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A look at the newly elected U.S. senators from Tuesday's election:
Republican Jeff Flake, the congressman who won Arizona's open U.S. Senate seat, built his reputation on a fierce opposition to "earmarks," the special funding requests for roads, bridges and other local pet projects that are criticized as wasteful patronage.
His opposition to pork-barrel spending has proved popular in the past, but Flake faced criticism during the race to succeed retiring Republican Sen. Jon Kyl that his crusade has hurt efforts to attract new businesses to the state.
"Arizona is far better without earmarks," a confident Flake said during an October debate.
Flake, who has represented cities in eastern metro Phoenix in Congress since 2000, won the Senate seat over independent-turned-Democrat Richard Carmona, who served as President George W. Bush's surgeon general.
Before Carmona entered the race a year ago, both parties viewed Flake as the overwhelming favorite. The contest grew more competitive after Flake emerged from a bruising primary against a wealthy businessman who put $6 million of his own money into the race and outside groups threw in about $15 million into the general-election contest in October.
Flake has supported Republican priorities over the years, but also has sided with Democrats on other issues.
In the past, Flake opposed the rescue of financial firms during Bush's administration, the 2010 health care overhaul and the 2009 economic stimulus package. He has applauded the Obama administration's decision to lift a ban on travel and remittances to Cuba.
Flake has been criticized for changing his immigration views. He supported proposals in the past that would have revamped guest-worker programs and created a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants. But he took a narrower position when he announced his Senate candidacy last year, saying voters won't trust government to fix the nation's immigration woes unless it can first secure the U.S.-Mexico border.
When Connecticut Democrat Chris Murphy neared the end of his victory speech in a bruising U.S. Senate race Tuesday night, he returned to the story of his mother rising out of poverty and what the election meant for a fictional girl living in a public housing complex.
The three-term U.S. congressman said voters gave the girl a better chance at a brighter future.
"She's wondering whether that promise that was made to my mother — work hard, play by the rules and you'll have a chance to make it — is still alive," he said. "She's going to wake up tomorrow and know that that chance to be great ... is just a little bit closer. And in the end my friends, that is the most important measurement of what we've done here tonight."
Murphy defeated Republican former wrestling executive Linda McMahon in the race to succeed retiring independent Sen. Joe Lieberman, touting his commitment to the middle class and accusing McMahon of favoring the rich. In the process, he survived McMahon spending $42 million of her own money, $8 million short of what she spent in her unsuccessful bid for Senate in 2010.
He also survived McMahon's attacks on his past financial problems, which included late mortgage and property tax payments, despite McMahon's own bankruptcy years ago.
His victory was part of Democrats' sweep of five congressional races in Connecticut.
Murphy, who served eight years in the state legislature before going to Congress, said his priorities include reforming the tax code to help small businesses, promoting and strengthening American manufacturing, rebuilding roads and rails, improving education and growing the renewable energy industry. He agrees with President Barack Obama on most social and economic issues.
Bridging the bitter divide between Democrats and Republicans in Washington has been another of his goals. He is a co-chairman of the Center Aisle Caucus, a bipartisan group of House members trying to promote civility and positive dialogue in Congress.
While campaigning for U.S. Senate, U.S. Rep. Mazie Hirono rarely shied away from fierce support of Democrats and consistent criticism of Republicans, arguing that her party's stances better reflect the values of Hawaii.
Now, after trouncing former Hawaii Gov. Linda Lingle, Hirono is embracing her standing as the state's first woman to serve as senator and the Senate's first Asian-American woman.
Hirono told The Associated Press after winning Tuesday night that the historical footnote says more about the makeup of the country's electoral pipeline.
"What it reflects is that we need a lot more diversity in the United States Senate," said Hirono, who was born in Fukushima, Japan. "I'm going to do my part to support more women to run for Congress and certainly support more minority candidates."
Hirono, 65, moved to Hawaii with her mother in 1955, then went on to practice law in Honolulu before she was elected to the Hawaii Legislature in 1980. She was elected as lieutenant governor in 1994 and 1998, then lost a governor's race to Lingle in 2002. She was elected to the U.S. House in 2006, and is generally considered one of its more liberal members.
Hirono ran on a platform of stopping Lingle as a representative of national Republican interests. At every turn in the race, Hirono linked her opponent with well-known GOP names including Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan and George W. Bush.
Hirono held court for Democrats in a state known to support the party. President Barack Obama topped the ticket for Democrats in his birth state in his bid for re-election.
While Hirono didn't win as much support as Obama in the state, she beat Lingle with nearly 62 percent of the vote compared with nearly 37 percent for Lingle.
Hirono has followed other Democrats on several issues, including Obama's jobs plan and health care reform.
Democrat Joe Donnelly is a three-term congressman from northern Indiana who ran as a centrist highlighting his support for extending the George W. Bush-era tax cuts while fending off attacks over his support for the federal health care overhaul.
He was born in Massapequa, N.Y., and received bachelor's and law degrees from the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind. He worked as an attorney and ran a printing business before defeating Republican Rep. Chris Chocola in 2006. He had lost to Chocola him two years earlier.
Donnelly entered the U.S. Senate race after GOP-controlled redistricting moved a couple strong Republican counties into what had been a swing district.
The Senate race turned in Donnelly's favor after Republican Richard Mourdock said in a debate that pregnancies resulting from rape are something "God intended." Donnelly, meanwhile, twice supported a bill that would have denied federal abortion funding even in cases of rape and incest.
Donnelly positioned himself during the campaign as a bipartisan problem-solver against the tea party-backed Mourdock, who defeated longtime Sen. Richard Lugar in a contentious Republican primary.
Donnelly, 57, and his wife, Jill, have two children.
