun."
Teixeira, 34, said that last season's wrist injury made him consider his baseball mortality, and the fact that he could no longer play through injuries that he might have played through while in his 20s.
"I've played through so many things. I can't play through them anymore," Teixeira said. "That's just the fact of the matter. The guys ask me, 'How did you play in Texas for five years, 100 degrees every night?' I was young. I was a kid. I played through everything.
"You fouled a pitch of your leg, 'Go get 'em.' Strain something in your back, 'Go get 'em.' That's just the way it is when you're young. I can't play through those things [now]. I don't think I would have had to miss games with back spasms."
Teixeira said that maintenance will be a key for him, and that he'd prefer to play until something hurts rather than take precautionary days off. But it's pretty much inevitable at this stage that sooner or later, there will be another issue to deal with; as he said with a smile, "Father Time is undefeated."
"I was very lucky that I could play through those things and stay on the field as long as anybody," Teixeira said. "But at a certain point, you hit a wall. I hit a wall last year, and hopefully I won't have a lot of these. But if they do pop up, it's just harder to play through it."
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Bourn, Indians discussing rehab assignment
KANSAS CITY -- A player can only take hitting off a tee and playing catch for so long. Sidelined Indians center fielder Michael Bourn is hoping to get himself back on the field for games in the near future.
Cleveland is currently discussing sending Bourn out on a Minor League rehab assignment.
"I think he wants, when he gets to that point, to maybe play a few games," manager Terry Francona said on Monday. "We kind of talked about that today and he thinks that would be in his best interest. So at some point, we'll explore that. When that is, we don't know yet."
Bourn, who is on the 15-day disabled list, has been out since April 15 due to a right index finger injury. The center fielder has running daily and working through a gradual progression of baseball activities. Bourn has resumed hitting off a tee and said on Monday that he hopes to take normal batting practice within the next few days.
After that step, Bourn might play a handful of Minor League games before being activated by the Indians.
"It's about time to discuss it," Bourn said. "I'm tired of sitting down. Hopefully, I can try to get back quick, but at the same time be smart about it. I don't want to go in there and it's not ready and I have a setback. So far, I haven't had any setbacks.'
Through 10 games this season, Bourn has hit .333 (15-for-45) with two home runs, four doubles, one triple, two RBIs and seven runs scored for the Indians. The center fielder signed a four-year contract worth $48 million with Cleveland over the offseason.
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Really? So it doesn't count in the standings? Interesting.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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Really? So it doesn't count in the standings? Interesting.
Do us a favor. Drink a few beers, get laid, smoke a fatty, something.
There are two types of quarterbacks in the league: Those whom over time, the league figures out ... and those who figure out the league.
Stop feeding the troll
You make hyperbolic statements, then insult people who disagree. Want me to go back and pull up the quotes?
Agreed, but that doesn't make the team a "joke," sorry.
That is highly illegal/immoral for a 12 year old.
Seriously--what the hell are you talking about? You are creating this drama in your head. The dude is making some very basic comments. There is no bullying going on here.
three really bad games by the pacers... I dont think its a concern... its a long season and we have to remember Pg is only 23.
I wonder if someone got it right in Guess The Score. This must be a lesson for us and this team: Whoever you face, you cannot expect to blow out your opponent regardless of standings disparity and injuries.
Pacers + Colts + Seahawks = Game mode on!
The other team has NBA players. They are good players. Road games are hard. Any road win is a good win and every team wants to beat us to put a feather in their cap.
Having said that, we had a 16 pt lead. The way we gave that away with pitiful offense and lackluster D is not good. Somehow Frank needs to make sure Lance is involved with everything we do. When he is playing at a high level, we are nearly unbeatable. When he doesn't, anyone can beat us.
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A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
Or throw in a first-round pick and flip it for a max-level point guard...
Well they did play crap in the 2nd half, especially in the 4th where the starters almost just gave away the lead due to turnovers. But the good thing is they played crap and yet won the game. Gotta take that and go on to the next game.
My team won, I am not going to be upset because they didn't win "good enough".
Man, I thought the Raptors were going to pull it out. They are playing so well right now.
Would you agree that you're making hyperbolic comments that are bound to get a rise out of people? (i.e. calling a 27-6 team a "joke?")
Hoosierguy, I would advise you to start drinking during games. You're getting too worked up.
Everyone else, drop it and let's talk about the game.
