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- Allergy (1)
- Asthma (1)
- Chronic obstructive airway disease (1)
- Cytokine (1)
- Density equalizing (1)
- Density equalizing mapping (1)
- Endometriosis (1)
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- Biochemie und Chemie (1)
- Mobile Air Quality Studies (MAQS) - an international project (2010)
- Due to an increasing awareness of the potential hazardousness of air pollutants, new laws, rules and guidelines have recently been implemented globally. In this respect, numerous studies have addressed traffic-related exposure to particulate matter using stationary technology so far. By contrast, only few studies used the advanced technology of mobile exposure analysis. The Mobile Air Quality Study (MAQS) addresses the issue of air pollutant exposure by combining advanced high-granularity spatial-temporal analysis with vehicle-mounted, person-mounted and roadside sensors. The MAQS-platform will be used by international collaborators in order 1) to assess air pollutant exposure in relation to road structure, 2) to assess air pollutant exposure in relation to traffic density, 3) to assess air pollutant exposure in relation to weather conditions, 4) to compare exposure within vehicles between front and back seat (children) positions, and 5) to evaluate "traffic zone"- exposure in relation to non-"traffic zone"-exposure. Primarily, the MAQS-platform will focus on particulate matter. With the establishment of advanced mobile analysis tools, it is planed to extend the analysis to other pollutants including including NO2, SO2, nanoparticles, and ozone.
- Reduced inclination of cervical spine in a novel notebook screen system : implications for rehabilitation (2011)
- Background: Professional working at computer notebooks is associated with high requirements on the body posture in the seated position. By the high continuous static muscle stress resulting from this position at notebooks, professionals frequently working at notebooks for long hours are exposed to an increased risk of musculoskeletal complaints. Especially in subjects with back pain, new notebooks should be evaluated with a focus on rehabilitative issues. Methods: In a field study a new notebook design with adjustable screen was analyzed and compared to standard notebook position. Results: There are highly significant differences in the visual axis of individuals who are seated in the novel notebook position in comparison to the standard position. Also, differences are present between further alternative notebook positions. Testing of gender and glasses did not reveal influences. Conclusion: This study demonstrates that notebooks with adjustable screen may be used to improve the posture. Future studies may focus on patients with musculoskeletal diseases.
- Mobile air quality studies (MAQS) in inner cities: particulate matter PM10 levels related to different vehicle driving modes and integration of data into a geographical information program (2012)
- ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Particulate matter (PM) is assumed to exert a major burden on public health. Most studies that address levels of PM use stationary measure systems. By contrast, only few studies measure PM concentrations under mobile conditions to analyze individual exposure situations. METHODS: By combining spatial-temporal analysis with a novel vehicle-mounted sensor system, the present Mobile Air Quality Study (MAQS) aimed to analyse effects of different driving conditions in a convertible vehicle. PM10 was continuously monitored in a convertible car, driven with roof open, roof closed, but windows open, or windows closed. RESULTS: PM10 values inside the car were nearly always higher with open roof than with roof and windows closed, whereas no difference was seen with open or closed windows. During the day PM10 values varied with high values before noon, and occasional high median values or standard deviation values due to individual factors. Vehicle speed in itself did not influence the mean value of PM10; however, at traffic speed (10 -- 50 km/h) the standard deviation was large. No systematic difference was seen between PM10 values in stationary and mobile cars, nor was any PM10 difference observed between driving within or outside an environmental (low emission) zone. CONCLUSIONS: he present study has shown the feasibility of mobile PM analysis in vehicles. Individual exposure of the occupants varies depending on factors like time of day as well as ventilation of the car; other specific factors are clearly identifiably and may relate to specific PM10 sources. This system may be used to monitor individual exposure ranges and provide recommendations for preventive measurements. Although differences in PM10 levels were found under certain ventilation conditions, these differences likely are not of concern for the safety and health of passengers.
- Does type of hospital ownership influence physicians' daily work schedules? : An observational real-time study in German hospital departments (2009)
- Background: During the last two decades the German hospital sector has been engaged in a constant process of transformation. One obvious sign of this is the growing amount of hospital privatization. To date, most research studies have focused on the effects of privatization regarding financial outcomes and quality of care, leaving important organizational issues unexplored. Yet little attention has been devoted to the effects of privatization on physicians' working routines. The aim of this observational real-time study is to deliver exact data about physicians' work at hospitals of different ownership. By analysing working hours, further impacts of hospital privatization can be assessed and areas of improvement identified. Methods: Observations were made by shadowing 100 physicians working in private, for-profit or non-profit as well as public hospital departments individually during whole weekday shifts in urban German settings. A total of 300 days of observations were conducted. All working activities were recorded, accurate to the second, by using a mobile personal computer. Results: Results have shown significant differences in physicians' working activities, depending on hospital ownership, concerning working hours and time spent on direct and indirect patient care. Conclusion: This is the first real-time analysis on differences in work activities depending on hospital ownership. The study provides an objective insight into physicians' daily work routines at hospitals of different ownership, with additional information on effects of hospital privatization.
- Scoliosis : density-equalizing mapping and scientometric analysis (2009)
- Background: Publications related to scoliosis have increased enormously. A differentiation between publications of major and minor importance has become difficult even for experts. Scientometric data on developments and tendencies in scoliosis research has not been available to date. The aim of the current study was to evaluate the scientific efforts of scoliosis research both quantitatively and qualitatively. Methods: Large-scale data analysis, density-equalizing algorithms and scientometric methods were used to evaluate both the quantity and quality of research achievements of scientists studying scoliosis. Density-equalizing algorithms were applied to data retrieved from ISI-Web. Results: From 1904 to 2007, 8,186 items pertaining to scoliosis were published and included in the database. The studies were published in 76 countries: the USA, the U.K. and Canada being the most productive centers. The Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri) was identified as the most prolific institution during that period, and orthopedics represented by far the most productive medical discipline. "BRADFORD, DS" is the most productive author (146 items), and "DANSEREAU, J" is the author with the highest scientific impact (h-index of 27). Conclusion: Our results suggest that currently established measures of research output (i.e. impact factor, h-index) should be evaluated critically because phenomena, such as self-citation and co-authorship, distort the results and limit the value of the conclusions that may be drawn from these measures. Qualitative statements are just tractable by the comparison of the parameters with respect to multiple linkages. In order to obtain more objective evaluation tools, new measurements need to be developed.
- Development and evaluation of a computer-based medical work assessment programme (2008)
- Background: There are several ways to conduct a job task analysis in medical work environments including pencil-paper observations, interviews and questionnaires. However these methods implicate bias problems such as high inter-individual deviations and risks of misjudgement. Computer-based observation helps to reduce these problems. The aim of this paper is to give an overview of the development process of a computer-based job task analysis instrument for real-time observations to quantify the job tasks performed by physicians working in different medical settings. In addition reliability and validity data of this instrument will be demonstrated. Methods: This instrument was developed in consequential steps. First, lists comprising tasks performed by physicians in different care settings were classified. Afterwards content validity of task lists was proved. After establishing the final task categories, computer software was programmed and implemented in a mobile personal computer. At least inter-observer reliability was evaluated. Two trained observers recorded simultaneously tasks of the same physician. Results: Content validity of the task lists was confirmed by observations and experienced specialists of each medical area. Development process of the job task analysis instrument was completed successfully. Simultaneous records showed adequate interrater reliability. Conclusion: Initial results of this analysis supported the validity and reliability of this developed method for assessing physicians' working routines as well as organizational context factors. Based on results using this method, possible improvements for health professionals' work organisation can be identified.
- The role of endocarditis, myocarditis and pericarditis in qualitative and quantitative data analysis (2009)
- The current study is the first scientometric analysis of research activity and output in the field of inflammatory disorders of the heart (endo-, myo- and pericarditis). Scientometric methods are used to compare scientific performance on national and on international scale to identify single areas of research interest. Interest and research productivity in inflammatory diseases of the heart have increased since 1990. The majority of publications about inflammatory heart disorders were published in Western Europe and North America. The United States of America had a leading position in terms of research productivity and quality; half of the most productive authors in this study came from American institutions. The analysis of international cooperation revealed research activity in countries that are less established in the field of inflammatory heart disorder research, such as Brazil, Saudi Arabia and Tunisia. These results indicate that future research of heart inflammation may no longer be influenced predominantly by a small number of countries. Furthermore, this study revealed weaknesses in currently established scientometric parameters (i.e., h-index, impact factor) that limit their suitability as measures of research quality. In this respect, self-citations should be generally excluded from calculations of h-index and impact factor.
- Berlin's medical students' smoking habits, knowledge about smoking and attitudes toward smoking cessation counseling (2010)
- Background: Diseases associated with smoking are a foremost cause of premature death in the world, both in developed and developing countries. Eliminating smoking can do more to improve health and prolong life than any other measure in the field of preventive medicine. Today's medical students will play a prominent role in future efforts to prevent and control tobacco use. Methods: A cross-sectional, self-administered, anonymous survey of fifth-year medical students in Berlin, Germany was conducted in November 2007. The study explored the prevalence of smoking among medical students. We assessed their current knowledge regarding tobacco dependence and the effectiveness of smoking cessation methods. Students' perceived competence to counsel smokers and promote smoking cessation treatments was also explored. Analyses were based on responses from 258 students (86.6% response rate). Results: One quarter of the medical students surveyed were current smokers. The smoking rate was 22.1% among women, 32.4% among men. Students underestimated smoking-related mortality and the negative effect of smoking on longevity. A considerable number of subjects erroneously assumed that nicotine causes coronary artery disease. Students' overall knowledge of the effectiveness of smoking cessation methods was inadequate. Only one third of the students indicated that they felt qualified to counsel patients about tobacco dependence. Conclusions: This study reveals serious deficiencies in knowledge and counseling skills among medical students in our sample. The curriculum of every medical school should include a tobacco module. Thus, by providing comprehensive training in nicotine dependence interventions to medical students, smokers will have access to the professional expertise they need to quit smoking.
- Nanoparticles and cars : analysis of potential sources (2012)
- Urban health is potentially affected by particle emissions. The potential toxicity of nanoparticles is heavily debated and there is an enormous global increase in research activity in this field. In this respect, it is commonly accepted that nanoparticles may also be generated in processes occurring while driving vehicles. So far, a variety of studies addressed traffic-related particulate matter emissions, but only few studies focused on potential nanoparticles. Therefore, the present study analyzed the literature with regard to nanoparticles and cars. It can be stated that, to date, only a limited amount of research has been conducted in this area and more studies are needed to 1) address kind and sources of nanoparticles within automobiles and to 2) analyse whether there are health effects caused by these nanoparticles.
- Bidirectional Assessment of Stress, job satisfaction and work ability of Educators in day care centres: a real-time observation study - the study protocol (BASE) (2010)
- Background: Occupational demands of educators are not very well researched. Nevertheless their work is subject to several requirements. Whether these demands have an effect on the work ability and the health status of employees has also not been examined. Furthermore it is unclear if the ownership type of day care centres have an influence on job satisfaction and work ability of the pedagogical staff and what kind of resources do exist. Previous studies were mainly based on questionnaire data. Objective data does not exist. Therefore the aim of this investigation is to collect precise data relating to work of educators. Methods: Effects of different types of ownership of day care centres on job satisfaction and work ability of educators will be assessed with the help of objective real time studies in combination with multi-level psycho diagnostic measurements. Discussion: The present study is the first of its kind. Up to now there are no computer-based real time studies on workflow of pedagogical staff with regard to assess their work-related stress. Following an exhaustive documentation of educators work processes the day-to-day task can be estimated and approaches for prevention can be developed. This can substantially contribute to an overall improvement of child care in Germany.


