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Drug Rehab is a wonderful process of restoring the dignity of individuals who chose to engage in drug abuse and its addiction. This is indeed an ugly phenomenon rearing its ugly head in various nations of the world.
The issue of drug addiction is a very pitiable condition that is capable of causing untold effects in the life of the individual involved. If care is not taken, the habit is capable of leading to death. Many people have had their mental and central nervous system destroyed as a result of drug addiction. Other have had their livers and kidneys damaged.
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Meanwhile, the issue of drug addiction could be handled effectively. This is actually where the drug Rehab Centers comes in. Most of these centers have wonderful programs and treatment techniques geared towards helping the addicts break lose from the grips of the drug. But the issue is that, certain fees are required. Drug rehab is not an easy venture hence most centers charge a lot of money to help addicts. For rich addicts with rich family backup, that's not a problem.
The trouble lies with poor addicts whose numbers are increasing on a daily basis. In fact, poverty is one of the root causes of drug abuse and addiction. Many people engage in drug abuse and even alcohol in order to escape from certain financial responsibilities from home. This is usually the case with poor daddies who must provide for their families.
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BARRE – Mayor Thomas Lauzon says he didn't support either of the major budget proposals that were handily rejected by Granite City voters last month, but he does now.
Citing adjustments that have been made to spending plans for both the city and its centralized elementary school, and what he views as a now-tolerable increase in the local tax rate, Lauzon said Tuesday night that he is prepared to vote for both budgets next month and is urging others to do the same.
"I am hopeful that people will get out and recognize the effort that has gone (into revising these budgets)," he said, suggesting the sticker shock that prompted voters to decisively defeat them on Town Meeting Day was certainly understandable.
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An observant writer once said of Roxcy O'Neal Bolton, "I have heard Roxcy Bolton laugh, as elusive an event as seeing the great Greta Garbot smile."
The Roxcy Bolton who opens the door to her Coral Gables home to welcome visitors on a recent afternoon laughs easily and often on this day.
Though two strokes and two heart attacks conspired to steal some of Bolton's verbal abilities, good cheer and a fierce determination to champion equal rights, along with a desire to document her history as a trailblazer, keeps Bolton energized.
And now she's sharing her life story with others through donations of her memorabilia to state and local museums. For nearly 20 years Bolton has been collecting memorabilia — letters and correspondence, documents, photographs — and has submitted them to the State Archives in Tallahassee and, locally, HistoryMiami.
"She has so many objects she can't give all of them just to her family and she has such a spirit of community that she wants to make sure the community benefits from having them," said Bolton's daughter, Bonnie, her caretaker.
Earlier this year, Bolton, 86, added the city of Coral Gables, her family's home since 1964, to the beneficiaries of her photographs and memories. Among the items: she donated a plat book from 1947 that lists property boundaries for Coral Gables at the time and an original building code document from the city's founding in 1925.
"For a community such as Coral Gables that takes such pride in its history, these documents help explain where the city has come from," said City Manager Pat Salerno. "Not only has she been a pioneer for women's rights but she's left her mark on the city in so many ways."
Bolton, born to a Mississippi pioneer family, was one of the first Florida women to join the National Organization for Women after its founding in 1966. She founded and presided over the Miami-Dade Chapter of NOW in 1968 and fought for the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s.
At the same time, as pop singer Helen Reddy's I Am Woman and television's groundbreaking All in the Family and Maude tackled the subject of the ERA nationally, Bolton had already successfully thrown open the doors locally at the all-male lunchrooms at the former Burdines and Jordan Marsh department stores to women patrons. A decade later, she lobbied the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to end its practice of naming hurricanes solely for women.
In Nov. 1971, the Playboy Plaza Hotel in Miami Beach made the mistake of placing Bolton on its mailing list and offering its facilities, should she desire, for NOW meetings
Bolton's response became one of her most pointed missives when she made it abundantly clear she would never join Hefner's hutch.
"Your colossal gall is exceeded only by my tolerance, despite the stress on my good nature," she opened her letter to the club's assistant director for sales. To Bolton, armed with pen and paper, Playboy clubs represented the abuse and exploitation of women. "How would you like to walk around with a wad of cotton on your rear end?" she wrote.
Bolton received a terse letter a week later from the sales director; her name was removed from the Playboy Club's mailing list.


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Harlem's first Starbucks, heralded as a sign of urban renewal when it opened in 1999, sits at the intersection of 125th Street and Lenox Avenue, just down the street from the historic Apollo Theater. One recent weekday morning, customers of every imaginable race and socioeconomic stratum pour through the coffee chain's doors, where a massive portrait of its most famous investor, basketball great Magic Johnson, graces one of its walls.
I grab a seat near the window and try to get on a wireless network—of the three I can see, only one is open. Seconds later I'm checking my e-mail.
It's a lucky break—for all the promises of universal Internet, finding an open network in Manhattan is about as easy as catching a cab during rush hour. Michael Lewis, chief of the budding nonprofit Wireless Harlem, plans to change that.
