It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of Veronica Renee Adams-Santaella by Ariana St Pierre Maine (WGME) -- Police say three people from New York stole over-the-counter medications and beauty products from a Hannaford in Brunswick The trio is accused of taking part in a massive retail theft operation Employees at the Hannaford on Elm Street called police after they saw 29-year-old Marlene Santaella 24-year-old Angie Cubillos and 38-year-old Alan Rodriguez stealing large amounts of over-the-counter medications and beauty products on Wednesday according to the Brunswick Police Department Police say they found the suspects in a vehicle not far from the store officers found approximately $32,000 worth of over-the-counter medications and merchandise inside the vehicle They are suspected of participating in an organized retail theft ring and had victimized other stores in Maine and each suspect was charged with theft by receiving stolen property and theft by unauthorized taking or transfer Rodriguez and Cubillos were also wanted for allegedly committing similar crimes in California and New Jersey They were additionally charged as being fugitives from justice The trio was taken to the Cumberland Count Jail Rodriguez and Cubillos are being held without bail Celebrating community and volunteerism at the Brazilian Consulate Alberto Pineda Santaella is a Research Fellow in the Randall Centre for Cell & Molecular Biophysics We caught up with Alberto to learn about his research on cell division and his favourite part of working in the lab tell us about your background and career up to this point earning my degree and Master’s in Sanitary Biotechnology from Pablo de Olavide University in Seville My PhD research at the University of Salamanca focused on how cells divide in fission yeast (Schizosaccharomyces pombe) After working in functional genomics with budding yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) in Barcelona where I study a unique type of cell division in another fission yeast species (Schizosaccharomyces japonicus) What advice would you give to your 18-year-old self Do you have any current projects that you’d like to tell us about I’m currently learning game development and learning Japanese by self-teaching Where do you see yourself in five years’ time I would like to consolidate my scientific career during my postdoc stage continuing working on basic research on diverse aspects of cell division in simple yet powerful systems such as yeast I’m also open to branching out to other model organisms to validate my findings and transitioning into applied research when opportunities arise What is something positive that happened to you over the last year  I am profoundly happy to have been granted the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant This is very good news for the lab and for my financial support for the next years Due to the huge amount of work and professional and personal dedication that it involves I would say that writing and defending my thesis has been my biggest success I enjoy the flexibility and independence in organising my schedule and tackling the biological challenges that arise daily in the lab Netflix recommendation: The three-body problem (series) Describe yourself in three words… methodical Muscle cells contain their own circadian clocks and disrupting them with shift work can have a… The School of Life Course & Population Sciences and King’s Population Health Institute welcomed… Halting the building of new homes could help to address the dramatic decrease in the number and… Early recognition of the symptoms of breast cancer has a dramatic impact on survival rates +44 (0)20 7836 5454 Springfield Police Department — On Tuesday August 20th at approximately 7:30 p.m. members of the Springfield Police Firearms Investigation Unit under the direction of Sergeants Christopher Hitas and David Robillard seized an illegal loaded firearm and made three arrests in connection with drug dealing in the Wilcox Street area For the past several months Detectives have been investigating illegal drug activity on the 0-100 block of Wilcox Street Detectives were conducting surveillance in that area when they observed a drug transaction Shortly thereafter Detectives activated their emergency lights and stopped a suspect Detectives were able to get the car to stop on the 0-100 block of Chestnut Street Detectives recovered heroin from Allaire and an illegal loaded firearm from Santaella Santaella has previously been convicted of illegal firearms and drug distribution charges 29-year-old Rafael Santaella of Springfield is charged with: 32-year-old Kyle Allaire of Chicopee is charged with: Copyright © 2025 Springfield Police Department All rights reserved. • Site Design by John Guilfoil Public Relations, LLC Metrics details Accurate gametogenesis requires the establishment of the telomere bouquet telomeres temporarily aggregate at the nuclear envelope during meiotic prophase which facilitates chromosome pairing and recombination The mechanisms governing the assembly of the telomere bouquet remain largely unexplored primarily due to the challenges in visualizing and manipulating the bouquet using Schizosaccharomyces pombe as a model system to elucidate telomere bouquet function traditionally perceived as playing a passive role in the chromosomal reorganization necessary for bouquet assembly play a key role in the initiation of telomere bouquet formation We demonstrate that centromeres are capable to induce telomere mobilization which is sufficient to trigger the first stages of bouquet assembly and the meiotic transcription program in mitotic cells This discovery highlights the finely tuned control exerted over long-distance heterochromatic regions and underscores a pivotal step in the mechanism of eukaryotic telomere bouquet formation and meiotic transcriptional rewiring understanding the transition in chromosome architecture from interphase to meiotic prophase poses a challenge given its swift nature and difficulties in observing and manipulating it This model system enables dynamic tracking of specific loci in chromosomes centromeres and telomeres throughout mitosis and meiosis alongside the manipulation of the Rabl conformation and the telomere bouquet a Schematic representation of the centromere-SPB interaction in fission yeast b State of the interphase centromere (Mis6-GFP)-SPB (Ppc89-CFP) interaction in Rabl and Rabl-deficient (sad1-2 csi1Δ) cells; the nuclear envelope (NE) was visualized by Ish1-mRFP c Flow diagram of the synthetic genetic analysis used to screen for genetic interactors of sad1-2 csi1Δ d Selected gene interaction data after filtering non-differential phenotypes between wt (control) and sad1-2 csi1Δ settings (27 out of 2,988) The colony growth rate was analyzed using hierarchical clustering with Euclidean distance and the complete linkage method to identify gene clusters (two-sided p value < 0.001 e Representation of the role of each analyzed chromatin anti-silencing factor in the regulation of centromeric dismantling the telomere-SPB association and initiating the first meiotic division little attention has been given to the role of centromeres in initiating the formation of the telomere bouquet as it is believed that they do not participate in the initial signals that mobilize the telomeres to form the bouquet we have uncovered the presence of a long-distance signal originating from centromeres to telomeres We demonstrate that sad1-2 csi1∆ cells initiate bouquet formation and activate the meiotic program in mitotic cells This can be attributed to the loss of centromere-SPB interaction as these phenotypes can be rescued by restoring this interaction a signal exists between two specialized chromosome regions spatially separated in distinct microenvironments inside the nucleus to coordinate the initiation of bouquet formation Considering the widespread conservation of centromere clustering during mitosis and telomere bouquet formation during meiosis in eukaryotes our results provide insights into the fundamental orchestration of bouquet assembly and the control of the initiation of meiotic differentiation which likely affects proper chromosome segregation The above analyses suggest that cells without proper Rabl chromosome configuration display chromatin silencing defects which must be alleviated by anti-silencing factors such as the Set1/C complex The p value from one-sided binomial test analysis is shown d Table of the most upregulated meiotic-specific genes from previous RNA-seq data e Plot of reads-per-million (RPM)-normalized read density at the indicated loci Individual signals for each biological replicate are shown in a lighter color and the average of these is shown in a darker color f RT-qPCR analysis of relevant meiotic-specific genes showing RNA levels relative to wt after normalization to act1+ Data are represented as mean ± SEM from 3 independent experiments; the numbers above the columns represent p values from two-tailed Student’s t-test analysis Source data are provided as a Source Data file All these data revealed that the disconnection of centromeres from the SPB serves as an unexpected trigger for the activation of the meiotic transcriptional program remain relatively unaffected when centromeres are disconnected from the SPB pombe subtelomeric and telomeric regions of chromosomes I and II showing the shelterin domain (pink triangle) heterochromatic domain (purple semicircle) The locations of the primers used are shown with red lines b RT-qPCR analysis of proximal subtelomeric regions of chromosomes I and II showing RNA levels relative to wt after normalization to act1+ tlh1+ and tlh2+ are located on the left and right arms of chromosomes I and II c RT-qPCR analysis in distal subtelomeric regions of chromosomes I and II data are represented as mean ± SEM from three