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RSC Bio Solutions, Indian Trail, N.C., debuted its new line of bio-based cleaners and fluids at ConExpo last month. These are the company's first products since its launch in 2010 as a bio-based platform of Radiator Specialty Co., which is known for its Liquid Wrench and Gunk brands.
The new line will be available for retail sale and includes fluids and oils, primarily for smaller hydraulically-powered machines, such as lawnmowers and small farm equipment. The line was created through a partnership with Terresolve Technologies Ltd., Mentor Ohio, which manufactures bio-based hydraulic fluid. RSC is marketing its products under Terresolve's EnviroLogic name.
The Liquid Wrench Powered by EnviroLogic Mobile Equipment Hydraulic Fluid is readily biodegradable and safe for use in all ISO 46 grade hydraulic systems. It is designed to meet or exceed the requirements of most major hydraulic equipment manufacturers and performs well in low temperatures. It is available in 1- and 5-gal containers.
The Liquid Wrench Powered by EnviroLogic line also includes:
• Penetrating Oil, which quickly dissolves rust, cuts through grease, penetrates corrosion, and easily frees stuck nuts, locks, bolts, hinges, clamps, and pipes. It is available in 10 and 32 oz., and 1-gal sizes.
• Jack Oil, for anti-wear and corrosion protection. It is formulated to reduce sling off, which offers superior lubrication. The biobased ISO 46 grade jack fluid meets all requirements of major hydraulic jack OEMs and component suppliers, and delivers premium performance when compared to petroleum-based jack oils. It is available in 1-, 5-, and 55-gal containers.
• Aerial Lift Fluid offers a premium performance when compared to petroleum-based aerial lift fluids. The formula is readily biodegradable and safe for use in all aerial lift hydraulic systems. The non-hazardous technology is designed to meet or exceed the requirements of most major hydraulic equipment manufacturers and has outstanding performance in low temperature environments. It is available in 1-gal, 5-, and 55-gal containers.
The Gunk Powered by SafeCare products came through a partnership with Gemtek Products LLC. These products include Truck and Equipment Wash, Heavy Duty Degreaser, Universal Parts Washing Fluid, and a General Purpose Cleaner and Degreaser. They come in a variety of sizes, from smaller trigger bottles to multi-gallon containers.
According to Mike Guggenheimer, Vice President of Business Development for RSC Bio Solutions, the new products, especially the hydraulic fluid, will help end-users increase machine efficiency and lower costs by lengthening changeover intervals and lessening clean-up costs. While they may cost more up front, he said, they will offer a system cost advantage over the long-term.
"RSC Bio Solutions is committed to producing bio-based cleaners, degreasers and lubricants that provide non-hazardous alternatives for applications where both high performance and safety are essential," Guggenheimer said. "These new products increase safety and efficiency for our customers because if there is an accidental spill in the workplace, no harm will be done to their employees or to the environment."
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Amelia Earhart's Disappearance 75 Years Ago
Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic and the first person to fly solo across the Pacific, has been missing for 75 years.
A few of her flying achievements:
1932 – First woman to fly solo across the Atlantic
1932 – Awarded National Geographic Society's Gold Medal from President Herbert Hoover
1932 – Awarded Distinguished Flying Cross by Congress
1932 – First woman to fly solo non-stop across country
1935 – First person to cross the Pacific from Hawaii to California
1935 – First person to fly solo from Los Angeles to Mexico City
Earhart also broke speed and altitude records, wrote books and lectured. She became an aviation editor for Cosmopolitan, and an elected official for the National Aeronautic Association.
Later, she joined Purdue University as aeronautics advisor and a women's career counselor.
In 1932, the year of her solo transatlantic flight, she began designing clothing for women pilots. The first outfit, which appeared in Vogue, was a flying suit that featured loose fitting slacks and a top with large pockets. With this success, she expanded to create her own clothing line for "the woman who lives actively."
When Earhart decided to fly around the world, it was in a Lockheed Electra that she acquired through Purdue University.
Her first attempt was in March, 1937. During takeoff from Hawaii, a tire blew out and she crashed. The severely damaged plane had to be shipped to California for repairs. The second attempt left from Miami in June.
Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan went down on July 2, 1937 while trying to reach Howland Island east of New Guinea. A massive search was instigated, but they were never found.
Over the years other searches have been conducted, but with no conclusive evidence.
This summer, on the 75th anniversary of Earhart's disappearance, The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) is leading another search. This one is focused near Nikumaroro south of Howland Island. TIGHAR's progress can be followed at this link.
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Former 'The Bachelor' Contestant Courtney Robertson Spills Show's Secrets in New Bookby Thomas Chau | PopCrush
She's back!
Courtney Robertson was often regarded as "the villain" of Season 16 of 'The Bachelor,' but Robertson was the one who ended up with the final rose at the show's finale. And while her engagement with Ben Flajnik didn't last long, she is back in the news with a new book that promises to unveil some of the secrets she's been sitting on since the show's 2012 season.
Her book, titled 'I Didn't Come Here to Make Friends: Confessions of a Reality Show Villain,' will be out June 24th and promises to answer burning questions fans may have of what really went on behind the scenes during the show.
For starters, she reveals that during the skinny dipping date with Flajnik, she and Flajnik did have sex in front of the camera crew.
In an interview with the NY Post, Robertson says, "To answer your question, yes. Ben and I did have sex in the ocean. On-camera," Robertson reveals. "It was immediate but it was only for about 20 seconds and, um, it was just the tip."
She also dishes that at the Fantasy Suite, where cameras aren't allowed, the producers left the couple rose petals and candles – but no condoms.
"We did every position under the sun," she confesses.
In addition to her intimate moments with Flajnik, Robertson also talks about the endless supply of booze going around, and even claims that fellow contestant Jenna Burke passed out drunk after a rose ceremony, and another contestant, Jaclyn Swartz, went to the gym with a workout bottle full of vodka.
She also recognizes her villainess role on the show's season but defends herself saying that the footage shown of her was 1% of everything that went down.
'The Bachelor' fans, are you looking forward to hearing Robertson's side of the story?


