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The laughing seals: Chuckling sea mammals that love to have a laugh (and are bound to put a smile on your face!)
Lounging on the beach in the summer sunshine will put a smile on the face of many holidaymakers, and these happy seals appear to me no different to their human counterparts as they soak up the rays.
The seals were captured on camera on beaches across the globe, from the shores of the north Devon coastline, to the tiny German island of Helgoland, while some had extra cause for celebration as they were released back into the wild after spending time at a rehabilitation centre for sick animals in Finland.
Among their number are grey seals, which are Britain's largest breeding seal species, harbour seals who call the Arctic marine coastlines of the Northern Hemisphere home, and an elephant seal who can be seen sprawled out on at beach at Macquarie Island - a UNESCO World Heritage site around halfway between Australia and New Zealand.
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Smiling seal: This adult male grey seal (Halichoerus grypus) looks as if he is grinning widely as he lets out a yawn while lounging on the beach at Donna Nook, Lincolnshire
Friendly greeting: This grey seal looks as if he is waving to his friends and laughing as he basks on the shore of the island of Helgoland in Germany
A big grin: Mandi, the laughing seal, poses for tourists at Kamogawa Seaworld Aquarium in Kamogawa city, Chiba Province, Japan
Close encounter: This seal pup gets friendly with underwater photographer Pash Baker off the island of Lundy on the north Devon coast. The grey seal is one of around 60 who play in the shallow waters close to the island
Happy days: Lying on the sand with his eyes closed, this harbour seal appears to be letting out a belly laugh for the photographer Tobias Kuhl's camera on Helgoland
Taste of freedom: This grey seal was one of eight released from a rehabilitation centre for sick and injured seals on the Gulf of Finland coast off the Kurgalsky Peninsula
Adorable: These two harbour, or common seals, play on one of the beaches of Helgoland - which is Germany's only offshore island and has a growing seal population due to its clean air
Facing off: Two grey seals, which can grow to lengths of more than ten feet and weigh as much as 680lbs, come face to face on the shores of Helgoland
All tired out: This adult male grey seal lets out a huge yawn, clearly exhausted after chasing away a challenger on a Norfolk beach
Snuggled up: This pair of grey seals appear to be sharing a tender moment as they snuggle up to one another on a sandy beach
What are you looking at? This elephant seal makes his presence felt as his pals lounge on the north east shores of Macquarie Island, around halfway between Australia and New Zealand
Cuddle time: Two elephant seals cuddle up to one another on the aptly-named Sea Lion Island, which is part of the Falkland Islands
Smile please! A cheery-looking Southern elephant seal looks only too happy to pose for the camera, showing his teeth for Norwegian photographer Kjell-Erik Moseid during a visit to the Falkland Islands
A mother's love: A southern elephant seal female protects her young pup in South Georgia. Elephant seals spend as much as ten months of the year at sea, returning to dry land for breeding and birthing
Caught on camera: This jolly-looking grey seal was photographed by Welsh carpenter and joiner Geoffrey Baker, 58, at Donna Nook, Lincolnshire
Giggles: Raising his flipper, this two day old seal pup gives a wave to the camera as he rolls around in the sand on Helgoland, where he was photographed by Jeannette Rudloff, 36
Time to say goodbye: This little seal pup cracks a smile as he puts his flipper to his face following a much needed nap at Donna Nook
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|Nov 12, 1999
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The invention relates to a receiving device for picking up objects by means of a gripper, a receiving means and transfer means each comprising such a receiving device, and a workstation and method for their operation. Devices and methods of this type are used in chemical, biological and medical laboratories for handling samples, in particular for preparing for centrifuging said samples.
WO-A-98/01 760 discloses a gripper having a gripper clamp which is suitable for gripping sample tubes. By means of the gripper, individual sample tubes can therefore be moved from a sample tube rack to a sample tube bucket, which is then introduced into a centrifuge. To enable this too to be effected by means of the gripper, the sample tube buckets must be provided with a cylindrical handle, i.e. must be specially designed.
WO-A-90/08 326 discloses a workstation comprising a gripper which is suitable for gripping entire rotors which are suitable for use in centrifuges and are loaded and unloaded by means of a separate processing unit outside the centrifuge, and for inserting said rotors into said centrifuge and for removing them from said centrifuge. The use of sample tube buckets is not envisaged. The design of the workstation is relatively complicated.
It is the object of the invention to provide a receiving device which makes it possible, by means of a gripper which is suitable for directly gripping sample tubes, also to pick up and to move other objects, in particular sample tube buckets, without these having to be specially adapted to the gripper. It is also intended to provide a receiving means which furthermore comprises a holding device in which the receiving device can be placed so that it can be easily and securely approached and gripped by the gripper.
It is also intended to provide a transfer device for picking up, moving and setting down individual sample tubes, which transfer device can pick up and move both individual sample tubes and other objects, in particular customary sample tube buckets, by means of a single gripper. Finally, it is intended to provide a workstation in which in particular the feeding, distribution and centrifuging of sample tubes is substantially facilitated, and a method for its operation which is suitable for this purpose.
These objects are achieved by the invention as characterized in the claims. A gripper suitable for gripping and moving sample tubes is supplemented by the receiving device or receiving means according to the invention to give a transfer device according to the invention, which device, inter alia, also permits rapid loading of a centrifuge by relatively economical means since it can also handle sample tube buckets. After the distribution of the sample tubes over the sample tube buckets, the latter can therefore also be introduced into the centrifuge by means of the same transfer device, permitting significant savings.
