Holiday Inn plans third hotel in Rome

IHG (InterContinental Hotels Group) is planning its third Holiday Inn hotel in Rome, the Holiday Inn Rome ? Pisana.

Holiday Inn Rome ? Pisana is due to open in quarter four of 2013, following a conversion from an existing hotel brand to an IHG branded hotel, and will operate under a franchise agreement with Roma Ovest S.r.l., part of JSH Group.

Featuring 229 bedrooms, two restaurants and an elegant lounge bar, the Holiday Inn Rome ? Pisana is ideal for leisure travellers wanting to relax in a modern welcoming environment.? The hotel?s seven meeting rooms equipped with the latest audio and visual technologies, and the addition of free Wi-Fi throughout the hotel caters to the needs of business travellers frequenting the city of Rome.

IHG?s Director of Development for Italy, Domenico Magnati, said: ?The addition of this hotel to our portfolio of Holiday Inn properties in Rome is in line with our growth strategy for Europe. Our increased presence in this region will not only offer travellers a greater choice of hotels and improved flexibility, but will ensure we continue to anticipate the needs of our guests and respond to market demand.?

The hotel is located halfway between Rome City Centre and Rome Fiumicino Airport allowing easy travel to Rome?s impressive historical sites including the Vatican Museum, St. Peter?s Basilica, Trevi Fountain and the Colosseum.

IHG has 32 hotels (5, 026) rooms open in Italy, with another four in the pipeline that will open in the next three to five years.

The Holiday Inn brand is now the largest hotel brand in the world with over 400,000 rooms in over 100 countries.

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Iraq speaker warns of prison raid security fallout

BAGHDAD (AP) ? Iraq's parliament speaker warned Thursday that the escape this week of hundreds of inmates during al-Qaida-claimed raids on prisons outside Baghdad will make the country's rapidly deteriorating security even worse.

The warning came just hours after militants carried out a bold ambush on truckers north of the capital, killing 14 people.

The Sunday night attack on the notorious Abu Ghraib prison and another lock-up in Taji, both on the outskirts of Baghdad, underscored the extent of the challenges facing Iraqi authorities as they struggle to keep the country safe. More than 550 people have been killed in violent attacks so far this month.

Dozens of people, mainly members of the security forces and inmates, were killed in the attacks. Iraqi officials have yet to release a comprehensive account of the raids, but there is little dispute that several hundred inmates, including members of al-Qaida, escaped.

At a press conference Thursday in Baghdad, the parliament speaker, Osama al-Nujaifi, said the latest reports indicate that more than 500 prisoners escaped ? a figure similar to what other Iraqi officials have provided ? and noted that a parliamentary committee is investigating what happened.

"The situation is grave," said al-Nujaifi, a Sunni who has frequently criticized the Shiite prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki. "We don't know who they are and how dangerous they are, but this situation will be reflected negatively on the security situation."

Al-Qaida's Iraq branch claimed responsibility for the prison attacks Tuesday. Interpol issued its security alert Wednesday to warn counties in the region about the fugitives, calling the breakouts "a major threat to global security."

Many of the escaped prisoners were senior members of al-Qaida in Iraq, including some who were facing the death penalty, according to Interpol.

A new ambush targeting Shiites in northern Iraq highlighted the spiraling deterioration of security in the country.

Insurgents outside the village of Sarha launched mortar rounds at a nearby military base and bombed a communication tower to distract security forces. Then they quickly set up a fake checkpoint on a nearby highway to stop passing vehicles, said Col. Hussein Ali Rasheed, the police chief in nearby Tuz Khormato, about 200 kilometers (125 miles) north of Baghdad.

The corpses of 14 drivers and passengers in a convoy of trucks caught at the checkpoint, all of them Shiites, were later found, each killed by gunshot wounds to the head, Rasheed said.

In the northern city of Beiji, 250 kilometers (155 miles) north of Baghdad, militants shot and killed three off-duty soldiers as they were leaving a restaurant, provincial health official Raed Ibrahim said. The soldiers were on their way to Baghdad from Mosul.

And in the city of Kirkuk, a parked car bomb targeted a passing police patrol on Thursday morning, critically wounding six policemen, police Col. Salah Abdul-Qadir said. Kirkuk is 290 kilometers (180 miles) north of Baghdad.