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CARMA Cookbook
The CARMA cookbook outlines various procedures to calibrate and analyse CARMA data using miriad. Although miriad is a general purpose package for radio interferometers, much like for other instruments like SMA and ATCA, there are CARMA specific procedures and programs. Readers are assumed to also have a copy of the MIRIAD Users Guide handy. There are also some helpful non-miriad tools that you should consider installing.
The most recent draft can also be created from the MIRIAD source code distribution. The author appreciates comments, but it will be useful to remind him which version you are commenting on. For insane reasons the draft is in the MIR5 branch of miriad, in $MIR/manuals/carma-cook if you want to edit. You can also conveniently just add this directory/branch combination in a main version of Miriad with:
cd $MIR/manuals cvs up -r MIR5 carma-cook cd carma-cook Buildcook
If you have obtained a fairly recent CVS enabled distribution of MIRIAD, it will have the carma-cook directory already enable in the right branch (or look at the CVS/Tag file)
Here are a set of links useful if you are doing data-reduction. You will also find them scattered throughout the cookbook and are reproduced here for your convenience:
- observing to get the password
- CARMA data archive
- Quality Reports
- Baseline Corrections (or Jin Koda's Baseline page)
- CARMA Flux Calibrators - this list is regularly updated into MIRIAD. Also check the ATNF and SMA list.
- (ATNF) Miriad Users Guide
Example scripts
Although the cookbook will have annotated scripts for example cases of CARMA data reduction using MIRIAD, the list below is meant to encourage readers to submit their own.
- Example 1: example of a strong calibrator observed in wide and narrow mode, in order to calibrate the phase offset between wide and narrow. During the source a weaker calibrator in wide mode is then observed. This procedure works well if we can assume that the phase offset between differenent correlator modes does not depend on time. The cookbook has an elaborate example of a procedure where we do not assume this.
- Example 2: a full data reduction example for observations of the molecular clouds in the NGC604 region of the Local Group galaxy M33, submitted by Alberto Bolatto (email@example.com). The script has detailed comments.


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The eustachian tubes run between the inside of the ears and the
back of the throat. When a person swallows, the eustachian tubes open briefly
to match the air pressure in the middle ear with the air pressure outside the
If the eustachian tubes become blocked, pressure changes cause pain
in the ear. Fluid may build up in the ear, sometimes leading to infection
(otitis media). Young children are at an increased risk for ear infections,
because they have eustachian tubes that are shorter, more horizontal, and more
easily blocked than those in older children and adults.
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Tips for Writing a Standout Cover Letter
Your goal when writing a cover letter is to attract interest and get employers to read your resume. These five qualities define a standout cover letter- a cover letter and resume that land in the short stack of keepers and not the discard pile -so incorporate them into your writing:
Write in vigorous, vibrant, and animated language that persuades rather than sedates. Use attention-nabbing opens to grab the reader by the eyeglasses and hang on tight.
End your cover letter using an action close (say you'll call) to position yourself for a positive follow-up. You lose face when you ask readers to call and they don't. "I didn't hear from you so, well . . . uh . . . ah . . . um." Note: An action close works in most circumstances, but not all; you wouldn't apply to become the White House chief of staff and tell the president you'll call to set up an interview.
Address your letters to individuals. Use names. Make an intense effort to find the name, correct job title, and address of the human being who will receive your letter.
Bait your letters with marketable skills and other benefits you bring to employers. Convince them that you have something they need and want.
Use postscripts to dramatize some bit of information too tantalizing for readers to ignore.


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It would be fair to say that after three back-to-back trips in less than a month, followed by a Christmas and New Year feasting frenzy, I could now happily weigh-in alongside a team of Russian shot-putters and am a prime candidate for gout, in fact if I carry on at this rate I will have no feet by February. So, something has to be done and I've come to the shocking conclusion that I am going to have to eat less and move more. And where better to start this radical new regime than at the Canyon Ranch Miami Beach, Hollywood's favourite wellness retreat.
Now, I do love a trip to the spa but I've never really felt the urge to use my holiday time to detox. It just doesn't sound much … fun really, but with a guest list that includes Shakira, Eva Longoria, Terri Hatcher, January Jones, as well as Jason Statham and Gerard Butler (spas aren't just for the ladies any more!), the Canyon Ranch promised to be more than your average health spa. There may be 230 classes a week, resident doctors, nutritionist and physiotherapists, and a lofty keep-fit philosophy but there are also lashings and lashings of luxury and a fair amount of fun.
On arrival, I was pleased to see that the lobby was definitely more Kenzo than Tenko, showcasing original Art Deco features of the original Carillon Hotel alongside the upscale elegant designs of New York architect David Rockwell. The rooms too were plush, inviting and surprisingly large – even by American standards – each with vast living rooms and kitchens, spacious spa-style bathrooms and broad balconies overlooking the ocean.
So far, so good. And after a good night's sleep in my jumbo bed I'm up and at 'em. The Canyon Ranch does have a reputation for taking a serious approach to health and fitness though so I fully expected warm cabbage-water and wheatgrass for breakfast but no, instead – and much to my delight – I'm presented with a plentiful plate of organic blueberry pancakes, coming in at less than 300 calories, including the syrup! So this is how those celebs manage to stay so skinnylicious! Here's the recipe if you want to try it out yourself (you really should). And if you love this recipe as much as I do, you can find more here
|Whole-Wheat Buttermilk Pancakes with Fruit
1/2 cup bread flour
1/2 cup whole-wheat flour
1/4 cup cane sugar
1/4 teaspoon sea salt
1 1/2 teaspoon aluminum free baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 large egg
1/4-1/2 cup 2% milk
1 tablespoon canola oil
1 cup buttermilk
1 cup berries or chopped fruit (Blueberries and bananas work well in this recipe.)
12 tablespoons pure maple syrup Instructions1. In a large bowl, combine all dry ingredients. In a medium bowl combine remaining wet ingredients and mix well. Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients and mix until smooth.
2. Lightly coat a griddle or large sauté pan with canola oil. Place on burner over medium heat until hot. Portion approximately 3 tablespoons batter on griddle and sprinkle with 1 tablespoon berries or chopped fruit. Cover fruit with 1 additional tablespoon batter and cook until bubbles form. Flip and cook other side to golden brown.
3. Serve 3 pancakes topped with 2 tablespoons of maple syrup.Serving Information
Makes 6 (3-pancake) servings, each containing approximately: 365 calories, 70 gm. carbohydrate, 6 gm. fat, 54 mg.cholesterol, 10 gm. protein, 469 mg. sodium, 4 gm. fibre.
Loving the idea that eating healthily could taste so good (this Canyon Ranch even allows alcohol, unlike its sister resorts in Tuscon and Lenox, but, of course, here the cocktails are organic, the beer biodynamic and the red wine green) I'm now convinced the keep-fit side of things will be a breeze too.
I bypassed the enormous indoor rock climbing wall, the spectacular state-of-the-art gym overlooking the ocean, and the four swimming pools and instead opted for my first ever Zumba class. Zumba was invented in Miami and claims to be an easy-to-follow, Latin inspired, calorie-burning dance fitness party. Sounds fun right? I thought so. I like a party and, although the only time I really dance is on nights-out when copious amounts of alcohol seem only to serve to enhance my natural dancing ability, I felt sure I could hold my own. Not so. My first ever Zumba turned out to be a somewhat humiliating experience as within moments I came to the sudden, stark and sober realisation that – I can't dance! While the rest of the class, including a couple of nip-tucked octogenarians, pranced around the room in a series of highly-coordinated hip-shaking movements, I found myself flailing about like a mad jellyfish, facing the wrong way (more than once) and gasping for air like a guppy. Strangely though, I loved it and by the end of the sessions I was caught up in the feverish good fun of it all and happily ran around the room high-fiving strangers.
There was only one thing to remedy this sudden outburst of American-like enthusiasm and that was to head to the spa for some calm downtime. A 70,000 sq.ft shimmering, mosaic-covered sanctuary awaited me. Two floors of gently-lit sumptuous rooms, tropical "experiential" showers, pools of healing waters, thermal cabins, soaking tubs, laconiums, and an igloo (yes, really) made for a fabulous A-list experience. The massage too (just about) lived up to its $240 price tag with a hundred minutes of pounding, pressing and pulling inspired by ancient techniques used on Thai warriors.
Needless to say, as I enter into 2012 I believe that these celebrities have got the right idea and from now on I will be stuffing myself with pancakes, embarrassing myself at Zumba and all-day spa-ing wherever possible. Who's with me?
Canyon Ranch Hotel and Spa, Miami Beach: Tel 305-514-7000; http://www.canyonranch.com/miamibeach/; From $400