"Let's take a walk," he says, when he finally arrives. We head north, past a string of laundromats, dollar shops and bodegas. Ten blocks later we grab a bench in the shade of the first apartment complex to be hooked up by Wireless Harlem.
"The median income in Harlem is $35,000 a year," he says, pulling out a sleek new laptop—well below Manhattan's $47,000-a-year median income recorded in the 2000 census. "At the end of the day when people make a decision about what they're going to spend money on, it's not going to be Internet access."
Enter Meraki. Meraki Networks, Inc., is a three-year-old company headed by Sanjit Biswas, a polite and bespectacled Massachusetts Institute of Technology student-cum-CEO on permanent hiatus from the pursuit of a doctoral degree in computer science. No one at the company ever mentions this to me—there is such a thing as being too earnest—but I later discover that meraki is a Greek word that means putting a piece of yourself into something you create; in other words, doing it with love.
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There are two ways to look at the explosive growth of the Internet: One is to celebrate the fact that in the 15 years since it became commercially available, what began as an obscure military technology morphed into a global phenomenon that is regularly accessed by over a billion people. The other is to ask why the world's other five billion folks aren't online yet.
Biswas says his goal, and that of Meraki, is to "connect the next billion people." Biswas and his engineers are almost exclusively programmers, yet Meraki doesn't sell software. Instead it sells Wi-Fi hardware—relatively cheap, commodity hardware built by outside vendors. It's a combination of this hardware and Meraki's software that yields a kind of magic that Biswas believes will go viral the way few things have. His business model depends on it.
"We now have more than 1,000 networks around the world," Biswas says, "and all that growth was through word of mouth." Meraki doesn't advertise, in part because Biswas's team has been too busy to bother. "Our focus has been to create the best thing possible, and then trust that people will run with it."
Meraki's premise is as much philosophical as it is business or technological. Biswas's hypothesis is that empowering individuals to create their own networks, and perhaps even profit from them, makes it inevitable that grassroots efforts will spring up to bring wireless Internet access to areas where it is currently unavailable or prohibitively expensive.
The physical manifestation of the Meraki philosophy, the $50 Mini, is the size of two iPhones stacked on top of one another. It weighs just a few ounces, and if not for the enclosed antenna jutting out of one end, it would look like a basic phone charger. It contains less than $5 worth of components, including a few chips and a radio-frequency transmitter—essentially the same parts in every wireless router.
"If you look at the chip that we use inside," Biswas says, "It's a 180-megahertz MIPS processor—exactly the same processor that was used in those Silicon Graphics workstations that were used to render the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park in the mid '90s."


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Just two months after the release of Guitar Hero 5, Activision has rolled out Band Hero. These two games are functionally the same, so Band Hero benefits from all the improvements that made Guitar Hero 5 so great, including the excellent new Party Play mode. However, Band Hero is aimed at a more specific demographic than GH5, and this is reflected in the main difference between the two games: the songs. Band Hero's tracklist reads like a setlist for a DJ at a middle school dance; there's a lot of pop and Top 40 rock, with some R&B and oldies thrown in for good measure. Many of the songs are fun to play, though nostalgia and guilty pleasure are just as likely to play a part in your enjoyment. Despite the variety, the scope still feels a bit limited, and the censored song lyrics that concerned parents will likely appreciate may not go over as well with others. Still, there's no denying that there's a lot of fun music here, and even if you're not a big Taylor Swift fan, you'll still have a rockin' good time with Band Hero.
6238843NoneJust two dudes singin' 'bout being happy together. Nothin' wrong with that.
The new Party Play mode introduced in Guitar Hero 5 is in full effect in Band Hero, and it's just as great. When you start up the game, it begins playing a song. Then, with the push of a few buttons, you and your friends can join in without missing a beat. You can use any collection of instruments you like, so if three of you want to sing along to "Heard It Through the Grapevine" while a fourth lays down the bass track, that's A-OK. Should you want to change the difficulty, skip the song, or throw together a quick setlist, you can do so using a little menu that only obscures your own note highway. There's no failing in Party Play, so even if you're at the bottom of the red zone, the screen won't flash red and you won't hear any awkward clanks unless you're actively playing the wrong notes. You can jump in and out as you like, rotate in other players, or just take a break. The music keeps playing, and you can tailor your experience on the fly without any abrupt pauses or song restarts. The result is a casual play environment that is accessible, welcoming, and delightfully low key.
If you prefer more deliberate and finite sets, then Quickplay mode is a great option. Here, you can construct a setlist and play with up to four players. Again, you can use whatever instrument combinations you see fit. Quickplay also makes accommodations for more casual players, allowing only those playing on hard or expert difficulty to lose their note highways. Your bandmates can restore your highway and prevent band failure by activating their star power, but Band Hero also offers a more flexible way to come to a friend's aid. When a bandmate fails, a crowd meter appears onscreen. If the rest of the band plays well enough for long enough, the lapsed bandmate is revived and the band keeps on rocking. There is no limit to how many times you can revive a bandmate, though it does seem to get harder as the number of dropouts increases. The crowd meter makes your band less dependent on star power opportunities that may or may not appear in time, which means you don't necessarily have to save your star power for a flagging fellow rocker. Quickplay is also a good place to make a bid for a spot on the extensive leaderboards. There are high-score categories for each song, instrument, and difficulty, so score seekers of all levels can participate.