When asked about his vote of the federal health care law, he told the story of his daughter, who takes Enbrel for her rheumatoid arthritis, at a price tag of $1,500 a month. Donnelly says he worried about people who can barely pay their rent being able to afford such drugs.
"How do they make it so their daughter doesn't have to go in a shower stiffened up every single day, as opposed to being able to get this prescription?" he said.
Independent Angus King may be just starting out in his new role as a U.S. senator, but he's long been a well-known figure in Maine whose independent politics have been his calling card.
The 68-year-old King was Maine's governor for two terms between 1995 and 2003, establishing credentials as someone who could work with both parties. Before that he spent 18 years as a public broadcasting commentator on state public policy issues.
Angus Stanley King Jr. was born in Alexandria, Va., grew up there in a politically active family, and after law school at the University of Virginia came to Maine as a lawyer serving low-income people.
He later went to work for William Hathaway, the Democrat who ousted entrenched Republican Sen. Margaret Chase Smith from her Senate seat. Hathaway's election in 1972 led to King's appointment to staff of the Senate Labor Committee.
With King's 2012 election, he returns to the national political stage — only on a different level. Then, he was refining policy. Now, he's in a position to shape policy in a much more polarized environment, said Rutgers University political science professor Ross Baker.
Asked whether King will have any influence in Washington, Baker said, "Just ask Joe Lieberman," referring to the Connecticut independent who is retiring. "Independents have a huge impact."
Being independent wasn't always easy, but King made it work.
He walked into a state government on rocky fiscal ground in which cutbacks were required to keep the books balanced. But gradually, as the economy improved, state tax revenues poured in beyond anticipated levels.
King was involved in hydropower and energy conservation work before running for governor, and after serving got involved in wind power. He sold his stake in the wind company when he ran for Senate.
On the campaign trail, Democrat Elizabeth Warren told supporters she never envisioned jumping into the rough and tumble of electoral politics — let alone making the U.S. Senate the object of her first campaign.
Now the 63-year-old is preparing for the transition from the upper echelons of academia at Harvard Law School to the halls of Washington, where she will occupy the seat once held by Democratic Sen. Edward M. Kennedy.
Warren was born in Oklahoma City on what she has called "the ragged edge of the middle class." Her father sold carpeting and worked as a maintenance man and her mother answered phones at Sears. Her first job was waiting tables in her aunt's Mexican restaurant when she was 13.
She became a teacher after earning a bachelor's degree from the University of Houston in 1970. Six years later she earned a law degree from Rutgers University and began a career as a law professor, going on to become a pre-eminent expert in the fields of bankruptcy and commercial law.
She came to prominence nationally following the financial collapse of 2008, when she was tapped to serve as chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, which authorized the U.S. Treasury to spend $700 billion to stabilize the economy.
She pushed for the creation of a new federal agency to hold the nation's largest financial institutions accountable by protecting consumers from "tricks and traps" hidden in mortgages, credit cards and other products.
She then turned her sights on the U.S. Senate, announcing she would challenge Republican incumbent U.S. Sen. Scott Brown, who won a special election in 2010 to fill the seat left vacant by Kennedy's death.
The massively expensive race, the most costly in state history, turned harsh at times, with Brown charging that Warren had used her claims of Native American heritage to help her academic career.
The two remained neck and neck in public opinion polls until Election Day, when voters handed Warren a 54 percent to 46 percent margin over Brown, making her the first woman in Massachusetts elected to serve in the U.S. Senate.
Republican Deb Fischer's rise from little-known rancher and state senator to Nebraska's U.S. senator-elect completes the deeply conservative state's move to full Republican domination — just one goal of the rock-ribbed conservative.
Fischer, 61, handed Democrat Bob Kerrey his first loss in Nebraska, handily defeating the former governor and two-term U.S. senator in a race that had been perceived as close.
Friends and political strategists have said Fischer's success was a combination of hard campaigning in some of Nebraska's most isolated hamlets, her appeal as a conservative rancher, and a flood of outside money that paid for relentless television ads attacking first her better-known and better-funded primary opponents, then Kerrey in the general election.
"I look around this room and I see so many volunteers who helped with this campaign from the beginning," Fischer said Tuesday night in her victory speech. "You folks were here for me when we weren't given much of a chance at all. We formed a great grassroots organization, we worked hard, and, hey, we're here today."
When Fischer announced her Senate campaign 16 months ago at an Omaha steakhouse, only a few dozen people showed up — mostly reporters, Fischer family members and a smattering of campaign aides. But her star power was heightened in the subsequent months.
Fischer's colleagues in the Legislature have described her as a tough lawmaker and an unwavering advocate for her overwhelmingly rural district — the largest geographically in the state — in north-central Nebraska.
Speaker of the Legislature Mike Flood, a Republican who came into office the same year as Fischer, said he could tell Fischer was "tough as nails" when they met during an orientation for freshman lawmakers.
"It didn't take me very long to figure out she was in it to achieve great things," Flood said. "She does not back down. She does not squirm. She looks you straight in the eye to tell you what she's going to do, and she works with people to get it done."
Fischer credited her win to her boots-on-the-ground campaign, in which she put 45,000 miles on her car traveling rural Nebraska during the primary campaign, and the support of popular of Republicans like Gov. Dave Heineman and U.S. Sen. Mike Johanns in the general campaign.
Democrats held onto both of New Mexico's Senate seats Tuesday with election of one of the state's fast-rising political stars, Martin Heinrich.
The 41-year-old, two-term representative in the U.S. House defeated Republican Heather Wilson for the seat being vacated by retiring Democrat Jeff Bingaman.
It is the second time in four years New Mexicans have elected a new senator, after Bingaman and Republican Pete Domenici held the state's two seats for more than 30 years.