independent experiments in all cases which were conducted with four independent experiments The numbers above the brackets represent p values from two-tailed Student’s t-test analysis d Plot of reads-per-million (RPM)-normalized read density at the indicated loci a Representative pictures of two-color live-cell imaging of control csi1Δ and sad1-2 csi1Δ strains during interphase The telomeric protein Taz1 is visualized in green (Taz1-GFP) while the NE is shown in magenta (Ish1-mRFP) b Quantification of telomere foci in the indicated strains c Representative pictures of two-color live-cell imaging as in (a) d Quantification of cells with number of telomere foci in the indicated strains e Zone designation (I-III) and distribution of telomeres within 15 confocal planes with illustrative pictures (scale bars f One z plane of live-cell imaging of control sad1-2 csi1Δ and lem2Δ strains during interphase g Quantification of telomeres (Taz1-GFP) distribution relative to the NE showing the percentage of telomeres for each nuclear zone d and g) were collected from three independent experiments and the one-sided p values from the χ² test analysis are shown above the brackets the crucial distinction in telomere mobilization along the NE observed when manipulating centromere positioning unveiled a qualitatively different phenotype from previous observations that is characterized by the highest penetrance of telomere declustering yet steadfast telomere-NE associations as demonstrated during the first stages of the meiotic cycle a GFP-GBP system used to force the interaction between Sad1-2 and Ndc80 b Serial dilutions (5-fold) of log-phase cultures of the indicated strains spotted onto YE4S plates containing MBC or TBZ and incubated at 32 °C for 48 h d Data were collected from three independent experiments Data are represented as mean ± SEM from three independent experiments; p value from two-tailed Student’s t-test analysis is shown above the brackets Colony growth rate was analyzed using hierarchical clustering with Euclidean distance and the complete linkage method to identify gene clusters (two-sided p value < 0.001) This indicates that manipulating centromere positioning alone can enable telomeres to recruit bouquet proteins and initiate at least partial telocentrosome formation we did not observe complete formation of the telomere bouquet where all three telomeres associate with the SPB in mitosis The most likely explanation is the absence of the characteristic nuclear movements driven by dynein that occur during meiotic prophase and are essential for bouquet formation in meiosis we did not detect Dhc1 in mutant conditions suggesting the absence of these motor proteins under our experimental conditions these findings suggest that alterations in centromere positioning act as a prelude preparing chromosome ends for the moving from their mitotic location to the SPB along the NE and thereby facilitating the formation of the telomere bouquet suggesting that the growth defects in sad1-2 csi1∆ cells are these findings support the hypothesis that loss of the centromere-SPB interaction triggers the initiation of differentiation a-b Frames from time-lapse experiment of meiotic diploid cells expressing endogenously tagged Ndc80-GFP and Taz1-mCherry c Quantification of Ndc80-GFP intensity throughout the experiment as depicted in panels (a) and (b) with each color representing the behavior of 9 independent cells d Meiotic diploid cells were analyzed as in (a-b) but with one copy of Sad1 endogenously tagged with GBP e-f Exponentially growing diploid cells were induced to undergo meiosis The percentage of cells with the indicated number of nuclei per cell is shown for 200 cells at each time point across three independent experiments g Frames from a time-lapse experiment of meiotic diploid cells with endogenously tagged Cdc2-GFP and Taz1-mCherry Yellow arrows indicate early and late co-localization between telomeres and Cdc2 h Quantification of Cdc2-GFP intensity throughout the experiment as depicted in panel (g) with each color representing the behavior of 7 independent cells These results suggest that communication between centromeres and telomeres might involve a chemical signal released from the centromere to the telomeres These observations led us to explore Cdc2 in mitotic cells upon the disruption of the proper Rabl chromosome configuration g–h A similar strategy to that in (d) was used to direct the Cdc2 chimera to the SPB via Sad1-2-GFP in csi1∆ cells with endogenous tagging of mis6-mCherry or taz1-mCherry to visualize and quantify centromere and telomere behavior Controls in (g) and (h) represent wild-type cells carrying sad1-GFP mis6-mCherry and sad1-GFP taz1-mCherry Scale bars: 5 μm (full images) and 2 μm (single-nucleus windows) One-sided p value from χ² test analysis is indicated above the brackets This strongly suggests that long-distance communication from centromeres to telomeres necessary to initiate telomere bouquet formation might be mediated by the trafficking of Cdc2 molecules from centromeres to telomeres within the nucleoplasmic environment these findings reveal an unexpected communication between two distinct specialized regions of the chromosomes enabling a precise transition of the 3D chromosome conformation This communication allows centromeres and telomeres to interchange positions The consequences of these premature activation of several meiotic genes and the chromosome architecture likely result in Rabl-deficient cells having severe problems in normal meiotic entry upon nitrogen starvation (Supplementary Fig. 2d) it could be interesting to combine the loss of the Rabl chromosome configuration with the ectopic recreation of strong nuclear movement in mitosis Current studies in our lab aim to develop this system Working model for telomere bouquet formation upon meiotic entry: i) During mitotic interphase fission yeast cells display a conserved Rabl chromosome configuration centromeres are positioned beneath the SPB thanks to the interaction between the LINC complex (Kms1/2-Sad1) and the kinetochore complex (inner and outer kinetochore) based on the interaction between the Bqt3-Bqt4 complex and the Rap1-Taz1 complex centromeres decluster from the SPB as the outer kinetochore disassembles a process that may require a decrement of Cdk1 activity in the outer kinetochore region to facilitate centromere detachment Cdc2/Cdk1 may be recycled and mobilized to the telomeres to promote their declustering telomere declustering facilitates their movement towards the SPB and the recruitment of bouquet proteins centromere dissociation from the SPB is a prerequisite for telomere-SPB interaction thanks to the recruitment of bouquet proteins (Bqt1 and Bqt2) to the LINC complex with the aid of the Bqt3-Bqt4 complex iv) Bouquet formation occurs when centromeres are completely dissociated from the SPB based on the interaction between the LINC complex and the Rap1-Taz1 complex which depends on the bouquet proteins (Bqt1 and Bqt2) and is aided by the Bqt3-Bqt4 complex our data strongly suggest that centromere positioning plays a crucial role in initiating the bouquet formation process and likely serves as the primary factor triggering the onset of the meiotic program Due to the high conservation of the telomere bouquet in plants the identification of a long-distance signal from centromeres to telomeres as a controller of meiosis reveals an additional layer of regulation orchestrated by the centromere positioning for the meiotic program in eukaryotes experiments were performed with haploid cells that were usually grown in rich media (YE4S) at 32 °C or EMM2 media at 32 °C until exponential mid-log phase Final concentrations of aureobasidin A (0.5 µg/mL) (ClonTech) nourseothricin (100 µg/mL clonNAT) (Werner Bioreagents) G418 (100 µg/mL geneticin) (Invitrogen) and hygromycin B (300 µg/mL) (Invitrogen) were added for selection purpose Strain crosses and sporulation were performed in sporulation agar (SPA) plates at 28 °C and genetic dissection was performed using a dissection microscope (MSM 400; Singer Instruments) Meiosis progression and efficiency assays were carried out in sporulation agar (SPA) plates at 28 °C during 48 h incubation at least 300 meiotic cells were quantified Diploid strain in Fig. 7 were initially grown in liquid YE during at least 4 generation times cells were transferred to EMM with supplements at OD600 = 0.02 and incubated overnight at 28 °C washed twice with MM-N low glucose (0.5% Glucose) inoculated in the same medium and incubated at 28 °C for 4 h before time-lapse acquisition Genetic interactions of triple mutants were analyzed based on colony size (area) as a readout of cellular fitness searching for biological process or gene expression pattern Strains were grown in YE4S to exponential midlog phase (1 × 107 − 1.4 × 107 cells/mL; OD600 = 0.5–0.7) at 32 °C and 5-fold serial dilutions were spotted onto YE4S plates containing DMSO or YE4S plates containing different concentrations of MBC (carbendazim The plates were incubated at 32 °C for 48 h at 300 dpi resolution in and Epson scan (Epson scan v 3.04E) and tiff images were cropped using Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended for representation purpose Quantification of telomere declustering was conducted in mononucleated cells identified by the presence of a single SPB when possible or confirmed by FACS analysis Signal quantification of Taz1 and Rap1 was carried out using Fiji software on images captured across 15 focal planes The intensity of each area containing a given signal was measured and the intensity of a signal-free region within the same cell was subtracted The resulting signal intensities were normalized to the average intensity per pixel in the background outside the cell For experiments to rescue telomere foci formation using the GBP-GFP system in exponentially