The workstation according to the invention combines the features of a plurality of components according to the invention to give a configuration particularly suitable for rapidly carrying out the centrifuging step, in particular by the method according to the invention, and is furthermore relatively economical. It can also be suitably designed for carrying out further processing steps.
The invention is explained in more detail below with reference to Figures which represent only one embodiment.
FIG. 1 shows a schematic overview of a workstation according to the invention and the sequence of the method according to the invention,
FIG. 2 shows a perspective view of the receiving means according to the invention,
FIG. 3 shows a plan view of a part of the receiving means according to the invention, shown in FIG. 2,
FIG. 4 shows a perspective view of parts of the transfer device according to the invention and
FIG. 5 shows a vertical longitudinal section through those parts of the transfer device according to the invention which are shown in FIG. 4.
FIG. 1 shows a workstation comprising a feed device 1, a centrifuge 2 and a transfer device 3. Also present is a conveying device 4 which brings individual sample tubes 6 inserted in carriers 5 to other processing modules (not shown).
The feed device 1 is used for feeding sample tubes 6 which are delivered, usually in the form of several sample tubes but under certain circumstances also individually, in sample tube racks 7 to the workstation and also for checking and classifying them. It comprises a feed track 8 and a return track 9 which is arranged a small distance away from said feed track and parallel to it, both of which are equipped with conveyor belts 12. The end of the feed track 8 is connected to the beginning of the return track 9 by a transverse intermediate track 10. On the opposite side, a height scanner 13 having two reflecting cells arranged at different heights and a bar code reader 14 are arranged side by side on the intermediate track 10. Moreover, a second transverse intermediate track 10 which connects the end of the return track 9 to the beginning of the feed track 8 can be provided. A balance 15 by means of which the weight of the sample tube rack 7 present in each case on it can be determined is installed at the beginning of the return track 9.
The centrifuge 2 has a cross 17 which is rotatable about a central axis 16 of rotation and between whose arms four sample tube buckets 18 can be suspended, which buckets are completely or partly filled with sample tubes. The sample tubes are inserted into recesses which are arranged in a plurality of parallel rows in the respective sample tube bucket. The sample tube buckets 18 form two pairs, those belonging to a pair being diametrically opposite one another with respect to the axis 16 of rotation. The weights of the sample tube buckets 18 of a pair may differ from one another by not more than a specific maximum value, which is usually between 15 g and 20 g, in order to limit the imbalance.
The transfer device 3 comprises a gripper 19 (shown in two different positions in FIG. 1) which is suspended in such a way that it can travel in a controlled manner in three directions, in particular in two horizontal directions normal to one another and perpendicularly. It has a downward-projecting gripper clamp 20 which is rotatable about a perpendicular axis in a controlled manner and comprises two gripper fingers 21 a,b which are opposite one another and can be moved away from one another or towards one another for, respectively, opening and closing the gripper clamp 20. The gripper fingers 21 a,b have, on their end regions, grooved contact surfaces 22 (FIG. 5) which face one another and are covered with a nonslip, resilient coating, for example of polyurethane, for improving the adhesion. The gripper clamp 20 is thus directly suitable for gripping and holding sample tubes 6 and objects of similar shape.
To enable other objects too, such as, for example, sample tube buckets 18, to be gripped by the gripper 19, a receiving means (FIG. 2) which comprises a receiving device 23 is arranged in the access region of said gripper, as well as a holder 24 in which said receiving device is deposited. The receiving device 23 has an upper handling part 25 which comprises a basic member 26 which is cylindrical, i.e. corresponds in its shape essentially to a sample tube, and carries an all-round first collar 27 at its upper end. Mounted directly above this is a larger second collar 28 which has two recesses 29 a,b opposite one another. In the vicinity of its lower end, the basic member 26 carries an elongated third collar 30 which forms two longer extensions 31 a,b opposite one another but is only narrow below the recesses 29 a,b. The lower end of the basic member 26 forms a downward-pointing annular stop surface 32 (FIGS. 4, 5).
Adjacent (FIG. 2) to the bottom of the basic member 26 of the handling part 25 is an intermediate part 33 which is connected, for example screwed, to it and has a cylindrical shaft 34 and a support plate 35 which is fastened to its lower end and to the longitudinal sides of which are screwed two U-shaped parts 36 a,b, each of which forms two downward-projecting hooks 37 in such a way that the positions of the four identically oriented hooks 37 form the apices of a horizontal rectangle.
The holder 24 has a bottom plate 38 to which is fastened a perpendicular rear wall 39 which carries, slightly below its upper end, a horizontal retaining plate 40 located above the bottom plate 38. Said retaining plate has, at its edge facing away from the rear wall 39, a slot 41 which terminates in a semicircle and is surrounded, on the upper side of the retaining plate 40, by a support strip 42 (FIG. 3) which forms a ring segment. It is located lower than the surrounding part of the upper side of the retaining plate 40 and is connected to said part via a centring strip 43 inclined inwards in the manner of a funnel. The rear wall 39 is provided with a perpendicular slot 44 which is open at the top, continues through to the retaining plate 40 and has, on its upper edges, bevels 45 sloping downwards in an inward direction. At the front edge, the retaining plate 40 carries two upward-pointing front plates 46 a,b which are flush with the rear wall 39 and laterally bound a slightly broader perpendicular slot 47 which is open at the top and likewise has, on its upper edges, bevels 48 sloping downwards in an inward direction.
When the receiving device 23 is placed in the holder 24, the slot 41 receives the shaft 34 of the intermediate part 33 while the stop surface 32 on the lower end of the handling part 25, tightly surrounded by the centring strip 43, rests on the support strip 42. The extensions 31 a,b project with little lateral play into the slots 44 and 47, respectively. The three-dimensional position of the receiving device 23 is thus exactly defined, including its rotational position.
