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Gayle Williamson: Use those feelings of fear, unease and worry to drive vital change in your life
Unlike depression, anxiety can motivate you to fulfil your potential – as famous sufferers can attest
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'It's like being on the run from snipers who're watching your every move... I can't take it any more."
My client was obviously in a great deal of pain, worn down by her anxiety.
"I feel so weak and pathetic that I can't just get on top of it."
You'd be forgiven for imagining that this woman was not working, staying at home all day, alone; imprisoned by her anxiety. In fact, she had achieved, and was still achieving much in life as an executive at a multinational firm – a job she loved – and was married with children.
It's an interesting phenomenon about anxiety that many of its sufferers are high-functioning people: I include in this group the ordinary heroes who manage to get through their busy days despite overwhelming feelings of distress, along with the bestselling authors, award-winning actors, statesmen, legendary painters, business owners. In some cases, it may be the very fact of their success that is causing their anxiety; in others it may be that their anxiety has actually spurred their achievements – incredible as that may seem to anyone in the thick of the symptoms right now.
Of course, it's also true that sometimes anxiety becomes so overwhelming that sufferers do stop functioning for a time, and it is also a fact that in some people anxiety can cause depression, often characterised by withdrawal from everyday life. However, a key difference between anxiety and depression is that anxiety can actually act as a motivator; while in the latter it's usually difficult to feel motivated about anything – even about finding help for yourself.
Anxiety tends to nag at you, pushing you to make changes. It focuses your attention on the things that are really important in life: such as, I would suggest, looking after yourself, developing a strong sense of self and fulfilling your potential – all things from which great relationships, careers and achievements come. It drives you to create new ways of living your life.
Celebrated Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (1863- 1944) is a great example. He saw his anxiety as an indispensable driver of his work. "My fear of life is necessary to me, as is my illness... their destruction would destroy my art," he was quoted as saying. Munch, who captured his anxiety – and that of the modern age – in his iconic masterpiece The Scream, was anxious for many possible reasons. I would speculate that chief among them was death – he lost his mother at age five and subsequently suffered several deaths of those closest to him, and he also had poor health throughout his life.
However, being innately creative may not have helped Munch. The 19th Century Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard said the more creative a person, the more potentially anxious he is. You just have to look at the many actors, writers and singers who have experienced anxiety for evidence of this.
It's a very long list, including David Bowie, Bill Nighy, Barbra Streisand, Adele, Kim Basinger, Johnny Depp, the late Sopranos actor James Gandolfini, Emily Dickinson, Charlotte Bronte and our own Cecelia Ahern and Bressie.
Of course, 'madness' and creativity have been linked since ancient times. Creating – or as existential psychologist Rollo May would describe it, actualising one's possibilities – inevitably causes anxiety because we have freedom of choice. As May says, if there weren't any possibilities for how we can create ourselves or the world around us, there would be nothing for us to get anxious about.
However, part of this and all anxiety is related to erroneous beliefs about your self-worth – so that even if you are achieving, you can't quite believe it and instead you give more weight to all those messages you absorbed about yourself while growing up.
This certainly seems true in Barbra Streisand's case. The multi-award winning singer and actress didn't perform live for nearly three decades after suffering what was described as extreme stage fright, forgetting her lyrics, during a concert in New York in 1967. Streisand's dad died when she was a baby and her memories are of an unaffectionate mother and a stepfather who didn't like her. I would guess this left her with feelings of not being good enough, likeable or loveable enough – in her child's mind; how could she be, when not even her own mother showed her love?
As Streisand herself has said in explaining why she doesn't remember her good reviews: "They [the bad reviews] stay in my mind. So that says a lot about my upbringing or, you know, a feeling of self-worth when I was younger."
Yet now, having learned what her anxiety had to teach her, Streisand can actually say "performing is not about perfection... It's about self-acceptance. It's about believing that I am enough."
Someone closer to home who poured their anxiety into being creative is Cecelia Ahern, who revealed on Miriam O'Callaghan's radio show last week that she started suffering panic attacks when she was 19. But the bestselling author said she put everything into writing her first novel PS I Love You, which "gave me a career".
"What was lovely was writing. I could express myself and I was feeling so emotional and trying to be there in other people's heads... I think that helped my writing. So everything does happen for a reason, it turned a really horrible moment in my life into something positive." It appears Ahern's anxiety helped her self-actualise, find her authentic place in life, and so helped ease her fears.
Media giant Oprah Winfrey is probably one of the most influential women today, and possibly one of the more unexpected sufferers of anxiety. But it has affected her throughout her life as a result of being sexually abused as a child and giving birth to a boy at age 14, who died soon afterwards. Today Oprah – host of the world's most watched talkshow for 25 years, philanthropist, actress and producer – would say her anxieties were the driving force that helped her create herself and her multi-faceted career.
But what of those who achieve success and only then get anxious? It was Freud – another high-functioning anxiety sufferer – who wrote about the syndrome of being "wrecked by success''; while US psychologist Abraham Maslow argued that we tend to shy away from our "highest possibilities". There's comfort in being just like our peers – in the comfort of the human huddle, as existentialist psychotherapist Irvin Yalom puts it – whereas standing out from our group, overtaking them, daring to fully grasp our life as an individual, well that's daunting. You might also fail.
