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2. CBS Evening News Too Right Wing for Michael Moore
3. Celebrities Come Out for Big Kerry Fundraiser in Los Angeles
4. "Top Ten Questions Ralph Nader Asked Potential Running Mates"
CBS, CNN & NBC Skip Iraq Outreach to
Spiked by CBS, CNN and NBC again. Exactly a week after the CBS Evening News, CNN's NewsNight and the NBC Nightly News ignored Russian President Vladimir Putin's disclosure that Russian intelligence warned the Bush administration after 9-11 that Saddam Hussein planned to attack inside the U.S., the very same newscasts managed to skip over a Friday front page New York Times story about how top operatives in Hussein's regime approached bin Laden in the mid-1990s about working together against the Saudi ruling family and foreigners in Saudi Arabia.
Friday's CBS Evening News, however, had time for hyperventilation about how, as anchor John Roberts put it, "partisan bickering in Washington" supposedly reached "a new low as the Vice President lets loose with...'the' four-letter word." Bob Orr concluded the subsequent story by lecturing: "But the Vice President's profanity, uttered on the same day the Senate passed a bill requiring broadcasters to clean up the public airwaves, clearly shows that a lot needs to be done to raise the tone here in Washington."
CBS also had time for a story blaming the war in Iraq for a polio outbreak in Nigeria. Roberts plugged that story: "Coming up next on tonight's CBS Evening News, polio, it's making a comeback, and the war in Iraq may have something to do with it." Reporter Gretchen Carlson related how "the local government stopped administering polio vaccines...in part, health officials say, out of distrust of the United States." A UNICEF spokeswoman claimed: "There was a concern that there was sterilization elements in it, some growing resistance and a concern that this was an effort to basically depopulate the Muslim population."
Carlson added: "According to UNICEF, the U.S.-led war in Iraq inadvertently inflamed a public health crisis." The spokeswoman elaborated: "We did some interviews with some community members who explicitly said, 'We've seen the news on Iraq, we've seen the news on the Middle East, we know what's going on. And we're supposed to take these vaccines?'"
As with the Putin story from a week earlier, only ABC's World News Tonight, of the broadcast networks, picked up on the latest revelation about the friendly working relationship between bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. "ABC News has obtained a document which shows some contact between Iraq and bin Laden's al-Qaeda network back in the mid-1990s," anchor Elizabeth Vargas touted.
FNC's Special Report with Brit Hume reported the outreach to bin Laden and discussed it during a panel segment on Friday night.
The Saturday, June 19 CyberAlert recounted: At a press conference on Friday [June 18], Russian President Vladimir Putin disclosed that "after Sept. 11, 2001...the Russian Special Services" passed along to the U.S. how it had "received information that officials from Saddam's regime were preparing terrorist attacks in the United States..." Friday's CBS Evening News didn't mention Putin's revelation even though it devoted over two minutes to the debate over any Iraq-al-Qaeda relationship. Dan Rather found more newsworthy how Bill Clinton, in one of "the more compelling passages" in his new book, claimed to have warned President-elect Bush about Osama bin laden, but Bush didn't care. NBC Nighty News skipped Putin and instead dedicated a story to undermining President Bush's contention that Musab Abu al-Zarqawi's is linked to al-Qaeda. Of the broadcast networks on Friday night, only ABC found Putin newsworthy. On CNN, American Morning jumped on Putin's revelation, but by the evening CNN had moved on. CBS's Saturday Early Show skipped Putin and NBC's Today didn't get to Putin until the last news update, after audio clips from Clinton's book and how he warned an apathetic Bush about terrorism, and an interview session with Harry Thomason about The Hunting of the President, which Campbell Brown described as a film about "the case that there was a well-funded right-wing conspiracy to destroy the President and First Lady Hillary Clinton." See: www.mediaresearch.org
For more about that coverage, see the June 17 CyberAlert: www.mediaresearch.org
The next night, after the Chairman and Vice Chairman made clear that the media had distorted their finding, CBS ignored the scolding while ABC and NBC buried it. See: www.mediaresearch.org
Back to Friday, June 25, the front page New York Times headline read: "Iraqis, Seeking Foes of Saudis, Contacted bin Laden, File Says." Thom Shanker reported how a Defense Department "task force concluded that the document 'appeared authentic,' and that it 'corroborates and expands on previous reporting' about contacts between Iraqi intelligence and Mr. bin Laden in Sudan, according to the task force's analysis....The document, which asserts that Mr. bin Laden 'was approached by our side,' states that Mr. bin Laden previously 'had some reservations about being labeled an Iraqi operative,' but was now willing to meet in Sudan, and that 'presidential approval' was granted to the Iraqi security service to proceed."
For the New York Times article in full: www.nytimes.com
ABC's World News Tonight, unlike CBS and NBC, MRC analyst Brad Wilmouth observed, picked up on the same subject explored by the New York Times article.
Anchor Elizabeth Vargas introduced the June 25 story: "In Washington today, the fight over the Bush administration's case for war in Iraq continues. The administration maintains that there was a strong connection between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden. Today, ABC News has obtained a document which shows some contact between Iraq and bin Laden's al-Qaeda network back in the mid-1990s. ABC's Martha Raddatz is at the Pentagon. Martha, just what does the document say?"
Raddatz explained: "Elizabeth, these are the documents obtained by ABC News. It's nine pages, all in Arabic, detailing these alleged contacts. This is one of millions of documents discovered in Iraq after the U.S. invasion. Defense and intelligence analysts say the document appears to be authentic and shows Saddam Hussein's efforts to cooperate with Saudi Arabian opposition groups, including Osama bin Laden and Hezbollah. The contacts allegedly occurred in Sudan where bin Laden lived at the time, and before he was widely known as an international terrorist. The document says the Iraqis requested the meeting with the approval of Saddam Hussein. Bin Laden, says the report, 'had some reservations about being labeled an Iraqi operative' but ultimately agreed to meet. According to the document, bin Laden requested that the Iraqis rebroadcast sermons by an anti-Saudi cleric, which was approved. Also requested, joint operations against foreign forces in Saudi Arabia. The document makes no indication that request was ever approved or carried out."
CBS Evening News Too Right Wing for Michael
Friday morning on CBS's Early Show, far-left filmmaker Michael Moore, who showed up to promote his anti-Bush "documentary" Fahrenheit 9-11, when asked if his film is "propaganda," declared: "I consider the CBS Evening News propaganda." Moore argued that the networks are too right wing: "We may not of even gone into this war had these networks done their job. I mean, it was a great disservice to the American people because we depend on people who work here and the other networks to go after those in power and say 'Hey, wait a minute. You want to send our kids off to war, we want to know where those weapons of mass destruction are. Let's see the proof. Let's see the proof that Saddam Hussein had something to do with 9/11.'"
MRC analyst Brian Boyd took down the exchange, on the June 25 Early Show, between Moore and CBS's Hannah Storm:
Storm: "So this is satire and not documentary? We shouldn't see this as-"
I don't think Moore and I were watching the same network newscasts in the Spring of 2003. They asked plenty of questions and gave a lot of time to opponents of going to war in Iraq.
