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The Russian Tea Room, one of New York City's most storied restaurants, turned 85 this year. In a city that never sleeps and boasts an ever-changing landscape, this is no small feat, especially if you consider that during a brief period in the early 2000s, the restaurant was sold to the United States Golf Association (see Heck?, What the), destined to become a museum of sorts for the iron-swinging set. If you've ever been to the Russian Tea Room (and, really, if you have not, you must go. Now. That's a direct order.), you can understand the monumental loss this would have been to foodies and vodka connoisseurs everywhere, not to mention the city itself.
A cultural and culinary salon for an array of artists since opening its doors in 1927, the Russian Tea Room, or RTR, is also a touchstone for New Yorkers and guests from around the globe alike. From its early heyday as a stomping ground for Russian ex-pats and the likes of George Balanchine and Ayn Rand to its place as a dining destination for high society and Hollywood royalty, it remains one of the most recognizable restaurants in the world. It's been featured in films including Manhattan, Sweet Smell of Success, Tootsie, The Turning Point, Big, Smurfs, and New York Stories, among others. It's also influenced films: When Harry Met Sally was conceived at one of the restaurant's posh booths. A favorite with television programs as well, you can see RTR's signature dining room in episodes of Louie, Gossip Girl, Real Housewives of New York, and Real Housewives of New Jersey. The Russian Tea Room continues to attract celebrities and influencers, including Mariah Carey, Bill and Hilary Clinton, Anderson Cooper, Keira Knightly, Paul McCartney, Chris Noth, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Carlos Slim, to name a few. Some celebs got their start here; Madonna was a coat check girl just before she got her big break.
And yet, The Russian Tea Room isn't resting on these lofty laurels. Beyond generously providing diners and tourists with a bottomless supply of the most coveted matchbooks in Manhattan, they offer a level of service and warmth that isn't always typical of an establishment with such a notable reputation. Have you ever walked into a restaurant where it felt as though you were sort of inconveniencing the host with your mere presence? You can be certain you weren't in the Russian Tea Room when that happened. The doting service provided at this fabled restaurant reminds you that the very best restaurants aren't just about food — they're about hospitality, too.
To wit, while hosting my in-laws for 11 (!) days, my nerves were wearing particularly thin after a long, cold day on the town. Fortunately, before they could fully fray, it was nearing cocktail hour — and we were nearing the Russian Tea Room. I dashed in a half a block ahead of my guests, flustered and breathing hard, hoping they could accommodate us, even though they were quite busy. "Of course!" I stood at the bar as the staff readied a grand table, catching my breath. Then, Igor the bartender asked me the most wonderful question: "Would you like a shot of vodka?" If I weren't already married, I might have proposed to Igor then and there. Instead, I enthusiastically replied, "Yes, yes, I would!" One "Zа, Igor!" and a perfectly chilled shot of Jewel of Russia vodka later, I was, in the words of George Costanza, back, baby!
So, what's new? A great deal, in fact. The Russian Tea Room revamps its menus seasonally. And, most recently, they have introduced several new services to delight diners of every age and appetite — at almost any time of day. Complete offerings include:
* Breakfast: The new New York power breakfast is here! Served Monday-Friday, from 7AM to 10AM, breakfast at the Russian Tea Room has everything you need to start your business day, from the classic to the contemporary. And, if you've got a group of six or more, for just $20 per person, you can have your own breakfast buffet. Now, isn't that much better than Breakfast at Tiffany's?
* Business Express Lunch: A favorite of midtown's movers and shakers, the business express lunch is perfect for your next business lunch. Three courses for $40 include choices of RTR's signature dishes as well as super-fresh salads.Continue Reading


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Roku and Linkstation - setup and customization tips
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Revision as of 21:06, 29 December 2006 by Davy gravy (Talk | contribs) (→Making the web interface configuration page "configurable")
- 1 Background
- 2 Hardware/Software Requirements
- 3 Directory setup
- 4 Firefly/mt-daapd Tweaks
- 5 Playlists
- 6 hpodder
- 7 Customizing the Roku
- 8 References
Hardware/Software Requirements
- Any Roku soundbridge device (M500, M1000, M1001, M2000)
- Any Linkstation w/ OpenLink or FreeLink installed on it
Directory setup
Firefly/mt-daapd Tweaks
Making the web interface configuration page "configurable"
If you notice that your Configuration page on the web interface (available by web browser at <linkstation-ip>:3689/config.html) won't allow you to make changes, then you may need to adjust permissions on the configuration file. The very first entry on the Configuration page lists the location of this file, usually at /etc/mt-daapd.conf . To make the web configuration work, cd to the directory where this configuration file is and modify the permissions of the file:
cd /etc chown nobody mt-daapd.conf chmod 600 mt-daapd.conf
Reload the web Configuration page and it should work now. This is a method suggested by an expert at Firefly Forums.


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By Sam Yoon
"""One thing that's been on my mind for the last six months has been unemployment. And for good reason—this is the defining feature of our time, and I didn't have a job."" Sam Yoon
by Sam Yoon, 89.7 WGBH
Friday, July 2, 2010
When I was asked to provide occasional commentaries on this radio station, I was told to talk about "what was foremost on my mind." One thing that's been on my mind for the last six months has been unemployment. Joblessness. And for good reason—because (1) this is the defining feature of our time, and (2) I didn't have a job.
In January of this year, I joined the ranks of 15 million other Americans who did not have a job, were actively looking, and were available to work. Now granted, the way I lost my job was a bit unusual. Last year I was a city councilor at-large in Boston, and had decided to give up my seat to run for Mayor. I lost.
Losing the election was tough. But facing an uncertain future, both for me, my wife and my kids, was in a lot of ways tougher. Studies have shown that unemployment, especially long-term unemployment, can lead to high levels of stress, anxiety, and depression. It can affect your personal and family relationships and your self-esteem. I experienced all of that to varying degrees. And I shudder to think that today, 46 percent of the unemployed are long-term unemployed – the highest percentage recorded since 1948, when the Labor Department began tracking this data. That's almost 7 million Americans who have been looking for work for over 27 weeks.
It goes without saying that the impact on the psyche of our country is enormous. It shows up in the stories that we read about, that we hear about. Divorce, domestic violence, substance abuse, depression – these costs aren't directly measured in the calculation of our economic health. But they are fundamental in terms of how we should think about our nation's well-being.
Anyone who happens to be running for political office this year, for Congress, for Governor of Massachusetts – does well to put jobs and employment at the center of their platform. Governor Deval Patrick, who I am supporting, can rightfully boast of the improvement in the employment picture in our state. But he has also never deviated from his message that while government should do everything in its power to help, we as individuals have enormous power and responsibility to help each other.
If you know someone who is unemployed, especially someone who's been looking for a long time – check in on them. Buy them lunch. Give them reasons to hope, to be connected. It doesn't cost much, but it goes a long way. Believe me, I know."
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Hawai`i newspapers on Chronicling America websiteUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Events & Communications Coordinator, Library Services
The UH Mānoa Library is pleased to announce that the English-language Hawai'i newspapers have been digitized and OCR-ed, and are available online at the Library of Congress' Chronicling America website, http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. The papers are:
- The Daily Herald (Honolulu, 1886-1887)
- The Hawaiian Gazette (Honolulu, 1865-1916; online: 1877-1913)
- The Independent (Honolulu, 1895-1905)
The Daily Herald and The Hawaiian Gazette (during the years included here) represent a conservative pro-American editorial viewpoint, and The Independent represents a strongly nationalistic Hawaiian viewpoint.