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If you like to earn more substantial accolades for your performances, Career mode once again provides a place where you progress through different venues, playing songs and unlocking new gigs. In Band Hero, you earn up to five stars for each performance, and the more stars you collect, the more gigs you unlock. This mode will feel very familiar to Guitar Hero veterans, but there's one element that prevents it from going stale. Each song has a bonus challenge associated with it that allows you to earn up to eight stars per song instead of the usual five. These three-tiered challenges (one extra star per tier) can either be specific to an instrument (whammy for a certain amount of time as the guitarist) or apply to the entire band (maintain a 4x multiplier for a certain amount of time). This variety encourages you to mix up the instruments you use or to play with a few friends, and there's a handy onscreen meter that tracks your progress throughout the song. Some of these challenges will be easy for confident players, while others are much more difficult, though in general, the songs in Band Hero aren't as difficult to play as those in Guitar Hero 5. Earning a few extra stars is nice, but completing challenges can also earn you bonus unlockables, including new outfits, sponsored equipment sets, cheats, and new playable characters.


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The University of Newcastle will release 7,712 Main Round Offers to undergraduate students today.
"A strong university delivers economic, social and cultural benefits to the region and its community and we are very pleased with the growing demand for places at the University of Newcastle," Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Services), Dr Sue Gould, said.
"This large number of offers reinforces the University's position as a leading teaching and learning environment and the university of first choice for the Newcastle, Hunter, Central Coast and Mid North Coast regions.
"The increasing student numbers demonstrate the University's growing strength in teaching innovation and providing access to higher education for disadvantaged groups.
"We continue to provide many opportunities for school leavers and people returning to study after a break. In 2010, 40 per cent of our Main Round Offers are to school leavers and 60 per cent are to non-school leavers.
"Students are strongly encouraged to accept their Main Round Offer without delay by visiting the University's Accept Your Offer website."
University Advisory Day
The University of Newcastle will hold an Advisory Day on Thursday 21 January 2010 for all prospective students, including those who did not receive a Main Round Offer from the Universities Admissions Centre (UAC). Representatives from the University and TAFE NSW will be available to discuss options for study and pathways to University, including enabling programs.
- Callaghan campus, 3pm — 6pm in the Great Hall
- Central Coast campus, 3pm — 6pm in the Tourism and Hospitality building
- Port Macquarie campus, 3pm — 6pm in A Block
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Detailed information about offers follows.
University wide
Total number of offers: 7,712* (Commonwealth Supported Places)
* This figure does also not include the offers made to full fee paying international students.
Individual campuses
Callaghan campus
Number of offers: 6,084
Central Coast campus
Number of offers: 1,392
Port Macquarie campus
Number of offers: 134
Distance education
Number of offers: 102
Most offers made to a degree program
558 offers made for Commonwealth Supported Places in the Bachelor of Arts at the Callaghan campus.
New undergraduate programs offered in 2010
Bachelor of Teaching (Primary)/Bachelor of Arts (Callaghan, Central Coast and Port Macquarie)
Bachelor of Teaching (Primary)/Bachelor of Early Childhood Studies (Callaghan and Central Coast)
Bachelor of Teaching (Secondary)/Bachelor of Arts (Callaghan and Central Coast)
Bachelor of Teaching (Secondary)/Bachelor of Fine Arts
Bachelor of Teaching (Secondary)/Bachelor of Mathematics
Bachelor of Teaching (Secondary)/Bachelor of Health & PE
Bachelor of Teaching (Secondary)/Bachelor of Science
Diploma in Languages (Callaghan) and Diploma in Theology (Callaghan)
Offers to students who have completed a preparation (enabling) course at the University of Newcastle
- 671 offers to applicants who have completed the Open Foundation program at the University. Open Foundation is a program for people who have been out of the education system for some time and hope to study in an undergraduate degree program in the future.
- 292 offers to applicants who completed the Newstep program at the University. Newstep is a program for 17 — 21 year olds who experienced disadvantage in their upper schooling.
- Six offers to applicants who completed the Yapug program at the University. Yapug is a preparation program for Indigenous students.
Anticipated enrolments from offers:5,820
Number of degree programs offered: 81
Early February Round
Change of preferences for consideration in the Early February Round of offers close on Tuesday 26 January. Early February Round offers will be made on Wednesday 3 February.
Late Round
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Men plead guilty to scamming Madison Co. investors | Crime
Two men have entered guilty pleas in Madison County Court to securities fraud charges.
Bruce Mabey of Utah and Patrick Daleiden of Florida entered the pleas on November 27th.
According to District Attorney Rob Broussard, the men were each sentenced to six years in prison, and pay $1,475,000 in restitution to victims.
The men are also involved in a scam case in Choctow County, with Madison County resident Matthe Gibson. Gibson pled guilty on November 28th in that case. He was sentenced to a year in prison, according to Joseph P. Borg, the Director of the Alabama Securities Commission.