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WALTHAM, Mass.- The Brandeis University men's basketball team rounded out the first night of their inaugural Hoopscoming celebration with an 83-66 victory over the visiting University of Rochester Yellowjackets in a University Athletic Association (UAA) tilt at Red Auerbach Arena. Even scoring helped the Judges pull away in the second half as four players reached double-figures. Brandeis improved to 9-6 (1-3 UAA) while the Yellowjackets fell to 7-8 (1-3 UAA).
The first half saw the Judges struggle from the field. Brandeis went 3-for-12 from beyond the arc while Rochester was 5-for-12 . With 9:35 to play in the period, a trifecta from rookie guard Sam Borst-Smith (San Pedro, Calif./Lawrenceville School (N.J.)) gave the Yellowjackets their largest lead at 20-15. The squads continued to go back and forth from there with four ties and seven lead changes. The last tie of the half came with 3:06 on the clock when senior guard Ben Bartoldus (Hillsborough, N.H./Proctor Acad. (N.H.)) hit a reverse lay-up to knot the game at 30-30. That started a quick 8-0 run for Brandeis as Bartoldus hit a 3-pointer the next time down the floor and senior guard Gabriel Moton (St. Petersburg, Fla./St. Petersburg) added another make from beyond the arc to give the Judges a 36-30 advantage. Rochester made the final basket of the period on a jumper from rookie guard Mack Montague (Westport, Conn./Suffield Academy) as Brandeis took a 36-32 lead into the break.
The second half was all Judges as they never trailed again and shot a scorching 64% from the field, including 6-for-8 from behind the arc. Brandeis slowly built their lead and had a double-digit advantage when senior guard Derek Retos (No. Attleboro, Mass./Brimmer and May School) drained a trifecta to make it 55-45 with 12:25 to play. The closest the Yellowjackets would get from there was a lay-up by Borst-Smith that cut the deficit to 57-50 with 11:19 on the clock. On the other end, Retos answered with another shot from downtown and the lead never went below double-digits again. The Judges' margin ballooned to 19 with 2:02 remaining after a pair of free throws from Moton as the final tally was an 83-66 victory.
Brandeis was led by Moton who scored a game-high 21 points while shooting 7-for-11 from the field and a perfect 5-for-5 from the line. Bartoldus joined him in double-figures with 17 points while Retos came off the bench to score 11, including three trifectas, and rookie guard Robinson Vilmont (Cambridge, Mass./Wilbraham and Monson Acad.) rounded out the bunch with 10 points of his own. Senior center Youri Dascy (Fall River, Mass./St. Andrews School (R.I.)) led the squad with seven rebounds while Vilmont and sophomore guard Colby Smith (No. Andover, Mass./No. Andover) shared game-high honors with four assists apiece.
Rochester was led by junior forward Tyler Sankes (Rochester, N.Y./McQuaid Jesuit) who poured in 16 points while Montague joined him in double-digits with 12. Montague and sophomore forward Dylan Peretz (Pound Ridge, N.Y./Fox Lane) each pulled down five rebounds to lead the quad. Borst-Smith had a team-high three assists.
The Judges continue their Hoopscoming weekend on Sunday January 26th with a 12:00 p.m. matchup against UAA rival Emory University. The Yellowjackets stay on the road for a UAA contest against NYU at 1:00 p.m. on Sunday January 26th.


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Three-day Charrette Captures Community Ideas for Inner SE Station Areas
From August 20 – 22, the SE Quadrant Plan project team facilitated the Inner SE Station Area Charrette at St Philip Neri Church off of SE Division St. Over the course of the three days, about 80 attendees generated ideas about the future character of the four new light rail stations at OMSI, Clinton, Rhine and Holgate.
The charrette included two public work sessions, where the project team and consultants worked with the community to develop corridor-wide concepts and explore ideas for each of the four station areas. The preliminary results of those work sessions were presented at an open house on August 22, where participants viewed drawings and offered feedback.
During the work sessions, participants discussed the different roles of each station area and the degree of change that could occur around the different sites:
- OMSI Station Area – Regional destination with significant new development. Highest potential degree of change in both mix of uses and scale of development.
- Clinton Station Area – City destination that builds off the success of SE Division and stitches neighborhoods together. High degree of change on key redevelopment sites near the station.
- Rhine and Holgate Station Areas – Local destinations that serve the Brooklyn neighborhood and the employment areas to the east. Low-to-moderate degree of change with focus on enhancing the Milwaukie main street and increasing employment opportunities east of 17th Ave.
Other key takeaways from the work sessions included:
- The Willamette River is a major asset that should inform uses and the orientation of new development. There is a strong desire for improved access to and amenities along the river.
- Improving connections that overcome the substantial transportation barriers in the area will be key to its success.
- The area should continue to function as an employment center, but there is a desire for more land use flexibility to attract a wider range of businesses that can locate in the area and create more vibrant station areas.
- The historic industrial character should be maintained and enhanced by encouraging the rehabilitation and reuse of historic buildings.
The results from the charrette will be presented and discussed at the Station Area Working Group Meeting on September 18. After that meeting, staff will refine the concepts based on feedback. Ideas for the OMSI and Clinton station areas will be forwarded for consideration as part of the SE Quadrant Plan process, which will begin in the fall. Ideas for the Rhine and Holgate station areas will be further developed in the fall based on community input and then forwarded into the City's Comprehensive Plan Update process.
Background materials used for the charrette include:
- Charrette packet (agenda, issues and opportunities summary and maps)
- Staff and consultant charrette presentations
- Existing conditions maps


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All Australian citizens over the age of 18 who are enrolled to vote, elect people to represent them in the two houses of the Commonwealth Parliament – the Senate and the House of Representatives.
Australia is divided into areas called electoral divisions. Voters in each electoral division cast a vote to elect one person (a Member of Parliament) to represent them in the House of Representatives.
Voters in each state and territory elect Senators to represent them in the Senate. States have 12 Senators and the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory each have 2 Senators.
At a referendum, you will receive a ballot paper with the proposed alteration to the Constitution.


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Facebook's New Teen Policy Draws Fire
Privacy Advocates Criticize Allowing Young Users to Post 'Publicly'
Facebook Inc.'s move Wednesday to let teenagers share items more widely reflects growing competition among social networks for the attention of teens—and the advertisers that want to reach them.
Facebook said it would let users between the ages of 13 and 17 make posts "public" so that they can be seen by anyone on the network. Previously, teenagers' posts could be seen only by their friends and "friends of friends."...


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Q: When you write an eloquent sentence (i.e. "I think the universe is improbably biased (…) in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed"), do you realize that you're being profound?
I stole that sentiment from a friend who I'm inclined not to identify, because I think she probably does not actually believe that the universe is biased toward consciousness and would be embarrassed to be associated with such an aggressively theological statement.
Anyway, the friend in question never actually said the quote from the book, but she got me close enough to it that it was easy for me to do the rest, so when I was writing that, I mostly just felt like a thief.
But yeah, I am aware that I am fairly good at turning phrases, and I do get a rush out of it. That said, I delete most of them, because they're usually pretty Encouragement-ey.