If the handling part 25 is held by the gripper clamp 20, the grooved contact surfaces 22 of the gripper fingers 21 a,b rest (FIGS. 4, 5), slightly below the third collar 30, against sections of the outside of the cylindrical basic member 26 which form approximately correspondingly convex opposite contact surfaces. The contact surfaces 22 are displaced slightly inwards. The indentations are just below the collar 30 and prevent the handling part 25 from slipping out downwards. The gripper fingers 21 a,b are present in the recesses 29 a,b in the second collar 28 and form therewith a means for preventing rotation of the handling part 25 about a perpendicular axis as well as for preventing transverse displacement. At the same time, the gripper fingers 21 a,b rest with contact regions 49 a,b against the outer edge of the first collar 27. Those sections of the gripper fingers 21 a,b which are present below the contact area are bent slightly elastically outwards so that the contact surfaces 22 rest against the opposite contact surfaces with a certain contact pressure and fix the basic member 26 immovably there. As a result of the contact of the handling part 25 at two regions a vertical distance apart, said part is also reliably secured to prevent rotations about horizontal axes. The receiving device 23 can thus always be held by the gripper 19 in a defined position and securely guided.
To enable (FIG. 1) the sample tube buckets 18 to be coupled to the receiving device 23, they are provided with four upward-pointing tongues 50 which, in their upper ends, form eyes whose relative position corresponds to that of the hooks 37. The hooks 37 can thus also be introduced into the four eyes for coupling the sample tube bucket 18, whereupon the sample tube bucket 18 can be raised and moved. After said bucket has been set down in t he desired place, the hooks 37 can be removed from the eyes.
If it is intended to process a number of samples in the installation according to FIG. 1, in particular if at least some of them are to be centrifuged, a drawer with sample tube racks 7, each of which is completely or partly filled with sample tubes 6, is delivered and is coupled as drawer 51 a to the entrance of the feed track 8. The sample tubes 6 each contain samples to be treated and are provided with bar code labels which identify said samples. The sample tube racks 7 are then moved manually onto the feed track 8, picked up there by the conveyor belts 12 and transported further transversely to their longitudinal direction until the feed track 8 has been filled. One sample tube rack 7 after the other is then pushed transversely to the previous transport direction in the longitudinal direction via the intermediate track 10, the sample tubes 6 being assigned one after the other to one of three different classes by the height scanner 13 with respect to their height. Immediately thereafter, the labels of the sample tubes 6 are read by the bar code reader 14 and the samples are further classified with regard to their subsequent processing; inter alia, it is possible on the basis of the bar code to determine whether a sample is to be centrifuged or not.
When the sample tube rack 7 reaches the beginning of the return track 9, it enters the range of action of the conveyor belts 12 of said track, which further transport it, now in a direction opposite to the transport direction of the feed track 8 and once again transversely to its longitudinal direction, until it is present above the balance 15, which is then activated. Said balance is raised until the sample tube rack 7 rests on the balance 15 and is slightly raised from the conveyor belts 12 by said balance. The total weight of the sample tube rack 7 is then determined. A first sample tube 6 is then gripped by means of the gripper 19, raised and removed from the sample tube rack 7. The weight of the sample tube rack 7 is then again determined.
If the weight of the removed sample tube 6 is required, which is the case particularly when the sample present in said tube is to be centrifuged, it is determined as the difference between the weights of the sample tube rack 7 determined before and after removal of said tube from the sample tube rack 7. According to the result of the weight determination, the sample tube 6 can then be deposited in one of four sample tube buckets 18 which are present in the access region of the gripper 19. As already explained, a weight distribution is strived for in which the maximum permissible imbalances for the centrifuge 2 are not exceeded. In addition to the weight of the sample tube 6 removed, it is of course also possible to take into account other parameters for the assignment, for example optionally the total weight of the sample tubes 6 remaining in the sample tube rack 7, which can be determined from the last weighing and the known empty weight thereof, or the determined heights of the sample tubes 6. If the sample is not to be centrifuged, the sample tube 6 can be placed directly on one of the carriers 5 of the conveying device 4, with or without determination of the weight of said sample tube.
When further sample tubes 6 are removed, the procedure is exactly the same as that described above. After each removal, the total weight of the sample tube rack 7 is determined and the weight of the sample tube just removed is determined from the difference from the result of the preceding weighing. Once all sample tubes which are to be removed have been removed—usually these are all tubes but it is possible that individual sample tubes are not to be removed, for example if the bar code was not legible—the balance 15 is lowered again to its inactive position and the sample tube rack 7 is further transported, the next one usually simultaneously being moved into the region of the balance 15. At the latest when the return track 9 has been completely filled with—usually empty—sample tube racks 7, the drawer 51 b is coupled to the exit of said track, which triggers both lowering of a stop at the end of the return track 9, which previously prevented sample tube racks from being pushed beyond the end of said track, and starting of the conveyor belts 12 thereof, which move all sample tube racks 7 from the return track 9 onto the drawer 51 b, where, owing to the inclination thereof, they slip outwards until they stop. When it is full, the drawer 51 b is uncoupled and removed. The feed device 1 can optionally also be operated so that the sample tube racks are moved from the end of the return track 9 via the second intermediate track 10 back to the beginning of the feed track 8 and thus revolve in a closed circle. In this case, they are manually loaded with sample tubes.