The men reportedly scammed Madison County residents out of millions of dollars on a phony development in Choctaw County. Investors were given worthless promissory notes while the men put the investments in personal accounts. The scam began in 2006, but unraveled by 2009, when the men were indicted.
"Daleiden, Mabey and Gibson cheated hardworking people and communities out of millions of dollars. Daleiden and Mabey also took a joyride around the world living the high life at the expense and demise of others for almost a decade." Borg said in a prepared release. "Justice has been served and one reason is the superb continuing support, cooperation and sharing of resources between state and federal law officials. In addition to recognition of the Alabama Securities Commission's Enforcement Division, special recognition goes to Kenyen Brown, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama, and the FBI. Our agency welcomes continued cooperation with federal, state, and local authorities to prevent financial fraud and exploitation of citizens and to punish those who break the law."


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FDA Approves Botox For Urinary Incontinence, News For Pelvic Mesh Complications
The TransVaginal Mesh Helpline is keeping you up to date on all news related to transvaginal mesh lawsuits, medical news and Pelvic mesh repair complications and trial updates. This new FDA approval of Botox for urinary incontinence is very interesting. Many mesh victims are seeing incontinence return with the vaginal mesh failing and falling apart. This news on Botox may be of interest to our readers.
January 18, 2013 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today expanded the approved use of Botox (onabotulinumtoxinA) to treat adults with overactive bladder who cannot use or do not adequately respond to a class of medications known as anticholinergics.
Overactive bladder is a condition in which the bladder squeezes too often or squeezes without warning. Symptoms include leaking urine (urinary incontinence), feeling the sudden and urgent need to urinate, and frequent urination.
When Botox is injected into the bladder muscle, it causes the bladder to relax, increasing the bladder's storage capacity and reducing episodes of urinary incontinence. Injecting the bladder with Botox is performed using cystoscopy, a procedure that allows a doctor to visualize the interior of the bladder while Botox is being injected.
"Clinical studies have demonstrated Botox's ability to significantly reduce the frequency of urinary incontinence," said Hylton V. Joffe, M.D., director of the Division of Reproductive and Urologic Products in FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. "Today's approval provides an important additional treatment option for patients with overactive bladder, a condition that affects an estimated 33 million men and women in the United States."
Botox's safety and effectiveness for this new indication were established in two clinical trials of 1,105 patients with symptoms of overactive bladder. Patients were randomly assigned to receive injections of 100 units of Botox (20 injections of 5 units each) or placebo.
Results after 12 weeks showed that patients treated with Botox experienced urinary incontinence an average of 1.6 to 1.9 times less per day than patients treated with placebo. Botox-treated patients also needed to urinate on average 1.0 to 1.7 times less per day and expelled an average of about 30 milliliters more urine than those treated with placebo.
Treatment with Botox can be repeated when the benefits from the previous treatment have decreased, but there should be at least 12 weeks between treatments.
Side Effects.
Keep in mind that this could be beneficial or prove to have complications down the road.
Common side effects reported during clinical trials included urinary tract infections, painful urination, and incomplete emptying of the bladder (urinary retention). Patients who develop urinary retention may need to use a catheter until the urinary retention resolves. Patients being treated for overactive bladder with Botox should not have a urinary tract infection and should take antibiotics before, during, and for a few days after Botox treatment to lower the chance of developing an infection from the procedure.
Botox is manufactured by Allergan Inc. based in Irvine, Calif.


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The Spa HotelMount Ephraim, Royal Tunbridge Wells, TN4 8XJ (Show map)
Very good
Score from 242 reviews
Lovely old building, friendly staff, spacious room, clean, great water pressure, good food, comfy bed.
New Haw
One of the best hotel stays I have had in a very long time
The rooms were a very good size. The bar area was very welcoming.
Good value for money
Nice building, good gym facilities. I had a noisy room but was quickly changed to a better room.
1. It was a five-minute walk to where we were having dinner.
The staff attentiveness. Comfort of room. Pool and changing facilities.
Period building History Quality of furnishings/linen size of rooms Comfort Gardens Access to Kent/Hever etc.
Large stylish rooms. Large parking area.
Large comfortable room, arrived at via lift and a flight of stairs. Was going to request a room change due to limited access but room was so large comfortable and with a separate sitting area and second TV, that it felt like we had been given a suite. (room 321)
The Spa Hotel is an elegant country mansion just a 10-minute walk from Tunbridge Wells Rail Station. It is set in 14 acres of gardens and parkland, and has a swimming pool and sauna. The Spa features 2 gymnasiums, a steam room and a flood-lit tennis court. A range of beauty treatments and therapies are also available for guests to enjoy. Many of the hotel's rooms have views across the beautiful 14-acre grounds, and there is free Wi-Fi access. Each also has a flat-screen TV with satellite channels, facilities for making tea and coffee, and a hairdryer. Traditional cuisine is served in the Chandelier Restaurant. More informal dining can be enjoyed in Zagatos Bar, and there is an all-day Lounge & Orangery menu.The Spa also offers banqueting and conference facilities for up to 300 people. Hotel Rooms: 69 The most recent booking for this hotel was made on 12 Dec at 23:01 from the United Kingdom.
