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Here's the Dubai report. I wish Nadal had won, but I'm pleased he and Tommy are in the doubles semis. I don't give them much of a chance against Bjorkman and Paes, though. I think Spain has found their new Davis Cup doubles team, though.
Singles Quarterfinals
M Youzhny (RUS) d R Nadal (ESP) 62 16 61
F Lopez (ESP) d I Ljubicic (CRO) 64 76(4)
(1)R Federer (SUI) d A Pavel (ROM) 63 63
J Nieminen (FIN) d (S Schalken (NED) 63 63
Doubles Quarterfinals
Pala/Vizner d Cibulec/Friedl 64 75
Nadal/Robredo d Kohlmann/Schuettler 76(5) 75
For the Dubai singles draw, go to: http://www.atptennis.com/posting/2004/495/MDS.pdf
For the Dubai doubles draw, go to: http://www.atptennis.com/posting/2004/495/MDD.pdf
Centre Court 2:00 PM
F Lopez (ESP) vs M Youzhny (RUS)
(1)Bhupathi/Santoro vs Pala/Vizner
Starting at 7:00 PM
(1)R Federer (SUI) vs J Nieminen (FIN)
Nadal/Robredo vs (2)Bjorkman/Paes
Top seed and INDESIT ATP 2004 Race leader Roger Federer defeated Romanian Andrei Pavel Friday at the Dubai Tennis Championships. He is the only seeded player to reach the semifinals and now moves to 9-1 in his career in Dubai.
The only other seeded player in the quarterfinals, No. 8 Sjeng Schalken, was dispatched in straight sets by Finland's Jarkko Nieminen. Nieminen is now a solid 11-6 on the year with two semifinals showings on outdoor hard courts in Adelaide and now Dubai.
In a match-up of big servers, Feliciano Lopez held off Ivan Ljubicic in a second set tiebreak to reach his first ATP semifinal of 2004. Lopez was just 1-3 coming in on the year before his three wins this week in Dubai.
Lopez next plays Russian Mikhail Youzhny who dropped the second set to young Spaniard Rafael Nadal before winning 6-1 in third. A Russian has never won this event although Marat Safin did reach the final in 2000.
Lopez: "I was playing good and it was easy at the beginning until 4-3 in the second set, then it was a very difficult match at the end."
"Youzhny is not seeded but he is in the semi-finals which means he is playing good and he beat Nadal today who is also playing good, so it's going to be a tough match."
"I feel very happy that I am one of the good players from Spain. We always have good players and players who are always in the top 100. Every year, we have new players so it is good for us and Spanish tennis."
Federer: "I'm very happy that I won. I played well from the baseline but I need to play more agressive, that's my game. In the early rounds I tend to play more passive because I don't want to chase the lines too much and now (in the semis) I feel I can and I feel now my level of game has picked up."
"My opponents are now attacking me more than they normally would because they know if they don't attack then I will attack them, so I feel they come in (to the net) on balls which are not great and I have the chance to pass them."
"I'm going into the next match as the definite favourite and I'm looking forward to it. They're both nice guys, I get on well with them off the court, it's going to be a good match."
Youzhny: "The first set was very good for me but the second set I lost my first service game and it was very hot, that's why I lost it 1-6. But in the third set it was different and it worked out good for me."
About first semi-final this year
"It's important but tomorrow it will be a very tough match because Ljubicic and Lopez play very good and conditions here are very tough. Of course it's a good result, but when you are in the semis you always want more."
about drop in the rankings
Last year I had a few problems with some injuries and some mental stuff, but towards the end of 2003 I started to play better."
Roger Federer takes on Finland's Jarkko Nieminen, as the leader in the INDESIT ATP 2004 Race looks to become the first back-to-back winner of this prestigious event in the Middle East. Goran Ivanisevic reached consecutive finals in 1996 and 1997, as did Nicolas Kiefer in 1999 and 2000, but no one has won this event twice. Nieminen is looking for his first appearance in an ATP final since the BMW Open in Munich last year, when he lost to Federer in straight sets. Nieminen is 0-4 lifetime against Federer and has never won a set from the Swiss star.
Feliciano Lopez and Mikhail Youzhny played twice last year with Lopez winning on both occasions, but the last time they played outdoors on hard court Youzhny was victorious back in 2002 at the President's Cup in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Youzhny is trying to reach his first ATP final since St. Petersburg, Russia, in October 2002; Feliciano Lopez has never played in an ATP final in his young career.
Feliciano Lopez (ESP) vs Mikhail Youzhny (RUS) Lopez Leads 2-1
02 Tashkent (Uzbekistan) Hard R32 Mikhail Youzhny 7-6(5) 6-4
03 Wimbledon (England) Grass R64 Feliciano Lopez 7-6(5) 6-3 6-2
03 Paris TMS (France) Carpet R64 Feliciano Lopez 7-6(4) 6-3
Lopez FastFacts:
2004 Highlights:
YTD Titles: 0
Career Titles: 0
Date of Birth: September 20, 1981
INDESIT ATP 2004 Race: 138T
INDESIT ATP Entry Ranking: 32
Youzhny FastFacts:
2004 Highlights:
QF: Milan (l Dupuis);
YTD Titles: 0
Career Titles: 1
Date of Birth: June 25, 1982
INDESIT ATP 2004 Race: 72T
INDESIT ATP Entry Ranking: 57
Roger Federer (SUI) vs Jarkko Nieminen (FIN) Federer Leads 4-0
02 Moscow (Russia) Carpet R16 Roger Federer 6-1 6-4
03 Marseille (France) Hard R16 Roger Federer 6-3 6-3
03 Munich (Germany) Clay F Roger Federer 6-1 6-4
03 Vienna (Austria) Hard QF Roger Federer 6-3 6-3
Federer FastFacts:
2004 Highlights:
W: Australian Open (d Safin); QF: Rotterdam (l Henman);
YTD Titles: 1
Career Titles: 12
Date of Birth: August 8, 1981
INDESIT ATP 2004 Race: 1
INDESIT ATP Entry Ranking: 1
Nieminen FastFacts:
2004 Highlights:
SF: Adelaide (l Hrbaty); QF: Rotterdam (l Mirnyi);
YTD Titles: 0
Career Titles: 0
Date of Birth: July 23, 1981
INDESIT ATP 2004 Race: 31
INDESIT ATP Entry Ranking: 34
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Here are the Scottsdale and Acapulco results and info. I was watching Moya's scores on-line; he was lucky to win that.
