Celebrate Every Year After Forty, with a Mammogram – Women
Celebrate Every Year After Forty, with a Mammogram
Angela Butera Dickson
Celebrate the month of your birth by having a mammogram - toast your life with this fast, easy and noninvasive test.
A first mammogram is a right of passage for most women at forty. 66.9% of women over the age of forty have had baseline mammograms to establish and document their breast health. But 30% of women have somehow missed this important message and it is an especially important one for the Hispanic and Asian communities who have the lowest average screening rates among American women.
There has been much confusion and controversy in the media about the benefits of mammography in the last two years. In a Danish study that was released in 2001 researchers concluded widespread mammography screening was unjustified. This study along with the numerous ensuing counter arguments criticizing the studies methodology has left many women unsure of the benefits of mammography.
On May 14 of this past year The American Cancer Society released its guidelines emphasizing the role and important benefits of mammography. The panel of independent experts reconfirmed that regular mammography screening reduces breast cancer deaths.
Mammography screening is endorsed by The American Cancer Society, The National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations, The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as well as the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force USPSTF.
Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed female cancer in the United States. One out of every 10 women will be diagnosed with the disease and 40,000 women will die from breast cancer in the United States this year.
According to The National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations web site,
Las Vegas Sands Corp. is IPO of the year – Casino
Las Vegas Sands Corp. is IPO of the year
Iulia Pascanu
Sheldon Adelson, founder and owner of Las Vegas Sands LVS, won $690 million on December 15 2004, in the most profitable initial public offering IPO in the American gaming industry.
Las Vegas Sands is the company that owns the Venetian Hotel & Casino on the Las Vegas Strip and Sands Resort in Macau, a former Portuguese colony, nowadays reinstated to China.
The company sold nearly 24 million shares, that sum as little as 6.8 percent of LVS. According to some financial analysts, being such a tiny percent, it certainly put a pressure on the price, that went up 60%. "Todays price was a matter of supply and demand," said John Futrell of Futrell Financial Management on Wednesday. "Too little supply and a lot of demand. The fact that so few shares were available influenced the price."
LVS set an opening price of $29 per share Tuesday evening; it is probably worth mentioning that bankers involved in the sale prophesied an initial price between $24 to $26, prior to the IPO. However, the stock priced at $36.01 when the market opened and reached a high of $49.45 by 1 p.m. EST, when it started to scale back.
This was a record gain for American IPOs this year and the best since Jet Blue in May 2002, that surged 67%.
LVS Chairman Sheldon Adelson, 71, owns an 87.9% slice of the company, while company managers and directors share together 5.3 %.
The money are to be invested in the development of The Palazzo - a $1.6 billion Beverly Hills-themed resort, additional to the Venetian and a $1.8 billion Venetian-style casino/resort in Macau. Palazzo will feature 3,000 suites and double the size of Venetians casino and retail space.
The Venetian is one of the most famed Strip locations, built by Sheldon Adelson on the former site of Sands Hotel and Casino, home of the fabulous Rat Pack boys in the sixties.
Sands Resort in Macau has 329 table games and about 670 slot machines or similar gaming devices. The company plans to build a hotel and convention center with 3,000 suites, 546,000 square feet of gaming facilities and 1 million square feet of gross retail space.
Macau tends to become the leading gaming destination in the world, with the Chinese government recently loosening travel restrictions in Macau and the Asians having such a natural attraction for gambling.
About The Author
Iulia Pascanu writes for http://www.bestlasvegashotels.info where you can find more information about the best hotels in Las Vegas.
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New Year Resolutions to a Better Financial Future – Mortgage
New Year Resolutions to a Better Financial Future
Nowshade Kabir
There could not be a better time to mull over the changes needed in our life style than at the beginning of a New Year. This is also a good time to set yearly goals and make resolutions. Each year, according to statistics, almost a third of us make some kinds of New Year Resolutions. Interestingly, although financial future is our main cause of anxiety, our personal finance, according to surveys, gets only to the fifth place in the list of most common New Year resolutions.
For those of us who are still in the process of making New Year resolutions, my suggestion is to give high priority to financial aspects.
Here are some resolution ideas that may change your financial future over the course of time.
Saving
Lets make one thing clear! What ever amount of money you make it