growing cells (Fig. 5) a Zeiss Axio Observer 7 inverted microscope was used with Zeiss Plan-Apochromat 63x/1,40 Oil DIC and Alpha Plan-Apochromat 100x/1,46 Oil DIC lenses coupled to Spinning Disk Confocal Yokogawa CSUW1 head with excitation lasers and filters from 3i (Intelligent Imaging Innovations) SlideBook 6 software was used for device control and image capturing cells collected by centrifugation and immobilized to 35 mm glass culture dishes (Ibidi) using 0.2 mg/mL soybean lectin (1 mg/ml Sigma-Aldrich) and immersed in EMM2 (with required supplements) Live-cell imaging was carried out at 32 °C in an environmental chamber for temperature control under the microscope Images were acquired over 15 focal planes at a 0.4 μm step size All images were processed using the open Image J software Presented images correspond to combined maximum Z-projections We assessed the overrepresentation of differentially expressed features at specific genome locations via positional enrichment analysis with the PGE tool (REF: PMID18346969) This tool tests the enrichment of a set of query genes at chromosomal regions of any width The number of genes found at a specific location is modeled as a hypergeometric distribution The gene annotation and coordinates of the S pombe genome were restricted to the genes detected by RNA-seq and fed into PGE as the reference dataset the list of genes passing the filtering criteria for the RNA-seq analysis (abs(log2FC) > 0.5 and p-value < 0.05) were fed into PGE The threshold for significance in the positional analysis was set to p-value < 0.05 for upregulated and downregulated genes from the RNA-seq analysis shinyCircos 2.0 (REF: 10.1002/imt2.109) was used to generate the visualizations of RNA-seq and positional enrichment statistics The mean of data from 3-4 independent biological replicates are shown as relative to the mean value of the control (which was set to 1) Multiple two-tailed Student’s t-test analysis was performed using ANOVA followed by a Tukey’s post hoc test at a 0.05 significance level using GraphPad Prism software (Dotmatics) Samples of interphase cells were obtained from 10 mL of exponential growing cultures at OD600 = 0.5 at 32 °C Cells were collected by centrifugation at 4 °C and cellular pellets were flash frozen in liquid nitrogen and stored at -80 °C until use The secondary antibody was horseradish peroxidase (HRP)-coupled anti-mouse IgG (Sigma-Aldrich) Visualization was performed using the SuperSignal WestFemto Maximun Sensitivity Substrate (ThermoFisher) in a Chemidoc MP Imaging System (Biorad) Images processing for representation was performed using Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended signal quantifications were performed in ImageJ and a two-tailed Student’s t-test analysis was performed at a 0.05 significance level using GraphPad Prism software (Dotmatics) 107 cells from exponentially growing cultures (OD ~ 0.3–0.4) were centrifuge at 1000 × g for 5 min and the tubes were vortexed (cells could be stored indefinitely at 4 °C) 300 µL (~ 2–3 ×106 cells) were transferred to 1 mL of 50 mM Na citrate in an eppendorf tube the pellet was resuspended in 0.5 mL 50 mM 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Cold Spring Harb Protoc 2017, https://doi.org/10.1101/pdb.prot091579 (2017) Download references We thank all lab members for their critical comments on the manuscript and express our gratitude to all participants of the IBFG and CABD seminars for their valuable input Special thanks to Matías Capella for his support with the SGA experiment Víctor Álvarez Tallada for his support in managing the logistics of the CABD's transition to the IBFG and to the Shiv Grewal lab for providing the script for (RPM)-normalized read density plots we express our gratitude to INLEXIO for English grammar corrections and to the NBRP resource in Japan for providing strains This work was supported by PID2021-127232NB-I00 funded by the MCIN/ AEI /10.13039/501100011033 and by the “FEDER AJ-M was funded by Juan de la Cierva Formación 2020 Grant FJC2020-046386-I; AT was supported by the EUR G.E.N.E (reference #ANR-17-EURE-0013) and is part of the Université Paris Cité IdEx #ANR-18-IDEX-0001 funded by the French Government through its “Investments for the Future” program was supported by PID2021-1284080B-I00 funded by MCIN/ AEI The IBFG is an institution funded by the Salamanca University and Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) Instituto de Biología Funcional y Genómica Sergio Camacho-Cabañas & Alfonso Fernández-Álvarez Max-Delbrück-Centrum für Molekulare Medizin Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology (BIMSB) Biology of Centrosomes and Genetic Instability Team Departamento de Biología Molecular e Ingeniería Bioquímica contributed to the validation of SGA genetic interactions wrote the manuscript with significant input from R.R.D The authors declare no competing interests Nature Communications thanks Kayoko Tanaka and the other reviewer(s) for their contribution to the peer review of this work Publisher’s note Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations Download citation DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-56049-9 Anyone you share the following link with will be able to read this content: a shareable link is not currently available for this article Sign up for the Nature Briefing newsletter — what matters in science Cover Page Legal HistorySports SearchVideo gaming operators call for protest on inauguration dayThe San Juan Daily StarNov 14 20241 min readThe island’s video gaming machine operators have called for the resignation of Puerto Rico Gaming Commission Executive Director Juan Carlos Santaella Marchán.By The Star Staff Video gaming machine operators are planning a mass protest for governor-elect Jenniffer González Colón’s inauguration ceremony The operators have called for the resignation of Puerto Rico Gaming Commission Executive Director Juan Carlos Santaella Marchán the coordinator of video game machine operators for the northern region of Puerto Rico asked González Colón and her campaign manager to take steps to stop the intentions of the Gaming Commission and the Horse Racing Board to increase to 15 terminals the number of slot machines for the horse racing agencies of Camarero Racetrack which they said do not contribute a single cent to the island Treasury the more than 1,500 gaming machine operators family members and clients will be called to a protest that will take place on inauguration day Villafañe Fernández stressed the call for the resignation of Santaella Marchán who he said “is openly paving the way to maintain ties with the administration of Camarero Racetrack hold public hearings to approve nearly 5,000 new terminals to install more slot machines at horse racing agencies whose operation and prizes do not pay taxes to the Treasury Department.” his appointment to a position in the government should never be considered,” he added © 2025 The San Juan Daily Star - Puerto Rico This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page By: 7:30 am on March 18 Acacia Network and Phipps Houses recently celebrated the grand opening of Santaella Gardens, a 249-unit affordable housing property in the Soundview section of The Bronx. 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in numerous theaters and other formal settings with his admiration for Lorca always shining through.  In addition to flamenco he commands knowledge of regional Spanish and semi classical dances director and creator for a long list of danced narrative works dedication and a profound love of his culture are the characteristics that best define the artistic and human qualities of Antonio Santaella I was born in a town on the Granada plain called Valderrubio where García Lorca’s father had the most fertile land of the whole area.  Lorca would spend his summers there which became a source of inspiration for much of his work.  I lived with my mother and siblings and my love of flamenco didn’t come from the family I picked it up from gypsy families in the neighborhood who was in France from the end of the civil war like so many other Spaniards fleeing from those horrible times to live with him in France.  That’s where I learned my first flamenco moves.  Since I loved flamenco singing and dance ever since I was small it was easier for me to get the aesthetic than for others not born in Spain sheer desperation.  That changed when I made friends in a gypsy family who were friends of my father’s and who had arrived in France under similar circumstances.  One of the boys played a little guitar and that was all I needed to feel close to my roots.  We invented dance steps and I tried to imitate Pepe Pinto it was so joyful!  One day we took a train to Paris we heard the sound of castanets.  They told us is was the maestro Rayito giving dance and guitar classes…at that moment the heavens seemed to open!  And that’s how my career as a flamenco dancer got under way There was a lot of work in Paris at the time.  At La Guitare I crossed paths with Los Gitanillos de Cádiz with the Príncipe Gitano and at the Olympia with Rafael Aguilar Your work is strongly inspired in Lorca.  What does Federico represent for you Lorca is my inspiration and motivation to create.  You can’t hear flamenco without thinking of him.  You can feel his presence in everything I do!  Remember I was born in the town where he spent a large part of his creative life I worked at a tablao in Paris where the dancer Laura Toledo saw me and signed me up to tour the United States for two and a half years.  I ended up in New York where I made my own group and worked at the elegant Chateau Madrid in addition to a wonderful opportunity to do Carnegie Hall.  It was a fabulous experience I went to Puerto Rico with a contract for the Hotel El Convento where we stayed a long time.  