Celebrities Come Out for Big Kerry Fundraiser
John Kerry raised about $5 million for his campaign at a couple of events in Los Angeles on Thursday night, the second of which featured performances by Barbra Streisand, Neil Diamond, Billy Crystal and Willie Nelson. Amongst those who contributed in order to attend: Leonardo DiCaprio, Ben Affleck, Jamie Foxx, Ben Stiller and Robert DeNiro. Crystal "joked" about President Bush, according to multiple media accounts, "I realize that 9/11 is also his SAT scores." The New York Times touted how "the much-heralded highlight was the Barbra Streisand-Neil Diamond reunion duet, 'You Don't Bring Me Flowers,' which they had not performed together since Jimmy Carter was in the White House."
Streisand also performed her famous song 'People,' but with parody lyrics: "Rumsfeld, we must get rid of Rumsfeld/He's the spookiest person in the world....This war we're lost in/Don't ask what it's costing/What's a trillion or two to rule the World?...When the White House Stationery/Reads President John Kerry/We'll Be the Luckiest People in the World!"
On her Web site, Streisand posted the full text of her "special" lyrics she performed at the Kerry fundraiser: ( www.barbrastreisand.com )
(Second chorus)
END reprint of parody lyrics
Since it appears that news cameras were not allowed to tape the event, we probably won't ever see Streisand's performance (if I see it anywhere I'll let you know), but in 2002 FNC showed video of her singing, at a September 29, 2002 fundraiser for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, a "special" version of 'Memories' from the movie The Way We Were:
"Scattered pictures/Of the House we left behind/Lovely Democratic mem'ries/Of the way we were.... "Unprecedented Growth in the Economy/The Dow was up, the deficit was down/As long as Democrats were the majority/I could sleep nights, not weep nights."
To see a RealPlayer clip of that, refer back to the MRC's DisHonors Awards of 2003 (Streisand is in the middle of the page): www.mediaresearch.org
-- A June 25 Los Angeles Times story by Matea Gold and Geoff Boucher:
Sen. John F. Kerry scooped up $5 million for his presidential bid in a lavish gala in downtown Los Angeles on Thursday night that featured an array of Hollywood heavy hitters who took center stage in calling for President Bush's defeat.
The Democratic presidential hopeful was feted by entertainers such as Barbra Streisand, Billy Crystal and Willie Nelson at a two-hour program before 2,000 donors at Walt Disney Concert Hall.
Though Streisand and Nelson represent longtime liberal voices from the music industry, a parade of younger Hollywood celebrities was on hand as well, with Leonardo DiCaprio, Ben Affleck, Jamie Foxx and Ben Stiller lending their names and time to Kerry's candidacy.
At a pre-show dinner in an airy foyer of the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, where top donors dined on shrimp and filet mignon, Kerry embraced Streisand and glad-handed a roster of political and entertainment heavyweights: actor Robert De Niro, producer Harvey Weinstein, former California Gov. Gray Davis, City Councilman Antonio Villaraigosa and mayoral candidate Bob Hertzberg....
Affleck said he wasn't sure his efforts would sway any votes, but he believes the entertainment industry can help spark interest in the election.
"Really, the celebrities are the ones who have something to lose.... We like people from both sides of the aisle to come see our movies and concerts," he said. Still, he called Hollywood's heightened political interest "a healthy thing" and said it should not be discouraged.
When asked why he was backing Kerry's candidacy, the actor said he saved $1.5 million in federal income tax last year, thanks to Bush's tax cuts. Affleck asked, "Does anyone here think that's appropriate?"
Inside the hall, a partisan crowd cheered as Nelson performed classics like "On the Road Again" and Crystal cracked jokes. "I realize that 9/11 is also his SAT scores," the comedian said of Bush....
Streisand performed her 1964 hit People, but with new lyrics....
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For the LA Times article in full: www.latimes.com
It could have been Oscar night, what with Billy Crystal cracking wise about movies and politics, money and baseball -- just like in the old days when the Academy Awards ceremony was held across the street at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. But when Mr. Crystal tried a joke about former president Bill Clinton's forthcoming children's book -- "It's called 'The Little Engine That Could Because It Could'" -- it fell flat.
More business suit than ball gown, this audience of 2,000 Democratic donors at the Walt Disney Concert Hall had paid too much ($2,000 to $25,000) on Thursday night to laugh at itself.
Fun was to be had, sure, but at the Republicans' expense.
So Mr. Crystal fared much better when he recalled having met President Bush at Yankee Stadium during the third game of the World Series in 2001 and realizing, "911 is also his SAT scores." And when, invoking the "Godfather" trilogy, he mused, "I get the feeling he is the Fredo of the Bush family."...
The much-heralded highlight was the Barbra Streisand-Neil Diamond reunion duet, "You Don't Bring Me Flowers," which they had not performed together since Jimmy Carter was in the White House. Ms. Streisand crooned at center stage, where a stool, table, vase with red roses, teapot and cup had been placed for her performance, while Mr. Diamond sang from remote stage right, walking into the spotlight only for the final chorus, and the tender kiss the two shared afterwards.
Then Ms. Streisand, in a lacy black gown with a plunging V-neck and greenish fringe hanging off the back, upstaged herself with a political parody of "People" that made Mr. Crystal's material sound almost centrist.
"Now Rumsfeld/ We must get rid of Rumsfeld/ He's the spookiest person in the world," she sang to the audience's delight. "Let's discuss this war we're lost in/ Don't ask what it's costin'/ What's a trillion or two to rule the world?"
Throughout the night, though, the performers strained to say that they were not just anti-Bush, but pro-Kerry. Ben Affleck, who grew up in Massachusetts, Mr. Kerry's home state, declared, "I know the man." Leonardo DiCaprio called him "a lifelong champion of the environment," and Mr. Crystal, speaking about the Vietnam War, said, "John Kerry was an actual action hero."...
Thursday's concert was preceded by a dinner of filet mignon and shrimp at the Chandler Pavilion for those couples forking over $25,000 ("I know people who don't make $25,000 in a day!" Mr. Crystal cracked). Postponed from earlier this month because of Ronald Reagan's death, the concert was the first of a pair; Jon Bon Jovi and the Dave Matthews Band are to lead the bill at Radio City Music Hall on July 8.
Kerry campaign aides said the performers had agreed to appear on the condition that cameras and recorders be barred. The press, too, was originally prohibited from covering the concert, save for one journalist sent to record Mr. Kerry's remarks. But Thursday afternoon, the campaign announced that its traveling press corps would get an audio feed, and then, an hour before the curtain, tickets were handed out.
The show kicked off with Leah Hansen, an 8-year-old cellist in a sleeveless lavender dress with matching bow, who brought the crowd to its feet with a soulful "God Bless America." Willie Nelson, his gray braid hanging to his belt, did three classics, and Angie Stone, who had flown in from Amsterdam, where she was on tour, offered a two-pack, including Marvin Gaye's antiwar anthem, "What's Going On."
The comedian Jamie Foxx, who is black, pointed to Senator Kerry, who was seated with his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, in the front row of the second of five tiers, and asked: "You find somebody to run with you yet? I'll give you my cell number. We need some color in the White House." Ben Stiller introduced Mr. Diamond as "the man who helped me get to second base for the first time in my life," recalling taking a date to see "The Jazz Singer" in 1982, and "my personal savior in a very rocky adolescence."
Mr. Diamond, in a black smock with triangles of red sequins dripping from the shoulders, started with "Forever in Bluejeans" and got the crowd swinging -- and Mrs. Kerry swaying -- with "Sweet Caroline," and finished with "America."
Ms. Streisand, who entered and exited from stage left, the opposite side from everyone else, did the longest set, interrupting her songs with political riffs....