Other newspapers available at Chronicling America include extensive coverage of Hawai'i topics from across the United States. As of December of 2009, Chronicling America offers free searchable online access to 1.7 million pages from 212 newspaper titles published between 1880 and 1922.
Digitization of additional newspaper content continues at the UHM Library and other National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) participant sites, and new content will be uploaded in future quarterly increments. UHM Library participation in the NDNP is being made possible by a National Endowment for the Humanities grant. The principal investigators for Hamilton Library are Joan Hori and Martha Chantiny.
For further information, please contact Joan Hori (956-9296) or Martha Chantiny (956-2473).
For more information, visit: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov


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It's been a week since the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight 370, a week filled with misinformation, wild theorizing and the anxiety of the passengers' families. The story, and especially its lack of information, has the world watching and wondering.
For Alan Heathcock, our fear of disappearing is part of why the flight has us so obsessed. Heathcock recommends Gary Paulsen's young adult classic Hatchet, in which a 13-year-old boy manages to survive in the Canadian wilderness when his bush plane crashes. And Jonathan Evison focuses on the very real possibility of never quite knowing, as in Stewart O'Nan's novel Songs for the Missing.
This Week's Must Read
Beyond the mystery of wondering "where did the plane go?," I believe the interest in the missing Malaysia Airlines' 777 has something to do with our fear of disappearing, or having someone we love disappear. We live most of our lives trying desperately to prove and strengthen our existence. In fact, much of today's technology is geared to keep us more connected, to be constantly present in the lives of those we love, to make it impossible to simply ... disappear.
This existential desperation also explains the enduring fascination for the novel Hatchet by Gary Paulson. Hatchet is the story of Brian Robeson, a 13-year-old boy who, en route to visit his father, crashes in a bush plane in the Canadian wilderness. The pilot has died, and young Brian must survive alone. At first he thinks he'll be saved, but days go by, then weeks. He's vanished in the eyes of everyone he's ever known and loved, the father he was going to visit, the mother he left behind. In realizing he's disappeared, two truths come to Brian's mind: 1, He'll never again be the person he was before the crash, and 2, he does not want to die. With his trusty hatchet, he's able to spark a fire, chop wood, hunt. Brian grows stronger. He lives.
Eventually Brian's rescued when a pilot hears the crashed-plane's emergency transmitter. The pilot finds Brian beside a lake making dinner. He says, "You're him, aren't you? You're that kid? They quit looking a month, no, almost two months ago." But by now Brian's learned he's not in need of being saved, and because the stew he made for himself is ready, he eyes the pilot and says, "My name is Brian Robeson. Would you like something to eat?"
The thematic center of Paulson's novel, what speaks to our fear of disappearing like a ghost plane, is the question "what's saved Brian?" Was it the technology of the downed-plane's emergency transmitter? Or was it a simple hatchet and a boy who decided he would not disappear even when he couldn't be seen by others?
Alan Heathcock is the author of the book Volt.
What happens when the systems, institutions, technology and networks we've put into place for our protection, fail us? Consigned to speculation, how do we deal with the unresolved? What if the scant information we are able to cobble together, only deepens the mystery, and compounds our unknowing? What lengths will we go to for the answers we must have?
These are just a few of the many questions that have arisen in the wake of the unexplained disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.
Stewart O'Nan's brilliant 2008 novel, Songs for the Missing, though it features no ill-fated airliners, raises many of the same questions. When 18-year-old-Kim Larsen goes missing on her way to work at a Conoco station in a small Midwestern town, her family, and her whole community, struggles with her unresolved disappearance: making phone calls, assembling lists, canvassing the town, distributing fliers, and sifting through false lead after false lead, as the search unfolds in earnest. But in spite of all investigative efforts, and a blitz of media attention, what little information these investigations yield, serves mostly to accentuate that which is uncertain about Kim's fate. Kim's family doesn't know whether they're dealing with a failed communication, an act of rebellion, or a capital crime. She is simply gone, and nobody has any idea where she went.
Despite a perfect set-up, and all manner of suspenseful possibilities, O'Nan subverts the crime thriller apparatus, largely abandoning the tropes of the police procedural, in favor of a deeply human, finely detailed, achingly sympathetic approach to the characters, which critic Ron Charles called: "the thriller equivalent of watching blood dry." But that's the genius of O'Nan, a preternaturally empathic storyteller, with an uncanny eye for detail, O'Nan quietly elevates this uncertainty to torturous heights, and shows us the lengths to which not knowing will take us, long after our precautions, safeguards, and best efforts, have failed.
Jonathan Evison's latest book is The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving.
It's been a week since the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. That story and the ongoing puzzle of what happened has author Alan Heathcock thinking. So here he is for our series This Week's Must Read about books that relate to the news.
ALAN HEATHCOCK: The biggest mystery is the plane. We're wondering where it went. But I think there's something else here that's captured our attention. It has to do with our fear of disappearing or having someone we love disappear. We live most of our lives trying to prove and strengthen our existence. Technology and social media, it's all geared towards keeping us connected and being constantly present in the lives of the people we love.
And when those things fail us, we get scared. So this might be a good moment to revisit a book that deals with disappearance. It's the young adult novel "Hatchet," by Gary Paulsen. "Hatchet" is the story of Brian Robeson. He's a 13-year-old boy who takes a bush plane to visit his father but crashes in the Canadian wilderness.
The pilot has died, and young Brian has to survive alone. At first he thinks he'll be saved, but days go by, then weeks. He's vanished in the eyes of everyone he knows and loves, but Brian doesn't die. Instead, he uses his hatchet to chop wood. He sparks a fire. He hunts for food and grows stronger. He lives.
Eventually another pilot hears an emergency transmission coming from Brian's crashed plane. He finds Brian by a lake, making dinner, and says you're him, aren't you, you're that kid. But by now Brian's not in need of being saved, and because the stew he made for himself is ready, he eyes the pilot and says my name is Brian Robeson. Would you like something to eat?
The question, of course, for Brian and for us thinking of the missing plane is how he was saved. Was it the technology, the transmitter, or was it a simple hatchet and a boy who decided he would not disappear, even when he couldn't be seen by others?
BLOCK: Alan Heathcock is the author of a book of stories titled "Volt." He recommended the young adult novel "Hatchet" by Gary Paulsen.
You are listening to ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Linear motion solutions for Medical field applications
Within an industry inherently associated with healthcare, the technology used must deliver high performance and aim to ensure a positive experience for users, patients and healthcare professionals. Mechanical parts can make the difference.
The medical industry focuses on two key requirements. First, the level of hygiene: environments and equipment must always be clean and frequent washes and detergents can cause premature wear of mechanical components affecting their life and operation.
Secondly, the machines' performance level must be accurate and stable to ensure reliable results, sturdy to withstand heavy loads, and compact to allow multiple components to be housed in enclosed spaces.
Rollon linear rails and linear actuators are suitable for different medical applications, ranging from medical-technical platforms, such as operating room beds, dentist chairs, or diagnostic systems (X-ray machines, MRI and CT scanners), surgery and laboratory robots for handling fluids, and automated drug warehouses.
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Halle Berry: NAACP Image Awards!
Halle Berry poses on the red carpet at the 42nd NAACP Image Awards held at The Shrine Auditorium on Friday (March 4) in Los Angeles.
The 44-year-old actress is up for the Best Actress in a Motion Picture Award for her work in Frankie & Alice.
Also nominated in the same category: Janet Jackson (Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married Too?), Kerry Washington (Night Catches Us), Queen Latifah (Just Wright), and Zoe Saldana (The Losers).
FYI: Halle is wearing a Pucci dress with Bavna earrings.