Trauma specialist Suzanne Babbel suggests another reason for fear of success: she says that for those who have experienced trauma of some kind – which can include anything from a car accident to the unexpected death of someone close to parental separation or serious illness – the excitement of success feels uncomfortably close to the feeling of arousal they experienced during the traumatic event or events. Excitement-inducing circumstances, therefore, may trigger the original feelings.
Singer Niall Breslin, better known as Bressie, suffered crippling anxiety when he took on the role of coach on The Voice during the first season of the show. "I started realising that I lost my anonymity and I started to worry," the 32-year-old said when he spoke out last year.
Bressie had previously suffered severe anxiety as a teenager, going as far as to break his own arm in a desperate attempt to get help. He hoped he'd be taken to hospital where he'd finally get answers to his frightening symptoms, except no one diagnosed anxiety. Only with time and greater maturity did his symptoms ease, until triggered again by his sudden fame.
Actor Bill Nigh, 64, spoke last weekend, too, about how his sudden fame in the wake of Love Actually gave him anxiety attacks.
But with surpassing your peers often comes great responsibility, certainly in the case of US presidents. Abraham Lincoln famously suffered depression; however, a study by US psychiatry professor Jonathan Davidson and associates researched 37 US presidents – and found that 18 of them had suffered mental illness of some kind.
Of particular relevance here, Calvin Coolidge, Ulysses S Grant and Thomas Jefferson were diagnosed with social phobia by Davidson. In other words, they were prohibitively shy and avoided social situations – and yet they were American presidents.
A client said recently he was tired of reading articles on mental health – they offered no hope and made him feel worse. But without minimising how awful the experience of anxiety can be, perhaps there is a more hopeful side to our suffering that we should pay more heed to. It's important to know that, first of all, you're not alone: anxiety is widespread, even affecting commanders-in-chief; secondly, not only can you survive it, you can go on to thrive; and thirdly, if you can learn to listen to what your mind and body are telling you, you may just end up living the life you were meant to live.
Client confidentiality has been respected.
Gayle Williamson is an IACP-accredited psychotherapist practising in Dublin. Contact her at www.ferneytherapy.ie
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"under consideration or about to be made by Obama's ICE agency in the next 30 days:
– "Softening" the physical appearance of privately contracted detention facilities with "hanging plants."
- Giving illegal alien detainees e-mail access and free Internet-based phone service.
- Abandoning lockdowns, lights-out, visitor screening and detention uniform requirements.
- Serving fresh veggies and continental breakfast and providing Bingo sessions, arts and crafts classes, and, yes, movie nights."
Is Obama getting Web 'kill switch'?
Plan cites security to ramp up government control over Internet
Posted: June 17, 2010
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Congress is proposing a tighter grip by the government on the Internet, with a new "Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act of 2010" that would, among other things, give the president a "kill switch" on the Web, critics charge.
Officials with Judicial Watch, a government-watchdog group that investigates and prosecutes government misbehavior, said the plan simply is "keeping with the big-government script" of the Obama administration.
The organization said the bill would grant the federal government "absolute power" to shut down Internet activity and allow the president to take it over in the name of "national security."
The proposal essentially would require broadband providers, search engines and software firms to "immediately comply with any emergency measure or action developed" within the Department of Homeland Security.
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Punishment would await offenders.
Judicial Watch said the alarming plan would give the government the power to force private companies to participate in "information sharing" with the government and allow authorities to monitor the "security status" of private websites and others.
"Yet another new government agency (National Center for Cybersecurity and Communications) will be created to police the industry and any company that 'relies on' the Internet, the telephone system or any other component of the 'information infrastructure' will be subject to its command," the organization said.
"The new (National Center for Cybersecurity and Communications) will have no less than two deputy directors and liaison officers to the Defense, Justice and Commerce departments as well as the director of national intelligence."
Judicial Watch also said arming the president with an Internet "kill switch" easily could be misused to silence free speech "under the pretext of a national emergency."
There already is an organization set up to manage such situations and it includes personnel from the National Security Agency, Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force and policymakers (politicians), according to a report from WND columnist Andrea Shea King.
The administration agency, dubbed CYBERCOM, is set up within the Department of Defense and reports it is both a defense and an offense in that it can engage in preemptive "strikes" intended to disrupt threats, she reported.
At a site called "Tech 1984 - Where Technology and Big Brother Collide," a commentator suggested: "Even though the primary purpose of CYBERCOM is to protect government and military networks, there is incredible pressure to extend that 'protection' to civilian and business networks as well. In fact, the second-highest official at the Pentagon, William Lynn III, deputy secretary of defense, recently announced that the Department of Defense might start a protective program for civilian networks. Defense Secretary Robert Gates stated the same thing in June 2009."
The new legislative proposal comes at the same time the Federal Communications Commission still is attempting to act on a policy called "net neutrality." CNET Networks reported in April that a federal court ruled that the FCC could not act on net neutrality, but the court decision hasn't stopped the push for that agenda as the FCC is still attempting to regulate the Internet using federal rules used to control phone lines.