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For the New York Times story in full: www.nytimes.com
"Top Ten Questions Ralph Nader Asked
From the June 25 Late Show with David Letterman, the "Top Ten Questions Ralph Nader Asked Potential Running Mates." Late Show home page: www.cbs.com
10. Are you here because you lost a bet?
9. If I pick you, do you promise to vote for us?
8. In case anybody asks, can you think of a reason I'm running?
7. Are you sure you won't be intimidated by my dazzling charisma?
6. Wanna drop out of the race and go to Massachusetts to get hitched?
5. Is it okay if I pay you in grocery coupons?
4. Isn't this a step down for you, Mr. Gore?
3. Do you get nervous speaking in front of groups of 8 to 12 people?
2. Are you comfortable being the answer to a trivial pursuit question?
1. What's it like to be with a woman?
-- Brent Baker


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Dear Mr. Demaçi,
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is deeply disturbed by the Kosovo Liberation Army's October 29 criminal trial and sentencing of reporters Nebojsa Radosevic and Vladimir Dobricic.
According to a KLA statement released on November 1, Radosevic, 32, and Dobricic, 50, reporters for the Yugoslav state news agency Tanjug, were convicted by a KLA military tribunal of violating the group's code of military and civilian conduct. They were sentenced to 60 days' imprisonment. The communique provided no further details.
Radosevic and Dobricic disappeared on October 18 on the road to Magura, where two Serb police officers had been killed on the previous day. This was the second instance of Serb journalists disappearing in the conflict zone in recent months. On August 21, Radio Pristina reporter Djuro Slavuj, and his driver, Ranko Perenic, vanished as they left Orahovac by car for Malisevo. To date there has been no information about whereabouts of Slavuj and Perenic.
As an independent organization dedicated to defending the universally recognized rights of our colleagues around the world, CPJ condemns the arrest and imprisonment of journalists Radosevic and Dobricic for practicing their profession. Their capture and incarceration in the course of performing their duties violate international norms guaranteeing the right "to seek and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers," as expressed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. We urge those within the KLA who are responsible for these actions against the journalists to immediately and unconditionally release the Tanjug reporters, and assist in locating the missing Radio Pristina employees.
Thank you for your attention. We await your reply.
Ann K. Cooper
Executive Director
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The economic crisis has forced hospitals and health care facilities in Queens and throughout the city to stretch dollars further than ever before. On a federal level, there has been a lot of talk of health care relief, but only a modest portion of the funds for New York State from the health care aspects of the federal stimulus package reached the intended target—hospitals and health care providers. It seems that plans for health care reform are beginning to crystallize but remain in flux as partisan politics stymie progress.
These days, it feels like one hand of government understands what we need to build and protect access to health care, and that the other is ready to take it away before that support can even be realized. Over the past two weeks, we have spent a great deal of time with city and state officials. We know they are focused on how to provide health care with needed support, while achieving a delicate balance with other priorities such as education, employment stimulus and tax relief.
Through the initiative of Senator Toby Stavisky and Assemblywoman Nettie Mayersohn, we hosted a forum for the Queens Delegation prior to their return for special sessions in Albany. We discussed how the steady stream of deep budget cuts over the past several years has placed high quality health care in Queens at risk. [See NYHQ Hosts Health Care Briefing for Queens Delegation, below].
Then, on September 25 Governor David Paterson held a press conference from our hospital to announce that Queens health care facilities will receive an infusion of $30 million from a total of $436 million to be disbursed state wide as part of the Health Care Efficiency and Affordability Law of New York State (HEAL NY) program.
For the announcement, our auditorium was filled with elected officials, representatives from the other neighboring health care institutions, dozens of members of the press and our own employees. We heard Governor Paterson, State Health Commissioner Richard Daines, M.D. and members of the State Senate and Assembly announce that New York Hospital Queens will receive $4 million toward the much needed renovation and expansion of our emergency room which is now seeing more than 120,000 patients a year in a space designed to accommodate less than 50,000 [See The Pursuit of Grant Funding, below].
Queens Borough President Helen Marshall also spoke at the press conference and discussed the gap in access to care that exists in New York City, she demonstrated this with a statistic: Manhattan is a borough of 1.5 million people and there are 6.1 beds per 1,000 people. In Queens we have 2.3 million residents and only 1.6 beds per 1,000.
During the press conference, I was proud to hear speakers praise our hospital and our staff, and we are grateful for the grant. These monies will help us, but only represent about one-third of the total cost of our emergency room expansion. It cannot go unnoticed that as gracious as the governor was with his praise of our hospital, he clearly signaled more budget cuts to come. He vows to close the $2.1 billion gap in the current fiscal budget.
Health care is a big-ticket item in the state budget. However, patient care is not something that can be bargained with. High quality patient care requires funds to maintain facilities, technology and high quality work force. Unfortunately, three recent hospital closings in Queens are a clear example of what happens when health care funding is compromised.
Stephen S. Mills, F.A.C.H.E
It's an honor for us when other organizations recognize our physicians, nurses, employees for their expertise. This month, three of our people will be celebrated for their contributions to patient care and the health of our borough.
At the 15th Annual Queens Leaders Award Reception for the New York Chapter of the Arthritis Foundation later this month, Jeffrey Rosen, M.D., chairman of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, will receive an award for his leadership in the prevention, control and cure of arthritis and related diseases for the people of Queens. I will have the pleasure as serving as the Reception Chair. The event will be held October 22 at the Center for Automotive Education and Training in Whitestone.
The Wholeness of Life Award from the HealthCare Chaplaincy is given annually to a hospital employee who in his/her treatment of others demonstrates respect for human beings as whole persons, promoting health in body, mind and spirit. This year's honoree is Mimi Lim, R.N., M.P.A., C.I.C., NEA-BC, clinical director of Patient Care Services. She has served our hospital as a nurse and a clinical nurse leader for 28 years.
Our Women's Auxiliary will honor Claire Shulman, former Queens Borough President, current member of our Board of Trustees—and a former nurse, at its annual fundraising luncheon on October 29. The NYHQ Women's Auxiliary works with the hospital to raise funds and support health-related programs that benefit the hospital and our community
We are happy to welcome a new member to the Board of Trustees, as well as several physicians who have demonstrated a history of commitment to high quality care, patient safety and patient satisfaction.
|Michael Meyer, president of the TDC Development International, has been appointed to our Board of Trustees. TDC is a member of the F&T Group, a diversified real estate services company located in Flushing and Shanghai, China. Prior to his work with the F&T Group, Mr. Meyer held positions with Quest International, Inc, Accenture, Tishman Realty & Construction and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. He currently serves as vice chairman of the Flushing Business Improvement District. He achieved a bachelor's degree from Oberlin College and a master's in business administration from Harvard Business School.
|Marios D. Gagos, D. O., has joined the faculty of our cardiology division at New York Hospital Queens. Dr. Gagos is a graduate of The State University of New York at Stony Brook, with a degree in pharmacology. He received his medical degree from the New York College of Osteopathic Medicine, and served his residency and cardiology fellowship at Winthrop University Hospital. He has a special interest in nuclear cardiology and is also pursuing an MBA degree from the New York Institute of Technology. Dr. Gagos has been involved in medical research since beginning his work in cardiology. Studies in which he has participated have been published in notable journals including the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, and he has presented at the annual scientific meeting of the American College of Cardiology.