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In a heated political climate, 18-year-old Luis Juarez admits he let his emotions get the best of him.
"I did get caught up in the passion," Juarez said. "You see me, you know my last name. I feel people can discern why I find the name (Trump) offensive."
Walking through the halls of his college in Eagle, Juarez says he spotted a couple of Trump for President Signs which he then cut in half with a pair of scissors.
"It felt good to do it, but not everything that feels right is right," Juarez said.
It's against the law, and something Eagle County Republicans like Kaye Ferry did not like one bit.
"We were a few feet away from this happening so it felt really personal,"' Ferry said.
They could have called the cops and pressed charges for vandalism but instead tried something different.
"We could have done that but we got involved with restorative justice," Ferry said.
Both came to an agreement. Luis would repay Eagle County Republicans for the two signs. He would write an apology to the community in the local paper. Lastly, he would stand on a busy street in Eagle holding a Trump for President sign.
"I got a lot of thumbs down, I got flipped off a few times, I got a few thumbs up," Juarez said.
It's the third part of the punishment that Juarez says he didn't like and why several say they wanted to stand with him.
"Make him do something else for the campaign, but don't humiliate him holding signs for somebody he does not support," Lupita Guerra said.
Some say the punishment was over the line, but Eagle County GOP leaders say it's a punishment fitting for the crime of vandalism.
"In order to get back to square one and get level with Mr. Trump we suggested he stand on a street corner holding two signs he destroyed, two days he would sit there an hour each day," Ferry said.
While the cutting of Trump signs has many divided, both Luis and Eagle County Republicans now both agree on one thing: it's not a good idea to vandalize property just because you don't like the candidate.
"These signs are private property, you can't just do whatever you want with them," Ferry said.


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Dragonfly Cinema
822 Bay Street,
Port Orchard,
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The Community Theatre was opened in 1924 by the Knights of Pythias, who met upstairs, and rented out the theatre downstairs. It later became the D & R Theatre. After closing from 1962, it reopened in 1980, twinned, as the Plaza Twin Cinema. Closed on April 28, 2005, it was reopened by Jeff Brein and his Far Away Productions movie operator company as the Historic Orchard Theater in 2007.
Nice little downtown theatre on the main drag. The top floor of the theatre has a completely renovated banquet/reception hall with ADA accessibility that can be used for rentals like wedding receptions or public meetings. The Historic Orchard Theatre was closed on December 30, 2010.
It is proposed to re-open the theater in May 2011.
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This theater has reopened! It's now called The Orchard, and it will show a mix of first-run and independent films.
A guy named Jeff Brein of Far Away Productions is renovating the theater. It's the eighth theater for Far Away. The company also owns the Lynwood Theatre, first opened in 1936, Bainbridge Cinemas and Olympic Cinemas in Kitsap County, Wash. Its other properties are in Oak Harbor, Anacortes and Ocean Shores.
Brein plans special events like classics nights, filmmaker showcases and fundraisers for local organizations. He said he'll adjust offerings once he becomes more familiar with his audience.
Here is its Web site: http://www.orchardtheater.com/
Here is an article and photos from November 2007:
The rest of the theaters in this chain are at www.oasiscinemas.com
It's interesting to read the comments on that November 2007 newspaper story, especially the last one.
The oasiscinemas.com is now retired and changed to www.farawayentertainment.com
They just took over the Admiral Twin Theater in west Seattle too.
Far Away Entertainment closed this theater on Dec. 30, 2010: View link
Good News for Port Orchard fans of film!
The theater is reopening under new management. See their new and evolving website at http://dragonflycinema.com/
There was a town hall gathering of interested patrons on May 1st which brought out about 80 folks to discuss the future of the theater with its new owner. There is an Kitsap Sun article on that meeting here: http://bit.ly/l30foX
This is the Big Weekend for movie fans in Port Orchard! DRAGONFLY CINEMA reopens today. Me and my lady are looking forward to seeing "WIN WIN" with Paul Giamatti, Amy Ryan, Bobby Cannavale. The other screen our friend Simon will be watching has "The Holy Grail". Good start in bookings.
For the time being Dragonfly will operate FRI, SAT, SUN only with matinees on SAT & SUN. If you are in the area come on in and see what a good new owner and a couple dozen volunteers managed in the way of making this all theatre shine again.
After about ten years of walking by here, while antique shopping. I finally made my way into a movie, Philomena. A charming little theater, playing mostly arthouse & sub-run films. They are still running film here. Seating is maxed out at 72 for the left side & 90 seats on the right. Decent snack bar & VIP memberships (matinee prices for evening shows) They also have pre-show announcements, information about the film and other upcoming movies.
Just login to your account and subscribe to this theater