OutdoorsGarden, Terrace ActivitiesNewspapers, Tennis court, Sauna, Fitness centre, Golf course (within 3 km), Spa and wellness centre, Massage, Hiking, Indoor pool (all year) Food & DrinkRestaurant, Bar, Restaurant (à la carte), Breakfast in the room, Special diet menus (on request) InternetFree! WiFi is available in all areas and is free of charge. ParkingFree! Free private parking is possible on site (reservation is not needed). Services24-hour front desk, Luggage storage, Room service, Meeting/banquet facilities, Laundry, Dry cleaning, Barber/beauty shop, VIP room facilities, Bridal suite, Currency exchange, Shoeshine, Packed lunches, Fax/photocopying GeneralNon-smoking rooms, Facilities for disabled guests, Lift/elevator, Safety deposit box, Heating, Non-smoking throughout, Designated smoking area Check-inFrom 15:00 hours Check-outUntil 11:00 hours Cancellation/
Total Hotel Score:8.1
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Lovely old building, friendly staff, spacious room, clean, great water pressure, good food, comfy bed.
General feeling of meanness - a pot of tea for two had *just* enough tea for exactly two small cups and no biscuits. Coffee served in demitasses. Exactly two cheap quality coffee sachets and teabags in room. Sauna only warm. All in all, no real feeling of luxury to accompany the "Spa" name.
One of the best hotel stays I have had in a very long time
Everything was excellent
The rooms were a very good size. The bar area was very welcoming.
The food, we had lunch in the bar was awful, the fish had to be returned as it was dripping with grease, really not nice, complained but no reaction or apology!! The service was poor, we did wait quite a while for lunch to arrive, but then wished it hadn't!
Good value for money
Nothing bad to say. It's an old building but well kept. The swimming pool is very tired and small buy you wouldn't really expect one for this money
Nice building, good gym facilities. I had a noisy room but was quickly changed to a better room.
1. It was a five-minute walk to where we were having dinner.
1. This is the second time we have stayed in The Spa. On the previous occasion, we found the breakfast rather ordinary; it has not improved since then. Undercooked bacon; watery scrambled eggs; schoolboy sausages; and what the fried bread was cooked in, I have no idea. The toast was undercooked and floppy. Not worth anything in the region of £15.00/head. 2) We may have to have our arms twisted to return.
The staff attentiveness. Comfort of room. Pool and changing facilities.
Long wait for breakfast after ordering.
Period building History Quality of furnishings/linen size of rooms Comfort Gardens Access to Kent/Hever etc.
Breakfast not thrown into deal Slightly unfriendly staff in restaurant House wine measured in somewhat mean, whilst still expensive, half glass portions
Large stylish rooms. Large parking area.
Expensive drinks. No tea/coffee facilities in room.
Large comfortable room, arrived at via lift and a flight of stairs. Was going to request a room change due to limited access but room was so large comfortable and with a separate sitting area and second TV, that it felt like we had been given a suite. (room 321)
Access to room. But it is an old building.
Smell in room from new carpet
Staff excellent. Comfortable and relaxing. We were lazy and had room service dinner and it was delicious.
No complaints!
All of the staff were extremely friendly and easy to get along with and they had a laugh with you too. Best weekend of my life-definitely coming back.
Very friendly staff members. Nice, spacious room, great food.
It should be more options for spa.
My Partner & Myself stayed at the Spa for a Family Golden Wedding Dinner ,we had a very nice double-room with en-suite bathroom,all very clean with the usual tea/coffee kettle etc,staff were very friendly and helpful,would definitely stay again
Nothing to complain about
We stayed in the executive four poster double room, It was clean and furnished beautifully. The cooked breakfast was wonderful and the spa staff were very friendly.
The hotel and restaurant staff ruined our stay. Both rude and dismissive we were made to feel unwelcome and a nuisance when dining in the restaurant. Without any doubt we would not stay at this hotel based on the staff.
The swimming pool and facuilities. Also the Breakfast was brilliant.
The Spar Hotel is an exceptional four star hotel.Its actually feels more like a five star with the beautiful room we were given. Reception staff were both friendly and efficient booking us a taxi to go out. Breakfast was freshly cooked to order and of a very high quality.We really enjoyed our stay.
I've racked my brain to think of something but I can't!
The view out of the window The resemblance of building structure with "Fawlty Towers"
Speedy response availability and warm welcome
Being called to ask if I'd returned my key
Great restaurant and food was of very good standard. Staff were very friendly and attentive. Located in a lovely spot with great views.
Room a little warm and no air con.Not too much atmosphere at the bar.
The booking process was particularly good as I had to change the date of arrival more than once due to a family illness.Thank you so very much
Wonderful place to stay. Beautiful landscape. There is a pool and fitness center. Comfortable rooms. Nice breakfast.
Friendly helpful staff, nice bathrooms, air conditioning. a good range of tv channels, nice complimentary biscuits, shampoo etc. Easy to relax.