In the beginning people asked me for classes a half-century later.  Puerto Ricans really feel flamenco and they express it very well!  Many of my students have become professional when the University of Puerto Rico was holding a Symposium of Poetry and Literature of the Americas they commissioned me to do a choreography for the closing day.  It went so well I said to myself this is for me!  After that my dream was to create works with cultural significance.  And there were many including a work for youngsters from ten to seventeen in which I explore all the problems that come with leaving school at a vulnerable age.  I took time out to go to Spain and enjoy my country and I took classes with Antonio Marín as I had in earlier years.  Since it was a long stay I made a group and we were hired by Pasapoga on Madrid’s Gran Vía.  I took Carmen Linares to sing she was 16 years old and just debuting as a flamenco singer.  The show was called Antonio Santaella y su Suite Flamenca.  From there I returned to New York to the Chateau Madrid.  We were Nati Mistral y Antonio Santaella y sus Flamencos and inserted flamenco culture in Puerto Rico thanks to your knowledge and high-quality shows.  Is your contribution valued in Puerto Rico?  Have you received financial support I’ve been helped by the Culture Institute and Endowment for the Performing Arts.  Yes I feel my work is appreciated here!  I received recognition from the Senate the medal of the Puerto Rican branch of the UNESCO first prize from the Worldwide Dance Competition and many honorific plaques Do you follow the evolution of flamenco dance in Spain?  What do you think about the work of avant-garde dancers such as Israel Galván you have to be creative.  Without evolution you wouldn’t be able to express and explore the surrealism of a given topic.  As far as Israel and at times I manage to do so.  When it comes to flamenco singing and feeling my insides churn when I hear a siguiriya of Tomás Pavón Mairena.  That isn’t as likely to happen with evolutionary singers.  Although I also accept and admire the evolution of the cante but it mustn’t become detached from the essence because then it would turn into something else In what way have you been affected by the pandemic in Puerto Rico we’re suffering with the terrible virus that extends more and more every day possibly due to the flow of visitors from the United States and the non-observance of protocol imposed by the government adhering to the law of 30 percent capacity.  In the meantime Sus artículos han sido publicados en numerosas revistas especializadas y es conferenciante bilingüe en Europa and website in this browser for the next time I comment Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value" Knowledge and passion The depth and the grief EXPOFLAMENCO connects Flamenco communities around the world Expectations still were relatively high for the Arlington baseball team despite the graduation of several standouts That belief was held in large part because of its pitching staff which includes a trio of battle-tested standouts who know the pressure of a run to the section final The first month of the season has been somewhat of a disappointment for the Admirals has struggled as some newcomers sought to find their footing and some of the returners "pressed" while trying to compensate Even those pitchers haven't been as sharp as their reputations would suggest we'll be dangerous in the last third of the season." Eric Servellon pitched a two-hitter with seven strikeouts leading Arlington in a 7-0 road win over Carmel High School on Wednesday Taking off: Maiale shines as new-look New Paltz baseball continues to ascend Nine Who Shine: Arlington's Servellon among area's best returning baseball players The West Virginia-bound senior effectively used his fastball and changeup in silencing the Rams This followed a strong performance last week when he earned the win against rival John Jay-East Fishkill "He had his good stuff and managed it well," Biasotti said of the right-hander who threw 66 of his 103 pitches for strikes It's encouraging heading into the back part of the season." As is the offense showing signs of awakening as the Admirals have won three of their last four and Eric Santaella was 2 for 4 with two RBI and a run for Arlington (8-7) "Eric has been our most consistent hitter so far," the coach said "Joe popped up an off-speed pitch in his first at-bat Sophomores Griffin White and Tim McCormack were promoted from junior varsity before this game with a hope of them helping to ignite the offense The move paid off as White notched his first varsity hit an RBI single that put Arlington on the board in the second The Admirals pushed across at least a run in five innings including two each in the fifth and sixth to secure the win Nick Huchro and Jake Manco each had an RBI Servellon walked four but allowed only singles to Nevin Scaperotti and Noah Jettleson "We're hanging our hat on the fact we have three senior pitchers who've been in big games and can lead us," Biasotti said "They're rounding into form and their experience will be a benefit in sectionals Stephen Haynes: shaynes@poughkeepsiejournal.com Home  /  News  /  Uncategorized  /  [arve url=”https://vimeo.com/234898833″ width=”640″ height=”360″ frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen=”allowfullscreen”] hemophilia nurse coordinator in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine has received the Nurse of the Year Award from the National Hemophilia Foundation (NHF) The award was presented during the foundation’s recent annual meeting in Chicago The award honors a nurse who has demonstrated service to the bleeding disorders community beyond day-to-day responsibilities It is given to an individual who serves as a role model for others in the field and has a minimum of two years’ experience working in the bleeding disorders community who were notified in advance that I was the winner,” said Santaella who has worked at the Miller School for 15 years and even though I was a co-chair of the annual meeting I didn’t find out until it was announced at the nurses’ luncheon I was very honored to receive the award because I’ve been working in this field a long time and there are wonderful nursing professionals in it My colleagues are incredible professionals who deserve it as much as I do.” “This award is testimony to Maria’s devotion to the bleeding disorders community,” said Joanna A medical director of the Comprehensive Pediatric Hemophilia Treatment Center “Those of us who work with her every day can attest to all the qualities which are recognized by this award We at UM are very fortunate to have her as an integral part of our Hemophilia Treatment Center.” who has been the pediatric bleeding disorders nurse coordinator at the Hemophilia Treatment Center since 2003 also was the adult nurse coordinator from 2007 to 2014 She is a published author in several scientific journals co-developed the nationally recognized workshops Infusion 101 and Lighten Up chairs the NHF’s Nursing Working Group and Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Nursing Research and Evidence Based Practice and is a member of several national interdisciplinary committees Braulio Hernandez is five years cancer-free and speaking out about the need for increased funding for childhood cancer research Clinicians can get the latest information on neuroendocrine tumor sat an upcoming Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center conference chair of the DeWitt Daughtry Family Department of Surgery at the […] Copyright © 2025 University of Miami Health System 2023TAMPA — Historic preservationists were furious in 2019 when the owners of West Tampa’s Santaella Cigar Factory chose to cover the exterior’s yellow bricks with white paint City Council weighed in, too, discussing whether they should step in and force local historic landmark designation on the building which would prevent the exterior from being modernized The concern was that the paint job would ruin the historic integrity of the cigar factory built in 1904 deciding that the designation was up to the property owner Most of the interior and less than half the Santaella’s exterior were painted white and one of their first orders of business is to remove the white paint It turns out that the paint could do more than ruin the cigar factory’s historic integrity: It could damage the structure “It actually kills the brick,” said Andrew Coogan recently began leasing the cigar factory so that they could begin restoration while finalizing the deal to purchase it The cigar factory is not in imminent danger but the paint could prevent it from surviving another 119 years The exterior of the Santaella Cigar Factory Building in Tampa [ JEFFEREE WOO | Times ]The couple plans to add a distillery restaurant and wedding and event venue to the first floor a garden courtyard outside and a rooftop bar that has a view of downtown They also want to change the address from 1906 N to reflect the year the cigar factory opened The second and third floors will be refurbished but remain artist lofts The current owners, Philip Farley III and Henry Bentley, had similar plans when they purchased the three-story 58,000-square-foot cigar factory for $3.2 million in 2018 Coogan has experience in renovation through his Coogan Window & Door installation company and Ryann has been renting space in the factory for a few years for her photography “I’d walk through and imagine what it could be like,” Ryann said Future owners Andrew Coogan and Allie Ryann give a tour of the Santaella Cigar Factory in Tampa [ JEFFEREE WOO | Times ]Another tenant told her the building was for sale “It was pretty organic the way the opportunity came up,” Ryann said We then kind of just started tinkering around with ideas and kept going We both agreed that cigar factories are worth investing in.” Coogan