Vanessa Escobar Barboza, M.D., comes to our physician staff as full-time hospitalist, one of the newest and fastest growing medical specialties in the country. As a service to those community-based primary physicians who find it difficult to care for their patients while in the hospital, a hospitalist assumes the role of the patient's primary care physician while hospitalized. A hospitalist devotes individualized time with the patient from the admission process up through discharge. The hospitalist coordinates a plan of care with a patient's primary care physician, updates the physician throughout a patient's stay and then refers the patient back to their primary physician for care after hospitalization.
Dr. Escobar Barboza completed her internal medicine residency at Lincoln Medical and Health Center, an affiliate of Weill Medical College of Cornell University. She received her medical degree from Universidad del Norte in Colombia. A resident of Flushing, Queens, Dr. Escobar Barboza speaks Spanish and Portuguese.
Three surgeons have joined our Department of Surgery, a team of more than 200 general surgeons and practitioners from all major surgical specialty areas who practice in the community and at our hospital. They are Nitong Du, M.D., attending general surgeon, K.R. Kurtis Kim, M.D., attending vascular surgeon, Jason Sample, M.D., director of emergency surgery, trauma and surgical critical care.
Dr. Du joined our medical staff after he completed his fellowship in minimally invasive surgery here. He had served as chief resident at the Department of Surgery at SUNY Downstate Medical Center. Dr. Du received his medical degree from The Beijing Medical University School of Medicine and his Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Basic Science at New York Medical College. He is fluent in Mandarin.
K.R. Kurtis Kim, M.D. comes to us following his Vascular Surgery Fellowship at the University of Maryland in Baltimore. His expertise is in balloon angioplasty, stent, endograft and open surgical solutions. A graduate of University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Kim received his medical degree from Ross University School of Medicine, and completed general surgery residency at State University of New York/Buffalo. Dr. Kim is fluent in Korean.
Dr. Sample previously served as associate director of trauma and surgical director of medical education at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center in Queens and attending surgeon at Upper Chesapeake Medical Center in Bel Air, MD. He completed his surgical residency at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, with concentrations in colorectal, thoracic, gastric and mixed tumor services at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center as well as trauma and general surgery services at Jamaica Hospital.
We welcome Anjali Bharati, D.O. as an attending physician in Emergency Medicine. She recently completed fellowship training in Emergency Ultrasound at our hospital. She performed her residency training in Emergency Medicine at Metropolitan Hospital, New York, NY, where she served as chief resident. Dr. Bharati achieved her medical degree from New York College of Osteopathic Medicine in Valhalla, N.Y.
To share research findings with the medical community, our physicians and clinicians publish their work in peer-reviewed journals, present it at medical conferences around the world and speak to community-based organizations about good health practices.
New to our Surgery Department, K.R. Kurtis Kim, M.D., recently published a case report on Coil Embolization for Renal Artery Aneurysm, in "Endovascular Today." The report shows that coil embolization and stent placement is a safe and effective alternative treatment modality to traditional open surgery, in certain cases.
The hospital enacted a new protocol for insulin prescription for our hospitalized patients, which has yielded outstanding outcomes for diabetes control and has prompted an abstract for presentation to other medical experts. Daniel Lorber, M.D., director of Endocrinology, Regina Cregin, PharmD, hospital pharmacist, and residents Amit Desai, D.O. and Rachel Rubinova, D.O., authored the abstract "Institutional Subcutaneous Insulin Protocol Utilizing Computerized Prescriber Order Entry Eliminates Sliding Scale Orders" and it will be presented at the Diabetes Technology meeting in San Francisco in November.
The abstract,"Risk Factors for Delayed Analgesia in Patients presenting to the Emergency Department with Long Bone Fractures," authored by Michael S. Radeos, M.D., M.P.H., director of emergency medicine research, Ferleine Bautista, M.D., emergency medicine resident, Nidhi Garg, M.D., coordinator of emergency medicine research, and Alfred Caliguri, R.P.A.-C., was presented recently at the Fifth Mediterranean Emergency Medicine Congress in Valencia, Spain.
Jose D. Torres, Jr, M.D., attending physician in Emergency Medicine, recently taught at a conference for New York City first-responders about "Management of Difficult Airways." The program was hosted by the Department of Emergency Medical Services at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.
David Barlas, M.D., associate director of the Emergency Medicine residency program, recently spoke to an audience of regional emergency medicine residents about "How to Write a Research Abstract" at the New York State Chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians Resident Forum Focus on Research Conference at the New York Academy of Medicine.
In a recent issue of the "New England Journal of Medicine," a letter to the editor was published that was written by Judah Goldberg, M.D., emergency medicine resident, in response to an article concerning recent Institute of Medicine recommendations regarding resident work hours.
Todd Kerwin, M.D., director of non-invasive cardiology, presented a lecture to a group of senior citizens at Temple Israel in Flushing about heart health including cholesterol, blood pressure and the advantage of taking aspirin on a daily basis. The lecture included a lively question and answer period.
James Rahal, M.D., director, Infectious Disease Division, spoke to parents and school officials about how to protect ourselves and others against H1N1 infection. Dr. Rahal was invited by Flushing community leader John Choe to speak to families at the Sheraton-LaGuardia Hotel in downtown Flushing. He stressed that the community should heed the instructions by our hospital and the New York City Department of Health and take measures to prevent spreading illness.
Seminar Tackles Emerging Pattern of Childhood Food Aversions
Physicians from our Pediatrics Department discovered a pattern of eating aversions among children in traditional Chinese households that may impact their nutritional intake. To stunt this emerging eating pattern, our concerned pediatrics team invited a dietician who specializes in Eastern diets to meet with Chinese-American families to educate them on how to add nutritional value to a traditional Chinese diet.
The NYHQ seminar, "Nutrition and Growth in Chinese American Children: Optimizing Your Child's Feeding and Nutrition" was moderated by Joseph J. Abularrage, M.D., chairman department of pediatrics, Peri Millman, M.D., director of pediatric gastroenterology, and Anthony Porto, M.D., attending pediatrician, director, Fit Kids program. Our gastroenterologists, pediatricians, swallowing therapists, nurses and dieticians also attended the seminar.
Valuable Outreach to Our Patients and Community
As a quality of care measure, hospitals are required to counsel our emergency room and admitted patients on smoking cessation. We have taken this a step further by reaching out the community and by providing smoking cessation classes and a monthly smoking cessation support group. In addition, our HealthOutreach Program recently partnered with a program sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to raise awareness in the Spanish-speaking community on the effects of second hand smoke, especially in households with children. This program is now based in our Theresa Lang Children's Ambulatory Center.
Every month, the hospital participates in a vast number of free health activities for Queens residents. For example, In August, the hospital participated in 12 health fairs. More than 200 people had their blood pressure screened and another 200 were screened for diabetes. Six blood drives yielded 366 volunteers who donated blood to us— a great service for the people of Queens, and also a cost savings for the hospital.
New Technology for Quicker Hepatitis and HIV Diagnosis
The Pathology and Clinical Laboratory Department has added new technology that speeds up testing for hepatitis and HIV. The new VITROS EciQ computerized analyzer machine can analyze specimens within 55 minutes and produce reports within one hour, it formerly took one to three days. In 2008, the lab processed 25,000 of these tests. The new technology will expand capacity for testing, increase lab access for community physicians and result in shorter turnaround times.