My first room in which the air conditioner made a horrible noise every two minutes,and so I had to be moved to another room.
The guest reviews express the personal opinions of Booking.com customers who filled out a questionnaire after their stay at the hotel. These opinions do not necessarily represent the views of Booking.com.
Smart And Simple HotelThis thoroughly modern hotel offers dynamic, contemporary accommodation at an affordable price.Most recent booking for this hotel was yesterday at 22:39 from £50 |
Innkeeper's Lodge Tunbridge Wells, SouthboroughInnkeeper's Lodge Tunbridge Wells, Southborough is a restored 18th-century lodge, set within the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.Most recent booking for this hotel was yesterday at 13:04 from £69 |
Smith And WesternSet within a 19th-century, Grade II listed building, the American themed Smith and Western Hotel offers unique, individually decorated rooms, just a short walk from the historic Pantiles shopping...Most recent booking for this hotel was yesterday at 11:51 from £75 |


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heres some progress pics starting at 1.5 years ago. last is after wrestling, im bulking now. gained about 10 since last pic.
All of these are just protein fish oil and multi. In the bulk I've been doing for the last month or two I started on creatine and jack3d as well. More pics coming soon.
You were sick for 18 months?
sick for 1.5 months maybe
huge improvement, not putting anyone down
if those were my gains I'd call them sick too, you can clearly tell that you put some dedication into your goals.
Nice work, good lean gains.
Well done bro.
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A green bean casserole is in the oven, dishes of cranberry sauce have been set on the table and someone is worrying about the cooking time on the turkey.
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On Christmas Day, 11 to 12 men and women were on duty for Aberdeen Fire and Rescue and at the ready to respond to any calls.
It was a quiet day, though. There was only one ambulance call Tuesday morning, said Lt. Mike Roemmich.
That's a far cry from two Christmases ago, when those on duty were kept busy during a blizzard, he said.
"The city basically shut down," he said.
At the station, they cook and eat Christmas lunch and supper together just as they would with their families.
It's just like celebrating with family, said firefighter Matt Cler.
There's a folding table brought out for the kids — those who are newer to the fire department.
Cler is one of the kids. He is part of a group of new hires who started in September.
He was away from his family for Christmas lunch, but still got to eat some of his mother's pumpkin pie after she left some of the pies at the station.
Newer fire department members also do the dishes.
Keeping with the idea of hierarchy, Wayne Krysowaty, the most senior lieutenant present, carved the turkey.
Everyone is like family and the atmosphere is about the same as when he's with his own family on Christmas, Krysowaty said.
"Everybody gives everybody else a hard time, but we all have a good time," he said.
After the meal, there was some discussion about someone possibly doing the cinnamon challenge. The challenge involves attempting to ingest a spoonful of cinnamon without any aids, which usually ensues in hilarity.
The atmosphere is relaxed and jokes can be cracked because everyone is comfortable with one another, Roemmich said.
"We spend a third of our lives together and it's not like being blood-related, but we get to know each other pretty well," Roemmich said.
Like when other families get together for a meal, the fire and rescue staffers have their traditions.
Those working the "C" shift ate lunch together and flipped for sodas after. Flipping for soda is a coin-flip game in which players who flip the side that is in the minority are eliminated during each round.
The person left standing at the end of the game must pay for everyone's soda. That person on Tuesday was firefighter Mariah Mougey.
As lunch was being served, the green bean casserole she placed in the oven was briefly forgotten about. The casserole was retrieved without incident.
There haven't been any kitchen mishaps on Christmas that Roemmich can remember.
It's helpful to cook at the fire station, though, because fire equipment and items to treat burns are nearby.


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GREENVILLE — A freshman who never scored a point until overtime Friday was a big reason that the Teutopolis Wooden Shoes are still alive in the Class 2A basketball playoffs.
Brett Mette converted a conventional three-point play with a layup and free throw late in overtime and added four points in the second OT as the Wooden Shoes knocked off defending state champ Central 58-53 in the Greenville Sectional championship game.
Central's season ends at 22-10 while Teutopolis (28-3), which beat the Cougars twice in three meetings this season, moves on to face Harrisburg at the Carbondale Super-Sectional on Tuesday.
Central's Greg Meyer, who sparked his team off the bench with a game-high 16 points, hit two free throws with 39 seconds left in the first overtime to put the Cougars on top 45-42.
But Mette drove the lane and hit a layup, only his second shot attempt of the night, and then sank a free throw with 27.9 seconds to tie it.
He went from zero to three points just like that, despite being surrounded by a standing-room only crowd of nearly 2,000 with his team's season on the line.
"That's probably the worst I've been shaking my whole life," said Mette, a 6-foot-4-inch freshman center. "I knew my teammates would get mad if I missed it. I was shaking real bad, but then I relaxed and calmed down and made the shot."
Central still had the ball and a chance to win it after calling time-out with 8.9 seconds left in OT. Jacob Timmermann drove the right side and instead of shooting, kicked it out to Luke Jackson.