Also, police said gunmen using pistols fitted with silencers shot and killed four people, including two street cleaners, in three separate incidents in Baghdad.

Thursday night, a bomb exploded during a small wedding party held in a house in Baghdad's Amiriyah neighborhood, killing three people and wounding 16 others, including some women and children, police and hospital officials said. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to speak to journalists.

Insurgents in recent months have ramped up attacks on civilians and government forces throughout Iraq.

The violence has reached levels not seen since 2008, fueling worries of a return to the widespread sectarian killing that pushed the country to the brink of civil war after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion. More than 3,000 people have been killed since April.

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Associated Press writers Adam Schreck and Sameer N. Yacoub contributed to this report.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/iraq-speaker-warns-prison-raid-security-fallout-122905564.html

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One Direction's 'This Is Us' Captures 'The Ups, The Downs' Of 1D

Producer Ben Winston opens up to MTV News about how 1D's reality beats out any movie script for the August 30 doc.
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[NFL: New York Giants] - Preview Report: Tight Ends, O-line, and Rookies

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Sony NEX-3NL 16MP DSLR Camera Bundle for $410 + free shipping

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Heat Shield for NASA's New Orion Spacecraft Set for 2014 Test Flight

WILMINGTON, Mass. ? Work on the heat shield for NASA's Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle ? America's next-generation spacecraft that could transport astronauts on missions to Mars ? is on track toward an ambitious test launch in 2014.

Since spring, teams of engineers and technicians from Massachusetts-based Textron Defense Systems have been meticulously applying Avcoat, a proprietary thermal ablation and insulation material, to the heat shield, which will protect the Orion capsule and its crew from the extreme heat generated during high-speed re-entry into the atmosphere after a deep-space flight.

Two reporters for SPACE.com and other members of the media received a sneak peek of the heat shield on Wednesday (July 17) during a press viewing here at Textron's manufacturing plant. Officials and managers from NASA, Lockheed Martin (the prime contractor for the Orion program) and Textron were on hand to answer questions about the project from the nearly 100 people gathered at the plant. [See Photos of Orion's Heat Shield]

The Orion vehicle is scheduled for launch into space without a crew in September of 2014 as part of its Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1). The maiden flight will evaluate the system design and performance of the spacecraft, which is intended to send humans on future explorations of an asteroid, the moon and, ultimately, Mars.

At 16.4 feet (5 meters) in diameter, the Orion heat shield is the largest and most advanced composite heat shield ever built. Textron originally developed the lightweight Avcoat ablative material in the 1960s for use on the Apollo command module.

Made of epoxy novolac resin in a fiberglass honeycomb matrix, Avcoat works by "burning off" as it heats up, dissipating thermal energy away from the capsule's structure. The material had a 100 percent success rate during the Apollo, Skylab and Apollo-Soyuz programs, safely leading astronauts to 15 ocean splashdowns, and was thus chosen for the job of protecting Orion and its future crews as they head off to destinations never before visited by humans.

"Avcoat is the only man-rated ablative material that exists today that can handle the extreme temperatures of high-speed re-entry following a deep-space mission," Ian Walsh, Textron Defense System's senior vice president and general manager, told SPACE.com. "We are proud to provide this state-of-the-art technology to NASA and help the country push the boundary of space exploration to the next level with our thermal protection material."

After Textron completes applying the Avcoat, the shield will be flown down to Cape Canaveral, Fla., where it will be mated to the bottom of the Orion crew module for its 2014 orbital test flight.

During this mission, the Orion capsule will be boosted atop a Delta IV Heavy rocket from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Base to a distance of nearly 3,700 miles (6,000 km) from Earth ? farther than any spacecraft built for humans has traveled since Apollo 17 in 1972.

After completing two orbits, Orion's heat shield will be put to the test as the spacecraft plunges back to Earth, reaching speeds of up to 20,000 miles per hour (32,000 km/h) ? faster than the space shuttle or any current spacecraft. The shield must be able to withstand temperatures up to 6,000 degrees Fahrenheit (3,300 degrees Celsius), more than half the surface temperature of the sun, as it re-enters Earth's atmosphere.