Just a request. Try to avoid replying to hoosierguy. He's the only poster on my ignore list. While I can't see (nor do I care) what he posts, it would be nice to not see his handle either.
Lance is finally home. Whether he becomes our starting PG or he's 6th man, he's getting big minutes and he's here to stay. #llortontnia
Pretty sure some of those 27 wins are not against a shorthanded Cavs team.
We are, this is a perfect example of why that stat is worthless.
A W is a W is a W, not matter how ugly it is. And while we aren't playing well, more often than not, we're pulling these games out when it matters. Only going to make us better come playoff time.
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"And David put his hand in the bag and took out a stone and slung it. And it struck the Philistine on the head and he fell to the ground. Amen. "
Do you know what my issue with this is, my friend?
When you're saying that it's embarrassing every time that we allow a team to make a run, you're essentially discrediting the other team. The Pacers do not play alone. They play against another team that adjusts and fights back. Sometimes, it's the opposing team's good play that causes our poor play. Just give credit to that team as well. The Cavs made it tough for us in the 4th quarter. They defender our sets well and they made tough shots. They absolutely deserve credit for their good play despite their injuries.
Personally, I'm going to give them credit for that. I don't expect the Pacers to be perfect. No team can be perfect.
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I had a bad feeling when they ruled that Kyrie was out tonight. Usually, when a team loses their star player, they respond very well for a few games. Gives other guys like CJ Miles, Waiters, and Dellavadova a chance to step up. Tonight, those guys did
Being unable to close out a game in which you have a comfortable lead in the 4th Q = Pulling a Frank Vogel


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A Pilot Study of Moderate Hyperbilirubinemia in Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus
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|Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus
|Drug: Atazanavir
|Phase 1
|Study Type:
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|Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
|Official Title:
|A Pilot Study of Moderate Hyperbilirubinemia in Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus
- Change in Brachial Artery Diameter [ Time Frame: Day 0 and Day 4 ]The primary endpoint is the difference in the change in brachial artery diameter in response to a flow stimulus at visit 2 and 3. It is anticipated that a response will occur following atazanavir therapy compared with baseline. The principal secondary endpoints are the serum measures of oxidant stress and antioxidant capacity.
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|May 2012
|Study Completion Date:
|February 2014
|Primary Completion Date:
|February 2014 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
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Experimental: Atazanavir 300 mg BID
Atazanavir 300 mg BID for 4 days.
Drug: Atazanavir
The study design is a single arm, open label trial. Treatment is atazanavir 300 mg BID per day for 4 days. The Brigham and Women's Hospital Investigational Drug Service (IDS) will dispense study drug.
Detailed Description:
Diabetes mellitus (DM) is associated with a markedly increased risk of both macro- and microvascular disease. Excess pro-oxidants and insufficient antioxidants each contributes to oxidant stress in DM. Oxidant stress induces endothelial dysfunction, a major determinant of vascular damage. In DM, hyperglycemia and elevated free fatty acids (FFAs) induce generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) by stimulating protein kinase C (PKC) and nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH) oxidase (Figure 1). In addition, hyperglycemia activates the renin-angiotensin system, and angiotensin II (Ang II) additively stimulates PKC and NADPH oxidase.
Bilirubin, long regarded as metabolic waste, is, in fact, a potent antioxidant scavenger of ROS. It also directly inhibits both protein kinase C and the NADPH oxidase system, augmenting its antioxidant activity (Figure 1). Moreover, bilirubin inhibits Ang II-mediated vasoconstriction and ROS generation. Experimental models suggest that hyperbilirubinemia may preserve diabetes-associated endothelial function and prevent vasculopathy. Furthermore, epidemiological studies demonstrate that higher bilirubin levels are associated with a reduced risk of vascular disease in DM. Bilirubin therefore emerges as a potentially critical molecule to protect against diabetic vascular and renal damage. However, limited translational research has addressed raising bilirubin levels as a preventive therapy for vascular disease in DM.
Accordingly, the investigators seek to establish the feasibility of studying the change in endothelial function caused by induced moderate hyperbilirubinemia in type 1 diabetes. the investigators will take advantage of the recently described use of atazanavir to safely achieve moderate hyperbilirubinemia. Atazanavir is a protease inhibitor used to treat HIV infection that competitively inhibits hepatic 1A1 isoform of uridine diphosphoglucose glucuronosyltransferase (UGT1A1), limiting bilirubin clearance and inducing hyperbilirubinemia (Figure 2). This mimics Gilbert's syndrome, a benign unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia due to partial genetic deficiency of UGT1A1.