Needing to hurry with time running out, Jackson pushed up an 18-footer that nearly sent everyone home. Instead it glanced off the rim and the teams battled through the two overtimes.
"Jacob's got to make that decision," Central coach Stan Eagleson said. "It's either him on the drive, or hitting Kyler (Scheer) slipping to the basket or throwing it back out to Luke.
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Central guard Luis Perez helped get the game into overtime by nailing a 3-pointer with 36 seconds remaining in regulation. T-town had a chance to win as well, but a 12-foot jumper by Devin Falbe was off the mark.
Teutopolis outscored Central 13-8 in the second overtime, with Mette again coming up big with four points. His shot put the Wooden Shoes up by five, but Central cut the lead to 52-50 on a 3 by Timmermann with 1:09 left.
The Wooden Shoes sank seven of eight free throws in the second OT to cash their ticket to the super-sectional. Teutopolis had just 13 field goals in six quarters of basketball, scoring a whopping 30 points at the foul line by sinking 30-of-41 free throws.
Central made 15 field goals and was 16-or-21 from the line.
Derek Smith led Teutopolis with 15 points while Cody Will added 12 and Kyle Pruemer had nine. After Meyer's 16 points, Timmermann was next for Central with 14. Perez and Scheer had nine apiece.
The Cougars' dream of a second straight trip to state is over, but they have posted one of the best runs in metro-east small-school history in the last five years.
It includes a 146-22 record since 2008, a 2A state championship and fourth-place finish, four sectional championships and five regional titles.
"We haven't lost this early for several years, so they're not used to it and they're really hurt right now," Eagleson said of his players. "When they look back ... to win 22 games, winning the regional that they won ... Mater Dei, Carlyle, Robinson and T-town, that's a murderer's row to try to get through.
"I don't know that there's many teams in the state that could get through those four teams."
It was a physical game from the outset as two teams that pride themselves on defense put their best work on display.
As a result there was plenty of contact and plenty of fouls. Austin Rickhoff and Justin Becker fouled out for Central and Teutopolis lost Jared Waldhoff.
The Wooden Shoes led 16-14 at halftime, scoring all six of their second-quarter points on free throws.
Central never really found a rhythm offensively, scratching and clawing to stick around. A late 3-pointer in the third quarter by T-town's Will sent the teams tied at 28 heading into the fourth quarter.
"Sometimes we're offensively challenged anyway and with the pressure that T-town puts on you, it just made it tough," Eagleson said. "That's the bottom line, we just didn't do enough things at the offensive end."
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Venue details
Ottolenghi 287 Upper Street
- Venue phone:
020 7288 1454
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- Opening hours:
Meals served 8am-10pm Mon-Wed; 8am-10.30pm Thur-Sat; 9am-7pm Sun
- Transport:
Tube: Angel tube or Highbury & Islington tube/rail
- Price:
Main courses £11-£17
- 287 Upper Street
- www.ottolenghi.co.uk
- 51.539991,-0.102242
- 287 Upper Street
Reviews & ratings
I went with a friend to Ottolenghi. I've tried to go there before, but it is highly recommended to book it, specially during Summer.
The wait was worth it. They have the best vegetables I've eaten in my life, tasteful, really well seasoned, cooked to its perfection.
I had the Salmon, because the tuna wasn't available anymore, and it was good. My friend had the chicken leg, and she said it was good. But the vegetables, unforgettable. Wine was excellent and I also had one of the best deserts I had in London: A passion fruit pie with merengue, accompanied by an excellent expresso.
Take care with the glass door! I saw in two different occasions people hit their faces on the door - and it makes a huge noise inside the restaurant, besides it is dangerous. They should put a stick there.
The price is affordable and fair. The quality and amount of food is excellent.Carol Mon Oct 7Rated as: 5/5 -
The tantakising window display is enoiugh to draw you in as you may pass on the 43 bus, or are taking a stroll along upper street. The spread is what some would say, a mouth watering, jaw dropping drool moment! The concept of this unique food served in a cute and fresh location is mesmorising! The food was delish and interesting, something new and different flavour you may have never tasted before (especially not on a high street). The culture of the restaurant (if you choose to eat here, if not you can get it take away....so tempting for a cheeky weekend treat) is superb, long tables so you may be seated next to people who love to have a chat or sit alone on smaller tables. everyone in the place is also in drool mode, just being in awe of the spread out front, not to mention the hot selection from the kitchen. Breakfast is a must here! and don't be alarmed by the line, it truly is worth it! you have to eat here!
monique Tue Sep 24Rated as: 5/5 -
I like your reciepy,but you must give the special drinks of veg and fruits to your customers.so i have suggestion for you to mr. Nayan loop drink.test and verify.i hope you will serve this in next. So please give us to chance to test.
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Food delicious - as always. I eat here often for brunch or in the evenings, but usually avoid the lunch time queues. Made an exception today as an out of town friend was very keen to eat here and was very impressed with the service. We were told there was a 20 min wait, but were seated within about 10 mins with regular updates. Friendly service and the prices, while not cheap, are much the same as my nearest (gentrified) pub.