A government systems analyst who publishes the Tech 1984 site and prefers to use the pseudonym Winston, a name borrowed from Winston Smith from George Orwell's "1984," said the newly activated Cyber Command was proposed last year by Defense Secretary William Gates as a means to protect the military's vast Internet network from attacks by outside or hostile forces.
"Winston" is a confidential source with connections to the cybersecurity industry.
Director Maj. Gen. Steven Smith said in a statement posted on the Army's site that the new agency will be responsible for defending Army information networks from threats around the globe.
"The mission for (the Cyber Command) is to direct the operation and defense of all Army networks, and, on order, conduct full-spectrum operations in support of our combatant commanders and coalition partners," Smith said.
Smith said the new unit will use existing Army and Defense resources and bring together parts of the 9th Signal Command, the First Information Operations Command and the Intelligence and Security Command.
However, Winston, the analyst, believes the new move will be aimed at civilian computer networks. Winston bases his assessment on a recent statement made by Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn.
"The best-laid defenses on military networks will matter little unless our civilian critical infrastructure is also protected. Critical infrastructure will certainly be targeted in a military conflict," Lynn stated.
"The Department of Homeland Security appropriately has the lead to protect the dot-gov and dot-mil domains. The Defense Department plays an important supporting role in this mission, and has direct responsibility for securing defense-industry networks," Lynn added.
The Defense Daily Network site lists corporations such as Northrop-Grumman, BAE Systems, Inc., and other private corporations as defense corporations that would likely come under the Cyber Command umbrella.
The newly operational status of the Cyber Command also is driving concern about the federal government's interest in taking control of the Internet. CNET News reported last August concern over a federal takeover of the Internet was fueled by the introduction of a Senate bill that would give President Obama the authority to take command of the system – or prevent private computers from having access.
The fury over possible federal control of the Internet has not abated, according to a report by Federal News Radio's Tom Temin and Amy Morris.
Temin and Norris say the bill proposed by Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman, Maine Sen. Susan Collins and Delaware Sen. Tom Carper would give the president authority to shut down the Internet in the event of a cyber attack. The shutdown actions would be done through the Department of Homeland Security.
Center for Strategic and International Technology scholar James Lewis said the bill is misguided.
"I've never understood this shut-down-the-internet stuff. It wouldn't be easy, may not be possible and in any case is not in our interest – we depend on it more than others," Lewis observed.
Lewis added there are legitimate concerns about securing the military Internet, but he sees no sign that the Cyber Command would have the authority to intervene in the civilian Internet.
"There is a capability to monitor and intercept malware, but so far there are no decisions or policies to let Cyber Command do this, either solo or in partnership with the Tier 1 service providers," Lewis said.
"Most Tier 1 providers already do some monitoring for (quality-of-service) purposes, but they don't work together and they don't work with Cyber Command or DHS. As a nation, we prefer a disaggregated point defense, even though it makes us vulnerable, as it offers some protections for civil liberties. Other countries will act differently and may get an advantage over us," Lewis explained.
WND reported in November 2009 that the National Security Agency is building two new facilities for storing all communications intercepts. The connection to the NSA is the basis for Winston's concerns.
"CYBERCOM is commanded by Gen. Keith B. Alexander who is also the head of the NSA. Alexander was promoted to general on May 21, 2010. The official purpose is: 'Plans, coordinates, integrates, synchronizes and conducts activities to: direct the operations and defense of specified Department of Defense information networks and; prepare to, and when directed, conduct full-spectrum military cyberspace operations in order to enable actions in all domains, ensure US/Allied freedom of action in cyberspace and deny the same to our adversaries,'" Winston explained.
"The previous official responsible for cybersecurity in the United States, Rod Beckstrom, director of the National Cyber Security Center, resigned his post in protest over the fact that NSA had too much control and would not cooperate with (the center)," Winston detailed.
Winston said the new structure could be used to infringe on Americans' constitutional liberties.
"This would violate the 4th Amendment to our Constitution. Warrants are required to seize any private property. It can also be argued that this is a violation of the 4th Amendment's provision against illegal searches as well. Warrants can only be obtained from a court or magistrate and would typically be the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court," Winston explained.
There Is No Such Thing As Search Neutrality, Because The Whole Point Of Search Is To Recommend What's Best
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It seems that various anti-Google organizations have picked up on this bizarre and misguided notion of "search neutrality" as a key stick with which to attack. The idea is, obviously, a play on the concept of "net neutrality." It's been pushed mainly by AT&T and various anti-Google think tankers, but now it appears that Microsoft is getting into the game, suggesting that "search neutrality" is a problem and pointing a finger directly at Google.
This is ridiculous on so many levels that it's difficult to know where to begin. First, "search neutrality" is not a problem because "search neutrality" makes no sense. The whole point of search is to be biased. The whole point of search is to recommend which sites fit your query best. "Search neutrality" isn't search at all. It's a list of unsorted and totally useless links.