This work has the potential to identify iatrogenic moderate hyperbilirubinemia as a strategy to interrupt key mechanisms of type 1 diabetes-associated macro- and microvascular disease.
This is a physiologic study. The design is a single arm and open label. There are three study visits: a screening visit, a baseline visit, and a final visit. The treatment is atazanavir 300 mg PO bid. The treatment period is 4 days. The primary study outcome is forearm vascular function. The principal secondary outcomes are serum antioxidant defense capacity and measures of oxidant stress.
The investigators aim to study 20 subjects to completion over the 12 month funding period. The investigators anticipate enrolling 40 subjects before 20 complete the study.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Symptoms of diabetes plus casual plasma glucose concentration ≥ 200 mg/dl (11.1 mmol/l), or;
- FPG ≥ 126 mg/dl (7.0 mmol/l), or;
2-h postload glucose ≥ 200 mg/dl (11.1 mmol/l) during an OGTT. In addition, subjects would be required to be at increased risk of cardiovascular events, defined as:
- microalbuminuria, or;
- T1DM duration of > 20 years.
Exclusion Criteria:
- HIV infection
- Gilbert's syndrome
- Hepatic failure or active hepatitis,
- Unstable cardiovascular disease, including angina, heart failure or arrhythmia
- drug abuse including alcoholism or addiction to cocaine, heroin or amphetamines
- Use of medications that significantly with atazanavir
- Pregnancy, or inability to practice adequate contraception
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01421355
|United States, Massachusetts
|Brigham and Women's Hospital
|Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02115
|Principal Investigator:
|Joshua Beckman, MD
|Brigham and Women's Hospital
|Responsible Party:
|Mark Alan Creager, MD, Mark A. Creager, MD, Brigham and Women's Hospital
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01421355 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
1R03DK094510-01 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
|Study First Received:
|August 19, 2011
|Results First Received:
|June 23, 2014
|Last Updated:
|June 23, 2014
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Diabetes Mellitus
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1
Glucose Metabolism Disorders
Metabolic Diseases
Endocrine System Diseases
Autoimmune Diseases
Immune System Diseases
Pathologic Processes
Atazanavir Sulfate
HIV Protease Inhibitors
Protease Inhibitors
Enzyme Inhibitors
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Anti-HIV Agents
Anti-Retroviral Agents
Antiviral Agents
Anti-Infective Agents
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"What you are witnessing right now is the old Danny Granger of old!!" - Chris Denari 01/01/2014
He isn't good at setting teammates up. He is a scoring guard and would be better coming off the bench providing a spark. He can go on his runs, which I love, but with the starters he isn't needed as much.
They all just fell down in the middle of the court. Refs decided to call the game. Floppers are 1-0
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This LeBron James documentary...err, Samsung commercial cost more to make than they will get from selling those stupid watches.
obviously commercial makers were watching tnt's halftime shows about how LeBron didn't get enough commercials
I think there should be more conversation about Lance vs. Hill and less about Lance vs. Granger. I want Lance at starting point when Granger Danger returns!
"We've got to be very clear about this. We don't want our players hanging around with murderers," said Larry Bird, Pacers president.
That's going to get you banned...read the sticky at the top.
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Yeah LeBron showed them his flopping coach
(if you saw that video)
Do we know if coaches have dental insurance? damn.
@WhatTheFFacts: Studies show that sarcasm enhances the ability of the human mind to solve complex problems!
Rose is a scoring guard too
(what hyperbole?)
Solid play Paul.
George Hill, congratulations! You are the official 2013-2014 Pacers whipping boy!
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Just asked how the team was, didn't ask for a link.....better delete that post bro
Larry Bird and Ryan Grigson- wasting the talents of Paul George and Andrew Luck
I gotchu.
Be ok Roy
@WhatTheFFacts: Studies show that sarcasm enhances the ability of the human mind to solve complex problems!
Damn Roy
I really hope that Roy is ok.
Tonight, all flags must burn, in place of steeples.
Autonomy must return into the hands of the people.
Love the defensive effort by Roy.
Paul starting to get the calls this year just gotta hit the damn fts
Boy they are getting at them on defense