10+ pictures inside of Halle Berry at the NAACP Image Awards…


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This year the vaccine is available as an injection only. Along with the regular influenza vaccine, which is the inactivated quadrivalent influenza vaccine, the Fluzone High-Dose influenza vaccine will also be available.
Cost of seasonal flu vaccination is covered by some insurance plans. Mayo Clinic Health System will bill insurance or accept payment.


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Can anyone tell me if there is anyway i can recover data which is not backed up & formatted on a partition using fdisk?
You have undelete tools, I don't know which are the best as I only have used Mcafee Undelete, you can search google...
The above sentences are produced by the propaganda and indoctrination of people manipulating my mind since 1987, hence, I cannot be held responsible for this post\'s content - me
You can try FileRestore by Winternals. It would require you to have another machine with a working version of Windows on it but I have had some luck with it.
Depending on what type of system you have..
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HijackThis Team
I like EasyRecovery Pro http://www.ontrack.com/
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Mattel Inc. has announced the formation of Playground Productions, a new division within the Mattel Global Brands group dedicated to the creation and development of strategic multiplatform storytelling. Playground Productions will drive creative storytelling across all Mattel brands, including Barbie, Monster High, and Max Steel, along with the development and launch of the new animation Team Hot Wheels: The Origin of Awesome debuting next year.
Playground Productions has brought on Mercury Filmworks for the project in a story that delivers new Hot Wheels thrills in three formats including a 22-minute origin story for spring, 11 humorous two-minute action-packed shorts for the summer, and a 74-minute direct-to-video movie for the fall.
Additionally, Playground Productions will manage and provide creative direction for the recently announced live-action feature film for Max Steel. In co-development with Dolphin Films, the movie will have a wide release in theaters next year. The division is also partnering with Columbia Pictures on an upcoming Masters of the Universe theatrical project.


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Parents share positive experience with Waynesburg University
Dear fellow parent,
As we jot down these rambling thoughts, the calendar has turned to May 1. In many parts of the world, it is a day of celebration. We celebrate the rule of law in our beloved country, while others celebrate military might, but in America it has another unique meaning if you are the parent of a high school senior. It is Deposit Day! A day your son or daughter commits their enthusiasm, intellect, and more than a little of the family bank account to an institution of higher learning.
As we initial that check, we parents reflect on the joys and tribulations that preceded this day…from trying to get the volcano just right for the elementary school science fair, to chaperoning the junior high dance, to faithfully making another batch of cupcakes—usually at the last minute—for today's PTA bake sale. We also spent a lot of time waiting. We waited patiently for soccer and marching band practice to end, we waited outside the SAT center on a chilly Saturday morning, we waited to hear footsteps a little late on a Saturday night, and we waited for the letter in the big envelope that joyously announced that one period of waiting was over and that the Waynesburg University family would be welcoming a new addition to its campus come September. We hug our sons and daughters, call for the extra-large pizza, phone Grandma, wipe away a tear, offer a prayer of thanksgiving and of course, order the sweatshirt!
Once the euphoria passes, which it does all too quickly, the adult in us begins to hear the voices, the ones with all the questions. Did we make the right choice in Waynesburg? Can we afford it? Will our children be as cherished far from home as they have been in the confines of our home, congregation and high school?
Take it from us; the answer is a resounding YES! Yes, you did make the right choice spiritually, academically and financially. Our son is days away from finishing his freshman year. He has grown physically (when did he get taller than his father?), and he has been nurtured through challenging times by caring professors, coaches, mentors and a community of other young people who embraced him, cried with him, prayed with him and refused to let him falter. He has challenged his faith and found it worthy. He has learned that he has a lot more to learn both in and out of the classroom. He has grown from a wide-eyed, nervous freshman who found himself seven hours from home into a more self-confident young man of integrity and hope. His mother and I do continue to wait, to see what God has in store for him next year.
Congratulations, parents. Celebrate your children, and celebrate the learning, loving and caring community that is Waynesburg University.
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UPDATE: Images removed by Paramount. Use your Turtle imagination and watch the episode from 1987 instead. R.I.P. James Avery!
Fearful that Michael Bay may royally f*ck up the opportunity to successfully bring the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles back to the big screen? It's a legitimate concern but from the looks of it, the characters in the Bay-produced film adaptation are coming together nicely.
ComicBookMovie.com posted (and then deleted) alleged images from the film.
Coincidentally, the photos look much better than that of the struggle Halloween costumes rumored to be from the movie. We didn't really buy the notion of a movie studio –in the year 2014, no less — actually approving those homemade costumes anyway, and thankfully we were right.
The new stills are blurry, but one shows what looks like Leonardo (because of the swords) but could be Donatello (the bandana looks a purple) rocking a bamboo chest plate. Oh, and Jesus sandals.
Other shots show close-ups of the Donatello and Leonardo turtle models, plus a picture of Megan Fox (who will be playing Ninja Turtle confidant, April O'Neal).
Shredder is also in the picture mix. As i09 pointed out, he looks pretty intense. Kind of like a medieval-era karate cyborg with lots of sharp edges (living up to his name, apparently).
If anything, the outfit alone will give the TMNT a run for their money, but don't be fooled by the strings holding up their flimsy little sandals, we all know the heroes in a half-shell will prevail.
Hit the gallery for pics, and feel free to critique them in the comments section below.
Turtle power!
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Models To Movie Stars: 12 Beauties Who Made The Leap
While some are newcomers (Kate Upton and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley), and others have already established a strong foothold in films or television (Jaime King and Amber Valletta), these beauties are taking their talents beyond the runway—and who wouldn't? After all, the camera already loves them! Click through our slideshow to see 12 models making the leap.
Cole, a renowned British model who has scored coveted campaigns with Chanel and Hermes in the past, landed her first leading role in the Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. Most recently she tackled the fantasy film Snow White and the Huntsman alongside Charlize Theron (who, coincidentally, also started off as a model).
A few highly memorable Sports Illustrated Swimsuit covers (and a viral video of her dancing to "Teach Me How To Dougie") catapulted Upton to fame. Now the blonde bombshell, who appeared in The Three Stooges and Tower Heist, is donning a bikini on screen for her role in The Other Woman (scheduled for release in 2014), alongside Cameron Diaz.
Before she scored bigger roles in Battleship and What To Expect When You're Expecting, Decker—another Sports Illustrated Swimsuit veteran—had small roles in TV shows like Royal Pains and Ugly Betty. Now the actress is about to hit a career high note in next year's action comedy Stretch, also starring Chris Pine and Jessica Alba.
Who could forget Valletta's turn as the heiress with a heart of gold in Hitch? Since then, the model (who memorably co-hosted MTV's House of Style in the mid-'90s) has racked up an impressive resume, most recently appearing as a regular on the hit series Revenge.


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We are delighted to collaborate with the Canadians for improved patient care
Northfield, IL, & Halifax, Nova Scotia (Vocus) July 21, 2009
The Canadian Association of Pathologists announced, on Tuesday, July 14, at the end of their 60th annual meeting in Halifax, the Association unanimously endorsed the adoption of the Cancer Protocols created by the College of American Pathologists (CAP) in collaboration with a broad range of medical professionals including the Canadian Association of Pathologists. The official announcement was made at a press conference held in Halifax on Wednesday, July 15. This is the first time another country has uniformly endorsed any medical protocols to be used nationwide.