Once the sample tube buckets 18 have been filled, they must be introduced into the centrifuge 2. For this purpose, the gripper 19 approaches the holder 24 (FIG. 2) where the gripper clamp 20 grips the handling part 25, raises it and pulls out the receiving device 23 in a forward direction. Thereafter, a first sample tube bucket 18 in the centrifuge 2 is gripped by a procedure in which the receiving device 23 is positioned by means of the gripper 19 so that the hooks 37 are present in front of the eyes in the tongues 50, whereupon the hooks 37 are introduced into the eyes by a horizontal displacement. The gripper 19 is then raised so that the hooks 37 securely engage the eyes. The sample tube bucket 18 coupled in this manner can now be raised out of the centrifuge 2 and moved to a suitable place. Thereafter, the receiving device 23 is disconnected from the sample tube bucket 18 by a movement sequence opposite to that described above. In a corresponding manner, one of the newly filled sample tube buckets 18 is then moved to the centrifuge 2 and introduced into said centrifuge. Finally, all four sample tube buckets 18 in the centrifuge 2 are thus replaced, the axis 16 of rotation performing in each case a quarter of a rotation before the replacement of a further sample tube bucket 18, so that the removal and introduction of the sample tube buckets into the centrifuge 2 always takes place at the same point.
The gripper 19 then again approaches the holder 24 and deposits the receiving device 23 there. The centring strip 43 and the bevels 45 and 48 ensure that, even when deposition is not very precise, the receiving device 23 exactly assumes its defined position where it can be picked up again securely and without difficulties.
The gripper 19 again immediately removes, by means of the gripper clamp 20, a sample tube 6 from one of the sample tube buckets 18 removed from the centrifuge 2 and places it, for example, on one of the carriers 5 of the conveying device 4. From there, it is then moved to the sample tube rack 7 which is present on the balance 15 and removes from said sample tube rack a sample tube 6 which it then brings, in the manner already described further above, to a sample tube bucket 18 and deposits it there. This process is repeated until all sample tubes 6 in the sample tube buckets 18 have been replaced. At the same time, the samples introduced last into the centrifuge 2 are centrifuged.
The method described and the workstation described can be modified in many details without departing from the scope of the invention. Thus, for example, the transfer device may have a plurality of different receiving devices in a plurality of holders, which are suitable for coupling objects of different categories. The workstations may have different modules for distribution, for pipetting and for carrying out other processing steps, all of which are connected to one another by the conveying device and transfer device—of which there may also be a plurality.
1 Feed device
2 Centrifuge
3 Transfer device
4 Conveying device
5 Carrier
6 Sample tube
7 Sample tube rack
8 Feed track
9 Return track
10, 10 ′ Intermediate tracks
11 Baseplate
12 Conveyor belts
13 Height scanner
14 Bar code reader
15 Balance
16 Axis of rotation
17 Arms
18 Sample tube bucket
19 Gripper
20 Gripper clamp
21 a,b Gripper fingers
22 Contact surfaces
23 Receiving device
24 Holder
25 Handling part
26 Basic member
26 First collar
28 Second collar
29 a,b Recesses
30 Third collar
31 a,b Extensions
32 Stop surface
33 Intermediate part
34 Shaft
35 Support plate
36 a,b U-shaped parts
37 Hooks
38 Bottom plate
39 Rear wall
40 Retaining plate
41 Slot
42 Support strip
43 Centring strip
44 Slot
45 Belts
46 a,b Front plates
47 Slot
48 Bevels
49 a,b Contact regions
50 Tongues
51 a,b Drawers
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|International Classification
|Cooperative Classification
|European Classification
|Jan 11, 2000
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|Aug 14, 2002
Owner name: TECAN TRADING AG, SWITZERLAND
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Effective date: 20020730
|Mar 24, 2006
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|Lapse for failure to pay maintenance fees
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|Expired due to failure to pay maintenance fee
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i have Quick, Remier, Steve Mason. Drop mason for Smith of the yotes????
Ryan nugent hopkins or derrick roy?? 1 year league. (non-keeper).
- 1 Reply to Scott
i think roy bounces up soon and takes off. i love the nug but roy has the better team around him
RhyceTurner RhyceTurner Nov 2, 2011 3:34 PM Flag
Is this team realy bad and can you rate it out of 10. and i haev 2 offers on the table one i get eberle for ranzen, the other i get halak and lucic for smyth, kane and nabokov. Should i do either of these?
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the goaltending is terrible you have no one. those trades i wouldnt do the first the 2nd maybe if halak shows hes a number 1
Roloson or Garon? Also, what type of value does Tavares have in a keeper?
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Roloson. Tavares has huge upside still young a 30 plus goal scorer.
Who wins this one and why...
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Patrick Sharp/Niemmi (desperate need of help at center)
- 1 Reply to Wagner
Even with all those players Niemi and Sharp
Trade help who wins and why?
Wisniewski, Bobby Ryan, and Schneider for Kipprusoff, Wideman, Mikko Koivu
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Bobby ryan side has better players. other side has the goalie. Personally more points and potential in the first side and ryan is hands down the best player
Byfuglien 40th overall.....right before Giroux and Heatley and Erikson...thoughts?
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taking him over giroux would be a mistake. early in the season i believe he can bounch back have a nice season. in an offensive world all 3 of those guys i would take before him almost with the last being erikson, im a big believer in jaime benn in dallas
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i believe they are both fair. Miller is the better goalie hands down. as for forwards i like kopitar and getzlaf the most just barely. either trade is fine i prefer the miller side with kopi first
I got offered Jeff Carter & Taylor Hall for Ilya Kovalchuk. whic side wins?