Singles - Quarterfinals
(1) A Roddick (USA) d J-M Gambill (USA) 67(4) 64 63
V Hanescu (ROM) d (2) M Verkerk (NED) 75 64
(4) V Spadea (USA) d (6) J Blake 64 26 75
(7) N Kiefer (GER) d (3) R Ginepri (USA) 63 76(6)
Singles - Second Round
(1) A Roddick (USA) d A Bogomolov Jr. (USA) 64 63
(2) M Verkerk (NED) d (Q) C Mamiit (USA) 62 46 63
J-M Gambill (USA) d L Burgsmuller (GER) 75 75
V Hanescu (ROM) d R Soderling (SWE) 63 67(5) 63
Doubles - Quarterfinals
(1)Allegro/Koenig d Burgsmuller/Karlovic 76(6) 64
(4)Leach/MacPhie d (WC)Tursunov/Vahaly 76(5) 63
Kiefer/Moodie d Bowen/Fisher 57 63 76(7) - Saved 1 MP
Stadium Court - Noon
(7)N Kiefer (GER) vs V Hanescu (ROM)
Kiefer/Moodie vs Coetzee/Haggard
Starting at 6:00 PM
(1)A Roddick (USA) vs (4) V Spadea (USA)
(1) Allegro/Koenig vs (4) Leach-MacPhie
After rain suspended play on Thursday, four of the quarterfinalists had to play twice on Friday, including top seed Andy Roddick and No. 2 Martin Verkerk. Roddick survived both matches, defeating countrymen Alex Bogomolov Jr. 6-4, 6-3 in the afternoon and Jan-Michael Gambill 6-7(4), 6-4, 6-3, in the evening. Roddick defeated Gambill, who fired 21 aces, for the first time in three career meetings. Roddick was never broken in the one hour and 49 minute match.
Verkerk won his rain-suspended second round match over qualifier Cecil Mamiit in three sets but then fell 7-5, 7-5, to Victor Hanescu in the quarterfinals. Earlier in the day, Hanescu defeated Swede Robin Soderling in three sets.
In other quarterfinal action, No. 4 seed Vincent Spadea beat countryman James Blake, the No. 6 seed, 6-4, 2-6, 7-5, while No. 7 Nicolas Kiefer of Germany saved two second set points en route to his 6-3, 7-6(6) win over No. 3 Robby Ginepri. Kiefer has won seven of his last eight matches since beginning the season with an 0-4 record.
Roddick: "Jan-Michael was serving really, really well through the first two sets. I felt when I got into the points I was handling them OK. I played a little bit of a sloppy breaker. I was pretty fortunate to get that break early in the second set. In the third set I don't think he served as well and I stepped up and started hitting the ball better.
(on the week so far) "The semis is a solid result, especially there was a lot of uncertainty coming in here for me and I was nursing a little bit of a back injury. So I didn't know what to expect coming out here. To be honest, I started hitting the ball really well in the second and third set. I feel like I've improved with each match but I still have room for improvement."
(on playing twice Friday) "It wasn't a short day but I don't waste a lot of mental energy before matches. I just step up to the plate and get going. I was prepared for two matches and I knew what I was in for at the start of the day. I believe I can win out there."
(on playing Spadea) "Vince makes you work for it every time out there. He's a grinder and he returns really well. I have to
hit a lot of first serves in or else he's going to make my life difficult on my service game. He's a grinder but he has more fire power and he returns well and that separates him from a lot other players. I played him once in Burbank (in 2000) and once in Hawaii in 2001. He's a different player and I think his confidence was really low then and he was going for more, missing a lot and getting discouraged. It's definitely not going to be that type of match now."
Spadea: "It was a little bit of an up-and-down match. He returns real well and he's a difficult guy for me to hold my serve, I have to really focus. I lost my serve a couple of times throughout the match, probably about once a set. As long as I was holding serve I felt like I could break him but it was just a matter of holding serve as much as possible and stay out there and grinding. It was just a matter of trying to get the edge and get the win and I was able to do it today.
(on playing Roddick) "I haven't played Andy in an ATP level tournament. I played him in a couple of Challengers a few years back and I've practiced with him. I know his game fairly well and he knows mine. He's been playing at a high level the past few years and I come in as an underdog and it's less pressure on me in a ways. I look forward to the challenge."
(on his game improving) "I've been working hard on different dimensions of my game. My volley is improving, my net play, and I think I'm a better defensive player than in the past. I hang in there and run some balls down and a couple of extra balls means a lot. I'm working on my forehand and serve."
"I think the sky is the limit at this point. I feel physically I could improve and I could get fitter. A person my age is probably at their best health in their life span. You could argue the same thing from an athletic point of view. So I think I could be getting better and emotionally I'm using the experience to my advantage and I think that's an asset.
Kiefer: "I didn't play my best tennis today but I was fighting which is the most important thing. Everybody can play good and win, that is nothing special but I didn't play my best and I just tried to keep my head up and keep fighting. I'm just happy that I won."
(on reaching the final in Memphis) "I focused on my game and I started serving better and better and I picked up my game round by round. I was a little unlucky in the final but I was happy with the week."