The College of American Pathologists produces cancer protocols as a resource to pathologists to aid in effectively reporting surgical pathology findings necessary to provide quality patient care. The protocols consist of cancer case summaries (checklists) accompanied by background documentation. The background documentation includes detailed outlines, explanatory notes, and references, and it is presented for information only. The American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer (ACS CoC) has recognized the value of the CAP cancer checklists in caring for cancer patients. As of January 1, 2004, in the United States, it mandated that pathologists at CoC-approved cancer programs include the scientifically validated or regularly used data elements of the checklists in their surgical pathology reports on cancer specimens.
Over the past year, the Canadian Association of Pathologists has boldly and proactively taken steps to improve their cancer outcomes. The College's Protocols assist pathologists in providing clinically useful and relevant information when reporting results of surgical specimen examinations and are a significant benefit to the patients both organizations serve.
According to the president of the College of American Pathologists, Jared N. Schwartz, MD, PhD, FCAP, who was present during the proceedings and vote, "They want to continue to have our help. This was a huge step for our colleagues to the North."
"This collaboration is a unique international partnership between some of the brightest medical scientists in the health care profession," said Dr. M. Elizabeth Hammond, MD, FCAP, a member of the Council of Scientific Affairs at the College, who was involved in this press conference, along with Mahul B. Amin, MD, FCAP, Chair of the Cancer Committee for the College. Dr. Hammond added "It employs the multidisciplinary best practices, skills and talents of those actively involved in the assessment of cancer pathology." Dr. Hammond served as co-chair of the HER2 committee and was one of the original authors of the Cancer Protocols.
"Over the course of our annual meeting, about 200 pathologists from across the country gathered to discuss issues and determine ways to improve how we care for our patients," said Laurette Geldenhuys, MD, president of the Canadian association. "This is one important step to addressing the shortcomings in our health system."
"We are delighted to collaborate with the Canadians for improved patient care," added Dr. Hammond.
For additional information, please contact:
Sue Masaracchia-Roberts
Media Relations Manager, College of American Pathologists
800-323-4040, ext. 7319 phone; 847-772-8653 cell
Danièle Saintonge
Association Manager, Canadian Association of Pathologists
(613) 730-6230 or 1 800-668-3740 ext. 230 phone
About the College of American Pathologists
The College of American Pathologists (CAP) is a medical society that serves more than 17,000 physician members and the laboratory community throughout the world. It is the world's largest association composed exclusively of pathologists and is widely recognized as the leader in laboratory quality assurance. The CAP is an advocate for high quality and cost-effective patient care. More information about Cap can be found at http://www.cap.org.
About the Canadian Association of Pathologists
The Canadian Association of Pathologists (CAP) is the national voice of Canadian pathologists. Founded in 1949, it is a voluntary professional organization of laboratory physicians and scientists representing more than 1,000 members. The CAP's mission is to provide national leadership in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine through the promotion of excellence in practice, education and research, and through the fostering of integrity and high standards of ethical behaviour. The CAP will also promote collegiality, advocate for high quality and standards for patient care, and advocate for the professional interests of laboratory physicians and scientists. The CAP will provide continuing professional development to its membership.


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1. Re: How to enable place a signaure featureGeorge_Johnson Apr 6, 2012 7:39 PM (in response to bbenedict07)
I don't get what you want. The Place Signature feature is used to add a digital signature and should be available on the "Extended > Extended Features" panel, but you say you don't want to "explore digital signatures". Can you calrify?
2. Re: How to enable place a signaure featureAmbooS Apr 7, 2012 3:08 AM (in response to bbenedict07)
I guess bbenedict07 is talking about the "Place signature" option in Sign pane? Is that right? All Sign pane options are disabled for Acroforms/XFA forms/Reader Extended PDFs in Reader 10.1.2.
3. Re: How to enable place a signaure featurebbenedict07 Apr 9, 2012 12:04 PM (in response to AmbooS)
I was just sent another PDF with a signature field. The creator showed me in Acrobat pro, he double clicks the signature field, and up comes a dialog box with a graphic of his signature. He clicks a button that places the graphic of his signature on the form. He then saves it to his local disk.
We need to be able to create a PDF in Pro that a user can open up on Reader and do this exact same thing. They need to open the document in Reader, click or double click the signature field, insert a graphic of their signature, and then save the form to local disk so it can be sent or printed.
I assume for this to work, the creator of the PDF has to do something to the form. And the person viewing the form in Reader has to do something to their ®eader setup to set up the signature. Can you provide these steps for me?
4. Re: How to enable place a signaure featureAmbooS Apr 17, 2012 1:12 AM (in response to bbenedict07)
Open PDF in Acrobat Pro, go to Tools->Forms->Edit. Go to edit mode and add a digital signature field from 'Add new field' option. Close Form editing and save the PDF. Save the PDF as Reader-Extended file so that Reader users are able to sign it from Reader. For this, in Acrobat Pro, go to File->Save As->Reader Extended PDF->Enable Additional features and save. Now if you open this saved file in Reader, you should be able to sign it from the Extended pane.
Hope that helps!


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|2008-05-27, 03:13
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Something like a multiple tag search will have to come from Jelsoft as it would be a major hack.
|2008-05-27, 03:25
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Arguably, younger fans are taking over the fandom. I would personally not want to see AnimeSuki turn into a sort of "fun house" for children. Open tagging system can become a part of this problem (I see it as such), but please don't fool yourselves that AnimeSuki's House of Fun hasn't opened already (just look at the Saimoe thread ;_;). I see this tagging business more of an issue between certain kinds of tags and their usefulness (leaving spoiler, joke and insult tags aside); I can't say with 100% conviction that labeling Kanokon with a "furry" tag is incorrect because that's a term with which a segment of the fandom relates to it.
If you're going to go with the popular vote (displaying tags that have been clicked the most/agreed upon by the majority), then we can all pretty much guess that publisher labels, creator credits and other useful information will be pushed aside--the tag system will be dominated by genre names, or it'll be a plethora of every possible label known to man. The former alone is a problem because most anime are mixtures of very different genres, and a lot of people can go really angry, really fast if you don't mention every possible genre. If we take Kanokon as example again, AniDB has the following genre names attributed to it: Comedy, Ecchi, Harem, Juujin, Love Polygon, Romance, Sudden Girlfriend Appearance (ww). That's a lot of "genres" for a relatively new series, not to mention passionate series fans would find some objectionable, others would dispute the correctness of some of the terms, on the other hand, some people would complain if they weren't included. The problem with genre labels is that usually there is no party more reliable for labeling than publishers themselves. Sure, you can leave the tagging system to self-moderation and self-formation. However, for people who know that xxxHOLiC isn't shoujo but rather seinen, in presence of persistent but misinformed people, the struggle between correctness and popular vote can become irritating and tiresome. There is also a possibility of losing informed posters that contribute a lot of useful information to the clutter. Case in point, you can't get away without a group of people that should know better than the majority taking the charge here. Elitism vs populism is an age old debate, but taking all things in consideration, I think the former is much needed in this case.
(Then again, you could simply disable tags and this discussion is over, but I guess that's not happening.)
|2008-05-27, 03:36
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I only will be adding the "genre" type of tags >.< probably, also mangaka, author, illustrator, ... stuff like that, but I'm not going to add tags that usually don't interest me >.<
|2008-05-27, 07:07
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I spent an hour or two yesterday tagging threads in the Suggestions forum. I've spent a lot of time there over the past couple of years and have a pretty good sense about the kinds of requests that get made. I limited my efforts to threads with a substantial number of postings that have seen at least one posting in 2008. (I'm down to threads with about 30 postings or fewer at the moment.) I also included a couple of older threads that concerned less common requests like shows for children.
