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Thursday, May 31, 2012

Drink in style: America?s best rooftop bars

Kip Dawkins / Courtesy Top of the Strand

The Strand Hotel's 21st-floor perch has a retractable roof that gives it a year-round versatility popular with the after-work crowd and tourists waiting for the Empire State Building's light display to ignite the evening.

By Adam H. Graham, Departures.com

Andre Morris, president of Varran Media, had a challenge to solve last December: where to throw a Manhattan party for his VIP client, hip-hop star 50 Cent. Morris knew that in order to please the celebrity rapper, he?d need a venue with the right mix of sophistication and tranquility; that?s why, once his search began, he decided to ?go up? ? that is, to look at rooftop bars.

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High above the bustling din of Midtown Manhattan, Morris found what he was looking for atop the 21st floor of the Strand Hotel. The Top of the Strand had a retractable roof, chestnut wood?box planters, flickering hurricane lanterns, plush banquettes in wooly Ralph Lauren upholsteries and an overall graceful atmosphere designed by "Sex and the City" set designer Lydia Marks, which added to the rooftop bar?s selling points. But it was the awe-inspiring views of the city?s skyline that sealed the deal.

?The moment you step off the elevator, you feel as if you?re transported to a South Beach, hot spot,? said Morris. ?But once you look up, you?re in the shadow of the Empire State Building.?

New York is just one of the U.S. cities that?s seen a profusion of new rooftop bars in recent years. Residents use them as sanctuaries from street-level hubbub and as after-hours ?offices? for conducting business; tourists appreciate them for their aerial vantage point over landmarks and local goings-on. Manhattan alone seems to have sprouted a new rooftop bar for every type ? whether you want a glass of champagne in a manicured English roof garden with views of Central Park (The Surrey on the Upper East Side), artisan cocktails with an arty downtown crowd while gaping at the Brooklyn Bridge (Jimmy?s in Soho) or martinis with a mixed Midtown crowd while admiring the ambition-stirring views of the iconic Empire State Building (Top of the Strand).

But New York is not the only rooftop game in town. Elegant sky-high bars have cult appeal in cities as varied as Portland, Ore., (with its Departure Bar, an architectural gem that sits atop the Nines Hotel) and Chicago (where patrons at the Peninsula Hotel?s Shanghai Terrace gaze over the city?s iconic Water Tower and John Hancock Building).?

Some rooftop oases ??such as La Fonda?s Bell Tower Bar in Santa Fe, N.M., or High, at the Hotel Erwin in Venice Beach, Calif. ? have such breathtaking sunset views you might forget you?re in a city at all.?

Our list of the country?s best rooftop bars includes all these options, and more. Each venue offers its own particular reminder that getting up above it all is a rare treat. It?s coming down that?s the problem.

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UBS Financial Services partnered with the Maine Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure and American Cancer Society to offer a Breast Cancer Symposium at USM in Portland on May 24th. With nearly 200 attendees and 18 exhibitors, the event was informative for breast cancer survivors and the general public alike.

The Maine Affiliate of Susan G. Komen was established in 1997 and serves the entire state. Through events like the Race for the Cure, which are held in both Portland and Bangor in September, Komen raises funds to help underserved populations. 75% of net funds raised are invested in education, screening and treatment programs in Maine, while the remaining 25% funds innovative breast cancer research to find the cures. To date, Komen Maine has invested nearly $2.6 million in our local communities.

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The recommendation by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force does not necessarily apply to women who use hormone replacement therapy to reduce menopausal symptoms such as hot flashes, night sweats and vaginal dryness. The balance of harm and benefits for that use is expected to be addressed soon in a report by the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

The latest recommendation, published Monday in the Annals of?Internal Medicine, comes from an organization accustomed to controversy. In recent months, the task force has recommended against routine?breast cancer?screenings for most women younger than 50. It has also urged abandonment of the prostate-specific antigen, or PSA, test that has become a standard part of older men?s yearly physicals.

Its latest recommendation could be a bit less controversial but is likely to have detractors among physicians who believe that the dangers of hormone replacement therapy for menopausal women have been overblown.

The recommendation is largely based on revised analyses of the landmark?Women?s Health?Initiative, a 15-year study involving more than 160,000 women. It comes a decade after the study first linked hormone replacement therapy with higher rates of invasive breast cancer. Those initial findings prompted droves of women to abandon or avoid hormone therapy.

