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I have created this deletion page at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Steve Jurvetson, and copied your rationale for deletion. NatusRoma | Talk 03:36, 23 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
From the Roman Baths of Caracalla to the sumptuous marble pools and steam rooms of the Ottoman Turks, the ancients new instinctively that bathing and sweating are good for you. Not only does sweat carry off toxins from the system, but the process produce's a sense of sweet, overwhelming relaxation. To this day, that makes bathhouses among the favorite places for Russian's to sweat away their afternoons. Since 1892 The Tenth Street Baths between First Ave and Avenue A in the East Village of New York has been the place for Russians and Americans alike to sweat the day away. Generations of Celebrities have passed through its doors over the years, Frank Sinatra, John Belushi, Bill Murray, and more recently the likes of John F. Kennedy Jr., Darrel Hannah, Robert De Niro, Veronica Webb and L.L. Cool J.
Now after 100 years as one of the most literally "hottest" spots in New York, The Russian and Turkish Baths has come to Miami. The Russian and Turkish Baths, 5445 Collins Ave at the Castle Beach Club is the place where the Old World blends with the new. The baths on Collins Avenue are an experience, an unexpected paradise, and you're liable to take off a few pounds with the routine.
What does the day look like? You might start the day (12:00p.m-12:00p.m.) in "The Cave"- a cave like setting where you can relax in the Salt Water Jacuzzi as the heated natural ocean salt water pounds at your body, massaging every part of you, from a well 95 feet below the ground. Try a few minutes under the ocean waterfall and you will feel like you've been instantly swept away thousands of miles from civilization to your own personal island.
You will notice at the Bath's that the mood is more than relaxed, it's almost zen. Guys will be stretching, girls are assuming yoga positions, or even meditating. A couple might be frolicking in the Jaccuzi, or engrossed in conversation in the Steamroom. "Dunk!" one woman instructs a newcomer as she comes out of the Steam Room and gets into the ice-cold pool nearby. Another ten people are hanging out in the Russian Room, filling up buckets-and before passing out-dumping it over their heads. "Feels Good", says a lady named Paula, who barbecues herself once a week here. "I've been to spas that are much more elegant, " says Paula's friend, an aerobics teacher, 'but here there's a lot of tile and the steam room is all stone and it's like walking into the 1900's." No one seems self-conscious, lounging or walking in almost naked bliss, whether their body resembles Jackie Gleason or an Olympic Russian Gymnast, no one seems to care, and the feeling of total freedom from worrying about appearances is the big attraction. The goal at the baths is to get in touch with your real self; to be free and un-burdened and in the process to truly enjoy yourself. Here at the Baths you will be free to do just that!
Now that you are free, there are so many options from here: Try the Turkish Steam Room, built in the same manner as centuries ago, once in, you will be surrounded by the same marble walls and columns that the ancient Turks used to bathe in. Maybe the wet steam room with eucalyptus is the thing you need to get rid of your head cold. The aroma bath will tingle every cell of your body. Try our gym for a great workout or play tennis after you loosen up.
After an hour or two, head to one-of- the- many massage rooms for a Swedish massage or shiatsu. Here the Russian strongman or woman, will pound, squeeze, un-wind and de-tense muscles you didn't even know you had. If you can't take the pounding, one of the more easy-going massage experts, will more gently ease, kneed and work out your kinks.
After your massage, you can nosh on bagels and cream cheese, eggs, salads, or take-a-stab at one of the Russian traditional meals. Maybe after all that shvitzing: a huge bottle of seltzer, or fresh carrot juice is the thing you'll want most. At the "restaurant" you can gain back some of that weight you lost, while enjoying cable TV and lounging around in one of the robes supplied to you when you enter. After eating, you might want to take a short nap, at the baths there is even a relaxation room where a very comfortable "Log Bed" awaits you.
Now that you're relaxed, and out of bed, lets get down to the real business, and head on down to "The Russian Room" where a huge cavernous chamber awaits you. There on two tiers of benches, surrounding a huge rock-walled furnace where women and men alike will be immersed in a most wonderful 3-part routine called The Schvitz. Here's how it goes: First you go into the bath-a very hot, very steamy, stone furnaced "radiant heat" room. When the heat starts to get unbearable, take one of the dozens of buckets around the room, fill it with ice cold water, and like the Russians hundreds of years before you have done, dump it over your head. Now don't be self-conscious because as you will soon notice, everyone is dousing themselves with buckets of water. In that sheer moment as the ice cold water pours over you, comes one of the most enjoyable moments you will ever experience. It is sheer delight. Now for the third part, lie down on the uppermost bench, and the platza specialist will scrub you (actually beat you) with a broom made of fresh oak leaves, sopping with olive oil soap. The oak leaves contain a natural astringent, which will open your pours, remove toxins, and actually take off layers of dead skin. The sensation is so relaxing that one client described the platza as "Jewish acupuncture".