In 2008, Democrat Tom Udall, a former congressman and state attorney general, was elected to replace Domenici.
The themes of this year's Senate campaign mirrored many of those in the presidential race. Heinrich portrayed himself as a defender of the middle class and safety net programs such as Medicare and Social Security. But Wilson blamed Democratic policies for job losses and the nation's sputtering economy. She opposed President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, which Heinrich supported.
Heinrich, 41, has quickly climbed up the ranks in New Mexico politics. He moved to the state in 1995 to take a job at a federal research facility after earning an engineering degree from the University of Missouri. He started a public affairs consulting business and in 2003 won a seat on the Albuquerque city council. Three years later he became state natural resources trustee, an appointive state government job overseeing the restoration of environmentally contaminated areas.
He took the seat vacated by Wilson when she made her first unsuccessful run for Senate in 2008, becoming the first Democrat to win the Albuquerque-area district in 40 years.
Heinrich grew up in Missouri, where his father was a utility company lineman and his mother was a factory worker. He and his wife, Julie, have two children.
Democrat Heidi Heitkamp's ascension to the U.S. Senate, as the first woman ever to serve North Dakota in Congress, represents the capstone of a political career that began 28 years and six campaigns ago.
The former North Dakota attorney general and tax commissioner defeated Republican Rick Berg on Tuesday by about 3,000 votes, with all precincts reporting. Berg had the option of demanding a recount, but he conceded the race Wednesday.
Heitkamp, 57, grew up in the rural southeastern North Dakota hamlet of Mantador, one of seven children. Her brother, Joel Heitkamp, is a former North Dakota Democratic state senator and a popular talk show host on Fargo's KFGO Radio.
An attorney, Heitkamp was working as an assistant attorney general for the state Tax Department when she ran for North Dakota state auditor in 1984. She lost, but Gov. George Sinner appointed her state tax commissioner two years later when the incumbent, Kent Conrad, was elected to the U.S. Senate.
Heitkamp won her own term as tax commissioner in 1988, and subsequently was elected to two terms as attorney general, getting at least 62 percent of the vote in all three races. Voters warmed to her affable, glad-handing campaigning style and often blunt public speaking style.
As attorney general, Heitkamp was one of the lead negotiators of a $206 billion lawsuit settlement reached by 46 states with the nation's largest tobacco companies to compensate the states' medical expenses for treating smoking-related illnesses.
She ran for governor in 2000 but lost to Republican John Hoeven, the former president of the state-owned Bank of North Dakota, in a campaign that was derailed late by Heitkamp's disclosure that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer. She says she is now cancer-free.
Heitkamp stayed active in politics after her loss, helping to lead a referendum campaign against the weakening of North Dakota's bank privacy laws, and a ballot initiative campaign to force the Legislature to spend a larger portion of North Dakota's share of the tobacco lawsuit settlement on anti-smoking measures.
She has vehemently disagreed with what she describes as President Barack Obama's hostility to coal and oil as energy sources.
Ted Cruz's election to the U.S. Senate from overwhelmingly Republican Texas was once unthinkable. Now it feels almost anti-climactic.
The tea party darling and former state solicitor general beat Democrat Paul Sadler to replace retiring Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison. But his sweetest victory came in the GOP primary, when he stunned Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, one of the state's most-powerful Republicans.
Never before having sought elective office, Cruz began the race polling at 2 percent. His father was born in Cuba and fought with Fidel Castro before his government embraced communism, then fled for Texas with $100 sewn into his underwear.
Cruz was born in Canada while his parents were there working in the oil fields. He refuses to say if he holds dual U.S.-Canadian citizenship.
Cruz became a debate champion while at Princeton and has a law degree from Harvard. His fiery, populist oratory made him a grassroots favorite and he spent than two years shaking hands with pastors during Bible study groups at Denny's, chatting up Republican women's gatherings around the state, and attending dozens of candidate forums Dewhurst skipped.
Dewhurst had the support of the state's conservative establishment, including popular Republican Gov. Rick Perry, had overseen the state Senate since 2003, and poured more than $20 million of his own personal fortune into his campaign.
It wasn't enough. Cruz convinced tea party activists that his opponent was a closet moderate because Dewhurst sometimes comprised with Democrats in the state Legislature to get key bills approved.
Cruz's primary win vaulted him into the national spotlight. He spoke at the Republican National Convention and became a regular on national political talk shows. He has since moved hard to the center and mended fences with the Texas Republican mainstream — even attending fundraisers with Dewhurst and Perry.
Cruz is the first Hispanic from Texas to be elected to the U.S. Senate.
Virginia Sen.-elect Tim Kaine almost stumbled into politics, but reached elite levels in the Democratic Party nationally with a diverse partisan pedigree.
The son of an Overland Park, Kan., ironworker, Kaine easily could have become a Republican. At Harvard Law School, he met the daughter of A. Linwood Holton, Virginia's first GOP governor since Reconstruction. They married and moved to Richmond, Va.
"For me, bipartisanship begins at home," Kaine says at nearly every public appearance.
Beliefs forged of his Roman Catholic upbringing and a year as a missionary in Honduras led him into a law practice focused on civil rights, and that morphed into Democratic politics. He won a Richmond City Council seat in 1994 and served as mayor for a term.
He entered statewide politics unexpectedly only after state Sen. Emily Couric, the sister of Katie Couric, was forced to abandon her bid for lieutenant governor after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Kaine took her spot on the Democratic ticket and was elected in 2001. Four years later, he was elected to succeed fellow Democrat Mark Warner, making Kaine Virginia's first Catholic governor.
In February 2007, Kaine hitched his future to the longshot presidential bid of U.S. Sen. Barack Obama and became the first statewide elected official outside Obama's home state Illinois to endorse him.