But a decade of subsequent research tempered much of the fear, and preliminary but conflicting studies had suggested that some?postmenopausal?women taking?hormones?might benefit from lower rates of bone fractures, dementia and heart disease.

The task force found limited evidence that hormones protect against bone fractures, and no evidence that they reduce the most probable threat ? heart disease. It also found that for most menopausal women using hormone therapy, the risk of developing dementia later in life actually rose a bit.

Against such sparse benefits, the panel weighed relatively new evidence of the risks, including a significantly higher rate of life-threatening blood clots in the legs and lungs, a greater probability of?gallbladder disease?and increased risk of urinary incontinence that persisted in studies for at least three years.

Dr. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, chairwoman of the panel, said members took pains to put the possible benefits of hormone replacement therapy in context. One form of the therapy ? estrogen alone ? did appear to slightly reduce the incidence of breast cancer. Invasive breast cancer looms large as a concern to many women but affects just 11% of them after menopause.

That possible protective effect became less consequential when weighed against hormone therapy?s effects on far more likely risks to women?s health, said Bibbins-Domingo, professor of medicine and of epidemiology and biostatistics at UC San Francisco: It fails to reduce the risk of heart disease, which will affect 30% of women who live past menopause.

It slightly increased the likelihood of dementia, which will affect 22% of all postmenopausal women. It was linked to a higher likelihood of stroke, affecting 21% of these women. And although it slightly reduced the rate of hip fractures, which affect 15% of women past menopause, other medications can do that more effectively.

Today, 1 in 5 postmenopausal American women uses hormone replacement therapy, mostly to treat symptoms such as hot flashes, night sweats and vaginal dryness. That is about half the rate in 2002, when 40% took hormones. But as revisions to the Women?s Health Initiative have relaxed widespread reticence about the medications among women and their physicians, hormone use appears to be creeping back up.

?You would think there wasn?t much room for concern,? said Dr. Rowan Chlebowski, the principal investigator for the Women?s Health Initiative and a professor of medicine at?UCLA?s Harbor campus. ?That?s not exactly correct.?

In the last year, the North American Menopause Society, healthcare professionals active in promoting the health of women as they make the transition out of childbearing years, has issued guidance on hormone therapy that has reopened the door to its widespread use, Chlebowski said.

?This [Preventive Services Task Force] recommendation kind of says, ?Not so fast.? ? It?s a pretty sophisticated argument to make,? Chlebowski said.

The task force said its decision to recommend against hormone therapy for prevention of chronic diseases was based on ?at least fair? evidence that the harm outweighed the benefits, or that its use was ineffective. But Bibbins-Domingo, lead author of the report, said the panel struggled with two slightly different mixes of potential harm and benefits: those linked to standard hormone therapy, which includes estrogen and progestin and is used by most women; and those linked to estrogen alone, which is prescribed for women who have undergone uterus removal.

Estrogen alone appears to offer some benefits that estrogen-progestin does not. The task force found that for women past menopause, estrogen offers a small measure of protection against breast cancer, for reasons that are not yet well understood. Only women who have had hysterectomies can take estrogen alone because it has been linked to?uterine cancer.

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Stand Up for WWE: WWE issues a second statement about the Journal Inquirer and Darien Times columns

To provide further clarification on WWE?s recent letters to Chris Powell of the Journal Inquirer and Joshua Fisher of the Darien Times, the WWE issues the following statement:

?WWE is a global television content creator and a publicly traded company whose core business is monetizing that very television content. When our content is unfairly mischaracterized, it seriously jeopardizes our business.

Since 2008, all WWE broadcast programming has been rated TV-PG and prior to that some of our programming had a rating of TV-14. WWE?s content ratings are set not by us, but by the network TV distributors (NBCUniversal) and their standards and practices departments. According to the TV Parental Guidelines established by the television industry and adopted by the Federal Communications Commission, neither TV-PG nor TV-14 content would be considered pornography or anything close to it. In addition, the FCC would not permit our content to air on network or basic cable television if it were pornographic.

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Today in international tech news: As the list of countries blocking The Pirate Bay grows, the website has registered hundreds of IP addresses in preparation for what one website calls an "extended game of whac-a-mole." Also: A Japanese company releases a smartphone that can measure radiation, and Chinese PC maker Lenovo eyes potential Brazilian acquisitions.