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if its a keeper league i would have strong consideration for the hall side. he will be a 70 plus point man soon playin on that line. if its a year league i would stick with kovalchuk and ride his 30-40 goals. also depends how soon carter can regain his form
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Mauna Lani Bay Hotel and Bungalows, Hawaii (The Big Island)
- Free WiFi in lobby
Main amenities
- 341 smoke-free guestrooms
- Golf course
- On the beach
- 2 restaurants
- Full-service spa
- Outdoor pool
- Breakfast available
- Internet in the lobby
- Free area shuttle
- Health club
- Valet parking
- Business center
What's around
- On the beach
- Great 4-D Movie Ride (0.7 mi / 1.1 km)
- Kings Shops (2.8 mi / 4.6 km)
- Genesis Gallery (2.9 mi / 4.6 km)
- Hapuna Beach State Park (6.7 mi / 10.9 km)
- Pu'ukohola Heiau National Historic Site (9 mi / 14.5 km)
Mauna Lani Bay Hotel and Bungalows, Hawaii (The Big Island)
Hotel Info: 866-539-8117from $259
- Ocean View Bungalow
- Ocean Front Bungalow
- Standard Room, Mountain View
- Standard Room, Ocean View
- Standard Room, Oceanfront
- Deluxe Room, Ocean View
- Deluxe Room, Oceanfront
- Standard Room, Garden View
Also popular with travelers from the USA
At a glance
Key facts
Hotel size
- This hotel has 341 rooms
- This hotel is arranged over 6 floors
- Check-in time starts at 3 PM
- Check-out time is Noon
- Express check-in/out
Required at check in
- Credit card or cash deposit required
- Government-issued photo ID required
Travelling with others
- Children (18 years old and younger) stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding
- Babysitting/childcare *
- Pets not allowed
- Free WiFi in public areas
- WiFi in rooms *
- Airport shuttle *
- Valet parking *
- Free area shuttle
Other information
- Smoke-free property
Nearby Four Star Hawaii (The Big Island) hotels
In the hotel
- In-room childcare (surcharge)
- Supervised childcare/activities (surcharge)
- Breakfast (surcharge)
- 2 restaurants
- Bar/lounge
- Coffee shop/café
- Poolside bar
- 24-hour room service
- Coffee/tea in common area
- Outdoor pool
- Children's pool
- Health club
- Golf course on site
- Tennis on site
- Full-service spa
- Spa treatment room(s)
- Pool umbrellas
- Free use of nearby fitness center
- Steam room
- Sauna
- Business center
- Number of meeting rooms - 9
- Conference space
- Meeting rooms 8
- Conference space size (feet) - 17,000
- Conference space size (meters) - 1579
- 24-hour front desk
- Concierge services
- Limo or Town Car service available
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Laundry facilities
- Hair salon
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Wedding services
- Multilingual staff
- Porter/bellhop
- Elevator/lift
- ATM/banking
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Designated smoking areas (fines apply)
- Garden
- Picnic area
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
- Roll-in shower
In the room
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Air conditioning
- Ceiling fan
- Coffee/tea maker
- Bathrobes
- Iron/ironing board
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- Lanai
- Separate sitting area
- Private bathroom
- Shower/tub combination
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Pay movies
- Cable TV channels
- Video-game console
- Desk
- Free newspaper
- WiFi (surcharge)
- Free local calls
- Refrigerator
- Free bottled water
- In-room safe (laptop compatible)
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
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Special features
The onsite spa has massage/treatment rooms and couples treatment room(s). Services include deep-tissue massages, sports massages, Swedish massages, and Thai massages. The spa is equipped with a sauna and a spa tub. A variety of treatment therapies are provided, including Ayurvedic and hydrotherapy.
DiningCanoehouse - This beachfront fine-dining restaurant serves dinner only. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar. Reservations are required. Open select days.
Shiono at Mauna Lani - Overlooking the golf course, this restaurant specializes in Japanese cuisine and serves lunch and dinner. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar. Open daily.
Bay Terrace - Overlooking the ocean, this restaurant serves breakfast only. Open daily.
On Site
- Golf course on site
- Health club
- Sauna
- Steam room
- Tennis on site
- Fitness classes on site
- Bicycle rentals on site
- Fishing on site
- Golf lessons on site
- Golf driving range on site
- Golfing on site
- Hiking/biking trails on site
- Kayaking on site
- Mountain biking on site
- Pilates classes on site
- Rowing or canoeing on site
- Sailing on site
- Scuba diving on site
- Snorkeling on site
- Surfing/boogie boarding on site
- Tennis lessons on site
- Yoga classes/instruction on site
- Ecotours nearby
- Parasailing nearby
- Scooter/moped rentals nearby
- Water skiing nearby
- Windsurfing nearby
Mauna Lani Bay Hotel and Bungalows, Hawaii (The Big Island)'s small print
Also known as
- Mauna Lani Bay Bungalows Kamuela
- Mauna Lani Bay Hotel & Bungalows Kamuela
- Mauna Lani Bay Hotel Bungalows Kamuela
- Mauna Lani Bay Hotel Bungalows
Please note Guests departing prior to their scheduled check-out date may be assessed a fee of up to 2 nights' room cost + tax. To avoid an early departure fee, guests must confirm departure date upon check-in.
The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.
Mandatory fees
You'll be asked to pay the following charges at check in or check out:
- Resort fee: USD 25 per accommodation, per night
Resort fee inclusions:
- Health club access
- Fitness center access
- Sporting facilities or equipment
- Internet access (may be limited)
- Phone calls (may be limited)
- In-room bottled water
- Self parking
- Valet parking
- Additional inclusions
Inclusions may be listed elsewhere on the page as free or for a surcharge.