The morning after Obama's 2008 election, Kaine huddled with a gaggle of reporters on the Virginia Capitol lawn and, when asked what positions he'd consider in Obama's administration, flatly ruled out serving as Democratic National Committee chairman. Less than two months later, he began a two-year stretch in that very position, one of those years shared with final year as governor.
Kaine had intended to stay in the job through Obama's first term, but when Democratic Sen. Jim Webb announced he would not seek re-election in February 2011, Kaine faced heavy pressure from within his party to run against another former governor, Republican George Allen, and keep the seat — and possibly control of the Senate — in Democratic hands.
With Obama's blessing, Kaine handed his DNC duties over to U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and began reassembling the campaign team from his 2005 gubernatorial victory.
Ironically, Kaine capitalized on partisan gridlock in Congress to portray Allen as a brutish, uncompromising partisan who once exhorted fellow Republicans to knock the Democrats' "soft teeth down their whiny throats."
Tammy Baldwin is used to firsts. And while her victory in Wisconsin's Senate race doesn't break ground for Democrats — the seat has been under their control since 1957 — it does mark the first time the state has elected a woman to the Senate. She is also the first openly gay candidate ever elected to the Senate.
In 1998, she became the first woman from Wisconsin elected to the U.S. House.
Baldwin defeated former Gov. Tommy Thompson, who many people thought would walk away with the Senate race given his deep connection with Wisconsin and voters after serving as a popular governor for 14 years.
Baldwin ran a disciplined and well-funded campaign, turning the tide on the race in the weeks after the mid-August Republican primary that Thompson won but left his campaign broke and him admittedly exhausted.
Consistently ranked among the most liberal members of Congress, Baldwin served seven terms representing the capital city of Madison before running for the Senate seat vacated by the retiring Sen. Herb Kohl.
Baldwin, 50, was born to a teenage mother and raised by her grandparents. When she was 9, she was struck with an illness that put her in the hospital for three months. Her grandparents didn't have insurance for her and made huge sacrifices to pay her medical bills, she said.
Baldwin has spent most of her adult life in politics. She was first elected to the Dane County Board at age 24, just two years after she graduated from Smith College with a double major in political science and mathematics.
From there she was elected as the youngest woman ever to the state Assembly, at age 30. She served three terms before going to Congress in 1999. She was re-elected with more than 60 percent of the vote every two years since 2002.
Baldwin has been a staunch supporter of President Barack Obama's health care reform law, even advocating for more government control and a single payer system before she ran for office. During the campaign, she said she would focus on making sure the law as passed is implemented and not seek a broadening of its scope.
Compiled by Associated Press writers Jacques Billeaud, Dave Collins, Oskar Garcia, Tom Davies, Glenn Adams, Steve LeBlanc, Margery A. Beck, Jeri Clausing, Dale Wetzel, Will Weissert, Bob Lewis and Scott Bauer.


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Bungled branding of the new Windows Live Internet services has hurt Microsoft and could affect its chance to play catch-up with Google, analysts said on Friday. On Thursday, Microsoft lowered its sales forecast for its Internet services business for the full year from 11 percent to between 3 percent and 8 percent. It also acknowledged that its search market share has dropped. Windows Live Search saw its searches drop nearly 10 percent from a year ago, while Google's rose more than 22 percent, according to figures released this week from Nielsen/NetRatings. Google has 50.8 percent market share, followed by Yahoo at 23.6 percent and Microsoft with only 8.4 percent.

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Like a child on Christmas eve, I could hardly wait to hear my fate after my final interview with the Director of Operations at MIGA. The MIGA Professionals Program (MPP) was exactly what I wanted, a perfect fit of my technical skills and interests, but I was aware that it was a highly competitive process in which hundreds of applicants are whittled down to one offer per department in the end. Thus I cannot exaggerate just how thrilled I was to receive the call offering me the position of Underwriter after a series of interviews. And so began my voyage to the US to start my new job rather enthusiastically.
The MPP is designed to attract new and diverse talent, under the age of 35, to the agency. Recruitment for the next group on MPPs will begin by the end of October 2011. For me, the most attractive element of the program was that MPPs work as full members of their teams and as such there is hardly a distinction between MPPs and regular staff. The program's eligibility criteria stipulate a minimum of a post-graduate degree and five years work experience. That way recruits are expected to hit the ground running, applying previously gained commercial skills in the development arena as in my case.
As an MPP, I have been exposed to global projects and I have had the opportunity to meet and work with teams across the World Bank's multiple units. In my first week I sat two seats away from the president of the Bank, Robert Zoellick, as he sat in the cafeteria eating a sandwich. A few days later I attended the farewell party of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, former Managing Director at the Bank who was leaving to take up a ministerial post in Nigeria. The recently appointed Managing Director of the IMF Christine Lagarde was there and I reflected on the weight she has on her new-to-the-job shoulders given the state of the global economy. While they may be economic celebrities to many of us, these are also the people who have the responsibility of getting things right – promoting development and reducing poverty. No small task, and humbling.
It has been a great time to join the the agency following a year that saw $2.1 billion in new investment guarantees (insurance) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2011; an astonishing 43 percent increase from the previous year! It is an entrepreneurial-based culture and is a remarkable foundation for me to launch a career in development and foreign direct investment. My work as an underwriter is inextricably linked to MIGA's mission to promote foreign direct investment into developing countries. I am able to apply my skills gained from my former career in investment banking towards helping support economic growth, reduce poverty, and improve people's lives through projects that create jobs, provide electricity, and help countries utilize natural resources in an environmentally sustainable way. I have recently been involved in projects ranging from a transmission line expansion in Brazil to further stabilize the power supply in the country, a hydropower plant in Nicaragua that is forecast to provide 27 percent of the country's electricity to various high profile projects across Africa.