(on his play this week) "My first round here was so, so, it was OK, but I think my best match was the second round. I don't want to say I'm on a roll but I'm winning by fighting. This is the biggest challenge for me, winning by fighting. A couple of months back it didn't work out so good and I tried to fight every time and I didn't know how to continue. Now I win by fighting and my shots are getting better and better, and my confidence is coming and I'm happy it's now with with these upcoming big tournaments."
(on his win over Ginepri) "I had so many chances. I was down in the first set two-love, then I came back and won 6-3. Then I was up a break 2-1 in the second set. Then up a break 3-2 and lost my serve. I didn't pay attention until I was down two set points in the tie-break and I came back to win."
Hanescu: "In the morning I had a very difficult match against Soderling, a young player who reached the final in Marseille last week. I finally won in three sets. I played my best tennis against Verkerk. I served very well and I was very focused in the match. I played a lot of big matches and I played Davis Cup a few weeks ago against Federer in Romania and I also played Roddick in Paris indoor (last year), so I'm used to playing big matches. I think it's the beginning of my career and it's a great feeling to be in an ATP semifinal. It's my dream to win a tournament, maybe a Grand Slam. I think this is the beginning of my career."
(on the Scottsdale conditions) "I like the courts, the surface and the balls are good. I was working very hard before I came here. I was practicing in Bucharest everyday with my coach and now I'm prepared to play matches. My favorite surface is red clay because I'm used to playing on it in Europe. The surface here is similar to clay because it's slow and that's maybe why I'm playing good."
In the opening match of the day, No. 7 seed Nicolas Kiefer plays first-time ATP semifinalist Victor Hanescu of Romania. This is the first meeting between the two. After a short rest, Kiefer will take to the court for his doubles semifinal with South African Wesley Moodie. He is trying to become the first double winner in the tournament's history.
Kiefer, who is coming off his first career ATP final in the U.S. in Memphis two weeks ago (l. to J. Johansson), is the only player yet to drop a set this week. The 26-year-old German has won seven of his last eight matches after an 0-4 start. Hanescu, who has held serve 31 of 33 games this week, came into Scottsdale with a 1-3 match record on the season before winning three straight matches.
In the evening match, the 21-year-old Roddick, who is No. 3 in the INDESIT ATP Entry Rankings, takes on countryman and fellow Boca Raton, Fla. resident Vincent Spadea, the No. 4 seed. Roddick won both previous meetings in Challenger play in 2000-2001. Roddick claimed his 12th career title in San Jose (d. Fish) on Feb. 15 and he reached the quarterfinals at the Australian Open (l. to Safin) and Memphis (l. to Enqvist). Roddick has held serve 34 of 36 games and he is second this week in aces (34) behind Gambill's 43.
Spadea is playing in his first ATP semifinal of the season and the 13th of his career. Spadea is trying to reach his third career ATP final, the first since Aug. 22, 1999 when he lost to Nicolas Lapentti in Indianapolis.
Singles Quarter finals
F Verdasco (ESP) d (2) N Massu (CHI)
(WC) G Canas (ARG) d R Ramirez-Hidalgo (ESP) 62 60
(7)J Chela (ARG) d O Hernandez (ESP) 36 60 62
(1) C Moya (ESP) d (F Volandri (ITA) 46 75 62
Doubles Quarterfinal
JI Chela (ARG) / N Massu (CHI) d A Lopez Moron / A Portas (ESP) 75 75
Centre Court 2:00 PM
(WC) G Canas (ARG) vs F Verdasco (ESP)
Not before 3:00 PM
M Marrero (ESP) v I Benesova (CZE)
Not before 4:30 PM
( F Volandri (ITA) or (1) C Moya (ESP) vs (7) J I Chela (ARG)
Not before 8:00 PM
M Sanchez-Lorenzo (ESP) vs F Penetta (ITA)
Court 2 2:00 PM
B & M Bryan (USA) vs M Fyrstenberg/M Matkowski (POL)
Not before 3:00 PM
O Blahotova/G Navratilova (CZE) vs L Mcshea (AUS) / M Sequera (VEN)
Not before 6:00 Pm
JI Chela (ARG) / N Massu (CHI) vs L Arnold / A Calleri (ARG)
· Top seed Carlos Moya moved through to the semi-finals of the Abierto Mexicano de Tenis Telefonica MoviStar in Acapulco after defeating young Italian Filippo Volandri in 3 sets. Moya, the 2002 Acapulco champion who is looking to reach his fourth final in just five tournaments this year, extended his 2004 record to 16-3 with loss only in Sydney (l t Hewitt retiring in the final), Coria in Buenos Aires final and last week against Behrend in the first round of the Brasil Open. Moya, who also reached the quarterfinals in Acapulco in 2003 (l. to Mantilla) and the semi-finals in 2001 (l. to Blanco), now has a 13-2 record in the tournament. This is Moya's second semi-final in the Latin American Swing (did not play Viña del Mar).
· Young talented Spaniard Fernando Verdasco is playing his first career ATP semi-final. The young player from Madrid is dreaming on a final against Carlos Moya. Verdasco defeated Chilean star Nicolas Massu in straight sets recovering from a very tough lost 3 weeks ago in Viña del mar, Chile against Massu.
· In the second semi-final, the Spaniard will now meet Argentinean Juan Ignacio Chela. Moya has won their previous match - at Roland Garros in 2003. No. 7 seed Juan Ignacio Chela advanced to the semi-final with a victory over Spaniard Oscar Hernandez in another 3 set match. Chela, won the title when it was last played in Mexico City in 2000 and reached the semi-finals in 2002 (l. to Meligeni).
· You can say that Argentinean Guillermo Canas is back again. After a very tough first round match were he saved 2 match points against Spaniard Marc Lopez is now looking very fit and gaining confidence everyday. Canas conceded 2 games only to Ruben Ramirez-Hidalgo and won 10 consecutive games after being 2-2 in the first set. Canas suffered a wrist operation a year and a half ago and never really made it back till this year. He had a very long and intensive pre-season in Buenos Aires and the work is now paying of well.