Optional extras
Self parking costs USD 18 per night with in/out privileges
Valet parking costs USD 18 per night with in/out privileges
Microwaves are available for USD 25.00 per night
Breakfast is offered for an extra charge of USD 31.00 for adults and USD 16.00 for children (approximately)
Babysitting/childcare is available for an extra charge
Airport shuttle service is offered for an extra charge of USD 155.00 per person (roundtrip)
WiFi is available in guestrooms for USD 11.00 per day (rates may vary)
High-speed Internet access (wired) is available in public areas for USD 11.95 per night (rates may vary)
We have included all charges provided to us by this hotel. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book.
Recent reviews
Excellent 4.5 /5 from 439 reviews
A beautiful, relaxing stay with excellent service!
Wonderful ocean view room. Dinner at the Canoe House watching the sunset over the ocean was perfect!
The Mauna Lani is my favorite hotel in the world. The property is immaculate and conducive to a relaxing vacation. The pool is clean and big and wasn't crowded. The Shoreline Trail is a really nice feature and affords spectacular views. The breakfast buffet is outstanding especially the malasadas! Great service and overall value.
Very friendly staff, clean resort. A little older, but well taken care of. Hapuna beach just north of the resort is fantastic (rented chairs, boggie boards and umbrellas). Beach at the resort is small and rocky. Very limited dinning options and over priced, but that is common for resorts. Food was very good, service was great, prices were a bit high. We didn't spend much time at the resort, left every morning...if I go again I will likely rent a condo through VRBO rather than pay the higher price for a resort since we didn't get much use out of the resort itself.
Travelled with husband and young daughter. We loved staying here. Great service and property with lots of fun things to do.
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Chapter 1
The call for help was panicked and vague. Caitlin Whiteley, a twenty-two-year-old University of Virginia student, had returned home to her cookie-cutter apartment in Charlottesville to find her roommate unresponsive. It was early Monday morning, the end of a typically hard-drinking "Sunday Funday" on campus, and Caitlin couldn't grasp what was wrong. She'd walked home with Philippe Oudshoorn, a friend and fellow athlete, to find Yeardley Love facedown on her bed and a hole kicked through her bedroom door. Something about the way Yeardley's hair lay seemed awkward and unnatural, so Caitlin pushed it aside and gently shook her friend's shoulder. No response. Then Caitlin noticed some blood.
Oudshoorn hurriedly picked up the phone and told the nine-one-one dispatcher that something was amiss—a message that somehow was translated to "possible alcohol overdose" when patched through to nearby police cars—before lifting Yeardley's body from her bed and attempting CPR. By the time detectives arrived to the second-floor apartment on Charlottesville's narrow 14th Street Northwest, the bloody scene looked nothing like the bender gone awry they had anticipated. Medics were bent over the battered body of Yeardley, a pretty and athletic twenty-two-year-old, and were frantically trying to breathe life back into her.
They were failing.
Charlottesville police officer Lisa T. Reeves was among the first to respond, arriving at the four-bedroom apartment in an off-white building at about 2:30 a.m. May 3, 2010. The apartment was on the second floor, the entrance to which was reachable by a staircase in the middle of the building. She hunted for unit No. 9 and entered.
The front door to the apartment was open and untampered, but the door to the bedroom around which all the activity was now centered—Yeardley's bedroom, Reeves would quickly surmise—was splintered, as though someone had punched a hole straight through it. Reeves spotted Yeardley and immediately saw the blood. A pool had saturated the pillow and sheets beneath the girl's head, and smears of red discolored the bed's comforter. Even the bed skirt was stained crimson.
As the officer examined her more closely, she saw bruising on Yeardley's cheek. The young co-ed's right eye was swollen shut, and a large bruise spread down the side of her face. Blunt-force trauma, Reeves would soon describe in her police report, her cop voice kicking in. There is a pool of blood on her pillow. The girl's face was surrounded by long brown hair sopping with blood. Probable cause exists that Yeardley Love was murdered.
Officers arriving at the apartment quickly cordoned off the area. This was no alcohol poisoning; this was a crime scene. Reeves relayed to her superiors the grisly news: The victim, a star lacrosse player on the university's women's team, was dead, pronounced while still in her apartment, wearing nothing but the panties in which first responders had discovered her. The death was clearly violent. Officers quickly descended on the scene and began gathering evidence. They started by interviewing Whiteley, Yeardley's longtime friend, roommate and teammate, and Oudshoorn, a player on the UVA men's tennis team who was along for the gruesome discovery.
Violent crime was rare enough in Charlottesville, with fewer than 250 cases reported in 2009, but violent death was rarer still, stirring in the police force a mixture of shock and curiosity. Reeves tried to tease details from Yeardley's inconsolable roommates, one of whom had rushed to the front yard and was wailing on a cell phone to a friend. The story they weaved in between tears was like something out of a Lifetime movie: Yeardley had been in a rocky relationship, they said, and things had gotten progressively worse in recent days; you need to talk to her boyfriend.
Yeardley had been dating twenty-two-year-old George Huguely V, a handsome, six foot two midfielder on the men's lacrosse team, for about two years. Friends knew their relationship had foundered lately, and some felt Huguely was becoming unhinged. He texted Yeardley often, keeping tabs on her when she was out of town with teammates. Rumors circulated that he had punched a fellow lacrosse player for walking Yeardley home one night, possibly offering a goodnight kiss, and others had to break up a fight between the couple that had gotten so ugly, Yeardley had hit Huguely with her purse.