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Amanda Bynes Arrested for DUI
Amanda Bynes was arrested for DUI early Friday morning (April 6) in West Hollywood, Calif.
The 26-year-old actress allegedly "was attempting to pass a cop car … when she sideswiped the vehicle. She was pulled over and cops determined she was not fit to be behind the wheel," according to TMZ, which also obtained her mugshot (pictured).
Amanda was arrested at 3 a.m.; at the time TMZ broke the story, she was still behind bars. Her bail was set at $5,000.
The website also reports that Amanda was pulled over last month for talking on a cell phone. She allegedly drove away while the officer was writing her up. She later stopped by the police station and signed the ticket.


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Located in the centre of Singapore, this family-friendly hotel is within a 10-minute walk of Esplanade Theatres and Singapore Flyer. Raffles City and Asian Civilisations Museum are also within 15 minutes. Esplanade Station is 10 minutes by foot and Promena Station is 10 minutes.
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In addition to a full-service spa, Mandarin Oriental, Singapore features an outdoor pool and a health club. Dining is available at one of the hotel's 5 restaurants, and guests can grab a coffee at the coffee shop/café. Guests can unwind with a drink at one of the hotel's bars, which include 2 bars/lounges and A poolside bar. A computer station is located on-site, and wired and wireless Internet access is available at a surcharge.
This 5-star property offers access to a business centre and meeting rooms. Event facilities measuring 6448 square feet (599 square metres) include conference rooms. This luxury hotel also offers a kid's pool, multilingual staff and concierge services. Complimentary valet parking is available on-site.
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The Spa has 4 treatment rooms, including rooms for couples. Services include hot stone massages, facials, body scrubs and body treatments. A variety of treatment therapies are provided, including aromatherapy.
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Sunday, May 22, 2016
Urinary incontinence occurs when the urinary system can't properly control the storage of urine in the bladder and its periodic release. An adult who becomes incontinent will involuntarily release urine before finding a toilet, and sometimes even before knowing the bladder is emptying.
There are many possible treatments for incontinence, depending on the cause and the condition of the patient. In some cases, medication is available. At other times, the patient can be taught exercises and behavioral techniques to deal with the condition. Surgical procedures and medical devices are also available for correcting or managing the problem. Here are some of the various ways the condition can be addressed:
Oral medication is the initial course of treatment for urge incontinence. Oxybutynin chloride (brand name Ditropan), tolterodine (Detrol) and imipramine (Tofranil), an antidepressant, all work by relaxing the bladder. Side effects of all three can include dry mouth, dry eyes, constipation, blurred vision and, occasionally, the complete inability to urinate. The medication is not appropriate for patients with glaucoma. Ask your physician if medication is right for you.
Sometimes simple exercises and behavioral changes can treat or at least improve urinal incontinence.
If a patient is incontinent due to an overactive bladder, "time voiding" is a learned technique for emptying the bladder before it has a chance to overflow. The patient is taught to urinate on a tight schedule, whether or not the need is felt. Generally, the patient begins by urinating at intervals of as little as an hour and gradually increases the intervals to as long as every four hours if no accidents occur.
Kegel exercises involve strengthening of the pelvic floor muscles, which are the sling of muscles that support the bladder, uterus and rectum. These are the muscles you use for stopping your urinary stream in mid-flow. The patient is taught how to tighten and release those muscles, gradually strengthening them.
There are a variety of surgical options for controlling all forms of urinary incontinence. Since all surgery has its risks - especially when the patient is older - it usually is considered only after all other options have been tried. Here are several of the most widely used procedures:
There are many procedures for treating urinary incontinence, most of which work by elevating the weakened bladder neck and repositioning the angle between the bladder neck and the urethra. The surgery is usually performed after making an incision in either the abdomen or the vagina under a local or general anesthesia.
The patient typically uses a catheter for at least a few days after surgery, and on rare occasions for as long as three months if the patient is able to urinate normally. The prognosis for success with this type of surgery is generally good, but your physician can give you a better idea of prognosis and your probable recovery time. Older women tend to experience more complications and are generally less responsive to this type of surgery.
This can be an effective treatment of stress incontinence for both men and women. Others whose condition can be improved with the artificial urinary sphincter include patients with spinal bifida, spinal cord injuries, and incontinence as a result of pelvic trauma, prostate surgery, or poor urethral function in women as a result of radiation therapy and failed surgical procedures for incontinence.
It involves having a silicone rubber device implanted so that it surrounds the base of the bladder. The device contains liquid that inflates and deflates much as an actual sphincter would contract and expand, but with a pump control that's placed in the male scrotum or the female labia. When inflated, the device seals off the neck of the bladder. When the patient wishes to urinate, he or she manually diverts the liquid from the sphincter to the balloon reservoir, allowing the bladder to empty. The sphincter then refills in three to five minutes, once more sealing off the bladder.
This protein is perhaps best known as the material injected into lips to give them a more supple appearance. Collagen can similarly be used to bulk up the urethra, increasing its resistance in patients whose incontinence is caused by a weakening of the urethra.
When the problem is in the electrical impulse that sends the signal from nerve ending in the bladder to the brain, surgeons may implant a device that stimulates the nerve endings that control bladder function. This is a very promising new treatment for urge incontinence.
Today's adult diapers are thin, hard to detect, and provide a sanitary barrier. They can be used in tandem with other treatment methods or instead of other options, especially when the patient is too frail for surgery and other methods have been ineffective.
This article is a NetWellness exclusive.