Chela: "It was a tough match I started with out much concentration and he took advantage since he broke me twice. Then a the beginning of the second set I felt I had to do something fast and managed to break him and win the set 60. I think he got a bit tired in the third and that's how I managed to win."
"Tomorrow it will be very tough. I would prefer Volandri but Moya could be the one. He is very dangerous since he has great shots and I am going to have to serve very well."
Canas: "The match started very close up until 2 all. When I got more feeling of the court I started to play very well and he played a bit on his limit. I think I played very well, one of my best tennis, and I don't think he had his day. I already played well against Gaudio and each day I feel I play better and better."
"I know Verdasco is a good player with a great serve and tomorrow the court conditions might benefit him since it is early during the day and it will be a fast court on clay. I played last week against him and had to retire and it is good to have the revenge only a week after"
Verdasco: "The match here and the one I played in Chile was completely different. There he took an advantage early, he was playing at home and he was able to beat me easy. Today it has been a different story and I have been able to play much better tennis than 3 weeks ago in Viña."
"My forehand has worked very well and I think this has been the key of the match." "The crowd here is great. I had some supporters here and I am happy to play here."
Moya: "I am happy the way the match went since at the beginning he took advantage but I managed to stay in the match and win it. It took me a bit to get the rhythm and the opponents sees it. The good thing is that I managed to come back and win the match."
'I feel good physically and I think I am fresh for the semis. In any case you always find extra strengths once in a semis"
"It is going to be difficult and I know him well. I played against him in Roland Garros and defeated him in 5 sets so I do expect a very difficult match
· Semi-final day at the Abierto Mexicano de Tenis Telefonica MoviStar in Acapulco with two Spaniards and two South Americans looking for a spot in the final on Sunday.
· It is an all Spain vs Argentina, Argentina vs Spain semi-final. The Mexican Press talked all the time about it since Monday and it looks like they were right. Moya and Verdasco are the Europeans in Latin American soil trying to get the trophy back to Spain. It will be a very motivated Canas who is coming back and an always dangerous player in Mexico Chela the ones trying to bring the trophy to Argentina.
· Both Chela and Moya do know what it takes to win a tournament in Mexico. The South American won it back in 2000 in Mexico City and the Spaniard won the title in Acapulco in 2002.
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Expedition cruising in the greatest wilderness on earth
Explore the Central Amazon Ecological Corridor, the world's largest Amazon reserve and some of the most untouched rainforest in the Amazon. You'll see pink river dolphins, a kaleidoscope of colorful birds, magnificent rainforest trees draped with vines and carpeted with orchids, and monkeys chattering and cavorting in the trees. Swim at deserted beaches in water as pure and clean as rainwater, hike in forests where the only tracks are your own, and explore the river's edge from our launches, including evening excursions watching for nocturnal species!
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- Expedition cruising in the Amazon—the greatest wilderness on earth
- Listen to the exotic calls of birds and mammals and watch them from a forest trail or while scouting the river's edge in our launches
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Duration: 7 days Start Location: Manaus End Location: ManausDownload Detailed Itinerary
Day 1 : Board the vessel Motor Yatch Tucano
Early this morning all guests board the vessel the Motor Yacht Tucanoand depart upstream on the Rio Negro. Through the morning we will cruise through the world's largest river island system, the Anavilhanas Archipelago. From the observation deck we scan the magnificent tangle of vegetation at the water's edge. By mid-afternoon the vessel has gone beyond the frontier of settlement and entered a wilderness area. Both shores are covered by dense rainforest. Though we cannot predict what we will see, we have a good chance of observing pink river dolphins and a large collection of exotic birds. Most certainly we will be treated to magnificent forest vistas and the spectacular trees themselves. In the late afternoon we embark in the launches and hunt for wildlife. We may also go for a swim in some of the world's most clean and refreshing water.
INCLUDED MEALS: Lunch/Dinner
LODGING: Motor Yacht Tucano - Manaus
Day 2 : Explore the rainforest
Early this morning we explore the rainforest along the waters edge in our launches. We should hear and perhaps see howler monkeys and we should hear a morning serenade of toucans. After breakfast we go for a walk in the forest where we will get a good start on understanding Amazon ecology. Around midday we return for lunch and the vessel will get underway, perhaps stopping at a place to swim. In the late afternoon we will again explore the forest in our launches and listen to the sunset chorus of birds and frogs.
INCLUDED MEALS: Breakfast/Lunch/Dinner
LODGING: Motor Yacht Tucano - Manaus
Day 3 : Walk on the forest and marvel at the night sky
This morning there will be an early exploration of the waking forest. We will keep our eyes open for monkeys... on most trips we see them often. We return for breakfast followed by either a walk in the forest or an excursion in the launches. M/Y Tucano will travel during the middle of the day and we stop in the afternoon for an excursion. Tonight the vessel may travel a bit more as we marvel at the night sky crowded with stars.
INCLUDED MEALS: Breakfast/Lunch/Dinner
LODGING: Motor Yacht Tucano - Manaus
Day 4 : Rio Jaueperi
After our two morning excursions The M/Y Tucano will navigate along the heavily forested shore, scouting for wildlife. We may stop for a visit at a settler's home carved out of the forest. In the early afternoon we will be near an extraordinary river called the Rio Jaueperi. Here we will see a kind of forest known as the varzea. We will scout along the shoreline for some of the extraordinary creatures found only in this unique environment. Weather permitting we will have a night excursion to observe nocturnal creatures.