Yeardley had broken off the relationship a few weeks prior, but to some, it was hard to tell. The two hung out in the same crowd at the same bars, and when one friend asked Yeardley the night before she died how things were with George, Yeardley had replied vaguely that things were the same as always.
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As Reeves set out to find Huguely, Charlottesville Police Sgt. Steve Dillon, a forensic detective, took photos of the scene, a typical bedroom in a nondescript apartment building situated about half a mile from the heart of campus. Yeardley's room largely looked like any other college student's, complete with strewn-about clothing. Dillon carefully documented each angle he could think of, taking special care to photograph the hole in the bedroom door, which Dillon noticed had little bits of hair clinging to its jagged edges. Reeves, meanwhile, learned that Huguely lived on the same street, just one building down. The roommates' story had been a little hard to follow, but what the officer gleaned was this: Yeardley had tried to call off their relationship because Huguely would sometimes drink too much and get violent. Huguely, Reeves gathered, didn't like that plan.
Officers had no trouble finding Huguely just a building away, in his apartment inside a brick building on 14th Street Northwest, near its T-junction with Sadler Street. It was still dark outside, still the middle of the night, when he agreed to answer questions at the police department. He wore a black T-shirt ironically adorned with a police logo on the front and back, his brown flip-flops and blue Nike shorts appropriate for the spring Charlottesville weather. It had reached 82 degrees the day before; even when bar hopping after sunset, the college kids often left their jackets behind and simply wore T-shirts. After reaching the police department less than two miles from his house, George waived his Miranda rights, saying he was willing to talk. Police secretly set up a video camera to record the conversation. He acknowledged that he had the right to an attorney and the right to keep silent; he invoked neither, Reeves would report. He seemed shaken and distressed, and as he began to tell his story, he admitted that he had been to see Yeardley. As he described the night's events, he used the passive language that cops so often hear from culprits—damning enough to admit some culpability, but distant enough to shirk full blame.
Yes, he'd fought with Yeardley, George told Reeves. He said the couple had ended their relationship of about two years, and the last few days they had chatted primarily over e-mail. George said he had gone to Yeardley's apartment and kicked her bedroom door in, but he had just wanted to talk. Things got out of hand. He shook her, and her head hit the wall. He noticed blood pouring from her nose. He pushed her onto the bed and left. He didn't know she was seriously hurt, he said. He had been injured himself, he said, motioning to scrapes along his right leg—the type that one would get by kicking in a door. Reeves noticed some other scrapes and bruises on George's arms and hands. He shook those off—they were from lacrosse, not the fight, he claimed. It was impossible for Reeves to know if George was being completely forthcoming. When confessing, criminals often downplay their crimes, turning intentional acts into accidents and using slippery language to minimize their involvement. George could have been doing the same. He didn't bang Yeardley's head against the wall; rather, her head "repeatedly hit the wall" as he shook her. George did, however, admit to stealing an Apple laptop from Yeardley's room and tossing it in a Dumpster. Reeves asked him where, so officers could retrieve it when the interview was over.
Huguely repeatedly asked Reeves how Yeardley was, defense lawyers told a judge months later. An hour into the interrogation, Reeves finally told him that Love was dead.
"She's dead, George," Reeves said, according to the lawyer. "You killed her."
Huguely was shocked, his attorney said, and replied, "She's dead? She's not dead … You guys said she had a black eye. I never did anything that would do that to her."
With his statement, Reeves knew she had plenty of probable cause to arrest George Huguely V on suspicion of murder. By the interview's end, she likely sensed, too, that the case seemed tailor made for media consumption. Reporters had already gotten word about the story, and local scribes had gathered down the street, trying to interview neighbors over the sirens and wails that shattered the early-morning calm. Yeardley's friends clutched each other and cried in disbelief.
The first news release on the death was distributed by the Charlottesville Police Department before sunrise. Its contents were sparse:
On the morning of May 3rd, 2010, at 0215 hours, City Police were called to 222 14th ST N.W. apartment number 9 for a possible alcohol overdose. Officers arrived and found a female University of Virginia Student unresponsive in the apartment. Police Officers and Rescue personnel who were called to the scene attempted to revive the victim but were unsuccessful.
Police are treating the case as a homicide investigation at this time.
Victim identification is being withheld at this time pending notification of next of kin. Further information will be released later today. Until such time, no other information will be made available to the public or the media.
The release ended with a bolded plea for people with information to either call police or the Crime Stoppers tip line.
Local reporters with Charlottesville outlets got that initial word and headed straight to 14th Street Northwest. A reporter and photographer from the C-VILLE Weekly, a 24,000-circulation alternative weekly largely dedicated to arts and entertainment in the lively college town, but whose reporters kept readers abreast of breaking news online, were quickly on the scene. Reporter Brendan Fitzgerald wasn't sure what type of story the paper would want when he joined the coverage by mid-morning. The sketchy information released by police so far raised far more questions than answers.
"It's hard to predict what kind of coverage you're gearing up for, but it raises a different set of questions that inform possible stories when you hear it's a homicide rather than an alcohol overdose," Fitzgerald later recalled.
The ambiguity didn't last long. Shortly after noon, the media received an update: George Huguely V had already been questioned and was in custody. That news release had more information—including Yeardley's name and standing at the school:
Regarding the death of a University of Virginia student occurring this morning at 222 14th ST N.W. Apartment Number 9, the victim has been identified as 22 year old, Yeardley Love. Ms. Love was a fourth year University of Virginia student from Cockeysville, Maryland and is on the University's Women's Lacrosse Team.