Last Reviewed: May 14, 2007
Formerly, Professor of Urology
School of Medicine
Case Western Reserve University


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Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said at a government meeting yesterday that the state should begin selling grain from stockpiles to stabilize supplies on the domestic market. The decision is attempting to blunt the effect of an "extremely meager harvest" in Russia, said Jenia Ustinova, an analyst at Eurasia Group in Washington.
"The government is definitely grappling with how to best rein in inflation," she said by e-mail. "The decision to start grain interventions is probably at least in part linked to that effort."
The central bank's bias toward tighter monetary policy contradicts their acknowledgment that consumer-price growth is driven by food and regulated tariffs, said Vladimir Miklashevsky, a Helsinki-based economist at Danske Bank A/S.
Political Pressure
"Bank Rossii is indicating they are ready to hike again during the fourth quarter," he said in an e-mailed response to questions. "They also realize true reasons for inflation and its non-monetary character, but Bank Rossii is under political pressure to act."
The world's largest energy exporter will probably grow 3.5 percent this year, less than the 4.3 percent pace in the previous two years, according to the Economy Ministry. Retail sales, a measure of the household consumption that accounts for about half the Russian economy, advanced 4.3 percent in August, the weakest level in 29 months.
"We're seeing a slowdown, not just in agriculture, but also in consumption and investment," Anton Struchenevsky, an economist at OAO Sberbank's investment banking unit in Moscow, said by telephone. "The lack of monetary factors of inflation and slowing growth created the conditions for leaving rates."
Inflation Target
Bank Rossii is now targeting an inflation range of 5 percent to 6 percent for next year, the same as for 2012 and a half-point higher than the earlier target, according to a medium-term monetary-policy strategy published yesterday. Policy makers will seek to contain consumer-price growth at 4 percent to 5 percent in 2014 and 2015.
Central bank First Deputy Chairman Alexei Ulyukayev said Oct. 2 that inflation risks remain greater than the threat of an economic slowdown.
"The central bank roughly knew what inflation would be in September, so it raised rates," said Julia Tsepliaeva, head of research at BNP Paribas in Moscow, said by telephone."That was three weeks ago, and raising again after just three weeks would be foolish."
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WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. -- The public is encouraged to take part in a public meeting on Monday, Aug. 7 that could determine the fate of the mostly vacant White Plains Mall, according to lohud.com.
The hearing will focus on a proposed land-use change that would transform the 70s era mall into a mixed-use development of retail and residential under the new Transit Development District zoning, lohud added. It will be held at White Plains City Hall.
To make the changes, the developer, W.P. Mall Reality, is requesting a zoning change to move forward, said lohud.
If approved, the development could mean a huge step forward in reinventing the entire train station area, they added.
During a meeting earlier in July, the developer's environmental impact statement was approved, if the zoning changes are accepted, the mall's owner would still need to submit a final site plan for approval, lohud reported.
The project comes after the city used a $1 million state grant to study the area and create the new Transit District zoning to help make the area more of a destination which was both family-friendly and businesses, said lohud.
Currently, the mall is home to a Department of Motor Vehicles office, a hardware store, a restaurant, and several other businesses.
If approved, the project would get underway in about two to three years.
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On May 9, 1975, a Senate committee chaired by Frank Church subpoenaed acting CIA director William Colby during an investigation of intelligence agencies. Colby (after practice sessions with President Gerald Ford's chief of staff, Donald Rumsfeld) was grilled about US covert operations, illegal assassinations and domestic spying abuses. The stunning revelations of the Church Committee hearings were followed by several years of rigorous Congressional oversight and reform legislation.
How can progressives best grab the momentum from the November elections to promote bold initiatives to end illegal war, fight poverty and inequality, and rein in the corporations that are destroying our democracy? Congressional oversight hearings could be one critical tool. And that's not as boring as it sounds.
Members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus are in line to chair ten of the twenty standing House committees and as many as thirty-five subcommittees. If they are media savvy and work creatively with activists and affected communities, they could turn humdrum hearings into blockbuster investigations that wrench the nation's attention away from Britney and Paris (not the city) and onto the pressing matters of our time. And while the Democrats' narrow majority will make it difficult to pass very much progressive legislation in the 110th Congress, well-designed hearings could lay the foundation for significant reforms in the medium and long term.
While impeachment may be "off the table," Congress has a duty to investigate executive-branch misconduct to insure that such abuses of power never occur again. The wider public will be repulsed if Democrats appear to copycat GOP partisanship with vindictive investigations rather than solutions to the nation's urgent problems. Thus, rather than going for Bush's jugular, the House and Senate Judiciary Committees will probably first take up the matter of "signing statements"–the President's practice of indicating the provisions of new laws he doesn't intend to enforce–which effectively undermine Congressional legislative intent and powers. This will wisely begin the process of laying out, case by case, the unconstitutional usurpation of power without deflecting media coverage from other urgent matters.
I have received hundreds of suggestions for hearings (add yours at www.ips-dc.org/hearings) and have filtered the ideas through the following strategic prisms: Do they advance a bold progressive vision and connect to organized movements? Do they tell dramatic human-interest stories and lay the groundwork for progressive policy victories? Do they look forward and showcase new ideas but also put irresponsible corporations and the Bush agenda on the defensive? What follows are ten proposed hearings, culled from the suggestions of others and my own investigations, that would underscore the important progressive narrative that "we are all in this together" and expose the greed and selfish corporate interests undermining our common good.


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Man arrested after accepting packages of marijuana mailed to Manchester address
September 04. 2013 11:37AM
MANCHESTER – A man is under arrest after police say he was the recipient of four pounds of marijuana delivered by the U.S. Postal Service (USPS).
Bertrand Brouillard, 53, who when arrested produced a California identification but once listed his address as 233 Prospect St., Manchester, was arrested within moments of accepting the delivery of two packages containing the drugs, police said.