We Are Named a Flagship Hospital for Making Strides Against Breast Cancer
We are a major health care provider for the treatment of breast cancer in Queens and are a flagship hospital sponsor for the annual Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk sponsored by the American Cancer Society. The NYHQ Breast Center, which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year, and our HealthOutreach Program have assembled teams of walkers to represent our hospital at the event to be held in mid-October at Queens Borough Hall.
NYHQ College—A Model Program for Increasing Job Performance
Our partnership with Queens College/CUNY is an example of how our direct involvement with community organizations helps us flourish. With the assistance of Queens College, in 2001, we became one of the first health care organizations in the country to create a corporate college. This model has since been adopted at many other health care organizations. What is significant about our corporate college is that it helps our employees build their personal and professional skills and raise the rate of job satisfaction. In addition, it has yielded a workforce with more capability and a higher level of job performance.
Major Modernization Update
We remain on track to open the 190,000 square-foot (seven story) west wing by mid-2010. Progress on the project includes the exterior curtain wall, windows, and metal panels have been completed on all floors. The exterior curtain wall (pictured, bottom right) in the area of the temporary hoist will be completed once the building elevators are operational. Startup of the major mechanical equipment and the emergency generators are anticipated later this fall. For many months, the sidewalk in front of the hospital on Main Street has shielded passersby with an exterior sidewalk bridge. In September, the bridge was removed.
|Of major note for the interior (pictured, left) of the new building, the electrical power and main oxygen pipe tie-in have been connected. Continuing interior work includes drywall installation, taping and spackling and adding ceiling tiles to new patient care areas. Ceramic tile work for toilets and showers also began in September.
NYHQ Hosts Health Care Briefing for Queens Delegation
To provide our elected officials with an unobscured view of the state of hospital and nursing home care in Queens, we held a briefing with State Senate and Assembly members representing Queens in Albany. We expect our elected officials to make informed health care decisions and provide much needed support for our health care facilities. This briefing underscored the importance of making health care a top priority for state legislators, and the danger of additional cuts to health care funding at the state level.
Representatives from the Greater New York Hospital Association and Continuing Care Leadership Coalition reviewed the anticipated budget cuts on a state level and discussed its expected effect upon impending health care reform on the federal level. We discussed our current financial challenges and the difficulty in maintaining patient quality of care in light of budget cuts. We also highlighted the impact of patient volume surges due to recent hospital closures and the H1N1 virus outbreak last spring.
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JERUSALEM, April 14 (JTA) — Reform and Conservative Jews in the United States have been up in arms over Israel"s pending conversion bill. But many Israelis are essentially indifferent to both the legislation and to the Reform and Conservative movements in general. The bill "really isn"t important to me or to most of the people I know,"" says Eyal Biger, a 26-year-old graduate student. "Frankly, there are more vital things to worry about at the moment. Things like security and the peace process. Compared to this, the issue of conversion is a non-issue."" The legislation would give the Orthodox Chief Rabbinate exclusive control over conversions performed in Israel, in effect barring the recognition of Reform and Conservative conversions performed there. The Knesset passed the measure earlier this month in the first of three votes known as readings. The bill is now on legislative hold as government mediators seek a compromise between the Orthodox and non-Orthodox streams of Judaism. Biger and his Danish-born wife, a practicing Hindu whom he met during a trip to India, do not object to the Orthodox Rabbinate"s long- standing monopoly on marriages, divorces and conversions performed in Israel. "My wife doesn"t plan to convert, but if she ever changes her mind, I hope she will do so within a religious framework,"" says Biger. "In that case, I would like her to sit for half a year and study Judaism. I don"t object to the beautiful, real way to convert,"" he said, referring to Orthodoxy. "But as I said, the issue isn"t that important."" Unlike many Israelis, who have never experienced Judaism from a Reform or Conservative perspective, Biger personally knows many Conservative Jews. "I"m familiar with Conservative Judaism — about half the people in my army unit belonged to the movement — but I just don"t abide by their approach. "If I go to synagogue, and I admit that"s not often, I go to an Orthodox one and recite Orthodox prayers. I can"t relate to movements that permit people to drive to synagogue, or to smoke in one."" The Reform and Conservative movements" "obvious role in keeping North American Jews connected to Judaism,"" says Biger, "are right for America but unnecessary in Israel."" Biger"s opinions — which are shared by large numbers of Israelis — point to the very real differences between Israelis and Diaspora Jews, according to those involved in religious pluralism issues. And until these differences are addressed, they say, the gaps between Israeli and Diaspora Jews will grow even wider. "American Jews must understand that religious pluralism in Israel is different,"" says David Clayman, director of the American Jewish Congress office in Israel. "For most Israelis, religious pluralism means their right to pick and choose what they will observe of the tradition, but the tradition itself, in their view, should remain the Orthodox one. "Professor Shlomo Avineri of the Hebrew University said it very succinctly: `The shul that I don"t go to is Orthodox." "" While Reform and Conservative Jews in North America see their struggle for recognition in Israel as part of a broader fight to overcome what they perceive as religious coercion in Israel, most Israelis view things differently. According to Clayman, the majority of Israelis do not view the non-Orthodox movements as their salvation from the Rabbinate"s control over marriages and conversions, or even from such controversies as Shabbat street closures or bans on non-kosher meat. "If anything, Israelis aren"t seeking alternate religious forms,"" says Clayman. "What they"re seeking are non-religious civil ceremonies for marriage, divorce, burial, conversion. "There"s more pressure in Israel to institute civil marriage and to establish civil cemeteries than to recognize the authority of Reform and Conservative rabbis."" Ithamar Gruenwald, professor of Jewish philosophy at Tel Aviv University, maintains that Israelis" relative lack of interest in the conversion bill is actually quite natural. While American Jews are not too upset about the controversy over closing Bar Ilan Street in Jerusalem on Shabbat, "most Israelis aren"t too concerned about the conversion bill, since it doesn"t affect most of them in any significant way,"" says Gruenwald. "Really, what people ultimately care about are things affecting their own lives."" Reform movement spokeswoman Anat Galili says Israelis "have a total misunderstanding about American attitudes toward Judaism, and that"s where the gap on the conversion law comes into play."" "Growing up in Israel, you don"t have to do anything to feel Jewish. Everyone knows about Pesach and Yom Kippur because everything is closed or we learned about them in school,"" Galili said. "Israelis don"t realize that Jews in a non-Jewish environment must do something every single day to assert their Jewishness."" "And just as Israelis take their Jewishness for granted,"" Galili adds, "Americans take the separation between church and state, the concept of religious pluralism, for granted. To Israelis these are foreign concepts."" Rabbi Einat Ramon, spokeswoman for the Conservative/Masorti movement in Israel, believes that Israelis" traditional lack of enthusiasm for non-Orthodox Jewish streams stems more from ignorance than indifference and that local interest in the movements is actually starting to grow. "When the conversion bill passed its first reading in the Knesset, Israelis didn"t really understand what it all meant,"" says Ramon. "Then, all of a sudden, the journalists starting calling and the newspapers were full of articles and opinion pieces, and people started calling the talk shows. "Slowly, the conversion issue and its implications for religious pluralism in general have begun to enter the Israeli consciousness."" Ramon is optimistic that the Conservative and Reform movements will ultimately find their niche in Israeli society. But for now she acknowledges that "Israelis have very little energy for anything not related to peace. That goes for women"s issues, for poverty issues, for religious pluralism. That"s one reason we are marginalized."" Another problem, Ramon says, is the negative image many Israelis hold of the non-Orthodox streams. "There"s a great deal of misinformation in the community, in school textbooks, or the textbooks ignore us completely. Often, children are told that non-Orthodox Judaism is anti-Zionist. "Until the last government, the State of Israel never supported us, financially or otherwise, and the money the Religious Affairs Ministry earmarked for us for 1996 still hasn"t materialized. There is a great deal of antagonism coming from the government,"" Ramon says. Still, Galili maintains that there is growing interest among Israelis in the non-Orthodox streams. "There are tens of thousands of people all over Israel who are interested in non-Orthodox movements,"" she says. "Every day we receive several phone calls from those who want to support our cause, and calls from those interested in a non-Orthodox marriage ceremony or conversion. "It"s taken quite a while, but people are listening.""