INCLUDED MEALS: Breakfast/Lunch/Dinner
LODGING: Motor Yacht Tucano - Manaus
Day 5 : Continue exploring the Rio Negro
Today we will voyage to the west side of the Rio Negro and continue to scout in our launches and walk in the forest. We will explore according to the weather and water depth areas rarely visited by anyone else. Tonight the M/Y Tucano goes downstream to arrive by morning near the confluence with the Amazon River. As we glide through the starry darkness this is a good night to sip the national drink of Brasil, the "Caipirinha" and perhaps try a bit of samba on the top deck.
INCLUDED MEALS: Breakfast/Lunch/Dinner
LODGING: Motor Yacht Tucano - Manaus
Day 6 : Lago Janauari Ecological Park
This morning we explore the Lago Janauari Ecological Park where the thick brown water of the Amazon flows swiftly through the forest. This area is usually a very good place to observe wildlife. Around midday the vessel will travel to the "Encontra das Aguas" a stark several mile long line where two of the world's largest rivers, the Amazon and the Negro, join in a turbulent maelstrom. Here the dark water of the Negro runs beside the opaque brown water of the Amazon. In the afternoon we scout one of the hidden streams in the area to try to see more of the Amazon's beautiful and bizarre creatures. Tonight we will have a farewell dinner and prepare for an early departure in the morning.
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LODGING: Motor Yacht Tucano - Manaus
Day 7 : Disembark
Early this morning, after a hearty breakfast, all guests disembark from the M/Y Tucano.
The Daily Schedule
Since we are exploring, the daily schedule varies, but our days have a basic outline of activities. We get up with the sun every morning and either search in our launches for birds and wakening howler monkeys or we walk in the forest. Mid-morning we return for a full Brazilian breakfast. After some relaxation we go again for another excursion.
At around noon the vessel gets underway and we travel until the late afternoon which is when most animals come out again to feed. During the middle of the day many guests choose to observe the forest and the spectacular vistas from the observation deck, while others take a nap before our afternoon activities. About two hours before sunset we embark on an excursion to some other place of interest. In the evenings we have an informal talk about what we may expect to see the following day. Some evenings, from the comfort of our launches, we spot wildlife with powerful searchlights.
Time Also to Relax and Have Fun
We see and do a great deal in the forest, but there is also plenty of time to relax and have fun during the trip. We swim in some of the cleanest water in the world. The Rio Negro is almost identical to rainwater. We also spend some time fishing to see what glides in the depths. Almost everyone can catch a piranha! Every afternoon we have hors-d'oeuvres on the observation deck and are treated to a magnificent sunset. At night guests often go to the top deck to marvel at the constellations of the Southern Hemisphere and the millions of stars visible in the dark sky of the Amazon. Because we are in such an interesting place with exceptional guides, the days are full and exciting.
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The M/Y Tucano is a very comfortable expedition vessel. Though not a luxury craft, the expedition vessel is designed so that our guests can be at ease, focus on nature, and have fun at the same time. Our days are spent in lighthearted humor and enjoyment of being in such a spectacular place.
Voyage to the Heart of the Amazon has an active program, but it is also a relaxing vacation. The Tucano is also an ideal place to rest, read a good novel, and soak in splendid vistas. The stillness and the peace of the wilderness is a memory that many travelers enjoy for years after the voyage.
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The M/Y Tucano is a very comfortable and elegant vessel, we know that there is much more to a successful cruise than comfort. For this destination it is the experience that counts. Travelers want to know that they are getting the very best experience possible in an Amazon cruise. Cruises on the Motor Yacht Tucano are expedition cruises. The vessel is comfortable and the food service is very good, but we do not aspire to luxury. What matters to us is to enable travelers to experience the Amazon in the most detailed and authentic way possible.
Properties shown are representative of the accommodations we use on this trip, may not be inclusive of all accommodations we use, and are subject to change.
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Forget the Higgs boson: dark matter is where it's at. Only 53 per cent of physicists surveyed at a workshop in Madrid, Spain, believe the Higgs will reveal new insights into fundamental forces, whereas 75 per cent expect that dark matter will be detected within the next decade.
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Illegal drugs are now cheaper and purer than at any time in the past 20 years. The International Centre for Science in Drug Policy has analysed data from seven international drug surveillance systems and says that the street price of drugs such as heroin and cocaine has fallen since 1990, even as their potency has increased (BMJ Open, doi.org/n3j).
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A volcanic eruption in 1257 was one of the biggest in the past 7000 years, but its location had been a mystery. Now traces of the blast in ice cores, together with newly analysed rocks, have pinpointed Mount Samalas in Indonesia as the culprit (PNAS, doi.org/n3k).
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American qualifier Brian Baker continued his incredible comeback from injury by booking his place in the Wimbledon fourth round for the first time on Saturday.
Baker, 27, who underwent five surgeries between November 2005 and July 2011, defeated France's Benoit Paire 6-4, 4-6, 6-1, 6-3 in two hours and 21 minutes.
"I'm sure I will [pinch myself]," said Baker. "It's been unreal. When I'm on the court I know I definitely have nerves. Closing out the match you definitely know what's on the table, what you can accomplish. I missed a few shots at the end that I probably wouldn't miss, if it was the quarters of an [ATP] Challenger and not trying to get to the round of 16 at Wimbledon.
"It is crazy kind of what's going on. But I'm still trying to stay focused on the task at hand and not get too wrapped around. I'm trying to, every match, go in there hungry and try to win the next one instead of, 'I'm in the Round of 16 of Wimbledon; this is awesome.'"
He started 2012 ranked No. 458 in the South African Airways ATP Rankings, but could move to around World No. 78 as a result of today's victory.
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On facing Baker for a place in the quarter-finals, Kohlschreiber said, "It's a great chance for both of us, I think. If you play in the last 16 and you're not facing Federer, Nadal, Murray, whatever, the big guys, it's a great chance to reach the quarter-finals, for sure. He's played three good matches here, so I think it's going to be a tough one."
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A REPORT suggesting that victims of crime are being asked to conduct their own investigations has been criticised by police.