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While traveling is full of unforgettable moments and life changing experiences, it can also be full of mishaps, accidents, and health problems. ?I once broke my ankle while exploring Peru and spent an entire day in the hospital! ?Since anything can go wrong when you are abroad, it is best to be prepared by investing in travel insurance before you have even left the front door of your home. ?In my opinion, travel insurance is a necessity and thankfully it is now easy to?compare, select, and purchase a range of travel insurance?online.

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Hey, Khloe! Kourtney Kardashian's baby girl is no doll

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As Kourtney Kardashian's pregnancy days draw to a close, her sister Khloe is busily hatching plans to play dress-up with her firstborn niece. There's a whole lot of sparkles and tulle in the littlest Kardashian's future!

"I have bought Kourt's daughter so many tutus," Khloe Kardashian told Us Weekly at Kourtney's baby shower. "All I want to do is dip my niece in glitter and put a tutu on her!"

Though Kourtney Kardashian's baby shower was reportedly a joyous affair, filled with pink strawberry shakes and cotton candy, gossip is in the wind that not all is well in the pregnant star's family life.

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Tuesday OK! magazine published claims Scott Disick, also father of their 2-year-old son Mason, has been booted from their family home. They report:

Scott, showed up for brunch bloodshot and wobbly. "He seemed tipsy to me, and it was only noon," a relative close to Kourtney tells OK!. "Kourtney pulled Scott aside and told him to move out."

And so he did, to an apartment rented last month in nearby Thousand Oaks, California. Scott has been staying there since then.

Though Disick's alcohol issues have been documented for all to see on Keeping Up with the Kardashians, this particular rumor doesn't appear to hold much water. A pregnant Kourtney Kardashian is pictured above with son Mason and Scott just last week happily enjoying the park all together!

Drama aside, Khloe Kardashian need not treat her sister's baby girl as a dress-up doll. Word has it the Kardashian doll line (rumored to be named "Dash Dolls") is a go! Leave that baby alone, Khloe, and dip your plastic self in glitter instead!

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Microsoft patents asking your friends 'does my butt look big in this?'

Microsoft has patented an online personal appearance adviser for those of us without a hotline straight through to Put This On's Jesse Thorn. Simply upload a pair of pictures of yourself in different hair, makeup and clothing choices and let the denizens of the internet vote on which one makes you look the best. Sounding similar to HotorNot and FaceMash, this patent purports to shift the emphasis to help the style-challenged choose a suitable wardrobe. We just hope the company built in some snark-protection -- or else we might see plenty of ingenues with ruined self esteem arrive at the opera in a dinosaur costume.

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Spurs get 'nasty' to take 1-0 lead over Thunder

SAN ANTONIO (AP) ? Trailing in the fourth quarter, Gregg Popovich snarled an order in the huddle that the NBA Coach of the Year punctuated with a sharp and angry sweep of his hand.

"I want some nasty!"

But truthfully, Popovich was already getting what he really wanted: the San Antonio Spurs finally in a game they might actually lose.

Popovich's caught-on-camera "nasty" command in Game 1 of the Western Conference finals is likely coming soon to T-shirts, Internet memes and the lexicon of the NBA playoffs for the foreseeable future. But after beating the Oklahoma City Thunder 101-98 on Sunday night for their 19th win in a row ? tying the NBA record for longest winning streak kept alive in the playoffs ? Popovich wasn't flustered by the near-loss.

He was almost grateful for it.

"We wanted it about 15 games ago," Popovich said. "At least I did."

Manu Ginobili scored 26 points as the Spurs escaped a tantalizing near-upset for the young Thunder, who came closer than anyone to beating the Spurs for the first time in 46 days. But a nine-point lead didn't last after the famously mercurial 63-year-old Popovich huddled his lagging team together in the fourth and told them to "get nasty."

"I said that?" Popovich said afterward.

A nationally television audience heard it.

"The heat of the game, stuff comes up," Popovich said. "So I talked to them about they've got to get a little bit uglier, get a little more nasty, play with more fiber and take it to these guys. Meaning you have to drive it, you have to shoot it."

And when they did, the Thunder couldn't keep up.