and Ryann might seek the designation. But they first want to focus on finalizing the sale, signing first-floor tenants and, of course, removing that white paint. “It’s an ambitious goal,” Coogan said. “The building has great possibility and is worth the work. We didn’t want to be those people who are not willing to pick up the sword.” Paul Guzzo is a former culture reporter. Volume 9 - 2017 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fnagi.2017.00201 a mind-body activity that requires attentional engagement has been associated with positive changes in brain structure and function has also been associated with structural and functional brain changes but these generally involve decreased cognitive functions The aim of this cross-sectional study was to compare brain cortical thickness (CT) in elderly yoga practitioners and a group of age-matched healthy non-practitioners We tested 21 older women who had practiced hatha yoga for at least 8 years and 21 women naive to yoga meditation or any mind-body interventions who were matched to the first group in age years of formal education and physical activity level A T1-weighted MPRAGE sequence was acquired for each participant Yoga practitioners showed significantly greater CT in a left prefrontal lobe cluster which included portions of the lateral middle frontal gyrus anterior superior frontal gyrus and dorsal superior frontal gyrus We found greater CT in the left prefrontal cortex of healthy elderly women who trained yoga for a minimum of 8 years compared with women in the control group Yoga involves the practice of postures, breathing exercises and meditation. While branches of yoga adopted in the West have a strong physical component (postures and breathing exercises), yoga is not limited to the physical body. By definition, yoga is a meditative activity embodied in physical postures in which an attentional component must be present (Taimni, 1961) yoga is considered a contemplative practice many performed volumetric and region of interest (ROI) analyses and showed mostly mixed results with different brain regions reported in different studies There are even fewer studies related to the practice of yoga and morphometric differences in aging it is important to investigate the effects of yoga in an increasingly older population the aim of this study was to compare brain cortical thickness (CT) in elderly female yoga practitioners and healthy non-practitioners Twenty-one female hatha yoga practitioners who practiced at least twice a week for a minimum of 8 years were recruited from hatha yoga studios in São Paulo one of the most common yoga branches in the West pranayama (breathing exercise) and dhyana (meditation) We also recruited an additional group of 21 women who were naive to yoga meditation or any mind-body intervention and were matched to the first group in age years of formal education and level of physical activity Subjects were matched for physical activity based on the practices of the Yoga group—those who did not practice any activity other than yoga were matched to sedentary controls and those who practiced yoga plus another physical activity were matched to a control group member who practiced the same or equivalent physical activity Inclusion criteria were: at least 60 years of age right-handed and having completed at least elementary school We chose to include only women to add an element of homogeneity to the group it was also easier to identify female yoga practitioners than male practitioners Exclusion criteria were: substance abuse; tremor or dystonia of the head; chronic physical or other health problems that prevented them from performing their daily activities independently; any contraindication to MRI; a clinical history of neurological and/or psychiatric diseases All volunteers provided written informed consent and the study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein (CAAE 22313813.7.0000.0071) Instrumental Activities of Daily Living—IADL: scores range from 9 (low function) to 27 (high function). Items are evaluated regarding individuals’ ability to perform each task (independently, with others’ help, or not at all; Lawton and Brody, 1969; Santos and Virtuoso, 2008) Beck Depression Inventory—BDI: self-report questionnaire with 21 multiple choice questions addressing several depression symptoms. Scores range from 0 to 63 (Beck, 1978; Gorenstein et al., 1999) Mini Mental State Examination—MMSE: test that evaluates several domains of cognitive function, such as spatial and temporal orientation; calculation; immediate and evoked memory; language-naming; writing; repetition and copying a drawing. Scores range from 0 to 30 (Folstein et al., 1975) Anthropometric measurements—Weight and height were measured A T1-weighted MPRAGE sequence was acquired for each participant using a Siemens 3.0T Magnetom Tim Trio System with a 12-channel head receive coil (matrix 1 × 1 × 1 mm voxel Image quality was visually inspected immediately after each structural acquisition to control for motion effects and other artifacts The FreeSurfer analysis suite (v5.3.0 release1) was used to derive models of cortical surface in each T1-weighted image. These validated and fully automated procedures have been extensively described elsewhere (e.g., Dale et al., 1999; Fischl and Dale, 2000) a single filled white matter volume was generated for each hemisphere after intensity normalization and image segmentation using a connected components algorithm a surface tessellation was generated for each white matter volume by fitting a deformable template This resulted in a triangular cortical mesh for gray and white matter surfaces consisting of approximately 150,000 vertices (i.e. Measures of CT were computed as the closest distance from the GM and white matter boundary to the GM and cerebrospinal fluid boundary at each vertex on the tesselated surface Mean CT across the entire brain was also computed for each participant Thickness data were smoothed using a 15-mm surface-based smoothing kernel Group differences in mean CT were assessed by an independent samples t-test Data obtained from questionnaires and anthropometric measurements were analyzed using the SPSS 17.0 program (SPSS Inc. Variables were compared using Student’s t or Mann Whitney tests The yoga group had 14.9 years of hatha yoga practice, on average. There were no significant differences between groups in terms of age, years of education, questionnaire scores or anthropometrical measures, as shown in Table 1 Relative to controls, yoga practitioners (i.e., female yoga practitioners) showed a significantly greater CT in a left prefrontal lobe cluster (cluster forming threshold p < 0.05, cluster corrected p-value = 0.01574), which included anterior and lateral portions of middle and superior frontal gyri (BA8/9; Figure 1, Table 2) No regions exhibited decreased CT in yoginis compared to controls The age by group interaction was also not significant There were no significant between-group differences in mean CT for the whole cortex as assessed for each hemisphere individually (t(40) = −0.690 Differences in cortical thickness (CT) between yoginis and controls (P < 0.05 Yoga practitioners showed greater CT in a cluster in the left prefrontal cortex (RTF-based Anatomical and statistical information of the cluster in which significant between-group differences in cortical thickness (CT; i.e. yoga practitioners > Controls) were detected it is unlikely that the differences observed between groups are due to demographic characteristics or depressive symptoms we observed alterations in areas associated with executive functions of attentional control rather than motor regions Even though the studies mentioned above detected cognitive alterations individuals across groups should have performed the same physical activities (other than yoga) Matching participants on this variable proved to be very difficult we matched as best we could based on relative physical effort as the number of participants in each group was relatively small it did not allow us to make comparisons between individuals from different ethnic groups our volunteers performed only one MRI scan Future studies should involve longitudinal randomized controlled trials and correlations with other peripheral measures healthy elderly women who practiced hatha yoga for at least 8 years had greater prefrontal CT than a group of matched controls This CT may be associated with cognitive preservation RFA: acquisition of data; 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Kozasa, ZWhrb3phc2FAZ21haWwuY29t Disclaimer: All claims expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations Any product that may be evaluated in this article or claim that may be made by its manufacturer is not guaranteed or endorsed by the publisher 94% of researchers rate our articles as excellent or goodLearn more about the work of our research integrity team to safeguard the quality of each article we publish Taylor Martinez Santaella and his mother Irma Martinez are taking over the downtown pie shop Haz clic aquí para leer versión en español. have an announcement to make that’s as sweet as their Banana Cream Pie But it also has a bittersweet streak to it like their Apple Pecan Crumble with Salted Caramel said they are “passing the rolling pin” to new owners: Petaluma Pie Company employee Taylor Martinez Santaella and his mother and new co-owner arrived at Petaluma Pie Company about two years ago having previously worked at Red Bird Bakery and Acre Pizza He’s been a baker and pie-lover “since he was young,” said his mother and Martinez Santaella called their new endeavor “a dream come true.” Hoshino and Sacerdote said they opened their pie shop in 2010 “with a shoestring budget from personal savings and modest investments from friends and family.” Given such limited means the loss of their custom business