Most of the tags I used were obvious genre ones like "romance," though I used "romantic comedy" for threads where the OP specified comedic shows. I created a couple of more obscure tags like "genre definitions" when a thread veered into a discussion of which shows were correctly classified in a particular genre. (I almost created an "is elfen lied mature" tag since nearly every discussion of "mature" shows seems to end in a debate over EL 's relevance!)
Multi-word tags like "romantic comedy" may help alleviate the problem of searching for multiple tags. I did find that starting from scratch with only two tags at my disposal posed some difficult choices. For instance, there are a number of requests for "action/comedy/romance" shows (e.g., FUMOFFU) that really cry out for three separate tags.
I then tried searching for my tags and discovered that it was a forum-wide search even if I accessed it from the "search this forum" drop-down box. You apparently can't ask only for threads tagged "romance" in the Suggestions forum, though you can obviously sort the results page by forum title and browse to "Suggestions."
|2008-05-27, 07:13
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|2008-05-27, 07:20
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Tagging the Suggestions forum
I spent a couple of hours adding tags to threads in this forum that have a substantial number of postings and at least one submission from 2008. For more details, see this thread.
I'd ask people posting new requests to the Suggestions forum to consider adding tags at the end of their submissions. Please try to stick to broad categories like genre (romance, comedy, mystery, ecchi, etc.) as much as possible. Requests of the "more shows like X" variety should probably include the root show title as well, since someone searching for, say, Zero no Tsukaima might also be interested in a thread about other shows like ZnT.
For everyone else, please help tag this forum by adding your own contributions. Anyone can submit up to two tags for a thread; the OP can include five. Tagging the Suggestions forum may eventually help reduce the number of redundant requests submitted here.
|2008-05-27, 07:25
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Enter the tag in the Search by Tag box and then highlight the forum(s) in the Search in Forum(s) list just below.
But, this is the problem. I would serious suggest that none of the threads in the Suggestions forum are tagged at all.
I would also suggest that creating tags such a "Romantic Comedy" is in general a bad idea. We really need to wait for Jelsoft to improve their code to allow the searching of multiple tags (as it is, a single tag limits the search so badly).
As has been mentioned many times, tags mean different things to different people and at the onset of the tags implemention here at AnimeSuki, it generally is a mess already Time may help, decent s/w from Jelsoft may help, some sort of formal implementation may help (i.e. the Tag Team) but who knows.
But if I wanted to search for Comedy (or whatever) anime series , the last thing I would want is to have the hundreds of tagged threads located in the Suggestion forum. Since tags can be sorted by forum maybe it's not so bad but only if the searcher is aware that you can in fact limit such seraches.
Ah well, beaten by NightWish.
|2008-05-27, 07:31
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|2008-05-27, 07:55
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Also one of the biggest problems with the Suggestions forum in my eyes is the enormous amount of redundancy that occurs. I had the, perhaps unrealistic, view that tagging in this forum would cut down on the n+1th romantic comedy request, since it would be easier to skim the tagged Suggestions threads that deal with that subject.
I know that tagging is supposed to improve searching across forums more than within them, but I thought the Suggestions forums presented a rather special case. It would be hard for me to go back through, find, and delete the few dozen tags I've inserted. If you think they're not appropriate, xris, just delete them. I won't be offended. If you think tagging isn't appropriate in this forum entirely, is there any way to turn it off selectively? Leaving it enabled will inevitably lead to people submitting tags.
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|2008-05-27, 10:21
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I would first say that we need to understand the reason why the Suggestions forum seems so popular, well maybe not "popular" but active, and why people post here in the first place.
I would suggest that the reason is that in most cases (not all, but I'm sure it the majority) the thread creator doesn't know what they are looking for and often doesn't actually know the question they want to ask. They may not be familiar with the huge range of the different anime series available and it can be a daunting task trying to sort the wheat form the chaff, an easier solution is to simply ask the advice of others.
Very often it's a case of "I've seen this, this and that, please recommend me similar series". It's rather difficult to pin down in a few words what it was about one particular series that struck a cord, it might well be a genre, it might be an emotion the series triggered, it might be so many things. Reading a number of the threads here I would say that very often the poster doesn't even know themselves what it is they are after.
So what has this got to do with tags? My point is that it's rather meaningless to associate tags with such threads in this sub-forum because the person who asks the question may not even notice the tags or may not really care as such, what they want is a number of recommendations of actual specific series.
In most cases, the poster could have searched sites such as ANN, AniDB or better yet use Anime-Planet for anime recommendations. The poster could have searched these forums and our genre list but such is life, it's easier to ask and let someone else do the work for you. In many ways there is nothing wrong with this, there are thousands and thousands of anime series out there and it's not easy to get familiar with so many of them.
What I'm getting at is that if these posters are not going to search for themselves beforehand, why do you expect them to search using tags afterwards? Tags in the most part are going to be added by those responding (or at least that is what you are primarily recommending it seems) and the point I'm making, such tags are only going to clutter up searches with oodles of slightly off-topic suggestions threads.
But again tags are primarily a search tool. Does it matter if the search tool returns chat as well as the wheat? Who is it that decides what is chat an the wheat anyway? Personally I still am unsure of tags but so far it seems clear that different people will find different uses for them and will use them in different ways. All well and good. What I want to say with my initial comment was that please don't be in a rush to start tagging everything left, right and centre. Removing tags (at this point in time) appears to be a real pain (be it the user or a Moderator), it's time consuming and boring to do. We (AnimeSuki) are still trying to decide what path we should take over the feature and I hope that posters such as you (SeijiSensei) and others help us define the path. There is no immediate rush to tag everything, we are still trying to see how it can be best used here in these forums.
I also wonder if tags such as "inspirational", "maturation", "production values", "scenery", "emotional_attachment", etc., etc. are ever going to be used in a search before or after they are added anyway. While I don't have a say how you wish to spend your time I would prefer your help and effort be channelled in alternative ways in helping AnimeSuki define and implement tags and decide what direction we should go in. After this, we can go crazy tagging the world.
So by all means continue to tags if you wish
|2008-05-27, 11:32
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In other words, I don't see why you're so pessimistic about it. I think that, with a bit of work, we can make this something useful, relevant, and much more than the "lowest common denominator", and we can do that without either resorting to total elitism or close-mindedness. I have more faith in the forum membership than you do, I guess. We'll get there.
Anyway, whether you use that method or another, I'm strongly in favour or multiple tag search, and I think that would probably help alleviate the need for "composite tags".
|2008-05-27, 12:24
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I appreciate all the fine arguments you've made here, xris. As it turns out, I've finished with the task I set myself, tagging threads with about 25 postings or more that include at least one posting in 2008.
The task gave me a chance to consider how I would tag a variety of items. Let's take the "inspirational" tag, for instance. Since members do specifically ask for shows with inspirational themes, I thought this might be a useful criterion when searching Suggestions. I agree with you that a large fraction of the requests here are of the "something like X" variety, but there are also dozens of requests for some combination of romance, action, and comedy, and the occasional ones for things like "production values." There are also some members who make more thoughtful requests. Often these threads get a lot of traffic, and much of it is well-informed.
However, I think my perception of how tagging works is rather different from yours and probably Jelsoft's (and, for all I know, everyone who knows about "social networking" about which I know nothing). Everything about tagging seems so global. If I click on a tag in the cloud I get all threads that are so tagged. Restricting searches to specific forums, though possible, isn't obviously supported on the tag search page.
I also thought that perhaps we'd get to see tag usage patterns by forum rather than the global "cloud." That way someone could visit a page like tags.php for the Suggestions forum and see the tags in use there. That would certainly make tagging a useful feature in Suggestions, since people could start with the tags page to get a list of existing relevant threads. It would also enable members to build up a common vocabulary of tags relevant to that forum.