Officers assisted USPS with an investigation into a suspicious package to be delivered to 247 Pearl St. A police dog indicated the packages contained drugs, and police set up surveillance when the packages were delivered to the address.
Investigators said Brouillard met the delivery person outside the address and, after he accepted the packages, police arrested him.
Lt. Maureen Tessier said it is unclear what connection, if any, Brouillard had to the Pearl Street address.
Brouillard is charged with possession of a controlled drug with intent to distribute.
Brouillard could enter no plea to the felony at his arraignment Wednesday in 9th Circuit Court, Manchester District Division, so a probable cause hearing was set for Sept. 17.
Brouillard asked for personal recognizance bail, saying: "I've always come to answer my charges."


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Same tick, different diseasesBy SHAWNE K. WICKHAM
New Hampshire Sunday News
July 20. 2013 9:23PM
Public health officials in New Hampshire are monitoring two emerging diseases - spread by the same tick that carries Lyme disease - that are making dozens of New Hampshire residents sick every year.
Anaplasmosis is a tick-borne disease caused by the bacterium Anaplasma phagocytophilum. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, symptoms include fever, headache, chills and muscle aches that usually develop within a week or two after a tick bite.
Last year, 52 cases of anaplasmosis were reported in New Hampshire, according to Beth Daly, chief of infectious disease surveillance at the state Division of Public Health Services.
That was a big jump from 2011, when 30 cases were reported.
New Hampshire and five other states in the Northeast had among the highest incidences in the country of anaplasmosis in 2010, according to CDC. Most cases are reported in June and July.
Then there's babesiosis, caused by Babesia microti, a protozoan parasite that infects red blood cells. Symptoms include flu-like symptoms, such as fever, chills, sweats, headache, body aches, nausea, fatigue and loss of appetite.
It also can lead to hemolytic anemia and become life-threatening in vulnerable patients such as the elderly or immune-compromised, according to the CDC.
Babesiosis became a nationally notifiable condition on Jan. 1, 2011. But it's been reportable in New Hampshire since 2005, when just two cases were reported.
Last year, 19 cases of babesiosis were reported, up from 14 in 2011, 11 in 2010 and 7 in 2009.
While reports of both diseases are on the rise in New Hampshire, Daly said, the numbers are still far below those reported for Lyme disease.
Last year, there were 1,460 cases of Lyme disease reported in New Hampshire; the state has been among the top three in the country for incidence of the disease for several years.
But 20 years ago, that wasn't the case. In 1993, just 15 cases of Lyme were reported here; in 1994, there were 30, and in 1995, 28.
In the 2000s, the numbers began to increase, and by 2006, 617 Lyme cases were reported. Two years later, there were 1,615 cases of Lyme disease, the most ever reported here.
So, does this mean 20 years from now, hundreds of Granite Staters will be diagnosed with babesiosis or anaplasmosis?
It's difficult to predict, says Dr. Jose Montero, the state director of public health services. But the same conditions that led to an increase in Lyme disease - such as habitat changes that bring humans into closer contact with the deer and mice that harbor the ticks - could mean the other two diseases will become more prevalent, as well, he said.
"As we have been looking in the last couple of years and testing for those, we find them," he said. "There is a potential for them increasing."
Montero said the state health department has sent advisories to physicians to watch for both babesiosis and anaplasmosis infections in their patients.
"We know that in a state like ours, with this high prevalence of Lyme disease that we have ... clinicians need to think about these other two diseases and try to separate and properly identify them so we can properly treat them," he said.
Some physicians now automatically test for the other two diseases when they test patients for Lyme disease, Montero noted.
Meanwhile, Montero said researchers are looking into whether some Lyme patients who suffer ongoing medical problems despite treatment could have been co-infected with another disease organism.
There could even be an as-yet-undiscovered organism that is making some people sick, he said. "That's a real possibility," he said. "Certainly, there are a lot of researchers working and looking into that."
From a public health perspective, Daly said, the important message is prevention. Protecting yourself from a tick bite - wearing light-colored clothing, tucking your pants into your socks and using tick repellent - is the best way to avoid getting any of these diseases.
"Doing daily tick checks is really important, and removing ticks promptly if you do notice them," she said.
With all the media attention to mosquito-borne illnesses such as West Nile Virus and EEE, Daly said, the reality is that "ticks are definitely much more likely to result in illness."
"The good thing is, though, a lot of the prevention measures are applicable to both mosquitoes and ticks," she said.


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High-speed lanes at Hampton tolls closed Wednesday night for maintenanceBy GRETYL MACALASTER
New Hampshire Union Leader
February 05. 2013 11:23AM
HAMPTON - The open road toll or "high-speed" lanes at the Hampton Toll Plaza on I-95 will be closed overnight Wednesday for maintenance work.
The closure is scheduled from 9 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 6, through 5 a.m. on Thursday, Feb. 7.
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Sprint Says It Will Begin Shipping HTC Evo 4G LTE Pre-Orders on Thursday
Although a patent dispute has held up its full launch, Sprint said it will start shipping its HTC Evo 4G on Thursday to those who have pre-ordered the phone.
There's no word just yet on when the phone will show up in retail stores.
"Sprint expects to begin shipping HTC EVO 4G LTE for arrival on or around Thursday, May 24, to customers who pre-ordered the device online from Sprint," Sprint said in a statement. "We will provide details on the full national launch as soon as possible."
Shipments of that product — and of AT&T's HTC One X — have been held up by an exclusion order obtained by Apple against HTC. The order means that all HTC shipments have to be inspected by U.S. Customs before entering the country.
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With the forecast for up to ten inches tonight and temperatures possibly getting down to five degrees, what better time to think about the New York Mets, if for no other reason, to wonder about spring training?