NicB Mon May 27Rated as: 4/5 -
Well. The food is fine. That's about all I can say. It's not great. The hummus that they are famed for was obviously not tasted by the chef as it obviously desperately needed lemon juice. The poppy seed cornbread was heaven though. The chairs are ridiculously low for the tables which means everyone is straining to use their cutlery. Style over substance!
It's the first restaurant that I have been to where they don't ask you how your meal was. It seems they have been carried away with their early success,Besheer Thu May 23Rated as: 2/5 -
Love it! Best tasting food in Islington - delicious and healthy (except if you choose the cake). Especially at lunch. Worth the inevitable queue at the weekend. Or to avoid the queues go for breakfast or in the week.
Lucy Sun Feb 24 -
One of the best places to eat in Islington. Highly recommended for breakfast or lunch, especially in the week when less busy... And the cakes are great to take away for special gifts.
Lucy Sun Oct 7 2012Rated as: 5/5 -
We went to Ottolenghi's one evening at the suggestion of my wife who had read his books and is unlike me really into vegetarian cuisine. We had a lovely intimate candle lit table in the corner and the service from our young American waiter was,efficient,attentive, engaging and personable. Much of the seating is in long tables beautifully lit by silver candelabra..Our friends said they met a really interesting couple as a result, but if you want intimacy I suggest you book well in advance.
The food, which was very fresh with some of it on display, is offered in a series of tapas sized dishes with both cold (from the counter) and hot(from the kitchen and taking longer to serve ) choices. These include.both meat and fish options as well as vegetarian. All the dishes were imaginative and superbly cooked/presented. I found my palate being delighted with taste combinations unique in my experience and they really worked! A real culinary adventure! They accidentally served us with one wrong dish(which proved to be very tasty) and when we casually pointed this out gave us an additional one on the house.without us even asking.My favourite vegetarian dish of the four was the Figs with pecorino,spicy macademia, mixed leaves and orange blossom dressing. My choice of our meat and fish dishes would be the Urfu chilli marinated lamb rump with aubergine garlic confit, nigella seeds and pickled apricot and carrot. Cold dishes varied in price from £8- £9.80 and hot from £10-12. the food was light enough for us choose and enjoy from an enticing range of sweets. The only downside was the wine list which was seriously overpriced. i was offered the almost same bottle of wine(albeit two years younger) the following night elsewhere at half the price. nevertheless this was a very enjoyable evening and we will definitely return next time we are in London. Judging from some of the faces seen in the restaurant it is gaining a first class reputation and based on our experience deservedly so!Roger Boon Fri Aug 31 2012Rated as: 5/5 -
What a rip off. Cooking is beautiful - no doubt about it - inventive and delicious - but no where on the website did it ever tell you that these prices are attached to tiny tapas size portions. It was truly shocking. I don't know if it is less expensive to order take away, but why punish the diners who decide to stay? The waitress cheerily told us that she always recommends that people get 5 dishes each (OK, if you don't mind paying close to £60 for salad and some warm dishes - good on you) but the rest of us will have to try to recreate these in normal size portions at home - buy the cookbook and don't bother with the restaurant.
Ngoat Wed Aug 29 2012Rated as: 1/5 -
The food is good, full-stop! We have the cookbooks at home and I've given them as gifts to international guests. I've bought cakes and salads as take-away's before and been for a 'table booked in advance' dinner service a few times and the food was always excellent.
My upset is not with the quality of food, but with the poor and arrogant service who think nothing of keeping customers waiting (standing) for OVER an hour on a Sunday for lunch. Otto Lenghi don't take bookings for lunch, so people wait for as long as it takes. We were told we would be seated within 20min-30min.
Nobody came to give us an update, asked us if we wanted to drink something, have a look at the menu etc. After what seemed like an eternity people left, it should have been our turn to be seated- finally, but the staff seemed in no rush to clear the table so we waited another 10min.
Finally we were lead the table. I would have left ages ago but my friend wanted to stay and so I decided to make the most of it. What followed was the most unfriendly service I have experienced in a long time. On top of that we sat near the Air-Conditioning and I had freezing cold air blowing on my head.
In short, the whole experience was a nightmare! Otto Lenghi seems to be falling short off their previous greatness. Maybe business is so good that they no longer care about customer service and experience? As more and more people pile into the place and happily spend their precious weekend waiting I wonder, am I the only one who expects a bit more for my money? A smile. A friendly waitress? Fast service? Someone who asks ' is everything to your satisfaction'?
Good food alone is just not good enough, I'm sorry. To be fair I should say that when we complained whilst paying our bill (all I wanted was to get out of there asap - new customers in the waiting docks only too happy to take our seats) the manager did handle the complaint well, being very professional and offering us a free cake for desert which we agreed to take with us. That was at last a glimpse of customer service but as far as I am concerned 'too little, too late'. I will NEVER go back for lunch-service unless Otto Lenghi start taking bookings, handle the waiting system better and generally train their staff better. The staff in Pret a Manger are better trained and friendlier for Christ sake.Tamara Sun Jul 29 2012Rated as: 1/5


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