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The Oakland A's have been going through a small rough patch since the All-Star break. Even though they completed the monster blockbuster trade that brought Jon Lester and Jonny Gomes to Oakland, it also sent slugger Yoenis Cespedes to the Red Sox, which has definitely hurt the A's offense. The Athletics rotation has also run into some issues and has struggled to find the strike zone. With the Los Angeles Angels only a game and half behind the Oakland A's, the green and gold are going to have to step it up to hold onto the lead.
Even though the Oakland A's have the strongest starting rotation in baseball, there have been some recent problems. The starters have a combined 5.77 ERA with a 2-5 record over the past eight games. Lester and Jason Hammel have found success this past week but Scott Kazmir and Sonny Gray, who were both terrific during the first half of the season, have struggled. Most notable is youngster ace Gray.
Gray was recently named the AL Pitcher of the Month for July but you would not know it if you watched his last performance. Gray allowed 10 hits, six earned runs, and four walks – all career highs. Over the 4.1 innings in which he pitched, it was clear that he was frustrated and that he did not have his usual command over the ball. This was by far the worst outing of his short MLB career.
Although the starting rotation has gone through a few rough spots, the Oakland A's offense has been lacking completely. Over this past series with the Tampa Bay Rays, the Athletics left 31 men on base and are only hitting .223 as a team over the past 12 games. Some of the major power hitters during the first half of the season have had 17 or more hitless at-bats since the All-Star game including John Jaso, Stephen Vogt, and Brandon Moss.
In his last ten games, Moss batted .103 with 1 RBI and 4 hits. Vogt, who was batting .387 at the end of July, is now down to a .315 AVG. And Jaso has not had a hit in the last 4 games he started. If these bats do not start connecting soon, the A's offense could be in serious trouble.
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Maybe the Oakland A's are trying to out perform to make up for the loss of Cespedes. Even though Cespedes was not consistent from time to time, he was known as the A's slugger. With no "designated" slugger, everyone could be trying make up for this void. Hopefully with Coco Crisp back leading off the lineup, a sense of norm will be re-established.
The Athletics have lost 7 of the last 15 games since the All-Star break. They made some gusty trades moves right at the deadline and fans and critics are still hesitant as to whether these moves were worth it. If the Oakland A's want to reassure their fans, they are going to have to put up a fight in order to beat out the Angels for the title of American League West Division Champions.
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Be it remembered that I, Jeremiah Sullivan, of Somersworth in the County of Strafford and State of New Hampshire, do make and publish this as and for my last will and testament, herein and hereby disposing of all my worldly estate remaining at my decease after the payment of my just debts and funeral expenses and the incidental expenses of administering my estate in manner following, that is to say
1. To each of my children, Hannah Fitzgerald, Dennis Sullivan and John Sullivan I give and bequeath the sum of Five Dollars.
2. To my wife, Mary Sullivan, I give and bequeath the use, income and control of all the remainder of my estate for and during the term of her natural life, she to support and maintain any of our children who may be minors at the time of my decease, out of the income of my estate.
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I just ran into a problem that I could not connect to MySQL on localhost. WHen changing localhost to 127.0.0.1, things worked. Than I fount that the etc\hosts file had the entry for localhost commented out.
The comment in the hosts file read: "name resolution is handled within dns itself"
Interestingly enough, a number of programs did not find this issue.
But now my question is where/how do I check that this entry is correct in the DNS service and does anyone have any idea what I need to do (other than editing localhost in the hosts file) to make this work as was intended?
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Editing the HOSTs file should be all that is needed to update ip to name resolution locally for a client system. If you need to flush out the local resolver cache, refer to ipconfig commands.
In an environment where it's just the localhost client, the local DNS Client service handles the initial resolution
- Proposed as answer by cschaar Tuesday, September 21, 2010 8:51 PM
You should give others a chance before you give up.
I have not personally come accross the issue you described where the hosts file had the localhosts entry commented out, but the way that I have resolved to ensure that "localhosts" is resolved correctly in all cases, is by creating a host (A) record entry in your foward lookup zones called "localhost" and point it to 127.0.0.1.
This will ensure that if anyone has purposely removed the localhost entry from the hosts file or if it has been commented for some reason, your DNS client will perform a lookup in the primary zone for a record called "localhost". Of course, the OS will append the domain suffix, but it wont matter since it will find it in DNS and return the correct IP. If you have more than one zone, I would create this record in each zone to ensure that all hosts are covered, no matter what domain suffix they are configured to use for DNS.
I hope that this at least partially answered your question on what can be done to mitigate this issue without having to modify the local hosts file as you requested.
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NEW YORK (TheStreet) - David Marcus' move from eBay's PayPal (EBAY) to Facebook Messenger is indicative of a power shift, according to analysts. Marcus, the former president of eBay's PayPal payments subsidiary stepped down from his position to join the Facebook (FB) team as the vice president of messaging products.
Marcus will oversee Facebook Messenger, an app featured on Facebook's desktop platform.
Marcus explained his move in a message he posted to Facebook and LinkedIn (LNKD). Marcus said that the driving force for this decision was his love for start-up creation over management.
"After leaving a world I knew well - startups, and entrepreneurship - I joined PayPal about 3 years ago through its acquisition of my company, Zong," Marcus said in the posting. "In the first instance running mobile, and eventually the leadership role at the company... I fell in love with it, its people, and the immense opportunity ahead. Going from managing a few hundred people at best in my entrepreneurial career, I suddenly found myself leading 14,000 ... I realized that my role was becoming a real management one, vs. my passion of building products that hopefully matter to a lot of people."
Laura Martin, an analyst at Needham & Company, says this move is indicative of the turnover from PayPal to Facebook. "Facebook continues to attracted top internet talents," Martin says in an interview. "This is a long term payments upside for Facebook. While Marcus is not moving into a payments position, talent with payments background will be very beneficial to Facebook's economic future."


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Nike Sportswear continues to play loose with the Blazer's Mid and High distinctions, to the point that there are two distinct versions of the silhouette currently circulating with the former designation. The less common at the moment, though a closer resemblance to the Mids as we've come to know them in recent years is exemplified in the recent Vintage Multicolor pack including Dunks and the new Bruin Mid. The other, considerably more common look is the Nike Blazer Mid Suede VNTG whose proto-outrigger and smooth toe had become synonymous with the High. But semantics don't matter all that much when we're dealing with a style as beautiful as this new Neo Turquoise suede edition, and you can see it up close for yourself before pre-ordering in advance of the January 2013 release at Inflammable.