Derbyshire Constabulary says that while the findings outlined by HM Inspectorate of Constabulary highlights a number of areas where the force is performing well, it believes that it does not take into account the issues faced by officers in different areas.
The report suggested that in some incidents victims were being asked to check CCTV footage and fingerprints themselves while also interview neighbours and potential eyewitnesses. It also said that in some forces, crimes such as those involving criminal damage and motor vehicles were 'on the verge of being decriminalised'.
However, Derbyshire Police says that the report indicates 'an implied criticism and some form of postcode lottery' with regards to the level of service that is being offered to members of the public from force to force, adding that it does not agree with the findings published by HMIC.
A police spokesman says that officers in Derbyshire are continuing to provide the best level of care it can, despite a reduction in the funding it receives.
The spokesman said: "All forces, towns, cities and villages are different. Crime and criminality is increasingly complex, but across the country police forces seek to do the very best they can from increasingly limited and reducing funding and resources.
"Here in Derbyshire, victims of crime and those who call on us for a range of non-crime related issues, receive an excellent service tailored to their individual needs."
Derbyshire Police added that it has recently received a significant amount of positive feedback from members of the public.
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What sets Sarah Jones apart from your average poet-mogul, however, is her mastery of the mix. She revels in human contradiction, particularly the irony of searching for a politics of identity in a realm where identity and image whirl in an unstable pas de deux. In the subway car full of folks she inhabits in Surface Transit: More Sketches of Ordinary People, now running at the Nuyorican Poets Café, paradoxes rule. The Russian woman is good at making cornrowsshe has a black daughter. The white supremacist tries to put a positive spin on his hate group. The Italian thug believes dating a black woman proves he isn't a racist. The black actress emigrates from Britain because she thinks Americans will love her accent. Jones's fantastically wide range and rambunctious imagination are riveting. Her male characters are as convincing as her female ones, the white ones as sympathetic as the black, the right-wingers as tragic and complicated as her lefties. You'd think she was the product of a mixed marriage, had lived in a racially diverse area like Queens, and gone to the U.N. high school or something.
And you'd be right. Born in Baltimore, the mixed-race daughter of Johns Hopkins med students, she traveled up and down the Eastern seaboard because her father was in the military. There was Washington, D.C., then a move to Boston, where the family lived on Dorchester's Intervale Street. "The most notorious street," Jones says. "It looks like Beirut. I was happy. I didn't know the reason we had all the pretty cats was to get rid of the pretty mice." While there, she instructs me, "I learned to do what I learned in college is called 'code switching.'" The young Jones developed a facility for moving back and forth between D.C. 'Bama slang and "whitey-white Sarah," depending on her context. "When I was growing up though, that was called 'being fake.' So I was like, Mommy, I'm fake! I talk one way to you and another way to Daddy, the kids hate me, I'm Catholic, I'm a zebrahelp me!" Her heritage-month presentation earned her the epithet "gap-toothed leprechaun."
Then came the move to New York. Hit with the one-two-three punch of zebrahood, rootlessness, and low income while popping her milk cartons next to the children of diplomats, Jones's insecurities reached fever pitch. "In a way, we were all little zebras in the zebra cage, but they'd be like, 'Oh we're going to Saint-Tropez for vacation,' and I'd be like, 'Um...'" She lied about her family in an effort to fit in. But then she started to use her illusions, too. "I would call up the school office and pretend to be my friends' parents," she confesses, demonstrating with a dead-on Indian accent. "I'd be like, 'Gita is very sick today...' They disconnected the phone in the student lounge once they figured it out."
While at Bryn Mawr College, among "scary white people who wanted to touch my hair," she switched definitively into code black, deintegrating with the several other mixed-race women there. Unable to finish Bryn Mawr because a sister's illness drained the family of funds, she came to New York and entered a "hoochie mama" phase"I was 'studying at Hunter,'" she blurts sarcasticallyattending hip-hop parties at Tavern on the Green, among other places. "You knew that when you walked up in there, you were a 'ho on some kind of a spectrum. Guys were only interested in what was in them jeans. You really had no value."
Now Miss Sarah is all value. She takes another cell-phone call. "I'm ghetto fabulous," she explains after hanging up. "My phone's broken so I have to pinch it to make it work." She's manic, finishing one of every four sentences. "I was doing this reading for Perry Ellisof all peopleto benefit city kids, and I decided to do my poem about how I hate brand names," she recounts. I ask her to recite it. It throbs with strident lines about the inability of Nikes and Reeboks to hold "the blood that coagulated... in the lower extremities of Black corpses strung up from trees." She had hesitated to read it and then realized how much the audience would eat it up. It's a conundrum worthy of a Sarah Jones character. "When I think about how the spirit that moves us to write has become a commodity, it's very surreal. We're jumping on it in order to empower ourselvesand I certainly have a political ax to grindbut it is the right brown for the season."
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Gordon Ramsay has shed 30 pounds in preparation for a triathlon he took part in earlier this month. He says it's often hard to keep track of his diet since his job calls for constant eating.
"It's difficult as a chef -- you've got to taste things," Ramsay told Triathlete magazine. He added that he now feels as though he looks like an "asparagus."
Ramsay managed to lose the weight by removing dairy from his diet and sticking to protein-rich meals that included fish or chicken. His training included 70-mile bike rides and 25-mile runs.
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Sex, next to the toilet? Maybe I'm a nerd, but sex on a toilet, doesn't make it in my top 2,123,113 sex fantasies. Now, it may be number 2,123,114.
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I forsee a "Girls Gone Wild" special episode forthcoming. Or god forbid, another 'reality tv show'. "Tonight on the WB, the NFC East Cheerleaders takes on the AFC East Cheerleaders. Tonights Challenge is "Public Appearance in Public Restrooms without shaking their pom-poms. We'll be back lickety-split after this commercial break."