Unlike the space shuttle, which landed on a runway like a commercial jetliner, the Orion capsule will parachute back to Earth Apollo-style, splashing down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California.

If all tests go well, Orion's first full-scale but unmanned flight is expected to take place in 2017, during which the spacecraft will be launched on top of NASA's new Space Launch System.

Imelda Joson and Edwin Aguirre can't wait to watch the launch of Orion's first astronaut crew from Cape Canaveral in 2021. Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebook and Google+. Original article on SPACE.com.

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Scalp-Cooling Cap Could Prevent Hair Loss During Cancer Treatment

Hair loss can happen when chemotherapy drugs travel throughout the body to kill cancer cells. Some of the drugs damage the hair follicles. Radiation therapy to the head can also be a cause of hair loss. Most often, hair loss begins within 2 weeks of the start of treatment and gets worse 1 to 2 months after starting therapy.

It isn?t about vanity, says Miriam Lipton, 45, one of twenty participants in a clinical trial in San Francisco. It?s about feeling good about yourself. ?If you look OK on the outside, it can help you feel ?OK, this is manageable. I can get through this.? Ms. Lipton is a breast cancer survivor who lost her hair 2 weeks after beginning her first rounds of chemotherapy.

During Ms. Lipton?s second bout with the disease, researchers tested a scalp-cooling cap in an effort to prevent hair loss. The theory behind the DigniCap and others like it is that chilling the scalp to 41 degrees can reduce blood flow to the brain, thereby reducing the ability of the chemotherapy drugs to reach the hair follicles.

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Most of the clinical trial participants kept more than half their hair. Ms. Lipton says that hers thinned at the crown where the cap didn?t fit snugly, but overall she says ?It was easier. I felt normal much more quickly.? The most common side effect is headache from the cold.

Unfortunately, however, the caps may also interfere with the effectiveness of the treatment itself. To study this, Dr. Hope Rugo of the University of California, San Francisco, and Dr. Susan Melin of North Carolina?s Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center have recruited 110 early-stage breast cancer patients. Participants' hair will be photographed for experts to assess, and they'll be compared with a small group of similar patients who get chemo alone.

The researchers hope that their study will lead to FDA approval for the DigniCap to be used in the US. Currently patients can rent a similar product, called Penguin Cold Caps, from a British company for $455 per month.

"Do they work and are they safe? Those are the two big holes. We just don't know," said American Cancer Society spokeswoman Kimberly Stump-Sutliff, an oncology nurse who said studies abroad haven't settled those questions. "We need to know."

Hair-preserving approaches need good testing, adds Dr. Laura Esserman, a UCSF breast cancer specialist. "If it matters to our patients, it should matter to us," she said. "It's really not more complicated than that."

In the meantime, the American Cancer Society offers the following tips for cancer patients experiencing hair loss:
? If you think you might want a wig, buy it before treatment begins or at the very start of treatment when the shop can better match your color and texture. Try on several styles until you find one you really like. Keep in mind that synthetic wigs need less styling than human hair wigs which may be easier if you have low energy during treatment. Ask if the wig can be adjusted ? your wig size can shrink as you lose hair.
? Be sure to get a prescription from your doctor for the wig because it may be covered by insurance.
? Some people find wigs to be hot or itchy. In that case, turbans or scarves can be used instead of wigs. Cotton items tend to stay on your smooth scalp better than nylon or polyester.
? Hair loss can be somewhat reduced by avoiding too much brushing or pulling of hair and by avoiding heat (such as electric rollers, hair dryers, and curling irons). Be gentle when brushing or combing (use a wide-toothed comb). Avoid styles that pull on the hair such as braids or ponytails.
? Wear a hair net at night, or sleep on a satin pillowcase to keep hair from coming out in clumps.
? If you are bothered by hair falling out, you may choose to cut your hair very short or even shave your head.
? Wear a hat or scarf outdoors in cold weather to reduce the loss of body heat.
? Use sunscreen, sunblock, or a hat to protect your scalp from the sun.
? When new hair starts to grow, it may break easily at first. Avoid perms for the first few months. Keep hair short and easy to style.

Reference:
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