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text: Home Gallery Print (image) Manhattan Mini Storage How to Insult Jews and Buddhists. Manhattan Mini Storage: How to Insult Jews and Buddhists. Mikal Reich, creative director at New York's Mad Injection (www.madinjection.com), a creative-only spinoff of Mad Dogs & Englishmen, has launched a clever new Published on Mar 18, 2004 Editor's Pick Mikal Reich, creative director at New York's Mad Injection (www.madinjection.com), a creative-only spinoff of Mad Dogs & Englishmen, has launched a clever new campaign for Manhattan Mini Storage, in which shelved objects talk about themselves via what look like graffitied word balloons. "It's a big deal for us and I expect will get a lot of people's dander up," said Reich, mere days before it did just that. One ad, featuring a Buddha statue saying, "My owner's a Jew . . . again," has already been pulled after an outcry from New York Jews. Not Buddhists. "My people are better complainers than Buddhists," says Reich. "Anyone offended by this ad obviously misunderstands it or is just pissed at Mel Gibson." For those who may think the ad has something to do with reincarnation, it doesn't. "The owner of this Buddha was somewhat fickle with his choice of religion," explains Reich. "This ad is based on an extremely common modern occurrence: There are many people who belong to Western religions who are exploring Eastern forms of spirituality. The intent was for people to take this ad completely in fun, as they did when Woody Allen dabbled in other religions in Hannah and Her Sisters." About the campaign in general, "Manhattanites are a special breed of people," says Reich. "Besides a true lack of space, their lives are affected by a different set of factors than anyone else's. And there's no better way to look into Manhattan's soul than by looking at the things we hold on to." As for the interesting hand-drawn headlines, "we were just trying to humanize the items as much as possible. The handwriting for each ad came out of the personality of the item. The soldier is manly, for instance, and the blowup doll is sort of bimboish. It felt stupid after a while trying to figure out how to write like a moose. All us here did the lettering. We started out just using a typeface, but we all got emotionally attached to the items and felt that they deserved more." Rate this Ad You must be registered to rate the ad. Please Login or Register Now About CreditsDateMar 18, 2004Photographer:Chris LynchArt Director/Copywriter:Mikal ReichArt Director/Copywriter:Adam KoppelArt Director/Copywriter:Ari KornblitArt Director/Copywriter:Ella WilsonCreative Director:Mikal ReichClient:Manhattan Mini StorageAgency:Mad Injection Latest Creativity News on Ad Age Droga5 Adds Creatives, Digital Kitchen Promotes Vitagliano Ad Age Wake-Up Call: Facebook Watch, Lululemon For Men and Other News to Know Today Smuggler Signs Tricklebank, Hara Joins Little Minx Related work Manhattan Mini Storage: Man and His Moose Mad Injection Manhattan Mini Storage: Small Isn't Beautiful Mad Injection IFC: Hollywood Woman Mad Injection


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Lotus owner Oanh Ha became vegan after a health scare. She wants to inspire others to make healthier food choices.
PINELLAS PARK - Who said a plant-based diet has to be bland and boring?
Oanh Ha, owner of Lotus Vegetarian Restaurant on Park Boulevard, is certainly doing a good job of doing away with that preconceived misconception. The restaurants meatless menu offers a healthy twist on authentic Vietnamese cuisine, attracting veggie lovers and carnivores alike since first opening its doors this past March.
In fact she says through the translation of her 14-year-old daughter Anna Ha people come in thinking its still China Lantern, which called the location home until it closed down last year.
Sometimes they just dont read the sign, Oanh Ha said. Usually they stay and try us out.
Her food has even convinced at least one lifelong meat-eater, that she knows of, to convert to vegetarianism, and attracted repeat customers.
Several years ago, Oanh Ha was diagnosed with cancer. Western doctors told her radiation therapy was the only treatment available.
I was scared of the side effects, she said. I didnt want to lose my hair.
So she got a second opinion from her Buddhist teacher. He recommended that she give up all animal products, adopting a vegan diet and, for a brief period, eat organic brown rice and toasted black sesame seeds on a daily basis. She decided to give his suggestions a try.
It wasnt that difficult, she said. I found that I liked it better than eating meat. Its not as heavy on your stomach.
When she saw her doctors for a check-up a few months later, they found a drastic reduction in cancer cells. They were so surprised, she said.
Thats when Oanh Ha vowed to open a vegetarian restaurant to inspire others to make better choices.
Being vegan is healthy for you, she said. I want other people to eat healthy too.
Were across the street from a Burger King and a KFC, added her daughter. People have to realize [our food] is healthier.
With no restaurant experience (the Clearwater resident worked as a seamstress at Peggy Jenning Designs in Boston) Oanh Ha had a lot of work ahead of her. She had a passion for cooking, though, and before becoming vegan had helped cook at the Buddhist temple on Sundays. But they cooked a lot of meat, she said.
Creating the menu took a lot of trial, error, and mock meat. She cooked each item on it in her home kitchen, perfecting it until it was ready for public consumption. Some favorites, she said, are the mushroom hot pot, summer rolls, lotus salad, and, of course, pho.
As one of only a handful of vegetarian restaurants not just in Pinellas County but the Tampa Bay area as a whole, Lotus is slowly building a fan base through word of mouth. Its connected with many of the areas vegetarian, animal rights, and yoga groups and organizations, which appreciate the vegan offerings. And the restaurant also hosts a popular monthly vegan buffet. The next buffet is this weekend, on Saturday, Oct. 27, starting at 6 p.m.
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" City: Oporto / Country: Portugal / World Region: Europe "
When the volcanic ash closed down European airspace for almost a week, my colleagues and I were faced with spending an unplanned weekend in Portugal about half an hour's drive from Oporto. One of my colleagues had his wife and small son with him and the little boy - Lennert - was obsessed with buses. He was a few days short of his 2nd birthday and his cries of 'bus bus bus' had made him famous amongst the fawning staff at our hotel. Everyone knew that one sure way to please this little traveller would be to take him somewhere where he could see lots of buses, and even better ride on one.
I'd been into Porto with Lennert's mum and dad earlier in the week and he'd been chirping 'bus bus bus' at every bus we'd seen. Even before we knew that I and another colleague would be staying longer than planned, it was already mapped out that Lennert and family would take the 'hop on hop off' tour bus on Saturday. We'd picked up the route maps and the service details earlier in the week, and when I realised I had to stay, I was more than happy to go and share his dream journey on the big red bus.
I've been to Porto before but it was more than 20 years ago. As an impoverished backpacker I recall going up the Clerigos tower and then getting totally lost. I was rather looking forward to catching up on a city that I'd instinctively loved so many years before.
~You Pays Your Money and You Takes Your Pick~
If you want to take a tour of Porto there are two separate bus companies offering tours. There's a locally owned 'Yellow Bus' that offers three different tours of varying durations and themes, and the 'Red Bus' which is branded as 'Sightseeing Portugal' and is owned by the company Douro Acima. I actually requested the Sightseeing Portugal Hop on Hop off bus but Ciao in their wisdom took the name off the website which I provided.
From what I can work out, the Red Bus tours seem to be some kind of international franchise because I've seen and used them in many different countries. Your final tour option is a tram tour but since Lennert wouldn't have been happy with a tram after being promised a bus, that was excluded from our options. When his mum realised that the red bus tour would mean she could get a further discount off the red bus in their
home city of Chester, she chose that we take that option. Both the yellow and red buses cost Euro12 for 48 hours.