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SEATTLE— After 40 years with Seattle Colleges, Chancellor Jill Wakefield has announced her retirement, effective June 2016. She was appointed as chancellor in 2009, becoming the district's first female in that position. When she retires, she will be the longest-serving chancellor in the district's history.
Dr. Wakefield started with the district as a program assistant in the veterans office at South Seattle Community College, then served as public information officer, director of development, vice president for institutional advancement, and vice president for instruction, as well as president from 2003 to 2008.
SEATTLE—Louise Chernin, president and CEO of the Greater Seattle Business Association (GSBA), has been appointed to the Seattle College District Board of Trustees by Gov. Jay Inslee, effective Aug. 1, 2015. She is replacing Courtney Gregoire, whose term has expired.
"The GSBA is the largest LGBT Chamber of Commerce in the U.S. and a well-known advocate for business and civil rights," says Seattle Colleges Chancellor Jill Wakefield. "One of the things that makes Chernin and her organization special is their scholarship work. Since 1990, the GSBA has given more than $2 million to 450 LGBTQ students in Washington—many of the recipients being Seattle Colleges students. Her combination of leadership, business savvy, community outreach, and commitment to education makes her an ideal member of our board."
SEATTLE — The Seattle College District announced today that Vigor Industrial has been named its 2014 Constance W. Rice Partner of the Year. Vigor was chosen for its partnership with South Seattle College to provide space for the Harbor Island Training Center, which serves maritime and industrial fabrication companies across the region and trains the next generation of welders.
SEATTLE — Today, Seattle Colleges and Chancellor Jill Wakefield will join President Obama, the First Lady, and Vice President Biden along with hundreds of college presidents and higher education leaders to announce new actions to help more students prepare for and graduate from college.
SEATTLE — Teresita Batayola has been appointed to the Seattle College District Board of Trustees by Governor Jay Inslee, effective Oct. 20, 2014.
Batayola, CEO of International Community Health Services (ICHS) in Seattle, is one of five members of the Board of Trustees appointed to five-year terms by the governor. "We are pleased to welcome Teresita to our board," says Chancellor Jill Wakefield. "She understands the health care industry, has valuable insight on our local community, and is very articulate about the challenges we face in this global economy."
The Association of Community College Trustees (ACCT) has announced that the Seattle College District is the recipient of its 2014 Charles Kennedy Equity Award. The national award recognizes institutions that demonstrate evidence of leadership in setting policies, championing an environment of inclusivity, and ensuring results for the success, enhancement and expansion of opportunities for women and underrepresented and underserved communities.
Recently, four South Seattle College students were selected to attend the prestigious Grace Hopper Conference. The conference, named after the pioneering computer scientist Grace Hopper, is touted as the "world's largest gathering of women technologists." This year's conference is headlined by industry heavy-hitters including Microsoft's new CEO, Satya Nadella.
The Association of Community College Trustees (ACCT) has announced that the Seattle College District is the recipient of the 2014 Pacific Region Equity Award. "This is a distinct honor," says Seattle Colleges Chancellor Jill Wakefield. "We are committed to diversity and equity in educational opportunity for the communities and students we serve. We appreciate the opportunity to share our story and the role we are privileged to play in changing lives."
At its meeting March 13, 2014, the Seattle Community Colleges District Board of Trustees voted unanimously to change the name of the District to Seattle Colleges and to change the names of the colleges to North Seattle College, Seattle Central College, and South Seattle College.
Four candidates have been named as finalists in the search for a new president at North Seattle Community College. The finalists are Warren J. Brown, Ed.D.; Daryl Campbell, J.D.; Richard Penny, Ph.D., M.B.A.; and Rachel H. Solemsaas, Ed.D.
SEATTLE - The Seattle Community Colleges are among 12 community colleges across the country selected to participate in the Walmart Brighter Futures 2.0 Project, which is supported by a $3.5 million grant from the Walmart Foundation to the League for Innovation in the Community College (League).
In Seattle, the grant will assist up to 1,500 students preparing for Healthcare and Manufacturing jobs through activities such as program curriculum updates and enhanced job search support.
North Seattle Community College President Mark Mitsui has been selected to serve as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Community Colleges in the U.S. Department of Education. Mitsui will take the post on Aug. 12, 2013. He will work in the Office of Vocational and Adult Education, which focuses on career, technical, adult and correctional education across the country, with a special emphasis on programs involving community colleges. His role supports the President's, the Secretary's and the Department's agenda on community college access and completion.
North Seattle Community College received approval today from the Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges (WSBCTC) to offer a new Bachelor of Applied Science degree in International Business that will provide area residents with an affordable path to family-wage jobs in Seattle's international trade arena.
"Seattle's strengths as a center for international trade match the strengths of the students of North Seattle Community College and the Seattle Community College district," said Mark Mitsui, president of North Seattle Community College.
It's FREE as Part of Seattle Central's Creative Arts Series. Sherman Alexie, noted local poet, author, and filmmaker will discuss his literary works, his personal observations and the importance of National Poetry Month on April 24, from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m. in the Egyptian Theatre, 805 East Pine Street. The event is free and open to the public.
Talk story sessions featuring community leaders, faculty and students. South's new Asian American Native American Pacific Islander student success center will hold an open house January 8, 2013, featuring panelists from the community, including Sharon Tomiko Santos, Kendee Yamaguchi, Shirley Hune, and Albert Shen...
Funds support high school to college transition services
The foundation for Seattle Community Colleges today announced it received a $15,000 grant from the BAnk of America Charitable Foundation. This gift will benefit up to 100 incoming College Bound Scholarship seniors across the multi-college district through the Readiness Academy.
Governor Chris Gregoire has appointed two members to the Board of Trustees for the Seattle Community Colleges: Businesswoman Carmen Gayton and Attorney Courtney Gregoire.
Registration is required. Please call (206) 934-5448. All events: Dinner 5:45 to 6:30 p.m. / Program 6:30 to 8 p.m. Fall
Thursday, October 25th – 5:45 to 8 p.m. - $35 (Reserve by Oct. 18) Seattle Sonics: What REALLY happened, and making sure it doesn't happen again Hear from those who were intimately involved in the events that led to the Sonics leaving Seattle for Oklahoma City. Learn about the complexity of building a new basketball facility, a requirement for Seattle to get an NBA basketball team. BOB WALSH with guest speakers: WALLY WALKER former president, owner and player - the Seattle Sonics STEVE RUDMAN Co-founder
Seattle Community Colleges has received a $3 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to increase the number of students who complete college-level coursework and earn a certificate or degree.
The three-year Pathway to Completion grant addresses a key barrier for students who enroll at the community colleges.
The Seattle Community Colleges are extending the public comment period on proposed changes to rules in the Washington Administrative Code (WAC) affecting the use of district facilities and grounds for limited public forums. The proposed changes to chapters 132F-136 and
King County Executive Dow Constantine will release the final King County Aerospace Study... Six specific action points have been cited as crucial to creating sustainability and fostering the long-term economic vitality, growth and global competitiveness of the local aerospace industry... South has a long and rich history of producing Aviation Technicians. South's hangar at Boeing field is a unique public/private partnership that was the result of a $1 million fundraising campaign by South's Foundation.
In the midst of the recession, Time Magazine identified entrepreneurship as one of the top ten jobs.
New University of Washington President Michael Young will be keynote speaker at district-wide Convocation for faculty and staff at the Seattle Community Colleges...The district sends more students to the UW than any other college district, where they do as well or better than students who start at UW as freshmen ...
On August 31 and September 1 Seattle Central Community College will host a training exercise for emergency responders.
Business and Government Leaders Hosted by North Seattle Community College The Sustainable Growth Summit, led by the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) in partnership with North Seattle Community College and the State of Washington Commission on Asian Pacific American Affairs, was held on July 8, 2011. This daylong event, hosted by and held on North's campus, was a great success.
South Seattle Community College will celebrate the accomplishments of the Class of 2011 at the annual commencement ceremony taking place at Benaroya Hall, at 2:30 pm on Thursday, June 16.... This year, 853 students have earned degrees and certificates, including 410 in academic transfer, 336 in professional/technical studies and multi-occupational trades, and 27 students in the college's four-year Bachelor of Applied Science (BAS) in Hospitality Management degree program. The graduating class also includes 42 new Registered Nurses and seven dual-graduate Running Start students, who are receiving a college AA degree and high school diploma concurrently. Behind the numbers are many student stories....
The Seattle Community Colleges, the Puget Sound Industrial Excellence Center and the Manufacturing Industrial Council of Seattle are hosting a May 19 conference on Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) education in the workforce at the Georgetown Campus of South Seattle Community College. The gathering will take a "roll up your sleeves" approach to the anticipated shortfall of qualified manufacturing and industrial workers in the region and create an action plan through cooperation among industry, labor, the public schools and community colleges.
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Three New Jersey teenagers are facing sexual assault, child endangerment and child pornography charges for allegedly assaulting a girl while she was heavily intoxicated and recording it on an iPhone, prosecutors say.
The 15-year-old victim was found unconscious on her parents' front lawn in Elmwood Park on June 21, according to Bergen County prosecutors.
She was taken to St. Joseph's Medical Center and found to have a blood alcohol content of .27 percent. The girl later told police she had no memory of what happened that night.
It wasn't until July 7 that a friend of the victim told her she had seen a video on one of the suspects' iPhones showing the victim engaging in sexual activity with several men while she appeared to be highly intoxicated, according to prosecutors.
The next day, a 17-year-old male acquaintance told the girl that they had engaged in sexual activity in the backyard of a home where two of the other suspects reside, according to the authorities.
She went to Elmwood Park police with her parents and the friend who saw the video, and detectives recovered the video from the suspect who'd allegedly recorded it.
Two 18-year-old men were arrested July 9 on charges of aggravated sexual assault and remanded to Bergen County Jail, each on $150,000 bail.
Another 18-year-old suspect was arrested July 10 on charges of manufacturing child pornography, endangering the welfare of a child, invasion of privacy and possessing child pornography. He remains in Bergen County Jail on $200,000 bail.
The 17-year-old suspect was also arrested on a juvenile complaint of aggravated sexual assault, assault on a police officer and resisting arrest.
All of the suspects have additionally been ordered to stay away from the victim and her family.


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Lovie Smith rumors: Buccaneers set to make him their new coach
Lovie Smith is close to returning to an NFL sideline, as coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Fox Sports' Jay Glazer reported Wednesday night that the team and Smith are wrapping up a deal.
The Bucs are hiring Lovie Smith to be their new head coach, two sides are finalizing the contract tonight
— Jay Glazer (@JayGlazer) January 2, 2014
ESPN.com reported that Smith will receive a four-year contract worth more than $5 million per season. The pact also includes a club option for a fifth year.
Smith, the former Chicago Bears coach, will replace Greg Schiano, who was fired Monday. Smith also interviewed for the Houston Texans' job which is about to go to Penn State's Bill O'Brien.
Smith already has ties to the Bucs organization; he was a defensive assistant in Tampa under Tony Dungy from 1996 through 2000. A tweet from The Tampa Bay Times' Roy Cummings indicates that the reunion came together quickly.
The Bucs actually interviewed Lovie Smith on TUESDAY, according to a high ranking Bucs source.
— Roy Cummings (@RCummingsTBO) January 2, 2014
ESPN's Adam Schefter reported late Wednesday that Smith will hire former California coach Jeff Tedford to be his offensive coordinator and Dallas Cowboys assistant Rod Marinelli as his defensive coordinator. Smith and Marinelli worked together in Tampa and Chicago.
The Bears fired Smith following the 2012 season. Chicago went 3-5 in the second half after a 7-1 start.