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Underage lesbian sex + alcohol + professional cheerleaders + bar fight + handcuffs = This must be a letter to Penthouse
Teach tolerance.
Why do most of us feel like George Constanza right now?
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A nurse and a schoolgirl! How could this get any better?According to the Panthers' official team Web site on NFL.com, Keathley is a registered nurse and second-year member of the TopCats. Thomas is listed as a student at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte and first-year member of the cheerleading squad.
My dad got to enjoy 3 Reds World Championships by the time he was my age. So far, I've only gotten to enjoy one. Step it up Redlegs!
RBA for the first time in a year and a half you and I are in complete agreement. If this had taken place almost anywhere else I could have enjoyed it a lot more.Originally Posted by RedBloodedAmerican
By Ann Sheridan / 6NEWS
Panther's officials said the two women accused of fighting at a Tampa Bay bar have been dismissed from the squad. The Panthers are able to fire the two women without a legal conviction because they said their actions violate team conduct policies.
Now they're not just off the squad, an adult magazine has an offer for them.
Penthouse magazine is making an offer to the former cheerleaders. The P.R. woman for the magazine confirmed it Monday night.
The nationally known mens magazine wants to cash in on what allegedly went on inside the bars bathroom stall. The former Panther cheerleaders are accused of having sex with each other and starting a fight.
The Panthers organization isn't saying much, but their website is down. Millions of hits from fans are trying to learn more about the cheerleader scandal.
Witnesses said the bar was busy and there was a line to use the womens restroom. Police said Renee Thomas and another Panther cheerleader, Angela Keathley, were having sex in the stall. When they came out, the women who were waiting to use the bathroom let them have it.
She was screaming I am a Panther cheerleader. Im not going to get arrested for this. And, I was like, thats good for you but you are going to jail, the alleged victim Melissa Holden said.
Now the women are out of jail and being courted by Penthouse magazine.
The magazines rep said Penthouse plans to have an offer in writing Tuesday.
But so far, there has been no offer of apology.
Another third Panther cheerleader is also caught up in the scandal. Police said one of the women in the fight was carrying another cheerleaders ID. The Panthers have dismissed the two cheerleaders in the fight, and that third cheerleader is suspended.
My dad got to enjoy 3 Reds World Championships by the time he was my age. So far, I've only gotten to enjoy one. Step it up Redlegs!
you know, the media lately has gotten a large reputation for being negative.
today, i salute them for bringing to us a very possitive story, one which i have enjoyed to a great extent. a bevy of emotions have overcome me as i watch this story develop - and i hope to watch it continue to develop to my upmost satisfaction.
my upmost satisfaction, of course, being a first-person one-person viewing of...well...you know
You're not alone MrCinatit.
Panthers' cheerleader sex scandal creating major buzz
Charlotte Observer
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Take cheerleaders - dude, two of them! - reports of sex and bathroom fights, and the raving imaginations of heterosexual guys, and you get a Monday morning with little work done.
In staid work cubicles around Charlotte and across the country, the lascivious tale of the arrest of two Carolina Panthers cheerleaders was catapulted from water-cooler talk to Internet phenomenon.
The story ranked among the top three most-viewed in charlotte.com's nine-year history. On ESPN.com, more people e-mailed it to friends Monday than any other story. The Panthers' Web site, which features photos of its cheerleaders, bent under so many hits that it was shut down.
It all began early Sunday when customers at a Tampa nightclub complained that the two cheerleaders were engaged in sexual activity in a bathroom stall, according to police. A fight followed and police arrested the two women.
Internet surfers followed every twist and turn as the story continued to unfold Monday:
Renee Thomas, a 20-year-old UNC Charlotte student, was charged with using the driver's license of fellow cheerleader Kristen Owen. Thomas could face up to a year in prison on that charge, and is also charged with punching a third woman in the face.
Thomas and fellow TopCat Angela Keathley, the other woman arrested, were booted from the squad for violating its code of conduct, which bans behavior that's embarrassing. Keathley is charged with resisting arrest. Neither could be reached for comment Monday.
Owen was suspended indefinitely for violating the code of conduct.
Among the questions swirling Monday: How did Thomas get Owen's license? Owen's mother told the Charlotte Observer on Sunday night it had been stolen. Tampa detectives were still investigating.
The women were in Tampa for the Panthers game with the Buccaneers. The cheerleading squad does not appear at out-of-town games and the women were in the city on their own.
Netizens stormed onto Web sites Monday swapping everything from wistful requests ("pics, please?") to expressions of disappointment ("My little girl loves the TopCats. How do you explain this to a 10-year-old?")
On macrumors.com, one thread is titled simply, "Giggidy-giggidy-giggidy-giggidy!"
On Fark.com, a collection of weird news links, so-called "Farkers" posted over 250 comments on the relative attractiveness of each cheerleader. One post asked: "So, it would also have been spiffy if it had been two of the Panthers who got caught doing the deed in the john, right?"
"It's titillating," said Clay Johanson, a 37-year-old independent Web designer in Charlotte. Johanson estimates he spent two hours total posting updates on the TopCats story on various Web sites, and searching for more on his own.
"You ask 100 guys, and 75 of them are going to be, `Oh, yeah!' It's probably more than that, but this is Charlotte, and I'm going to be conservative."
The TopCats turn heads in their short skirts, tight tops and ankle-high black boots. But most have full-time jobs outside cheerleading, ranging from mechanical engineers to financial analysts.
They build houses for Habitat for Humanity, adopt a family at Christmas and volunteer at the battered women's shelter. They also make public appearances, and have many young admirers.
Roger King, a police officer in the Myrtle Beach area, said his 10-year-old daughter last year attended a junior TopCat camp, where she got to meet members of the squad. He posted his disappointment Monday on charlotte.com's forums.
"A lot more guys are lighthearted about this," King said, trying to figure out how to explain the news to his daughter when she returns from a trip to Chicago. "But they don't have a 10-year-old daughter that's a TopCat."