Second, Microsoft should know better than to complain about Google's actions and suggest they're in some way anti-competitive. Remember that, even if the actual penalties (penalties? what penalties?) made the ruling meaningless, Microsoft was a convicted monopolist. Having big competitors point fingers at each other screaming about "anti-competitive" behavior is just silly.
Finally, Microsoft's Brad Smith apparently is claiming that "the biggest lack of competition" is in the search space. Really? Well, let's compare, shall we? According to some recent research, Google has 85% of the market in search. That is a lot, granted. But... what about the operating system? Oh, look. The same research firm shows that Microsoft has 91% of the market. What's next? Operating system neutrality?
Club Fed for illegal aliens
By Michelle Malkin • June 18, 2010 01:58 AM
Club Fed for illegal aliens
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2010
Thanks to their international "human rights" advocates, Gitmo detainees receive art therapy, movie nights and video games at their U.S. taxpayer-funded camp in Cuba. Now, the left's bleeding heart lobby wants to provide similar taxpayer-sponsored perks to illegal alien detainees on American soil. Welcome to the open-borders Club Fed.
According to an internal Department of Homeland Security e-mail obtained by the Houston Chronicle, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency plans a radical overhaul of the immigration detention system. No, the reforms will not increase the nation's measly, chronically underfunded detention bed capacity — fewer than 35,000 beds last fiscal year to cover an estimated illegal alien population of between 12 million and 20 million. The Obama ICE leadership is headed in the exact opposite direction.
ICE chief John Morton — the same man who signaled last month that he may refuse to process illegal aliens sent to him by Arizona law enforcement officials — has already eliminated 50 detention facilities. This despite a DHS inspector general report released last spring exposing the federal government's bipartisan failure to expand detention space capacity to end the dangerous game of illegal alien "catch and release."
Instead, among the p.c. makeover measures under consideration or about to be made by Obama's ICE agency in the next 30 days:
– "Softening" the physical appearance of privately contracted detention facilities with "hanging plants."
- Giving illegal alien detainees e-mail access and free Internet-based phone service.
- Abandoning lockdowns, lights-out, visitor screening and detention uniform requirements.
- Serving fresh veggies and continental breakfast and providing Bingo sessions, arts and crafts classes, and, yes, movie nights.
Ensuring humane treatment of detainees is one thing. This, on the other hand, is beyond ridiculous. Detention centers should be clean, safe and temporary way stations for illegal immigrants on their way out the door. These proposals turn the immigration detention centers into permanent Dave & Buster's-style comfort zones for illegal aliens biding their time until the next amnesty. Dancing lessons? Game halls? This is an invitation for abuse — and a recipe for exploitation by smugglers and drug cartels. Open-borders and civil liberties activists will end up endangering DHS/ICE workers — and the rest of us — under the guise of "immigrant human rights."
The left-wing campaign by the American Civil Liberties Union, change.org and illegal alien activists targeting our detention system began in earnest after 9/11. Under the Bush administration, hundreds of illegal aliens of Arab descent were detained and questioned as "material witnesses" in counterterrorism probes. The use of immigration laws in the war against Islamic jihadists became a rallying point for the open-borders propagandists.
The New York Times hysterically reported that most of these post-9/11 detainees were held for months without charges. In fact, 60 percent of the 762 immigrants detained after the 9/11 attacks were charged within 72 hours. And the Justice Department inspector general found that there were legitimate reasons for delay in the remaining cases, including logistical disruptions in New York City after 9/11, such as electrical outages, office shutdowns and mail service cancellation that slowed delivery of charging documents. Immigrant abuse charges were hurled recklessly by the likes of Al Gore, who slandered DHS's detention program during a paid appearance in Saudi Arabia — despite the DOJ's failure to find any such patterns.
The truth got lost along the way. So did common sense. Allowing illegal alien terror suspects to roam free in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks would have been a dereliction of duty. And countless homeland security experts and DHS inspector general reports have repeatedly spotlighted lax enforcement in the detention safety net over the past decade.
Hundreds of thousands of "absconders" remain on the loose because of failure (or refusal) to detain them. The immigration lawyers' racket has lobbied for compassionate "alternatives" to detention that routinely result in deportation fugitives simply ditching the process and disappearing.
Their goal is not to improve detention. Their goal is to sabotage it — all while law-breakers munch on croissants and joyfully shout "BINGO!"
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For more information and reservations please call +852 2825 4800 or email us.
*All prices are per person and are subject to 10% service charge
2 August 2016 onwards
Make sure you come and enjoy Vietnamese and Thai favourites offered at our famed dinner buffet. Choices include deep fried spring roll, beef noodle soup, butter garlic chicken wings, tom yum goong and phad thai, alongside our raw bar, sushi selections, salad bar, and our whimsical, exotic dessert garden.
For reservations or further information please call +852 2825 4007 or email us.
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One Michelin Star for Man Wah
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1 July – 30 September 2016
Guests who spend over HKD 1,500 on any treatment at The Mandarin Spa will also receive a dining voucher valued at HKD200, which can be redeemed for dinner at two Michelin-starred Pierre and Café Causette. Terms and conditions apply.