sign to thieves before they even opened seemed devastating – “But at the same time we got unexpected publicity,” said Hoshino “We had people lining up at the door on our first day.” petalumapiecompany.com enamored by the sweet and savory pies which so often take the form of “hand pies” – like the meaty little wonder called the Cheeseburger Pie ($9.75) which is made “with grass-fed beef from Stemple Creek Ranch and organic cheddar cheese.” After buying a Cheeseburger Pie (or Mushroom and Goat Gouda Pie customers can stroll over to one of Putnam Plaza’s many tables Besides baking great pies people want to line up for Hoshino and Sacerdote made their cozy little shop on the plaza an appealing place to be holding “Pie-Ku Contests on Pi-day,” concocting new pies for special occasions such as weddings “A Deaf staff member initiated Deaf Pie Happy Hour and offering a 15% discount to people who placed their order using American Sign Language,” they said it will be Martinez Santaella “rolling out the dough and adding his own ideas to the pie shop repertoire.” All four of them – the two former owners and the two new ones – agree that keeping the shop local with owners who care about the food and the community Volume 11 - 2019 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fnagi.2019.00158 Large-scale brain networks exhibit changes in functional connectivity during the aging process Recent literature data suggests that Yoga and other contemplative practices may revert some of the aging effects in brain functional connectivity The aim of this cross-sectional investigation was to compare resting-state functional connectivity of the medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC) and posterior cingulate cortex—precuneus (PCC-Precuneus) in long-term elderly Yoga practitioners and healthy paired Yoga-naïve controls Hatha Yoga practitioners; practicing a minimum of twice a week with a frequency of at least 8 years) and a control group (C-20 women and physical activity) were evaluated for: Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL) and open-eyes resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)—seed to voxel connectivity analysis (CONN toolbox 17.f) with pre-processing—realignment and unwarping The analysis included a priori regions of interest (ROI) of DMN main nodes—MPFC and PCC-Precuneus There was no difference between groups in terms of: age The Yoga group had a higher correlation between MPFC and the right angular gyrus (AGr) Elderly women with at least 8 years of yoga practice presented greater intra-network anteroposterior brain functional connectivity of the DMN This finding may contribute to the understanding of the influences of practicing Yoga for a healthier cognitive aging process reflecting the need for research efforts to find effective low-cost and low side-effect methods to counteract them we aimed at investigating MPFC and PCC-Precuneus as the two seed-based regions of interest (ROIs) for functional connectivity analysis We hypothesize that long-term elderly Yoga practitioners with at least 8 years of regular practice have increased anteroposterior resting-state functional connectivity compared to paired Yoga naïve In order to ensure a better psychological matching between groups Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) was also applied This test evaluates cognitive function in domains such as spatial-temporal orientation; language-naming; calculation; writing; repetition and copying; immediate and evoked memory. Its application results in scores which range from 0 to 30 (Folstein et al., 1975) Self-reported questionnaire, which has 21 multiple choice questions (scored from 0 to 3) to address depression symptoms. Total scores range from 0 to 63 (Beck, 1978; Gorenstein et al., 1999) The ability of the participant in performing each task (independently; with the help of others or not at all) is scaled and presented as results in a score at each item evaluated. Scores close to 9 are considered as indicative of a low function, while a high function is given by scores closer to 27 (Lawton and Brody, 1969; Santos and Virtuoso, 2008) Weight and height were measured as anthropometric variables MRI data were collected on a 3.0T MR system (Siemens Tim Trio Subjects were instructed to avoid head movements and to keep their eyes open staring at a fixation cross presented at the center of the visual field Functional images were acquired in a 7 min scan using a blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) sensitive gradient echo-planar-image (GRE-EPI) pulse sequence with the following parameters: 2D oblique axial plane (AC-PC oriented); 33 slices with 2.4 mm thickness and 0.4 mm gap in-plane resolution = 3.4 mm × 3.4 mm and flip angle = 90° High spatial resolution anatomical images were acquired using a T1-weighted MPRAGE sequence with the following parameters: 3D sagittal plane acquisition TR: 2,500 ms; TE: 3.45 ms; 1 mm isotropic voxels; Flip angle: 7°; acquisition matrix: 256 × 256; NEX: 1 DMN main nodes (MPFC and posterior cingulate gyrus—PCC-Precuneus) were a priori ROI used as seeds in the resting-state functional connectivity analysis (Figure 1). Seeds were selected from prior studies (Whitfield-Gabrieli and Ford, 2012), and defined with masks from the Harvard-Oxford Atlas1 Medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC—MNI coordinates: +1 + 55 −3) and posterior cingulate cortex-precuneus (PCC-precuneus—MNI coordinates: +1 −61 + 38) used as regions of interest (ROIs) for respectively anterior and posterior components of the default mode network (DMN) Connectivity first-level correlation maps were produced by extracting the mean BOLD time course from voxels within each seed and computing Pearson’s correlation coefficients between that time course and the time course of all other voxels Correlation coefficients were converted to normally distributed Z-scores using the Fisher transformation in order to allow second-level General Linear Model analysis Two sample t-tests were performed on the Fisher transformed r-maps to examine differences in resting-state functional connectivity between the Yoga and Control groups Group-level effects were considered significant if they exceeded a peak amplitude of t > 3.09 and a family wise error corrected cluster extent threshold of p < 0.05 Sample characteristics of the volunteers in the Yoga and Control groups are shown in Table 1—no difference was found between the groups: all volunteers were over 60 years old; with their body mass index (BMI) inside normality range and average years of formal education above the Brazilian average (7.8 years); Mini Mental scores did not indicate any cognitive impairment; BDI scores ranked at minimum and IADL results were also within normality Sociodemographic characteristics of the volunteers in the Yoga and Control groups A graphic representation of DMN ROIs used as seeds for the connectivity analysis is presented in Figure 1 When MPFC was used as ROI for functional connectivity analysis, with the contrast Yoga > Control, the Yoga group presented a significantly increased correlation between MPFC and the right angular gyrus (AGr), compared to the Control group. Specific data is as follows: peak-cluster coordinates: +64 −50 + 26; cluster size: 127; cluster p-value FWE: 0.042347 (Figures 2, 3) When the contrast Control > Yoga was used no significant difference was found between the two groups Graphic representation of the resting state functional connectivity of the DMN during resting-state Women in the Yoga group had significantly greater correlation (p < 0.05) between the MPFC and right angular gyrus (AGr) than the Control group Resting state functional connectivity of the DMN during rest Women in the Yoga group had significantly greater correlation (p < 0.05) between the MPFC and right angular gyrus than the Control group There was no significant difference between the two groups when PCC-Precuneus was used as ROI for functional connectivity analysis neither using the contrast Yoga > Control nor Control > Yoga we found greater resting-state anteroposterior functional brain connectivity between the MPFC and the angular gyrus (AGr) in healthy elderly women who practiced Yoga for at least 8 years when compared to the paired Yoga-naïve controls Those findings motivated us to address the possibility of a resting-state functional connectivity difference between Yoga practitioners and controls which found greater functional connectivity between the anterior cingulate cortex and bilateral anterior insula/putamen during a meditation-state the increased resting-state connectivity between anteroposterior areas of the DMN in long-term healthy elderly Yoga practitioners has not been demonstrated in the literature to date and may form one of the important contributions of this work to the scope of resting-state functional connectivity influences of Yoga practice in the elderly Such findings are consistent with the hypothesis that training focused attention on comfortable sensations perceived during stretching and body-related respiratory movements during the permanence in postures of Hatha Yoga named asanas may entrain brain pathways and/or systems which otherwise would gradually become less and less active along the aging process helping to preserve brain connectivity and self-consciousness contributing to being healthier during old-age elderly women with at least 8 years of yoga practice present greater intra-network anteroposterior brain resting-state functional connectivity of the DMN This finding may contribute to a better understanding of the influences of Yoga practice for a healthier cognitive aging process The raw data supporting the conclusions of this manuscript will be made available by the authors The study protocol was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein (CAAE 64633317.7.0000.0071) revising and final approval of the article and agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work SSL and SL: revising and final approval of the article and agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work This work was supported by the Instituto Israelita de Ensino e 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(2014). Aging. Available online at: http://www.who.int/topics/ageing/en/ Google Scholar Lazar S and Kozasa EH (2019) Greater Anteroposterior Default Mode Network Functional Connectivity in Long-Term Elderly Yoga Practitioners Received: 26 February 2019; Accepted: 12 June 2019; Published: 02 July 2019 Copyright © 2019 Santaella, Balardin, Afonso, Giorjiani, Sato, Silva Lacerda, Amaro, Lazar and Kozasa. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY) provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited *Correspondence: Danilo Forghieri Santaella, ZGFueW9nYUBnbWFpbC5jb20= .st1{fill-rule:evenodd;clip-rule:evenodd;fill:#2a2a2a}By Patrick Johnson | Special to The Republican427 smack.jpg and cash seized in the arrest of two suspected drug dealers on April 26,2017 on Coomes Street SPRINGFIELD - Police arrested two suspected heroin dealers and seized two handguns and more than 400 packets of heroin Thursday night as part of an investigation into drug sales from a Forest Park residence Narcotics detectives arrested Rafael Santaella after stopping their car in the area of Bridge and East Columbus streets Santaella spotted them and attempted to flee and Santaella put his car into reverse and drove into a police car Christopher Hitas smashed the driver's side window in order to reach in and turn off the car's ignition police obtained a district court warrant to search Santaella's residence on Coombs Street The arrests came after undercover officers witnessed two drug transactions in different parts of the city Officers tailed the customers from each location and arrested them detectives followed the car back to the Coomes Street residence where Santaella would go inside for a few moments before returning to the car stamped with a logo reading "White House." They also found two unlawful guns and ammunition Santaella was charged with distribution of heroin two counts of possession of a firearm without a license possession of ammunition without a firearms identification card Mondon was charged with distribution of heroin Each is scheduled to be arraigned Thursday in Springfield District Court Use of and/or registration on any portion of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement, (updated 8/1/2024) and acknowledgement of our Privacy Policy, and Your Privacy Choices and Rights (updated 1/1/2025) © 2025 Advance Local Media LLC. All rights reserved (About Us) The material on this site may not be reproduced except with the prior written permission of Advance Local Community Rules apply to all content you upload or otherwise submit to this site YouTube's privacy policy is available here and YouTube's terms of service is available here Ad Choices MAHOPAC - As the sun set on the final day of the regular season Arlington broke its post-game huddle and it with one thing in mind − and it wasn't celebrating the 14-6 win over league foe Mahopac "They know the deal," Arlington coach John Biasotti said "They know we gotta come out and fix the things we've been doing wrong It's been the same things we're doing wrong all season but we're getting better and we've got a couple days to practice and get ready for Monday Scoreboard: Scores, results and more for May 8-10 high school baseball games Dom Cecere Way: Eastchester honors legendary coach with street renaming ceremony Milestone win: Byram Hills coach Scott Saunders reaches 200-win milestone in final season While both Mahopac and Arlington were resting their arms for the postseason and throwing in multiple pitchers to spread the workload it was an offensive display at the plate for both teams but Mahopac stayed close behind through the first four innings Arlington held a 6-5 lead going into the top of the fifth when the Admirals broke the game open by scoring four runs in both the fifth and sixth innings we're ready for the playoffs," Arlington junior Eric Santaella said Arlington finishes the regular season 10-10 but there was nothing middle-of-the-pack about its grueling schedule Between a tough league that features Ketcham the Admirals also underwent a challenging non-league slate to complement their league gauntlet The hope is to prepare them for the postseason "Guys came up and had big hits in big spots so it's good to see that because that's something we had been struggling with this year," Biasotti said "Just consistency offensively and hitting with runners in scoring position so it's good to see we could do that today We go into the season and try to schedule the toughest opponents possible knowing that we won't win them all but it will prepare us for this time of year we're probably better than that because we've been in every single game but at the end of the day that's where we're at so our seed is what it is but I think we're battle-tested and ready." Mahopac is another team hoping to make a run but couldn't muster the timely hits like Arlington did Indians first-year coach Anthony Nappi had experience with putting together a run last season when he guided Somers to a sectional championship win that turned plenty of heads "I really was more disappointed in the defense and we have to play good defense to win games Can't give good teams extra outs like that We're capable of beating good teams and playing good clean baseball we pitch like we'd been pitching recently and get the defensive side of it what we're capable of and make sure that spills into the postseason." and the final time these two will face each other as Arlington prepares for the Class AA playoffs Arlington: He went 3-for-4 with a double and a game-high five RBI like his first to put the Admirals on the board and his next two in the top of the fifth to spark the scoring run By the numbersArlington (10-10) − Eric Santaella went 5-for-5 with three RBI and four runs scored Griffin White was 2-for-3 with three RBI and a run Christian Adorno went 3-for-4 with a RBI and a run Mahopac (9-9-2) − Tyler Castrataro went 3-for-3 with a double Drew Lichtenberger had a double and one RBI They said it"We're all dogs," Santaella said of what makes his team dangerous "None of us is scared of any pitcher or any hitter we're just up there to play ball and have fun with it." I try to not talk about it too much because I want us to have our own identity but I do feel there's a lot of similarities in our group as far as how the season went with a bit of ups and downs," Nappi said when looking at his Somers team last year and his Mahopac team this year we had a lot of big innings that we let up with a couple of errors and all of a sudden we gave up 5-6 runs on the board and we stop the bleeding and don't let a big inning come into play because of a couple mistakes we can go on a run but we need to play clean and that's what it comes down to Follow Eugene Rapay on Twitter at @erapay5 and on Instagram at @byeugenerapay. In turn, they have transformed that brick building into a bohemian jewel alongside a West Tampa road best known for speeding cars. But last month, the three-story, 58,000-square-foot building at 1906 N Armenia Ave. was sold to new owners with big plans that have tenants both enthusiastic and worried about what the future holds for them. Building improvements are needed, but the photographers, painters, sculptors, writers and other resident-artists now wonder how changes will affect the affordability and serenity they enjoy. "This place is a hidden gem and any change is scary," said Gene May, a commercial producer and event coordinator who has rented studio space there since 2011. "The upgrades the new owners want to make work great for me so I'm excited, but will they work for everyone? And what will this mean for rent?" Michael Hettrich, who with his business partner Philip Farley III purchased the cigar factory for $3.2 million, says his vision includes air conditioning for all, landscaping, a new elevator and bathrooms, improved interior and exterior lighting and a fix up of anything in need of repairs. The artists "have fundraisers here every year and then they use the money to do things like replace lighting," said Hettrich said. "They won't have to do that anymore. If we do a fundraiser, it will benefit them." The building will also have a new name - the Ampersand Cooperative. While no Santaella artists would share what they pay for rent, they said the former owners, Ellis-Van Pelt Inc. — who declined to comment — founded the studios to support the arts and not turn a profit. Hettrich estimates he could spend as much as $1 million on the building. Will that plus the purchase cost mean rent goes up? Will the current month-to-month leasing that provides financial flexibility continue? All Hettrich would say for now is that the top two floors will remain art studios. "I am going to polish this jewel," said Hettrich, whose St. Petersburg company Octillion design + build has the motto, "We build cool stuff" and whose past local clients include Kahwa Coffee. "I am going to make it look awesome." The garden level basement and first floor where the ex-owners ran a furniture business will be merged and made into one multi-tier level for an event space, micro-brewery, cafe and marketplace that on weekend nights will expand to the parking lot and be available to resident artists and outside vendors. That obviously expands sales opportunities for artists, said producer May, and he will make use of the events space. Still, he wonders about those who need quiet and solitude to work. "This all sounds amazing," said Kerry Vosler, who since 2009 has rented at Santaella to paint portraits and teach art. "I