My dad got to enjoy 3 Reds World Championships by the time he was my age. So far, I've only gotten to enjoy one. Step it up Redlegs!
Oh man, I just fell off my chair laughing.Originally Posted by savafan
Teach tolerance.
I did too, Roy. I had flashbacks of the episode where Quagmire is trying to stop being a womanizer and they take him to the mall. Then there are three cheerleaders in the water fountain. Classic.Originally Posted by Roy Tucker
ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. my eyes are watering
So... which one is the 20-year-old? Both look older than that.
Penthouse magazine is making an offer to the former cheerleaders. The P.R. woman for the magazine confirmed it Monday night.
This is the thing that ticks me off most. Both are getting a ton of publicity which will end up making them a lot of money. It's a great message to send. Do something "naughty", get caught, make headlines, and ultimately be rewarded by a lucrative offer from the media.The nationally known men's magazine wants to cash in on what allegedly went on inside the bars bathroom stall. The former Panther cheerleaders are accused of having sex with each other and starting a fight.
"Enjoy this Reds fans, you are watching a legend grow up before your very eyes" ... DoogMinAmo on Adam Dunn
The blonde is the 20 year old.
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Shabbat in the shadow of the Knesset prompts political reflection
The shape of our Birthright Israel trip is taking form, and it resembles the classic three-act structure of any good yarn. In Act I, there is an initiating action and a rough encounter—in our case, arriving in Israel, closely followed by an epic amount of hiking and an epic lack of sleeping in the harsh southern Israeli desert. In Act II, by contrast, the hero (that would be the 48 people on the bus, including the Israeli soldiers) retreats, quietly meditates, lulls, usually reforges some kind of broken weapon, and prepares for the climax. That might describe the past 72 hours in Jerusalem—minus the weapon.
Thursday night, we arrived in time for a late-afternoon viewing of the Old City from Mt. Scopus. Friday morning, after meeting the soldiers, we went to the Mahane Yehuda market for some pre-Shabbos purchasing of rugelach. Friday night in Jerusalem? What do you think we did Friday night in Jerusalem?
Yoav, our tour educator, methodically took us through the Jewish Quarter of the Old City in his patented style of moving us along, point to point, landmark to landmark, using the various locations to advance his larger narrative. We entered via Zion Gate; stopped at the Hurva Synagogue, with Yoav explaining why a synagogue would be called "Ruins"; and by the time we had reached a replica of the ancient Temple Menorah on a platform overlooking the Kotel, we felt not a little like ancient Jews who would light their candles before making their way, as we were doing, to the Temple. After some personal time at the Wall, the walk back to the hotel took over an hour but was agreeable in the brisk night air.
Saturday was … a day of rest. We did not have to be up until roughly 11 a.m. (our next latest wake-up call, in six days, has been 7 a.m.), to prepare for the b'nai mitzvot you've read about. Duly, Friday was the night that most closely mapped onto the Birthright stereotype of partying: People scattered about the hotel, in the basement and in rooms; wine and whiskey, purchased at the market, were consumed. But to our "reporting," nobody was rowdy or even particularly drunk. I chalk this up less to the dire warning we received on the first morning about getting drunk and more to general buy-in to the trip's ethos of cramming in as much as we can, with the knowledge that hangovers could get in the way.
That said, on Shabbat, you are only permitted to cram so much. The afternoon saw us with several hours of free time, with many walking through the lobby of the nicer hotel next-door to sneak into the pool (and a few less fortunate souls caught by security plunking down 100 shekels to take a dip).
Saturday afternoon contained perhaps the trip's high and low points right next to each other. Let's start with the low: The journalist Amotz Asa-El is an impressive guy, but as our special Shabbos guest speaker he just could not hold the room. Additionally, he's only one data point, but extrapolating from him into a General Theory of Birthright Politics would indicate that Birthright Israel wants us to think of Israel as a problem-free Start-Up Nation of beaches and culture and constant progress. It's not that he minimized problems like the settlements, economic inequality, African migrants, etc. etc. etc. He elided them altogether. The good news, if you're keeping score, is that not even the least informed of participants, I would suspect, came away from that chat buying his line. They did come away from it, however, well-rested.
By contrast, immediately before that talk, we did something remarkable. We walked about 10 minutes to the rose garden overlooking the Knesset, Israel's parliament. As other groups of tourists took pictures, we formed our own little Knesset and debated fundamental political issues in a way that was civilized and thought-provoking. Yoav offered two statements, and we split into one of four groups—disagree, disagree strongly, agree, agree strongly—developed arguments for a few minutes, and sent representatives to present our cases. His carefully chosen and phrased propositions were: "The Israeli government, being a government of a Jewish state, should consider itself responsible for the lives of all Jews throughout the world," and, "The future existence of the Jewish people, defined as a Jewish people, depends on the future existence of a Jewish state in the land of Israel."
At the end, Yoav, who later confided his personal opinions to me (which will wait for another post), asked probing questions of each side. As a political blogger used to hourly point-scoring and entrenched positions, I found the whole experience invigorating and refreshing, and it made me rethink some of the fundamental things I write about every day. It was exactly what Shabbat should be. And then it was capped of by a quick Havdalah service with freshly plucked rosemary and dinner on Ben Yehuda Street.
Yesterday was Yad Vashem and Mt. Herzl, the Holocaust museum and the military cemetery, located together on one hill as though to make life, the universe, Zionism, and everything more coherent for the tourists. Which is what I cynically would assume were the case if it weren't for Yoav, who makes it seem credible that Israelis, too, believe in the country that American Jews like to imagine. More on Mt. Herzl—and Yoav—tomorrow, if we find the time to relate it among our hikes and whitewater rafting in the finger of the Galilee in Israel's far north, a few miles from the Lebanon border. Act III, our final act, begins.
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