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"Very nice!"
Posted by: aldo a. on Jan 6, 2017
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If you're looking for a quiet spot in the city with a view of the sea, where you can combine business transactions with scuba diving or enjoy a family visit to Cuba's National Aquarium, then Havana's Copacabana is the hotel you're looking for!
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"Very nice!"
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Visited on: Dec, 2016 | Leisure | With Spouse/Partner
347 people found this review helpful
Great ocean pool and service.
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"I'll come again"
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Eva on Nov 15, 2014 >
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Visited on: Nov, 2014 | Leisure | Family and Kids
540 people found this review helpful
The Cubanacan Copacabana hotel is a perfect hotel for me. This was the first time that I have decided to stay at this hotel, but I'm not sorry at all. It was the third time to visit Cuba in my life, but first time in this particular hotel. Even thought I didn't do any research of the hotel we booked a room and decided to spend our vacation there. My family loved this place, especially the kids. We planned to stay 10days but after a while we extended our stay for a new 3 days.
The flight to Cuba is something that I don't want to talk about. It is long and boring and the passport control makes my vacation always a bit sad. Because we have to wait for the administration. But anyway, the hotel is really nice. There was almost no waiting for the room to be ready for my husband and my 3 beautiful kids. The rooms are great. They are huge and very clean. We could easily see that the hotel has high hygiene standards which is great. There was a balcony in our room and outstanding view of the ocean. It was like a dream. The furniture is almost new and all the installed electronics work fine (TV, air conditioning). The hot water, it is something that should be a problem because there is hot water all the time.
There was no issue with the food or the personnel. The employees were always there to help you no matter what part of the day or night it is. They definitely deserve the tip. The swimming pools are big and clean so that's something that is also positive.
All in all the Cubanacan Copacabana hotel is a place that deserves to be visited again. My vacation was great because the hotel made it look that way. It has great rooms, excellent personal and price affordable for every guest. For me that was good enough reason to come back again next year with my family exactly at this hotel in Cuba.
"many nice things about the place"
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queeneth on Aug 27, 2014 >
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Visited on: Aug, 2014 | Leisure | Solo
581 people found this review helpful
This place is a nice place and I can say that they have so many nice things to see in that city. The hotel is great and clean, I had a great time when I was on vacation. They have modern rooms here and the price is great for such high quality rooms and service, not that it is as fancy as a 5 star hotel but who asked? First Havana is a nice place with attractive places to go to, so many beautiful things to see and beautiful people as well. They have a well maintained pool that is big enough for many people and still clean every time you see them. The hotel has a nice lobby that has a good band at night, the entertainment team really had it out for the guests as they made sure they kept you satisfied with good music and shows and good food at night. The breakfast buffet was nice and had lots options even for the most picky eater. Food was another thing I really enjoyed here because they had lots of pastries and also lots of fresh fruits. The hotel is close to the ocean making a good atmosphere to relax. The staff was exceptionally helpful, kind, polite and I have just good things to say about them. Gun to my head, it is the best hotel I have been to and would come back in a heartbeat. That been said, I highly recommend this hotel for comfort and peace.
"beautiful place"
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darey on Jun 3, 2014 >
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Visited on: Feb, 2014 | Leisure | Solo
568 people found this review helpful
It is an amazing hotel where I stayed for only three days in February during my vacation. I really enjoyed my time here, the view from this place was beautiful and my room was clean and comfortable. The room was large and comfortable, spacious enough for me and my luggage there was hot water shower which was in working condition until I left the place so that was a plus, the air condition worked well as well so basically, I didn't really have any technical issues that needed fixing. The rooms were also great because it was cleaned everyday so dare I say spotless. On arrival, the staff at the reception was very warm, welcoming and accommodating. The staff I met throughout my stay was all nice and made my stay easier. The lobby bar and the pizzeria were great, visited there often during my stay and the staff was amazing too. I enjoyed the breakfast buffet with freshly brewed coffee, it was nice. I loved the ocean pool which made my vacation even more fun. It is a three star hotel with a perfect location where you can easily join the tourist hop on and hop off bus that passes in front of the hotel often so you can see most of Havana during your stay here. The hotel is located centrally and overlooks the water so it was perfect for me, not too noisy and not too calm. I enjoyed it here so I will be coming back here again for my next vacation.
"Nice stay in a good hotel"
Posted by: Henk Butter
on Dec 14, 2011 >
1 contribution(s) The Netherlands
Visited on: Dec, 2011 | Business | With Spouse/Partner
760 people found this review helpful
The hotel is o.k nice view over the ocean and further the food from lunch and diner was o.k and the staff was o.k even the rooms were o.k clean and nice good beds and airco where o.k good for a second time again
Room Number:
"Relaxing in good atmosphere."
Posted by:
Willie Erik Olsen on Aug 30, 2011 >
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Visited on: Aug, 2011 | Leisure | Solo
811 people found this review helpful
This is the 3th time I have being stayed at this hotel. The hotel size suits me find, not too many floors and room. The surrounding is calm and nice. You have a store very near, where you can buy things you need. The hotel service is very good, and the hotel and restaurant personnel are very service minded. The hotel has live music every night. The rate for the room is reasonable, when the breakfast and dinner are included. I enjoy staying there.
Room Number:
1207 former 1304 and 1306
Room Block:
20.08.11. I was a professional in check, but I didn't get the one of the rooms, (who have balcony), I asking for, when I make my reservation.
Nice and cleen. good space. Two twinbeds, good madrasses. Cabel TY and telephone. Bathroom, good space, changes towels every day. 2 types of soaps, 1 toot past.
Restaurants and Bars:
The restaurant was light, clean and has a good space. The range of food could be better. The service was good.
The bar and lobby was very nice with a big dancing floor. Good service.
The part of the hotel, which has a view to the ocean, has a beautiful
Double swimming pool, surrounded with ok space, sun beds, sun umbrellas and small tables. Cafeteria and bar. Below the pool area you have the ocean, but not sand beach. If you like to have a swim in the ocean, you have to go a few steps down, or div. The area in the ocean are surrounded and secure by an huge concrete. Te are also sun bed there.
Activities on and off the Resort/Hotel:
Tennis, scuba diving a dancing lessen. Visit the the aquarium , only 5 min. Walk.
Other Comments:
English is not my language, so you haft to correct my spelling and grammar.
"Not great"
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natalie solyma on May 18, 2011 >
1 contribution(s) Canada
Visited on: May, 2011 | Leisure | With Group
825 people found this review helpful
Stayed 2 nights at the end of our Cuba tour. This was probably the worst hotel I stayed in over my 10 nights in Cuba.
I stayed on the second floor (the room number is 12-- for second floor, 13-- for third floor etc).
The main hallways smelled very strongly of rotten food. The room itself did not smell and looked pleasant enough.
The TV remote was broken and the buttons on the TV itself to change channels were broken off.
My first night I slept very well as the room was nicely air conditioned. The second night was a nightmare for me.
I returned to my room to find a 2 inch cockroach on the wall above my bed. I knew I could not sleep in the bed.
I attempted to sleep sitting up in a chair, but eventually as my cockroach crawled behind the curtains, I tried to sleep on the bed with the lights on. I am terrified of huge cockroaches. A late night trip to the bathroom, revealed a scurry of smaller cockroaches crawling into the gaps in the caulking around the tub.
The hotel is far from Havana vieja (about a 10 CUC taxi ride). The taxi cab I took back to the hotel from Havana Vieja did not know where this hotel was.
In general, I found the 2 Cubanacan hotels we stayed in to be not up to the same standards as other hotels we stayed in.
Room Number:
"Copacabana - Pleasant stay at affordable price"
Posted by:
Jacob Decker on May 26, 2005 >
4 contribution(s) Canada
Visited on: May, 2005
1815 people found this review helpful
I have stayed at the Copacabana many times and have always found it to be a pleasant experience. The pools is clean and refreshing, but the best thing is the natural Ocean pool. It is an area of the ocean with pool-like walls, but natural ocean bottom and water. It's really amazing and a great way to swim.For sure I'll go back to the Copa again and enjoy the sights and sounds of Cuba.