For enquiries, please call +852 2825 4888 or email us.
22 July – 15 September 2016
To celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival, Man Wah will offer "Limited Edition" mini-mooncakes, and The Mandarin Cake Shop will offer a wide selection of tempting delicacies including mooncakes and gift hampers. For early-bird orders until 13 Aug 2016, any purchase of 10 boxes of mooncakes or more will receive a 10% off.
For more information and reservations please call +852 2825 4005 or email us.
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Are you short on time? Designed for guests to revitalize the body and mind yet find time is of the essence. Enjoy a 45-minute hands-on body massage and receive a complimentary takeaway lunch of a fresh wellness juice, almonds and fruit salad to go. Spa N' Lunch is available Mondays to Thursdays only, priced at HKD940.
For more information and reservations please call +852 2825 4888 or email us.
14 July – 14 October 2016
Legendary Chef Pierre Gagnaire presents a new 'Soirées d'été' summer dinner menu, combining the delicate flavours of summer with seasonal produce to balance Hong Kong's warming temperatures. The 3-course dinner menu is priced at HKD798, with optional Terroir Wine Selections at HKD300; or Discovery Wine Selections at HKD700.
For inquiries, please call +852 2825 4001 or email us.
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4 July 2016 onwards
We have introduced a selection of 4 juices and an acai bowl, with recipes designed by a nutritionist, to assist our guests in specific moments in life - ENERGY Acai Bowl to uplift, RECHARGE juice to revive, REFRESH juice to nourish, RECOVER juice to comfort, and DETOX juice to purify.
For purchase details, please visit The Mandarin Cake Shop, call +852 2825 4008 or email us.
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Would you like to get unlimited access to our well equipped Fitness Centre with a view, luxurious spa facilities and exclusive swimming pool? Would you like to receive a host of complimentary professional fitness sessions and wellness treats, and enjoy discounts on spa treatments and in our award winning restaurants all year round? Join our fitness membership to enjoy these exclusive privileges.
For further information, please call +852 2825 4888 or enquire here.
Together with our knowledgeable concierge team, we are now offering private, curated excursions, so that guests can enjoy Hong Kong's diversity, alongside local experts and tastemakers. Examples include Urban Photography Experiences, Enlightened Walks, Hong Kong Food Walks and Bespoke Art Walks.
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Best Western Cooper's Mill Hotel, Cedar Rapids
- Free WiFi and free parking
Main amenities
- 83 smoke-free guestrooms
- Restaurant and bar/lounge
- Indoor pool
- Breakfast available
- Fitness center
- 24-hour business center
- 24-hour front desk
- Coffee/tea in a common area
- Air conditioning
- Daily housekeeping
- Arcade/game room
- Front desk safe
What's around
- Heart of Cedar Rapids
- US Cellular Center (0.6 mi / 0.9 km)
- Paramount Theatre (0.6 mi / 0.9 km)
- Cedar Rapids Museum of Art (0.8 mi / 1.2 km)
- Veterans Memorial Stadium (1.2 mi / 1.9 km)
- African American Museum of Iowa (1.3 mi / 2.1 km)
Best Western Cooper's Mill Hotel, Cedar Rapids
Hotel Info: 020 3027 9803from £73
- Standard Room, 1 Queen Bed, Non Smoking, Refrigerator
- Standard Room, 1 Queen Bed, Accessible, Non Smoking
- Standard Room, 1 Queen Bed, Accessible, Bathtub
- Standard Room, 1 King Bed, Accessible, Non Smoking
- Standard Room, 1 Queen Bed, Accessible, Non Smoking
- Suite, 2 Queen Beds, Non Smoking, Refrigerator
- Standard Room, 1 King Bed, River View
- Standard Room, 2 Queen Beds
- Standard Room, 1 King Bed, Refrigerator & Microwave, River View
- Standard Room, 1 Queen Bed
- Standard Room, 1 Queen Bed, Refrigerator, River View
- Standard Room, 2 Queen Beds, Non Smoking, Refrigerator
- Standard Room, 2 Queen Beds, Refrigerator, River View
Also popular with travellers from the UK
At a glance
Key facts
Hotel size
- This hotel has 83 rooms
- This hotel is arranged over 4 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
- Minimum check-in age is 21
Travelling with others
- No cribs (infant beds)
- Pets allowed (dogs only) *
- 2 per room (up to 80 lb)
- Free WiFi and wired Internet access in public areas
- Free WiFi in rooms
- Free self parking
- Free RV/bus/truck parking
Other information
- Smoke-free property
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In the hotel
- Cooked-to-order breakfast daily (surcharge)
- Restaurant
- Bar/lounge
- Room service (during limited hours)
- Coffee/tea in a common area
- Indoor pool
- Fitness facilities
- Spa tub
- Golfing nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Water skiing nearby
- Free use of nearby fitness center
- Arcade/game room
- 24-hour business center
- Number of meeting rooms - 2
- Conference space
- Meeting rooms 4
- Conference space size (feet) - 888
- Conference space size (meters) - 82
- 24-hour front desk
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Laundry facilities
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Elevator/lift
- ATM/banking
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
- Roll-in shower
In the room
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Air conditioning
- Coffee/tea maker
- Iron/ironing board
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Partially open bathroom
- Shower/tub combination
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- 32-inch flat-screen TV
- Premium TV channels
- Desk
- Free WiFi
- Free local calls
- Refrigerator
- Microwave
- Daily housekeeping
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
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DiningCoopers Mill - This family restaurant specializes in American cuisine and serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar. A children's menu is available. Happy hour is offered.