Now, for the real men or woman: outside the Russian Room is an ice-cold bath, equal to the coldest region's of the Russian Front. Now, the trick here is to dunk yourself in as fast as you can. Once in the water, the transfer of your body from hot to cold will be the most exhilarating feeling you will ever have. Once dunked, you will probably feel like a car that just passed through a car wash, so here there is another rest area where bathers relax between stints in the sauna. There is a sign overhead that says, "There are no places like this anywhere within thousands of miles from here, so this must be the right place", at this point, you will nod your head and certainly agree!
The late John Belushi and others used the baths in New York to steam away the after effects of too many drugs and booze. Actress Tia Carrere likens the place to a depressurizing time zone. "I walk through the door and my biorhythms instantly slow down, she says. It reminds me of the kind of place where Cleopatra would have gone." "The Dead Sea mud treatment is great for the skin." Rap impresario Russell Simmons views the baths as the perfect place for unwinding and impressing his model of the moment, he insists it's the ideal place to conduct business. You got two guys sitting there half-naked on the rock; you're talking, you're bonding, you're solidifying your relationship. It's a good place for making deals, especially if you're good with the heat and the other guy is getting his brains fried." Either way, it doesn't matter, whether you're rich or poor, fat or small, actor or struggling waiter, whether making a deal, or you're there to get the most reasonably priced massage of your lifetime. It just doesn't matter!
What a way to rejuvenate! "There's no competition, like when you go to the gym, says Margaret, a 28-year old viola player who has been coming once-a-week for the last year. "At the gym, you see everybody trying to build up his or her bodies. Here, we just are the way we are- big, fat, tall, short, tiny, large breasted or flat-chested. You don't have to pretend," she says. "There's no need to defend against the beauties or the beasts." So don't be self-conscious, Take a one-day vacation and treat your body and soul to the deal of a lifetime. At only $25.00 dollars a day, it's a wonderful opportunity to do yourself a world of good.
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WCVG-AM 1320 is a radio station licensed to Covington, KY and serving the Cincinnati, OH market. WCVG operates with 500 watts during daytime hours and 430 watts during nighttime hours from its tower site behind the Latonia Shopping Center in Covington, KY. WCVG's daytime signal is directional, and resembles a "figure-8" pattern that covers the Cincinnati market inside the I-275 loop. WCVG's nighttime pattern points to the south and west and does not cover much of the Ohio portion of the market. The northern Kentucky counties still have a listenable nighttime signal.
As of July 16, 2006, the station had flipped to a Regional Mexican format under Davidson Media Group.
WCVG started life in 1965 as WCLU, owned by WCLU Broadcasting Company headed by former Kansas City radio executine Irving Schwartz. WCLU was a daytime-only station that played "Modern Country" music and that went by the "Big CLU Country" nickname. The station also ran auto racing, Notre Dame football, and Cleveland Browns football. In 1981, WCLU switched to a rock and roll format. The city's former AM Top 40 station, WSAI, had flipped to country in 1978. WCLU had a decidedly "New Wave" sound until about 1983, when the station became "Cincinnati's Hit Playin' AM" and was dubbed "CLU-132." It was a moniker that sounded very similar to the city's FM Top 40 powerhouse station WKRQ, or "Q-102." In 1985, announcers on the station stopped calling it "CLU-132" and went with the easier to say and remember, "AM 1320 WCLU." In April 1987, Schwartz sold the station to Richard L. Plessinger, who also owned WJOJ-FM in Milford, Ohio. Plessinger immediately moved the station from Covington to the WJOJ studios in Milford. WCLU's call letters were changed to WCVG and the format became "Kwick-Sell Classifieds." During this format, the station played Soft Adult Contemporary music from the WJOJ library, and ran free on-air classified ads at specified times. The station also received permission from the Federal Communications Commission to operate with nighttime service during this time. In late 1987, WCVG flipped to a contemporary country format. That didn't last long as WCVG became the country's first "All Elvis" station in late 1987. According to a web site operated by former WCVG General Manager Rod Williams (http://members.tripod.com/~rodwilliams/), WCVG discontinued the "All Elvis" format on August 1, 1988. On that date, WCVG became an affiliate of the Business Radio Network with 24 hours of business news and talk. WCVG later became a County/Sports Talk mix format as "Sports-Country 1320" in 1992, with an emphasis on northern Kentucky high school and Cincinnati professional sports talk. In 1993, WCVG started a long run as the city's "Urban Gospel" station under LMA agreements with groups such as Kingdom Life Ministries. That ended in April 2006, when Plessinger flipped the station to Classic Country. A deal was made in July 2006 to sell the station to Davidson Media Group, an operator of Latino and Inspirational stations. Davidson flipped WCVG to Regional Mexican as "La Ley 1320" on July 16, 2006 under an LMA. An application to sell WCVG has been filed with the FCC.
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