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Looking good Mat. Road report when you first take it out mate? thanks ...
Finally, I've got my hands on our brand new Viner Maxima RS for review on road.cc, and it's looking amazing. Excited? Oh yes.
Okay, so here's the story so far… All Maximas are made-to-measure so I've had a bike fitting in London courtesy of Guiseppe at Velo Solutions, and the frame has now been handbuilt by Marco Bertoletti in Bergamo, which is just up the road from Milan. If you've not looked at those two articles, you might want to give them a quick read now – they're beautifully written and things will make a lot more sense.
Now we need to get the frame built up. The simplest thing would be to have the frame air-freighted over to the UK, get out a catalogue and select the bits to go on it, and have them sent over too… but where's the fun in that?
Peter from Viner had a better plan. Get on a plane, fly to Italy, pick up the frame from Marco, then head over to component manufacturer Miche and collect the shiny bits from there. Okay, the old carbon footprint is a whole lot bigger doing it this way and I'd have to put up with a couple of hours of RyanAir's particular brand of hospitality but… well, it sounds much more of a laugh. Where's my passport?
So that's how I found myself at Marco's workshop. And when I say 'workshop', that's exactly what this place is. It's a little industrial unit at a push. Factory would be going too far. No belching chimneys, no clocking in machines, and no dirt on the floor. We're talking small-scale manufacture here in the Italian craftsman tradition. There must be, ooh, half a dozen people on site, along with the biggest, loudest guard dog you've ever seen. Mass production, it ain't.
I won't go into detail on the frame building process, we've already covered that, but I will show you some of my holiday snaps – just the interesting ones. This, for example, is the guy cutting out pieces of prepregnated carbon fibre to form the tube joints. Yep, he does it by hand with a big pair of scissors before bonding them in place. I wasn't expecting that.
This photo is the carbon tube that's used for the down tube of a Maxima RS. It looks pretty lightweight and flexy, yes? You're 50% right. It weighs nothing but you try to twist it about or even squeeze the sides in and you'll get nowhere: it's as tough as the Dolomites.
And this pic is Marco showing off the autoclave – the machine that bakes the frames under pressure to form the joints. It's a serious bit of kit.
Marco makes bikes other than Viners too, including titanium models for Legend. See the head tube on Il Re (The King, in English)? It starts out life as a hefty pipe of ti before he machines it right down to the lightweight, precision piece that actually gets built into the frame.
Incidentally, all the joints on the titanium frames have to be produced in the absence of air to stop impurities getting in there, so the frame goes into a sealed chamber and all the work is done via gloves that reach in through the walls. It's an incredibly labour-intensive process.
Anyway, we're getting sidetracked. Back to the plot… Apart from having a shufti around and a nose at the goods, I'm here to pick up the carbon Viner Maxima RS frame, and that's exactly what I do. It's great to finally get my hands on the finished article and it's looking lovely (the pic shows Guiseppe with the frame back in London). All clean lines and gorgeousness with a beautiful matt finish. Well, judge for yourself. Pretty, huh?
It's funny to see the lengths of tubes that make the frame all racked up on one side of the workshop and the complete article on the other. And it's cool to meet the guys who actually do all the work, even though they don't speak much English and I speak even less Italian (grazie, arrivederchi, various types of pasta… that's it). They've done a great job. I can't wait to get out on the roads.
I'm not going to be able to ride it as it is, though. Time to find some components to fit on this bad boy, so I say my grazies and arrivederchis (I couldn't think of a way to shoehorn vermicelli into the conversation) and hit the road.
Because Viner are one of very few brands who still use Italian-made frames, it's only right that we set it up with Italian parts, so Peter and I are heading over to see Miche in San Vendemiano. That's up near Treviso. No? Top-right, basically.
Miche is a bigger company, but it's still pretty small in the overall scheme of things with just 40 employees. It has been around since 1919 when Ferdinando Michelin began to produce bikes and components, but the Michelin name was already taken – you might have heard of them; they make tyres, apparently – so it was shortened to Miche.
These days the company makes wheels, chainsets, sprockets, pedals, bottom brackets, brakes… They don't make shifters or mechs, though, so they team up with compatriots Campagnolo to provide complete groupsets.
Miche's top-level group is Supertype, a combination of their own high-end kit and Campagnolo's Super Record. This lovely, shiny stuff is what's going on the Maxima RS. Oh yes, this is going to be one special bike when it's up and running.
Like many Italian firms, Miche is still family run. Ferdinando's son, Italo, is company president. Pushing 90, he still puts in a seven-hour day while Ferdinando's nephew, Luigi, is in day-to-day control. We met them and, along with sales director Valter, they showed us around.
If you're skeptical that any components get produced in Italy these days, you're wrong. See this?
That, believe it or not, is a few thousand sprockets. Well, it is by now. The reels get fed into one side of a machine, and out of the other side come these…
Thousands of them. Tens of thousands. All shiny and perfectly formed. Magic. Or clever engineering. One or the other.
Nearby, there's a machine that's making chainrings out of solid sections of metal. In goes the block, the CNC machine goes to work shaping and milling, and out comes the finished object… or not, in this case. This one didn't make the grade so it goes in the scrap bin.
Some of the machines look almost alive. Out comes the neck, it peers at the row of sprockets for a second, plucks one up with its beak, takes it back to its lair, performs some complicated jiggery-pokery (it's a technical term), and then spits it out into the finished pile. It's hypnotic! I'll tell you what it looks like with all those staccato movements: a velociraptor from Jurassic Park. A bit.
Other machines are building hubs, pedals, cranks… all sorts. It's not all automated, though. The spokes are put into the wheels by machine but they all roll down to a guy with a wheel jig who trues them up by hand. The tolerances are ridiculously precise, and once they are spot on, they get sent on their way.
Aside from the manufacturing, the quality gets checked all the time. Miche have a bit of an obsession with quality – which makes a lot of sense if you're an Italian brand competing against the Far East where production costs are lower.
Miche don't, for example, produce road clincher wheels with carbon braking surfaces because they reckon the pressure of the tyres means you can't rely on them. And while they'll try to shave weight off their components where possible, they won't do it at the expense of stiffness.
"Weight is a factor," says Valter, "but there's no point producing an 800g wheelset if it's got the performance of chewing gum when you get on the road."
You can't argue with that. The testing lab is full of products getting put through their paces. There's a chainset, for example, having a 180kg force applied to it in a flex test, then removed, then reapplied… That's at least double the weight of most riders, and the bottom bracket is fixed, unlike on a bike where it'll move around. If it survives 180,000 cycles, they'll put it into production.
Another machine is doing a similar job on a hub, applying forces via a couple of spokes, and two pistons are firing alternately to rock away at a seat post's saddle clamp.
Miche also have their own destruction test rig for their carbon wheels which is a lot of fun for someone. Basically, the UCI say that in order to be permitted for racing, a carbon wheel has to remain in one piece when a 100kg weight hits it at 10kph. Obviously, that's going to destroy the wheel. It's just that bits aren't allowed to go flying off and smack into unsuspecting competitors… which seems fair enough. An alloy clincher gets sacrificed in the way of demonstration. Youch!
It all seems to be working. Miche produced 25,000 wheels last year and got 20-odd back with problems. That's a result. Much as they like their wheels, they really don't want to see them again once they've been sent out of the factory.
The factory tour over, I collect the Supertype 11 Carbon groupset from the Miche guys. We'll go into more details on the equipment when we test the bike but here's what it looks like: stunning. There's carbon everywhere with red and white graphics, just like the frame – we think these things through, you know. This bike is going to look amazing.
More grazies, more arrivederchis and we hit the road again – we're bound for the airport laden down with Italian goodies. What happens next? I drop everything off at Le Beau Velo bike shop in Shoreditch, London, and they assemble it.
Then, once it's put together, I arrange to meet Guiseppe from Velo Solutions bike fitting service – who originally measured me up for the Viner a few weeks ago – at the shop for a final fitting. We did that last weekend.
The bike is setup on a turbo trainer, I climb aboard and Guiseppe checks that everything is exactly as it should be. I pedal away and await the verdict. I'm a bit nervous, to be honest. Imagine if it's not right after all this effort. That's a hell of a lot of time and energy to get a bike that doesn't fit. I needn't have worried.
"Molto bene," he says. "Very good. Perfetto''. Guiseppe is a happy man. Like Hannibal out of the A-Team, he loves it when a plan comes together.
My arms are nicely bent rather than locked out, my back curves gently without any strain and I can get my torso flat without any trouble, and I'm not reaching with my toes as I pedal… I'm immediately comfortable. I'm allowed to raise the saddle by 2-3mm if I really want to after a few rides but I'm banned from making any big changes. This position is molto bene. It's a job well done.
So, that's where we are. The Viner Maxima RS is up together and looking beautiful. And, even better, we have it. Exciting! Now it's time to get the miles in. The proof of the pudding and all that. I'll let you know how we get on soon.
Mat has been in cycling media since 1996, on titles including BikeRadar, Total Bike, Total Mountain Bike, What Mountain Bike and Mountain Biking UK, and he has been editor of 220 Triathlon and Cycling Plus. Mat has been road.cc technical editor for over a decade, testing bikes, fettling the latest kit, and trying out the most up-to-the-minute clothing. We send him off around the world to get all the news from launches and shows too. He has won his category in Ironman UK 70.3 and finished on the podium in both marathons he has run. Mat is a Cambridge graduate who did a post-grad in magazine journalism, and he is a winner of the Cycling Media Award for Specialist Online Writer. Now pushing 50, he's riding road and gravel bikes most days for fun and fitness rather than training for competitions.