Since you've been browsing my tags (how can I do that, by the way?), you can see I've studiously avoided ones like shounen, shoujo, etc., and tried to stick with obvious content genres like "romance." Then there are the variety of tags that you mentioned that are descriptive of the content like "maturation." Shows as divergent as Hikaru no Go, Dennou Coil, and Twelve Kingdoms share this characteristic. Given the primary audience for anime, maturation seems a common and likely theme.
As for how we might build up a common vocabulary of tags, I'll discuss that in the Tags thread over in Forums and Site Feedback.
Maybe this thread should be closed with discussion redirected to the Tags thread? If so, I'm sorry if I diverted the conversation over here.
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|2008-05-27, 16:47
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Checks and restrictions such as that might (or might not) be a good idea but you are suggesting it to the wrong people, you need to be suggesting it to Jelsoft.
Please remember these new features are only now available because Jelsoft released a new version of the forum s/w, it's not something we designed and implemented ourselves.
It may be possible to add a hack or a plug-in to do this but please remember we do not have unlimited resources to design, develop or debug such features. Chances are a lot of these new features are going to change and evolve with forum updates anyway so we could be wasting our time trying to work out how to make these changes.
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CANTON — The St. Marys boys 200 yard medley relay team went where no Roughrider relay team has gone before.
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Wash. trooper killed at traffic stop; suspect diesWash. trooper killed at traffic stop; suspect, ex-con, commits suicide as SWAT team closes in
PORT ORCHARD, Wash. (AP) ' A Washington State Patrol trooper was gunned down at a traffic stop early Thursday, and the suspect ' an ex-con with a history of antagonizing police ' killed himself as a tactical team closed in on the home where he was hiding, authorities said.
The 28-year-old suspect, Joshua Jearl Blake, had served time for drugs, assaulting his pregnant girlfriend, and kicking out the window of a police car, among other things, court records show. He was the registered owner of a pickup truck that Trooper Tony Radulescu pulled over just before he was shot to death early Thursday.
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Radulescu, 44, was a 16-year patrol veteran who served his entire career in the area. An immigrant from Romania, he spoke five languages ' a huge asset in investigating car theft rings with Eastern European ties, said Kitsap County Sheriff Steve Boyer, who knew him well.
"He was cautious. He practiced good officer safety," the sheriff said, his eyes misting. "Sometimes the odds are just against you."
Radulescu stopped the truck around 1 a.m. on Highway 16. He radioed the location and license plate number, said Trooper Russ Winger.
When Radulescu didn't respond to dispatcher status checks, a Kitsap County sheriff's deputy went to the scene and found the fatally wounded trooper outside his patrol car. He was taken to St. Joseph Medical Center in Tacoma where he was declared dead.
Three hours later, officers found the truck abandoned on a county road near Port Orchard, about two miles from the shooting scene.
Investigators received a tip on where to find the registered owner and went to the home.
Radulescu was a military veteran with a son in the area who is a soldier, Patrol Chief John Batiste said at an early morning news conference at St. Joseph Medical Center. He was well-known and popular in the community where he often spoke in schools, Batiste said.
"It's a terrible thing to receive a phone call that one of your people is injured in line of duty. To have that compounded with a loss, it's a bad day," Patrol Chief John R. Batiste.
The chief has been consoling family and members of agency.
"They're all hurting. I'm hurting," Batiste said.
An aid car carrying Radulescu's body was escorted by dozens of patrol cars with lights flashing from the hospital to the Pierce County medical examiner's office where the autopsy would be conducted.
According to Kitsap County court records, Blake was convicted for assaulting his then-pregnant girlfriend in 2004 as he drove down a street under the influence of alcohol. After being arrested, he kicked out the window of a patrol car.
Later that year, after the baby was born, he choked the woman and punched her in the face repeatedly because she asked him to watch the child while she took a nap.
In 2008, a Port Orchard officer tried to pull him over for a minor traffic infraction. He sped off at 60 mph, crashed into another police car and then ran off. As officers pursued him, he returned to his car and sped away again ' only to later be caught when a sheriff's office dog team chased him up a tree.
Department of Corrections spokesman Chad Lewis said Blake was a handful both for prison officials and for community corrections officers who tried to supervise him. He completed a 2 -year prison term in early 2010, and last spring he served two months for failing to check in with his community corrections officer. His term of supervision ended last August, Lewis said.
"He was a very difficult person," he said.
Radulescu's death was the first of a trooper on duty in 13 years, although Washington state has seen several law enforcement officers killed in recent years, including four officers from Lakewood who were shot to death by a gunman at a coffee shop in 2009.
The last trooper killed was James Saunders, 31, who was shot in 1999 during a traffic stop in Pasco. Nicolas S. Vasquez pleaded guilty to aggravated murder and was sentenced to life in prison.
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Epidemic Increases In Melanoma Rates Three Of Four Americans Surveyed Have Never Had Skin Cancer Examination
Survey Commissioned by MELA Sciences, Inc. Illustrates Need to Expand Skin Cancer Detection Habits in U.S.
Feb 21, 2013, 07:30 EST
IRVINGTON, N.Y., Feb. 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- MELA Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: MELA).
Despite alarming increases in skin cancer rates in the U.S., only 24% of American adults have had a skin check by a dermatologist. This statistic is one of several important findings from a survey conducted online by Harris Interactive® that reveals insights into behaviors regarding skin cancer detection and illustrates the urgency around improved preventative care. The study was conducted on behalf of MELA Sciences, Inc. from January 29-31, 2013, among 2,109 Americans ages 18 and older.
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Additional key findings:
- Only 23% of Americans perform monthly mole self-checks
- 37% of Americans believe they are not at risk for skin cancer -- in spite of industry statistics that report 1 in 5 Americans will develop skin cancer annually
- While 85% of U.S. adults correctly believe that moles are often pre-cursors to melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, 20% believe that moles "are simply beauty marks"
"While many forms of cancer are on the decline, melanoma continues to rise and in fact, is the leading cause of cancer death in women ages 25 to 30 and second only to breast cancer in women ages 30 to 34," said Dr. Joseph Gulfo, President and CEO of MELA Sciences, Inc. "We have a tremendous opportunity to spread awareness and change the course of the disease by advocating for the detection of melanoma at its most curable stage, and with this survey, we'll draw attention to the importance of annual skin checks in the fight against melanoma."
MELA Sciences, Inc. is the pioneer company that developed MelaFind®, the first and only FDA-approved diagnostic tool to detect melanoma at its most curable stage. The patient survival rate is nearly 100% if melanoma is found when limited to the outer-most layer of the skin; once the cancer is advanced, the five year survival rate is generally 15-20%. MelaFind® sees 2.5 mm under the skin and uses multi-spectral light technology to provide dermatologists with additional information when deciding which ambiguous moles to biopsy during skin examinations. In the MelaFind® Pivotal Trial, which was the largest positive prospective clinical study ever conducted in melanoma detection, MelaFind® detected 98.3% of the melanomas.
"Annual skin cancer screenings are critically important because they can catch skin cancer, including melanoma, in its earliest, most curable stage," said Darrell Rigel, MD, Clinical Professor of Dermatology, New York University. "I advise my patients to monitor their moles on an ongoing basis and to come into the office for a professional full-body skin cancer screening at least once a year."