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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.
Optional extras
Breakfast costs between USD 8 and USD 12 per person (approximately)
Pets are allowed for an extra charge of USD 10 per pet (may vary based on length of stay)
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Parents of Viewmont High School students have been warned, this week, there's a pertussis outbreak at the Bountiful school.
The Davis County Health Department reports, three confirmed whooping cough cases...as well as one more probable -- and two more 'possible' -- cases.
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Youth group finds home in WindsorAugust 06,2013Youth group finds
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WINDSOR A Vermont youth organization created a decade ago finally has a permanent home.
The Youth Managed Cafe was started in 2003 in White River Junction by a school clinician and a clothing store owner. It started out by getting kids ages 12 to 21 to music shows and art workshops, and evolved to focus on giving young people a place to hang out, free of drugs and alcohol, and give back to their community.
But it never had a permanent location until now. The Valley News reported that the organizations 802 Lounge will open Friday in Windsor, in a building that has housed a grocery store, bank and beauty salon over the years.MORE IN This Just InCASTLETON - Head coach Eric Ramey has announced that the Castleton softball team will once again... Full StoryMONTPELIER Vermont state officials are blaming a lack of seat belt usage, speeding and driving... Full Story
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PC Energy Use Still Unmanaged
Most IT shops aren't managing PC power use within their organizations, which means they're passing up big savings, especially in regions with high energy costs.
Most IT shops aren't managing PC power use within their organizations, which means they're passing up big savings, especially in regions with high energy costs.
Intel Corp. said it plans to appeal last week's European Commission decision to fine the company for violating antitrust laws.
Hynix Semiconductor plans to raise some much needed cash from a joint venture in China to assemble memory chips.
Appro's new HyperPower Cluster, announced Monday, mixes the processing power of CPUs and graphics processing units to tackle high-performance computing tasks.
The global DRAM industry continued to shrink in the first quarter of this year as revenue fell to an eight year low and losses mounted, according to preliminary figures released by Gartner on Monday.
Kobian, a Singapore based manufacturer of Mercury brand PC components announced the availability of their latest Mercury Mice Series with 1600dpi resolution optical engine. The Mercury RF760, RF730 and RF710 are powered by a G5 micro receiver that pl...
Gigabyte today announced that their entire range of Intel X58 chipset motherboards now officially support Nvidia SLI technology. According to a press release, users can enable Nvidia SLI support on their current motherboards with a simple BIOS upgrad...
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has officially dropped its antitrust case against memory maker Rambus, after losing a U.S. Supreme Court case in February.
Dell on Friday announced an "ultra-light" server that will be powered by low-power processors designed for use in low-cost laptops.
Antitrust regulators around the world, led chiefly by the European Commission, are testing the limits of the law in their pursuit of Intel and its practice of offering rebates to computer manufacturers and IT retailers, Intel Senior Vice President Br...
Intel Corp. said today it intends to appeal the European Commission's $1.44 billion fine for anticompetitive behavior in the chip market, with CEO Paul Otellini arguing that the EC "ignored or disregarded" evidence "refuting" its judgment.
Oracle's decision to acquire Sun Microsystems has created a larger market opportunity for Intel to put its Itanium chips into more enterprise servers, Intel CEO Paul Otellini said on Tuesday.
Intel on Tuesday said it was granting US$12 million over five years to Saarland University in Germany to research graphics technologies.
After five quarters of declining market share, Advanced Micro Devices gained ground in chip shipments over chief rival Intel during the first quarter of 2009, IDC said on Tuesday.
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For work use, Microsoft Word and Excel programs pre-installed on the device are adequate for preparing short documents.
The Fujitsu LifeBook UH574 allowed for great mobility without being obnoxiously heavy or clunky. Its twelve hours of battery life did not disappoint.
The screen was particularly good. It is bright and visible from most angles, however heat is an issue, particularly around the Windows button on the front, and on the back where the battery housing is located.
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Book your room at Banbridge House
Get an overview of this hotel3-star bed & breakfast in Minehead with free breakfast
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Situated by the sea, this bed & breakfast is 0.4 mi (0.6 km) from Minehead Beach and 2.6 mi (4.2 km) from Dunster Castle. Dunster Working Watermill is 2.5 mi (4.1 km) away.
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Along with tour/ticket assistance, this smoke-free bed & breakfast has free breakfast and free WiFi in public areas.
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Banbridge HouseThe Esplanade Minehead England TA24 5QS
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Guests can enjoy a complimentary breakfast each morning. High-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary.
Banbridge House is a smoke-free property.