We drove into the city and parked up in the car park beside the Bolso Palace, just a block back from the waterfront and handy for the bus stops for the tour buses. We stopped to have coffee on the waterfront and work out which tour we wanted to take. We chose the blue route which works its way around the historic district of central Porto then heads over the picturesque Luis I bridge and tours around the other bank of the Douro river through Vila Nova de Gaia, home of the city's famous port wine cellars. We thought this route would be better because it was shorter than the red route which heads all the way off to the coast along the Avenida da Boavista and works its way back along the river bank. We'd done that route in the car a few days earlier so it seemed less attractive.
~Planning on the Hoof~
So much for the best laid plans of tourists - after waiting for about 20 minutes and seeing not even a sniff of a bus, the first red bus to arrive was doing the Red Route. We'd waited long enough. Since both buses followed the same route through the city centre, we weren't too worried. If we changed our minds we could get off and grab a blue one later. We hopped on, paid our 12 Euro fee which gave us up to 48 hours to take as many buses as we wanted, and were given a small brown envelope with the plug in headset for listening to the commentary.
I had in mind a few places where I might like to get off and have a good look around. I fancied seeing some of the churches and parks but I was a bit naïve in my aspirations. I am not used to small children and the complexity of moving them around. By the time we'd got Lennert and his pushchair onto the bus and up to the top deck, getting off again and doing it all over, seemed like the last thing we wanted to do. I abandoned all thoughts of detailed sightseeing and settled back to enjoy his delighted cries of "bus bus bus" as we sailed through the streets.
~Truly Awful Music~
We plugged in our nasty little headsets and fiddled with the buttons to find the right languages - English for me, German for everyone else. And so began the most dreadful audio commentary that I've ever been exposed to. I've done a lot of these 'hop on hop off' or other bus tours over the years but this was without comparison for its sheer awfulness. Firstly there was the dreadful music droning around in the background. I'm going to guess that it was Fado since I've been told that this uniquely Portuguese music sounds a bit like a cat being tortured. When we reached a location that the recorded guide wanted to talk about her voice broke in over the music, but the music didn't get any quieter. We had to fight to hear her over the drone of the singing in the background. If you could hear what she said, it was delivered in such a flat and heavily accented manner and with no emotion or life, that we soon found we just couldn't listen to what was being said. First fight the music, and then fight the flat and soulless delivery of the history of whatever we were looking at. I was really very disappointed. I had no idea what I was looking at or why it was significant. We also had no idea how to stop the bus even if we had wanted to get off.
~And they're off~
All was not too miserable though. The weather was beautiful, little Lennert was having a ball and we were seeing plenty of the city, even if we didn't have a clue what we were looking at. We passed the Palacio da Bolso and then headed towards the city hall or Camera Municipal. I particularly enjoyed seeing the cathedral and several of the churches, especially the ones that were tiled in traditional blue and white ceramic on the exterior. We were able to see the Luis I bridge which was built by Gustave Eiffel (he of the tower!) from above, looking down on both it and the Douro river. We passed the theatre and a few more churches, looked down on some beautiful parks and a book shop that looked like a wedding cake. We passed the spectacular Peninsular War monument in which a lion represents Portugal and a large bird (an eagle I expect) represents the defeated enemy, the pair perched high up on top of a tall elegant column in the middle of a giant roundabout. We passed the Casa da Musica which I suddenly remembered from so many years before and then headed towards the coast, deciding that we would get off when we hit the Forte de Sao Francisco Xavier, which is prosaically known as the Castle of Cheese. Who could resist?
Luckily we didn't have to rush to get off by the Castle because this was a scheduled 10 minute stop for the bus. We bundled up all the baby buggy and bags and hopped off with the intention of walking along the sea front for a half mile or so, then getting beer and snacks for our rather late lunch. As we strolled along the sea-front I was amused by all the groups of elderly locals gathered on the beach to play cards. Ladies of very advanced years were happily sporting bikinis without any evidence of self-consciousness. We observed one gang of old boys who'd built an awning and set up their card tables and beer coolers for the afternoon and we wondered what they'd told their wives they were doing that afternoon. After a ten minute walk we found a bar where we'd had coffees a few days earlier and ordered some food. Just after we finished it started to rain and we moved inside, wondering if it would ever stop and realising that without doubt we'd not be getting back on the upper deck of the bus.
When we really couldn't wait any longer for it to stop, we headed back to the street to find the bus stop and waited in a shelter for the next' hop on hop off' to come by. Our journey back to the centre was firmly confined to the downstairs and we eventually got off again back where we'd started. Had we wanted to, and if the weather had been better, the red line bus would then have taken us over the bridge and along the waterfront to all of the port wine cellars but Lennert was getting tired and his mum was getting hungry so we called it a day.
~Worth it or not?~
Undoubtedly if you don't have your own transport and you have two full days to spare, the bus tour will give you a chance to see pretty much all that Porto has to offer. If you do have transport, you could do most of it quite easily on your own by driving to the more distant stops and by walking around the centre of the town. The tour doesn't give you much help in identifying what's worth seeing and what isn't which is a shame - you learn only what you are seeing as you pass it, by which time it's a bit too late to decide you want to hop off. All could have been solved with a bit of thought and a pamphlet to describe what you could visit from each stop along the way. Due to the relatively infrequent service (they go approximately every 30 minutes) you may well spend a lot of time standing around just waiting for the next bus. At 12 Euros for the two days, it's one of the least expensive of these tours that I've seen in Europe. However, with such a dreadful commentary, you may well need to buy yourself a good guidebook and do a lot of research beforehand in order to get proper value out of the tour.


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Auto sector firms seek aerospace customers
Shelley Fellows doesn't work in agriculture, but she understands the benefits that can be reaped from planting seeds.
Fellows' company, Radix Inc., is among seven local auto sector firms promoting their wares at a two-day Canadian Aerospace Summit in Ottawa, which wraps up today (Dec. 6).
In partnership with the Aerospace Industry Association of Canada, Auto21, an auto research program headquartered at the University of Windsor, organized the automotive presence at the summit.
"Canada's auto industry is fast and highly disciplined on cost, quality and reliability," said Peter Frise, Auto21 CEO and scientific director. "These same attributes are valued in the aerospace sector. Many of the latest automotive technologies could transition to use in aerospace components or factories."
The goal for companies, like Radix, is to diversify their customer base by expanding into other sectors, such as the aerospace industry.
"We feel the things we do for auto to improve quality and efficiency, those same capabilities can be used by the aerospace sector," said Fellows, whose company provides advanced technology solutions for the manufacturing sector, including monitoring systems for automated assembly operations that produce everything from auto parts to Gummi Bears.
"Getting an order from a potential customer from the time you first meet them can take up to a year," said Fellows. "In aerospace, wheels turn even more slowly. That's why it's important to plant and nurture seeds at these events."
The summit features the opportunity to connect with the big names in aerospace, including Bombardier, Boeing, General Electric, and Pratt and Whitney.
"Given today's race for technological improvement and productivity, we are seeing a dramatic increase in opportunities for collaboration between aerospace companies and sectors such as the auto industry that own emerging technologies and manufacturing processes that could be integrated to the aerospace supply chain," said Jim Quick, president of the AIAC. "These kinds of partnerships will be key to maintaining our competitive edge, and partnering with Auto21 at the Canadian Aerospace Summit has been tremendously effective way to build these connections, for the benefit of both the aerospace and automotive industries."