Preliminary investigation by detectives revealed that Ms. Love is the victim of an apparent homicide. She suffered visible physical trauma, however the specific cause of her death is undetermined pending an autopsy.
George Huguely, 22, a fourth year student at the University of Virginia from Chevy Chase MD has been charged with First Degree Murder and is in custody at the Charlottesville/Albemarle jail. He is a player for the University's Men's Lacrosse Team.
According to witnesses, Huguely and Love had a past relationship.
Charlottesville Police are continuing to investigate the case and will provide more details as they become available
About 12:30 p.m., an update was posted to C-VILLE's Web site, including a photo of city police vehicles surrounding the scene at 14th Street Northwest. Fitzgerald, who had been helping to weave coverage at a desk, left to join colleague Chiara Canzi at the scene soon after. The local media had long been gathered, chit-chatting as they waited for the scant updates.
"There were a few camera crews awaiting across the street from Yeardley Love's apartment building," Fitzgerald recalled, "and we all made a couple of attempts to speak with people on the street, people walking by. Not a lot of people were talking."
Fitzgerald didn't know then just how silent the campus would become.
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While reporters awaited word, detectives behind the scenes were beginning to fill out the obligatory paperwork for search warrants, using the stilted language in which officers are trained to write. In a court request asking for permission to search George's black Chevrolet Tahoe, Reeves wrote: Your affiant knows from training and experience that persons involved in crimes of domestic violence often view property that was given to a partner being forfeited back to the giver at the termination of the relationship. Reeves wanted to check inside the SUV to see if George had any of Yeardley's belongings inside. The request was quickly granted. George's apartment was searched, as was Yeardley's bedroom. By day's end, officers had collected dozens of items as evidence, including swabs of red stains in Yeardley's bedroom, her cell phone, and her digital camera. They bagged a note on Yeardley's bureau in which Huguely apologized for an earlier fight and wrote, "You are my best friend." They also recovered her laptop from the Dumpster where Huguely said he had tossed it, and from Huguely, they took DNA samples, fingernail scrapings, his clothing, and his keys.
Charlottesville Police Chief Timothy Longo and Lieutenant Gary Pleasants tag teamed to field the dozens of media queries that flooded the police department, a small force housed in a brick building connected to the district court on Market Street. When appearing on television, their updates were brief and heartfelt. Clearly, the discovery of Yeardley's battered body was unlike anything the officers had seen before.
Asked by reporters if he had experienced a death scene like Yeardley's before, Longo somberly answered, "In the nine years that I've been privileged to serve as chief of police in this community, I have not."
The questions reporters posed were predictable: Why had Yeardley's roommate reported that she might have passed out from heavy drinking? Did alcohol play a role in the death? Why would George have attacked the young woman? Were there any warning signs that went unheeded? Longo and Pleasants answered obliquely, citing the early stages of the investigation and their desire not to screw it up.
"We're not going to go into any specifics," Pleasants told reporters. "There are too many accounts, and we have half a dozen detectives working on it." Longo, meanwhile, told a Baltimore radio station that he couldn't speculate on why Whiteley first reported alcohol overdose when she found the body. Yeardley's injuries were obvious to officers who responded, he said, but he added that by the time officers arrived, Yeardley's body had been moved. It was no longer face down in a pillow, and there was no hiding the bruises and blood on her face.
By early afternoon, the story already had reached far beyond Charlottesville. Interview requests came pouring in from national media outlets, and television personalities such as Nancy Grace and Dan Abrams were beginning to opine about the case. Charlottesville police were inundated with questions wanting to know whether Huguely could be characterized as cooperative, remorseful, or reticent.
"He was upset by the situation he found himself in but was cooperative with police," a department spokesman told reporters.
Reporters tracked down the phone number for Yeardley's family home in suburban Baltimore, where a woman identifying herself as a designated spokesman politely repeated that the family had no comment. Sharon Love, Yeardley's mother, immediately drove to Charlottesville with daughter Lexie, Yeardley's older sister. Longo told reporters that Sharon was in a state of shock.
"She was very gracious and thankful to investigators," he told one New York–based reporter. "The family wants to be left alone to grieve and mourn … I can only imagine what Ms. Love is going through."
Huguely's parents were also believed to be headed to Charlottesville, so reaching them by phone would be next to impossible. But the Washington Post managed to reach his grandfather, George Huguely III, by phone. "He was a wonderful child and he was going to graduate," the elder Huguely said. "Hopefully he will be graduating. That's all I can tell you, OK? I'm sorry."
John Casteen III, the university's president, released a heartfelt statement that described the anger welling in many at the senseless death. He described Yeardley as a student with "uncommon talent and promise."
"That she appears now to have been murdered by another student compounds this sense of loss by suggesting that Yeardley died without comfort or consolation from those closest to her," Casteen said. "We mourn her death and feel anger on reading that the investigators believe that another student caused it."
Yeardley didn't deserve it, he continued.
"However little we may know now about Yeardley Love's death, we do know that she did not have or deserve to die—that she deserved the bright future she earned growing up, studying here, and developing her talents as a lacrosse player," he said. "She deserves to be remembered for her human goodness, her capacity for future greatness, and not for the terrible way in which her young life has ended."
By Tuesday, as reporters packed a cramped courtroom to catch their first glimpse of a young man charged with first-degree murder, this much was clear: Yeardley Love's death would impact far more than her family or even just the thousands in and around Charlottesville, Virginia. Her name and her story were destined to reverberate throughout the country.
Copyright © 2011 by Amber Hunt


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