Let's face it, neither one of New York's basketball teams is worth thinking or talking about. Those seasons are all but over.
But, spring training? The thought of Florida, and the drive from the airport in West Palm to Port St. Lucie gets the juices flowing.
The Mets say they aren't finished this winter, but it appears they've completed their heavy lifting. Here's what I consider the top half-dozen issues facing the Mets:
1) Who will be the fifth starter?
A: As of now Jenrry Mejia seems to have the inside track after undergoing elbow surgery. Mejia pitched well at times last season, but the organization suggested his ultimate role is to be determined. Despite the presence of Rafael Montero and Noah Syndergaard in the minor leagues, neither promotion is imminent and the Mets will need a fifth to round out the rotation. If he's physically ready, Mejia needs the ball. Who knows, he could even prove be a valuable trade chip.
2) Who plays first base?
A: At this rate, Ike Davis will be on the spring training roster. Milwaukee is supposedly their best trading partner, but the Brewers don't appear in any rush to deal. Perhaps, they are waiting for the Mets' asking price to fall. Perhaps, they are waiting for the Mets to release him outright. That might not happen as the Mets could be thinking of the July 31 trade deadline. The Mets appear to favor Lucas Duda at first base, and keeping Davis around could prove a distraction. If Davis isn't going to play, do everybody a favor and let him go.
3) Will Bobby Parnell be the closer?
A: The Mets say they don't know if Parnell, who is recovering neck surgery, will be ready. If not, Vic Black will get the ball in the ninth inning. Slowly, the Mets have added pieces to their bullpen. There's always an arm or two that will emerge in spring training. The Mets recently added Ryan Reid, 28, from Pittsburgh. Reid throws in the low 90s and last year was 7-2 with a 2.73 ERA and 1.197 WHIP with Triple A Indianapolis. There could be room for him.
4) What is to become of Travis d'Arnaud?
A: He goes in as the starter, but he didn't hit enough in his opportunity to warrant the job. Manager Terry Collins said he has faith in Anthony Recker as a reserve, but held back on expressing confidence as a starter. The Mets are more likely to grab a veteran catcher off the waiver wire in spring training rather than make a deal.
5) Who is the leadoff hitter?
A: That remains open, but Eric Young could retain his role if he starts in left field. It is apparent the Mets won't trade Daniel Murphy and move Young to second base. This could change if Juan Lagares has a strong spring training at leadoff. The Mets have made no promises regarding Lagares, but this much should be obvious: Lagares is better off getting at-bats and playing time in the minor leagues rather than sitting the bench in the majors. To say Lagares has proven all he can in the minors is erroneous thinking. Lagares is far from a being a proven major league hitter, especially considering his propensity for striking out.
6) How much patience will the Mets give Ruben Tejada?
A: There's nothing imminent in the trade market for shortstop and signing Stephen Drew wouldn't be a good move. Let's face it, the Mets aren't close enough to contender status to warrant signing the veteran the Red Sox didn't bring back.
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Clarkson University to Greet Largest Freshman Class in 22 Years
Job placement rates, starting salaries and sought after majors are all factors that have contributed to Clarkson University's largest freshman class since 1986, according to the school's top admission official.
The University plans to greet 690 members of the Class of 2012 in late August. A total of 783 new students, including transfer and Clarkson School students, have placed deposits for the upcoming school year.
Our reputation for career focus, an excellent job placement rate, strong starting salaries, and marketable majors have all contributed to a steady increase in students, says Director of Admission Brian T. Grant. "In the past ten years, we've also more than doubled the number of under-represented students in the first-year class."
This year, 74 African American, Native American, Asian and Latino students will enter the University. Female students are at a ten-year high, with 175 women slated as members of the Class of 2012. And 42 percent of the class is in the top ten percent of their high school classes.
Grant attributes some of the enrollment uptick to an increase in campus visits. "We did see more on-campus interviews this year," he says. "We promote the fact that the only way to get a real feel for Clarkson is to visit. And students that visit actually do apply at a much higher rate."
Grant also attributes the high admission numbers to the marketing of Clarkson's new campus master plan, a higher ranking in the U.S. News & World Report College Guide, and the University's new marketing program, launched in 2005. "The phrase 'Defy Convention' is even popping up in students' admission essays," he says.
The admission staff isn't taking all the credit, though. "It's not just Admission that recruits, but also our faculty, staff, students and alumni," says Grant. "Our alumni admissions program is very strong. They work closely with these students at college fairs and in one-on-one meetings in the students' hometowns. This teamwork is a telling sign of what Clarkson is as an institution."
Students interested in attending Clarkson, might take note that the next admission open houses are on October 11 and November 15. But why wait? Prospective students can call the Admission Office at 800-527-6577 and schedule a visit right away.


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ARTM2010-A Idea Develpmt & Storyboarding (Spring 2014)
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Session, Dates: 1 (01/13/2014 - 05/03/2014)
Days: R
Time: 02:00 - 04:50 pm
Location: Moon Campus
Room: Wheatley Center 128
Seats Available: 2 Seats
Credits: 3
This course is designed to encourage the student to develop ideas into stories that will translate well both onscreen as well as in other forms of expression. Students will examine their own creative process as well as conceptualize and develop creative projects. The goal is to generate a number of viable concepts and story ideas that can be stockpiled for future use as well as to learn and implement development techniques. 3 credits
Melissa A. Martin, M.F.A.
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If anyone is heading down to SoCal that's interested in checking out SUPing and/or demo some gear, the Battle of the Paddle is going on this weekend at Doheny Beach, Dana Point, CA.
Plug: Check out Red Paddle Co. if you go. They will be demoing their boards at the event.