Annual Exams
The survey findings show that the majority of American adults (86%) have had a physical exam by a physician but that Americans are less likely to have had a skin cancer screening by a dermatologist. Older adults are significantly more likely to have had a skin cancer screening, compared to their younger counterparts (40% of those ages 55+ vs. 16% of those ages 18-54), even though melanoma is one of the more common cancers in people younger than 30.1
Survey findings also show that 26% of American women have had a skin cancer screening by a dermatologist, compared to 23% of men. Adults in the Northeast (28%) and South (25%) are significantly more likely to have had a skin cancer screening than those who live in the Midwest (19%).
The survey found that more than half (51%) of Americans do not regularly conduct monthly self-exams including breast, testicular and mole checks. Women are more likely to perform monthly mole self-checks than men (26% and 19%, respectively). Interestingly, a larger percentage of adults who have had a skin cancer screening by a dermatologist perform monthly mole self-checks (39%).
Cancer Risk
Even with advancements in sun protection technology and education on the importance of sunscreen in protecting against the risks of skin cancer, the survey shows that over two in five (43%) of U.S. adults say skin cancer "is not something they worry about." Younger men are significantly more likely to say they do not believe they are at risk for skin cancer than their older counterparts (45% of men ages 18-44, 33% of men ages 55+). 37% of Americans also agree that melanoma is treatable, no matter "what stage it is caught."
"We continue to push the need for self-exams at home and screenings by board-certified dermatologists, as the combination of both exams gives a higher likelihood of identifying skin cancer at earlier stages," said Laura K. Ferris, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Dermatology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. "We know that some consumers may look at smartphone applications for guidance, but my recent study shows that these apps are not reliable tools, with three out of four applications incorrectly classifying 30% or more of melanomas as unconcerning.2 There is simply no substitute for seeing a dermatologist for a full skin cancer screening."
"During our skin cancer screenings, we now have the advantage of using MelaFind® on unusual moles which helps us learn about the characteristics of a mole, said Dr. Rigel. "In turn, we're becoming better diagnosticians and are better able to identify melanoma in its most curable stages."
Survey Methodology
This survey was conducted online within the United States between January 29th and 31st, 2013, among 2,109 adults (aged 18 and over) by Harris Interactive on behalf of RPR Marketing Communications via its Quick Query omnibus product. Figures for age, sex, race/ethnicity, education, region and household income were weighted where necessary to bring them into line with their actual proportions in the U.S. population. Propensity score weighting was used to adjust for respondents' propensity to be online.
Respondents for this survey were selected from among those who have agreed to participate in Harris Interactive surveys. The data have been weighted to reflect the composition of the U.S. adult population. Because the sample is based on those who agreed to participate in the Harris Interactive panel, no estimates of theoretical sampling error can be calculated. For complete survey methodology, including weighting variables, please contact Erica Sperling at Rpr Marketing Communications.
About MELA Sciences, Inc.
MELA Sciences, Inc. is a medical device company focused on the commercialization of its flagship product, MelaFind®, and its further design and development. MelaFind is a non-invasive tool to provide additional information to dermatologists during melanoma skin examinations. The device uses light from visible to near-infrared wavelengths to evaluate skin lesions up to 2.5 mm beneath the skin. The device provides information on a lesion's level of morphologic disorganization to provide additional objective information that may be used by dermatologists in the biopsy decision-making process. MelaFind has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration for use in the US. In addition, MelaFind has received CE Mark approval and is approved for use in the European Union.
For more information on MELA Sciences, Inc., visit www.melasciences.com
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This press release includes "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements include but are not limited to our plans, objectives, expectations and intentions and other statements that contain words such as "expects," "contemplates," "anticipates," "plans," "intends," "believes," "assumes," "predicts" and variations of such words or similar expressions that predict or indicate future events or trends, or that do not relate to historical matters. These statements are based on our current beliefs or expectations and are inherently subject to significant known and unknown uncertainties and changes in circumstances, many of which are beyond our control. There can be no assurance that our beliefs or expectations will be achieved. Actual results may differ materially from our beliefs or expectations due to financial, economic, business, competitive, market, regulatory and political factors or conditions affecting the company and the medical device industry in general, as well as more specific risks and uncertainties facing the company such as those set forth in its reports on Forms 10-Q and 10-K filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"). Factors that might cause such a difference include whether MelaFind® achieves market acceptance. Given the uncertainties affecting companies in the medical device industry such as the Company, any or all of these forward-looking statements may prove to be incorrect. Therefore, you should not rely on any such factors or forward-looking statements. The Company urges you to carefully review and consider the disclosures found in its filings with the SEC which are available at www.sec.gov and www.melasciences.com.
1 http://www.cancer.org/cancer/skincancer-melanoma/detailedguide/melanoma-skin-cancer-key-statistics
2 Diagnostic Inaccuracy of Smartphone Applications for Melanoma Detection. Joel A. Wolf, BA; Jacqueline Moreau, BA; Oleg Akilov, MD; Timothy Patton, DO; Joseph C. English, MD; Jonhan Ho, MD; Laura K. Ferris, MD, PhD
JAMA Dermatol. 2013;():1-4. doi:10.1001/jamadermatol.2013.2382.
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Bishop Thomas Visits St. Mary Church + Wilkes-Barre, PA
On the weekend of October 14, 2012, Sayidna Thomas visited St. Mary Antiochian Orthodox Church in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Sayidna arrived on Friday afternoon and that evening had dinner with the Parish Council and their families. Suanne Moses, the President of the Council, welcomed Sayidna and hoped that he would have a good visit at St. Mary's. During the meal they spoke about the life in the parish and about the economic growth in the area which is connected mostly to the service industry. Sayidna noted that there were several new hotels in the area and stated that they would provide an opportunity for interested Antiochian Orthodox to find work in this area. He particularly noted how in Pennsylvania the price for housing is relatively inexpensive compared to other metropolitan areas. He hoped that this would be attractive to people looking for a less expensive life in a beautiful geographic area who could become viable members of our Orthodox parish.
On Saturday Sayidna visited some of his family, the owners of a local restaurant, Abe's, which is famous for its Hot Dogs in Wilkes-Barre, where Sayidna has eaten from the time that he was a child. Then that evening he presided over Great Vespers which was served by the pastor of St. Mary's, the Very Rev. David Hester and the Deacon John Karam. Assisting at the Great Vespers were Subdeacon Norman Namey, Subdeacon John Moses, and several of the seminary students from St. Tikhon's Orthodox Seminary. Andrew Carpenter, a seminarian assigned to the parish, along with his fiancé, served as chanters along with the parish chanter Dallal Neddoff. Following the service there was a special meal served in the Parish Hall for some 60 people. It was a Syrian meal featuring Muddi which was prepared by a parishioner, Riad Attar, and several other members of the parish.
On Sunday, Sayidna served the Hierarchical Divine Liturgy, assisted by Father David and Deacon John. The choir was directed by Sayidna's cousin Amber Hyder and other members of his family also sang in the choir. Reading the Epistle for the Teen Soyo month was one of the parish teens, Alia Mazzatosta. Another teen, Hannah Kasko, also took up the collection. Sayidna preached about the special feast of the Fathers of the Seventh Ecumenical Council and spoke about the importance of keeping and living out our Orthodox faith.
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Brazil star Neymar has celebrated a national holiday in his native country by posting one of his old childhood photos.
The 25-year-old forward, who joined French Ligue 1 giants Paris St Germain from Barcelona in a world record £198million transfer this summer, shared the snap in recognition of Children's Day in Brazil.
The picture shows a young Neymar crouching with a ball while wearing Brazil's national yellow and green colours – something he has replicated in a more up to date snap with a photo of him lining up for his country.
In Brazil, Children's Day is celebrated on October 12 every year and coincides with Our Lady of Aparecida's day, the country's patron saint holiday.