just hope they are able to maintain studios that are workable for the artists." And despite their ambitious plans, both new owners have battled legal problems on past ventures. In February, Farley pleaded guilty to negligently causing the release of asbestos when he developed St. Petersburg's Urban Style Flats apartments. In 2015, according to court records, Hettrich's Artisan Group in Cook County, Illinois was ordered to pay a client nearly $424,000 in damages for fraudulent construction services. And in October in Pinellas County, Hettrich was charged with one felony and six misdemeanors stemming from contracting without a license. At least one tenant says the changes won't work for her. So, she is leaving. "I was already thinking about working from home," said painter Stephanie Ong who rented at Santaella for five years. "This made the decision easier. It sounds like a lot of construction and I don't want to deal with that. I wish the new owners well. They sound great." Times senior news researcher Caryn Baird contributed to this report. Contact Paul Guzzo at pguzzo@tampabay.com. Follow @PGuzzoTimes. Paul GuzzoFormer Culture and Hillsborough Reporter Santaella said she took a picture of three women in costumes shortly after 10 p.m. and she then went down an alleyway to make her way home and she started to feel squeezed by the crowd my feet weren't even touching the ground anymore," she told the Post "There was an unconscious guy on top of me Santaella recalled being crushed to the point where the only body part she was able to move freely was her neck as she became stuck with people and below her I'm going to be next.' I really thought I was going to die," she told The Post She said she started to focus on taking shallow breaths through her mouth as her lungs began to feel like they were being flattened People around her started calling out for help Santaella told the Post that she was saved by a young man standing on an elevated ledge who grabbed her arms and pulled her up with him She said she eventually made it home safely But the 23-year-old said she developed a fever overnight and brought herself to the emergency room of a nearby hospital on Sunday At least 154 people are known to have died following the tragic incident, which has left the country in shock, the BBC reported. Police said they've launched a 475-member task force to investigate the crush GREEN BAY - Two men from Venezuela will spend considerable time in Brown County Jail for using a "card-skimmer" at a local gas station to steal credit card information from unsuspecting people were sentenced in Brown County Circuit Court this week in a 2016 card-skimming case.  Romero-Santaella received 11 months in jail and Chacin-Paredes was sentenced to 12 months The men were charged last year with 10 counts each of attempted misappropriation of personal identifying information Both men pleaded no contest to six of the counts Each count carried a possible penalty of three years in prison The two were taken into custody in November after a manager of a gas station on West Mason Street notified police he found card-skimmer equipment installed on one of his pumps Officers ultimately caught Romero-Santaella and Chacin-Paredes trying to retrieve the equipment from the pump The equipment included a ribbon-like card reader installed in the pump and a camera hidden within a makeshift panel above the credit card keypad It captures card numbers and PIN numbers from each transaction at the pump Judge Timothy Hinkfuss sentenced the men to jail time instead of prison because neither man has ties to the area would leave room for the possibility for them to flee to their home country Police initially identified both men as being from Venezuela, but that Chacin-Paredes did have a green card and a Florida driver’s license listing a Miami address Hinkfuss questioned why the men would come to Green Bay to commit their crimes.  said her client was desperate to provide money for his family after being laid off from his job police searched a car the two had rented found a hotel room key and obtained a search warrant That search turned up a laptop computer which listed names and credit card numbers of people whose cards were skimmed Police identified 10 people whose credit card information was stolen.  There is no evidence the information was sold or used to make purchases without cardholders' knowledge Neither Romero-Santaella or Chacin-Paredes have a past criminal record Hinkfuss agreed with prosecutor Dana Johnson that the men must face strict punishment to deter others from committing similar crimes.   "We need to show to the community that if you're going to do something like this police learned of another gas station in Green Bay where skimming equipment had been installed.  TAMPA ― Historic preservationists have not been happy with Michael Hettrich’s work on West Tampa’s 116-year-old Santaella Cigar Factory They claim his vision, which includes painting its yellow bricks white would destroy the historic fabric of the building might be out of the factory’s ownership group Hettrich is taking his former partners to court and demanding they pay what he says he is owed According to Hettrich’s civil lawsuit filed earlier this month with the Pinellas County Sixth Judicial Circuit, factory owners Phil Farley and Henry Bentley promised him a 20 percent “non-voting” interest in the Santaella, the Y. Pendas y Alvarez Cigar Factory also in West Tampa he remained their employee providing “construction and property management services related to remodeling refurbishing and restoration of the properties.” The deal also included 20 percent of the annual profits from those ventures a 72-year-old resident of North Redington Beach he “seeks a formal and accurate 2020 fiscal year-end accounting and payment of his 2020 (and future) compensation and distributions owed to him by the defendants.” The Tampa Bay Times left two voicemails at a number associated with Farley and Bentley Voicemail did not identify the number’s owner In 2018, the ownership group purchased the Santaella at 1906 N. Armenia Ave. for $3.2 million. A year later, for $3.6 million, the group purchased the 112-year-old Pendas factory The Santaella had previously been used as artist lofts Hettrich promised to remodel the 58,000-square-foot building allow the artists to remain and add a microbrewery and cafe Plans for the 60,000-square-foot Pendas factory were never announced The Santaella’s white paint job is incomplete The Times did not see active construction at the site on Monday morning but a tenant who would not identify himself declined to allow the Times inside or answer questions A sign outside says the building is for lease via Retail Solutions Advisors There is no sign outside the Pendas factory but it is listed as for lease on Retail Solutions Advisor’s website Both Hettrich and Farley have a history of code violations In January 2019, the city ordered construction stopped on the Santaella project until they obtained proper permits. Hettrich’s Artisan Group in Cook County, Illinois, was once ordered to pay a client nearly $424,000 over fraudulent construction services. And Farley once pleaded guilty to negligently causing the release of asbestos in the development of St. Petersburg’s Urban Style Flats apartments. Preservationists lauded the work Hettrich was doing to the Santaella’s interior but were angered in July 2019 when construction crews began painting the brick factory’s exterior white. They believe the building is historic and that its exterior should not be modernized. To prevent something like that from happening again, Tampa City Council then discussed whether they should force local historic designation onto all cigar factories, a label that prevents modernizing exteriors. That has not happened. Of the 200 or so factories that operated in Tampa’s heyday as cigar capital, the late 1800s through mid-1900s, only about two dozen remain. Half carry historic protection. Neither the Santaella nor Pendas factories are among those. .st1{fill-rule:evenodd;clip-rule:evenodd;fill:#2a2a2a}By Adam Ferrise, cleveland.comIan Bobich Ohio -- A Cleveland native was shot and killed Monday outside an apartment building in Anchorage was found dead of a gunshot wound about 11 p.m Monday in Anchorage's Government Hill neighborhood Residents reported hearing gunfire and police found Bobich dead on the ground Anchorage police said they have not made an arrest in the case and are unsure of a motive Bobich was an apprentice in the Sheet Metal Workers 23 union in Anchorage He said Bobich moved from Cleveland to Anchorage about 10 months ago to find better work opportunities He landed a job with the union in Alaska and moved there with his longtime girlfriend Santaella said Bobich turned his life around after serving a seven-year federal prison sentence for conspiring to sell cocaine and an additional year for violating probation Santaella said he and Bobich became especially close after Bobich was released from prison in December 2013 Both grew up on the West Side and that Bobich sense of humor was infectious "He was a regular Cleveland kid," Santaella said He tried to really turn his life around." Santaella said Bobich recently told him he was moving back to Cleveland to take a similar job. He was in the process of selling things to make his move easier. Bobich's family is trying to get him back to Cleveland to buried and have set up an account on gofundme.com "He was coming home," Santaella said "He texted me to see if I could pick him up from the airport." Use of and/or registration on any portion of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement, (updated 8/1/2024) and acknowledgement of our Privacy Policy, and Your Privacy Choices and Rights (updated 1/1/2025) © 2025 Advance Local Media LLC. 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