- Total number of rooms - 4
- Number of floors - 2
- Free breakfast
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Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
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Check-in time starts at 4 PM
Check-in time ends at 10 PM
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Proksa vs Zbik in Talks, Alekseev-Licina Eyes For Jan
By Per Ake Persson
Sauerland have January 2012 as the target month for Aleksander Alekseev vs Enad Licina, with the vacant EBU cruiserweight title at stake. Alekseev is promoted by EC Box Promotion and if he wins Sauerland loses a little bit of their firm control on the cruiserweights.
As previously reported, former WBC middleweight ruler Sebastian Zbik is now the mandatory challenger for newly crowned EBU king Grzegorz Proksa. The parties involved are in negotiations and there´s no deadline for an agreement or purse bids just yet.
Would have to give Zbik his due if he gets in with Proksa in his first fight after Chavez. Proksa would hammer Chavez and should hammer Zbik as long as Sauerland refs don't interfere too muchComment by chiguy91 on 10-26-2011
proksa beats him for sure, but it's a good name for him. hopefully it gets made.Comment by Light_Speed on 10-26-2011
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Did This Man Just Rewrite Science?
By DENNIS OVERBYE
Published: June 11, 2002
You can try this at home.
Take a sheet of graph paper that has been divided into grids. Color a square in the middle of the top row black. Drop down to the next row. Now invent a rule that will decide if a square should be black or white, based on the square above it and that square's neighbors -- for example, that a square should be the same color as the one above it unless that square has a black neighbor. Go across the second row filling in squares accordingly, then repeat the process, following the same rule, for the third row, the fourth row, and so on.
There are 256 rules you can concoct to play this simple game. Most will create a boring or repetitive pattern. But at least one rule will cause the page to explode into complex, ever-shifting patterns. You will have created a so-called universal computer, equal in its computational sophistication to Apple's jazziest laptop. Given the right starting pattern, and the right rule, according to Dr. Stephen Wolfram, a former teenage particle physicist and software entrepreneur who has been doing this at home for the last 10 years, those lines and shapes cascading downward can be made to pick out the prime numbers, compute pi, calculate your income tax, or model the evolution of a star -- anything a real computer can do.
This insight is the jumping-off point of Dr. Wolfram's glossy 1,263-page book, ''A New Kind of Science,'' published a month ago by Dr. Wolfram himself to the accompaniment of articles comparing Dr. Wolfram to Isaac Newton. The book holds a No. 2 Amazon.com ranking. It returns to the arena a prodigy who published his first physics paper at 15, earned his Ph.D. from Caltech at 20 and two years later, in 1981, became the youngest MacArthur ''genius'' fellow. In 1988 he founded Wolfram Research Inc. to market his program, Mathematica.
''A New Kind of Science'' may be the scientific publishing event of the season, but whether it is a revolution in science as well must await the judgment of Dr. Wolfram's peers. So far, some seem amazed by his courage, others by his chutzpah. In the book Dr. Wolfram argues that the ability of such a simple system to engage in complicated-looking behavior means that scientists have underestimated nature, seeking complex reasons where simple ones will do.
As a result, he says, science has been going in the wrong direction. Most systems of even modest complexity, he concludes, behave so complicatedly that they are beyond the grasp of mathematical formulas. Science should be looking for a simple program, not a T-shirt's worth of equations, if it wants to explain the universe, a project, he says, that would redefine our understanding of space and time, evolution, intelligence, free will, and philosophy, as well as physics.
''If the whole history of our universe can be obtained by following definite simple rules,'' Dr. Wolfram writes near the end of his book, ''then at some level this history has the same kind of character as a construct such as the digit sequence of pi. And what this suggests is that it makes no more or less sense to talk about the meaning of phenomena in our universe as it does to talk about the meaning of phenomena in the digit sequence of pi.''
In conversations over the last few weeks, computer scientists and physicists expressed admiration for Dr. Wolfram's ''engaging'' and ''beautifully written'' exposition of ideas, like the power of algorithms, that they say are underappreciated by society.
Edward Fredkin, a physics professor at Boston University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Laboratory and a longtime proponent of something called ''digital physics,'' viewing nature as a computer, said: ''For me this is a great event. Wolfram is the first significant person to believe in this stuff. I've been very lonely.''
Dr. Gregory Chaitin, a mathematician at the I.B.M. Watson Research Laboratory in New York, called it ''a remarkable book,'' a courageous attempt to create a new way of viewing the world.
But many scientists, while evincing admiration for some of his results, also said they wondered how far the book went in a fundamental sense beyond what had been said before, including by Dr. Wolfram himself in the 1980's, before he left academia.
Dr. J. Doyne Farmer, a professor of computer science at the Santa Fe Institute and the University of New Mexico, called it ''a well-written summary'' of ideas that have been around for a long time.
''We've known for 50 years that complexity can come from simpler and simpler things,'' Dr. Farmer said, adding that it had been shown that even bouncing billiard balls could be a universal computer.