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Ensuring California's death penalty system remains in limbo for the foreseeable future, a state appeals court on Thursday scrapped the state's latest attempt to update its lethal injection procedures at San Quentin State Prison.
In a 28-page ruling, the 1st District Court of Appeal invalidated California's lethal injection procedures, finding that state prison officials failed to comply with proper administrative rules when crafting new regulations two years ago. The decision sends California back to the drawing board, unless the Brown administration appeals the decision to the California Supreme Court.
The appeals court upheld Marin County Judge Faye D'Opal, who likewise found the prison department failed to comply with the state's administrative procedures act for a variety of reasons, including providing no public explanation for why San Quentin officials opted to continue with a three-drug lethal injection method as opposed to a single-drug execution option being embraced by a number of other states.
State officials have indicated in court papers they are exploring the single-drug option, which involves putting condemned inmates to death with a single fatal dose of a sedative. Ohio, Washington and Arizona are among the states that have moved to that option to shortcircuit legal challenges to the three-drug lethal injection method.
The appeals court decision is the latest setback for death penalty supporters in California, where there has been a moratorium on executions since 2006 as a result of legal challenges to the state's lethal injection procedures in both the state and federal courts. There are now more than 725 inmates awaiting execution on death row, including more than a dozen who have exhausted their legal appeals and would be eligible to be executed immediately if the state resumed executions.
In response to a federal judge's concerns, former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and current Gov. Jerry Brown have both attempted to overhaul the state's lethal injection procedures, revising training for execution team members and constructing a new lethal injection facility at San Quentin. But the state's effort to update its execution method has now been blocked twice for violating the administrative code, for the most part by failing to offer adequate public review of the proposed changes.
Justice J. Anthony Kline, writing for the appeals court, found the state once again violated the administrative rules in 2010, rejecting the state's argument that more than 20,000 comments were submitted and public hearings were held to consider the new lethal injection procedures. The appeals court concluded that the public did not receive all the necessary information, particularly surrounding the prison system's decision to stick to the three-drug method, which has been challenged because of concerns it can result in a cruel and painful death.
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More and more folks are becoming aware of the potential hazards of cleaning products which affect their health and the environment. These hazards include toxic chemicals containing poisonous compounds, carcinogens, irritants to the eyes, skin and respiratory tract, and ingredients that pollute the world in which we live. Many household cleaning products have not been tested by regulating agencies thus it is uncertain how these products may affect us. Even odor neutralizing products such as sprays, aerosols, gels, oils and candles can emit harmful ingredients, causing the inside of our homes to contain more pollutants than the outside.
Due to these concerns, safe, environmentally preferable products are being developed which provide effective results. Since we all want a healthier home environment, we can decide to choose such products that are safe to use around children and pets.
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Instead, chose those that have less impact on human health and the environment when compared to other products that serve the same purpose. Some of these "green products" include cleaners for glass, multi-surfaces, carpet, kitchen and bath. They feature ingredients made from renewable resources and are one hundred percent biodegradable. There are also products available containing beneficial microbes. These products have an excellent reputation for digesting odors in bathrooms, unclogging drains, and removing pet stains from carpets. For freshening the air, use products that are compliant with volatile organic compound (VOC) regulations thus reducing air pollution.
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HI-HO SILVER: Paris fashion house Azzaro and Los Angeles style guru Cameron Silver, who owns the Decades vintage boutique, are ending their four-year collaboration on amicable terms. As a creative consultant, Silver helped Azzaro gain traction on the red carpet by landing its gowns on high-profile celebrities, including Kate Winslet and Diane Lane. "[Silver] was such an important part in re-creating the brand and its visibility," said Vanessa Seward, Azzaro's creative director. Silver said the collaboration would end after this Hollywood awards season. "I thought it was time to move on," said Silver. The decision corresponds with Azzaro, which is owned by Reig Capital, hiring an in-house communications director, Claus Estermann, who formerly worked at Givenchy.
ANYA'S EDEN: "I'm fascinated! It's like a good soccer match," said Anya Hindmarch, weighing in on the U.S. electoral race. There's a reason Hindmarch had politics on the brain last Wednesday night: She decked out the Tory party's annual black-and-white ball — turning a usual fusty affair into a garden party. Guests included Conservative Party stalwarts Samantha Cameron, wife of party leader David Cameron; Trinny Woodall; Charles and Sydney Finch; Ben and Kate Goldsmith; Zac and Sheherazade Goldsmith; Jemima Khan; Annabel Goldsmith; Marie Chantal of Greece; Nadja Swarovski; Lady Helen Taylor; Amber Nuttal; Saffron Aldridge; Alice and George Bamford, and Bryan Ferry. The event, held under a tent in London's Battersea Park, was inspired by the Chelsea Flower Show, with a series of green spaces, including a traditional English country garden, an herb garden, an allotment, and a stately garden, all glowing by candlelight.
And while politics may have been the excuse for going, it certainly wasn't the evening's only entertainment. Woodall and Sydney Finch compared their coordinating floral Prada dresses, while Samantha Cameron joked about the tent's lethal greenhouse effect. "The moisture is going to wreck havoc with my hair!" Eden has its faults, after all.
BRONZED BRITS: London designers may not be blessed with Mediterranean weather, but why can't they have that sun-kissed hue so favored by their Italian counterparts? This week, designers including Luella Bartley, Nathan Jenden and Christopher Kane are all sporting the sort of healthy glow that comes from a monthlong romp around the Aeolian Islands. It's all thanks to allover tan treatments from the cult British brand San Tropez, which also counts Victoria Beckham, Sienna Miller and Cat Deeley among its fans. No word on whether Giles Deacon, Gareth Pugh or Roksanda Ilincic — whose skin is like alabaster — have also hopped aboard, but in the meantime, fashion-watchers are scanning for suspicious tan lines.
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CAR CRASH FASHION: Swedish designer Ann-Sofie Back took a stand against out-of-control celebrities at her London Fashion Week show Sunday night, with an homage to their worst fashion moments. She sent out dresses with apparently torn hemlines and wine stains dripping down the front, skirts with lace G-strings hanging off them and T-shirts with pixilated logos of OK and Heat magazines. "The celebrity obsession has been bothering me for some time now; that photo of Britney Spears in London — with the pixilated crotch — is burnt into my head," said Back. Luckily for her fans and stockists, which include Opening Ceremony in New York and Mameg in Los Angeles, this was just runway posturing. Back in the showroom, she's got gray peacoats and some beautiful jersey garments with ever-so-small details that reference the runway.
BOHINC'S JEWEL BOX: Jeweler Lara Bohinc, who's known for her chunky gold statement necklaces and bracelets, now has a whole treasure trove of a store to call her own. On Sunday, the designer unveiled a bijou shop on London's Sloane Street, which will carry her gold jewelry set with turquoise, diamonds and agate alongside her fashion jewelry, leather handbags, belts and sunglasses. "You can see what my design is about under one roof. I'm very excited," said Bohinc. And the store's decor reflects Bohinc's graphic style, too, with space age, graphite stone units inspired by honeycomb shapes and gold stone floors.
DRIVE-BY COLLECTIONS: Mark Eley and Wakako Kishimoto will eschew the catwalk when they make their debut as Cacharel's creative directors during Paris Fashion Week later this month. Instead, the duo plans to take the line straight to the shop floor, and mount a static, cocktail-hour presentation of the fall 2008 collection for Cacharel in the label's store on Rue Bonaparte. "Even when people drive past [the window], they'll be able to see the collection in a store setting," said Eley backstage after the Eley Kishimoto show Monday. Could this be a trend?