Kevin Durant led the Thunder with 27 points. Russell Westbrook had 17, and insisted he was OK after taking a spill that was nasty in its own right ? face first, bracing his fall with his hands and sitting under the basket for more than a minute while the entire Thunder bench walked across the court to check on their All-Star point guard.

"I shot good shots, made good passes," Durant said. "Unfortunately, we lost."

After being held to just 16 third-quarter points, San Antonio scored 39 in the fourth. Westbrook chalked it up to a defensive breakdown that "got out of hand" but it still left the Thunder in search of the road win they'll need to in this series to reach the NBA finals for the first time since the franchise moved to Oklahoma City in 2009.

Game 2 is Tuesday night.

"How it happened is irrelevant," Thunder guard Derrick Fisher said of letting a lead slip away. "Whether we lose by 20 or lose by one, we lost."

That's something the Spurs haven't been able to say since April 11. They joined the 2001 Lakers as the only other team to carry a winning streak this long in the playoffs ? and that Los Angeles team did so on its way to a championship.

The Spurs matched the fourth-longest streak in NBA history, and with one more will become just the fourth team to surpass 20. Tim Duncan had 16 points and 11 rebounds, and Tony Parker shook off a dismal start to finish with 18 points.

And of getting "nasty"?

"Pop's always trying to motivate us," Parker said.

But it was Ginobili who steered the Spurs to strike first in a highly anticipated matchup of the West's top two teams for practically the entire regular season. In his first game against the Thunder this year ? he was sidelined by injury in the three regular-season meetings ? Ginobili put up a playoff high after sputtering through the first two series.

"It just happened," Ginobili said. "I don't know how exactly because I haven't scored like this all season long, but it happened and I am very happy about it."

On the other end, Oklahoma City's own Big Three struggled to find its shot early before awakening in the second half. Durant, Westbrook and James Harden at one point through the second quarter were 5 of 21 ? a typically ominous stat line for a trio that had been responsible for nearly 70 percent of Oklahoma City's points through the playoffs so far.

The Thunder were ousted in the Western Conference finals a year ago and were in position for home-court advantage throughout the playoffs until being overtaken by the Spurs in the final month of the season. But it was a fittingly close opener for two franchises with so many similarities.

That includes Thunder general manager Sam Presti ? the architect of the Thunder's rapid turnaround from a 23-win season to consecutive Western Conference finals in just four years ? getting his big break in the NBA as an intern in San Antonio.

And the Thunder didn't even need their own Big Three to keep things close.

They leaned on none more so than Fisher, whose famous game-winner for the Lakers on this same court in the 2004 playoffs has made "0.4 seconds" a phrase that needs no further explanation to the Spurs. Eight years later, and the oldest player in this series at 37, Fisher already met his playoff average at halftime and finished with 13 points.

Gary Neal added 12 points and was the only other Spurs player in double figures.

Harden lost in the first round of his matchup with Ginobili, who's also a lefty and a former Sixth Man of the Year winner. Harden finished with 19 points on 7-of-17 shooting but started by missing nine of his first dozen shots.

Tipping off another conference finals couldn't happen soon enough for Oklahoma City. With nothing to do but prepare for the Spurs all week ? and be asked about the Spurs ? the Thunder grew weary of questions about being perceived underdogs. About not having the same championship pedigree. About how they'll possibly stop a team rolling through one of the 10 longest winning streaks in NBA history.

So repetitive were the questions that Durant, visibly annoyed, suggested earlier this week that someone instead ask how the Thunder are going "to come at" the Spurs. That didn't stop Oklahoma City from facing more of the same at shootaround Sunday morning, when Thunder coach Scott Brooks tried quashing again the idea his team was somehow intimidated.

"They're not going to be in awe. They're going to have respect for them," Brooks said. "We know we can beat them."

They've still got to prove it.

Notes: Spurs C DeJuan Blair has given the Thunder fits in his three NBA seasons, including 22 points on them in a March win. But San Antonio's starting center for practically the entire season didn't play for the third consecutive playoff game. "The game will tell us what's appropriate and what's not," Popovich said before tipoff. ...Just because a Boston-Oklahoma City matchup in still possible in the NBA finals doesn't mean center Kendrick Perkins is hopeful about facing his old team. "I really don't care," Perkins said of the Celtics advancing. ...Gov. Rick Perry took in his first Spurs game this year, sitting courtside next to Spurs owner Peter Holt, a major donor to the former Republican presidential candidate.

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