Others said Dr. Wolfram was blurring facts and conjectures. ''I don't feel I can recommend the book to nonexperts because a nonexpert won't be able to tease out what's really known from what's speculated,'' said Jaron Lanier, a computer scientist, musician and virtual reality pioneer. Dr. Wolfram's critics also complain that he has an almost chronic inability to share credit for ideas -- all the history and names of other scientists have been relegated to a 349-page section of ''General Notes'' in the back of the book. Even Mr. Fredkin, who said he was a longtime friend, said Dr. Wolfram had ''an egregious lack of humility.''


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The fires at Torres del Paine were still burning Tuesday, a week after they started, but were under control.
Rotem Singer, 23, of the central Israeli city of Nes Tziona, was arrested Dec. 31 and released on bail. He was ordered to remain in the region for the next three months as the case is investigated.
Some 48 wildfires have burned more than 32,000 acres of forest and destroyed at least 100 homes. More than 560 firefighters and military personnel from Chile and Argentina have been working to bring the fire under control.
Israel's Foreign Ministry on Monday released a statement expressing "solidarity" with Chile and "sorrow" over the destruction to the national park and tourist site.
"Israel has also experienced a similar disaster last year in the Carmel forests, and that painful memory enhances our sense of common destiny," the statement said.
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Mapou Cultural Center: A non-for-profit in the heart of Little Haiti, collaborating with other cultural institutions to expand its Haitian- American book fair by inviting more authors from Haiti, the U.S., Canada and Europe; (Text ARTS2 to 22333)
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For decades, retiring at age 65 has been the time-honored tradition in America. Even as the official full retirement age for Social Security has climbed to age 66, the goal that many Americans have is to chop a few years off their careers and aim for an early retirement at 62. In particular, the fact that Social Security is available to early retirees at that age is a powerful inducement to pick 62 as a retirement goal.
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- Your monthly Social Security check will be smaller.
For most people, Social Security benefits first become available at age 62. But the amount you'll receive every month is reduced. Specifically, for those retiring now, payments will be 25% smaller than they would be if you waited until full retirement age of 66, and 43% smaller than if you waited until the maximum-benefit age of 70.
The tradeoff, of course, is that the reduction mostly accounts for the fact that someone who takes benefits at age 62 gets 48 extra monthly payments compared to waiting until age 66. Nevertheless, what might seem like ample income now could leave you regretting not holding out for larger monthly payments later.
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(BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA/BARCELONA, SPAIN) -- Private Media Group Inc. (NASDAQ: PRVT) and Playboy TV Latin America, a Claxson Interactive Group's affiliate, announced today the signing of an exclusive agreement to operate and distribute Private branded channels throughout Latin America.
Under the terms of the agreement, Playboy TV Latin America will operate and distribute Private branded channels via Claxson's Pay TV distribution network. Claxson's aggregated distribution accounts for 56 million cable and satellite subscribers in the region.
Alejandro Iglesias, General Manager of Playboy TV Latin America said: "I'm pleased that with this strategic initiative we will complete our premium-quality offer of adult content (currently Playboy TV and Venus) with the other leading brand, Private. We see this alliance as an initial step to further expand the adult market, both in the region as well as in other territories. The deal reflects confidence in Playboy TV Latin America and Claxson's expertise, not only in original production of content, but also in distribution. We are delighted with this agreement as it places us in a market position second to none, and the future looks very promising."
Berth Milton, CEO of Private Media Group commented: "Our collaboration with Playboy TV Latin America enables us to increase our broadcasting presence in this important region. Thanks to Playboy TV Latin America's success, and reach of Claxson's vast network, we expect to be able to boost our channels' presence in the region and we are delighted with this opportunity that will certainly have a significant positive impact on our business. This agreement clearly demonstrates that demand for high quality content is key and confirms Private's unique position in the adult broadcast market."
About Playboy TV Latin America LLC
Playboy TV Latin America LLC is a joint venture between Claxson Interactive Group Inc. with 81% and Playboy Entertainment Group Inc. with 19%. It operates a wide range of channels (Playboy TV, Venus, Spice Live), through the strategic development of the adult entertainment business in conjunction with all the regional operators by providing a broad range of quality content, and implementing its strong sales and marketing policy.
About Claxson Interactive Group
Claxson (XSONF.OB) is a multimedia company specialized in the provision and distribution of branded entertainment content to Spanish and Portuguese speaking audiences around the world. The company has a portfolio of well-known branded entertainment options distributed on multiple platforms, including pay TV, radio and Internet. The company's headquarters are located in Buenos Aires and Miami, serving the US as well as major Latin American countries such as Argentina, Mexico, Venezuela, Chile, Brazil, and Spain and Portugal. Claxson's principal shareholders are the Cisneros Group of Companies and funds affiliated with Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst, Inc.
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With its 40 year track record, Private is a leading global adult entertainment company that distributes its content over a wide range of media platforms, including narrow and broadband Internet, DVD and video, magazines, broadcasting and wireless technologies. It owns the worldwide rights to the largest archive of high quality adult content in the world, which it physically distributes in over 40 countries.
This release contains, in addition to historical information, forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, which reflect the Company's current judgments of those issues. However, because these statements are forward-looking and apply to future events, they are subject to unpredictable circumstances, which could lead to results materially different from those anticipated by the Company.
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